Mon 12 May 2025 11:54:22 AM EDT Greetings List Lurkers,
Glory! The sun is out here in Central Vermont! The wife and I may have finally slayed the Louisiana Swamp Virus (LSV) relapse. Horay!! For you out in Jit.si land, this may be the harbinger of a cure for you... LSV's return was not without a victim. I fear that I have been re-infected with a very bad case of VM370, more specifically the Virtual Machine 370 Community Edition (VMCE). This is a mality related to the Bluefin and Docker diseases I have already contracted. In fact the impediment under bluefin has been my inability to get the Linux x3270 running under bluefin. I tried the software manager's choice and now know to kill with fire pw3270, what they recommended. If you can load x3270 or you have your own 3270 emulator, you can log onto tailscale and try this emulated mainframe. The reason to do this is to help me learn how this thing works. I find it fascinating... SUMMER DREAMS Generally, the weather is synchronizing with my ridiculously ambitious plans for spring which again 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) The breakthrough development is that we have a tentative date, Saturday June 28 2025. That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter should have allowed us to answer questions like: - Can I take a Caterpillar 315L and combine it with an ABB robot arm in order to do large scale 3D printing? - Can I combine the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? possibly about using RP2350? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. By itself the concept of "breathing" code is essential and is really not part of the RP2040 / RP2350 architecture. I have not discovered how to get the code off of these buggers. 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? The Baby Bear VM code review (http://bbbvm.org/) has resulted in massive changes to the BaBy Bear VM website. Check it out! ...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
