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Reminds me of the vampire or whatever it is in adaptation of Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal' on BBC/Amazon.
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reminds me of the vampire or whatever it is in adaptation of Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal' on BBC/Amazon.
Reminds me of Associate Bob from Demolition Man.
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reminds me of Associate Bob from Demolition Man.
It's one of the reasons I like Linux....even on fairly minimal hardware, it's pretty fast. I haven't gotten around to playing around with gaming on Linux yet, but I have friends who run Warcraft under Wine/Linux and they get better framerates than running in Linux.
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM
It's one of the reasons I like Linux....even on fairly minimal hardware, it's pretty fast. I haven't gotten around to playing around with gaming on Linux yet, but I have friends who run Warcraft under Wine/Linux and they get better framerates than running in Linux.
I've worked in both bash and powershell, they have their advantages for various use cases. There are times I wish that Powershell had straight text out like bash executables, and times when I wish bash executables would put out objects like powershell.
November 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I've worked in both bash and powershell, they have their advantages for various use cases. There are times I wish that Powershell had straight text out like bash executables, and times when I wish bash executables would put out objects like powershell.
I'm actually proud of it, as it's been running for several years, and when additional changes came this year for those processes, the actual developers implemented some of those changes using my code. Probably needs to be updated one of these days, though.
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 AM
I'm actually proud of it, as it's been running for several years, and when additional changes came this year for those processes, the actual developers implemented some of those changes using my code. Probably needs to be updated one of these days, though.
It required sorting into different locations, as well as the renaming. So using the batch scheduling software, I implemented a process to handle the renaming, using powershell regex functions to replace those portions of the name that did not match the requirement.
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 AM
It required sorting into different locations, as well as the renaming. So using the batch scheduling software, I implemented a process to handle the renaming, using powershell regex functions to replace those portions of the name that did not match the requirement.
The first time it clicked and I knew what all I was doing, was related to some processes that I had inherited. New software implemented, but the output of this software needed manipulation before the files were sent to a third party as notification.
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 AM
The first time it clicked and I knew what all I was doing, was related to some processes that I had inherited. New software implemented, but the output of this software needed manipulation before the files were sent to a third party as notification.
Using that to leverage other programs is fun, too. Blows people's minds.... 'I'm looking for this file we sent and archived sixteen months ago'.... Powershell/regex/7zip - find all the gz/zip files, look inside them with 7-zip for a given name, extract to a location, then find the file you want.
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Using that to leverage other programs is fun, too. Blows people's minds.... 'I'm looking for this file we sent and archived sixteen months ago'.... Powershell/regex/7zip - find all the gz/zip files, look inside them with 7-zip for a given name, extract to a location, then find the file you want.
I use a lot of -imatch and -expression for what I do, which is generally a lot of file manipulation. I think I might be one of *MAYBE* three people who have any regex knowledge in my group. It's fun, people think you're a magician.
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I use a lot of -imatch and -expression for what I do, which is generally a lot of file manipulation. I think I might be one of *MAYBE* three people who have any regex knowledge in my group. It's fun, people think you're a magician.
Hmmm, looks interesting. I would love to do something other than what I'm doing now. Most of what I do these days is break/fix, or straightening something out because my coworker doesn't understand the process, as opposed to knowing the procedure.
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Hmmm, looks interesting. I would love to do something other than what I'm doing now. Most of what I do these days is break/fix, or straightening something out because my coworker doesn't understand the process, as opposed to knowing the procedure.
That was all unix based stuff, Sun and AIX. These days, I work in a Windows shop ( not my favorite thing) using #Powershell, but I get far more done from the command line than the coworkers do.
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
That was all unix based stuff, Sun and AIX. These days, I work in a Windows shop ( not my favorite thing) using #Powershell, but I get far more done from the command line than the coworkers do.
At one point, I was responsible for coordinating with the sysadmins and rebooting/booting single user for sysadmins, at a position I had. Initially we had 3 people doing it, but before I got laid off back then, I was doing it myself.... 60 machines, 8 terminal windows, and getting it done in 3 hrs.
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
At one point, I was responsible for coordinating with the sysadmins and rebooting/booting single user for sysadmins, at a position I had. Initially we had 3 people doing it, but before I got laid off back then, I was doing it myself.... 60 machines, 8 terminal windows, and getting it done in 3 hrs.
I found the sqlserver module useful, I like being able to query a db, and have the results returned as an object that can be manipulated in powershell. It's come in handy a few times.
November 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I found the sqlserver module useful, I like being able to query a db, and have the results returned as an object that can be manipulated in powershell. It's come in handy a few times.
I won't fight you about it, but I have an alternate viewpoint. The best Christmas movie is Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather'.
November 18, 2024 at 4:20 AM
I won't fight you about it, but I have an alternate viewpoint. The best Christmas movie is Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather'.
To be honest, I am surprised that it's actually a thing, I would've thought that a fair amount of software, at least retail software, would be region/geographically locked, given the profit motive of some of these companies. Have you encountered anything that that?
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 AM
To be honest, I am surprised that it's actually a thing, I would've thought that a fair amount of software, at least retail software, would be region/geographically locked, given the profit motive of some of these companies. Have you encountered anything that that?
Downside to living with a voidbeast...... Black and white pictures and lighting don't work *near* as well as this. This is a great photo!
November 18, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Downside to living with a voidbeast...... Black and white pictures and lighting don't work *near* as well as this. This is a great photo!
Is that anything like the 'True Names' in fantasy books? or Vernor Vinge's book of the same name?
November 18, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Is that anything like the 'True Names' in fantasy books? or Vernor Vinge's book of the same name?
B, definitely..... I try to evangelize for it where I work, as what we do is not horribly complicated, but I've seen tons of stuff in jobs looking for glob '*' or '*.*', this drives me nuts. To me, it just comes across as lazy, especially when you *know* what the file name is or should be.
November 16, 2024 at 11:35 PM
B, definitely..... I try to evangelize for it where I work, as what we do is not horribly complicated, but I've seen tons of stuff in jobs looking for glob '*' or '*.*', this drives me nuts. To me, it just comes across as lazy, especially when you *know* what the file name is or should be.
The other thing is renaming generated files to be sent to a vendor, names have to be specific, so #powershell and #regex to the rescue. That's been running about 5 years or so now, and when the underlying process changed, they ran with the solution that I'd written.
November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
The other thing is renaming generated files to be sent to a vendor, names have to be specific, so #powershell and #regex to the rescue. That's been running about 5 years or so now, and when the underlying process changed, they ran with the solution that I'd written.
It's been running 5+ years without a hitch, I don't really have to think about it. What the current issue is, is cleanup of older stuff, so I'm enumerating everything within the area to be cleaned up, then breaking it down into chunks for removal.
November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
It's been running 5+ years without a hitch, I don't really have to think about it. What the current issue is, is cleanup of older stuff, so I'm enumerating everything within the area to be cleaned up, then breaking it down into chunks for removal.
My first reasonably large issue was archiving some data, because the volumes of some of the servers were not being monitored very well ( number of years ago), and rather than wait for the volumes to fill up and crash the environment, archived older stuff so it wouldn't run up against the limit.
November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
My first reasonably large issue was archiving some data, because the volumes of some of the servers were not being monitored very well ( number of years ago), and rather than wait for the volumes to fill up and crash the environment, archived older stuff so it wouldn't run up against the limit.
Can't count the number of times Orion has managed to get a second, and sometimes a third breakfast out of the wife and I, because we didn't let each other know he'd been fed. Picture of the scam artist....
November 16, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Can't count the number of times Orion has managed to get a second, and sometimes a third breakfast out of the wife and I, because we didn't let each other know he'd been fed. Picture of the scam artist....
Absolutely love void kitties. I have one myself, and he loves to curl up inside my hoodie while I'm working. Took him in many years ago, and officially adopted him on a Friday the 13th in May. :D
November 16, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Absolutely love void kitties. I have one myself, and he loves to curl up inside my hoodie while I'm working. Took him in many years ago, and officially adopted him on a Friday the 13th in May. :D
I still have one of these that still works, I haven't gone searching for it recently, but the last time I looked, it was still working.
November 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I still have one of these that still works, I haven't gone searching for it recently, but the last time I looked, it was still working.