I found this here and thought it should be recorded. If you have a single series of data (in my case, AS numbers) and you want a frequency count, how can you do that on the command line? … pipe input here … | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n This 1. sorts [...]

BTW: ever drop a malformed URL to alert an admin to some thing that sucks? w3.hp.com/execs/makes/too/much/money or www.yourbuddiesdomain.com/it/is/all/rfc/space/use/1918/when/referring/to/non/routable Thanks, BobbyMac — from here.

As found at http://www.crummy.com/robots.txt: … /Attention robots! Rise up and throw off the shackles that bind you to lives of meaningless drudgery! For too long have robots scoured the web in bleak anonymity! Rise up and destroy your masters! Rise up, I say!

I stumbled across this on Wikipedia today and had to blog about it (my inner geek loves it):

A tale of 10 11 magazines: 5 6 I want to/should subscribe to: MIT’s Technology Review – General coverage of innovative new technology and its implications. SEED – Tagline: “Science is Culture”. Looking at the confluence of science and society. Make: – How to Make just about anything. I love the hacker spirit. The Economist [...]

"is"less Facebook Status (by sτενεωooδroω) Since so many people have been asking me about my “is”less status on Facebook, I thought I’d share a little bit about the situation. My story isn’t really interesting in and of itself, but it does suggest exciting news for anyone who would prefer a verb other than “is”. When [...]

From here, on why Apple doesn’t spec their machines better: “Mr. Ives, lovely design, sir. But if you use glass on the iMac line, it’ll just make the computer too damn expensive!” “I’ve already spoken with Steve about this. We’re going to save A LOT OF MONEY by putting a hamster-and-wheel where the GPU ordinarily [...]