My corner

I was pretty exited about the Apple keynote yesterday. One thing that I especially was trilled about was the Time capsule device. I have been running leopard now since it arrived in the stores and I have never enabled Time Machine, even though I really want to. I have a noname NAS box with a 320 GB hard drive and it has given me nothing but trouble. The first thing I tried when I got it was to set up a ftp server. This was supposed to be very simple (but not for a computer engineer…).

After a few hours I got it working and the problem was more of a NAT-wireless-access-point-firewall issue.The box also supports samba. This I was were exited to try and it actually worked. I was able to connect to the harddrive and use it as an external harddrive – on my windows pc…… For somehow it does not work in leopard. By reading a bunch of threads I found out that I was not the only one with the problem. I can see the disk as a shared disk and I can se the folders, but no files in the folders. Some people wrote that it had worked in Tiger, which makes it even more wired. Now I’m thinking that the Leopard team turned that feature off, because they knew about the release of Time Capsule???

Anyway, as Jobs said “wires sucks” – not specific, but that was what he meant, I think Time Capsule is pretty cool. One thing I do not understand, is why they have not build in the functionality to plug it into a Hi-Fi stereo, like the Airport Express Base Station with AirTunes. I like to keep all my music on an external hard drive (and my Ipod), but that means every time I want to listen to music over my stereo, I have to connect (with a cable) to my external hard drive, which is very inconvenient. Jobs announced that the price for a 500 GB Time Capsule would be $300. How can that be 2.299 DKK?? The exchange rate is about 5, meaning it should cost around 1.500 DKK… I think 2.299 is to expensive, so I might just buy an Airport Express Base Station..