Greetings List Lurkers,
The turkey comes, nourishes all of us, and then elegantly departs...
The immutable investigation continues...
As stated last week, DTG and I are more or less in sync in the quest for
good Red Hat Bluefin. As I stated last week, I am sticking with a Gnome
GUI Desktop, and am very happy that my Zope 2 based web efforts at least
continue to seem to be stable and redundant.
I am thinking that Red Hat Bluefin almost needs a "Ports and Protocols"
Document. The issue here is what can you write to? What directories (and
particularly ports)... What you can read and under what conditions
would also be useful...
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 Bluefin, 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 from Integrated Development Environments or even whole
Operating Systems from and to either Pi's or Arduinos.
So, this has given birth to Yet Another Bash Project (YABP :^).
The working title of this is "podmania.sh"... Once you have the
shell script name, the rest is easy... The idea here is to
add another less labyrinth overlay to the "Chomskyic" ("Chomskyish")
podman suite of scripts...
Ah, you may well ask, what is Chomskyic? Noam Chomsky, early in his
distinguished career asserted the following according to the
Google AI:
NOUN AND VERB PHRASES - PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES
Noun And Verb Phrase rules break down sentences [ED Note: Think command
line] into their constituent parts, such as noun phrases (NPs) and verb
phrases (VPs). For example, the first rule states that a sentence (S) is
made up of an NP followed by a VP...
Welcome to transformational grammar and command line programming sez I.
There are many basic examples of this type of machine interaction.
One of my first was BASIC, more recently I became enamored with Bash,
to which I have humbly contributed the Visual Bash structural sugar
which is Visual Bash (FED - (Function. Evaluator and Dispatcher :^).
There are many other examples, particularly Podman, docker, distrobox,
and postscript to name just a few, and there is so much more.
So, can I forge JavaScript/GoogleScript into a Chomskyish structure?
This is the major bit of ignorance I still need to overcome in 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. A feature!
Note that 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.
So in a perfect world, Chomskyish Java/GoogleScript might be called
"ChomskyScript", based on it following the FED principles of Visual
Bash.
Hell! another damned project!!!
One El-dorado I will continue to alternatively 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...
Maybe the way to ChomskyScript is to carefully lawyer-read the ECMA6
specification and shoehorn it in. Any takers?
My plans for spring include my 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...
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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
