When we arrived back in Manchester we found CityLink had excelled in their efficiency and attempted to deliver the new PC. Luckily their depot was open until 8 and based in conveniently close in Trafford Park. While I grabbed that I made a half hearted attempt to locate a GTAIV …

It seems a day before it's release GTA IV has been attracting acclaim. Metacritic is equally glowing in it's appraisal which leads to a small problem on my part.

I've generally not been enough of a games fan-boy to get involved in the pre-order approach to gaming. However I quite …

The last few days have involved quite a lot of map time. I'd heard of the OpenStreetMap project before but hadn't actually has a look at recently. For example compare it's rendition of my work location to Google's. Granted the OpenStreetMap doesn't have the bling of Google's satellite imagery (or …

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15:31 alex@malory/AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ [linux-2.6-stable.git] > history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
79 cd
71 ls
35 make
26 git-log
22 git-branch
20 grep
15 ssh
15 less
12 git-push
10 …

I'm currently pondering if it's worth spending £400 or so pimping out one of these. I could then retire my desktop to server duties and have a dual head open source driver setup.