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meetings

I had a meeting today.

I know, exciting stuff, I can barely contain myself.

The highlight of this meeting was explaining to another “IT” person why a port number was important for a particular product.  After the third time telling him, I finally gave up and said “I really don’t know why it needs it.  It is a commercial product and we have two options on how to use it.  One is port numbers and the other is a wild card DNS entry.  You wouldn’t give us a wild card DNS entry seven years ago, so using port numbers is how it’s set up.”

Honestly, I was ready to take out a pen and paper and draw a picture out for this guy.  That is if I could keep from strangling him first.  And it really comes down to it not being how he would do it “in his world”.

Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but it’s not your world. It’s not even my world.  It’s our world.  I’m so frustrated because this guy is basically holding up our ability to move forward on a project.  He’s the one the held it up seven years ago and he’s doing his damnest to hold it up this time.

He even went as far as to suggest how to do it another way, possibly a better much cooler way, but when asked “Great, when will you have that programmed and ready?”  I didn’t get an answer.

Oh well, another day, another PITA.  Guess we’ll see what the security guys have to say about it.

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Cleaning up

For whatever reason, there comes a time in life that a person needs to tidy up.  In this case, it happens to be a linux based web server that has miscellaneous files strewn throughout.  Some from editing with emacs/vim/vi which tend to leave backup files (those annoying files with a ~ after them or other marker depending on the editor).  So, here’s what I did to do some cleanup.  Your mileage may vary.

First, determine the kind of files you want to remove and how you want to remove them.  Me, I’m going to use find and I have files ending with ~ and beginning with a ._ that are left over from editing.  So, to make sure I don’t delete anything I don’t want to, I’ll do a check first.  I do this by running “find -name ‘._*’ -print“.  This will find all files beginning with ._ and print them to the screen.  I can then do a check to make sure everything is what I expect it to be.  Once I am sure I want to delete the files listed, I run “find -name ‘._*’ -delete“.  I continue this process for the other files I need to eliminate.

This same process can be ran to match file date, file size and many other attributes. To see the full options under find check out the man page at http://linux.die.net/man/1/find or just google for it.  Find also allows a person to run an individual script on each file found which could be really useful for processing text files.

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A-Team moment

It was brilliant I tell you, absolutely brilliant!  As Hannibal from The A-Team would say “I love it when a plan comes together”.  Only it wasn’t so much a plan as it was a stumbling upon things and having that sudden flash of insight that defies any real logical reasoning.  Let me give you a little background…

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