Why are the backups so huge?
One of our back-end processing servers has been taking ages to get backed up using a homegrown backup program.
The logs are out there, but for large backups like this one, it's basically impossible to skim them with my human eyes in any reasonable about of time. Fortunately, those days are long past:
Does anybody use LinkedIn to keep track of business contacts? I signed up for an account, but the only people I can think to add are my current co-workers.
Add me if you're on there:
XGameStation
Somebody should buy me this:
http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=33
I promise that I will program something awesome for the person who does.
Perlicious
I'm such a whore for Perl, it's kind of sad. It's just so....handy.
I was trying to figure out why there were so many invalid domain names in the outgoing queue and was looking for a better way of cutting them off right away and notifying the sender that he or she is a jackass. So I whipped up this little guy to test my RegEx:
perl -e "while (<>) { if ($_ =~ m/<(.*?@.*?)> <(.*?@[a-z0-9\-]*?)>.*/i) { print qq/$1\tto $2\n/; } }" s20080717.log
Day 2
It's a little tricky trying to type an update today. I split a fairly important finger wide open from a fumbled ground ball early this morning. As you can imagine, it makes typing quickly/correcly a bit of a chore.
I've got the registration working so you don't have to leave comments as a Dirty Canadian now, not that anybody did, but still. The emailing works and I'm glad I wasted most of this weekend getting everything set up.
