Greetings List Lurkers, I am considering adding techno-archaeology to our program for two reasons...
1. Something I propose to call "Flint's Law" and... 2. My immediate experience with some visual bash I wrote in 2017. The later is code: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#csv2tdl.sh Which I wrote to convert travel planning spreadsheets to a Tiddle format for display. While the whole thing desperately needs refactoring, I was able to get enough of the code working that the result ended up here: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/travel#VMworkshop2024 Note I intend to be back by the afternoon of 24 June to conduct the Adult Swim on 24 June... The fact that a great deal of the code from 2017 worked I find sorta miraculous... Regarding the former "Flint's Law"... Simply stated; Old code runs better on newer technology. The example would be that you take your Ford Model T, and put it on today's roadway technology, and the old code (or vehicle) drives at the speed of sound... I admit this is a strange assertion, but with virtualization, examples abound... With the season now summer, I am outside rather than tied to my beloved Dell. 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 enhance ideas wherein we develop a searchable database of functions which could be added to any visualbash FED program. Docker will be in play for this enhancement. More on that as time passes... Again, I am overjoyed that by using menubot.sh we now have the beginning of the completion of the Zope2 backup and cont 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 enhance ideas wherein we develop a searchable database of functions which could be added to any visualbash FED program. Docker will be in play for this enhancement. More on that as time passes... Again, 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 WAVMWorkshop (Week After the VMWorkshop conference) ends, I will be back burnishing this to make even more of my life VisualBash script driven... This recurring 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 Memorial Day!!! 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... 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
