Flint, Just a note the new location for directions to the Adult Swim is
http://bosivt.org/directions This page allows people to input their address and get a map from wherever they are, and was built off of the google maps API. Warmest Regards, Chris Yarger On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > Welcome to your semi-official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute > (BOSI) Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), when we shall continue to > fibulate through the abusive process of mitigating the commercial > degradation of dealing with all manner of technology, with full faith and > knowledge that the open source stuff is really the way to do it. > > A rant you ask? Excellent. > > Lets talk Apple Ipods...The first thing that happens when you turn one of > these little monstrositioes on is that you must "Register With Central"... > Basically you are paying somewhere north of $400.00 for the privilege of > allowing the Apple Corporation, to sell you things via the "Apple Store" > and "Itunes", and while there may be alternatives out there, if you are > like my sainted and dear mother-in-law, basically an electronic sheep, this > Apple wolf will glandly overcharge your for shoddy monopolistic slave-built > hardware and bind you to their ever growing Zaibatzu, as they feed you > meaninglessness and charge you inflated prices... > > Not that I want to get off on a rant here. > > The problem today is that I had to spend way too damn much time actualy > (ahem...) getting this sad and silly terminal to the great Apple combine > working... But as they say, eh, I need the mother-in-law. > > Be aware that we are in the process of actually getting the web sites up > an working a bit better, and the new look on http://www.bosivt.org is > entirely Master Christopher Yarger's fine work. BOSI is looking for firms > in our area that specialize in Open Source so that we can carry their > information (That means you Rubin:^). > > With the weather changing, the furmon is in play. We are getting data off > the pellet furnace. ...and now we grep! > > The "tsp" site has been updated: > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp>and > contains more pictures and we have have pictures of the enclosure now > as well as snippets of miniterm and how you can remotely sample data. That > said, we need to get back to thinking about all the other projects, > Javascript, the snowbot and Robots Rules. We must discipline our thoughts > towards presentations... > > Any other ongoing, or maybe not so ongoing... projects, but again not as > cool as the furmon progress include: > > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**arduino<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino>- > moving in the arduino groove > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**javajive<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive>- > to get better at Javascript > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp <http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp> - > Temperature Sensors Project > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**robotsrules<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules>- > The quest for Roberts Rules of Order > > On Robots Rules, we responded to the professor at Evergreen College, stay > tuned. > > Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source > Software meeting. That said, we must organize ourselves around the > presentation of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and the > Arduino, with winter coming this is the coolest thing all year. If we are > invited, we can and will bring the electric wheel-chair and more old > computers than you can imagine to other gatherings. > > Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are > soon to be available. Don't reveal your source, as I think I have some > fines overdue... > > Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI > Adult Swim meeting time and location try this: > > http://www.flint.com/adult_**swim_location/index_html<http://www.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html> > > Show up at the the Hedding United Methodist Church Basement if you have > questions or are interested in Linux or the concept of free and open > systems, The basement of the Hedding UMC facility is actually working out > pretty well. > > If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a > response to this note. Note that the mailing list system is a bit peevish > right now. Let me know if you have any difficulties. Note that I will be > updating the list-server by next week. > > > Kindest Regards, > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************** > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ > gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux_adult_swim mailing list > [email protected].**com <[email protected]> > http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_**adult_swim<http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim> >
