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I currently use Syncthing for the majority of my file synchronization needs, but not all. Syncthing is a great tool, but it can use quite a bit of RAM at startup--on my ThinkPad T410, Syncthing uses more than half its memory at startup. It also spawns a heavy server that runs continually in the background, which gobbles up power on my low-end Gemini PDA and DevTerm UMPC. For some of my devices, I'm now switching to using NNCP exclusively, running daemons on my higher-end devices and letting the small ones pull updates as needed.
On the subject of file synchronization tools, I'd like to find a lighter-weight, on-demand alternative to Syncthing. Ideally, I want a tool that works similarly to git, but with three key differences: nodes don't keep a revision history from the beginning of time (only back to the most recent common ancestor for each file in the cluster), each node can pull updates from multiple nodes simultaneously, and nodes communicate with each other directly through a daemon connected to a relay. Does such a tool exist? If not, I wonder how difficult it would be to create one.
It occurred to me this week that Gemini's plaintext and static-oriented document structure provided a perfect use case for my DevTerm's thermal printer. To that end, I made a small update to my weather forecast CGI script to add the current date as a sub-header. Now each morning, I boot up the DevTerm, send a request to the capsule script to get the next week's forecast, and send it to the printer, ticker-tape style. It's one more way I can reduce my energy consumption--and the waste created by a 57mm x 200mm sheet of recyclable thermal paper is minimal.
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Photo of the week:
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When I visit Kansas City, a favorite stop of mine is Strawberry Hill, just west of the city center. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church provides one of the best views of the KC skyline anywhere in the area. Surprisingly, even most residents of Kansas City don't seem to know about it.
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