this is the birthday cake we got for one of my officemates...




and another one from the right...




finally, from the top...




so say what you mean during those special occassions with...kink cakes!

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calling all scripting gurus, can anyone tell me why this will work...

SYSTEM_STATUS_TEST=`ps -fugrdb grep -v "grep" grep "/native_threads/java -classpa"`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]

and this won't...

SYSTEM_STATUS_TEST=`ps -fugrdb grep -v "grep" grep "/native_threads/java -classpa"`
RC=$?
if [ ${RC} -ne 0 ]

i just know the first one works...i think.the value of the variable gets lost somewhere between the second and third line of the second fragment...
finally, after a year away from programming, i got to flex my rusty scripting brain muscles.what do you know, i miss programming after all.
one of my teammates from brussels couldn't make our monitoring script work so she asked me to take a look into it.when she first asked if i knew anyone who knew scripting, i was hesistant to say me because it's been a while and i easily forget these things.
but the need to impress won over and i also wanted to give it a try so i told her i'd look into it.i was so excited at the prospect of coding again(even if it were just a mere script) that i stayed for 2 hours after work was over and i think(i hope) i got it down right.programming-friends, what do you think?