In what I hope is my second to last (the very last being the result) post about my dissertation I can finally offer you an electronic copy of the final text.

For maximum readability I’ve converted it into a PDF, the main reason I’ve not been able to post it previously. I had hoped that one of the staff would do the conversion before Christmas from a word document using the pro version of Adobe. I got no response from the staff and have been to busy with life in general to do any thing until now. Using PDFCreator I’ve now been able to do the conversion. I suspect the document isn’t as good had it been done by Adobe, the text doesn’t look sharp and file size is bigger than it needs to be. At least I’ve been able to do the conversion though.

The document is located at
http://www.tuxx.homelinux.org/links/Virtual_Testing_Environment.pdf.

Happy reading!

I feel that it’s time for an update.

For me it was back to York for the Christmas and New Year period. Christmas was once again full of enjoyment with santa delivering as requested, along with a few surprises! This year even more of my family were in York than in past years. My grandma from the Midlands and aunt with my cousins from Spain joined us and proved that the 2 houses can cope with a few more people. I’ve put the pictures up at http://www.tuxx.homelinux.org/gallery/christmas_2005. These were taken with my new digital camera (execpt those starting with a caption of P). Thanks to my Mum and Dad for the camera!

One of the highlights of winter for me is snow. Unfortunatly it didn’t snow on Christmas day but did a few days later. Got quite a bit of practice at driving on snow and ice that week!

For the New Year I was in a camping barn near Pickering. Unfortunatly my camera got lost on sone ones bag after the first day so there aren’t may pictures of the event its self. Pictures in the gallery as usuall.