So that Robin and I never again forget what the little bastards are called.. The syntactic sugar in source files requried for vim to be ‘just the way you like it’ isn’t called “magic comments" or “vim source configure" or any other search combination that leads to repeated head-meeting-brick incidents when trying to remember what they are. They’re called modelines (:help modeline)

An example modeline that works for Python would be:

#!/usr/bin/python<br />
# vim: ai sm tw=0 sw=4 ts=4<br />

Found this lovely scene while walking around the Golden Hill Fort just outside freshwater.

Colourful boat found in the boat yard in Yarmouth.

After Lunch I took a stoll along the pier and sea front at Yarmouth was a dramatic looking sky but the rain held off!

We had lunch on New Years eve at the lovely George Hotel in Yarmouth. I’ve never stayed there but it looked fantastic, more details on their web site

I seem to be photography dried grasses a lot recently, well here are some more…

New years eve started with a chilly walk on the beach at Thorness Bay. Nice scenery, but very chilly!

Found sitting on a bench in Regents Park, Happy Christmas to anybody reading this!

If you need to find out more information about a linux kernel module you can use modinfo:

[root@localhost scsi]# modinfo aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko
filename:       aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko
description:    Adaptec Aic77XX/78XX SCSI Host Bus Adapter driver
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
version:        6.2.36 96FAE27D3385BBB774E4EDE
parm:           aic7xxx:period delimited, options string.
        verbose                 Enable verbose/diagnostic logging
        allow_memio             Allow device registers to be memory mapped
        debug                   Bitmask of debug values to enable
        no_probe                Toggle EISA/VLB controller probing
        probe_eisa_vl           Toggle EISA/VLB controller probing
        no_reset                Supress initial bus resets
        extended                Enable extended geometry on all controllers
        periodic_otag           Send an ordered tagged transaction
                                periodically to prevent tag starvation.
                                This may be required by some older disk
                                drives or RAID arrays.
        reverse_scan            Sort PCI devices highest Bus/Slot to lowest
        tag_info:<tag_str>      Set per-target tag depth
        global_tag_depth:<int>  Global tag depth for every target
                                on every bus
        dv:<dv_settings>        Set per-controller Domain Validation Setting.
        seltime:<int>           Selection Timeout
                                (0/256ms,1/128ms,2/64ms,3/32ms)

        Sample /etc/modprobe.conf line:
                Toggle EISA/VLB probing
                Set tag depth on Controller 1/Target 1 to 10 tags
                Shorten the selection timeout to 128ms

        options aic7xxx 'aic7xxx=probe_eisa_vl.tag_info:{ { }.{.10} }.seltime:1'

vermagic:       2.6.9-22.ELsmp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
depends:        scsi_mod
alias:          pci:v00009004d*sv*sd*bc01sc00i*
alias:          pci:v00009005d*sv*sd*bc01sc00i*
[root@localhost scsi]#

Andrew knows… http://www.andrewescobar.com/