I work frequently with four different machines. Two desktops, a laptop, and a tablet PC.
I want to be able to use programs in the same way across multiple machines and have state be preserved across them. For some things, I use unison. It works reasonably well for the KDE PIM apps and my Firefox bookmarks.
It doesn't work well for things like NNTP readers (where article numbers vary from location to location) and aren't easily fixed.
But then there are things like ipodder. It's an otherwise nice program, but there is no good way to sync its ~/.ipodder between machines (especially if the download area is not to be synced.) Urgh. It gets all confused and messed up.
Sigh.
I wish more programs would think about this.
Comments
Fri, 18.07.2008 12:48
Actually, I just had a horribl e experience with VPSLink. Lon g story short, they did not pr otect our Xen4 (we were [...]
Fri, 18.07.2008 10:43
Good job, John! There is a fai rly large group here at my off ice that rides every day to wo rk, most from Goshen (ab [...]
Thu, 17.07.2008 04:46
Your earlier post inspired me and I too travel occasionally to office on bicycle. Howeve r, I could not manage it [...]
Wed, 16.07.2008 10:21
Please send the config files,I want to have an experience of it. Thanks, Regards, J ayadev Kranti
Wed, 16.07.2008 06:12
Did we file a bug yet? :) I have also been seeing this, f or at least a year, with both usb and ps2 keyboards an [...]
Tue, 15.07.2008 11:30
Hi Cliff, Thanks for the co mment! No idea what happened to your earlier one; strange. After your experience [...]
Mon, 14.07.2008 20:53
Hi John, I came back to reread this post it is one of the be st. Nice Job. I left a comme nt the day it was first [...]
Mon, 14.07.2008 10:17
Thanks to everyone for all the tips. It looks like this CON FIG_GROUP_SCHED is the most li kely culprit; I will hav [...]