Open University Space Science Newsletter
As I have studied with the Open University [1]. I am now part of the Alumni Association. At the end of 2020 I joined the new OU Students Space Science Club. Soon after this there was a call for ideas for a Newsletter.
I decided to offer to help put something together, so have been undertaking this.
Issue one, has been completed and sent out. I am now working on issue 2.
I am writing this in $\LaTeX$ [2] using Overleaf[3], which is much easier for creating documents, then word processing systems.
The newsletter is a mix of news about space and space science, links to related websites.
REFERENCES
1 Open Unversity
2 LaTeX Project
3 Overleaf
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#OpenUniversity,#SpaceScience,#Group,#Newsletter
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SpaceX Launch
Less than 1 hour till the next Falcon 9 Launch. (15:00 UK time)
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Space,#Launch,#KSC,#Falcon9,#NASA
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WICD Curses
wicd-curses
wicd-curses is a console program that allows you to connect to wireless wifi networks. I found out about this after chatting on IRC with a few other users on freenode and mentioned I was having issues connecting to wifi from the command line.
This can be installed using apt install wicd-curses. A man page can be viewed with man wicd-curses.
As I am using Debian then the package information can be found here.
The above screenshot is from my desktop which does not have or even need wifi connection. But on my netbook this should show available wifi networks, and allow the one you want to be selected. You will probably need your wifi credentials e.g password etc to connect further.
Another step to seeing if I can actually use a computer directly from the command line without the need for a gui. I need to try and configure alpine to now send e-mail and I may be nearly there. However this isn’t really essential to my needs anyway.
Please feel free to discuss further on Mastodon
#console,#wicd-curses,#network,#wireless,#YearOfTheFediverse,
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MiniDebConf Online India 23-24 January 2021
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/Mini-DebConfIndia2020
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CryptPad 4 – Rich Text
CryptPad is a privacy friendly, cloud based collaborative platform giving access to tools such as richtext editor, spreadsheet, Code Editor, whiteboard, presentation module and KanBan board for task management.
The video below (no sound) hopefully demonstrates some of the features of the Rich Text editor.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#CryptPad,#Privacy,#RichText
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Small web episode 4
Live streaming on a budget
EP 4
So this week, Aral and Laura looked at how they live stream their episodes.
Laura talked about accessibility, using subtitles, transcripts and the various tools available to help with that.
Aral then talked about the different hardware / software used for live streaming, mixing video, etc. If you are interested in live streaming video then it is really worth watching for that,
REFERENCES
A few of the links mentioned
Subtitles and Captioning
Streaming
Next episode
Thursday 28th Jan 2021 @ 17:00 UTC
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#small-tech,#livestreaming,#transcript,#software,#hardware,#streaming,#video
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MAPSCII
This is an interesting little utility to draw an ASCII map on the terminal. It uses OpenStreetMap for the mapping data.
Open a terminal and enter
telnet mapscii.me
You should then be presented with a world map:
I used the mouse to zoom in and view the United Kingdom
Information and directions for use can be found at https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
Keyboard shortcuts
Arrows up, down, left, right to scroll around
Press a or z to zoom in and out
Press q to quit
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#Map,#Mapscii,#Openstreetmap,
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Solid Project
Solid (Social Linked Data) is a project by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It aims to put data back in to the hands of end users, so they are in more control.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#SolidProject,#Freedom,#Privacy,
#Web,#Internet,WikiPedia,#Decentralised.
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GoDot Conference 2021
Event : GoDot game engine conference
Date : 23rd January 2021
Posted by:-
Debian GNU+Linux info
godot3/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
Full 2D and 3D game engine with editor
godot3-runner/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
Godot game engine run-time
godot3-server/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
Headless Godot game engine run-time
golang-github-gobuffalo-envy-dev/stable 1.6.4-1 all
simplify working with ENV variables
golang-github-joho-godotenv-dev/stable 1.2.0+git20180115.6bb0851-1 all
Go port of Ruby's dotenv library
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Malware discovered on Computers given to children
The BBC has reported Malware found on laptops given out by government this report asks several important question as to why these laptops have not been wiped before giving away.
"Ideally users should reboot into safe mode and run a full scan with an anti-virus product," he said.
"However with this type of malware, it is advisable to seek professional assistance in order to ensure it has been correctly removed."
Is even more hilarious, to get a professional in to fix this issue will COST MONEY which is the one thing these families don't have.
Once again a scheme by our government has gone wrong.
First thing people should do when getting any device such as this is to wipe it and install a OS such as Debian, Mint or Ubuntu.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#BBC,#TECH,#NEWS,#GOVERNMENT,#LAPTOPS,#MALWARE
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