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tips for job seekers

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as you may or may not know, we are looking for a senior unix system administrator. i’m involved in the interview committee, which is kind of interesting. i haven’t been involved with hiring since m. and i left the JFI and hired our replacements, and before that, since i hired a summer intern at fastweb. […]

…if my pager does not stfu any time soon.

oh yeah. that one thing?

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remember that thing i mentioned the other day? the problem that’s been plaguing me since the beginning of december, that i’ve spent the past couple of weeks, basically all of my time at work (plus some good weekends and evenings, not to mention the two woulda-shoulda-couldabeen personal days), trying to figure out? figured it out […]

an ode to find(1)

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* niqui resorts to her all-time favorite fuck-you problem solver: find(1). can’t find where something is being called? find -exec grep for it! something pissing you off? find -exec rm it! find(1) rocks! find(1) is niqui’s friend! find(1) would probably make coffee for niqui if only some short-sighted posix twit had declined to implement -brew! […]

and i mean now

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this problem? that i am working on? and have been for, like, three weeks now? needs to be fixed. really needs to be fixed. NOW. or, honestly, i’d settle for a hint of where the cause is. i’m not being unreasonable here. fucking computers. and my dumb ass who made a career working with them.