Dear Effin,
I will allow it!
Regards,
Flint
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, chris yarger wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:37:42 -0500
> From: chris yarger <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Paul Flint <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask],
> Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [Linux_adult_swim] Linux_adult_swim Meeting today,
> Monday January 30th, 5 PM at 40 Washington Street...
>
> ZOCKER
> Not much action on where Effin and I have been conspiring to set up a
> docker image containing zope. Turns out this has already been done by the
> European Environment Agency, but the way they put it together leaves a bit
> to be desired. Fact is we have it working and we have a much spiffier
> name...
>
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/zoker
>
> Is tiddly-zoker simply too silly? Watch this site. It is the latest
> thing... I am thinking about using zoker to be the documentation holder for
> trantor. Hm...
>
> Flint, A tiddly-zoker is called a toker.....
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
>
> Christopher P. Yarger
>
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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Paul Flint <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Greetings List Lurkers,
>>
>> The last day of January, a month closer to SPRING! A mild day to boot!
>>
>> Maybe time for a fresh start on writing the dreaded newsletter.
>> I need to edit, but so damn much goes on in a week...
>>
>> ANDROID CARPUTER
>> Done.
>> Rooted the KEWEIER RK3188 MTCC-KLD6-V2.97 Android Auto Radio Head
>> Saturday. With a fair amount of help from the good folks at the XDA site
>> we got this done. The endorphins stil washed over me. I ship back to
>> Amazon a rooted lab queeen, enjoy my new reverse camera, and contemplate
>> where to go from here. Put a fork in this. It will hopefully not appear
>> again.
>>
>> VISUAL BASH
>> GUO amd he bzinga project:
>> As mentionedf last week, I dusted off the Bash-Zenity project with the
>> thought of adding this to trantor as a GUI based control framework. So far
>> it is interesting, as GUIs now haunt my dreams looking for the best way to
>> configure things...
>>
>> http://bzinga.net/
>>
>> DTG and I had a discussion about how GUI code needs to be non-blocked.
>>
>> The approach I am thinking about for now involves putting the GUI code in
>> includes that get included only when you need them. The Visual Bash
>> framework really works. Will this work for adding a GUI with bzinga?
>>
>> Thus the line between bzinga and the Menubot function gets fuzzier all the
>> time, and after some playing around with zenity, I am more convinced that
>> the use of zenity for a gui interface, (see the Bash Zenity Integration
>> page: http://bzinga.net/ :^) is not a bad plan. Beyond this we really
>> need to clean up the VisualBash page. Now that we have the "include"
>> function that is similar to the one in python (C and a lota other languages
>> :^) we need to git this.
>>
>> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#ImportingFunctionBlocks
>>
>> I just reviewed the Visual Bash git page Effin set up, and we need to
>> refactor this page completely. We need to reorganize all of the visual
>> bash functions into functional includes...
>> Possible include files are:
>>
>> - ianda.shi - Identification and Authorization
>> - dvdusb.shi - DVD/USB utilities
>> - sanity.shi - System sanity tests
>> - maint.shi - Maintenance includes
>> - ops.shi - Operational includes
>> - dev.shi - Development includes
>> - sphinx.shi - Sphinx generator includes
>> - tiddle.shi - Tiddle includes...
>> - gui.shi - Graphical User Interface using bzinga
>>
>> Could 2017 may be the year of VisualBash?
>> We have a presentation on the subject due in June...More on that later.
>>
>> The "SanityScript" remains born but without love. Right now the vision is
>> that sanity do the following:
>>
>> - Check that all the components you need are in place in terms of program
>> - Possibly check at to the validity of the includes and functions using MD5
>>
>> "sanity.shi" may be tasked with is
>>
>> - checking for variable conflict within functions. This is a big thing,
>> but on the other hand, so it sanity...
>>
>> The problem is that I cannot resist the challenge of the GUI menu
>> generator "menubot.sh" that will allow you to test stub your "shi" files
>> with a crude but working "sh". Who knows where we go from there? Again,
>> the Design questions remain:
>>
>> - Do individual functions call for particular software packages
>> by adding their local requirements to a file or memory variable?
>> - Should the sanity program try to md5 sum the components?
>> - Can the sanity program help resolve namespace issues?
>>
>> Could 2017 may be the year of VisualBash?
>> We have a presentation on the subject due in June...
>>
>> KINDLE LIBERATION FRONT
>> Today Brett receives his new kindle. If he bricks this one he is in
>> trouble deep.
>>
>> The two broken Kindles are in Niagra, as as we expected the master
>> Kindlenista, Joe Hart, agreed with our diagnoses and appears hopeful for
>> partial or total rehabilitation. As mentioned, One has been bricked, and
>> the other has lost it's touch pad. The Kindle-master, Joe, who has Debian
>> booting on his Kindle Fires is preping for surgery. He intends to take to
>> touch pad from one and attach it to the rom of the other. We wish him the
>> best, as he is still getting up his nerve.
>>
>> I want to try using the KingoRoot.apk I got from XDA to root a kindle.
>> Do you think what works with a 5.1.1 Keweier would work with a 5.1.1
>> Kindle?
>>
>> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle#2RootKEWEIER
>>
>> If nothing else this meeting we will set up the google play on Bretts new
>> Kindle.
>>
>> I am becoming convinced that there could be a commercial opportunity in
>> customizing kindles. I have even attempted to enlist none other than DTG to
>> help. So far no luck. May we need Effin in the mix.
>>
>> Speaking of the Hart, he was right that cheap Kindles were still there,
>> but no more. https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-7-Inch-Tablet-8GB/dp/B00T
>> SUGXKE
>>
>> They are available in color, but the price went up thirteen bucks to
>> $49.00 so it is the same proce as what you can get at Staples. IMHO not
>> worth it.
>>
>> Finally I still really want a version of the Universal Insight Virtual
>> Realty Glasses for the Kindle. 3d Teleconferencing way cool! Anybody see
>> such a thing? I am thinking about trying to fabricate one based upon the
>> original cardboard.
>>
>> TRANTOR
>> Connectivity:
>>
>> Everyone is back from vacation and apparently the fellow that coordinated
>> the Kimball library public access is no longer with DII. So, Lee Bonamico
>> is delving into this to find the new DII POC. We wish her luck. The
>> reverse proxy was stable but is down right now. When it was up we were
>> able to burnish the control software a bit. We are gonna check on it today.
>>
>> This project is still operating in development at the library and in this
>> first month of new year we are about to open it to the world. So it appears
>> within a meeting or two we will be online. Right now we are as you recall
>> using one of the original Gates Foundation grant based Dell machines. Sarah
>> the librarian is actually talking about doing a press release...
>>
>> So, once we get this working we will then deliver the trantor v 3.0
>> machine to the Aldrich, swap it with the existing 0.015 system, set up
>> static IP, avahi bonjour and things may actually be accessible via DNS for
>> the world. Well a fellow can dream...
>>
>> With this is accomplished we will switch to the excellent hardware
>> platform that Marius delivered. This production case contains both
>> USB2.0/3.0 and and a DVDRW. This will be the production device.
>>
>> From a software standpoint, the first, second and third passes for Trantor
>> are done. The third pass, is in the Aldrich Public library for evaluation,
>> and the latest feature is there is a new include that actually rebuilds the
>> index.rst from the existing sub-rst files. With the bzinga project there
>> is likely to be a fourth (forth? :^) pass...
>>
>> We are still striving to develop a development cycle... The vision of a
>> restful website remains:
>>
>> - Take the existing code
>> - edit it with enki, a restful editor almost built for the job.
>> (a most difficult to install but rewarding bit of software)
>> - if necessary propagate the change using a shell script
>> (thank god for sed and awk)
>> - run "ctrantor.sh mkitso" which builds
>> -- a new index.rst from the existing stuff, and then
>> -- builds new web site based upon this index.rst
>> - check out the result...
>> - lather, rinse repeat...
>>
>> Again, I restate sphinx now rocks my world. I am convinced the trick to
>> sphinx and ReST in general is enki, which is a pain to install, but may be
>> a very new product. As we said about enki. The ticket at this time
>> appears to be to run under Linux Mint 18 as opposed to Ubuntu Trusty. The
>> insight here is that enki is oriented towards use in a Red Hat
>> environment...
>>
>> The hard part of this turns out to be getting:
>> 1. enki running with the preview mode working
>> (invaluable once running)
>> 2. getting sphinx running or maybe more accurately
>> 3. making the system "sane" - a menu choice. Design questions include:
>> - Do individual functions call for particular software packages?
>> - Should the sanity program try to md5 sum the components.
>>
>> Configuration Management: Tried to get enki running on trantor. No luck I
>> think that enki wants the hat. This Red Hat exclusiveness is a very
>> disturbing trend. As mentioned above, the trantor project now uses the new
>> visualbash include function to load up various scripts full-o-functional
>> goodness. Like everything else, We are attempting to maintain the Trantor
>> project on Github:
>>
>> https://github.com/flintiii/trantor
>>
>> As discussed, I continue to hack this into some type of organized format
>> to put up on git hub, as this is something that will please both Chris
>> Yarger and Kevin Cole. I really am gonna get to this. Jessamyn went for a
>> Git refresher, maybe I should do the same wonder how it worked out for her?
>>
>> The trantor project benefits itself as you can cut DVDs and USBs with
>> great ease and facility.
>>
>> http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/trantor/ ("Rick Roll version")
>>
>> Restful Web Site:
>> We now have a complete set of disks starting from LXFDVD154, we sent Neil
>> at Linux Format, an email in an attempt to expanding trantor to include all
>> the Linux Format DVDs since they started publication. Unfortunately we
>> hear nothing from London. Maybe London is closed?
>>
>> The Collection Grows:
>> Tom Kastner has offered us the DVDs back to LXFDVD105. This additional 45
>> or so disks would go a long way to making the collection complete. Maybe
>> in the new year we will gain a response from London. As it is installed at
>> the Aldrich, next trick is to get trantor on the public web, and that looks
>> like it may happen. We really would like to see brother Tom and his magic
>> DVDs.
>>
>> Other Digital Collections?
>> I am getting interest from some parties in contributing more stuff to
>> trantor. Do not be bashful (pun?). let me know if you want something
>> faithfully curated and The real question here is should I simply rebuild
>> bosivt.org based upon sphinx? Or, we could do it all in...
>>
>> ZOCKER
>> Not much action on where Effin and I have been conspiring to set up a
>> docker image containing zope. Turns out this has already been done by the
>> European Environment Agency, but the way they put it together leaves a bit
>> to be desired. Fact is we have it working and we have a much spiffier
>> name...
>>
>> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/zoker
>>
>> Is tiddly-zoker simply too silly? Watch this site. It is the latest
>> thing... I am thinking about using zoker to be the documentation holder for
>> trantor. Hm...
>>
>> PITCHBOX
>> ...The best guidance:
>> Never forget the simple rules of Raspberryt Pi here in order:
>> 1. Always Use a high current power supply.
>> 2. Be aware of the bios differences.
>> 3. Always shrink before duplication to same size media.
>> 4. Format MS Dos regions on a real Micro$oft machine.
>>
>>
>> TECHNORUBBLE
>> In the new year we want to follow up on the interesting angle to deploy
>> TechnoRubble at Libraries. At the meeting two weeks ago, J West came up
>> with this angle and I would very much like to set up at Kimball and the
>> Aldrich Libraries and see if this would work. Jessamyn intends to showed
>> up at our meeting last week and checked out the whole TechnoRubble Project.
>> Hope she remains interested!
>>
>> - The Website http://technorubble.org,http://technorubble.com
>> The new donation letter has been updated, but not used yet...
>>
>> Again, we need more TechnoRubble. The TechnoRubble untangling and packing
>> is part of that effort. Part of this effort was the donation letter. The
>> idea is to get people to mail their TechnoRubble to us in a USPS Flat Rate
>> Box. I am going to complete the donation process page as soon as I can and
>> post it.
>>
>> TADA
>> I am adding the rebirth of the BOSI web site to this project. It is not
>> technically a good fit but it needs to go somewhere. Is there someone who
>> can help with this project? We really neerd to exploit Audio Video from the
>> meeting in a better way. How can we move BOSI TV towards this goal line?
>> The Adult Swim video network, soon to be the "TADA Show" (The Adult
>> Development Actity?) was clearly Effin's project. Is there a recursive
>> acronym in here somewhere?
>> Can Effin get back on the stick?
>>
>> Hopefully this will be discussed on:
>> https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
>> Which with any luck will start at 6 PM EST today.
>>
>> this is really all about external relations...
>>
>> 3DPRINT
>> This project is essentially on hold till spring when #1 son returns. To
>> recap, PiTchBox and 3Dprint are related because I really need a plastic
>> bezel for the front of the box, and I want a 3Dprinter to print it, and the
>> Raspberry Pi based octoprint device is central to the operation of the
>> 3Dprinter.
>>
>> Without a doubt the greatest and most frustrating waste of Flint time and
>> money on the planet! Even wors than the Android Carputer, though not by
>> much...
>>
>> Bad money after good, we have in hand the new model 3D printer.
>> That said, we had great luck with openscad, brother Kevin's design
>> software. We got this damn thing to the point that I can produce the design
>> of bezels I need for the PiTchBox. Sadly I cannot print them because the
>> printer we have is screwed up. Will the new one work better? Thinking about
>> inviting Toby from Filabot over and asking for some help. This machine has
>> only seen maybe 5 hours of actual operation is that this lasted about ten
>> days. Why is this so damn hard?
>>
>> The 3Decology constructed around the HICTOP Prusa I3 3D Desktop Printer,
>> has helped a lot, at least there is a place to store the tools this thing
>> needs. The take away here is that 3D infrastructure is important to
>> facilitate printing. But more important is the ability to render designs
>> from the head into products.
>>
>> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/3D_print
>>
>> I am gonna learn this product or perish n the process. I need Bezels for
>> the PiTchBox...
>>
>> To summarize, the meeting today is again at 40 Washington Street, Barre,
>> VT 05641.
>>
>> Topics for discussion as usual remain:
>>
>> - Open Source Educational Human Development
>> I am working on an idea... I am changing the priority of our
>> eternal needs, and placing education first.
>>
>> - Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? Could it be that the
>> commercial power centers do not yet appreciate the value? I need to
>> revise my paper on this subject and get it out to Lucas Jensen
>> who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space. Why not do digital stone?
>>
>> - Move BOSI to become more git centric... develop gittlywiki... working!
>> check out tiddlywiki5 here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5
>> We still need to convert... Yea buddy... Shut up Effin.
>>
>> - Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D.
>>
>> - I fought the DREK and the DREK continues to win. Remember, What
>> really is holds us back is DREK!!! DREK is what happens to your
>> workspace (both hardware and software) when you fail to put stuff
>> away, or you let your friends or relatives use it. This is a cosmic
>> law. I am still fighting the DREK. How to get over it? The secret
>> may be empty pellet bags. Is TechnoRubble organized DREK?
>>
>> These five points are quickly becomming more than our policy, and more
>> like a prayer...
>>
>> Anyway, we have the technology and we will have Pizza tonight 5-7 at
>> Hedding UMC.
>>
>> This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
>> Adult Swim. For those coming in via the Google Plus and the Internet, and
>> there are folks who are gonna try, the swim stars at 6:00 PM EST.
>>
>> Our ongoing major objective is to continue to try to figure out how to
>> invest the time and resources to turn the Barre Open Systems Institute into
>> more than just the Adult Swim technical clinic and more into a real
>> learning facility. One direction we have been working on is to begin
>> thinking about classes. The curriculum that I am most interested in is
>> teaching documentation.
>>
>> Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized
>> and try to get the various projects moving forward, despite DREK. We
>> continue to wonder about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this webpage:
>>
>> *** Note this is broke as of this newsletter ****
>> http://bosivt.org/classes, Take a look if you dare...
>>
>> Remember, the BOSI Adult Swim is essentially about helping out fellow
>> users of open source products in a clinic environment. Despite my very
>> best of intentions, the Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual Linux
>> install-fest, and only secondarily a learning environment,
>>
>> The ever growing list of projects (now on our web site :^) includes:
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm - A Docker copy of VM370
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle - The Kindle Liberation Front
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs - A pythonic interface to Income Tax?
>> - http://ledroid.org - Ok, this is a real project eh?
>> - http://bzinga.net - What happens when you combine Bash and Zenity?
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs - ok, it is on the list.
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snobot - jesum they love this robot
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - monitor that pellet furnace
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino - moving in the arduino groove
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temperature Sensors Project
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules - The quest for Roberts Rules -
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash - Yea, I am not kidding...
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/mrtg - remedial raw mrtg for the slow...
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry - all versions
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org - maybe a very cool project.
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized - oh please let me be organized!
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/music - this may be the least organized
>> site ever!
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb - A big noble idea.
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot - A less noble idea to feed the
>> big idea...
>> - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki - is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
>>
>> Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
>> Software discussion and general system rejuvenation. Expect to be remotely
>> preached at on the various topics of Open Source and how I am confident it
>> shall cure all the evils and ills of this wicked world. In a perfect
>> meeting, people would come in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing
>> and hopefully help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done, or maybe just
>> fix a laptop.
>>
>> So, do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux Format", and the
>> latest issue is on the shelf, and it is good. The DVD's are available to
>> checkout and copy, we shall to continue provide copies and isos of each and
>> every one. I am continuing to duplicate about a years worth of DVD's which
>> is quite a task. You may want to watch this space for developments.
>>
>> Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
>> Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
>>
>> *** Note this is broke as of this newsletter ****
>> http://bosivt.org/directions
>>
>> Show up at Hedding UMC if you have questions or are interested in Linux or
>> the concept of free and open systems. Again, we are in the basement of the
>> Hedding UMC facility which is actually working out pretty well.
>>
>> Somehow we need to make progress not more projects!!!
>>
>> If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
>> response to this note.
>>
>> This is Flint signing off... I gotta go and get trained as a Justice of
>> the Peace, and maybe catch the flue from the City Clerk.
>>
>> I will continue to refactor this newsletter at some point in the future
>> (do not hold your breath :^)...
>>
>>
>> Kindest Regards,
>>
>>
>> Paul Flint
>> (802) 479-2360
>> (802) 595-9365 Cell
>>
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