Threw this little mix together over the weekend to try to get up to speed with Traktor Pro (finally). Not super thrilled that you can't have beat jump and cue navigation keys open simultaneously, but let's be honest, that's where an external controller comes into play. Stanton SCS, here I come.

Since my AV rack is nowhere near my router, I run a WDS network that uses two Airport Extremes — one 100Mbps, one 1Gbps. Since bandwidth isn't as much of an issue between networked devices in the rack, it gets the 100Mbps. By and large, it works brilliantly — I've got a Squeezebox 3, Tivo S3, Xbox 360, and Slingbox connected to the Extreme and everything's solid. Lately, though, I've been getting intermittent dropouts on the WDS where both routers go to blinky yellow. Sometimes it fixes itself after a few minutes, sometimes I've got to power cycle the remote (the rack router). Either way, though, the Slingbox loses network connectivity without fail and never regains it — I've got to reset it to get it back on track. Since this WDS drama happens at least once or twice a day, it renders the Slingbox useless if I'm out of the house for any length of time, which is the only scenario where I want to use it anyway. Sling: can you please release a firmware that'll make the box at least try to restore connectivity on its own accord?

God, I can't believe how simple this is:

1. Sleep your computer in the middle of a backup.

2. Power it back on connected to another network (or no network at all).

This'll give you a "volume cannot be found" error. I ended up deleting my sparsefile, which produced an even more fantastic symptom where the computer will allow you to choose the disk as your TM backup disk, but will simultaneously slide the TM "power switch" to the off position.

I can't really say for sure how I ended up fixing it, but I went back to the machine to which the TM drive is connected, deleted and re-added my username for network permissions, then deleted my TM plist from the target machine. All is well now, but the fact remains: overall, TM is way too fragile for a consumer-oriented backup strategy.