Greetings List Lurkers, Thanksgiving approach-eth...All you turkeys should be aware...
Spent the weekend south in the Connecticut hell-scape, doing the 89-91-95 shuffle. It is a wonder what you do for your family. DTG and I are more or less in sync in the quest for good Red Hat Bluefin. At this time I am sticking with a Gnome GUI Desktop, and am very happy that my Zope 2 based web efforts at least seem to be stable and redundant. For those of you aware of my ability to never finish a project I say "tada"! The latest in the LinuX Containers (LXC) is that in a bit of techno-madness I seem to be having some issue in migrating my containers from SUSE Aeon to the new Hat, but hey - I tested Bluefin container operation and it is good. Maybe this is the interim ultimate way to go involving this IBM/Red Hat power combination. I long to have my new 32GB of DDR4 making me a master of multimedia... Other needs involve for instance, is the ability to load programs or even whole Operating Systems from and to either Pi's or Arduinos. The major bit of ignorance I still 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... Note that I find there are 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. Bluefin installs VScode on your Desktop whether you want it or not. The El-dorado I will continue to 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. 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 in SugarTower. Tonight, we hopefully shall expand the Bluefin version of Virtual Immutability and Associated Containers (VIAOC). DTG continues patiently coaching me on VIAOC which is a really cool development environment based upon both KVM and podman. I have preserved the SuSe Aeon which got me started on this quest. Maybe the way is Red Hat... Dave indicates this would be transparent, it is not. 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 mythical 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
