So at my new (old) job (long story) I have to work on Windows 7, which isn’t terrible, but some of the things I had been forced to work out are things that are just there in linux, or work a hell of a lot better in Linux. A great example is file syncing between my dev box, and my testing environment.

The initial setup was to use Samba to create a local connection so I could copy files over to the test environment. This is fine except a lot of my projects are in the 1000s of files, and Samba gets a but stupid when you get past a few hundred files. So that sucked.

First Fix: PSCP

So if you use Windows and you have to work with a linux box you have probably come to know and love (or loath) PuTTY. Did you know that PuTTY has a SCP client?! Yeah, me neither, but it does.

It was kinda easy to use, once I read all the docs and played with it for a min, but it was SCP, I was just copying files and copying files and copying files. With 17,000+ files in just one of my projects this is not really a great concept to just keep pushing 17,000+ files every few minutes.

I need to find deltas, or incremental changes. I need rsync.

Fix #2: cwRsync

cwRsync is a cygwin + rsync package for windows. Again it took some playing with to get it setup properly (and I am still having a permissions problem) but I can not copy only the files that have changed.

This means instead of editing 10 files and then transferring 17,000 files (cause I am lazy to hunt down each file and copy it) I can now edit the 10 files, run an rsync command and only the 10 files are updated. Beautiful!

The New Problem:

The only problem I am having now is that my rsync is setting the permissions on the server as rwx—— (or… owner can do anything, and no one else can do anything). This is a problem as the owner is my user account and not the webserver, and the webserver is the group, and the group is not getting any read permissions.

So I need to find a post rsync hook, add a cron (to chmod?) or simply (and what I am doing now) is updating the permissions by hand.

If you have a suggestion, feel free to leave it in the comments.

Well, looks like it may be time to brush the dust off this blog. I just need a place to drop some random thoughts, and well this works for the time being.

How is everyone? Did you miss me? No? Fine… well I am back anyways.

I really hate how after you have a cold your nose is all chapped and hurty. It sucks. That is the phase I am in. Stupid nose.

So I am sitting at work thinking… trying to think… and my damned head is so clouded. I hate having head colds.

Anyways, I keep saying I am coming back to posting here, but I never seem to do it. So maybe I am going to now. I am really starting to need the outlet again.

Perhaps I will really knock it out this time, maybe not.

Ok back to trying to work.

Ok, I am back at it. Personal blogging is going to be here for at least a little while.

Last night Liz and I watched the third Austin Powers movie to finish off a three day marathon of Austin Powers movies. It is always nice to spend time with the wifey, and comedy movies are a good time too, so it was a double win.

I feel bad for Liz as she takes care of the baby all night so I can sleep and go to work. Last night was especially hard as the little booger would sleep for only 30-45 minutes in a stretch. Hopefully soon he will get used to sleeping on his own in his crib, so the crying and waking every hour will stop.

I have stopped drinking mass quantities of Mt Dew at work. Instead I am trying to drink water, and flavored water. So far… water and flavored water are nothing special in my book. I will keep trying, I really need to lose the weight.

Ok… now to do some work.

Now that is a good way to start a Monday!

About 10 years ago now, I graduated from High School and decided to continue my education through ITT Technical. I studied Computer Networking Systems, and pretty much breezed through the education. However all that set me back about $30,000. In retrospect going to a four year college probably would have been cheaper, and time better spent.

Due to lack of funds, and a general disposition that I didn’t like paying debt (horrible idea, btw) I didn’t pay my student loans, and I we into deliquency with two different companies.

One company sued me, and they of course won, and I am required to make large payments to them monthly, which sucks, but that will all be over soon enough (2 more years, by my count).

The other company was, well it was the US Government. And they decided to garnish wages, and harrass me. Finally I bit the bullet and started making payments.

The company the US Government had hired to collect my payments offered me a pretty good deal. If I paid my payments for 9-12 months on time, then they would return my loan to the US Government, remove all the collection fees (roughly $7,000) and I would have all my late payments, and bad juju on my credit report removed. An offer I couldn’t refuse! So I started making payments.

Well today I got a call from the company doing the collections, they wanted to inform me that my account is in the process of moving back to the Dept of Educations, and once there they would be processing the credit history changes at the end of the quarter, supposed the end of April.

I am on cloud nine today…

So this weekend Liz and I decided to hit the house hunt hard and we got some really good feedback from the world in general.

Basically we learned that we absolutely are not in the loan market of two years ago, which sucks. We also learned we aren’t far from being in the loan market again. In fact we are only about $5ooo short of having a house today.

I guess the FHA loans now require 3.5% down. No matter what. Which sucks cause I don’t have $3-5K for a house right now (we are looking in the sub $100K range). So we need to save money. That alone isn’t so bad.

We also found a lot of really cute houses in the Ogden Utah area.  The one I was most excited about sold this morning. Not that I could have afforded it with no money, but hey that is life right?

So anyways… I am here on the efx3.com now too. Let’s make something of it.

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