mac nerdiness
Aug. 8th, 2006 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI'm not sure if I should be finding Apple's new Time Machine feature mildly cute, or completely drool-worthy.
Because I'm not sure if it's just a really snazzy interface to a normal backup tool, with nightly backups, or if it's a really snazzy interface to nightly backups and automatic file versioning. I haven't read the reports on WWDC too closely, but I've seen both suggested.
If it's automatically versioning files, that will kick so much ass. More than once I've wished for a versioning file-system when a program (usually Flash) saves garbage over what used to be a good file. Doing it manually is a habit I can't really seem to train myself into, and I'm not quite geeky enough to start using Subversion for my working directories.
Even if it's "just" an integrated backup solution, it'll still be a pretty nice feature, what with being able to dig into various Apple formats for individual pieces of data, and automatically recognizing external drives and offering to use 'em. If it's really clever it'll be able to version stuff on your machine, then dump old versions to the external drive when it's plugged in.
Because I'm not sure if it's just a really snazzy interface to a normal backup tool, with nightly backups, or if it's a really snazzy interface to nightly backups and automatic file versioning. I haven't read the reports on WWDC too closely, but I've seen both suggested.
If it's automatically versioning files, that will kick so much ass. More than once I've wished for a versioning file-system when a program (usually Flash) saves garbage over what used to be a good file. Doing it manually is a habit I can't really seem to train myself into, and I'm not quite geeky enough to start using Subversion for my working directories.
Even if it's "just" an integrated backup solution, it'll still be a pretty nice feature, what with being able to dig into various Apple formats for individual pieces of data, and automatically recognizing external drives and offering to use 'em. If it's really clever it'll be able to version stuff on your machine, then dump old versions to the external drive when it's plugged in.
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Date: 2006-08-08 05:09 pm (UTC)Some of the new stuff looks kind of neat, though. I'd love to try out Core Animation!
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Date: 2006-08-08 06:06 pm (UTC)I like multiple desktops, though, just because it allows me to separate certain tasks and windows structurally to fit my mental state as I deal with them. Background stuff in the background desktop, console works in the console desktop, file shuffling over here, main working area over there, bouncy apps bugging me on a different desktop so I can focus on what's in front of me here...
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Date: 2006-08-09 02:59 pm (UTC)