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Following on from Mark and others, this is my VPS, not my Ubuntu desktop, laptop or MacBook… simonm@mccartney:~$ uname -a<br /> Linux mccartney.ie 2.6.16.33-xenU #8 SMP Wed Sep 12 22:06:48 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux<br /> simonm@mccartney:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head<br /> 90 ls<br /> 73 cd<br /> 48 sudo<br /> 34 vi<br /> 17 svn<br /> 16 grep<br /> 13 cat<br /> 11 rm<br /> 8 cp<br /> 7 top<br /> simonm@mccartney:~$

Here: Site Reliability Engineer found from this rather find blog post

So more & more devices are coming with accelerometers, can they be used to work out if I’m sitting, walking, driving, dancing (as if) etc? is there an API or SW toolkit to do this? Should I write one and become a millionaire? [or just be lazy/evil & patent it :-)] This though is brought to you by: The Reg

I’m one of the speakers at the first Mobile Monday event in Belfast, I’m still working on my slides, I have a “tech” talk and a “business” talk, I may have to toss a coin to make the decision.

I found thispost Ryan Hadley a few days ago, which I got working with a little bit of time, I noticed that Thunderbird was displaying all-days events oddly, so I checked the VEVENT info being generated & tweaked to work correctly with Thunderbird/Lightening. I also dropped in the URL of the event in OWA & fixed it for situations where there are public & private names for the OWA/Exchange instance, handy when you want to go and amend an entry etc.

Three Most Environmentally Friendly Beers : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti

I saw this line in the Irish Times on Friday, it amused me greatly 🙂 “There are two great silences in life. One is the silence in a church before a funeral. The other is the silence in a pub, when the guards are outside.” –Packie Duignan

I indulged myself recently and obtained a new MacBook, which I’ve spent the last few days loading up with the usual suspects (Firefox) as well as getting acquainted with some new tools (Mail.app). I use Foxmarks to keep my bookmarks in order, with a neat toolbar of my regular sites, I noticed that in FF on OSX, all my toolbar favicon images were missing (several of my bookmarks on the Personal Toolbar have no text, so just the Icon shows up on my other machines (XP & Ubuntu/Linux))

I bumped into a guy I went to school with yesterday on the Belfast/Gatwick flight, Keith � his wife Kristyn are home from Ohio for Christmas. Talk about a blast from the past 🙂 http://gettymusic.com/

After struggling for ages with different guides on ldap, Apache & Subversion, I found the following guide, and everything just worked after following it. Kudos to Sander. You can read the article in full here. Here’s the: http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/06/apache_and_subversion_authentication_with_microsoft_active_directory/