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Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]> | |
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:13:59 +0100 | |
IanJ: further typos and fixups | |
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M opus3/article-bitreich-end-2021-me… | 4 ++-- | |
M opus3/article-ploum-forever-comput… | 6 +++--- | |
M opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of… | 15 ++++++++------- | |
M opus3/article-tiny-creatures.mw | 9 +++++---- | |
M opus3/article-unix-calendar-comman… | 8 ++++---- | |
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) | |
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diff --git a/opus3/article-bitreich-end-2021-meeting.mw b/opus3/article-bitreic… | |
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ | |
.SH 20h | |
-End Year Meeting 2021 Recordings Online | |
+Year End Meeting 2021 Recordings Online | |
.PP | |
-For everyone not able to join into the end year meeting of 2021, here are the … | |
+For everyone not able to join the 2021 year end meeting, here are the recordin… | |
.DS | |
gopher://bitreich.org/1/end-year-meeting/2021 | |
.DE | |
diff --git a/opus3/article-ploum-forever-computer.mw b/opus3/article-ploum-fore… | |
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ the limit of physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going. | |
.PP | |
By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer more resources to | |
software makers, allowing them to build more ambitious projects. | |
-The computer performance discipline sure have been worked up thoroughly. | |
+The computer performance discipline sure has been worked up thoroughly. | |
. | |
.PP | |
If the software comsumes all the extra computing power for its own goal, | |
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ then we are conjointly building very fast snails. | |
. | |
.PP | |
This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is one direction | |
-for evolution of computers, but it as well possible to imagine a | |
+for the evolution of computers, but it is also possible to imagine a | |
race for better reliability and durability instead. | |
. | |
.PP | |
Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when maximizing durability of | |
the hardware, but also the software ecosystem, so that a computer | |
-built today still be useful in 50 years without upgrades (not | |
+built today still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not | |
preventing upgrades to happen). | |
. | |
.PP | |
diff --git a/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw b/opus3/artic… | |
@@ -8,27 +8,28 @@ progressively to become what the Internet is today. | |
. | |
.PP | |
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, postal train, or | |
-airplanes. Long-range communication evolved from here slowly for a | |
-lot of time, but latency and bandwidth improved a lot these recent years. | |
+airplanes. Long-range communication evolved slowly for a long time, | |
+but has accelerated rapidly in recent years, until today extreme. | |
+bandwidth and latency. | |
. | |
.PP | |
The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics permits a new way | |
-to communicate information on a long-distance, with a lightning-fast | |
+to communicate information over a long-distance, with a lightning-fast | |
adoption all around the world: | |
. | |
.IP "1919 " | |
-wireless telegraphy and music transmission on Germany, Netherland | |
+wireless telegraphy and music transmission in Germany, Netherland | |
and United-States | |
. | |
.IP "1920 " | |
daily radio programmes in England, United-States and USSR | |
. | |
.IP "1921 " | |
-radio broadcasting on Eiffel Tower with 900 W power intensity | |
+radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W power intensity | |
. | |
.IP "1922 " | |
-foundation of BBC and arrival of 2000 W broadcastings | |
+foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W broadcastings | |
. | |
.PP | |
A few years before, the long-range communication tool was paper. | |
-A few years after, the telephone and television started to develop. | |
+A few years later, the telephone and television started to develop. | |
diff --git a/opus3/article-tiny-creatures.mw b/opus3/article-tiny-creatures.mw | |
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ farming, our tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives? | |
. | |
.PP | |
E.O. Wilson was one of these giants, looking at the ants: the real | |
-ones, the insects ones: An entomologist, someone dedicated to the | |
+ones, the insect ones: An entomologist, someone dedicated to the | |
study of insects. | |
. | |
.PP | |
-After 92 years of passionated life, E.O. Wilson is fading away, | |
-joining the soil, which he spent its life observing. Closing his | |
+After 92 years of empassioned life, E.O. Wilson is fading away, | |
+joining the soil, which he spent his life observing. Closing his | |
own book, while at the same time inviting everyone to open their | |
-eyes, and watch, carefully, this world of tiny creatures. | |
+eyes, and look, carefully, at this world of tiny creatures. | |
+ | |
diff --git a/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw b/opus3/article-unix-calend… | |
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ The UNIX calendar(1) command | |
.PP | |
It is probably there sitting in \fC/usr/bin\fR, the | |
calendar(1) command can offer you a fair dose of flexibility that | |
-lacks in web-based or smartphone-based calendars. | |
+web-based or smartphone-based calendars lacks. | |
. | |
.PP | |
-By storing events on a single file of text edited by hand, calendar(1) | |
+By storing events in a single file of text edited by hand, calendar(1) | |
brings the comfort of your existing text editor to manage events with | |
a simple syntax: | |
. | |
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ printed (with more choice of durations using flags), giving a… | |
of what is upcoming. | |
. | |
.PP | |
-A command line flag permits to send the calendar digest to all users | |
+A command line flag permits sending the calendar digest to all users | |
by email, making it a complete suite to use as a calendar. | |
. | |
.PP | |
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ is a matter of synchronising a single file. | |
. | |
.PP | |
By adding a few more custom syntax rules, a rather pretty digest can | |
-be written with very few effort. | |
+be written with very little effort. | |
. | |
.DS | |
Jan 23 09:00 Breakfast: cooked eggs and fruits |