Marco Barisione’s Weblog

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
368 cd
355 l
274 git
231 vi
131 u
130 q
101 find
94 time
86 grep
79 svn

Some clarifications:

“l” is an alias for “ls -lhA –color”
“u” is an alias for “cd ..”
“q” is an alias for “exit” (I also use CTRL-D for that)
“time” is there because I use “time make” to [...]

“People who open a blog should be identifiable and they should ask people writing comments to be identifiable too.”
– Maurizio Gasparri, from punto-informatico.it
Do I have to use my passport every time I write a comment on a blog? And what do I have to do if the server is hosted in another country?
The sad thing [...]

Dear LazyWeb,
  Every time I log into GNOME I have to disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” option in “Keyboard Preferences” if I want to be able to use the numpad on my external keyboard. Why disabling it once is not enough? How can I permanently disable this option?