Greetings List Lurkers,
While the Universal Insight Virtual Reality Glasses in a box for $14.00 at
the Williston Craft Store have largely changed my appearance, for
Halloween masquerading has become fundamental.
For example, I always liked the "include" function in python (C and a lota
other languages :^). The trantor code (see below) was getting kind bulky,
and I realized I needed an include function, so starting with bash
"source", I cobbled together a very serviceable include function under the
visualbash.org framework:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#ImportingFunctionBlocks
In all humility, this is very good for the visual bash that I am writing,
and I think that this has legs and could go somewhere very cool (and I do
not mean Windows 10 :^)
At Halloween masquerade is everything! That said I am thinking that we
need to start planning for another Geek Ball, for next Halloween (2017)...
We kinda missed our chance for today.
TRANTOR
As we said before the first pass for Trantor is done. The second pass, where
we integrate everything into one package that runs on a non GUI based linux
server, is what we are working on. Obviously this much stuff in shell script
needs some kind of framework, so we are using the http://visualbash.org
framework with the new "include extensions".
As mentioned above the trantor project now uses the new visualbash
include function to load up various scripts full-o-functional goodness.
We are maintaining the Trantor project on Github:
https://github.com/flintiii/trantor
I am today developing a new "SanityScript" and am seriously considering a
"Menu Generator"
The $89.00 2 Terrabyte drive for the Trantor project slid into the the
implementation platform, an the old dell workstation "Updike" from the
library, perfectly, so the new "trantor" now sports 2T SATA and a copy of
Mint 18. Loading 230Gbytes of LXFDVDs is taking place. The trantor
project benefits itself as you can cut usbs with great ease and facility.
Within a week or two I will be ready to bing this machine back to the
Aldrich, plug it in, set me some DNS A record, and rock.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor
On the inside of the Casa Flint network Trantor runs like a top. We
actually now have a complete set of disks starting from LXFDVD154 thanks
to Neil at Linux Format. The next trick is to get trantor on the public
web. I am working on that hopefully in conjunction with the Aldrich
Public Library. So the test of trantor up and running. If you want to see
a preview try:
http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/trantor/test/
As you can see it contains all the scanned in CD covers and backs.
CD cover acquisition was accomplished with the use of gimp, a script-fu and
something called deskew. All the links will likely rick-roll till I get the
actual server online.
All that said sphinx now rocks my world. I am getting interest from some
parties in contributing more stuff to trantor. Do not be bashful (pun?). let
me know if you want something faithfully curated and systematically reproduced
as nice clickable html...
Anyway, that's the latest here:
Otherwise it has been a very quiet week here in Barre Vermont. Projects
that languish I summarize below.
BAKEDAPPLES
Hopefully these sites are mapped to the current wiki:
http://bakedapples.org/
http://bakedapples.net/
JARVIS ON JENKINS
A very quiet week for Jarvis on Jenkins....
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#JarvisOnJenkins
I wonder if Jarvis on Jenkins can be integrated into the
PitchBox Garden? Gardners talk to their plants don't they?
KINDLE LIBERATION FRONT
At this point the Kindle Liberation front is the mainstay of our Adult
Swim video network, soon to be the "TADA Show"
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
but little else. Why they don't build a version of the Universal Insight
Virtual Realty Glasses for the Kindle is beyond me. Dude... 3d
Teleconferencing way cool!
THE TECHNORUBBLE REPORT TECHNORUBBLE - The Website
http://technorubble.org,http://technorubble.com
Again, we need more TechnoRubble. We are working out the details for getting
this to us. The idea is to get people to mail their TechnoRubble to us in a
USPS Flat Rate Box. I am frantically trying to complete the donation
letter page:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/donations
Ok, so it is DTML... Who cares?
VINYL CUTTER Wow, a completed project. We have more vinyl and blades coming.
Cannot wait to try cardboard. That said where does the time go?
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/maker
3DPRINT
Have not even turned it on.
No change here... Thinking about inviting Toby from Filabot over and asking
for some help. This machind has only seen maybe 5 hours of actual operation is
that this lasted about two days. Why is this so damn hard?
The 3Decology constructed around the HICTOP Prusa I3 3D Desktop Printer, has
helped a lot, at least there is a place to store the tools this thing needs.
The take away here is that 3D infrastructure is important to facilitate
printing. But more important is the ability to render designs from the head
into products.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/3D_print
Again, the thing is that there is a new guy in this part of town called
Antimony;
http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/
This is the spot to watch. I am gonna learn this product or perish n the
process. I need Bezels for the...
PITCHBOX
Ordered a new lunchbox. Be here this week.
You may have heard that the PiTch-Box is an enclosure built out of the shipping
case the Raspberry Pi Touch Display comes in. The power supply design is
actually coming along. The latest incarnation of the PiTchBox is the PiTchBox
LunchBox which should be up on the site.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/PiTchBox
The wonderful thing about our current society is that there is a great deal of
activity in the area of basement agriculture. In the spirit of this and due to
the fact fall is on the way here in the Frozen North, I have ordered a basement
enclosure for growing plants in. The goal here will be to experiment with the
enhanced phosphor Grow Lights attached to the PiTchBox. This would Flint
Indoor Phosphor Enhanced Indoor Greenhouse to keep me sane this winter.
I got the tent in the mail two weeks ago... And I found the moisture sensors
this week (Yay!). More on this project as it unfolds (forgive the pun :^).
I hope to show Bit Ed one of the DC-DC converters, they are nifty, I will try
desperately to bring one today if I can find one.
The latest is that there is a git hub for this project which we are jointly
developing with the Arlington FOSS mob. Anyway, we need to continue to develop
the software and hardware PiTchBox library such as...
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. How to get over it? Maybe slave
labor and more shelves...
These five points are becomming almost like policy!
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://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm - A Docker copy of VM370
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle - The Kindle Liberation Front
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs - A pythonic interface to Income Tax?
- 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 got to go carve up a punkin.
I will continue to refactor this newsletter at some point in the future (do not
hold your breath :^)...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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