[Toybox] Yes, I'm aware dreamhost has deleted the mailing list web archive again.

[enh]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> 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

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