Phasor Burn

Off the beaten track, originally uploaded by Smug Bastard.

I took this shot right around sunrise, about 1 KM north of the self catering, 250 year old stone cottage we were vacationing in.

I’ve somehow gotten a mailbox full of duplicate items and have been trying to find some automated way of cleaning it up.

Things that did not work, probably because I have approx 50,000 messages in the messed up folder and I blew their little minds (stacks) . . .

Mail Scripts for Apple Mail
MAPI Labs OutLook plugin for Deduplication

What appears to be working is delIMAPdups.pl.

Yeah, its perl. I hates perl almost as much as I hates Elves.

However, if a perl thing works and I do not need to edit or maintain the code, I’ll use it on a one-off basis.

$ ./delIMAPdups.pl -S mymailserver/myaccount/mypassword -m Inbox.ScrewyFolder -M Inbox.Trash -d

So far it has found 10,000 dupes in my 50,000 item archive. 

A snippet from the shell history on an ESX machine that QA is attempting to use…

976 rmdir -rf JasonClass19/
977 rmdir -Rf JasonClass19/
978 rmdir -f JasonClass19/
979 rmdir --help
980 rmdir --help
981 cd JasonClass19/
982 ls
983 del *.*
984 rm *.*
985 cd ..
986 rm -rf JasonClass19/
987 ls
988 rm -rf JasonClass19/
989 ls
990 rmdir JasonClass19/
991 rmdir -r -f JasonClass19/
992 rm dir
993 rm --help
994 rm -fr JasonClass19/
995 ps -ef
996 p
997 ps -ef
998 ps -ef |grep Jason
999 ps -ef |grep log


OK, put the keyboard down and step away from the shell prompt.

You have no business in here until you learn some Unix 101.

UPDATE 2008-12-19:
The machine in question did have some issues. The drive the VMFS filesystem was on was failing and was generating some strange errors for any operation that tried to write to that filesystem.

However, my original thought remains.

If you are using “del *.*” you don’t understand the system and need some schooling.

OK, who was the idiot that approved the Park Plus pay kiosks that don’t work very well at -30C aka minus fricking cold? The LCD is slow, the whole thing is slow, does not register all of the coins put in at those temperatures.

They should have put a small incandescent light inside or some other method of ensuring the electronics are have a chance of working in cold weather.

Then there is the whole clunky pay by cell phone system which could be way way smoother. Why do we have to maintain a balance with parkplus in order to use the cell phone feature? Why not charge it to the cell phone directly?

There’s money to be had for ease of use aka lazyness on the part of the consumer. This is just piss poor execution, no doubt about it.

City Approved Morons must have approved this system…

Thanks for reminding me why I don’t want to work for any kind of government at any level, never mind large businesses which also tend to exhibit lameness on this scale.

Pay no attention to that nipple. Artsy-fartsy good stuff.