http://www.selfishman.net The Selfish Man Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:45:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Updated: Download the newest version (2.5.urmom) here. After adding yet another user to my ignore list in irssi I realized that the channels started getting a little too quiet. Instead of silently ignoring public messages from ignored users I decided to redact their messages instead. The code for redacted_ignore.pl ... http://www.selfishman.net/2009/11/04/best-irssi-script-ever/ I've noticed several other people showing their most frequently used shell commands so here it is from a few of my systems. One of my spamtraps that publishes all the data to a webpage at http://www.spameatingmonkey.net : selfishman@spamtrap:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 137   vi 46   ls 39   exit 29   /etc/init.d/qpsmtpd 27   cd 25   dig 23   ... http://www.selfishman.net/2008/09/25/history-meme/ Update: Pull the power cord and battery and let it sit for a while.  You may need to remove the BIOS battery (located under the keyboard) as well. It turns out this was the fix that I accidentally used when ripping apart the laptop trying to figure out the problem. My ... http://www.selfishman.net/2008/06/24/problem-with-dell-inspiron-1501-keypress-every-second/ I maintain a network with 10 ::wikipedia(public access computer,public access computers):: for the Livingston-Park County Public Library with plans to buy several more in the next few weeks. Until recently all of these computers were running Windows XP and were secured using software provided by the Gates Foundation. Despite ... http://www.selfishman.net/2007/12/12/pxe-booting-a-diskless-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-client/