Currently? Just unison -quiet, running from cron. (I have it wrapped in a script that does locking, since Unison doesn't seem to lock against itself reliably, for reasons I don't understand.) I've had two problems worth watching out for:
1) Try to avoid running it against NFS. It walks the entire synced area every time you sync. Local disk will be two orders of magnitude faster.
2) Be careful syncing between case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems. Unison will start failing out if you ever create two files differing only in case.

Beyond that, I'm looking to start using git to version both my code and my textual data. I'm not intending to use git itself to sync the repositories; I'm going to use it for versioning only, and keep syncing using Unison. The reason is because I'm the only user, and for my own convenience I'd like the working copy to be synced. All I really need out of git is versioning anyway; I already have a workable solution for syncing.

From the summary (you didn't even have to RTA): "mechanical exoskeleton"

If you own something then you can sell it.

This right here, ladies and gentlemen. This is the cancer that's killing /b/^H^H^H America.

Once a term used to suggest something cheap or inferior, shanzhai now suggests to many a certain Chinese cleverness and ingenuity. Shanzhai culture "is from the grass roots and for the grass roots," says Han Haoyue, a media critic in Beijing, who sees it as a means of self-expression.

Sounds to me like "hack" or "hacker".

I almost feel like whoever at NASA picked the poll options must have been a Firefly fan. Of the four choices, "Serenity" is really the only one that goes well with the existing two names, even to a normal person who's never heard of Firefly.

Don't waste a response on this, but maybe you should look into asking Slashdot to give you a no-flood-control bit. If they don't have one they really should. Anybody who's famous enough to be responding to comments on an article can probably be trusted not to spam the site; and it would be nice if those people could do so without having to worry about getting blocked. (I'm thinking also of NewYorkCountryLawyer here, who probably runs into the same problem.)

Seriously, nothing to see here. This is truly an embarrassment to Slashdot (if that's even possible). Just move along.

Wow. Has "KDE doesn't need users" been a Slashdot story yet? I know it's out of date, but really, that deserves some exposure...

For anyone who's too lazy to search for it, the specific issue is on lines 259-274. (That would of course be in the "loop forever on leap day" function. ;-)

Before the bile starts pouring in, let's take a moment to thank the FCC for having a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense. That they listened is nothing short of incredible, and we should savor this moment and reward them for it, before we start tearing down the proposal for everything _else_ we each think is wrong with it. :-)

Replying to cancel accidental moderation. :-\

badblocks has a non-destructive read-write testing mode. You can't run it while mounted, though, for obvious reasons; with SMART you probably can.

And they'll only grant you powers with respect to a particular class of works (e.g. audio-visual works on CD) not something nice and broad like "any copyrighted work."

I was wondering about this. What exactly is the source of the rule that says they can't make an exception for "any noninfringing use of any work; or any action which does not involve any copyrighted work"?

Wow. I have always been one of the smug people who replies to people's complaints about Wikipedia with "show me the diffs", and frankly those diffs stun me. I have not the words for how much TTN's behavior upsets me.

It's clear to me that I don't have the resources to do anything about him and his ilk directly; even though he's made some clear policy violations, I just don't have the time to wikilawyer against him singlehandedly, and I'm sure he has friends.

I'm contemplating what larger moves I could make that might help... it shouldn't be hard to "skin" Wikipedia to produce non-official versions, with reduced notability requirements. In the meantime, all I can say is that I feel your pain. I still think Wikipedia is the best Wikipedia we have, as it were, even if it's not the best Wikipedia it can be.