Trust goes with every "scientific" invention - I trust newton's laws because those laws have been tested against nature several times.
In a similar manner, in open source, several different programmers have tested a piece of a code for holes - if there are still holes, those are the not-so-obvious ones (like what happened lately with DNS/bind). For closed software, unfortunately, it will be only the 30-40 team members that test the code (in the best case scenario).
My 2 cents.
If the laptop and the server you use is Linux/Unix, rsync is definitely the answer to it - its robust and after the 1st time of rsyncing, the process should be quick enough (assuming you log-on often).
I wrote a small script recently to sync my firefox bookmarks. Don't know whether it might be helpful to you, but here is the link:
http://oidw.blogspot.com/2007/08/geek-talk.html
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Trust goes with every "scientific" invention - I trust newton's laws because those laws have been tested against nature several times. In a similar manner, in open source, several different programmers have tested a piece of a code for holes - if there are still holes, those are the not-so-obvious ones (like what happened lately with DNS/bind). For closed software, unfortunately, it will be only the 30-40 team members that test the code (in the best case scenario). My 2 cents.
http://www.mepis.org/book/export/html/10222
... no fun browsing internet without these two opened.
Since they need flash and java
If the laptop and the server you use is Linux/Unix, rsync is definitely the answer to it - its robust and after the 1st time of rsyncing, the process should be quick enough (assuming you log-on often). I wrote a small script recently to sync my firefox bookmarks. Don't know whether it might be helpful to you, but here is the link: http://oidw.blogspot.com/2007/08/geek-talk.html