Single Time Machine Backups
Tired of Time Machine running all the time? You can turn it off in the Time Machine preference pane, but still initiate a single backup by choosing Back Up Now from Time Machine's menu bar icon. Of course, your backup is much less likely to be up to date, but Time Machine won't be taking any resources while you're trying to work.
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Richard Kane
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ADSL Stands for "Alright! Dig that Service, Laddie"
ADSL Stands for "Alright! Dig that Service, Laddie" -- We received a number of terrific letters about our NetBITS Update last issue (see "And Who's Paying for This?" in NetBITS-015) about the coming standard for ADSL service being proposed by a group of computer companies, regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs or Baby Bells), and networking companies. The group has called itself the "Universal ADSL Working Group" and has a Web site, though with little hard information as yet. A better source of information is Aware, Inc.'s Web site, since Aware is the company whose DSL Lite technology is at the heart of the UAWG proposal.
<http://db.netbits.net/article/04656>
<http://www.uawg.org/>
<http://www.aware.com/>
We're planning a longer article on ADSL as currently deployed, along with some of the issues surrounding cable modems, in the 05-Feb-98 issue of NetBITS, at which point we'll run a number of the letters. The main point to be made is that, as frequently happens, Canada is ahead of the United States in rolling out service. [GF]
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