Archive for the 'Fun' Category

Top 10 commands used

Just found through this post by Technofreak, where a simple(ok, that is not simple), onliner on your terminal will show you the top 10 commands used recently.
$ history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

This on my system shows up
82 cd
63 ls
51 sudo
51 screen
18 ps
17 irssi
15 python
14 svn
12 irb
11 uptime

Novell’s linux video part 3

Here is the third part of Novell’s “Linux is ready” set of videos. See the other two videos here.

Novell’s Get a Mac spoofs

We have seen many “Get a mac” spoofs and those were mostly done by people on youtube. But imagine Novell doing two such ads. Linux is a hot chick in these ads. Nice.

Javascript trick to edit the page displayed

Goto any website and paste

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

in the address bar.

Now you can edit anything in that page. Really cool trick.

Cool Firefox Commercial

Love Python

This Valentine’s day (2006), lets learn python the easy way! at http://www.lovepython.com/
I don’t know what is behind the teaser, but anyway I have signed up. Any one can guess what could be behind this?

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Switch to Linux

Here is a funny flash commercial that persuades or rather tries to switch to Linux.

linux, gnu/linux

Open Office.org Easter Egg

I found this easter egg for Open Office.org 2.0 and found it amusing.

In any cell type in =Game(”StarWars”). A small, space invaders style game will appear.

Free as in Free Beer

After reading the article I wrote earlier where opensource powers a milking robot, I saw another link where someone has brewed beer from milk.
There is also another link where they have posted a recipe for brewing beer under the Creative Commons License and so you can create your own open-source beer.
Who said “free as in free beer” is not possible.

Can someone try the recipe and tell whether it tastes the same as the original one?

Linux powers robotic cow-milking machine


A 122-year-old dairy equipment company has used Linux to control a robotic cow-milking system (the system is robotic, not the cows). Delaval’s “Voluntary Milking System” lets the cows decide for themselves when to be milked, and gives dairy farmers a more independent lifestyle, free from regular milkings. The system runs a 2.4.18 Linux kernel.