When there is no clean back-out

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Today I ended up banging my head on a particularly truculent wall. A certain clustering solution just wasn't doing the deed. No matter how I cut, sliced, sawed or hacked it wouldn't come to life. I wanted my two headed beast! Most vexing.

Then I hit that point where I said unto myself (I hope), "!#^#^ it, I'm reformatting these two and starting from scratch."

So I did.

It worked first time.

^)(&*#q)*%

Ok, I'll take it.

Mind, all the cutting and slicing and sawing and hacking was with me knowing full well that iterative changes like that can stack unknowingly, and I was backing out the changes when I determined that they weren't working. Clearly, my back-out methods weren't clean enough. Okay, food for thought; dirty uninstallers are hardly an unusual thing.

Of course I kicked myself for not trying that earlier, but during the course of aforementioned reanimatory activity I did learn a fair amount about this particular clustering technology. Not a complete loss. I do wish I had those 4 hours back, since we're at a part of the product deployment schedule where hours count.

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What are these regexp simbols standing for? ;)