IanJ: further typos and fixups - tgtimes - The Gopher Times
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(HTM) Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
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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(DIR) diff --git a/opus3/article-bitreich-end-2021-meeting.mw b/opus3/article-bitreich-end-2021-meeting.mw
@@ -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 recordings:
+For everyone not able to join the 2021 year end meeting, here are the recordings:
.DS
gopher://bitreich.org/1/end-year-meeting/2021
.DE
(DIR) diff --git a/opus3/article-ploum-forever-computer.mw b/opus3/article-ploum-forever-computer.mw
@@ -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
(DIR) diff --git a/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw b/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw
@@ -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.
(DIR) 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.
+
(DIR) diff --git a/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw b/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw
@@ -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 digest
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