Via Bill de hÓra. Run this from the command line:
history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s “,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
I get:
108 ls
78 cd
53 sudo
29 python
13 cap
9 django-admin.py
9 ruby
8 vim
6 easy_install
3 bzr
1 ex
1 python2.5
1 ln
1 mksir
1 cat
1 cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
In short:

I have trouble with my default python installation.
I am trying Django for small project.
I was hit by the Leopard keyboard repeat freeze bug.
I am poor at spelling simple commands.

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IR LED in […]

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Mark Pilgrim writes about the benefits of the easy-to-use package manager in Ubuntu and then feels sorry for his Mac OS-using friends:
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