Monthly Archives: May 2010

Being Slightly Smarter With seq

This post comes from my ever-growing file of ‘how the hell did I not know that’ issues. On the cluster at work we have a bunch of machines with names like mysite12 or mysite237. So quite often I’m writing shell … Continue reading

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Stepping Through Large Database Tables in Python

In order to report usage on our PBSPro compute cluster at work I wrote a simple set of python scripts to dump the accounting information into a MySQL database. This has been working fine for the last year churning out … Continue reading

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