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Christopher P. Yarger Phone: 802-505-7574 Skype: cpyarger /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. Chris Yarger 30 Averill St #3 Barre, VT 05641 On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Eric Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Behold! The new Flint vehicle! Now with the actual link: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7KazTFOZkA > > -- Eric -- > > > >> Greetings List Lurkers, > >> > >> The wife needed: > >> 1. A way to get the Times Argus Puzzle on the days that they no longer > >> print a paper and... > >> 2. A general upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 LTS. > >> > >> The first involved a whimsical combination of python, selenium, and > >> pyautogui, and actually delivers the puzzle to the printer. The second > >> is > >> where I must confess. I went Mint! Mint 17, maybe upgrading to 18. > >> The > >> install was a smooth as glass, getting my little customizations (e.g. > >> pad > >> off when mouse plugged in) went painlessly. Call me bad names, but Mint > >> is not so bad for workstation software. > >> > >> Based the kerfuffle with the Moose the first week of August, I am afraid > >> we will need to postpone our field trip to Northfield to visit with > >> Rachael Little and the gang. I fully intend to get together a field > >> trip > >> to their Thursday night meeting once I get some new wheels... > >> > >> The question is what should I get?> > >> > >> Anyway on to Projects!: > >> > >> TRANTOR > >> The latest project coming sideways at us is Marius's server, which I > >> have > >> tentatively named "Trantor" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trantor > ). > >> We > >> hope to have the entire Linux Format DVD series available there. God > >> help > >> me > >> if I have not started a visual.bash project for this, and the project > >> now > >> has a website: > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor > >> > >> Our current issue is trying to get scanned in CD covers now in a random > >> collection of pdf formatted scans, faithfully and systematically > >> reproduced as nice clickable html... > >> > >> 3DPRINT > >> Got the new control board, and I am adding a 3Decology or > >> infastructure to facilitate printing, including a PDU. > >> > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/3D_print > >> > >> The next question is do we get a laser cutter or a vinyl cutter... > >> > >> VMulater: > >> This is a working demo if you are interested in the wonderful world of > >> zVM, I have a ziddlewiki supporting this demo available at: > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm > >> Again, the bottom line is that Docker and tmux work fine together... > >> > >> Anyone out there willing to go off the reservation with VM5.3? > >> Could you turn the Raspberry Pi into an IBM VM emulator? As discovered > >> last > >> week, it appears yes... > >> > >> http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/blog/ > my-raspberry-pi-thinks-it-s-a-mainframe > >> > >> ...and it appears here on a PI B. What will it do on a PI3? > >> > >> > >> THE TECHNORUBBLE REPORT TECHNORUBBLE - The Website > >> http://technorubble.org, http://technorubble.com > >> Dancing Dan McAllaster is joining Brett in this project. Dan runs a > >> flea > >> market in Williamsburg and todays meeting will likely involve some > >> TechnoRubble sorting and packaging. We need more TechnoRubble. We are > >> working out the details for this as we speak. The idea is to get people > >> to mail is their TechnoRubble. > >> > >> PITCHBOX > >> As you know, the PiTch-Box is an enclosure built out of the shipping > >> case > >> the Raspberry Pi Touch Display comes in. The power supply design is > >> lagging in that we have one that works and another that doesn't. The > >> only > >> answer is to build a third unit and see who breaks the tie. > >> > >> The good news is that it appears that a most viable PiTchBox power > >> supply > >> is an old PC supply. I have received half a dozen 12VDC to 5V at 3A > >> converters, successors to the venerable 7805. One is going on the 3 D > >> printer, the others are getting added to the Pitch mix. I have one that > >> is stable as a rock. Another that goes west abour once a half-hour. > >> The > >> only tie breaker is to build a third PiTchBox. > >> > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiTch-Box > >> > >> Anyway, we need to continue to develop the software and hardware > >> PiTchBox > >> library such as... > >> > >> JARVIS ON JENKINS > >> > >> You may recall that brother Kevin Cole has ported Jarvis, a voice > >> recognition product to run on a Raspberry PI3. This is exciting and we > >> are attempting to reproduce this here in the Casa Flint Lab... > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#JarvisOnJenkins > >> In continuing travels and travials this project is on a haiatus, but is > >> not out of active developent... This week will hopefully bring some > >> developments... > >> > >> PYRS > >> PYRS is in deep, deep, deep, deep, background, 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) Maybe the conference can > >> dissuade me. This is at the hold point... > >> > >> KINDLE LIBERATON FRONT > >> As mentioned a few weeks back, Due to the bandwidth issue, and my own > >> traveling > >> adventures the entire Kindle Liberation Front is lagging, we hope that a > >> rumored appearance of no less than Joe Hart himself will bring about > >> progress > >> in the area detailed below. > >> > >> Again, the bad news is that all the new units are coming in with 5.1.3. > >> Also, I > >> think I killed one of these 5.1.1. units with water. Good news is that > >> I > >> took > >> it apart and am drying it out. It may end up as parts. Hopefully in the > >> coming > >> week. > >> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle > >> > >> To summarize, the meeting today is again at 40 Washington Street, Barre, > >> VT > >> 05641. > >> > >> Topics for discussion as usual remain: > >> > >> - 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 Pizza tonight 5-7 at > >> Hedding > >> UMC. > >> > >> 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? > >> > >> 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 about a years worth of DVD's which is quite a > >> task. You > >> may want to watch this space for developments. > >> > >> 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... > >> > >> I will be refactoring our newsletter at some point in the future (do not > >> hold > >> breath :^)... > >> > >> > >> Kindest Regards, > >> > >> > >> Paul Flint > >> (802) 479-2360 > >> (802) 595-9365 Cell > >> > >> /************************************ > >> Based upon email reliability concerns, > >> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > >> > >> Paul Flint > >> Barre Open Systems Institute > >> 17 Averill Street > >> Barre, VT > >> 05641 > >> > >> http://www.bosivt.org > >> http://family.flint.com/flint > >> skype: flintinfotech > >> Work: (202) 537-0480 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux_adult_swim mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux_adult_swim mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux_adult_swim mailing list > [email protected] > http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim >
