Mon 27 May 2024 12:39:07 PM EDT Greetings List Lurkers, Spring has clearly sprung here in the North Country...
...the result is that your humble correspondent has become a Yard Ape, apparently making no more progress on matters digital. The good news is that Dr. Mark just stopped by with another juicy load of technorubble... Many ethernet switches with all the favorite brand names. With the season being spring, I am now outside rather than tied to my beloved Dell. Thus, my closing act was to get VisualBash "menubot.sh" operational. (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#menubot.sh). What this does is take a proposed help menu and constructs a VisualBash "FED" framework within which you concoct the functions necessary to get the job done. The program currently exists in draft form, a rewrite will arrive with the approaching storms from the midwest.. The new winter season will no doubt develop the idea wherein we develop a searchable database of functions which could be added to any visualbash FED program. More on that as time passes... I am overjoyed that by using menubot.sh we now have the beginning of the completion of the Zope2 backup and containerization project. The first VisualBash to come out of this "interpreter-interpreter" was a VisualBash script called Zope System Control (zsc.sh)... Beyond interesting interactions with the root user, this will in time be used for the management of the Zope2 system that DTG and I virtual-ized last month. You cannot imagine how gratifying it is to have finally made some progress, and it works on the production web site! Once the MDMMS (Memorial Day Monday Morning Syndrome) ends, I will be back burnishing this to make even more of my life VisualBash script driven... This question remains; can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? I particularly want a shell generator that takes the menubot.sh result and based upon the contents of the menu generates or queries and inserts the VisualBash Function slugs from the database mentioned above. The working title of this database is "SAMUF". (Simple And Maybe Useful Functions :^) At this time the Evaluator and the Dispatcher (the E&D in FED) are now already created by menubot.sh. God and Dave-The-Geek help me... That said, it was great to see Joe Golden!!! Now that I have mastered generation of VisualBash, I endeavor to revise the following script: lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL) At risk of repetition... This is an attempt to encapsulate the tools you need to perform most docker based development. This kind of script is mostly to allow me to learn and retain my foo in docker development. I maintain that this script is necessary as my mastery of the "docker" noun-verb name-space waxes and wanes as time goes on. This unworthy efforts is up on GitHub as I finished mercilessly editing lxcycl.sh. The concept is that the program once properly activated, will prompt you with the command line prior to executing it, thus allowing for you to painlessly learn the docker noun-verb name-space. This is a work in progress. But only after the completion of many Yard Ape duties that have piled up... Could this methodology empower our adventures into Home Assistant? I am not the first person to complain about the difficulty in provisioning Home Assistant. ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library. This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Come on to meet.Jit.si/bosi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join... 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 Happy Spring!!! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
