Mon 12 Feb 2024 12:51:09 PM EST Greetings List Lurkers,
Another overcast Monday evening meeting that will likely bring a couple of inches of snow early Tuesday morning... I am still hopefully looking for Mr. Joe Hart at this meeting to demonstrate his LlamaCPP large language model speech recognition system. Also we need to discuss his new nickname... Otherwise I continue my attempted conquest of docker. My thinking here is that Docker, is one of a class of utilities that I can call "Noun Verbs"(NVs), that is, in contrast to compilers, games, GUI tools and utilities. These NV script types of software exist to perform narrow activities on systems, exemplified by their use at the command line. Besides LinuX Containers (LXCs), examples are everywhere, and appear particularly obvious in the Linux command line environment. Think of the classic "bird call" commands e.g. grep, awk, ls, or any other command you can manifest on a "Teletype" command line. Good ones support a "man" page... I say this because I use an NV system to write my various software concoctions, which I write in VisualBash (http://visualbash.org/). Based upon my need to renovate my Zope web based note files, I intend to continue to attempt to encapsulate my Zope2 habit into a Docker (or Podman :^) container. The trick here is to get Zope running in a container with the correct version of Python so the "Pickle" function. Progress to date has most to do with developing these tasks: 1. Container management loading and persistence 2. Getting the right version of Python running and finally... 3. Coerce zope to run in this container. 4. Load the right data.fs file... 5. Reproduce ability This bit of programming is dramatized in the initial Visual Bash script: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#MyOwnPersonalVersionOfHell What I have discovered upon development of this script is that I could be more efficient in the development of a specific limited choice NV script, well documented script. In the last week, I concocted the following new script: lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL) This is an attempt to recursively encapsulate the tools you need to perform docker based development. These unworthy efforts will be up on GitHub after I finish mercilessly editing... ...but more about these foolish ideas this Monday evening at 6PM. This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face, we shall use jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link to join... Come on to Jitsi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Finally, I need someone to help me test my connection to the VAGUE list server... Kindest Regards, Paul Flint
