Articles tagged “geek”
Girl Geek Dinners Workshop @Apple Store, 16 May 2009, Rome
«Women! The knife grinder is here!» – Apart from funny jokes ;) the italian Apple Store together with Girl Geek Dinners Roma organized on May 16, 2009, a workshop about mobile lifestyle (focusing on the iPhone, of course).
Let’s start from the beginning: what are the Girl Geek Dinners? Linda explained to the audience (nearly 20 people) that a geek is a person passionate about technology in a broader sense: the GGD is a group devoted to aggregate women interested about the internet, new medias and technologic lifestyles. Women are often underestimated in geek communities, and this embarassing clichè generated a lot of discussion in the past, and it’s still unsolved (in my opinion).
The GGD italian group was born in 2007 in Milan, and then arrived to Rome in 2008, and is also present in Bologna and in the Marche and Emilia-Romagna states.
So, the GGD group tries to generate a “critical mass” of geek women, to abolish a stereotype that “computer programmers / power users” are only men: in GGD events boys listen and girls talk, [ .. ]
What does your .bash_history say?
A friend of mine told me that on techie blogs there is a new meme going on: show off the most used commands, starting from shell history:
history | \
awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | \
sort -rn| head -15
I’ve got 20 times the default bash history size (10k lines), so it’ll yield interesting results. I also use the history timestamp feature, so I’ve added a little sed to the code in order to strip timestamps out.
Let’s see:
13:19:50 vjt@voyager:~/code*$* history |
sed 's#^[ 0-9\[\/\:]*\]\([^ ]*\).*#\1#' |
awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' |
sort -rn | head -15
928 l
577 ssh
389 ping
381 cd
300 dig
259 telnet
153 sudo
126 ifconfig
125 whois
113 ps
96 svn
91 cat
73 fg
68 vi
61 ..
yeah, I do a LOT of ls, l is actually ls -alFGs (I’m on Darwin). This list exposes my recent habits, because I’m coding less and managing more (no gcc, no irb, lots of dig & whois). svn is still there, of course ;). ssh means that these results should be aggregated with other histories coming from the other boxes I log on to.. but that’s a topic for anoter post ;).
Which are your results?
Post them here! :D
UPDATE 2008-06-03
As my recent habits are more coding than writing docs, I re-ran the history analysis.. and these are the new results:
1796 l 981 svn 705 ssh 693 cd 666 ping 402 vi 356 ifconfig 352 telnet 321 dig 315 sudo 283 fg 240 grep 188 .. 183 cat 157 ps
UPDATE 2009-02-20
5427 l
4379 git
3128 svn
2812 vi
2105 cd
1408 ping
1392 fg
1328 ssh
935 ifconfig
893 grep
890 sudo
733 rake
653 cat
554 ..
535 ruby
UPDATE 2009-05-24
7374 l
5041 git
3265 vi
3131 svn
2753 cd
1881 ssh
1763 ping
1618 fg
1101 sudo
1100 ifconfig
977 grep
867 cat
767 rake
721 telnet
671 ..
UPDATE 2010-06-01
20517 git
7794 l
1906 cd
1631 rg
1518 vi
1108 rake
1041 cat
1010 ruby
790 sudo
754 fg
676 make
670 script/console
626 rm
496 ping
474 ..
UPDATE 2012-07-23
3367 l
2685 ssh
1289 cd
1013 curl
976 git
857 sudo
815 ping
526 telnet
521 ps
497 cat
472 port
422 fg
400 vi
274 rm
259 dig
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
A really really really NERD novel by Cory Doctorow that tells about a bunch of sysadmins that strive to keep the good ol’ Net online, after a catastrophic event that brought the entire world to its knees. They fight with scarce power and food supplies, and communicate over the Usenet… using the “good old alt. hierarchy”.
Vote: 10+ for the geekiest thing I’ve ever read, it’s really worth the hour needed to read it completely. Enjoy it.
