Greetings List Lurkers, Got another inch of snow this morning here in Barre, VT.
To dispense with a short term tradition we have very little substance to this email. My Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano obsession seems to be dying out as I have not even turned it on here at the house this week. I need to find some kind of really cheap physical container for the beast, and that is what I am concentrating on. Last week the sultry Vermont Spring had it's way with me and I spent a bunch of time outdoors... 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 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. My latest frustrations in Bluefin-land involves sshd and getting the proper keys on this system... Bleah. 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. :^) 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 Spring! That all 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: - 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
