Retrospect Update

I got the new version of Retrospect today. 8.1 adds PPC support, which I need for the MultiAd G5. 8.0 was Intel only, so I didn't buy it then. They drastically changed the UI ('bout goddamn time). The old one was confusing because things were in so many different places. The new one is totally different, but puts things in nearly as many different places. The one good thing is that there are no longer 17 places where you can set schedules. Each scripts has its own schedules and the prefs no longer has that. Yay. I hated that in the old one. There's also new nomenclature for almost every aspect, so not only do you have to hunt around in new places for something, you have to remember what it's now called.

The documentation leaves a lot to be desired, at least the stuff that comes when you purchase it online for download. There's only a quickstart manual that covers a lot of stuff, but not nearly everything. And their online "knowledge base" is still a joke.

While getting the sources set up, I was having trouble seeing the Mac Pro in the basement, which was plugged in via EtherNet to an old AirPort Express using WDS. While I was fucking with that, I realized that I no longer needed to go that route because the Mac Pro has an AirPort Extreme card in it. The old G5 that it replaced did not, which is why it was doing the extra hokey pokey. So at least now I'm getting 802.11n speeds, going straight to the base station via the card. Duh. Anybody wanna buy an old 802.11g AirPort base station and Express? Oh yeah, so now I can change the speed of my base station to 5GHz, since it no longer has to support 802.11b/g. Yeeha!