Greetings List Lurkers, What is it with Spring this year? Over the weekend we got another 6 inches of snow, which turned into rain this morning here in Barre, VT. Thus, my wife and I seem to have a permanent sniffle and a bit of lassitude...
JUMPERLESS EPIPHANY The latest jewel in my psychotic techno crown is just one dude making cool stuff in a garage. Mr. Kevin Santo Cappuccio, the Benevolent Dictator at Architeuthis Flux fixed me up with a Jumperless prototyping system. Hit the web and look this Gentleman up. As usual I have issues running this under Bluefin, but that's why God, in his wisdom, invented DTG. Please endure this part of the meeting as I am fascinated by this tek (Welcome to wokwi :^). My opinion is that this is earthshaking. RED HAT BLUEFIN My foray into Red Hat Bluefin continues, hopefully under the continued guidance of the now healthy DTG. God knows that blowing SD cards or other USB based stuff on Bluefin is a bit of a problem, and it should not be. Again, I must confess that DTG found the problem with running the Arduino Development code on my Bluefin system. My latest frustrations in Bluefin-land involve sshd and getting the proper keys on this system... Bleah. Every time I touch this system I scrape my software knuckles... Thus, I still maintain that running Bluefin absolutely needs "Ports and Protocols" Documents. The issue here is what can you write to and what can you read from under these "immutable" distributions and under what conditions? What directories (and particularly ports)... What you can read and under what conditions (host or guest)would also be useful... Which I continue to hack at. This ongoing frustration has manifested itself in the following draft document: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#BluefinPortsAndProtocols (Note, this URL loads unlike the last one cited. :^) NVIDIA JETSON ORIN NANO My Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano obsession seems to be morphing with Ubuntu's release of 20.04 simply put, this gives me hope. Currently running 18.04. Should I wait for the LTS? Due to the fact that the Jetson Orin Nano only has an M.2 Key E for storage expansion on the back of the board, I found a SATA adapter to fit one of two M.2 Key E. Note there is a need to power the SATA hard drive, a modern PC power supply suffices. Astonishingly, I plugged 500Gb SATA hard drive in and got storage joy. The adapter with the SATA connector adds about 1.5" to the back of the board which is not good. So I have ordered a 90 degree SATA cable. Wish me luck. Once configured properly with the 90 degree cable, I need to find some kind of really cheap physical container for the beast, and that is what I am concentrating on. SUMMER DREAMS Again, my ridiculously ambitious plans for spring include my dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. The working title of this is for now "Open Source Summer Camp" (OSSC): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Open_Source_Summer_Camp_(OSSC) Sing out or attend this evening's meeting in person if you are interested in the SugarTower TechnoRubble organizational project, now known as OSSC... What would you think of a Summer festival maybe including other FOSS groups such as the Free Software Foundation? We have a nice 10 acre facility for this at SugarTower. Ah the dreams of Winter modulating into more winter and inclemency. That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious open source development remains for the winter. Winter shall soon allow us to answer questions like: - Can we build a Large Language Model server? (Preferably on the cheap... we are close :^) This is a serious discussion between acquiescing to NVIDIA (CUDA) or finding an open source equivalent. The next step the Jetson based LLM is working. - Can I the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? Answer, not without the worlds smallest 1000W power supply. ( http://docbox.flint.com:8081/echoplex) effects box? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) - Can I use the Jetson AI to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? - Should I start on a Baby Bear VM code review? (http://bbbvm.org/) Maybe I will dip toe into 3270 land after St Patties day... ...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 convalescing, 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. 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 Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
