Thought for the day:

How many Unix hacks does it take to change a light bulb?
Let's see, can you use a shell script for that or does it need a C program?


G'mornin' all. Quiet day today. This is my last day of work in my first year here at DMDC. I've learned a lot, and accomplished quite a bit as well. I've begun to make serious sense out of the alphabet soup in this building, though I can't off the top of my head recall what DBIDS stands for, which bugs me, since it's one of the big products outta here.

I'm back to training again, which I can't complain about, since I enjoy it so much. In the next year, I hope to get my LDAP environment (_and_ policy) implemented. Everything else is gravy.

This environment has a lot to offer me still; I don't see me leaving yet.
Good people, good work, more experience cleaning up bad architectures. I'll enjoy. Maybe next time I run into an established, midscale set of servers with no goddamn central authentication, I'll be able to deal with it in, oh, say, three months work.

edit: In other news, FF2 has impressed me so far. A well done collection of opportunities for twinkage. Just came back down Mount Ordeals with Cecil. Mmm, agas.

If you want to piss off unix...

If you want to piss off unix, create a directory with 324,000 files in it.

Ow. a 9mb directory node, 1.2 gb of files, and it takes something like three minutes to produce a 2.3mb 'ls -la' output of it.

Bad bad bad.