I Scream for you Screen

September 23rd, 2006

GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer: a program that divides one physical terminal connection into many processes. This can be handy when you’re under a non-graphical environment; when you can’t simply open a new terminal tab. You might want more than one terminal screen for any number of reasons:

So you don’t have to keep on […]

You and Me Babe, How About It ?

September 18th, 2006

The Dire Straits got away with this line in their song “Romeo and Juliet”, but the sad truth is, this is how most GCSE students learn possibly the most famous love story in the world.
A recent Times Education Supplement article highlighted this unsavoury handling of one of our national treasures, which is down to–as I […]

Relatively Speaking

September 17th, 2006

Summer’s over and though the hours of September sun have surmounted those of August, it’s now often deceptively cold outside. Blackberries are overloading the bushes prompting me to reenact my little Tom Sawyer routine: with my spindle, and hands reaching, and getting more covered in purple with every mouthful. But perhaps any such references to […]