| Finally here is my old LaTeX page re-opened for everyone who is involved in writing technical documentation. I hope that you will have lots of good use for this. I still see people linking to this page so therefore I am hoping that the re-opening should be something that benefits everyone.
On this page are lots of various collected nice to know things as well as a swedish style sheet and two templates, one for technical documentation and one for writing a business-like commercial letter. |
Tills sist så har min sida åter öppnats om typsättningsspråket LaTeX där det finns en massa tips och tricks för den som fortfarande ägnar sig åt detta. Jag ser fortfarande dagligen folk som länkar till den gamla sidan så genom att ge den nya samma URL hoppas jag att ni hittar tillbaka igen.
På denna sida finns en massa olika saker som jag samlat på mig genom åren och det inkluderar också ett svenst stylesheet för typsättning av svenska dokument, en mall för teknisk dokumentation samt en mall för att skriva brev. |
Etikettarkiv: computer
Two great utilities
There are two great utilities out there that I use now and then to keep the computer nice and tidy (and fast at that). One is a cleaner utility that can remove lots of old gunk in the machine, cleaning out web browser caches and other such bits and pieces, the other is a very fast and good defragmentation program.
VAXen don’t belong some places
The author of this piece is Jack Harvey, harvey(at)eisner.decus.org, and it was originally published under the title ”The Immortal Murderer” on January 18th, 1989 on DECUServe, the DECUS member bulletin board.
I have decided to preserve this piece for coming computer generations. Have fun. The date at the end of the story that is mentioned is also known as ”the black Monday” when the financial markets came crashing down. Hold that thought while you read through this piece.
/Anders
VAXen, my children, just don’t belong some places. In my business, I am frequently called by small sites and startups having VAX problems. So when a friend of mine in an Extremely Large Financial Institution (ELFI) called me one day to ask for help, I was intrigued because this outfit is a really major VAX user – they have several large herds of VAXen – and plenty of sharp VAXherds to take care of them.
So I went to see what sort of an ELFI mess they had gotten into. It seems they had shoved a small 750 with two RA60’s running a single application, PC style, into a data center with two IBM 3090’s and just about all the rest of the disk drives in the world. The computer room was so big it had three street addresses. The operators had only IBM experience and, to quote my friend, they were having ”a little trouble adjusting to the VAX”, were a bit hostile towards it and probably needed some help with system management. Hmmm, Hostility… Sigh.
Well, I thought it was pretty ridiculous for an outfit with all that VAX muscle elsewhere to isolate a dinky old 750 in their Big Blue Country, and said so bluntly. But my friend patiently explained that although small, it was an ”extremely sensitive and confidential application.” It seems that the 750 had originally been properly clustered with the rest of a herd and in the care of one of their best VAXherds. But the trouble started when the Chief User went to visit his computer and its VAXherd.