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[WinLoseOrDraw]

Time Machine has some whacked "features". Eg. the way it uses Volume IDs makes no sense whatsoever. Some (but not all) of the problems being associated with Time Capsule are actually Time Machine issues.

I remain convinced Time Machine/Capsule was anticipating a move to ZFS and was only late in the game hacked back to HFS-land.

[Tex]

re networking issues

It wasn't obvious from the article whether the problem was "networking is borked" or was a special case that was brought into focus by some peculiarity of the NYC networks, but in either case the more people hammer on Apple's software and the more Apple needs to address concerns raised by serious users, mass-installation sites, and busy networks, the better the future will be for Apple's customers.

I wonder if the problem is hard to replicate, or what? One would think if the bug weren't especially obscure, a fix should be easy to come by given a little engineering time.

Hmm.

Take care,
--Tex.