Mind Cogs

September 2020 This year has been eventful to day the least. After the lockdown restrictions were eased in South Africa, I returned to the office with expectations that the scourge of COVID would be a boon to the laboratory and mortuary industry, but it was not to be. After faltering for several months; the company ceased operation mid September. I had a job offer from March, which was delayed until “after COVID”, after that was rescinded I fell into a depression. [Read More]

Since the introduction of the Windows Subsystem for Linux in 2016 I have dabbled on and off with getting it running, driven mainly by an interest in open source CFD software and the lack of Windows support for these programs. I was also always apprehensive about setting up a dual boot system and figured, correctly, that WSL would be the perfect way to get a comfortable introduction to Linux and working in the shell. [Read More]

This is the first actual post I have made to this site after having it deployed for nearly a year. I have had the example posts up for that time. Due to the COVID-19 situation we are in now, I have had much more time in front of my computer and after getting my Windows Subsystem for Linux working again I figured I better learn how to use git which lead me back here. [Read More]