I'm quite often doing stuff on remote machines, and quite frequently I start some long-running job, when I remember that I didn't ran it via screen - so it will break, if my network connection will die. Is there any sane ...

March 12th, 2009 by depesz | Tags: , , , , , , | 6 comments »

I had this interesting case at work. We have imports of objects. Each object in import file has its "ID" (which can be any string). Same "ID" is in database. So the idea is pretty simple - we can/should check how ...

This post will probably be boring for you, but this is mostly just a reminder to myself, written in form of a blog post. So, I have a directory structure: /some/path/imported/DATE/TIME/file, where DATE is date of importing, in format YYYY-MM-DD, and ...

there is this situation: multiple people have to have access to single system account on unix/linux. you are one of them, but you really want to have your own environment. aliases, path, and so on. problem? others dont want your changes. is ...