Greetings List Lurkers,
I am back from visiting my Sicked Wisters (I have three... :^). The coven
brought their brooms together in DC and let's say that the first casualty
was sobriety...
Still I am back, and actually saw Kevin boot his touch screen PI up while
I was down in hood (Arlandria VA?). So while I have still have not been
able to get a chance to hook up the touch
screen to my Raspberry Pi3, it is now a priority along with getting a
good audio feed for Dr. Joe Hart.
The next step with the use of secret-tool to enhance visualbash's
capability to store encrypted passwords in the gnome keyring, is to get
this function as well as the sanity checking module into the standard
tool library. What fun to write good code in bash...
In python, the answer to all of our programmatic word generating problems
may in fact be python-docx library... The python 3.0 function labeling
feature may convert me to the dark side, but I have a few days before I go
to PyCon and face the music.
I have loaded nessus the home version on one of my laptops. They want
rationally prefer development over information security... cheap is not
too strong a term.
Sadly I remain fascinated with the idea of writing a python tax library...
PYRS - A python interface to the IRS! (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs)
Today, I shall be arriving well rested and happy to the Adult Swim, Brett
will hopefully be there on time with the keys...
Due to the bandwidth issue, the Kindle Debian, and the entire Kindle
Liberation Front is lagging:
Amazon has a blow out special on the kindle for $39.00 a piece. Go get
one but do not allow it to attach to a network till you hack the
bootloader...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle
I hesitate to take this next step towards Debian, because it appears that
there is no 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... When the next shipment shows we will learn
more.
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 gun-metal grey New England sky overhead... 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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