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 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 - moving in the arduino groove
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temperature Sensors Project
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
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
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Barre Open Systems Institute
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