When you as "which directory am I in" with the pwd command, are you told the real directory you are in, or the one you cd'd into? You are normally tod the one you've cd'd to.
What's the difference? you may ask The difference is that you might want to find out where you really are on the file sys ....
On Tuesday, Lisa and I attended a series of seminars at the Arc College in Trowbridge, laid on by our bankers (HSBC). There are times that we spend so much time working on the day-by-day business of running courses, booking hotel rooms, paying bills, and the rest that we don't take a step back and ....
Isn't it amazing how you look far and wide for a service ... only to find that what you're needing is available in the next street. And so it was with our network cabling. We met Matt Coyle at our speed networking event last Thursday, and asked him about our floor network points that haven't worke ....
Our web site recognises the country that you're browsing from ... and that allows us to display our phone number in the format that you would have to dial to reach us, and to advise visitors to our public course pages from more distant countries that they're looking at a product for UK delivery befo ....
There's building work going on around Melksham, and our smaller conference room at Well House Manor is in regular use by one of the companies that will be moving there as an interview room .... business that we're very happy with, and ideally resourced for.
There has been a flow of faxes coming in ....
Between our home and hotel - in just that short distance of a few hudred yards - there are four bus stops. One doesn't have a shelter, two have shelters enclosed on two sides, and one has a shelter enclosed on three sided.
Guess which one has a new sign?
Yes - it's the one enclosed on 3 sides that ....
Our networking event on Thursday evening was a great success; many new contacts were made and everyone was very busy from just after 6 all the way through to 9 ... spending no more that 5 minutes with each other company present.
Each individual contact was an opportunity to explore another local ....
There is a proposal (perhaps slightly more than a proposal now!) for a bypass to take traffic on the A350 road that heads North - South through Wiltshire out of the town of Westbury and route it to the east of the town, quite close to the Westbury White Horse.
I had a chance to pop in to an exhibit ....
Perl's substitute operator lets you replace a Regular Expression with another string within a target string. For example
$hello = "Grating";
$hello =~ s/a/ee/;
print "$hello\n";
Will turn Grating into Greeting within the $hello variable. You'll note that you can use almost any special character ....
Tonight is our Melksham Speed Networking Evening for local businesses to get together, spend a just a couple of minutes introducing themselves, and then seeing how and if they should be working together. "It's amazing what you can find in Melksham" we always say, and we're also reminded that even lo ....