When in Centos 7.1 I clicked on a *.doc file created by LibreOffice, gedit was run, even though the icon and the mime type (reported by "xdg-mime query filetype") were right. Other users didn't have that problem. I fixed this by removing ~/.local but not before fruitlessly … [Read more...]
Centos 7.1 for users
The current New User Guide is my quick attempt to update the new user guide. The new version of CentOS has changed the colour and location of things even if the things themselves haven't changed much, so I've had to change quite a lot. Here are some observations - There … [Read more...]
Converting from our Kwiki
The ITSD Wiki is an old perl application that's no longer supported as far as I can see. The pages are written in a non-standard markup, a disincentive to copying information to/from the Kwiki, and perhaps a disincentive to contributing to the Kwiki. I've looked around for … [Read more...]
Div S Doc
Before deciding upon the design of (or need for) a help system as such, I think documention policy needs to be clarified. Are we sufficiently future-proofed? Policy Attitude to System Documentation - Do we write enough system documentation? We have doc for the … [Read more...]
Arduino/RaspberryPi
There seems to be quite a lot of Arduino/RaspberryPi development going on, scattered across divisions. I've helped a little with Arduino + Linux (maybe other COs have helped out too), and RaspberryPi will soon be used in the 2nd year IDP project. Is there any interest in … [Read more...]