I mentioned yesterday that I was trying to finally sort out backups for my laptop. I had used Time Machine before to backup to my desktop (the only machine I own with ass loads of disk space), and it worked beautifully as far as actually taking the backups went, but it was a nightmare when [...]

I recently moved to a new apartment, and through a combination of not being assed setting up a proper DNS/DHCP/firewall box and not having a huge need for it, the network here is a fairly bog standard “home networking” type setup, running off the router supplied by my ISP. There’s no local DNS server, just [...]