August 29, 2010

Treadmill

I have a new treadmill. The plan is to make it into a walking workstation and get healthier. Sitting all day is just not cutting it.

Apparently, getting this this for $199 was a good bargain. Web prices range from $700 - $900, though, I imagine that has more to do with scarcity than value.

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Why's this like that? - 1

as seen in ~/.bashrc file

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HISTFILESIZE=100000000
HISTSIZE=1000000

HISTCONTROL is used so that repeat commands do not clog up your .bash_history
HISTFILESIZE is how large your .bash_history will become, someday
HISTSIZE is how many entries you want. Set it huge and don't ever lose anything.

If you ever overrun these settings, I'd be amazed.