¡darandandunguen!

Writing in the desert may be funny but I prefer to have some feedback so I’ve opened the comments to everyone to encourage writting (and also because akismet works great). We’ll see if I don’t get too spammed. (So far I’ve got one comment and one spam)

I’ve loved the (rather nerdy) idea that my friend Julio has blogged about. Basically he wonders what are the most common commands he types on console (I know everyone that has worked besides him could tell you that it’s clear but he wanted a proof). So he worked out this command:
history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5
to see which are his five most used commands. I’ve done the same on this machine and these are the results:
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Parece ser que Google, Yahoo, Vodafone y Microsoft han decidido crear una especie de carta de los derechos humanos para proteger la libertad de expresión en la red. En la redacción de tal carta también intervendrán representantes de universidades y diversos grupos sociales.
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I’ve read through Ian Murdock’s weblog, an interesting article from Gordon Haff. It discusses about the posibility (or the fact) that open source software sometimes is used in pseudo-monopolistic ways.
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Nuevos ataques al portátil de 100$desde la acera de enfrente. Resumiendo, el autor afirma en uno de los ataques más reduccionistas de la década, que en una cabaña de barro no pinta nada un portátil y que más valdría alimentarlos y darles electricidad y teléfonos que gastar el valioso tiempo de los científicos e ingenieros del (supuesto) primer mundo en esta tontería.
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