The Mac Geek Out Number 368 for Thursday, December 8th, 2011. I'm going to go and Good ratings folks

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Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave

Hamilton. Here, in Fairfield, Connecticut. John F. Braun.

Sure, you sure about the Connecticut part, John? At the moment, yes.

All right, well, that's good.

That's good.

Let's dive in.

Let's go to Larry, shall we?

Surely.

It's okay. And stop calling me Shirley.

Larry writes, I am in the final stages of my drive

drive preparation to take the, uh, he's gonna take the, he's going to take the lion plunge and he's setting himself up.

I'm being a very good little upator and I'm taking every precaution to make sure that my

applications are updated and that my computer is backed up.

I'm traditionally just a time machine is good enough backup er, but listening to your

show on hearing your continual admonitions to backup backup backup, backup, to have a reliable boot-up backup disk has made

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