Mon 19 May 2025 12:54:00 PM EDT Greetings List Lurkers,
Vermont, the land of Cloudy Sky Research and development... The wife and I are finnally in good health. Time to get vaccinations. My very bad case of VM370, more specifically the Virtual Machine 370 Community Edition (VMCE), is growing worse. This is a disease 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. But instead of searching for Xedit, and Pipes, I have spent a great deal of time protecting my considerable investment in Snapper lawn and garden equipment, not my favorite activity. It boils down to batteries.... So for the time being we are contenting ourselves with c3270 which is the curses version while x3270 is fine if you do not care about X11 font support. 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... Kudos to Dr. Cole for figuring out how to get out of FORTH! SUMMER DREAMS Generally, the weather is barely cooperating with my ridiculously ambitious plans for spring which again include my dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. A rehersal of this is tentatively scheduled for Saturday 28 June 2025. The working title of this is for now "Open Source Summer Camp" (OSSC): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Open_Source_Summer_Camp_(OSSC) 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 and Tabby to generate VisualBash scripts? (see https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) - 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
