Greetings List Lurkers,
For Mother's Day, took the wife to go see Disney's latest movie "Jungle
Book", and man was I blown away. Go see this film, and when you do
remember this...Out of the Uncanny Valley...
I wonder if there is any connection between the Uncanny Valley, now so
completely usurped by this movie "The Jungle Book", and the fabled
"singularity" where machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
For several months I have begun to operate under the assumption that the
singularity has already occurred on this planet, and that we are now simply
in the mop up stage by our new robotic overlords, this bit of cinema
strikes me as the greatest single clue validating this assertion.
Today is my 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.
I have been modifying visualbash.org sample code to include sanity and so
the next step shall be to include the use of secret-tool to enhance
visualbash's capability to store encrypted passwords in the gnome keyring.
What fun to write good code in bash...
As stated last week, the pythonic answer to all of our programmatic word
generating problems may in fact be python-docx library... As stated, 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 this music.
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)
Due to the bandwidth issue, the Kindle Debian, and the entire Kindle Liberation
Front is lagging, but there is good news on this front:
Amazon has a blow-out special on the kindle for $39.00 a piece. We have
three. My goal is to get one to Joe Hart to get the Kindle Liberation
front back on track.. These do not leave my sight till I hack the
bootloader...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle
We will get to the bottom of wether or not debian supports the touch
screeen. 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.
- 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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