Greetings List Lurkers,
Chance again delivered to us a sunny Monday which forebodes an evening
meeting that will likely be cold but clear...
I am overjoyed that Mr. Joe Hart rescued a Sharp Brain PW-A900 from
the landfill road. It is a Japanese to English translator.
Our Shogun is threatening to liberate this beastie using the
information at BrainUX.org "A Linux disto for SHARP Brain". Seems
ambitious...
My own ambitions revolve around how many of the "Noun Verbs"(NVs) (or
"Verb Noun" environments) I need to exploit for my own enjoyment.
Again, these typically command line based environments are in contrast
to compilers, games, GUI tools and utilities.
To repeat, these NV script types of software exist to perform narrow
activities on systems, exemplified by their use
at the command line. Besides LinuX Containers (LXCs), examples are
everywhere, and appear particularly
obvious in the Linux command line environment. Think of the classic
"bird call" commands e.g. grep, awk,
ls, or any other command you can manifest on a "Teletype" command
line. The good ones most support a "man" page...
I say this because I use an NV system to write my various software
concoctions, which I finish and deliver in VisualBash
(http://visualbash.org/).
In a personal approach to learning the NVs, what I want are Visual
Bash functions that illustrate the use of NVs, so that
I can rely on working Visual Bash examples.
This method brought success to my understanding of Git and its ugly
daddy GitHub, I have somewhat puzzled out this with the help of the
Adult Swim gang. (see https://github.com/flintiii/TenStatementGit)
Just trying to organize NVs is a bit of a pain. Docker, Podman &
Distrobox are all related to Linux Containers. My ambition is to have
them all working and their pitfalls understood
(https://github.com/flintiii/lxcycl/blob/main/lxcycl.sh) is a work in
progress to accomplish this.
At this very moment I am particularly interested in getting Google
Drive to behave. This may involve a script to test and consistently
mount your Google Drive, but right now it is not consistent, I am
working on it.
Again, this is all based upon my immediate goal which is to get my
currently used version of zope2 running in a container... A critical
ambition.
Progress to date has most to do with developing these tasks:
1. Container management loading and persistence
2. Getting the right version of Python running and finally...
3. Coerce zope2.10 to run in this container.
4. Load the right data.fs file...
5. Reproduce-ability
This bit of programming is dramatized in the ongoing Visual Bash script:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#MyOwnPersonalVersionOfHell
Other random NVs I am interested in include, but are not limited to:
- ffmpeg - gstreamer NV implentation... too much?
- gstreamer - a multimedia contender
- obs-cli- an OBS controller written in go?
As I mentioned last week, I concocted the following new script:
lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL)
This is an attempt to recursively encapsulate the tools you need to perform
docker based development. These unworthy efforts will be up on GitHub after I
finish mercilessly editing lxcycl.sh should be ready before the meeting...
...so more about these foolish ideas this Monday evening at 6PM.
This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York
Branch Library this evening.
I am also gonna bring along the newest and latest Raspberry Pi zero
kit. I want this to be the
center of a universal battery tester... Note that Shogun Joe says
this may be too ambitious...
That said, come in remotely and bring this and any other problems and
questions and we will
do our thing!
This evening beyond the Library face-2-face, we shall use jit.si/bosi
to connect.
Feel free to click the following link to join...
Come on to Jitsi at 6PM!
Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting:
https://meet.jit.si/bosi
Let me know if this works for everyone...
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Just want to dial in on your phone?
Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198#
Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road...
Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting
https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
