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$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}’|sort -rn|head
145 ls
143 cd
136 vim
108 svn
90 jobs
65 %1
50 %2
47 nosetests
47 less
21 grep

%1 and %2 are usually me hopping back into backgrounded vim sessions. jobs is me trying to remember what all I’ve already got open for editing. The […]

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

Now that I’ve gotten caught up on my huge backlog of email, it’s time to close some tabs and share some links, because it’s more fun than doing anything productive. Submitted for your approval:
Chunk Norris Facts will teach you all sorts of interesting things about Chuck Norris; for example, “the chief export of Chuck […]

Partly because I don’t want to lose these links, and partly because David Stanek wanted some advice on getting his Gentoo boxen to hibernate… Here are the two most useful links that I came across, which got me working without any troubles:

Gentoo Wiki: Software Suspend v2 HOWTO
Craig’s Linux Notes: Hibernate

Most important for me with […]

I’m posting this more to remember how the heck I got it working than to be any sort of definitive reference. But some folks might find it useful…

In /etc/portage/package.keywords:
www-apps/moinmoin ~x86
www-apache/mod_proxy_html ~x86
dev-libs/libxml2 ~x86
Emerge stuff:
emerge apache2
emerge moinmoin
emerge libxml2
emerge mod_proxy_html
emerge twisted
Read a bit of Apache Week’s excellent and helpful article on running a reverse proxy on Apache. […]

I’m slowly but surely getting my main home Gentoo box back in order after deciding to blow it away and reinstall last weekend. I had been running an amd64-native environment for about a year, and along the way I had gotten really tired of all the packages that weren’t available, didn’t work right, and […]

Like a lot of folks who run Linux, I often go months between reboots. Usually, that makes me feel all spiffy and great, but sometimes it means that I’ve forgotten something important along the way that will bite me when I least expect it to. Today, as you have probably guessed by now, […]

Been putting Gentoo on a refurb IBM ThinkPad T23 today… Overall, it’s pretty cool–even the lame-ass winmodem is supported. But the one thing I figured would be a pain in the ass is rewarding me with exactly my expectation–wireless.
Five years ago, my silly PCMCIA wireless card barely worked in Linux because it was too […]

The past 50 hours or so have been really quite nice and relaxing.
Friday night, we had margaritas (which I drank rather rapidly) and a tasty venison stew at butterandjelly’s place. The stew was great, especially with the straight-ahead Shiraz that we tapped into to go with it, and the conversation and company, as always, […]

Well, poop.
Work is utterly irritating; there’s nothing quite like being ready to kill people from the moment I set foot in the office to the moment I leave. My present workload is quagmire-tastic at best, and violently uninteresting. Ugh.
Continued frustration on the computer front. I ran Memtest86 for about 24 hours and […]