Self-tutoring about Windows: the tutor shares a way to check hard drive health. I’ve read that WMIC stands for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line. It includes a way to check hard drive health, as follows: Open command prompt. Type wmic diskdrive …
Self-tutoring about holidays: the tutor checks the answer to a question he’s wondered about. I would have said that Black Friday is typically later than Nov 23. Furthermore, I believed it was the last Friday of November. While most years …
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Self-tutoring about Windows: the tutor mentions a recent, perhaps surprising, find. I thought that, when you modify a file, its containing folder is modified as well. Apparently, a file can be modified without changing the “date modified” of its containing …
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Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor shares a recent discovery. I’ve been using a directory structure in a new context that doesn’t seem to recognize relative paths. For instance, let’s imagine the directory structure From dir3, the link ./the_file.txt used …
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Self-tutoring about pop culture and history: the tutor researches another question he’s often wondered about. GI: galvanized iron, apparently. With time, it took on a broader meaning, eventually referring even to recruits. BTW: not all sources seem to agree about …
Self-tutoring about driving: the tutor inquires about turning left across a double solid yellow line. I’ve always thought it was illegal to cross a double solid yellow line. Therefore, if, along a double solid yellow line, I wanted to turn …
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Self-tutoring about perspective: the tutor shares a story. When I attend judo workouts by myself, I walk there. This time of year, I often can’t wear the judo gi on the walk to the club, lest it gets muddy. Therefore, …
Self-tutoring about local trees: the tutor makes another observation about local dawn redwoods. I wrote a few posts about local dawn redwoods, the most recent here. It will lead interested readers back to earlier ones. Dawn redwood is deciduous here. …
Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor mentions using parentheses in Perl regular expressions to form groups. A useful feature of regular expressions is the optional use of parentheses. There are numerous reasons to use them, but one is to report …
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Tutoring English, you deal with theme and mood. The tutor reflects on The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Back on October 27 I attended the Rocky Horror Picture Show, presented at the Tidemark Theatre by Isolde and Peach. Of course it …