Yuck, DTS (Defense Travel System)
I am now in my battalion's S3 shop as an ODTA (Organizational Defense
Travel Agent). It is pretty pogey, but as Colonel Johns says, "do the little
things well." I hereby commit to the DTS Tip Serial.
Hopefully we can collaborate to make life with DTS a little better. The first
person to catch me missing a weekly update will get a reward whose value is
not to fall short of $1. Also, if you have your own tips, please let me know
(see AKO username below), I would really appreciate it.
M16 Qualification "Smartstrip"
This will help you if you are a U.S.
Army soldier, and shoot anything less than 40 out of 40 at the M16
Qualification Range. The targets always come up in the same order, and failing
to use this information is a failure to use all available means. The
features:
- Particularly surprising engagements are marked with arrows.
- Exactly wide enough that you can laminate them with packing tape when you
don't have lamination paper handy.
- 3 to a sheet - why waste paper?
- Created with Knuth's LaTeX,
which can't be beat.
My AKO username is ryan.joseph.king, so please email me if you
found this to be useful or have suggestions.
Toffs Sneer
On Donald Knuth's home page, he
mentions proving that the Internet is wonderful because he typed in and found
the phrase "toffs sneer". It took me a bit to figure out why
the phrase is special (even with his "alphabetical" hint).
If you are like me, then instead of thinking, you just highlighted it, right-clicked, and did 'Search Google for "toffs sneer"' (you are using Firefox, aren't you?). Since you probably found this site as a result of such a search, here's the spoiler:
- "toff" = "an elegantly dressed man"
- "sneer" = "to show contempt"
- Each letter in the word "toffs" is one after each in "sneer".
(Here's some
irb-food:
(0..4).collect do |i| ('toffs'[i]-1).chr end )
Field Manuals in Plucker Format
These are mechanically converted, so they're not perfect.
- vim config. If I find out you use vim, you
go from way down here, to way up here in my book. here
is updated-every-hour-by-cronaccess to my ~/.vim/plugins dir. major todo's on
this one are: 1) explaining them, and 2) including the scripts that they
reference.
- svntools. I finally got around to packaging
these up, just for you. more spitpolish coming soon.
- svndiff - colorize diffs
- svnlastdiff - get the diff that was most recently checked in.
- svnrgrep - I alias this to "gr" - you'll find out why this is
needed if you use svn.
- vim-pager - vim, but set up for slightly more appropriate options as a pager
- svnci - rock & roll check ins for the coder who just doesn't
care.
- svnblame - page blames, marked as perl
- svnlog - just pipe to vim-pager
- svnst - typo fallthrough for "svn st"
- cvstools. If you're unfortunate enough to
have yet to migrate to svn, then here's these, which make cvs a little more
tolerable — described on c2.
- clipboard.pm, and its scripts.
These install a handful of useful scripts if you work with copy &
pasting a bunch of text, especially from terminal windows. includes:
- clipedit (modify the clipboard contents in your favorite editor)
- clipbrowse (open the current clipboard contents in your favorite browser)
- clipjoin (clean out newlines and extra spaces from the clipboard).
- clipaccumulate (string together a bunch of copied data into one datum)
- the linux sound
desperation howto. This page describes a last-ditch effort that I've found myself using on several occasions.
Debian Install Stuff
(All the links I need to quickly install my preferred linux
distribution over an existing windows installation)
Isoburn for Windows
Gparted LiveCD
Debian Testing i386 Netinst