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Saturday, 23 September 2006

My top 10 Unix shell commands

Update

It helps if you give sort a -n option apparently. The results make a bit more sense now.

Well it kind of varies, because I have a weird mode of operation. I SSH into caesar, in my cupboard, which is my local general purpose box. It runs a screen session, which includes an SSH session with daedalus, my server co-located back in Australia, where I read my email via mutt, and then I do really local stuff on my laptop, icarus.

daedalus
     37 fg
     32 ls
     31 sudo
     19 blog
     12 cd
      7 df
      6 vi
      6 mutt
      5 less
      4 man
Unsurprisingly, fg wins out here, because I'm usually in mutt and just background it to get a shell prompt. blog is a funky shell script I wrote to better manage blog posts with Blosxom.
caesar
    152 sudo
     61 ls
     38 less
     35 cd
     27 screen
     19
     13 dpkg
     11 apt-cache
     10 man
      9 ssh
icarus

156 play 103 ls 54 sudo 45 ssh 12 cd 12 apt-cache 10 dpkg 8 wget 8 host 6 telnet

play ranks so highly because I was recently listening to all of the audio files that come with Asterisk to stitch together a particularly hellish purgatory for telemarketers.

So it's interesting seeing how the different machines get totally different use.

[12:04] [meme] [permalink]

Thursday, 31 August 2006

Metros I've travelled on

With apologies to Martin

sydney cr hongkong san
	francisco hong
	kong kcr san francisco muni los
	angeles
Got at b3co.com!

Yeah, where is the VTA Light Rail?

[16:22] [meme] [permalink]

Thursday, 24 November 2005

Priceless


My blog is worth $11,855.34.
How much is your blog worth?

[10:33] [meme] [permalink]

Monday, 24 October 2005

Unbelievable

But true.

You Passed 8th Grade Math
Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!
Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

[05:47] [meme] [permalink]