Michael Dyrynda michaeldyrynda

Mirrored from the Oracle Blog, as the original post appears to have been removed.

By User701213-Oracle on Aug 10, 2015

I have been doing a lot of writing recently. Some of my writing has been with my sister, with whom I write murder mysteries using the nom-de-plume Maddi Davidson. Recently, we’ve been working on short stories, developing a lot of fun new ideas for dispatching people (literarily speaking, though I think about practical applications occasionally when someone tailgates me).

Writing mysteries is a lot more fun than the other type of writing I’ve been doing. Recently, I have seen a large-ish uptick in customers reverse engineering our code to attempt to find security vulnerabilities in it. This is why I’ve been writing a lot of letters to customers that start with “hi, howzit, aloha” but end with “please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code, already.”

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I am michaeldyrynda (https://keybase.io/michaeldyrynda) on keybase.
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	if [[ "$1" ]]
	then
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	echo "Error: missing required parameter."
	echo "Usage: "
	echo " newdb dbname"
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	/**
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	# This lists our releases by modification time and delete all but the 3 most recent.
	purging=$(ls -dt {{ $release_dir }}/* \| tail -n +3);

	if [ "$purging" != "" ]; then
	echo Purging old releases: $purging;
	rm -rf $purging;
	else
	echo "No releases found for purging at this time";
	fi