Re: Music for Sysadmins...

abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Corlett) writes:

This is not something you'll hear me say twice, but Excel is your
friend here. I have a lovely graph of scattered mass readings and the
Trend Line Of Sanity cutting through the chaos.

Aeons ago I wrote a little program to take input data and create a nice
little seven-day rolling average for weight, displaying actual and
average over a time span and superimposing a trend line over the whole
thing.

It was pretty nifty.

--
I am constrained to admit a failure to understand why even a Class-A
luser, holder of the Blue Maximum Luser with Palms and Swords, would go
so far as to put a tongue to an anemone. --Mike Andrews
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