Tuesday, April 15, 2008

History meme

With reference to the History meme: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/04/15/history-meme

Mike-MacBook-Pro:nimitz mike$ uname -a
Darwin Mike-MacBook-Pro.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Mike-MacBook-Pro:nimitz mike$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
86 ls
78 cd
68 p4
66 pwd
26 gmake
24 s1
24 emacs
13 more
13 man
12 ssh

Notes: s1 is an alias to ssh to my virtual machine server, p4 is perforce

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Bathroom breaks

Most days I work out of the office in my house. I like to get out and get some good coffee, get a bagel, or just generally get out of the house a couple of days of the week to keep from going stir crazy. I used to go to Panera all the time to take advantage of the free WiFi. My company bought all of the the remote developers the Verizon broadband wireless USB device and the service, so now I go to Starbucks a lot more. Unfortunately, none of the places I work from have a way to secure your laptop when you need to go to the bathroom. Given how many people I see working on laptops in these locations, it is clear these businesses cater to these customers. To provide a better service, I would love for them to install some secure brackets so I could use a laptop lock. As it is, the laptop lock would be pretty useless because it would be trivial for someone to lift up a chair or table to get the laptop unhooked. These are the types of brackets I am talking about:
The silver bracket at the bottom could be securely attached to the wall. It wouldn't even have to be visible, they could put it behind the comfy chairs or underneath the table to keep it out of site for those that don't need it or don't want to see it. I would feel better about leaving my laptop secured by this than asking a stranger to keep an eye on it, or having to shut everything down, closing the lid, and losing my connections.