Crontab typo
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Imagine if the UI was different to the API. Then you could change the commands used by humans working with the software, while other software hooking into it was still presented with the same interface.
Someone should invent something like that
Damnit.
If you guys start being me, then what am I going to be!?
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ONE OF US
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And I looked up the manpage for crontab(5), which helpfully told me that the format of a GNU crontab was like the format of vixiecron's crontab.
You know people do that to this day? I looked at Handlebars recently because I'm trying to brush up on some skills, and, first, their website, to the extent it has docs, has pretty shitty docs. But if you go to github and read the readme you'll learn that it's compatible with Mustache, so you can just go read THOSE docs. But at least the latter explained how to do something I was looking to do. Handlebars is just "here's a handful of examples"
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Reminds me of the developer at a previous job who made a tool that, among other things, computed the MD5 hash of a file.
Why would you do that, when Microsoft already provides a tool that does that (and also gives you SHA1 hashes)?
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You ever read the wikipedia entry on that movie? The original version, which, oddly, tested poorly with viewers, had a creepy-as-shit ending that involved doing deeply unpleasant things to the non-freak.
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The original version, which, oddly, tested poorly with viewers, had a creepy-as-shit ending that involved doing deeply unpleasant things to the non-freak.
Creepier than the version that was actually released?
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I guess it's next to impossible to find that movie on a DVD... Too bad, I like old "special" movies.
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Did you even look?
Make an educated guess.
Thanks for doing my research for me though. Now that I know it exists on DVD, I'll look for a Region 2 version.
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Creepier than the version that was actually released?
After the first few showings, they edited the crap out of the scene where they...uh...mutilated her, and apparently none of that film still exists.
Edit: Oh, I misremembered. Apparently they left that in but took out the scene where they castrated a guy.
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Wiki says the scene that was cut was the castration of the strong man. Which explains that character inexplicably disappears in the released film.
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I have had to deal with that level of 'automation' with crontab scripts. My schadenfreude meter buried the needle on reading this, especially that there were no backups.
Did Boss at least apologize for the fustercluck created?
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If you guys start being me, then what am I going to be!?
I'm just trying to be like you, Blakey. You're my hero
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TIL about Freaks.
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Unix is user friendly. It just isn't idiot-friendly and ignorant-friendly.
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You ruined the joke .
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btw, just to note this somewhere in case someone else runs into it.
On newer Ubuntu servers (and possibly other distributions),
@reboot
jobs run before certain other things are ready.I'm not sure what specifically, only that on my gameserver box, I have to sleep for 1 second before starting
screen
or it just dies instead of running srcds or my uptodate python script for srcds.
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I'm not sure what specifically, only that on my gameserver box, I have to sleep for 1 second before starting screen or it just dies instead of running srcds or my uptodate python script for srcds.
I suspect it's the virtual terminal management daemon (since
screen
uses VTs internally to manage things). It used to be that you would just have a (small!) fixed number of virtual terminals available — they're a pretty expensive resource in terms of kernel resources, after all — but these days you have a larger number possible since the daemon makes them for you on demand. But if it isn't up yet, you'll be asking for devices which aren't yet born: failure mode right there.
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Are you sure it's VTYs you're after and not PTYs?
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Are you sure it's VTYs you're after and not PTYs?
I'm not sure at all. Some of that post is speculative spitballing. I don't delve into that part of the guts of Unix systems very often…