Definitions
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- noun trademark A high speed digital link standard originally developed by Apple Inc. now covered by the
IEEE 1394-1995 standard, usually spelled FireWire. - noun A system of
wires ortubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would recommend as full of a backup as soon as possible, as my machine didn’t even stay running in firewire disk mode.
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I've given up using the firewire was a great waste of time and money.
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Burning CDs is alright for smaller items, but having an external drive which I hookup to via "firewire" is the best route for backing up lots of info.
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If it does (what I've seen is four) you would have to give her access, possibly an IP or account number for access through the router, a log on Identity and password unless you did a straight wireless "firewire" sort of connection which may still need a password for some areas and could be an open door letting critters in.
unknown title 2009
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Firewire (IEEE1394) is just a transport protocol ... you're probably getting mixed up with unconformed HDV playback via firewire which is an issue in and of itself and not connected to OS X or anything else.
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Twice this weekend I was at an Apple store, thinking about buying a new Macbook (I was definately going to buy one before the 'firewire' debacle).
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Twice this weekend I was at an Apple store, thinking about buying a new Macbook (I was definately going to buy one before the 'firewire' debacle).
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They have usb, and firewire available and if you buy it w/o a drive preinstalled, its like $25 for the USB version
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The backup was just a file-sync over a firewire network to another machine.
What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned | FactoryCity 2009
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- Set up Media Center to stream video from a firewire drive attached to the Mac to my XBox 360 (I had to do some messing around with Samba on the Mac side to get this going) - Play some games (Fallout and Sacrifice from GOG. com, Half Life) - General messing around with the taskbar/application folders/gadgets and whatnot
Lifehacker’s Guide To Upgrading To Windows 7 RC | Lifehacker Australia 2009
mikejt commented on the word firewire
Firewire is Apple's trademarked name for the IEEE 1394 high speed serial bus. Apple allows others to use the name, and there is an interesting story behind it at .
June 9, 2009