“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.]
@ Magilia Gorilia Have you been to the Daily Kos site. They have a blog on FISA. Also I’m hoping more people start to pay attention to what Corperations and Goverment are doing!
@Mad Mac Maniac
Bro, your theories are on the fringe, and I dig that about you!!
Thanks, lanthony58-
I will check that out. Also, you (and everyone else) should check out http://www.prisonplanet.com and http://www.freedomtofascism.com. It’s nice knowing others have taken off the blindfold and started asking questions. The government is supposed to work for us!! They should fear us, not the other way around. I get concerned when the government uses the same weapons it uses on our enemies on it’s own citizens. By all means, please google this stuff….
Military heat ray gun zaps 60 Minutes reporterhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/010308gun.htm
LRAD
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/030905lasers.htm
Tasers a form of torture, says UN
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/251107Tasers.htm
Also….
Embedded chip implants, a cashless society, RFID’s, biometerics, Real ID Act, GPS (which is run by the the US military). These things should give everyone a sense of where we are headed….
< “Why isn’t the US and British government loved?” >
Spoken like a true liberal.
Why do we HAVE to be loved?
To change the subject, MacRumors has an article about false-advertising Apple is making regarding the Time Capsule.
I find it interesting that a device for wireless data backup in the home or small office environment could spark such comments. Mind you I understand and agree with many of Mad Mac Maniac and Magilla Gorilla’s points, no real news there for me. Is the day coming I will have to reconsider my oath? I don’t think so, but The Constitution is not being followed as intended by the authors. ‘nuf said.
Ok you all think I’m crazy right?
Ok, count the number of ads on this web page.
Now I run blocking software and count 44, YES 44 failed connecting attempts.
Minus the number of ads you see (including those annoying mouse roll over pop-ups) from 44.
Now where are the other connections going too?
Yep, tracking you. Your machine, your IP address, your location, OS version, browser version, monitor size and possibly more.
And if your a real unlucky person, even your MAC address. Which is hardwired to your machine and kept as a record at Apple, or Dell or whomever assembled your computer.
Real interesting isn’t it?
Doubleclick and Fastclick knows when you came here to this site, and others as you browse around the internet.
@ Mad Mac Maniac
OK, I’ll bite. More information please.
wackobozofreakshow@bigstring.com
Thanks, WBFS
@Mad Mac Maniac:
First, if you’re so scared of every site on the Internet (including this one) monitoring your IP address, your location, OS version, the color of your toenail polish, and what you had for breakfast this morning – then what the hell are you doing using a computer AT ALL? Shouldn’t you be crying out for your mommy while cowering in the corner of a candle-lit basement in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere with no utilities so you can’t be “tracked”? Hmmm?
Second, what are you and your other paranoid conspiracy-theory nut friends so scared of anyway:
– That your paranoid delusions are actually so on-target that the world will simply collapse if an intelligence community agency were to learn the contents of your idiotic ramblings? Yeah, right, you’re that important.
– That you’re a drug dealer?
– That they’re going to find kiddie porn on your computer?
– That you’re another Islamic fundamentalist extremist who thinks he’s going to be rewarded with 72 virgins in heaven if you blow up yourself and everyone around you? Is that why you hate the USA so much? Islamic nuts hate the USA and England because we are primarily a Christian society and because we denounce their suicidal/murderous acts as terroristic lunacy, which is what they are. Surveillance and monitoring of these wackos is fine with me. Why do you have a problem with that? Because everyone should be able to “express themselves” in such heinous ways?
Third, as far as you sarcastically referring to the USA as “The Land of the Free” because there are people in prison: What would you prefer? Complete anarchy? So it’s OK for everyone to steal, rape, and kill without any consequences – is that your liberalist utopia? Surely you wouldn’t mind if someone broke into your residence and stole everything you own; after all, they’re entitled to it, right? Do you not comprehend that those people in prison chose to commit their crimes, and they’re now paying the societal price? Grade-school children understand that concept, moron.
Doubling your anti-psychotic prescriptions will not help you. You’re simply too far gone.
Ok, I’m convinced. Macster, you’re and indiot! Nothing personal….
Mad Mac is right!
…then what the hell are you doing using a computer AT ALL?
Not scared, just aware and warning others. If nobody tells anyone, then they get away with it.
– That you’re a drug dealer..kiddie porn..Islamic fundamentalist extremist…?
I’ve got nothing to hide, I’m so paranoid of what “they” can do that I live a perfectly SCARED LIFE. I’m afraid to j-walk, afraid to go to a party because someone might use drugs there and infect me which I would have to go to jail for. I’m afraid the minute I get a bill the check won’t go through and I’ll go to jail for check fraud.
I can hide behind the internet, to some extend. They have a hard time getting me that way. But they try.
Things that are used for good can also be used for bad, just like a baseball bat. It can be used for a fun game with friends, or knocking down mailboxes.
It’s not the tools that the problem, it’s the person/persons behind it. I’s the further implementation of more and more monitoring and control techniques that make it harder and harder to trust the people in charge anymore.
Are all these monitoring and controls in our best interest or theirs for control?
Is it because is it that the human animal is unpredictable and in a increasing world of corporate globalization and controls that more control over individuals is needed to control the whole organization of society from falling into chaos?
Look what happens when the power goes off for a few hours, people go nuts!
When you start thinking about it, seeing that there are ways to implement the same goals without resorting to knowing everything a person does, then you realize “hey why aren’t they doing this way and preserving our privacy?”
It’s because they want you to lose the concept of privacy so they can control you completely. Much like christian churches forbad you from having sex because that natural instinct of self procreation is the only thing preventing them from fully controlling their sheep’s minds.
Islamic nuts hate the USA and England because we are primarily a Christian society and because we denounce their suicidal/murderous acts as terroristic lunacy, which is what they are.
Islamic’s hate the US and England because we support Israel which wiped Palestine off the face of the map. They also hate us racially because we have the same skin tone as a lot of the upper class Israeli’s. They lastly hate us because we are not muslims like them.
They don’t care if your a liberal Democrat or not, which should be a message to those people.
Terrorism is designed to thwart the rewards of conquest, i.e., stability and growth of the occupying enemy. It’s designed to be a protracted battle, a war of attrition, until the enemy retreats. The flame thrower and nukes are terror weapons.
Third, as far as you sarcastically referring to the USA as “The Land of the Free” because there are people in prison: What would you prefer? Complete anarchy?…
It’s because for the tinniest offense, a young kid is slammed for several years.
He comes out a hardened criminal with more experience and is likely to do more serious crime than if he would have done some time and then gotten on with his life doing something else productive. Prison ruins lives.
There are people that rightly deserve to be locked up, no doubt. But when entire states employ corrections as a state industry, getting a $100 a day from the Federal Government for each inmate and only feeding them less than a $1 a day in food, $0 in education and .30¢ a hour to build more prisons.
Something is seriously wrong with our country.
Doubling your anti-psychotic prescriptions will not help you. You’re simply too far gone.
and your far too dumb, thank you for playing.
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OK, the sheer amount of conspiracy-nonsense on this thread has become revolting. Do something about the nut-jobs hijacking MDN threads, or you’re going to lose your real readers. Starting with this one.
Thank you,
Jake
One day soon, a new president will be sworn into office. Shortly thereafter, he/she will be made aware of all the things our government is up to, wrt invasion of personal privacy.
Which candidate do you think will become complacent in this effort and which one will say “This is not right. Stop this.”? My answer is Obama. Maybe McCain because of his stance on torture. But probably NOT Hillary.
@jcw3rd
You think the president is involved in the mundane details of such things as electronic surveillance programs? He may know it exists but much beyond that, only the results if big enough fish are caught.
You do not believe me. These problems are real. Your government is plotting against you and knows everything you do. Everything.
In 1976 there was a sudden global elastic shortage engineered by the United States and Great Britain, bringing the underwear industry, and the briefs they manufacture, to their knees. All of the major apparel makers were given an ultimate–provide the US and UK governments with immediate, unfettered access to all future underwear sold or face never having the elastic supply restored.
All underwear and bras now contain both color-coding detection fibers as well as cosmic nanite tracking powers.
Any homosexual putting on a pair of underwear manufactured after June 16, 1976 is promptly detected by the color-coding detection fibers, which turn pink and can be seen under microcopic evaluation. The AIDS infection is not a naturally occuring virus, but rather began as a malfunction in the initial nanites imbeded in cotton briefs manufactured at Fruit of the Loom’s Bloomington, IL plant. The nanites reacted violently to pink-triggered color-coded detection fibers which, by the way, in addition to turning pink also turned GLOSSY. This is why AIDS is so closely associated with homosexuals–AIDS is not a global viral pandemic, but rather a nanite-fueled micromachine reaction attempting to kill pink glossy coded underwear.
I have all the documentation proving this. It has been suppressed by generations of power-mad homosexuals seeking to hide the fact that they are the transmitters of the pink GLOSSY nanite attack. In the past the effort was lead by Barney Frank, and then Larry Craig until his recent difficulties. It is now lead by Florida Charlie Crist, where the conspiracy is kept buried as far in the closet as Crist himself.
Wow… Time Warp? Alternate reality? Multiple Universe?
Who would have guessed what pandora’s box was opened by Time Capsule.
RFID hasn’t been brought up yet, but overall I think the subject of stealth monitoring, etc are interesting. If you have read Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson I think, it’s all quite fascinating.
Now, back to the topic at hand: Time Capsule:
Why is it that I can add a USB disk to time capsule, and that is an acceptable target for Time Machione (in addition to the TC internal disk), yet a USB disk attached to Airport Base Station is not?
My suspicion is the confusion over GPM, APM, and MBR formatted disks.
My briefs have never been at my knees by order of the government!
I think one of my neighbors must have given in at bought a Time Capsule. I took a nap this afternoon and felt intrusive, spying Time Capsule radio waves invading my personal space and precious bodily fluids. When I woke up I conducted a careful examination of myself, physically and spiritually, and discovered that my nads were now GLOSSY.