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6 years, 4 OS X versions, 1 unkind meeting with a concrete sidewalk, 3 battery replacements, 3 hard drive replacements and now finally 1 broken power supply plug later and my G4 PowerBook Titanium is still ticking away. It is in daily use and runs Tiger (10.4) better and faster than any previous OS version. Now I just need to find a new PS and it's good for another year or two!

UPDATE: The Apple store in Laval outside Montreal had my power supply in stock.

Fun! Thanks to Mark.

Here's my most run commands:

<pre><code lang="shell">(terje@lisa) [~] [2044] % history -1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 283 cd 195 ls 110 svn 76 vim 47 git 46 open 44 chmod 31 rm 28 axel 17 grep </code></pre>

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I wish I didn't have to link to this site, but Expelled Exposed goes behind the scenes of the ridiculousness that is Ben "Ferris Bueller's Professor" Stein's latest film. The film is unlikely to have much impact outside of the United States, so consider this an act of solidarity with excellent science blogs such as Pharyngula and the Richard Dawkins site. Both Pharyngula author PZ Myers and the eponymous host of the latter site were tricked into appearing in the film Expelled.

Just to give you a short synopsis, the film Expelled is a string of mindless propaganda arguing for "intelligent design" being presented as a scientific theory. According to the descriptions and reviews so far it starts out like a boring Michael Moore imitator and ends up in insane la-la land with clips of nazy Germany woven in with pictures of Charles Darwin. Classy.

There seems to be somewhat of a git-is-cool wave going on on the web, I wonder what kicked that off. Certainly the introduction of neat web front ends such as GitHub must have helped, and from what I can work out some of the Rails crowd is using it, so maybe that explains Git reaching the elusive tipping point.

Any good version control system getting well known is allright by me, having had the misfortune of using Visual SourceSafe in its Visual Basic 6 days. ugh!

Digi.no reports on IKT Norge's response to the Norwegian lawyerly representative of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), Simonsen Advokatfirma. Simonsen's Espen Tøndel has become somewhat of an infamous figure among Norwegian filesharers, and I imagine he's on the receiving end of much vitriolic communication.

IKT Norge has written a rather harsh response, translated to English here to t

GitHub officially launched today, after being in more-or-less-closed beta mode for a while. The site provides hosting of git repositories, free if your repositories are open to all. I've been meaning to check out git for a while so maybe the very neat looking repository and change browser will make me do just that.

I'm a while from giving up my current Subversion/Trac setup, but it's cool to see version control moving forward nevertheless.

Git, of course, is the version control system written by Linus Torvalds the Linux developers lost their free BitKeeper license following allegations that Andrew Tridgell reverse engineered their protocol. It is meant to be superior for distributed development, maintaining local branches and merging.

Just a quick note to say I've moved The Daily T to a new domain: thedailyt.com. Subscribers might want to update their newsreaders. Thanks!

The reason for the move is just that this is easier to remember. Tjervaag is not an easy surname for those whose Norwegian is a tad rusty, and judging from the exotic spelling mistakes I've seen for my family name - the worst one perhaps being Ciavok - an english-only domain seemed appropriate.

Last thursday's episode of the always interesting Fresh Air podcast hosted by Terry Gross has an in-depth and very well-explained rundown of the current US financial crisis by Michael Greenberger. It is fascinating to hear about the meta-meta-meta trading that has been going on and brought parts of the US economy to its knees.

Gross is a gifted interviewer and this program is no exception.