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backup strategies?

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Hi everyone- for those of you who keep regular backups, I'd love to hear what/how you do that.

My challenge is that I have 2 machines (work MacBookPro, personal Powerbook) and separate drives for media (I keep my iTunes library off the machine as it is too large).

I have both USB, FW400 and FW800 drives and interfaces, but I'm thinking about going to SATA and some kind of RAID configuration for the next step. If anyone has any recommendations (Sonnet? FirmTek?), I'd be delighted to hear them.

AIM host refuses my connection

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I have no idea if this is iChat or AIM or what, but I get this EVERYDAY and it is SO FARKING ANNOYING!!!

MSN logs me in each and every time without fail.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

LaCie SilverKeeper

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Hi everyone.

I'm looking for a good backup solution for Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger.) Carbon Copy Cloner, which I used with Panther hasn't been updated yet.

I see that LaCie's SilverKeeper product is freeware and is updated for Tiger.

Anyone out there using SilverKeeper?

Comments would be wonderful.

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Thunderbird in Japan

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Hi everyone,

This is a lazyweb request for those of you who might be using Thunderbird (English) with Japanese email.

In the past, I've used Apple Mail.app and Microsoft Entourage with no problems.

I've just installed Thunderbird and want to have English menus but support of Japanese email. Initially I had set the Character Encoding (Incoming and Outgoing) to Unicode, but that ended up as mojibake, so I'm not sure if I should be using EUC_Japan or Shift_JIS. Any guidance either way would be appreciated.

Lazyweb: keyboard driver?

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Hi folks,

I'm looking for a driver for a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite. The MSFT site doesn't seem to have it as far as I can tell.

Anyone know where I can find one elsewhere? Google hasn't helped yet...

So I recently received an email from someone who has visited Japan and Tokyo a few times and has seen many of the major tourist attractions. He had a challenging question: Where would you take a visitor to Tokyo who has seen the major sites? I'm not a Tokyo native and have only been in Japan for a few months, so I'm hoping you might leave a comment and suggest somewhere cool or off-the-beaten-path, or not obvious.

Some ideas I have are:
- the boat trip in the bay (I forget the name, but you can eat tempura and watch the fireworks in the summertime)
- the part of Tokyo that has all the commercial food service items (like all the plastic food!)
- Ueno Park (and more specifically all the motorcycle stores nearby)
- others?

Tokyo is so vast, with so many neighborhoods, and so many cool stores and restaurants, I know that there is a lot more out there but I spend most of my time near specific parts of town, so my perspective is a bit narrow. Help me out here, and thanks in advance!