I use ubuntu (now kubuntu, whatevs) and had the little network manager applet go AWOL on me - it was stuck with “manual configuration” and wouldn’t do its magic for me. Now, I’ve had to write my own nastiness for ifup/down scripts before, so I could cope, but it sucked. I have looked around, but only recently found a page with the solution to the problem. Life is tastes better now.
Hey folks! If you’re a unix nerd like me, you probably use rsync for everything. Unfortunately I learned today that if you do rsync -vaP --delete source dest you may not have sync’d files. Why? Because that only uses the timestamp.
Yeah.
Anyhow, rsync -c is what you want. This does a checksum everytime regardless of timestamp. A word of caution though: it takes forever. However, my 80GB cache of corrupted MP3s are thanking me.
For those of you just tuning into my blog and/or my life, I “switched” my computing platform in a strange way - from Mac OS X to Linux. I have learned a lot in the past 9 months, and I would like to share some of my surprising discoveries.