Greetings List Lurkers, Labor Day 2024... No longer mid summer, yet still a beautiful beginning of fall day keeps me from doing anything with technology. Got some apple picking in this morning - sublime!
One of the $25.00 laptops I got out of Rutland, which lit up when purchased did not make the jump to the lab. So it moldered for about half a year, till it basically pissed me off, so I took it apart, fixed it's various acetate ribbon cables, added a new half-a-terabyte hard drive and "Viola" we have a platform for an experiment. Formatted up with the latest LTS I have dubbed this machine 'thespian' as it is configured to quietly sit in the audience at a performance and record the video and audio. The goal is to have several 'thespians' recording different camera angles, towards getting production quality... The real question is what to do for an editor. My wish is to find an online editor so that the massive files involved do not slow the EDL (Edit Decision list) down... Remembering our ambitious Goals to discuss at this meeting, we need to eventually plan a meet up at SugarTower, where we can assess and organize the TechnoRubble that has accumulated from our strategic withdrawal from Methodism, the week passed shows how I tried to unsuccessfully expand the dry storage areas. As stated previously, we want to make Incremental TechnoRubble Progress (ITP). Hopefully a plan and report shall be forthcoming this week. Sing out or attend the meeting in person if you are interested in this TechnoRubble loot. The new 'thespian' laptop is a case in point. Tonight in addition to my newly acquired JavaScript fetish, I expect to continue my education in the SuSe version of Immutability and Associated Containers (IAOC) that DTG has been coaching me on IAOC which is really a cool development environment, possibly beyond the scope of Google JavaScript, which has a web-based IDE that works quite well. One of my fantasies to forge in the IAOC environment is since we got Pipewire hooked up, we may be delving into some audio evil... AudioEvil.sh is a VisualBash script yet to be written, which strikes me as the ultimate name for a bash script to implement and monitor acquisition of protected audio streams (Piracy :^). Maybe Dave can consider a brief stint of immorality to help me with AudioEvil.sh That said we have a meeting tonight at - 6PM. Summer in these parts of Vermont remains frantic. I almost cannot wait for the coming winter season, which will no doubt include ideas gleaned over the summer as well as a concentration on developing several Maria database instances including but not limited to a database of functions which could be added to any VisualBash FED program. More on that as time passes... Serious development remains for the winter. We shall soon answer questions like - Can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre Vermont. Thus we are 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 shall do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use https://meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Come on to https://meet.Jit.si/bosi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join... Feel free to click the following link (around 6PM tonight) 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 Start of the fall of 2024!!! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
