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New Habits

I've had this blog for the past 13 years in some form or another. Its lived under a few different domains (crackmac.com, uphonic.com, kevinduane.com) and it's fun to look back at some of the old and out of date posts like the very first in 2003 on setting up an OSX server from scratch \<http://mostlycopyandpaste.com/2003/07/01/setting-up-a-os-x-system-from-scratch/\>__. I haven't had much time the past 5 years since joining the Disney Systems Engineering group and raising a young family but it's time to start some new habits.

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A Survey of DVD Recording Formats

A Survey of DVD Recording Formats by Wei-Meng Lee -- Wei-Meng Lee writes of his quest for the right DVD writer to buy. After surveying the various DVD recording formats (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM, and DVD-RW DL), as well as some of the DVD writers currently available on the market, Wei-Meng offers his recommendations.

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Apple debuts updated PowerBook line

| Apple debuts updated PowerBook line | MacNN News | Apple today introduced its new 15-inch PowerBook G4, offering a sleek aluminum design weighing just 5.6 pounds, a 15.2-inch widescreen display, speeds of up to 1.25GHz, a backlit keyboard, and advanced connectivity including AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The new 15-inch PowerBook G4 starts at $1,999. Apple also updated its other PowerBooks: the new 17-inch model features a faster 1.33 GHz G4 processor with double the amount of on-chip level 2 cache and is now available for $2,999, a $300 price reduction. The new 12-inch model features a 1GHz G4 processor and includes a Digital Video Interface (DVI) port.

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