"Strip the unit and remove the circuit board (just a few plastic clips, no screws). Remove the LCD assembly from the circuit board (more plastic clips and an eight pin push connection). Removed the LCD unit from the clear plastic housing (more plastic clips). Finally heat up the plastic ribbon where it is stuck to the circuit board (hair dryer will do trick) and then firmly press it onto the circuit board… probably worth doing this several times; in effect you are remating the ribbon to the circuit board by softening the adhesive. Put it all back together and it should be working again."
Heating up the plastic ribbon and pressing it onto the circuit board did the trick for me. Took a few tries for all segments to appear, but the screen is looking great again.
A friend recommended lifeintheuktestweb.co.uk. Overall, I found their practice tests very useful. Taking a bunch tests helped me internalize the material.
Took some notes along the way (mostly data with years attached) and dumped it into an org table. This helped me form a mental timeline.
NOTE:These tables alone are not comprehensive enough to prepare for the exam. You'll need to know additional information without dates attached.
Events
Year Event
2012 Diamond Jubilee
1999 Scottish Parliament formed
1973 UK joins the EU ø/
1972 Mary Peters wins Gold medal (pentathlon)
1957 Treaty of Rome signed (March 25)
1950 UK signs European Convention of Human Rights
1949 Ireland become a republic
1947 Granted independence India, Pakistan and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1945 Clement Attlee elected
1945 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1945 WWII ends
1944 Butler Act (free secondary education England/Wales)
1940 Battle of Britain
1939 Germany invades Poland
1930s Turing Machine
1936 BBC first regular television service
1932 First television broadcast
1930 British Film Studios Fluorish
1928 Women/men with same voting age
1918 WWI ends (November 11, 11am)
1903 Emmeline Pankhurst Women’s Social and Political Union (suffragettes)
1902 Motor-car racing in UK
1896 First film shown publicly
1899-1902 The Boer War (South Africa)
1870-1914 120000 Russian and Polish Jews fled to Britain to escape prosecution
1853-1856 Crimean War
1851 Great Exhibition (showcased Crystal Palance)
1837 Queen Victoria becomes queen (at 18)
1833 Emancipation Act (abolished slavery throughout British Emprire)
1832 The Reform Act (increase number of people with voting rights)
1776 North American colonies want out (don't tax us without representation)
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie gets support by clansmen from Scottish highlands
1714 Queen Ann dies, George I becomes King
1689 Bill of rights (limit rights of kings)
1688 William of Orange invades England (proclaims king)
1680-1720 Huguenots refugees came to England (from France)
1695 Free press (newspapers) established
1679 Habeas Corpus Act (right to trial)
1649-1660 Cromwell rules republic for 11 years (Charles I executed)
1642 English Civil war (Cavaliers vs Roundheads)
1606 Union flag created
1588 English beat Spanish Armada
1348 Black death (third population die)
1314 Battle of Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce (Scottish King) beats English invasion
1284 Statute of Rhuddlan (Wales joins Crown, by King Edward I)
1215 Magna Carta created
1066 Norman Conquest (Saxon King Harold killed by William I)
300-400 AD Christians appear in Britain
789 AD Vikings first visit Britain and raid coastal towns
6000 years ago Farmers come to Britain
Population
Year Population
2010 > 62 million
2005 < 60 million
1998 57 million
1951 50 million
1901 40 million
1851 20 million
1700 5 million
1600 > 4 million
[2019-11-24 Sun] Wizard zines comics in Emacs eshell
id: wizard-zines-comics-eshell-util
Over at wizardzines.com, Julia Evans authors wonderful zines on topics like git, networking, linux, command-line utilities, and others. Some zines are paid. Some are free. No affiliation here, just a fan.
A little while ago, Julia tweeted about a utility she's building to view her original comics on similar topics. I instantly thought it'd be a fun tool to implement for Emacs eshell.
Since then, I subscribed to wizardzines.com/saturday-comics and received a few comics (awk, tar, and bash tricks). I saved them locally (using topic name and dropping file extensions).
ls -1 ~/Downloads/wizardzines-comics/
awk
bash
tar
By no means battle-tested, but here's an elisp snippet defining the ecomic command. It displays inlined comics in the handy eshell.
(require 'eshell)
(require 'iimage)
(defvar wizardzines-comics-path "~/Downloads/wizardzines-comics")
(defun eshell/ecomic (&rest args)
"Display command comic in ARGS.
Note: ensure comic images live in `wizardzines-comics-path', named with
command name and no extension."
(eshell-eval-using-options
"ecomic" args
'((?h "help" nil nil "show this usage screen")
:external "ecomic"
:show-usage
:usage "COMMAND
Show COMMAND comic from Julia Evans' https://wizardzines.com/saturday-comics")
(let* ((command (nth 0 (eshell-stringify-list (eshell-flatten-list args))))
(image-fpath (concat (file-name-as-directory
(expand-file-name wizardzines-comics-path))
command)))
(unless (file-exists-p image-fpath)
(error "comic: \"%s\" not found :-(" command))
(eshell-buffered-print "\n")
(add-text-properties 0 (length image-fpath)
`(display ,(create-image image-fpath)
modification-hooks
(iimage-modification-hook))
image-fpath)
(eshell-buffered-print image-fpath)
(eshell-flush))))
