Picked up a meme from here, may as well spread it around.
~ $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
2394 cd
1879 ls
1017 vim
998 sudo
890 bzr
732 ruby
585 rm
538 mv
493 find
412 svn
The only reason vim is so low is because I usually start gvim from my KDE menu. Sudo is in that […]

It’s not often I’d call myself “excited” about a program, but MusicBrainz Picard is a really great program. It lets you tag MP3s by looking the up in an online database.
That’s very much like what a ton of other programs do, but the interface for this program is nice for doing a lot of […]

I ordered PAIP today. Good computer books are so expensive. It hurts me to spend $80 on a book. But there are many worse ways to spend $80 than on something which contains so much knowledge, I guess. I got a $25 gift card for a book store for Christmas, so […]

I was wondering today how many Gentoo devs actually read Planet Larry.
If you’re a Gentoo dev, and you feel so inclined, could you leave me a short comment? Just say “hi”. In this way, I shall count you.
I’ll at least get a lower bound answer this way. Unless no one […]

Gentoo is alive. Just wanted to state that for the record. I use it and it works fine. I say that having ditched Gentoo many times in the past looking for something better. I always end up coming back to Gentoo because it works best for me. If Gentoo sucked […]

Note to self: mount.cifs won’t let a non-root user mount a share unless they are the owner of the mountpoint. Even if you set the users option in /etc/fstab.

Imagine if you will, a field of daisies. In the background, some sappy music. Perhaps Chariots of Fire? At one end of the field, running in slow motion, arms spread wide, is a pasty white, lanky, bespectacled geek. At the other end, a nondiscript black box. What is this box? […]

My conversion to Opera is still going well. I’m not sure that browsing is altogether more enjoyable or anything, but it’s at least as good as Firefox. I’m getting into using the sidebar nowadays. I tend to have an aversion to sidebars in general, but Opera’s are hideable and displayable via a […]

Planet Larry seems not to be updating for some reason. It’s stuck on September 27th. Hope that gets cleared up soon.
It’s been a few months since I switched back to Gentoo from Ubuntu. Things are going well. Everything works fine. I don’t find myself spending any more time keeping it […]

I rely on my ~/.bash_history extensively to avoid retyping things, both short-term and long term (when I want to look up something I typed yesterday or last week).
First, an obvious necessity is
shopt -s histappend
in ~/.bashrc, so that bash just keeps on adding to the end of the ~/.bash_history file rather than obliterate the […]