Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your official notice of actual snow accumulation as well as
notification of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult Swim. The
swim stars at 5:00 PM, and we shall continue to conspire among ourselves,
and try to fix the myriad of technology fubars until 7:00 PM EST or until
the drifting snow blocks access to the basement and we are forced
improvise a snow-board competition... Is it that is our perception of
reality is in some kind of trouble, or have we simply become hopelessly
addicted to the wrong kinds of MMORPGs, rationalizing that I will only
spend the next few hours "unwinding", only to discover that after actual
game time of about 3 days, I am incontinent malnourished, and alone... That
said we shall attempt to find the Great Underlying Truth (GUT) of GRand
Unified Boot loader (GRUB), while our eyes glaze over with acronyms that
begin with a "g"... sustained by the absolute faith and hope that this
open source stuff is really any damn good.
Hopefully we have completed our spazim with email, The issue was the
flint.com domain where all the claptrap comes from apparently completed the
process of change, and we were in many respects absorbed by the Great
Goggle and it's outspoken trollop, Plus... But hey they sure know how to
throw a video conference...
Again, a desirable side effect of this new world order may be actually
getting the appropriate web sites up and working a bit better, and the new
look on http://www.bosivt.org is an example of what happens when you give
a copy of Plone to those that deserve it, such as good Master Christopher,
but hey, he is currently on leave from is position of Vice (ahem) at BOSI.
Additionally we are looking forward to convening in congress with RBT, and
in our minds, already have our snouts covered in delicious pizza supplied
by none other than Rubin RBT and by no less than Rubin hisself, and we
intend to get very organized and respond, yea, this is it... Note that
Rubin Bennett Technologies is one of the finer firms in the Washington
County area that can and does specialize in Open Source so we will
collaborate in order to that we can carry their information (Atta boy,
Rubin:^). While I saw his wife and beautiful daughter picking up food
over the weekend the Rubin himself has not posted.
With the weather changing cold, the furmon is very much in play, we have a
humidity feature, but it really looks like we need the TSPs. While this
week we were hoping to get the data off the pellet furnace... and attack
the data with Python, Stuff it into MRTG, make it into SNMP MIBS, instead
we put in the heat pump for the master bedroom.
Well at least I got something done...
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 are also working on another Arduino alarm thingy. More as this develops.
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, and he has
resounded back, maybe we can beta site or something. It may be a lost
cause...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general hucksterism. That said, we expect to acquire
more of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we just got
another the Arduino, with two ethernet shields. The shield TCP/IP stack
is apparently done in around 10K. We live in an age for miracles, this
remains the coolest thing all year. This all fits neatly in the magic
plastic wire-mold box...
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are
soon to be available, I just made isos of each and every one. 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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Barre, VT
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http://www.bosivt.org
http://www.flint.com/home
skype: flintinfotech
Work: (202) 537-0480
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