Notes In The Margin

It seems that first Apache.org email message was a very thorough bug report for a bug that, alas, not only was already well documented, but which had already been fixed. The report was against Apache 1.3b3, which I mistakenly called 3.3b3. I guess, since 1.3 hadn't released yet, that we must have been running 1.2 at the time at DataBeam.

That was in January of 1998, though, and I am pretty sure that I had already been running Apache for at least 2 years by then, and NCSA before that. It seems strange that I never sent a message to a mailing list before then.

Here's my contribution to the shell history meme that I've seen floating about. This is just so that I keep my creds as a geek blog. ;-)

From my laptop:

% history -n 500 | awk '{a[$1]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
121 cd
44 ssh
35 vi
33 svn
33 sudo
24 ls
22 scp
14 mv
13 dig
12 perl

On the server I've got this:

[rbowen@buglet ~]$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
185 cd
174 ls
106 vi
106 sudo
50 tail
31 ps
27 /sbin/iptables
23 grep
19 locate
15 yum

Which strikes me as *really* weird. There must have been some window in there that I was tinkering with iptables an awful lot.

Via Ben, a fascinating view of the turbulent history of the Middle East. At least half of those empires, I'd never even heard of.

I'd love to see something like this for the rest of Africa, too.