Josh Saddler

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
77 cd
69 ls
63 eix
46 gvim
38 cvs
36 su
27 less
26 exit
16 rm
15 grep

Yay for gvim. I'm surprised nano doesn't appear, though. Now that the meme's out of the way, on to the docs business.

For those of you on the bleeding edge, OpenRC and baselayout-2 are now ~arch. Before you even attempt to perform the update, read the OpenRC Migration Guide written by myself, Doug, and Roy. And then read it while updating. I run systems with stable keywords, so I'm not updating until the code and kinks have settled down some, and the packages are stabilized.

As part of the OpenRC documentation changes, I've replaced references to resolvconf-gentoo with openresolv, as the latter is maintained and stable for all arches. The former is dead and will be removed from Portage at some point.

Speaking of documentation, if you're interested in helping out with an up-and-coming documentation tool, take a look at Beacon, an XML editor. It's designed to be an easy way to create and edit documentation; this makes it easy for newcomers to contribute to Gentoo's GuideXML documentation. However, it does need some more work, so contact Anant if you're interested in making Beacon usable for the masses.

In hardware-related news, I just received my silent mouse from Quietmouse.com. This thing is silent. You can't hear the clicks, but it still feels like a normal mouse. No more annoying clicks during gaming or any other computer usage! The wheel is silent too at slow to medium scrolling speeds; it has a hushed whispery noise character during rapid scrolling. Faint, but not unpleasant. It's perfect if you're a silent computing enthusiast like me. The mouse works in Linux; no special configuration needed. Works well in gaming too; it's got a nice high scanning rate. It doesn't randomly freak out the way my old Dynex mouse does.

I've also got a new keyboard on the way from NCIX. My current one's not remotely quiet anymore, and it's pretty discolored after 3 years of use. Cheap silver plastic, go figure. I'm hoping the new one is much more quiet; it took awhile to find an identical layout to my current keyboard. The home/page/del keys are right where I want them.

Quiet keyboards are few and far between, so if the replacement keyboard doesn't work out, well, it's only $7. I wouldn't mind moving to the new slim Apple keyboards; I've heard they're decently quiet, as well as being rather sexy. Rather pricey, though, at $50.

I'd take cheaper and quieter over sexy and expensive, if it comes down to it. Must have scissor-key action, and it should preferably have a laptop-style layout. Any suggestions?