Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
On 03/07/2019 12:37, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, And a bit of fun using terminal on an android tablet to ssh into a Raspberry Pi and then editing with nano. The damned up/down arrows and CTRL/ALT kept disappearing. This is why it's useful to know a bit of ed(1). It doesn't need much to be working on the keyboard. :-) I use it most days when I want to make a quick edit using the information visible in the terminal that would be replaced if I start a full-screen editor. https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/ I remember ed. I don't think that I have used it for about 30 years and I can't remember what OS that was on. I did use ed, but also edlin on DOS boxes. Peter -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] NAS box follow-up
Hi, I did manage to get the setup script to run on boot in the end - there were some scripts on the HDDs used to set up phpMyAdmin that I could modify. Thanks for all your help Ralph :) Hamish -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Sponsored walk to support AIM Community and High Mead Farm
Hi everyone. I meant to mention this at the meetup yesterday, but I forgot. On Friday I am taking part in a sponsored walk to raise money for charity, and I was wondering if any of you would like to donate? You can go to https://www.give.net/dusktildawn2019 to support AIM Arts Academy and High Mead Farm. You can find more information about them at https://www.aimcommunity.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/pg/highmeadfarm2015/about/ There is no pressure to donate, but I thought it would be good to send you this so you can do so if you would like to. Hamish -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:50:44 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > Yes, thinking around the problem of wanting to seamlessly use more > storage than is available locally on e.g. a laptop, backed by > network storage (perhaps a local file server, perhaps as a cache > for cloud storage). Tim's problem reminded me about [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/), a protocol with ambitions of being a distributed replacement for some applications of HTTP. I think it is more of a public-Web thing than a personal-file-storage thing. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
Hi Peter, > And a bit of fun using terminal on an android tablet to ssh into a > Raspberry Pi and then editing with nano. The damned up/down arrows and > CTRL/ALT kept disappearing. This is why it's useful to know a bit of ed(1). It doesn't need much to be working on the keyboard. :-) I use it most days when I want to make a quick edit using the information visible in the terminal that would be replaced if I start a full-screen editor. https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/ -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 09:07, PeterMerchant via dorset < dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > There was some discussion about 'CEPH?' and similar things. > Yes, thinking around the problem of wanting to seamlessly use more storage than is available locally on e.g. a laptop, backed by network storage (perhaps a local file server, perhaps as a cache for cloud storage). https://ceph.com/ceph-storage/ https://www.gluster.org/ https://perkeep.org/ Tim. */ -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
There was some discussion about 'CEPH?' and similar things. We got on to 'R' because we were discussing programming languages. Here's a summary of current popular ones: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-programming-languages-developers-used-most-in-the-past-year/ And a bit of fun using terminal on an android tablet to ssh into a Raspberry Pi and then editing with nano. The damned up/down arrows and CTRL/ALT kept disappearing. Peter On 03/07/2019 08:51, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, We sat on the ‘pub garden’ benches all evening and enjoyed the sun for a long time as the playing fields meant no buildings cast an early shadow. The Raspberry Pi 4 got several mentions. https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 is a good review of the improvements. Given they planned four silicon revisions, A0, B0, C0, and C1, and they've released B0 because it ‘turned out to be production-ready’, I'll wait a month of two and see if others find problems. :-) Especially as I'd want the 4 GiB version for a desktop machine. Talking of desktops, here's using two ‘4 K’ TVs, really UHDTV1, as computer monitors, one of which is also the desk surface. https://twitter.com/andrewculver/status/826948468803457024/ The four woods used by a player in bowls are no longer allowed to have an internal weight for bias. Instead, they must have a visible dimple in the surface from a permitted range of sizes. Peter M. and Patrick were asking about R. It's a modern programming language for statistics and data analysis, with many packages available to re-use, and has some nice charting ability. It's mostly a superset of the S language from Bell Labs, them again, in 1976. https://www.r-project.org/about.html An article I recently read happens to use R to map the biased samples of ‘think of a number between 1 and 10’ from a large population to a data set that provides an unbiased answer by solving a linear programming problem using R. Even if you just ‘look at the pictures’, the animation neatly shows how the samples are mapped; search for ‘animate’ and it's just below. https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng Why the two-tone high-low train signal sounds to me like ‘Hitler’. https://www.rssb.co.uk/rgs/standards/GMRT2484%20Iss%202.pdf says the horns' frequencies are 370 Hz ± 20 Hz 311 Hz ± 20 Hz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies#List maps those near enough to F♯4 369.9944 D♯4 311.1270 and they are three semitones apart and a minor third. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March#History says Supposedly, the tune was inspired by a military man and golfer who whistled a characteristic two-note phrase (a descending minor third interval) instead of shouting "Fore!" -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Links from 2019-07-02's Pub Meet.
Hi, We sat on the ‘pub garden’ benches all evening and enjoyed the sun for a long time as the playing fields meant no buildings cast an early shadow. The Raspberry Pi 4 got several mentions. https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 is a good review of the improvements. Given they planned four silicon revisions, A0, B0, C0, and C1, and they've released B0 because it ‘turned out to be production-ready’, I'll wait a month of two and see if others find problems. :-) Especially as I'd want the 4 GiB version for a desktop machine. Talking of desktops, here's using two ‘4 K’ TVs, really UHDTV1, as computer monitors, one of which is also the desk surface. https://twitter.com/andrewculver/status/826948468803457024/ The four woods used by a player in bowls are no longer allowed to have an internal weight for bias. Instead, they must have a visible dimple in the surface from a permitted range of sizes. Peter M. and Patrick were asking about R. It's a modern programming language for statistics and data analysis, with many packages available to re-use, and has some nice charting ability. It's mostly a superset of the S language from Bell Labs, them again, in 1976. https://www.r-project.org/about.html An article I recently read happens to use R to map the biased samples of ‘think of a number between 1 and 10’ from a large population to a data set that provides an unbiased answer by solving a linear programming problem using R. Even if you just ‘look at the pictures’, the animation neatly shows how the samples are mapped; search for ‘animate’ and it's just below. https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng Why the two-tone high-low train signal sounds to me like ‘Hitler’. https://www.rssb.co.uk/rgs/standards/GMRT2484%20Iss%202.pdf says the horns' frequencies are 370 Hz ± 20 Hz 311 Hz ± 20 Hz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies#List maps those near enough to F♯4 369.9944 D♯4 311.1270 and they are three semitones apart and a minor third. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March#History says Supposedly, the tune was inspired by a military man and golfer who whistled a characteristic two-note phrase (a descending minor third interval) instead of shouting "Fore!" -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
