I always love the vi vs emacs stuff. It lets me tell the difference between the programmers and the admins. :)<br><br>The database machine just horked, today is payroll day, the data can't get sent over until YOU get that clunker back up and running. <br>
<br>you are sitting at a prompt in run level 1. Nothing will mount. Every module you hand load pukes errors across STDOUT. You have to hand edit probably 20 configs in /etc so you will get paid on time this week. You had to strip the machine down to 32MB to make it boot since the board is hosed and the new one won't arrive by FedEx until the day after tomorrow. The boss, the boss' assistant, 3 co-workers and that person from bookkeeping are all standing behind you.<br>
sweating<br>smelling darkly of fear<br>you hear a grinding sound faintly from the machine. You hope it's a fan but you feel in your gut it's the second hard drive in the RAID5 array that holds the data that will get your mortgage paid on time and maybe even get you a bonus if you pull this off.<br>
<br>Ending #1:<br>You hesitantly type emacs /etc/fstab. the grinding noise stays constant as the drive light blinks. As the file you know has less than 20 lines in it loads, you notice the hard drive stops blinking and stays on. The keystrokes seem to take forever to appear on the screen. You realize you should be trying to salvage the drive data and try to quickly close but the grinding noise starts up louder. The screen freezes. The boss' assistant mutters something under her breath. Something about "termination papers". <br>
<br>Ending #2<br>You type vi /etc/fstab and realize that's not the right place to start. You quickly hit ":q!" and notice the drive light only blinks. You cat /proc/mdstat and see that a single drive has failed in the array. You stop the array entirely. The grinding noise stops. The boss pats your shoulder and says "that sounds like you have things under control". The boss' assistant smiles at you as she pushes the boss out of the room and mouths silently "Good job". You power down the failed drive, replace it, the array comes back up running slow, but running. The bookkeeper access the payroll files and that Friday you get 2 checks deposited, your regular one plus a bonus.<br>
<br>Ending #3<br>exec Ending #1 &<br>You awake dripping in sweat. Your SO is shaking you panicked. "Are you OK? You were screaming in your sleep!" You mutter "just a work nightmare" and try to go back to sleep. After tossing and turning for the rest of the night, you stumble in to work to verify the backups are good. When you bring up the config file to add a verification check you type emacs /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf and notice the grinding sound...<br>
-------------------------------<br><br>Even if you master emacs learn the basics of vi: open and close files, edit a simple line, copy and delete a line, basic movements around a file and basic search within a file.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/8 Michael B. Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:27 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:<br>
> Friends don't let friends use emacs...<br>
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</div>_REAL_ friends don't let friends use anything _but_. :)<br>
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