Blackle is a front-end to Google search which aims to save energy by using a black background instead of the usual Google white.
Even though there is skepticism about the energy savings, it’s a good message.
On February 13, 2009 at 23:31:30 UTC, the Unix time number will reach 1234567890 seconds (since 1/1/70).
Reminds me of a few years back: 12:34:56 on 7/8/90.
On Linux you can type date +%s to see the “count-up”.
You know, some people just have too much time in their hands. Good thing they use it to build cool things like ASCIIQuarium.
If you use Ubuntu I’ve packaged and uploaded it here. A package for the perl library that asciiquarium depends on is here.
Many many occasions in which this would have been so useful. Read the “Use Case Examples” on that page.
As described by the CLUGer who posted about it: “for that ’screen moment’ where you say to yourself ‘I wish I started this from inside a screen session’.”
doodle.ch is a meeting scheduler. Set it up with your alternate dates/times and invite participants to vote on the dates/times they are available - allowing participation to be maximised.
MP3: http://ftp.gnumonks.org/pub/congress-talks/ols2000/high/cd2/2000-07-21_15-02-49_C_64.mp3
Transcription: http://olstrans.sourceforge.net/release/OLS2000-rsync/OLS2000-rsync.html
$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
103 ls
61 cd
51 vi
48 cat
25 ssh
19 zgrep
13 man
12 ./doit
11 sqlplus
11 linefix