Just found an old file with #filk songs from a GeoCities site…
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YESTERDAY
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone
hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
[#]filk #beatles
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Something
Something in the way it fails,
Defies the algorithm's logic!
Something in the way it coredumps...
I don't want to leave it now
I'll fix this problem somehow
Somewhere in the memory I know,
A pointer's got to be corrupted.
Stepping in the debugger will show me...
I don't want to leave it now
I'm too close to leave it now
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[#]filk
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You're asking me can this code go?
I don't know, I don't know...
What sequence causes it to blow?
I don't know, I don't know...
Something in the initializing code?
And all I have to do is think of it!
Something in the listing will show me...
I don't want to leave it now
I'll fix this tonight I vow!
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ELEANOR RIGBY
Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard
And waits for a line on the screen
Lives in a dream
Waits for a signal
Finding some code
That will make the machine do some more.
What is it for?
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
… #filk #beatles
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Guru MacKenzie
Typing the lines of a program that no one will run;
Isn't it fun?
Look at him working,
Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile;
It takes a while...
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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Eleanor Rigby
Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work;
Feels like a jerk.
Guru MacKenzie
Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code;
Nothing will load.
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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UNIX Man
(Nowhere Man)
He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody.
Knows the blocksize from du(1)
Cares not where /dev/null goes to
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?
UNIX Man, please listen(2)
My lpd(8) is missin'
UNIX Man
The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.
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[#]filk #beatles
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He's as wise as he can be
Uses lex and yacc and C
UNIX Man, can you help me At all?
UNIX Man, don't worry
Test with time(1), don't hurry
UNIX Man
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody ...
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody.
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Write in C
(“Let it Be”)
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."
As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
"Write in C."
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO's dead and buried,
Write in C.
I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.
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[#]filk #beatles
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If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
BASIC's not the answer.
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.
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@fiee
Now do one for #julialang to the tune of Julia...
@onepict
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@dlakelan
As I wrote, I didn’t write the lyrics, I just rediscovered them in my collection.
I prefer programming languages that are less prone to foot-shooting, since I know I’m not a good programmer.
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@fiee @dlakelan
Like Socrates, perhaps the really good programmers are just the ones that know they're not good programmers. XD
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@rl_dane
Well, I don’t try to make a living from programming any more. But knowing a bit helps with other tasks.
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@fiee @dlakelan
I am almost certain that the ones that are currently making a living from programming are not good programmers. 😂
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@rl_dane
Fortunately, I know a few good programmers who can live from it. But they very probably don’t make as much as the tech bros who help to destroy environment and democracy…
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@fiee
I miss the systems programmers I knew 20 years ago that were just as happy slapping boxes into racks as they were developing entire infrastructures from the ground up.
They knew it all, did it all, and had... only moderately-sized chips on the shoulders.
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@fiee Spot on timing. Just discovered my cloud backup has been deleted because I missed the emails saying the payment had failed.
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@seb321 @fiee There are so, so many ways for backups to fail.. 😬
The best cases are backups that fail to run, and let you know via an error message.
Sometimes backups run, but fail to write to the target location (or get deleted, which is effectively the same outcome).
Backups may also run, and write to the target properly, but were sadly configured to include the wrong data.
Sometimes the output is simply corrupt, and can't be restored.
You'll never know unless you test the backup.. 😅
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@fiee @jwarlander What would your recommendation be for storing mainly digitised photos to be as future proof as possible on a reasonable budget?
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@seb321 @fiee Beyond cloud storage, which can be fine of course:
Rotating a few USB drives would probably be a reasonable approach up to a certain scale. Just sync the files over.
If you've got multiple computers, SyncThing etc can be another low-effort approach (but only replicates, no protect against deletion etc).
Best, and most expensive - use backup software with separate NAS storage (HDDs are cheap). Keep old backups for at least a few weeks to have some protection from mistakes.
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@fiee TIL the term "filk" which I think applies to my cybersecurity song parodies, like https://mstdn.social/@maximweinstein/113703766223709979
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@fiee Wonderful! 🥰
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cc: #SegundaCopia
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@fiee
This one rocks!
In Google db, 3 pages mention a German author named Christoph Weber, but there's this page by Markus Winand with a source from 1998 in a local Minnesota journal. This journal says it's from the "Minnesota Newspaper Association Bulletin", which seems to be an internal bulletin of an association federating several local journals.
https://use-the-index-luke.com/yesterday
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@fiee
melodie speelt onmiddellijk mee in hoofd...😉
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