How the fuck do you equate a country with overarching censorship, concentration camps, forced abortion, forced relocation, state determination of every individual's profession, airtight border controls to keep citizens *in*, "your family pays for the bullet" bureaucracy, etc. with capitalism? Sounds like good ol' Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Ortega, Dear-Leader style communism to me.
Gotta love those well-informed mods. "Insightful" my ass.
I dunno if it's abandoned, but it doesn't matter. Unison is *mature* -- there just aren't any lurking bugs that will never be fixed, or "coming soon" features that you really need *now*.
So don't worry about not having new versions available, or that new patches aren't forthcoming. I've been using my copy for over three years now with *one* update (and that was just because I installed a newly-downloaded version on a new machine and the new version was incompatible with the older copy).
I'm using the GUI version only (through Windows on both end, but that shouldn't matter 'cause the GUI is TK and looks the same -- crappy -- on both OSs). I've never used the command version 'cause I like how the GUI works: it nicely and very efficently shows whether your copy or the remote copy will be changed and lets you easily override its on a file-by-file basis. (I almost never override anything...I just start the GUI up, take a quick peek at the suggested changes and hit the Go button.)
Also, conflicts are non-existent for me 'cause I'm only one computer at once;) so I don't have any feel for the conflict resolution accuracy.
I can second that. I've been using Unison to sync. my entire source directory (1000s of files) between home and work. Over at least 3 years of doing this and I've never lost a file.
Oh, yah, the best part...I've been doing this through a modem-to-modem connection running at something like 20kb (that's less than 1/2 regular dial-up speed) and I've never had to wait more than a few minutes to sync. up several 1000 files. (Unison only transfers files that have been changed, and only the *actual changed portions* of each changed file. Combine that with the fact that the program keeps directories on each end of the connection, so that there's very little time spent deciding which of those 1000s of files have been changed.)
Downsides: hmmm...If you're using Windows you need to install cygwin. I initially thought that was a royal pain-in-the-ass, but having got used to cygwin's bash shell now I love having it available. Also, (ok, my version is several years old -- since It Just Works, why update? -- so this may have changed) you need to get an cygwin SSH daemon running on the computer you're going to call in to, AKA your file server). It can also be kinda difficult to fine-tune the config. files that Unison uses to determine what directories/files to sync.
But, after you get everything running you never need to touch the thing again. Highly recommended.
Woosh.... That's the sound of my comment going completely over your head.
What I was doing was simply pointing out calling censorship "right-wing Republican bullshit" is just being ignorant; your left-wing heroes are notorious for free speech violations. Need I mention the left-wing Political Correctness police so common on college campuses these days?
By the way, I was *not* defending bush. I don't like the guy. At all. Not one little bit. I was just pointing out the hypocracy of your original statement.
Restricting free speach is right-wing Republican bullshit?
So I guess you could say whatever you wanted in the Soviet gulags? Pol Pot's Cambodia? North Korea? China?
Guess you hadn't heard that a Chinese reporter just got beaten to death by police officers. Guess you haven't heard about North Korea's reeducation camps. Or Pol Pot's "turn in your parents" programs.
You just want to use this as a soapbox to beat your hated Bush over the head with, but grow up! Thought crimes are bullshit whether the Dear Leader in question believes in Communist dialetic fairy dust or fundamentalist invisible sky monsters.
Riiight! So an embargo forced Pol Pot to butcher 1/3 of his country's population, Stalin to kill 20,000,000, Mao to kill 50,000,000, Our Eternal Leader Kim to kill 3,000,000 et. cetra! If only the evil capitalists would leave these well-meaning societies alone.
Comrade, isn't it your turn to pass out little red books on streetcorners this weekend?
Is that the same Canada that forces its citizens to pay protection money to the recording industry for every piece of blank media they buy? Sorry hoser, you're screwed too.
Way off base. The US is practically alone in the democratic world in having such lax gun control.
So if everybody jumps off a cliff, we should as well? Seriously, there's a reason for the lax control: the US is also practically alone in the democratic world in having the right to self-protection being enshrined in its constitution.
Last time I checked, the "right" to free healthcare was missing from said constitution, along with the "right" to a job, the "right" to free housing, etc...
"Capitalist"? Do you have any clue as to what capitalism is?
Buying government officials with the intent to hoist patently un-freemarket legislation on the public and other companies (think: hardware manufacturers) is most un-capitalistic.
I've come to realize that people who bring up comparisons to the Spanish Flu are either a) intellectually deficient (i.e., politicians and the media) or b) have something to profit by the comparison (politicians and the media). A moments simple reflection:
* The 1918 virus spread through the trenches, where soldiers were packed shoulder-to-shoulder. A serious flu suffer these days would be isolated in a medical ward, preventing the disease from spreading.
* We have *slightly* better sanitation and hygene now than in 1918. You know, like indoor plumbing, hand washing, etc.?
* Many of the 1918 deaths were *not* from the flu; rather, they were from secondary causes (dehydration, secondary infections, etc.). These are perfectly treatable now.
* Oh, yes, and there's little matter of a vaccine. You *are* aware that we can now vaccinate against virus strains, aren't you?
* Post-infection, there are also anti-viral medicines that appear to work quite effectively.
These points are all very easy to think through, so I'm wondering why you're playing Chicken Little? Are you just stupid, do you get off on scaring your friends with some made-up pandemic, or do you work for the media or government?
Here's a better question for the AOP crowd: Can you *possibly* come up with a new example usagage? Since its introduction, AOP snake-oil types have been dragging out the now-threadbare "logging" example (see the other replies to the parent). Are there any more uses for this thing?
You won't find it written anywhere but Microsoft gurantees that you're machine will not crash (BSOD) if you use certified drivers and MSI installed software.
"You won't find it written anywhere but Microsoft guarantees"??? WTF kind of guarantee is that, the double-secret Microsoft-patented guarantee? If it isn't written anywhere, how do you know about it?
So who do I call if my computer BSODs and I'm using all certified drivers?
OK, how about this question: Why is it that Democrats are always trying to close loopholes? Campaign finance "loophole". Gun show "loophole". Tax shelter "loophole". Free speach "loophole".
Did you ever stop to think that people were using these "loopholes" because the underlying law was unfair, partisan and just plain poorly defined weaseling around the back door of the Constitution?
Stop with the "loophole" bullshit and just admit that you want to control everything everyone says, purchases, hears and thinks.
Yah. Seems like the casual way they mentioned the sponsor (or not so casual -- Benny's Sportsman Quartet singing about the sponsor every week) could work pretty well for some TV shows.
It's cool how sometimes the shows could even get away with making fun of the sponsor (listen to how Phil Harris' show treated Rex-All). *That* would probably not work these days.
(Forgot Sirius did OTR. I have my own collection of 3000 or so shows; in fact I'm listening to one now.)
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How the fuck do you equate a country with overarching censorship, concentration camps, forced abortion, forced relocation, state determination of every individual's profession, airtight border controls to keep citizens *in*, "your family pays for the bullet" bureaucracy, etc. with capitalism? Sounds like good ol' Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Ortega, Dear-Leader style communism to me.
Gotta love those well-informed mods. "Insightful" my ass.
Hmmm...by your description, I think you really just want rsync. Check out, for example, this nice tutorial.
I dunno if it's abandoned, but it doesn't matter. Unison is *mature* -- there just aren't any lurking bugs that will never be fixed, or "coming soon" features that you really need *now*.
So don't worry about not having new versions available, or that new patches aren't forthcoming. I've been using my copy for over three years now with *one* update (and that was just because I installed a newly-downloaded version on a new machine and the new version was incompatible with the older copy).
I'm using the GUI version only (through Windows on both end, but that shouldn't matter 'cause the GUI is TK and looks the same -- crappy -- on both OSs). I've never used the command version 'cause I like how the GUI works: it nicely and very efficently shows whether your copy or the remote copy will be changed and lets you easily override its on a file-by-file basis. (I almost never override anything...I just start the GUI up, take a quick peek at the suggested changes and hit the Go button.)
;) so I don't have any feel for the conflict resolution accuracy.
Also, conflicts are non-existent for me 'cause I'm only one computer at once
I can second that. I've been using Unison to sync. my entire source directory (1000s of files) between home and work. Over at least 3 years of doing this and I've never lost a file.
Oh, yah, the best part...I've been doing this through a modem-to-modem connection running at something like 20kb (that's less than 1/2 regular dial-up speed) and I've never had to wait more than a few minutes to sync. up several 1000 files. (Unison only transfers files that have been changed, and only the *actual changed portions* of each changed file. Combine that with the fact that the program keeps directories on each end of the connection, so that there's very little time spent deciding which of those 1000s of files have been changed.)
Downsides: hmmm...If you're using Windows you need to install cygwin. I initially thought that was a royal pain-in-the-ass, but having got used to cygwin's bash shell now I love having it available. Also, (ok, my version is several years old -- since It Just Works, why update? -- so this may have changed) you need to get an cygwin SSH daemon running on the computer you're going to call in to, AKA your file server). It can also be kinda difficult to fine-tune the config. files that Unison uses to determine what directories/files to sync.
But, after you get everything running you never need to touch the thing again. Highly recommended.
Woosh.... That's the sound of my comment going completely over your head.
What I was doing was simply pointing out calling censorship "right-wing Republican bullshit" is just being ignorant; your left-wing heroes are notorious for free speech violations. Need I mention the left-wing Political Correctness police so common on college campuses these days?
By the way, I was *not* defending bush. I don't like the guy. At all. Not one little bit. I was just pointing out the hypocracy of your original statement.
Restricting free speach is right-wing Republican bullshit? So I guess you could say whatever you wanted in the Soviet gulags? Pol Pot's Cambodia? North Korea? China? Guess you hadn't heard that a Chinese reporter just got beaten to death by police officers. Guess you haven't heard about North Korea's reeducation camps. Or Pol Pot's "turn in your parents" programs. You just want to use this as a soapbox to beat your hated Bush over the head with, but grow up! Thought crimes are bullshit whether the Dear Leader in question believes in Communist dialetic fairy dust or fundamentalist invisible sky monsters.
the US is also practically alone in the world in having the right to self-protection being enshrined in its constitution.
Err...what kind of jobs do you get?
He has a bit of pull with one of the Editor's what?
Riiight! So an embargo forced Pol Pot to butcher 1/3 of his country's population, Stalin to kill 20,000,000, Mao to kill 50,000,000, Our Eternal Leader Kim to kill 3,000,000 et. cetra! If only the evil capitalists would leave these well-meaning societies alone.
Comrade, isn't it your turn to pass out little red books on streetcorners this weekend?
Well put. You made my point much better than my sarcastic initial reply. :)
Is that the same Canada that forces its citizens to pay protection money to the recording industry for every piece of blank media they buy? Sorry hoser, you're screwed too.
Way off base. The US is practically alone in the democratic world in having such lax gun control.
So if everybody jumps off a cliff, we should as well? Seriously, there's a reason for the lax control: the US is also practically alone in the democratic world in having the right to self-protection being enshrined in its constitution.
Last time I checked, the "right" to free healthcare was missing from said constitution, along with the "right" to a job, the "right" to free housing, etc...
"Capitalist"? Do you have any clue as to what capitalism is?
Buying government officials with the intent to hoist patently un-freemarket legislation on the public and other companies (think: hardware manufacturers) is most un-capitalistic.
I've come to realize that people who bring up comparisons to the Spanish Flu are either a) intellectually deficient (i.e., politicians and the media) or b) have something to profit by the comparison (politicians and the media). A moments simple reflection:
* The 1918 virus spread through the trenches, where soldiers were packed shoulder-to-shoulder. A serious flu suffer these days would be isolated in a medical ward, preventing the disease from spreading.
* We have *slightly* better sanitation and hygene now than in 1918. You know, like indoor plumbing, hand washing, etc.?
* Many of the 1918 deaths were *not* from the flu; rather, they were from secondary causes (dehydration, secondary infections, etc.). These are perfectly treatable now.
* Oh, yes, and there's little matter of a vaccine. You *are* aware that we can now vaccinate against virus strains, aren't you?
* Post-infection, there are also anti-viral medicines that appear to work quite effectively.
These points are all very easy to think through, so I'm wondering why you're playing Chicken Little? Are you just stupid, do you get off on scaring your friends with some made-up pandemic, or do you work for the media or government?
You guys are pikers. Haven't you heard about the $30,000 dollar speaker cables?
Thats $ US, by the way.
Here's a better question for the AOP crowd: Can you *possibly* come up with a new example usagage? Since its introduction, AOP snake-oil types have been dragging out the now-threadbare "logging" example (see the other replies to the parent). Are there any more uses for this thing?
You won't find it written anywhere but Microsoft gurantees that you're machine will not crash (BSOD) if you use certified drivers and MSI installed software.
"You won't find it written anywhere but Microsoft guarantees"??? WTF kind of guarantee is that, the double-secret Microsoft-patented guarantee? If it isn't written anywhere, how do you know about it?
So who do I call if my computer BSODs and I'm using all certified drivers?
OK, how about this question: Why is it that Democrats are always trying to close loopholes? Campaign finance "loophole". Gun show "loophole". Tax shelter "loophole". Free speach "loophole".
Did you ever stop to think that people were using these "loopholes" because the underlying law was unfair, partisan and just plain poorly defined weaseling around the back door of the Constitution?
Stop with the "loophole" bullshit and just admit that you want to control everything everyone says, purchases, hears and thinks.
You bastard! I'll have that song going through my brain for hours. :(
Insightful my ass. Oracle has always had a developer edition. Free. As a developer you're getting nothing new from this.
Cygwin does support unc paths.
Yah. Seems like the casual way they mentioned the sponsor (or not so casual -- Benny's Sportsman Quartet singing about the sponsor every week) could work pretty well for some TV shows.
It's cool how sometimes the shows could even get away with making fun of the sponsor (listen to how Phil Harris' show treated Rex-All). *That* would probably not work these days.
(Forgot Sirius did OTR. I have my own collection of 3000 or so shows; in fact I'm listening to one now.)
Holy *%#@! How many slashdotters would know Harlo Wilcox and Don Wilson? (Bill Goodwin even I don't know). You're an OTR fan?