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Logging Flights with Garmin nuvi 760 GPS
As anyone even casually checking will have noticed, prices for GPS units have dropped steadily over the last few years. One month ago, I came up with enough excuses to convince me that a GPS was in my future. I’ll save the details and comparisons for another post (maybe), but the point is that I bought a used Garmin nuvi 760. Now the question was how could I use it for flying?
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Apple Not Immune to Spelling Mistakes
Spelling and grammar are “relatively” important to me, and I have found many a mistake on all sorts of websites. I would have thought, though, that a large company such as Apple would double-check everything going out their doors. Apparently not.
Here is a screenshot of the default webpage you from their operating system, OS X, get when you enable web sharing.
The third paragraph should begin “You’re done”, not “Your done”. For an explanation, visit wikiHow. For some reason this is a popular error, although to catch the error all you have to do is expand the contraction in “you’re” to “you are”, and the choice becomes simple. A related example is the difference between “it’s” and “its” (see this article for info).
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Star Wars Via Telnet
Since I bought a MacBook Pro in October, I was browsing the web for tips and hacks for the Terminal program, and came across a super geeky post – how to watch a Star Wars movie via .
Depending whether you’re using Windows or OS X, the way you use telnet is a little different, but it comes down to simply visiting . Here’s a screenshot of the movie a little ways in (no, I haven’t watched the whole thing):
Star Wars Via Telnet
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