Lying in the grass and staring at tree leaves. Lying on the ground in general. Or lying in my bed staring at the patterns in the wooden planks of the ceiling.
The crisp air on a winter morning.
A campfire.
Watching rabbits, cows, goats or other animals eat grass.
Apparently grep, sed, awk, sort and split. Jebus I love old Unix tools.
So I'm an engineer for a newspaper, and a major international coffee shop chain (you can probably guess which one) just decided they wouldn't sell newspapers anymore. This last minute deal came through where they'd pay us so people could get unlimited articles on their wifi and they'd promote us. So they took their sweet time with getting me this poorly formatted list of IPs with tons of extraneous information in the file. I had an end of day Monday dead line to get their institutional access setup. I was kind of scared today when I opened the file and saw tons of extraneous crap and over 9300+ lines of stuff to deal with. Thanks to handy 40+ year old Unix tools, I was able to pull only the stuff I cared about and get all the data formatted so I can just paste it into the web interface our content delivery network uses. It actually took me more time dealing with the CDN and finding out they had a 750 IP limit to their fields than it did for me to format the mess the coffee chain sent me. Thank you split for letting be able to easily break that up. I got it on our staging network before noon Friday, so I'm well ahead of my deadline by having it done Friday morning.
Thank the Unix Gods. I'll sacrifice a goat in your honor. Seriously, back in the '70s some dudes said we'll just make an OS that can deal with text and is built around it, and they're my heroes. All these tools still run on Linux today.
I also now have a list of all the IPs for the U.S. that a major coffee chain uses for their public wifi. That might come in handy and is just kind of neat to have.
Apparently grep, sed, awk, sort and split. Jebus I love old Unix tools.
Thank the Unix Gods. I'll sacrifice a goat in your honor. Seriously, back in the '70s some dudes said we'll just make an OS that can deal with text and is built around it, and they're my heroes. All these tools still run on Linux today.
They also run on OS X, which is built on an open source version of BSD Unix. (Back in 2002, the meme was "OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than making Windows secure and reliable.")
And I agree with you. In a previously life, I wrote medical and pharmaceutical software that (as my boss said at the start of my interview) could kill 10,000 people a day. It was an Oracle shop running on Solaris and Linux. I once fixed a problem in forty minutes that the Oracle guys couldn't do in a month, thanks to a fgrep, cut, split, head, tail, and the korn shell's various IO redirects. It took three minutes to write, seven minutes to test and run, and thirty minutes to convince the Oracle guys that I did it that quickly.
And I really wish I could tell you about some of the awesome stuff we did when I was involved with military software, but I have enough going on without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones showing up at the door.
Apparently grep, sed, awk, sort and split. Jebus I love old Unix tools.
Thank the Unix Gods. I'll sacrifice a goat in your honor. Seriously, back in the '70s some dudes said we'll just make an OS that can deal with text and is built around it, and they're my heroes. All these tools still run on Linux today.
They also run on OS X, which is built on an open source version of BSD Unix. (Back in 2002, the meme was "OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than making Windows secure and reliable.")
And I agree with you. In a previously life, I wrote medical and pharmaceutical software that (as my boss said at the start of my interview) could kill 10,000 people a day. It was an Oracle shop running on Solaris and Linux. I once fixed a problem in forty minutes that the Oracle guys couldn't do in a month, thanks to a fgrep, cut, split, head, tail, and the korn shell's various IO redirects. It took three minutes to write, seven minutes to test and run, and thirty minutes to convince the Oracle guys that I did it that quickly.
And I really wish I could tell you about some of the awesome stuff we did when I was involved with military software, but I have enough going on without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones showing up at the door.
Oh, I know about OS X's history. I prefer Ubuntu myself, plus it makes easier running the same OS that all the servers I manage are on. There are some differences, like OS X has BSD sed and Linux has GNU, so some things don't completely work the same.
I've done some civilian work for the navy when I worked for a company that did physical security computers and related systems like 15 years ago. So I've actually had clearance to walk around some bases. It was funny, back then I had a really long pony tail. When my boss and I were unloading things from his car, a guard came over yelling at us "What the Hell are we doing here?" and had his hand on his weapon. With a big shit eating grin I hand him my badge and tell him "We're with XXXXX, we're here to set up your security system." He calmed down, but was clearly pissed he couldn't get into it with us.
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The crisp air on a winter morning.
A campfire.
Watching rabbits, cows, goats or other animals eat grass.
Also, chocolate, and cuddling with my children.
So I'm an engineer for a newspaper, and a major international coffee shop chain (you can probably guess which one) just decided they wouldn't sell newspapers anymore. This last minute deal came through where they'd pay us so people could get unlimited articles on their wifi and they'd promote us. So they took their sweet time with getting me this poorly formatted list of IPs with tons of extraneous information in the file. I had an end of day Monday dead line to get their institutional access setup. I was kind of scared today when I opened the file and saw tons of extraneous crap and over 9300+ lines of stuff to deal with. Thanks to handy 40+ year old Unix tools, I was able to pull only the stuff I cared about and get all the data formatted so I can just paste it into the web interface our content delivery network uses. It actually took me more time dealing with the CDN and finding out they had a 750 IP limit to their fields than it did for me to format the mess the coffee chain sent me. Thank you split for letting be able to easily break that up. I got it on our staging network before noon Friday, so I'm well ahead of my deadline by having it done Friday morning.
Thank the Unix Gods. I'll sacrifice a goat in your honor. Seriously, back in the '70s some dudes said we'll just make an OS that can deal with text and is built around it, and they're my heroes. All these tools still run on Linux today.
I also now have a list of all the IPs for the U.S. that a major coffee chain uses for their public wifi. That might come in handy and is just kind of neat to have.
They also run on OS X, which is built on an open source version of BSD Unix. (Back in 2002, the meme was "OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than making Windows secure and reliable.")
And I agree with you. In a previously life, I wrote medical and pharmaceutical software that (as my boss said at the start of my interview) could kill 10,000 people a day. It was an Oracle shop running on Solaris and Linux. I once fixed a problem in forty minutes that the Oracle guys couldn't do in a month, thanks to a fgrep, cut, split, head, tail, and the korn shell's various IO redirects. It took three minutes to write, seven minutes to test and run, and thirty minutes to convince the Oracle guys that I did it that quickly.
And I really wish I could tell you about some of the awesome stuff we did when I was involved with military software, but I have enough going on without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones showing up at the door.
Oh, I know about OS X's history. I prefer Ubuntu myself, plus it makes easier running the same OS that all the servers I manage are on. There are some differences, like OS X has BSD sed and Linux has GNU, so some things don't completely work the same.
I've done some civilian work for the navy when I worked for a company that did physical security computers and related systems like 15 years ago. So I've actually had clearance to walk around some bases. It was funny, back then I had a really long pony tail. When my boss and I were unloading things from his car, a guard came over yelling at us "What the Hell are we doing here?" and had his hand on his weapon. With a big shit eating grin I hand him my badge and tell him "We're with XXXXX, we're here to set up your security system." He calmed down, but was clearly pissed he couldn't get into it with us.