Help! I’ve been Tarred
Before I finished building this computer, I did everything the same computer as the rest of my family. I have alot of files on that computer. Many scripts I have written over the years in several different languages. Now to enlighten you about the title…I booted the other computer to linux and I opened 3 telnet sessions from here. Two of them were to tar over 4GB of my life each. THe other was to tar all of the Gaim log files from that computer, so I could merge them with the logs on this computer(tha reminds me…I need to Copy the MySQL databases too.) Anyway, I backed up /home/mario(thats me! that was 7GB) and I backed up /mnt/windows/Documents and Settings/greg/shizzle/Do*(I hacked the registry so desktop, downloads my docs and start menu were all that folder 4.5GB) When the tar archives finally finished tarring, I went to that computer, opened an FTP connection to this one and tried to put the files. It failed, saying that they were too big!!!! How can something be too big for FTP??? This was over a 100Mbit Lan, so speed was no problem. I decided to try getting from this computer instead and everything went fine. Both computers are running the Same version, distro of linux with basically the same software, although this one has more recent updates. Now I have 12+ GB of files to organize :’(
Getting on to a more life-consuming, technologincal topic…I finally finished the statistics program today. It pretty accurately gets rid of refreshing monkies and allows for people with NAT to count as more than one hit. Instead of using an array, which I believe would require more loops, I used on giant string, which gets to tens of thousands of characters long, which could be a problem in the future when I am dealing with large log file(I already have a plan). The program involved subtracting times, so I had to create a way t o accutrately subtract times, which can be hard because of the different bases. I found a way to turn the hour and minute into a unique decimal number…although I have plans to make it better…