Greetings List Lurkers, It is a happy day. It is my beloved wife's birthday.
I commemorate this as after these last 46 years of wedlock, I still find her very entertaining... Knowing the perversely cloudy disposition of Vermont, we toured the Stowe bike path in the sun yesterday... A big win as today it is a bit cloudy and raining. The fact that there are many of these LXC command environments for me creates a bit of a fun house mirror effect when it comes to how to approach the various syntaxes involved. The latest in the LinuX Containers (LXC) is that in a bit of techno-madness I went and got a new and beefier laptop to accommodate my next operating system. This evening, should all go well, I am finally joining the rest of the techno-human race and installing Red Hat Bluefin... Maybe the ultimate way to go involves this IBM/Red Hat power combination. Obviously the development environment I wish for is not yet here. For instance, one of the features I want to explore is how to load programs or even whole Operating Systems from and to either Pi or Arduino Systems. Additionally, a major bit of ignorance I need to overcome is JavaScript. As I mentioned weeks ago, the good news here is that there is a single standard for JavaScript maintained by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), and while they are up to version 6, to my knowledge, unlike python they have not broken the earlier versions... Again this is not to say there are not JavaScript dialects... GoogleScript seems to be a rather faithful version of ECMA6, and I believe the mere existence of "GScript" may go a long way to keep Micro$oft and Visual Studio Code (VScode) editor honest, they love to Embrace, Extend and Eliminate anything they did not invent. Most folks follow the VScode path. While VScode Editor is supposed to be open source, I simply prefer developing in GScript and exporting the completed code. The El-dorado I still seek is a way to expand Visual Bash or more specifically how to operate Bash as a JavaScript plug-in. This may or may not be possible, but it is a fun quest of which I will attempt to keep you informed... By spring I dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. Sing out or attend this evening's meeting in person if you are interested in the SugarTower TechnoRubble organizational project or the loot. BOSI's new 'thespian' laptop is a case in point. Imagine a laptop which merely records video and audio. You boot it and that is what it does. More on this project as it develops over this coming winter. Tonight, I expect to graduate from the SuSe version of Virtual Immutability and Associated Containers (VIAOC). This next approach as I said involved Red Hat Bluefin. DTG continues coaching me on VIAOC which is a really cool development environment based upon KVM and podman. I will preserve the SuSe Aeon which got me started on this quest. Maybe the way is Red Hat... Dave indicates this would be transparent (Meh). help me. This winter's ambitions to forge in the VIAOC environment include, mastering Pipewire in this, we may be delving into some audio evil... AudioEvil.sh is a Visual Bash 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 :^). As I have mentioned in the past, the next logical step after AudioEvil.sh would be AVRelay.sh. AVRelay would trans-code between different video conferencing applications (E.G. jitsi to zoom). Basically, one example; you would run a jitsi server on one virtual which would relay to a zoom client. Another example might be to relay an audio-video from one market to another. Hopefully this will all tie into Kubernetes... That said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter shall soon allow us to answer questions like: - An VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment. - Can we build a Large Language Model server? - Can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? ...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! Again 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 Time to get cracking for Halloween! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
