On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/11/2017 12:36 PM, enh wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2017 22:47, "Rob Landley" wrote: > > > > > > It's an annual event with them. They're deeply incompetent. > > > > Seems like it's not being updated even now... "*Note:*The archive search > > index was last rebuilt at Friday, 29 Sep 2017 19:07:57 PDT. Any postings > > after that will not be found by a search. Index rebuild is usally done > > once every 24 hours for this list." > > Did I say deeply incompetent? > > https://twitter.com/landley/status/917549056544604160 > > I meant deeply, _deeply_ incompetent. > > Seriously, they've done this at least once a year since something like > 2010, usually leaving another hole in the mailing list archive when they > (eventually) restore from a stale backup and think that fixes it. > > I used to collect my interactions with them: > > http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt > http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt > > But haven't in years because there's no point. They never learn because > I'm never talking to the same people. Even in the same thread, each > message is replied to by whichever junior intern is on duty right then, > with no institutional memory at all. > > They're decent about the actual web hosting part (it's a static website > I have fully backed up and rsync, it's hard to screw that up and "fire > up an empty container and restore the data from a backup" generally _is_ > the right answer to something going wrong there). They're cheap, they > don't meter bandwidth or have a hard storage limit, and I do _not_ have > time to try to administer my own servers these days (work has gotten > _exciting_ again, I'm trying to get this release out before I get > kidnapped by j-core stuff for a few months)... > > But it would be really really nice if I could run a mailman instance on > the container I ssh into instead of having them run lists.landley.net as > a shared "service" for me, which I have to administer through a web page > instead of the command line. > > Right, back to trying to test and checkin cut.c. The new version of > which can do this! > > $ awk '{print $2" "$7" "$5}' LICENSE | head -n 5 > (C) Landley by > > to distribute modify, > with hereby fee > > l$ ./cut -DF 2,7,5 LICENSE | head -n 5 > (C) Landley by > > to distribute modify, > with hereby fee > > (It's not awk, but it's better than nothing.)
i have a partial toybox awk that's just about at that level and each time i think about doing a bit more i wonder why GNU cut never grew this obvious missing option... > Rob -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
