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After writing documentation for many years, once in a while I come across a post on the Internet that makes me wonder why I bother. So I thought we could turn it into a game. Basically it’s like spot the difference, see how many things you can spot that are wrong with it and post [...]
It’s another year and I’m deploying next week. One of the few perks that entails is VAT exemption at PC World. I had decided some time ago to retire my Acer Aspire One A110L, this seems a sensible opportunity. I need the following: Very good battery life No solid state disk (SSD) – they’re too [...]
I’ve been away from Ubuntu for a while and just installed Xubuntu 9.10 on an Acer Aspire One. While editing some of the files, I remembered that pressing the cursor keys in insert mode inserts characters. This is because of vi compatible mode and is easily redressed by adding “set nocompatible” in “~/.vimrc”. I understood [...]
The course material for DSE 212 just arrived. Once I’d got over the weight of the package, I opened it to discover that it consists of a number of large text books, a couple of DVD, CDs, software and the usual assorted paraphernalia - part threes, course updates and errata. Looking over the course material, it seems well structured [...]
I was hoping they’d pick a Lynx, even if I haven’t worked on one since 2004. In case you were wondering (which you probably weren’t), these are the reason for the site’s name. It’s a play on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and the fact that the Lynx I saw didn’t work – avionics technicians seldom [...]
