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
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