psyncx is a graphical front end to psync and works quite well.
at my last job, i backed up a machine using retrospect and an exabyte loader and it was weeks of headaches. nothing went right at all.
psyncx doesn't have the complex options of something like retrospect, but it's perfect for the user of a single machine who wants a basic backup - selected folders or drives copied to another location - done on a schedule of manually, using inexpensive shareware software.
hello. i'm "the guy" - not the first to post this stuff on bikeforums, but my videos of the EV Disc lock received lots of attention, and i've been basking in my 15 minutes (ny times, daily news, npr's all things considerd, and more...) and fearing checking the transfer stats on my web hosting account (but the movies have since been moved over to the bikeforums.net server. thanks to joe).
anyway, the topic at hand...
of course no lock provides 100% security, but when you purchase an expensive lock (these kryptonite locks run $100 here in nyc - as much as many spend on their bikes), one would think they are not buying a 100% guarantee, but the least, purchasing some assurance that said lock has been tested and assured invulnerable to most *reasonable* threats.
reasonable threats include people smashing them with hammers, prying them open them with crowbars and, well.. sticking pens in them open and jiggling them around..
would i buy a lock knowing that a professional locksmith, equipped with an arsenal of professional tools could open it up in 10 minutes time? sure. why? because not many street crooks are equipped with such training and tools. (a 100% invulnerable lock might present more problems than it solves.)
when i first called kryptonite on monday of last week, a customer service guy returned my call that afternoon and assured me that they were working on the situation, but that their locks are high quality products, testing against smashing and picking of all sorts.
"they're obviously not tested well enough," i told him.
he wasn't really in a position to openly agree with me, but this seems to me like a case of a product being tested against so many horrible extremes and worst-case-scenarios (the old masterlock commercial with the padlock being shot by a gun comes to mind), that they overlooked the most basic street tricks.
perhaps kryptonite needs a ninja QA team.
some "embedded bike thieves" perhaps?
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i don't know much about lock picking, but some posters there basically speculate that most circular locks are somewhat succeptable to this kind of picking and the krpytonite happened to be especially unlucky due to the diameter of the barrel and pressure needed to compress the springs of the teeth mechanisms inside.
the bic pen happened to hit the spot, being the proper diameter and the proper softness, collapsing where necessary, but strong enough to poke down, where necessary.
i'll say that after practicing for a little while, i can pop a krpytonite EV disc lock (top of the line) in about 5 seconds.
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i'm keeping an eye on that:)
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it's my site... those two quicktimes have been downloaded close to 80,000 times today so far, but the server (dreamhost.com) appears to be going strong.
no. really.... i like apple, but they're not a *nix company. suer NeXT was more of a *nix company, but never a server company.
i always viewed OSX server as more of a symbolic OS release. apple's strength has always been on the desktop and if OSX Desktop release sucks, i'll be pissed off at them for ruining one good operating system by splitting it into two lousy ones.
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psyncx is a graphical front end to psync and works quite well.
at my last job, i backed up a machine using retrospect and an exabyte loader and it was weeks of headaches. nothing went right at all.
psyncx doesn't have the complex options of something like retrospect, but it's perfect for the user of a single machine who wants a basic backup - selected folders or drives copied to another location - done on a schedule of manually, using inexpensive shareware software.
hello. i'm "the guy" - not the first to post this stuff on bikeforums, but my videos of the EV Disc lock received lots of attention, and i've been basking in my 15 minutes (ny times, daily news, npr's all things considerd, and more...) and fearing checking the transfer stats on my web hosting account (but the movies have since been moved over to the bikeforums.net server. thanks to joe).
anyway, the topic at hand...
of course no lock provides 100% security, but when you purchase an expensive lock (these kryptonite locks run $100 here in nyc - as much as many spend on their bikes), one would think they are not buying a 100% guarantee, but the least, purchasing some assurance that said lock has been tested and assured invulnerable to most *reasonable* threats.
reasonable threats include people smashing them with hammers, prying them open them with crowbars and, well.. sticking pens in them open and jiggling them around..
would i buy a lock knowing that a professional locksmith, equipped with an arsenal of professional tools could open it up in 10 minutes time? sure. why? because not many street crooks are equipped with such training and tools. (a 100% invulnerable lock might present more problems than it solves.)
when i first called kryptonite on monday of last week, a customer service guy returned my call that afternoon and assured me that they were working on the situation, but that their locks are high quality products, testing against smashing and picking of all sorts.
"they're obviously not tested well enough," i told him.
he wasn't really in a position to openly agree with me, but this seems to me like a case of a product being tested against so many horrible extremes and worst-case-scenarios (the old masterlock commercial with the padlock being shot by a gun comes to mind), that they overlooked the most basic street tricks.
perhaps kryptonite needs a ninja QA team.
some "embedded bike thieves" perhaps?
there's some interesting insight and speculation on the original bikeforums.net thread regarding this.
i don't know much about lock picking, but some posters there basically speculate that most circular locks are somewhat succeptable to this kind of picking and the krpytonite happened to be especially unlucky due to the diameter of the barrel and pressure needed to compress the springs of the teeth mechanisms inside.
the bic pen happened to hit the spot, being the proper diameter and the proper softness, collapsing where necessary, but strong enough to poke down, where necessary.
i'll say that after practicing for a little while, i can pop a krpytonite EV disc lock (top of the line) in about 5 seconds.
i'm keeping an eye on that :)
it's my site... those two quicktimes have been downloaded close to 80,000 times today so far, but the server (dreamhost.com) appears to be going strong.
well then...
good thing no one uses OSX.
no. really.... i like apple, but they're not a *nix company. suer NeXT was more of a *nix company, but never a server company.
i always viewed OSX server as more of a symbolic OS release. apple's strength has always been on the desktop and if OSX Desktop release sucks, i'll be pissed off at them for ruining one good operating system by splitting it into two lousy ones.