Captain's Log Supplemental

As much trouble as an hour of shaving is… It’s nice to finally be rid of that beard. Even if it took having to work Saturday for me to actually do it haha.

One of these days I’d love to get a straight razor (basically the old fashion kind)… Might cost a little (lot) more then the common safety razors used these days. But I think having to care for the blade would be cheaper and more effective then buying replacement cartridges every now and then (yes I am a cheap bastard).

The minor of issue of having to learn to use it would also be no problem (hopefully). The cost is the problem =/

Hmm, hopefully I’ll get at least 15 min before work to catch up on my reading for the day. I left off some where around Page 19’ish a couple months back and never found the time to continue.

*Sighs*, wouldn’t it be nice to have a nice long vacation with lots of reading time… hehe.

Dang it, I put my head down for 5 minutes to rest…. And next thing I know it’s almost 0230.

I had kind’ve hoped to shave before work this Saturday but I’m not sure if I’m going to get to now lol.

*Sighs* At least this weekend I can get a little rest..

1. Work
2. Dealing with a little [SAS] Matter
3. Training
4. PC-BSDv1.4RC and making a new XMMS PBI, also Blackbox PBI while I’m at it.
5. catching up with AIM/E.t.c. -#&62; I havn’t been on any thing but XFire much this past week or two. I’ve been to busy working.
6. Maybe make a Vim PBI if there isn’t any working one.
7. Possibly try to get a hold of Heim and see if he can be of help information wise on point #2.

Not to mention I have til Tuesday to finish reading the library books. And I need to finish work on a program on a web site. Debugging Typo’s in PHP != my idea of fun.

Burn ISO of PC-BSDv1.4RC and work on rebuilding my old XMMS and Blackbox PBI’s.

Damn it feels good to get my feet out of shoes… Even if it’s only an hour til I go back to work.

I’ve missed the chance to post 3 or 4 entries I wanted to do.. When I’m busy I usually skip my Live Journal for the day. My E-Mail and server time usually being the next ones on the list to go….

The day started with a 0930 roll out to get ready, home from work, chores done by 1700. That gives me maybe an hour to rest. Then I go back to another hour and a half of hell. Not a bad days labour for some one people bitch at that he doesn’t work, eh?

I’m anxious to see what if any response my post in SNCO’s has gotten. But I don’t have time to deal with the other messages if I do log in. I uploaded an HTML Export of the current draft of the SOP’s. I consider them *almost* ready for release, just a couple more things that I know we need to do. Clean up the section on Communication, I think for the sake of Getting It Done. I’d like to grab a couple of Members and have a group huddle to work on a few things.

What En4cer did for the V-Commands SOP which I adopted into this rewrite as necessary… Is good stuff but we need a RvS and S4 V-Com section that goes hand in hand with each other. And En4cer is sure as hell not current enough on SWAT4 to be able to do it so even if he was active enough…

So, Plan C:

Rip it down to an outline and rewrite the hole thing from scratch. Including writing both sections at the same time(ish) to more better synchronise them.

Also Appendix I needs to be reviewed and I want to change a few more things but I need time to do it.

I’ve taken to keeping an Operations.txt file on my Desktop and having Vim open it to show coloured indentation markers. In such a way I can use it as a Quick & Dirty outline / notes file. While retaining the power of my text editor and skipping learning a plugin to do basically the same thing but more completely =/.

*sigh*, between Family and Work, life is a nightmare…. There’s not a lot good left in my days when I’m not around [SAS]. To be honest, I think I’d do better in the Military… I think even a Private would have more take home pay then both of us combined :S. If it was enough to support my mother… I might even manage to have a chance at going after it. It would also be a chance to do some thing with my life… if my body could stand the Physical Training I might even enjoy it. Ones country can’t shit on you as much as your family for trying to be of help can they? lol.

For my age, I should be strong as an ox…. Rather then having nearly as many rattles as a FORD Tempo.

I always hoped to keep the Army and Navy open as possible options for my future. But I don’t know if the parts would stand up to it any more. I’ve been working in this business since I was 15, without pay or respect. I remember when I was a young teenager people said I had a mind older then my years….. Less then 10 years down the road I feel like I’m developing the body to match =/

…. Fuck.

Re upp’d the library books this morning before work. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one thats half asleep that time of morning hehe.

I’ve been concentrating on Maximum Security: A Hacker’s Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network. A very good book, highly interesting. This is a THICK book, I’ve read only 200 pages or so and keep going. I figure if I keep going at my usual reading rate I can finish it in about a week of reading nights. I’m used to pulling 70-100 Pages a day when reading a novel, more if I just sit on my ass and read the day away.

I really want to dig deeper into the book on PHP/MySQL because I really don’t know shit about Databases, PHP… Is close enough to things I do know that I can generally pick things up fast. SQL, is a different story.

To save my the trouble of screwing with SCP/SMB to continue work tomorrow from another computer…

Heres a scratch file I’ve been toying with tonight. For the heck of it I thought I’d toy around with trying to break a $PATH like string apart into some thing a program or file could be looked up and then try to add a primitive file name completion to after tinkering awhile.

Todo tomorrow:

clean up comments, finish playing with the Abbrev class, toy with trying to match up a regex to an abbrev to a filename, worry about rest afterwards.

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
# Build a hash table from a $PATH like string that we can use for calling
# commands.

require 'abbrev'
require 'pp'

PDEBUG=1  # Programmers DEBUG on

path = '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin'

# Create a hash for $PATH
#
# Arguments:
#   path => string containing a list of directories delimited by separator
#   separator => Any delimiter suitable for String#each
#
# Return value:
#   A hash where keys are directory names and values are handles to those
#   directories.
def make_pathhash( path, separator=':' )

  hash = Hash.new()

  # Parse path for directories
  path.each( separator ) do |dir|
    dir.gsub!( /:/, '' )
    # Creates a key from path containing a directory name
    hash[dir] = dir #Dir.open( dir ) 
  end

  return( hash )

end

# Create a hash from the current directory to assist filename completion
#
# Arguments:
#   directory => A directory to create the hash from
#
# Return value:
#   An hash of filename => filenames from directory
#
def make_chdirhash( directory )

  hash = Hash.new()

  dirh = Dir.open( directory )
  dirh.each do |file|
    hash[file] = file
  end

  return( hash )

end

if PDEBUG 
  h = make_pathhash( path )
  cd = make_chdirhash( '.' )
  pp Abbrev::abbrev( cd.to_a.flatten ).sort  
end

Not bad for an idiot just screwing around if you ask me.

Also to do tomorrow, finish that thing I was doing before dinner.

mm, one of my favorite things to do.. Organize crap ! lol.

On the agenda for the day:

• Update, organise, resync, and probably rewrite my vimrc
• Find note taking software, write it, or kiss VIM into doing it for me.
• Solve the multi-machine but single user problem…. My data getting spread between several PC but still used by just little ol’me.
• fix my laptops SSH configuration
• *Some day* finish working on my browser reintegration… Craps spread between Konqueror, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape..
• Try new file management idea
• Figure out how to use Vim for mail composing and temp files for message backup

currently my file system looks like

tmp -> usually crap I don’t want cluttering space in ${HOME} or Desktop but won’t delete yet

Work -> Files I’m currently working on not related to [SAS], usually need to be moved to ${HOME}/Programming/Language/, documents, and images.

sasclan.org -> a directory structure of all things related to [SAS].

I’ll probably have a follow up post when I have more time to think on the file system issue.