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| 8:45 a.m.: | come in, bullshit with receptionist on first floor. |
| 9:00 a.m.: | go upstairs to office, water plants, turn on ac. |
| 9:05 a.m.: | read the government closing arguments in the CDA case on the web. |
| 9:45 a.m.: | start running the daily and weekly stats for the web.
These take awhile; in the meantime, read news, read mail,
eat breakfast (= potato chips). |
| 10:45 a.m.: | set ownership of a directory and some files for a web user.
supposed to set group ownership; look up group info, wait
half an hour for a prompt from the id system. |
| 11:15 a.m.: | turn off ac, it's leaking again. complain to bob. |
| 11:16 a.m.: | since it's too hot in my office, go upstairs to talk to
howie about where emacs and gcc are (not) on
kalimera/zivijo. Watch him fix them. In between fixing
them, we look for pictures of fish on the web that look
like fish Howie has at home: "in the image of my fish",
as he says. While we are looking at fish, alan comes in
to complain to us about how someone is spamming
alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.spanking by sending an ad for
some european dial-a-porn numbers. For some reason, some
user keeps forwarding complaints to us. |
| 12:15 a.m.: | the id system has given a prompt finally. set ownership.
wait for next prompt so I can exit. |
| 12:45 a.m.: | half an hour til lunch; write a simple du script. start it
running. In the meantime, find places to put some old ibm
parts from a machine I dumpstered a few weeks ago; the PC
speaker is on its side, holding up one of my many
superballs. One of the circuit boards is now pinned to
the bulletin board. |
| 1:00 p.m.: | clean off the bulletin board to make room for the circuit board. |
| 1:15 p.m.: | result of the du: forgot the -k switch, the block sizes are wrong.
group program returned prompt; exit. go get lunch. |
| 1:45 p.m.: | go eat lunch. |
| 2:30 p.m.: | go by dsm's office to bullshit. display new water pistol
bought while getting lunch; run some target range tests. |
| 2:45 p.m.: | start du again. while it runs, go upstairs to test new
water pistol. |
| 3:00 p.m.: | du won't follow the sym links. rewrite script, start it
up, and in the meantime, go look for power source for small (2
inch diameter) fan from ibm, since a.c. is on the blink.
fan is too small do actually do any good as an office fan
but it's the principle of the thing. for this reason,
turn down offer to borrow a fan from other office.
stop by alan's office to look at possible power supply for fan.
One costs a few hundred dollars and puts out 300 amps. Ws
have two of them, but in the end we decide it's too
expensive. Another needs special connector removed from
cable; we decide we shouldn't cut up someone's cable without
asking.
Before leaving, open news window on browswer on alan's screen to
alt.sex.bondage, some random ad. |
| 3:30 p.m.: | back downstairs, du fails due to syntax error.
officemate makes typo, disabling all c-net connections for
5 minutes. tell him to ask users who complain to
duplicate the error (which they won't be able to, since
the system now works); if they can't, tell them they must
have been holding the caps lock down.
run du again; got the order backwards so the number is at
the end of each line. decide I don't like it, rewrite to
put to beginning of each line.
send mail to a couple people about the follow sym link
problem with our web server, so it looks like I'm actually
working on something.
Eat a lemon drop and some more chips. |
| 4:00 p.m.: | running du again, typo, $1 for $i. this means it does full
du of the root dir every time instead of the
subdirectories, no wonder it was taking so long. |
| 4:30 p.m.: | fix du script, do C-p in bash to get back through commands to the
one where I copy it into /tmp. it shows the 'more' command
I did previously. Wait some more; sure is taking a long
time to read my command history. C-p a few more times,
still shows me that same more command.
Finally remember I did that more command a *bunch* of times,
no wonder it doesn't show me something different.
almost 5 o'clock... |
| 4:50 p.m.: | running du again. write this file.
just noticed that I've been saving this file into source tree for
solaris. decide it would be happier in my html directory; move it. |
| 5:00 p.m.: | mail ticket expired; must be time to go home! |