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Comment Your backup system MUST support HFS+ (Score 1) 272

by agentofchange on Thursday September 17, 2009 @02:49AM (#29451061) Attached to: Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station

Your backup system must support the intricacies of HFS+ (the format of Mac hard disks) - otherwise you might loose important data in resource forks and extended attributes.
Rsync in all versions to Mac OS X 10.5 doesn't properly backup resource forks and extended attributes. I've heard there's changes in 10.6 but I've not investigated or tested them.
Use the application 'Superduper' to store your Mac files in a 'Sparsebundle'.
A 'Sparsebundle' is a single file that supports HFS+ and can live on other files systems (such as your uni's servers).

Comment Re:"It's the Network" (Score 2, Funny) 745

by agentofchange on Monday August 24, 2009 @11:25PM (#29181811) Attached to: Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off

Futhermore, T-Mobile will unlock one phone every 90 days at no charge.

Unfortunately there are millions of people who would like their phone unlocked.

Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered 80

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 01, 2008 @12:18PM from the is-it-the-step-that-stops-it? dept.

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a dance of proteins that protects certain cells from undergoing apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death. Understanding the fine points of apoptosis is important to researchers seeking ways to control this process. In a series of experiments, St. Jude researchers found that if any one of three molecules is missing, certain cells lose the ability to protect themselves from apoptosis. A report on this work appears in the advance online publication of Nature.

Comment Oh - good, only 1-2 of every 100 people get cancer (Score 1, Insightful) 256

by agentofchange on Thursday February 14, 2008 @04:46AM (#22417672) Attached to: Australia's Geekiest Man

You say only 1 or 2 mice out of 100 got cancer like it's a small amount.

I'm not taking those odds. There's roughly 300 million people in the US. If we gave them all implants and the same percentage of people got cancer that's 30 to 60 MILLION people!

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