I HATE APPLE

-- jay blanchard

"PC"

the "genius" was all "oh yeah, why would you need a travel drive, you can just use your wireless w/ .mac" ... i worry that this company panders a bit too much to the "sit around in a cafe doing fucking nothing all day" crowd.

someone recommend me a good sync utility that's cheap (willing to pay $40 or less, i guess, for shareware but not $100) so that i can get my files in order.

i just want to be able to open an application that just picks the newest revision of files off the drive and my hd and updates/overwrites the older ones.

i've got a directory on my computer that's got everything that's on the travel drive on it ... looks just like the thing.

so before i go to bed at night, do an rsyncx with my directory as source and my traveldrive as destination and "folder contents only".

when i get home from work (after playing w/ travel drive contents at work) do a rsyncx with the traveldrive as source and HD as destination.

should i do "update" or "two-way"??

In the situation outlined, it surely shouldn't matter which you do, because only the files in one place should have changed, so there won't be any changes to sync in the opposite direction.

and to run both scripts at the same time and not do anything in between.

and to do this on an extremely regular basis.

first, do a two-way sync to get everything on the memory stickas new as possible.

next, just wipe everything off my harddisk.

then, use rsyncx on a daily basis just to back up my memory stick, and only work with files on the memory stick.

here is the basic situation:

1) i've got about a gigabyte of stuff i take back and forth with me between school and home. lessons, diagrams, worksheets, gradebooks, spreadsheets and so on.

2) i only edit a few items daily, but i need to make sure that everything is up-to-date on both laptop and memory stick as often as possible, especially the gradebook and spreadsheets.

3) when i am at work i work completely off the memory stick because i am hopping between 4 different offices.

4) when i am at home i plug the memory stick in the powerbook, but i don't want to leave it there for very long because it's really awkward to have a memory stick poking out of the side of the powerbook and i mostly work with the powerbook on my lap or in bed or on a crowded kitchen table.

so ... what should i do? mind you, i'm a complete n00b when it comes to rsync and unix-y stuff.

zzzz baiting zealots

- the tiresome old argument brooker propounds

- the fact someone as incisive as brooker should bother his arse to propound such an argument, even at the behest of a commissioning editor waving a bag of loot

- the shrieking shrew suggesting "writers" should be consulted about every edit to their copy

- the fact i've wasted two minutes of my life reading it

- the fact i obviously care.

ARGHHH FUCK YOU APPLE FOR REQUIRING ME TO GET A ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR DVI TO ADC ADAPTOR, I MEAN FOR THE FUCK OF GOD, REALLY.

WAHT?

I had no idea. I have an extra one on my desk right now. THERE'S CASH IN THESE THINGS. EBAY, HERE I COME.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS AFTER SHIPPING. IT MAY TAKE ME A WEEK TO CALM DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK.

I really don't get it. Is it scented or something?

IT'S THE SIZE OF A BRICK AND HAS ITS OWN POWER SUPPLY AND USB PORT. WAHT THE FUKC!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOOOOooooooh. I was thinking of a DVI to VGA adapter.

haha u got an ADC monitor sucka

well, so do I, all the cinema displays are ADC iirc. And a ADC to VGA is like 10 bucks.

;_;

current Cinema Displays (metal bezel) are all DVI.

The plastic monitors from the last series go by a different name, don't they?

http://images.apple.com/displays/images/digital_sidebar_dviport20060721.png

ah ha. you are correct.

ok so wtf is an adc monitor?

Same name, different housing, different connection. I got this monitor four years ago when I bought my last Mac. Dumb of me not to check connection compatibility when I bought the new computer. (xpost)

Monitor with custom cable that has everything -- USB, display and power in the one cord. You need the box to split them and provide the power. Basically so that everything was neat. xp

The Apple Display Connector (ADC) is a proprietary modification of the DVI connector that combines analog and digital video signals, USB, and power all in one cable. Apple used ADC for its LCD-based Apple Cinema Displays and their final CRT displays, before deciding to use standard DVI connectors on later models.