Lame Update
Couple of things to touch on:
1. I found my first example of "why do it in Perl when shell will do it better/quicker/easier?" Consider this - njpinebarrens.com backs up it's database and the webroot for three sites nightly to a gzipped tar file to a 40GB USB external drive. The site itself takes up a few gig, so clearly a nightly script that doesn't clean out old stuff is not a sustainable thing. As such, the drive filled up and I lost a few nights backup. I was going to write a perl script to run the backup (which really is just doing a mysqldump and tar czvf'ing the /var/www directory up) and delete files older than X days. Then I googled a bit and came up with:
find /backup -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
That pretty much does what I need it to do. One line. No mess. Of course I now feel like an awful sysadmin for not realizing I could do that before. Oh well.
2. Verizon is coming to fix the loud hummmmmmmmmmm in my line tomorrow. I feel like my copper phone line is an antique. I really need to find a nice old 1940's rotary phone and stick it in my house somewhere.
3. BBQ at Helene's tomorrow. Maybe there will be some Zumba.
4. Devin mentioned me in his blog. I don't rate high enough to be mentioned by name though. Also, I like to think of myself as more than just "the IT guy." I may have to flip my BOFH excuse calendar out and blame the slow network on... sunspots.
5. Gonna try to take some photos this weekend. Gonna try to remember to charge the battery in the camera.
6. Getting vendors to call you back is a pain. So far I am waiting on:
- A quote from Yipes for point to point Metro Area Ethernet (it's a MAN baby!) between the office and the colo
- A con call with Watchguard on Monday
- A replacement Sun V210 (should be shipping next week)
- Verizon to call me back about their metro area ethernet