pahupidi siil
veereb männimetsa all
okas sees ja väljas
29 November 2009
21 November 2009
06 September 2009
24 June 2009
helgeid hetki
viiksin end sinu tagahoovi,
jätaksin kompostihunnikusse kõduma.
leiaksid mu kevadel,
laotaksid lillepeenrasse.
jätaksin kompostihunnikusse kõduma.
leiaksid mu kevadel,
laotaksid lillepeenrasse.
26 May 2009
väga vana lugu
Ma kõnnin tänaval.
Mu ümber illusiooni projektsioonid.
Ja mina nende tsentris.
Nartsiss!
Mu ümber illusiooni projektsioonid.
Ja mina nende tsentris.
Nartsiss!
26 May 2008
at the library
hot sun through roof-window
straight at the top of my head.
my stateless mind burns
and my light skin.
straight at the top of my head.
my stateless mind burns
and my light skin.
16 October 2007
erasures without consequence
Today I got rid of some files that were not intended for removal. Had been long since last such mistake. Lapse happened immediately after user switch:
user@host ~ $ su
Password:
host user # rm -rf tmp
^C^C^C^C
Deletion of '/root/tmp' was intended but 'su' in place of 'su -' did not switch working directory and deletion of '/home/user/tmp'
began instead. Truly trivial. Surely it has happened many times before.
Since this was my own 'tmp' folder that contains both useless and useful crap I desired to know whether anything worth rescuing was really lost1. Quite unexpectedly user switching proved very useful for identifying lost files:
user@host ~ $ locate --version
Secure Locate 2.7 - Released January 24, 2003
Good.2
user@host ~ $ su -
host ~ # locate /home/user/tmp > /home/user/rootview.txt
host ~ # exit
user@host ~ $ locate /home/user/tmp > userview.txt
user@host ~ $ diff rootview.txt userview.txt | grep "<" > lost.txt
user@host ~ $ wc -l lost.txt
1490 lost.txt
1490 lost files is quite a big number. But those did not contain my life. Just pieces of others' lives. Pictures of weddings I did not attend and vCards of people who I had no intention of contacting. No problem.
----------------------------------------------------
1—No, I don't do backups. Someday will. Really.
2—Secure Locate is a replacement for GNU Locate. Secure Locate indexes entire filesystem into database, but to non-privileged users it only shows the files that they currently can see.
user@host ~ $ su
Password:
host user # rm -rf tmp
^C^C^C^C
Deletion of '/root/tmp' was intended but 'su' in place of 'su -' did not switch working directory and deletion of '/home/user/tmp'
began instead. Truly trivial. Surely it has happened many times before.
Since this was my own 'tmp' folder that contains both useless and useful crap I desired to know whether anything worth rescuing was really lost1. Quite unexpectedly user switching proved very useful for identifying lost files:
user@host ~ $ locate --version
Secure Locate 2.7 - Released January 24, 2003
Good.2
user@host ~ $ su -
host ~ # locate /home/user/tmp > /home/user/rootview.txt
host ~ # exit
user@host ~ $ locate /home/user/tmp > userview.txt
user@host ~ $ diff rootview.txt userview.txt | grep "<" > lost.txt
user@host ~ $ wc -l lost.txt
1490 lost.txt
1490 lost files is quite a big number. But those did not contain my life. Just pieces of others' lives. Pictures of weddings I did not attend and vCards of people who I had no intention of contacting. No problem.
----------------------------------------------------
1—No, I don't do backups. Someday will. Really.
2—Secure Locate is a replacement for GNU Locate. Secure Locate indexes entire filesystem into database, but to non-privileged users it only shows the files that they currently can see.
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