The short story. Some guy has a stupid idea and thinks the idea is great. He then treks out to Google headquarters, and they listen to his pitch. Of course, this has a bit of internet momentum behind it in order for google to even hear his case.

According to the website, this quest of futility started on Feb 11, 2007. We have been in this for about a year now. I check in on the website, and the forums, every few days. To date, secrecy is pretty high, I am not even sure the beta testers really know what the actual idea is.
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Time Machine, yeah, the whole ball of wax bothers me.

Great idea, poor implementation. Feel free to read on and post the items that piss you off about Time Machine. I am sure the list is much longer than I am able to come up with.
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I wrote previously about how the Finder in 10.x up was screwy in the way it dealt with long file names.

Looks like Apple almost heard me, as they fixed that bug, but only half way.

Here is how they used to deal with it, which was pretty piss poor:

And here is how it is dealt with in 10.5 Leopard:

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