http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
John Gruber must get a lot more hits than me, because he’s really fired up about copy & paste hijacking.
When you copy some text and paste it somewhere else, do you expect to see the exact text you’ve copied? 5-10 years ago, you would say uh, yes. But today, the …

Csync is a bidirectional file synchronization tool. The developer’s main purpose for csync is to implement roaming home directories for Linux clients using a central file server using PAM to synchronize when the user logs in and out. Instead of being it’s own protocol, by default using port 873 or whatever, it can use other protocols such as http, smb, or sftp so there is no need for a server component. Though I wonder how it compares in the nitty-gritty performance aspects which really matter when synchronizing lots of data over the Internet.

dd and netcat on one end, netcat and dd on the other. so simple, it’s like magic.