Self-tutoring about Canadian weather: the tutor notices a curious fact. The driest month in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, is April, which apparently receives 83mm of precipitation. Interestingly, March there receives almost an inch more, at perhaps 95mm. Source: en.climate-data.org
Self-tutoring about climate, weather, and geography: the tutor mentions some curiosities. I’m in a philosophical mood today. Google says it’s the first day of spring, 2020, my kids are on spring break, and I’m eating Easter chocolate. (More on that …
Self-tutoring about Ubuntu: the tutor mentions sudo. In Linux, some tasks require elevated privileges. Trying to do such an action without assuming elevated privilege (sudo in Ubuntu) may lead to an error. The system is designed to prevent less-privileged users …
Self-tutoring about Ubuntu Linux: the tutor mentions command-line update. I resurrected a computer that likely hadn’t run in 8 years (or longer) using Lubuntu. It identifies, from the terminal, as Ubuntu 18.04. I tried updating its software from the GUI …
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Self-tutoring about English: the tutor checks a fact. Adaptor or adapter? Either one, apparently: both are correct and have the same meaning. Source: Mish, Frederick C. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Self-tutoring about home computer use, specifically wireless networking. The tutor mentions the D-Link DWA-181. Our main computer is from April 19, 2010. For wireless networking, it needs a usb adapter. Over the years, we’re had consistent, but slow, wireless performance …
Self-tutoring about the current situation: the tutor reflects. Before 8am this morning my wife and I set out for groceries. We’d heard of line-ups and shortages, so decided to go first thing, since restocking is supposedly done overnight. Driving there, …
Self-tutoring about words that describe disease patterns: the tutor mentions three. Endemic can be a noun or adjective. As a noun, it means a disease that is always present in one area, but confined there as well. African sleeping sickness, …
Self-tutoring about computers: the tutor reminisces…. Back around 1990, I recall the computer science lab wing at university. There was a room of computers set up on long tables. It was something to see, for someone who’d seen a few …
Self-tutoring about English: the tutor “unveils” a word that’s indeed real: surveil. surveil: verb form of noun surveillance. To surveil is to carry out surveillance. Source: merriam-webster.com