You've never seen my computer. 700GB of storage, 40GB total free space on all partitions.
While it's true that I haven't seen your computer (pretty rude of you to not have invited me over by now), I want to clarify that I only mean the majority of users. There is probably a higher number of users on this forum with large hard drives which are quite full. However, those people also tend to be very good with computers and frequently either don't care enough about backups, or are already managing a solution themselves. Time Machine is for the masses. Of course, anyone with a full hard drive who wants to use it as a backup system can either buy a larger drive, delete some stuff, or move some files onto other drives.
I'm not seeing those parallels. Copland has little to nothing to do with OS X many of its prime features were rolled into OS 9. Jobs came in with Next and the idea of Copland as the next generation OS was totally thrown in the trash.
Until Vista is thrown in the trash and an entirely new OS is brought in I don't see the parallels.
Yes, OS X had bugs early on... but it wasn't touted as a replacement for OS 9 until later when it was ready. Vista IS touted as a replacement ready-to-use for XP.
And as the article said, it's not that there are bugs... it's that there are so MANY, so LATE in development, compared even to past MS Windows versions.
And yes, Copland was a dead end, but Apple started fresh and came up with OS X. So MS could abandon Vista and start again too, and come up with something great eventually.
The thing is, even if OS X WAS "just as bad as Vista"... that was 6 years ago Microsoft, at best, is 5 years late even if the bugs go away.
Apple didn't start 'fresh' with OSX, as much as bought NeXT which OSX is from. If MS were to ditch Vista, with your thinking, they'd need to acquire another software company that is creating an OS already...
Of course, anyone with a full hard drive who wants to use it as a backup system can either buy a larger drive, delete some stuff, or move some files onto other drives.
Everything I've read about Time Machine suggests that it requires its own dedicated partition as the backup medium, I think with a strong suggestion that it be a separate hard drive altogether, it doesn't make as much sense to back something up onto the same hard drive as it would to a separate unit.
Everything I've read about Time Machine suggests that it requires its own dedicated partition as the backup medium, I think with a strong suggestion that it be a separate hard drive altogether, it doesn't make as much sense to back something up onto the same hard drive as it would to a separate unit.
I think that what Apple is trying to implement is a much better version (more user accessible) of the "restore system point" feature in Windows XP. (Though Apple's version won't be such a blunt instrument, allowing you to just restore the files you need). In that case, it is all backed up on the same drive, same partition, and the administrator can decide how much space to allow for backups. However, with Boot Camp's nondestructive partitioning on the fly, maybe Apple plans to have Time Machine store it's backups on a separate flexible partition.
I think that what Apple is trying to implement is a much better version (more user accessible) of the "restore system point" feature in Windows XP. (Though Apple's version won't be such a blunt instrument, allowing you to just restore the files you need). In that case, it is all backed up on the same drive, same partition, and the administrator can decide how much space to allow for backups. However, with Boot Camp's nondestructive partitioning on the fly, maybe Apple plans to have Time Machine store it's backups on a separate flexible partition.
That's a nice idea, but all the data would be gone if the drive died, so it's only a partial backup solution if it really is a backup solution. Using it on the same drive you are trying to protect the data would mean it's only a crude version control system. The presentation suggests being able to restore the entire system from backup, and that can't be done if your backup is also on the drive that just died.
While it's true that I haven't seen your computer (pretty rude of you to not have invited me over by now), I want to clarify that I only mean the majority of users.
<Puts on Flame Retardant Lab Coat and Anal Retentive Taped Scientist Glasses>
"Generalizations are always false."
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me. Unless you're a god, or a professional statistician who has data to back up such statements, I feel that most people who do make such statements really have no justification for doing so, that such claims only serve to show that they are bull-headed and ignorant, and that even when they're wrong, they refuse to admit it. In otherwords, they are charlatains, liars, and cheats. EAT THY FOOT!!!
Please learn to use the phrases, "I feel..." "I believe..." "I think..." and "It seems to me..."
<Dives for Bomb Shelter>
<Pokes his head out>
Hey, you're right though, it is rude of him not to have invited you over yet.
<Puts on Flame Retardant Lab Coat and Anal Retentive Taped Scientist Glasses>
"Generalizations are always false."
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me. Unless you're a god, or a professional statistician who has data to back up such statements, I feel that most people who do make such statements really have no justification for doing so, that such claims only serve to show that they are bull-headed and ignorant, and that even when they're wrong, they refuse to admit it. In otherwords, they are charlatains, liars, and cheats. EAT THY FOOT!!!
Please learn to use the phrases, "I feel..." "I believe..." "I think..." and "It seems to me..."
<Dives for Bomb Shelter>
<Pokes his head out>
Hey, you're right though, it is rude of him not to have invited you over yet.
<Ducks under cover>
I like the way you attack, it has a humorous style to it. I stand corrected. I apologize. I should have said "in my experience", instead of "the facte of the matter is", since you are quite right that I have little data to back up my impressions. I'd imagine Apple would do the research to check how useful this implementation might be to users, if I'm even right about what their plan is (which again is just my impression/guess).
I like the way you attack, it has a humorous style to it. I stand corrected. I apologize. I should have said "in my experience", instead of "the facte of the matter is", since you are quite right that I have little data to back up my impressions. I'd imagine Apple would do the research to check how useful this implementation might be to users, if I'm even right about what their plan is (which again is just my impression/guess).
Thanks. I try to minimize the shrapnel. A Flash Bang is frequently better than a nuke.
Personally, my default assumption would be quite the oposite of something you said above, in that my own HD is only 60 GB and there is almost no room left on it. I would expect it to be more natural for a savvy computer geek to put up with lack of space simply because he knows how to deal with it.
Oh, no, never mind. It's cause I have too many optical drives and don't have any free IDE slots. :P Hmm, you know I was kinda wondering why I put up with such cramped conditions.
How easily I forget such things.
*edit* actually, I AM a little surprised that didn't start a flame war. And that WAS the venting of a general frustration regarding the posts of many people round these parts, not just any one individual.
My brother, who started a small ICT business last month was surpriced abouth the costs of the MBP I planned to buy.
2,500 euro was pretty decent in his opinion.
After a while, talking about the cost of software updates, which he considered to high, (about 800 euro for Adobe CS3) he asked me what I payed for support.
He didn't believe me and couldn't understand how it was possible that, besides Applecare, I didn't pay a cent for support.
Even from what we've seen so far, Leopard doesn't really offer much excitement in terms of 'new' features.
Just because technology in general probably doesn't excite you anymore (hey, I just hit 30 too, so I know the "been there, done that" feeling), doesn't mean there isn't anything groundbreaking in Mac OS X.
How about OpenGL rendering at the core so that you get rendering speed + nice effects, and the possibility for new and interesting interfaces? Sure people had shown similar things on Linux/X in the past, but nothing really made it to the general masses, nor was it on the same scale as Mac did it.
As someone who recently spent a lot of time setting up a RAID server + backup system due to having numerous hard drive crashes/IDE failures, Time Machine looks pretty exciting both from a backup perspective, and for hunting down lost and old versions of files. No need to set up version control for your home directory anymore.
And iTunes is probably the best music ripping/library creation and management software out there. Sure they weren't the first to come out with that type of software, but they pretty much _defined_ how it should be done.
Change rarely happens overnight in leaps. However, if you take the time to look at all the small steps and incremental changes, you'll see how far Apple has helped to advance OS technology.
I hope that it will be rigged up with allow use with a laptop and an external HD, such that any changes you make while away from home get syncronized upon return. That would be gorrvy... er groovy. sorry, fatfingers day today I guess.
The fact of the matter is, that while most people like to have a big hard drive, they never use most of it. Time Machine will make use of this extra space by backing up files that you change, which is a very small percentage of what most people have on their hard drives. Many of the larger files are media that they keep for viewing/listening, not editing. Time Machine will work in the background on your internal hard drive. There will probably be an easy user setting to set how much HD space to use before Time Machine deletes the oldest/lowest priority backups, all automatically.
I certainly can't speak for "most people", but in my case, no matter how big a hard drive I buy, it's never very long before it's 95% full, and whenever I burn a few gigs to a DVD and delete it from the drive, that space very quickly fills up again. Laptop users, in particular, cannot buy a hard drive larger than 160 GB right now (while 3.5" drives are available in sizes up to 750 GB).
But more importantly, backing up to the same hard drive is a pretty weak strategy, and creates a false sense of security. It would give you the benefit of being able to restore a deleted or accidentally-overwritten file, but does not protect your data in the event of drive corruption or failure.
Time Machine is surely based on the same concept as a file versioning system like CVS, Subversion etc. While it is able to make incremental backups of files by only storing the differences between each version, it still requires a full copy at the beginning, and that means your backup will start out as large as your existing data (though they may use some compression). This effectively reduces your drive space by more than half, if you choose to backup to the same drive.
Backing up to a separate hard drive is absolutely essential if you want to be sure your data is actually safe.
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me.
Word. Invariably "most people" is actually just a reference to the person making the point, who has almost certainly not even taken the time to ask a few of their friends to confirm these gross assumptions.
With exactly the same degree of authority, I could claim that "most people" who use a Mac are using a PowerBook G4 15" aluminum (Oct 2005 model) with 1.5 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.4.7, and live in a tiny apartment in Kyoto, which is half covered with dirty laundry and empty plastic bottles and snack boxes because they are too busy reading and replying to stupid comments on forums.
Speaking of which, I have laundry to do and garbage to take out.
Must be nice to live in the world where anything that's put out must be a knock-off of an Apple feature.
Please. Tiger beta was released amid much fanfare about Spotlight. 3 or 4 months later, MS and Google both release the same product. \
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Oh, that's right, its not stealing anything from Konfabulator, even though it works and looks basically JUST LIKE IT! Its "let's go back as far as possible and see what we can compare Dashboard to that Apple has done". Fine, you want to say its an extension of Desk Accessories (a System 1 thing, not a system 6 thing), I can go with that. But then how is rehashing something that was done in the 80's an 'earth-shattering' advance. And technically not as good in one sense, because, without hacking the OS, you can't see the stuff on the calculator after you're finished with it.
hummmmmmmmm.............
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I don't see that. Based on what I've read and heard (which could be all wrong), TimeMachine requires a second hard drive (external) of at least the same size as your internal, and it only can back up then entire drive, not individual folders. The versioning is interesting, but that doesn't outweigh the fact that most users don't have, nor will they buy, an external hard drive (they want to back up to CD or DVD, an option Apple only offers with .Mac). And most people with external hard drives probably already have backup systems in place that offer better security and restoration.
Actually, I agree 100% with this. That's the main thing I was thinking of when I said "While Questions remain...."
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BTW, did you notice how the animation TimeMachine uses is a lot like the animation Windows Vista uses for stacking their windows? Apparently copying works both ways....
As in, they both display folders??? Whoa, the similarities are shocking!
I'm not seeing those parallels. Copland has little to nothing to do with OS X many of its prime features were rolled into OS 9. Jobs came in with Next and the idea of Copland as the next generation OS was totally thrown in the trash.
Until Vista is thrown in the trash and an entirely new OS is brought in I don't see the parallels.
Seriously, like everything else, I'm looking for TimeMachine to sport some awesome hardware tie-ins. That is, after all, Apple's MO. Maybe dual harddrives across the Mac line for backup purposes. Maybe iDisk super cheap so "everyone" could subscribe. In any case, when I upgrade my computers to Leopard, I'll be getting externals for my home computers. A backup system that "just works," little to no config, completely on-its own=priceless. And I don't think there's any question there'll be something as Celemourne suggested for portables.
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You've never seen my computer. 700GB of storage, 40GB total free space on all partitions.
While it's true that I haven't seen your computer (pretty rude of you to not have invited me over by now), I want to clarify that I only mean the majority of users. There is probably a higher number of users on this forum with large hard drives which are quite full. However, those people also tend to be very good with computers and frequently either don't care enough about backups, or are already managing a solution themselves. Time Machine is for the masses. Of course, anyone with a full hard drive who wants to use it as a backup system can either buy a larger drive, delete some stuff, or move some files onto other drives.
<Cough!> Ahem.... Copland.
Seriously! The parallels are pretty uncanny
I'm not seeing those parallels. Copland has little to nothing to do with OS X many of its prime features were rolled into OS 9. Jobs came in with Next and the idea of Copland as the next generation OS was totally thrown in the trash.
Until Vista is thrown in the trash and an entirely new OS is brought in I don't see the parallels.
Yes, OS X had bugs early on... but it wasn't touted as a replacement for OS 9 until later when it was ready. Vista IS touted as a replacement ready-to-use for XP.
And as the article said, it's not that there are bugs... it's that there are so MANY, so LATE in development, compared even to past MS Windows versions.
And yes, Copland was a dead end, but Apple started fresh and came up with OS X. So MS could abandon Vista and start again too, and come up with something great eventually.
The thing is, even if OS X WAS "just as bad as Vista"... that was 6 years ago
Apple didn't start 'fresh' with OSX, as much as bought NeXT which OSX is from. If MS were to ditch Vista, with your thinking, they'd need to acquire another software company that is creating an OS already...
WATCH OUT GOOGLE!
Of course, anyone with a full hard drive who wants to use it as a backup system can either buy a larger drive, delete some stuff, or move some files onto other drives.
Everything I've read about Time Machine suggests that it requires its own dedicated partition as the backup medium, I think with a strong suggestion that it be a separate hard drive altogether, it doesn't make as much sense to back something up onto the same hard drive as it would to a separate unit.
Everything I've read about Time Machine suggests that it requires its own dedicated partition as the backup medium, I think with a strong suggestion that it be a separate hard drive altogether, it doesn't make as much sense to back something up onto the same hard drive as it would to a separate unit.
I think that what Apple is trying to implement is a much better version (more user accessible) of the "restore system point" feature in Windows XP. (Though Apple's version won't be such a blunt instrument, allowing you to just restore the files you need). In that case, it is all backed up on the same drive, same partition, and the administrator can decide how much space to allow for backups. However, with Boot Camp's nondestructive partitioning on the fly, maybe Apple plans to have Time Machine store it's backups on a separate flexible partition.
My tech here at my school can do things to my Dell laptop that would make me blush.
Man, you just don't hide your folders well enough. Encrypt em next time.
I think that what Apple is trying to implement is a much better version (more user accessible) of the "restore system point" feature in Windows XP. (Though Apple's version won't be such a blunt instrument, allowing you to just restore the files you need). In that case, it is all backed up on the same drive, same partition, and the administrator can decide how much space to allow for backups. However, with Boot Camp's nondestructive partitioning on the fly, maybe Apple plans to have Time Machine store it's backups on a separate flexible partition.
That's a nice idea, but all the data would be gone if the drive died, so it's only a partial backup solution if it really is a backup solution. Using it on the same drive you are trying to protect the data would mean it's only a crude version control system. The presentation suggests being able to restore the entire system from backup, and that can't be done if your backup is also on the drive that just died.
While it's true that I haven't seen your computer (pretty rude of you to not have invited me over by now), I want to clarify that I only mean the majority of users.
<Puts on Flame Retardant Lab Coat and Anal Retentive Taped Scientist Glasses>
"Generalizations are always false."
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me. Unless you're a god, or a professional statistician who has data to back up such statements, I feel that most people who do make such statements really have no justification for doing so, that such claims only serve to show that they are bull-headed and ignorant, and that even when they're wrong, they refuse to admit it. In otherwords, they are charlatains, liars, and cheats. EAT THY FOOT!!!
Please learn to use the phrases, "I feel..." "I believe..." "I think..." and "It seems to me..."
<Dives for Bomb Shelter>
<Pokes his head out>
Hey, you're right though, it is rude of him not to have invited you over yet.
<Ducks under cover>
<Puts on Flame Retardant Lab Coat and Anal Retentive Taped Scientist Glasses>
"Generalizations are always false."
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me. Unless you're a god, or a professional statistician who has data to back up such statements, I feel that most people who do make such statements really have no justification for doing so, that such claims only serve to show that they are bull-headed and ignorant, and that even when they're wrong, they refuse to admit it. In otherwords, they are charlatains, liars, and cheats. EAT THY FOOT!!!
Please learn to use the phrases, "I feel..." "I believe..." "I think..." and "It seems to me..."
<Dives for Bomb Shelter>
<Pokes his head out>
Hey, you're right though, it is rude of him not to have invited you over yet.
<Ducks under cover>
Personally, my default assumption would be quite the oposite of something you said above, in that my own HD is only 60 GB and there is almost no room left on it. I would expect it to be more natural for a savvy computer geek to put up with lack of space simply because he knows how to deal with it.
Oh, no, never mind. It's cause I have too many optical drives and don't have any free IDE slots. :P Hmm, you know I was kinda wondering why I put up with such cramped conditions.
How easily I forget such things.
*edit* actually, I AM a little surprised that didn't start a flame war.
Take my mother's iMac:
160 GB, 20 GB full, counting all the preinstalled apps & system
I don't think the average reader knows what "OS X" is, so that's likely why he called it "Apple OS"
Most people that use OS X are "above" average in my opinion. Shows very well in this case.
2,500 euro was pretty decent in his opinion.
After a while, talking about the cost of software updates, which he considered to high, (about 800 euro for Adobe CS3) he asked me what I payed for support.
He didn't believe me and couldn't understand how it was possible that, besides Applecare, I didn't pay a cent for support.
Even from what we've seen so far, Leopard doesn't really offer much excitement in terms of 'new' features.
Just because technology in general probably doesn't excite you anymore (hey, I just hit 30 too, so I know the "been there, done that" feeling), doesn't mean there isn't anything groundbreaking in Mac OS X.
How about OpenGL rendering at the core so that you get rendering speed + nice effects, and the possibility for new and interesting interfaces? Sure people had shown similar things on Linux/X in the past, but nothing really made it to the general masses, nor was it on the same scale as Mac did it.
As someone who recently spent a lot of time setting up a RAID server + backup system due to having numerous hard drive crashes/IDE failures, Time Machine looks pretty exciting both from a backup perspective, and for hunting down lost and old versions of files. No need to set up version control for your home directory anymore.
And iTunes is probably the best music ripping/library creation and management software out there. Sure they weren't the first to come out with that type of software, but they pretty much _defined_ how it should be done.
Change rarely happens overnight in leaps. However, if you take the time to look at all the small steps and incremental changes, you'll see how far Apple has helped to advance OS technology.
JTime Machine
I hope that it will be rigged up with allow use with a laptop and an external HD, such that any changes you make while away from home get syncronized upon return. That would be gorrvy... er groovy. sorry, fatfingers day today I guess.
The fact of the matter is, that while most people like to have a big hard drive, they never use most of it. Time Machine will make use of this extra space by backing up files that you change, which is a very small percentage of what most people have on their hard drives. Many of the larger files are media that they keep for viewing/listening, not editing. Time Machine will work in the background on your internal hard drive. There will probably be an easy user setting to set how much HD space to use before Time Machine deletes the oldest/lowest priority backups, all automatically.
I certainly can't speak for "most people", but in my case, no matter how big a hard drive I buy, it's never very long before it's 95% full, and whenever I burn a few gigs to a DVD and delete it from the drive, that space very quickly fills up again. Laptop users, in particular, cannot buy a hard drive larger than 160 GB right now (while 3.5" drives are available in sizes up to 750 GB).
But more importantly, backing up to the same hard drive is a pretty weak strategy, and creates a false sense of security. It would give you the benefit of being able to restore a deleted or accidentally-overwritten file, but does not protect your data in the event of drive corruption or failure.
Time Machine is surely based on the same concept as a file versioning system like CVS, Subversion etc. While it is able to make incremental backups of files by only storing the differences between each version, it still requires a full copy at the beginning, and that means your backup will start out as large as your existing data (though they may use some compression). This effectively reduces your drive space by more than half, if you choose to backup to the same drive.
Backing up to a separate hard drive is absolutely essential if you want to be sure your data is actually safe.
Catagorical statements about what, "Most People," think, do, or have, really annoy me.
Word. Invariably "most people" is actually just a reference to the person making the point, who has almost certainly not even taken the time to ask a few of their friends to confirm these gross assumptions.
With exactly the same degree of authority, I could claim that "most people" who use a Mac are using a PowerBook G4 15" aluminum (Oct 2005 model) with 1.5 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.4.7, and live in a tiny apartment in Kyoto, which is half covered with dirty laundry and empty plastic bottles and snack boxes because they are too busy reading and replying to stupid comments on forums.
Speaking of which, I have laundry to do and garbage to take out.
I'm talking about my prediction.
Must be nice to live in the world where anything that's put out must be a knock-off of an Apple feature.
Please. Tiger beta was released amid much fanfare about Spotlight. 3 or 4 months later, MS and Google both release the same product.
Oh, that's right, its not stealing anything from Konfabulator, even though it works and looks basically JUST LIKE IT! Its "let's go back as far as possible and see what we can compare Dashboard to that Apple has done". Fine, you want to say its an extension of Desk Accessories (a System 1 thing, not a system 6 thing), I can go with that. But then how is rehashing something that was done in the 80's an 'earth-shattering' advance. And technically not as good in one sense, because, without hacking the OS, you can't see the stuff on the calculator after you're finished with it.
hummmmmmmmm.............
I don't see that. Based on what I've read and heard (which could be all wrong), TimeMachine requires a second hard drive (external) of at least the same size as your internal, and it only can back up then entire drive, not individual folders. The versioning is interesting, but that doesn't outweigh the fact that most users don't have, nor will they buy, an external hard drive (they want to back up to CD or DVD, an option Apple only offers with .Mac). And most people with external hard drives probably already have backup systems in place that offer better security and restoration.
Actually, I agree 100% with this. That's the main thing I was thinking of when I said "While Questions remain...."
BTW, did you notice how the animation TimeMachine uses is a lot like the animation Windows Vista uses for stacking their windows? Apparently copying works both ways....
As in, they both display folders??? Whoa, the similarities are shocking!
I'm not seeing those parallels. Copland has little to nothing to do with OS X many of its prime features were rolled into OS 9. Jobs came in with Next and the idea of Copland as the next generation OS was totally thrown in the trash.
Until Vista is thrown in the trash and an entirely new OS is brought in I don't see the parallels.
Seriously, like everything else, I'm looking for TimeMachine to sport some awesome hardware tie-ins. That is, after all, Apple's MO. Maybe dual harddrives across the Mac line for backup purposes. Maybe iDisk super cheap so "everyone" could subscribe. In any case, when I upgrade my computers to Leopard, I'll be getting externals for my home computers. A backup system that "just works," little to no config, completely on-its own=priceless. And I don't think there's any question there'll be something as Celemourne suggested for portables.