I’ve seen this on a couple of blogs recently so I thought I’d give it a go on the VPS this site is hosted on:
steve@decaf:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}’ | sort -rn | head -10
190 ls
80 cd
24 cp
22 sudo
19 rm
14 svn
12 history
11 tar
10 wget
10 vi
And as root:
172 [...]
In between support tasks at $BIG_CORP I’ve been slowly reading through O’Reilly’s Learning Python and trying a few things out with the command-line interpreter.
The first script I’ve written that actually does something useful is countdown.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# countdown to 5pm
# 2008 SJW
import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
home = datetime.datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, 17, 0, 0, 0)
total_secs = (home – [...]
For 2 days now the “ready” light on my cable modem has failed to light up and hence I’ve had no internet access at home I’ve tried power-cycling the modem, leaving it unplugged overnight and even disconnecting and reconnecting the cable input. No Joy.
I checked the Virgin Media service status page and can [...]
I can’t believe it, but I actually took the time out yesterday to make this. Here’s what it’s meant to look like:
..and here’s my effort:
It is safe to say I drank too much coffee yesterday
I was reading this article on Wikipedia this morning and something didn’t seem quite right. See if you can spot it in this screenshot:
I had been up from early morning and thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. I read it and re-read it and still the words remained, I can’t say I was [...]
Richard just drew my attention to this news item describing Banksy’s latest escapade, an exhibition which includes a “37-year old Indian elephant [...] painted, from head to tail, in a floral pattern reminiscent of an old fashioned living room or a British pub,” genius!
I hadn’t heard of Banksy before until I read about him replacing [...]
I was reading a discussion on Lifehacker this morning about listening to music while studying, whcih mentioned an earlier post about pink noise. Between the guy on the radio and one of my coworkers I knew I had to take action or suffer the consequences. I felt a MacGyver moment coming on.
One of the comments [...]
I was sorting through my bookmarks in Firefox and I found a link to this site which allows you to create a minature clone of yourself (in colour!) Here’s what I (mostly) look like today:
Pretty much a Regular John, huh?
I should really get back to some “proper” work, instead of creating things like this:
Google [...]