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Experiment: DuckDuckGo as default search engine for a week

Author: Christian Joergensen , Published on: Nov 2, 2011 11:42:23 PM , Comments , Tags: Technobabble

Have people become irationally too used to Google search? I must admit, I haven't really considered using any alternative for the past many years. Especially since it has always been the default search provider of my primary web browser (Firefox, Chrome).

Inspired by a Reddit post, I will try to make up for my search engine ignorance and try out DuckDuckGo for a week (at least), and I dare you to do the same.

Some of the highlights of DuckDuckGo includes:

Here's instructions on how to change your default search provider of your favorite web browser.

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MIPS machines giveaway

Author: Christian Joergensen , Published on: Oct 21, 2011 7:27:24 PM , Comments , Tags: Technobabble

Instead of having these machines stored somewhere where noone gets to play with them, I am now offering them to anyone who wants to come pick them up.

http://www.technobabble.dk/attachments/mips1.jpg http://www.technobabble.dk/attachments/mips2.jpg http://www.technobabble.dk/attachments/mips3.jpg

They are SGI Indy machines and you should be able to get Linux to boot on them. Get in touch with me if you want them. They will be scrapped within a month or so. You must be able to pick them up on Nørrebro in Copenhagen.

Fun fact: They make a drum rimshot at boot time and have a port for 3D goggles.

Update

The machines has been donated to the folks at labitat.dk

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Blogging software change

Author: Christian Joergensen , Published on: Oct 17, 2011 12:10:59 PM , Comments , Tags: Technobabble, blohg

Having neglected my weblog a bit for the last couple of years, I felt something had to change. So I used the opportunity I got when the server hosting this site was going down and I had to move everything to a new server, to change the blogging software as well.

I'm now using blohg, which is a Mercurial backed blogging engine. That is, all content is read from a Mercurial repository and fed through a reStructedText parser. I needed to find a platform that would make me feel comfortable, and beeing a programmer, whats more natural than using my favorite editor and VCS for the purpose.

In order to facilitate the move, I needed to find a solution to blohg having a different URL structure than my old system, and I couldn't really come up with any good arguments as to why the old scheme was better than the new one, so I decided to go with the new and simple version. Now I needed a way of redirecting the readers from the old URL to the new one:

/<year>/<month>/<date>/<slug> => /post/<slug>/

To solve this problem I wrote a patch for blohg that quickly got accepted, and now blohg supports URL aliases trough an rst comment in your posts.

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Bash history aggregation

Author: Christian Joergensen , Published on: Apr 12, 2008 10:35:00 AM , Comments , Tags: Technobabble

So, I wanted to join the fun:

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|\
sort -rn|head
   87   python
   56   svn
   42   ssh
   38   cd
   33   rdesktop
   22   touch
   21   mplayer
   20   ls
   16   whois
   15   host

I guess it's obvious that I currently mostly work on python projects hosted on svn ;-)

What does yours look like?

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