“We’ve actually set up the Time Capsule several different ways already, as the only router in the network, and as an Ethernet-linked node on an existing wireless network. The start-up wizard in AirPort Utility asks you plainly what you want to do, in increasing steps like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. I know some of you don’t need that kind of child’s play, but this kind of thing will even help you when you tell your mom to get one of these and realize you won’t have to do tech support too,” Rothman reports.
“We will continue to test… but in the meantime it’s safe to say that this is a worthwhile product for people who have the money and want the convenience. How often do you refuse to connect the USB to your backup drive because it would hamper your style? How often are you afraid, after a long period of not backing up, of the time it may take you to perform a backup. Those issues go away with Time Capsule,” Rothman reports.
“But there’s a cost, particularly at the 1TB model, which is $200 more than the $300 500GB model. When we ask about this, all we get back is that these are ‘server grade’ drives. Great, thanks, but we’re gonna recommend the 500GB version. If you have 300GB of backup or less you’re covered, and if you have 1TB of backup or more, you’re better off scoring some massive drive or drive array at discount, and plugging it in via USB,” Rothman reports.
Much more, including settings screenshots, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Grigori” for the heads up.]
Had to search NYC for a Time Capsule neither the 5th ave, Soho or West 14th Street Apple stores had any time capsules in stock as of 3:30 PM. So I decided to call one out on long island and when I got there I got the very last 1TB time capsule in stock.
Let me say it is awesome to use, I just wish I had a newer MBP with the N wireless instead of the G wireless. My first sync took a few hours because of the huge amount of material to sync so I did it via ethernet. Afterwards I disconnected the ethernet and it is working like a charm. No problems or hiccups, I just wished I could have transfered my old time machine backup to the time capsule but I guess this will have to do.
I got the time capsule so I could cut down on the wires behind my desk for an external HD for my previous time machine, a hub to connect the external and another device and the various power cords. Now I just mount the Time Capsule under the desk two wires for the ethernet and power and I’m golden. I just wish it supported air tunes then I could get rid of my airport express.
I rate it top notch.
So you can use this as your router? I had heard you needed a base station as Time Capsule’s radio was receive only. This does make it appealing, too bad I bought 500G backup in November. Drats.
…if you have 1TB of backup or more, you’re better off scoring some massive drive or drive array at discount, and plugging it in via USB
What Mac user in their right frigging mind backs up 1TB over slow ass hell USB?
Score that Firewire 800 baby in a RAID 0 external enclosure…ZOOOMMM!!
By the way, I miss the old Firewire iPods, they loaded SO FAST…So why couldn’t the new iPods be both Firewire AND USB compatible?
This way us Mac users would have a advantage and encourage a PC user to switch for the faster interface?
Apple disappoints me sometimes….
And before some wiseass tells me that wireless is going to be the new Firewire 800.
Let me tell you this from a US ARMY trained Electronic Warfare Specialist,
Wireless is INSECURE. Period!!
I don’t care how much you encrypt it, the wireless signals are snooped on and decoded.
Even signals passing through wires can be snooped on, but it’s much harder to do. Requiring entry into the room to set a tap on the line just about.
But you got nothing to hide right?
Plus try booting over wireless when your boot drive fails and your under deadline.
Hehehe. Apple is making their computers more insecure by the day.
EFI, iPhone backroom deals with Cisco and AT&T;(of NSA fame) and now wireless backups. Oh yea, I forgot about Leopard bypassing OS X firewalls too.
Slipping that old Trusted Computing mentality right on us.
With Trusted Computing, they decide what trust you have, instead of you having the ability to decide who to trust.
They decided they don’t trust you. Thus they want complete control over your machine which you paid for.
You’ll see, papers please.
@mad mac
Keep taking the pills.
It is interesting that an external hard drive can be used to back up. Hopefully they upgrade the system over time to allow disk spanning, so that as you back up needs increase you can simply add on more drives.
So, um, when is my Airport Extreme going to get a firmware upgrade to support Time Machine? Hmm? HMM?
Go off your meds much, Mad Mac?
• Apple is STILL not using Trusted Computing to interfere in any way in its products. Perhaps you’re thinking of Windows.
• iPhone “backroom deals”? WTF? Apple signed a well-known front room deal with AT&T;(of NSA fame) – I mean, somebody has to carry the signal, right? What did you expect them to do?
• Oh, and wireless backups too. If you have so much concern over someone snooping around your life, then DON’T USE IT. Turn your Airport off, and you’re fine.
When Apple starts including secret codes that the NSA can use to take over your computer and search your drive, or starts allowing Airport to broadcast signals to law enforcement when you download “illegal” content, you can start telling me you’re justifiable paranoid.
As it is, Apple continues to use technology to make things convenient for the average user. It has nothing to do with who trusts whom.
Are some technologies inherently more insecure? Sure. Are some loopholes going to be found that high end government and private espionage agents could use to snoop on you? Sure. Is this by design? No.
The point of the AT&T;NSA situation to me is that it was leaked, that it was a huge media fiasco, giving the government and AT&T;a black eye, and that it made people wary. As long as these things continue to become public, I feel more confident that our system will retain enough checks and balances to keep things in line. Sure, it’s never perfect, but I haven’t seen any black helicopters overhead, or had any of my neighbors disappear in the night.
And no one’s asking for my papers, although they do ask for my drivers license just to buy a box of Sudafed..
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But please, save your fanatical ravings for a more appropriate web forum.
The 500Gb model and an external drive make a lot of sense. the price is excellent. Although, having a one-box terabyte drive is certainly compelling.
I sure wish Apple had included a FireWire port next to the USB 2… for those of us who know better than to use USB 2 for hard drives.
PILLS HELL!!
1: EFI is a pre boot firmware level that has the ability to connect to the internet, read and write to hard drives and incept calls to hardware from the OS.
The shell can be used to execute other EFI applications, such as setup, OS install, diagnostic or configuration utilities, and system flash updates; it can also be used to play CDs or DVDs without having to boot to a complete operating system, provided that an EFI application with the appropriate features is written. Shell commands also make it possible to copy or move files and directories between supported file systems. Drivers can be loaded and unloaded, and a complete TCP/IP stack can also be used from within the shell. Wikipedia
Have any idea what’s in YOUR EFI?
2: Cisco – Remember the “deal” Apple made between Cisco over the name “iPhone?”. Cisco had no intention of releasing a iPhone, they just sat on the name because they wanted to do a deal with Apple that involved the NSA.
Cisco is notorious for providing the routers the internet backbone relies upon and the backdoors hackers found the NSA uses to tap into the internet backbone.
Why does the NSA want “in” on the iPhone? A highly potential source of valuable personal information. People store all sorts of stuff on a iPhone and it has no privacy what so ever.
(Xerox also plays ball with the NSA and makes nearly invisible little yellow dots on all xerox copies so they can track.)
3: AT&T;. A well known and public issue about backroom tapping of people’s phone calls and the internet. Cross tracing of telephone calls.
Heck they even tell you every month on your statement who called you and who you called. How brazen of a privacy violation is that?
You see what’s going on here? Apple used to be about the customer. Safe and secure computing that you could trust.
But Apple has teamed up with the evil corporations who play ball with the government to violate your right to privacy.
Open your eyes. Open your minds.
Connect the dots. Reason why they would develop and are doing things like they are.
You have no privacy anymore. You are being monitored.
@ silverhawk… the coolest thing about Time Capsule is that is IS an Airport Extreme with ‘N’ wireless and gigabit ethernet built-in.
I’m thinking of craigslisting my “old” Airport Extreme and getting one. Of course I bought the first “new” AE (10/100 ethernet) a few weeks before they upgraded it with gigabit (10/100/1000).
Oh well the price of technology…
Has anyone here used one yet? How “loud” is it? I hate loud drive. I have several LaCie drives and some are less noisy than others.
Is there a way to move an existing time machine backup to the new drive?
@Silverhawk, Apple says, “Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station” on the Time Capsule Page. So, it obviously isn’t receive-only, which would be the most bone-headed thing evar. (There are technical reasons why, even if its only receiving data for backup, that the communication has to be two-way).
I guess we can expect Micros**t’s version to be receive only, then.
@ Mad Mac Maniac: I’m connecting the invisible yellow dots, all right. BTW, Xerox isn’t the only one playing that game. Every color laser manufacturer is doing it. I’m sure you’ve seen the <a href=”http://www.eff.org/issues/printers”> on that. (I even sent them pages from our Canon iR C3380i as another example.)
Re: EFI… what was so different about Open Firmware in the old PPC Macs? It was written in and had a live Fortran interpreter (oh, and telnet, too), so conceivably could be programmed to do all sorts of nefarious stuff too. What, since no currently produced Macs use it, it’s not worth your time? What about all the extant Macs with Open Firmware? Get your torch and pitchfork after them for that too, bud.
Re: Cisco & iPhone. One of the rules of Trademark law is that you defend it or lose it. Cisco had to defend the iPhone trademark. Please provide links to prove that Cisco somehow twisted Apple’s arm into handing over data to the people in black helicopters, k?
Re: AT&T;and Privacy: take it up with your congressman, not Apple. Besides, name a major cell provider in the US that *hasn’t* bent over for the Feds. And, at least since the early 70s, phone bills have included every single long-distance call made. It’s not a privacy violation, but something people want so they can scream at their wife/husband/kids for talking too much on the phone, either over long-distance in the 70’s or on the cell today.
Your rants are pure paranoia and/or blatant trolling (in which case, I fell for it). Nonetheless, I can refer you to a qualified counselor, if you like. Seriously.
I think 200- more for the 1tb is a bit outrageous.They’d sell a lot more of them if they sold both units at the same margin. And the more Apple products you sell now, the more Apple products you will sell.
The TC is very quiet. It has a low hum but if you are more than 5 feet away you won’t hear it at all.
I think Mad Mac Maniac is gay.
I don’t know (or really care) if I’m being monitored Mad Mac, but I sure as hell hope you are being checked regularly. Your paranoia is even worse than I thought. If you seriously believed all of this was as big as you say, I think you wouldn’t be using the internet at all, much less to try and warn us poor misguided suckers about “their” evil plots. Because surely they’ll be coming to knock down your door any minute now.
I always am amused at people who see global conspiracies and some universal “big brother” database full of every detail of every persons every activity.
Do you have any idea how hard it would be to actually collect and make sense of all that data? And then on top of that, to actually use it? You’re talking about companies that can’t even manipulate stock prices illegally without getting caught (like Enron and others) – and governments that can’t even monitor whether or not another country has nuclear or chemical weapons reliably. What makes you think that they can run an all-ecompassing data collection and monitoring system, much less do it well and keep it secret?
You don’t need to connect the dots, dude. Just use common sense.
What makes you think that they can run an all-ecompassing data collection and monitoring system, much less do it well and keep it secret?
It’s not secret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis
Lexis has a library of public records, which includes current mailing addresses for nearly every living person in the United States. It has real property deeds and mortgages for nearly all states, and for many states, it also has voter registrations, motor vehicle registrations, marriage and divorce records, professional licenses, and liens. A related feature, SmartLinx, is quite popular with law enforcement officials, as it scans all Lexis public records databases to build a comprehensive profile of a target subject.
This is just the public database, not including the private or government held ones that monitor your every use of your credit/debit card, your every non-cash transaction, even including when you use your Electronic Freeway Pass.
Did you know if you have a “friend” at any car dealership you can have then run a “credit check” of someone for you? This check will give up vital information on you as your currently living, when you open a bank account and so on?
Hey I might be paranoid, but I’m not wrong.
There is a reason for paranoid behavior, it’s either real or imagined.
Mine is real. The facts are there for anyone willing to search for them.
It’s only the paranoid you hear from, the rest are too scared or stupid to voice your concerns. But it’s fun to ridicule those who see something is happening that is bad for our well being as people.
For instance, being the “Land of the Free” why is it the US incarcerates more people per capita than ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH?
Why is it the British people, in a democratic nation no less, the mostly watched and electronically monitored people on the face of the planet?
Why is it that Xerox, AT&T;, Apple, Microsoft and all these companies feel it’s necessary to cave into the controlling demands of the oppressive US government and the British?
Why is that? Is it because they make so many enemies?
Why isn’t the US and British government loved?
See, you’re confusing issues here Mad Mac.
There’s a difference between these various databases and an all-encompassing monitoring system.
I’m well aware that anyone with a half a brain and $35 can get a credit report on anyone else. Or a friend at a mortgage company, car dealership, or anywhere similar.
I’m also aware that there are public records of everything from housing, addresses, etc. But there have been for decades now. It’s just that they’re now online and easier to access.
Now I won’t argue the case with you that if someone decides to find out about me, they can turn up a lot of information. They can, and easily too. But this (again) has been the case for decades. It’s just a little easier than ever, due to technology.
That’s the nature of technology. Faster access to information and more storage of electronic information means there is going to be more, easier, and faster access to data that you might not like to have so easily known.
But there’s hardly any nefarious plot involved. This is all part and parcel of business and society going about its daily operations.
What you were arguing is some proactive search and flagging system that is globally tracking everyone. If we had such a system, there’d be a lot less child porn, a lot less pirated DVDs and CDs and software online, and a lot more people in prison. The fact is, “big business” would love if your Mac told them the instant you downloaded a free copy of their latest CD or DVD. But it can’t, and it doesn’t.
And the fact that AT+T and others cave is easily attributed to either stupidity or knowing which side your bread is buttered on. Individual consumers (and their rights) are less important to these companies than staying in business without hassle from the government. AT+T have repeatedly stated that they made a huge mistake cooperating with the NSA, but that they assumed it was all legal.
But don’t blame AT+T completely, blame the overzealous administration of anti-terrorist policies. This is real enough, and worth a discussion. Not black helicopters and Bourne Identity secret agent stuff. That’s pure Hollywood.
Blucaso-
You are sheeple. MadMac is not that far off here. It’s not that MadMac is paranoid. It’s whether he’s paranoid enough. Some of you guys have no idea what you are talking about. It’s just easier to call people paranoid or conspiracy freaks or tin hat wearing nuts. That’s just the easy way for you to try to debunk something you don’t fully comprehend. DON”T listen to MM or myself. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!! The military industrial complex has turned the US into a fascist state, e.g. the perfect marriage between government and business. Google “Military Commissions Act 2006”. This stripped American citizens of their right to due process. Google “John Warner Defense Authorization Act”, which literally makes the President a dictator. Here’s a snippet from an article I just googled….
“John Warner Defense Authorization Act”
New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a “catastrophic event”, the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power. In other words the new directive excludes Congress altogether from governance in a state of emergency.
“Military Commissions act 2006”
WHAT THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006 “LEGISLATES”
– Doesn’t suspend, as is accommodated for in the Constitution, but completely abolishes Habeas Corpus permanently – the right of the detainee to see the evidence against him and not be locked up for eternity based on the arbitrary will of the state.
– Contains a definition of “wrongfully aiding the enemy” which labels all American citizens who breach their “allegiance” to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.
– Destruction of any property is defined as terrorism, which is deemed punishable by any means of the military tribunal’s choosing.
– Any violent activity whatsoever is defined as terrorism if it takes place near a designated protected building, such as a charity building.
– A change of the definition of “pillaging” turns all illegal occupation of property and all theft into terrorism. This makes squatters and petty thieves enemy combatants.
I could go on and on, but I want to bore you with alll this. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!
Individual consumers (and their rights) are less important to these companies than staying in business without hassle from the government.
Exactly.
I’m sure there are more repressive regimes out there than the US and British governments.
But I don’t think they have as much control over information technology than the US does which makes them more effective and efficient at controlling our lives.
It’s frightning to know that they track every purchase you make, every time you turn on your computer, how much water you use daily, what TV channels you watch, what web sites you visit, where you go on the freeway and so on.
If you don’t think there are people who collect this data and process it daily like work, your in for a real surprise.
For instance, why do we need to provide a social security card to turn on the water utility? Strange uh? Like they want more information than you simply just paying your bill. Don’t pay the bill, turn off the water, no problem right? Why the SSN card check?
ISP’s know exactly what sites we visit, what torrents we download and so on. They pretend to offer privacy and not care, but they really do and keep large records and cross referencing, data mining.
They do this just in case somebody WANTS TO CARE about you.
You see if someone is out to get you, information technology makes it easier for them to do so. When otherwise they would have to take the matter to you personally, if they can find you. By then they tire of the chase.
But a few clicks on a keyboard and a person’s life history is there for the fscking.
Information technology sucks.
There’s a difference between these various databases and an all-encompassing monitoring system.
Duh, they combine all these databases to give them nearly instant monitoring.
It’s that you don’t know they are doing this that gives the illusion of privacy.
I guess the insane asylum recently had two escapies. Now posting at MDN.
I guess the insane asylum recently had two escapies. Now posting at MDN.
Yes Ringworm and Jamie.
What stupid and childish comments to a otherwise very intelligent and thought provoking discussion.
One can’t expect much from stupidity I guess.
Here, have a Vista Home Edition Premium Deluxe Version with inflatable rectum insertion device and a copy of Steve Balmers “Sweating Sexy to the Developers” Limited Edition Beta Porno Tape as my free parting gift for participating.