Greetings List Lurkers,
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult
Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our latest vanity being to include a
goggle hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 7:00 PM EST.
The big news is that the BOSI vice president, (motto: vice is nice, but
liquor is quicker yew can drank alda liker in costa ricker :^), has some
tee shirt scam going...http://teespring.com/BOSI. If it is not a Pocket
TEE BOSI will have nothing at all to do with it.
This weekend, like an opium addict carving the Meerschaum in the bowl of
his tar pipe, I find the NetFlix addiction overwhelming... I went and
wired a hardware port from the area behind the pellet stove to the network
so I could have NetFlix without issue or interruption. I still need to
form an addiction support group. As you may recall, #1 daughter gifted us
an Apple branded stream viewer (iTV but at least I am not buying from the
iTunes store!), at risk of repetition, NetFlix is the most perniciously
addictive form of entertainment - you sit passively and consume any movie
or TV show that strikes you (and Netflix's) fancy. The result is you
watch and stay warm (I wired the LCD to one of the pellet stoves...is is
pretty? nah...), and forget about getting anything done.
Which when the weather you experience and your house-mate has a cold
conspires to eviscerate all priorities. This weeks triumph of engineering
was to complete the changeover contactor switch-gear to flip the water
heater to electric whenever we get a hard alarm from the pellet furnace.
BTW this does not happen often if you keep the silly thing clean, but fact
is I may be a bit of a slob...so we need this backup mechanism.
Completing this bypass for the water-heater pellet furnace allows that if
the furnace goes into alarm mode, it throws a contactor and we heat
morning shower water with (gasp) electricity. Yea, it is expensive, but a
better alternative than a cold shower on a work day. The switch hardware
is actually elegant, the final part is getting a proper NEMA plug/socket
set for 220V.
All this while reading Bill McGibben's book "Eaarth"... It appears that
according to bill we will leave our children a planet fit for Vampires and
Flesh Eating Zombies (FEZs). If you knew my kids you would be comfortable
with this (at least they are not lawyers!).
The furmon is working but I need to rewrite the Arduino output for a bit
more sanity. Todays activates at the Swim are gonna involve checking out
the donated hardware we just acquired. Making the world safe for Ubuntu
is not for the faint of heart.
The "tsp" site has been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp and we expect
to get more pictures and we have have pictures of the enclosure now as well as
snippets of mini-term and how you can remotely sample data. That said, we would
have gotten back to thinking about all the other projects, Javascript, the
snowbot and Robots Rules. We are making no progress...(damn you Netflix!)
The ever growing list of projects includes:
- 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 -
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash - Yea, I am not kidding...
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://family.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
But the key appears broke. More stuff to fix, and still not fixed.
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
17 Averill Street
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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