Greetings List Lurkers,
Mama told me there would be days like this...
1. Gotta client in the middle of a security nightmare.
(Friends should not let friends boot Window$...:^)
2. Gotta go and do phone banking for the New York Primary
(guess who for?)
3. Gotta get the Adult Swim covered...
So in an attempt to do task 1.) above, I realized that the first step in
any security exercise is to make an image backup of the drive involved...
You would think that with a nice shiny new WD MyCloud 4 TB NAS I would be
in fat city. This thing is so close... Yet it misses the mark in as many
stupid ways:
1. Once you figure out how to get ssh running it only
a.) Allows one user (root) and
b.) has busy box compiled in as your only user-space option!
no fsck... etc...
2. The handy-dandy USB port automounts expansion drives... but
only NTFS formatted partitions.
3. Getting an NFS client running requires a new RFC..
Grant you, it was "inexpensive" apparently more expensive versions
implement sane versions of Linux, but why screw it up in the first place?
This nightmare has eaten square yards of my time...
Thus, I have still have not been able to get a chance to hook up the
touch screen to my
Raspberry Pi3.
On the balance, I did figure out how to use secret-tool to enhance
visualbash's capability to store encrypted passwords in the gnome
keyring, and the answer to all of our programmatic word generating
problems may in fact be python-docx library... But now I have to load
nessus on one of my laptops. I irrationally prefer development over
information security... hate is not too strong a term.
This week this epistle needs to be kinda short as I need to get out the
vote in New York, the defining primary is tomorrow, Tuesday 19 April.
This clearly demonstrates that world conspires against my playing with my
Raspberry PI3. It arrived four weeks ago, does WiFi like a bandit! Yet I
cannot fight off the dogs of exigency, I supposed the good news is that
I got the Taxes done, and did not even get distracted too much
with the idea of writing a python tax library...
PYRS - A python interface to the IRS! (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs)
If anybody dares to suggest that this is not of any interest, then they need to
talk to their accountant.
Today, I shall be arriving tardy to the Swim, but Brett will be there on
time with the keys and the pizzas...
We really hope to address the bandwidth situation, which continues to
dwindle at HUMC, we need try to hook-up to the BOSI/FITS network up the
street hopefully today. Bandwidth last week was dissapointing. Sadly,
Kindle Debian, and the entire Kindle Liberation Front is lagging:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle
I hesitate to take this next step because it appears that there is not touch
screen support, but I am getting conflicting stories here. I have been reading
in Linux Format that while the Kindle Liberation Front is doing good stuff, the
rest of the Linux community is not really on to the Kindle and I get wonder if
you can get Ubuntu Touch loaded on one of these...
As for our gathering here in Barre, I beseech you to to go to the directions
web site should you need them at:
http://bosivt.org/directions
To summarize, the meeting today is at 40 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641
There will be pizza.
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am working on an idea... I am changing the priority of our
eternal needs, and placing education first. Note that the
Linux Foundation is offering a sale on Linux Certification
through the end of the week.
Check out:
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/
- Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? Could it be that the
commercial power centers do not yet appreciate the value? I need to
revise my paper on this subject and get it out to Lucas Jensen
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space.
- Move BOSI to become more git centric... develop gittlywiki... working!
check out tiddlywiki5 here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5
We still need to convert... Yea buddy...
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D.
- I fought the DREK and the DREK continues to win. Remember, What
really is holds us back is DREK!!! DREK is what happens to your
workspace (both hardware and software) when you fail to put stuff
away, or you let your friends or relatives use it. This is a cosmic
law. I am still fighting the DREK.
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have the pizza tonight 5-7 at
Hedding.
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult
Swim. For those coming in via the Google Plus and the Internet, and there are
folks who are gonna try, the swim stars at 6:00 PM EST.
Our ongoing major objective is to continue to try to figure out how to invest
the time and resources to turn the Barre Open Systems Institute into more than
just the Adult Swim technical clinic and more into a real learning facility.
One direction we have been working on is to begin thinking about classes. The
curriculum that I am most interested in is teaching documentation.
Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized and try
to get the various projects moving forward, despite DREK. We continue to wonder
about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this webpage:
http://bosivt.org/classes
Take a look if you dare...
Remember, the BOSI Adult Swim is essentially about helping out fellow users of
open source products in a clinic environment. Despite my very best of
intentions, the Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual Linux install-fest, and
only secondarily a learning environment,
The ever growing list of projects (now on our web site :^) includes:
- http://ledroid.org - Ok, this is a real project eh?
- http://bzinga.net - What happens when you combine Bash and Zenity?
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs - ok, it is on the list.
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snobot - jesum they love this robot
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - monitor that pellet furnace
- 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...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/mrtg - remedial raw mrtg for the slow...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry - all versions
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org - maybe a very cool project.
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized - oh please let me be organized!
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/music - this may be the least organized
site ever!
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb - A big noble idea.
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot - A less noble idea to feed the
big idea...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki - is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
Do not forget Bit Ed using an ISP in Plainfield, first reported many services
block http service on odd ports, one immediate projects needs to be to reflect
all of the current project pages to git hub. This is why we will be initiating
the gittlywiki project... I am gonna go by and confirm this issue sometime in
the next few days, when he can take time off from building Alex her palace...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software discussion and general system rejuvenation. Expect to be remotely
preached at on the various topics of Open Source and how I am confident it
shall cure all the evils and ills of this wicked world. In a perfect meeting,
people would come in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing and hopefully
help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done, or maybe just fix a laptop.
So, do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux Format", and the latest
issue is on the shelf, and it is good. The DVD's are available to checkout and
copy, we shall to continue provide copies and isos of each and every one. I am
continuing to duplicate abot a years worth of DVD's which is quite a task.
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
http://bosivt.org/directions
Show up at Hedding UMC if you have questions or are interested in Linux or the
concept of free and open systems. Again, we are in the basement of the Hedding
UMC facility which is actually working out pretty well.
Somehow we need to make progress not more projects!!!
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note.
This is Flint signing off... again, we Swim in Barre this afternoon with the
cold New England sun shining.. It is good to be on the inside looking
outside!...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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