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2020 Six Nations Rugby Results 7th / 8th March 2020
This weekend is the Forth weekend of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 7th March
Ireland vs Italy PP England 33-30 Wales (16:45)
Sunday 8th March
Scotland 28-17 (HT 14-7) France (15:00)
Ireland vs Italy seems is off due to CoronaVirus.
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JabRef Update
Not quite following on from my previous post The JabRef bibliography software has been updated.
JabRef is a bibliography manager, to help make .bib files easier to create and manage. It should be possible to upload the output .bib file to Overleaf too.
References
There is a #latex channel on the Freenode IRC network.
#LaTeX, #bibliography, #manager, #software, #windows, #linux, #apple, #overleaf, #ctan,#tex-live,#overleaf, #jabref,#references,
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Applications for students to join this years Google Summer of code open next week.
This period runs as follows
March 16 – 31, 2020 Students can register and submit their applications to mentor organizations. All proposals must be submitted by March 31, 2020 19:00 (British Summer Time).
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#gsoc, #google, #summer, #code, #student, #coding, #projects, #GoogleSummerOfCode
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FreeBSD 6
Further to my previous post or probably more specifically the post before that I am sharing a little more about setting up twm.
I have been trying to find a way to share my config files here. The easiest way to this, so I thought, would be to copy the files to a removable media, this failed. So this morning I created a github repository and uploaded copies of the two files there.
So firstly there is the xinitrc file as below
#!/bin/sh
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi
# start some nice programs
if [ -d /usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
twm &
#afterstep
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 40x25+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 40x25+0+0 -name login
The end section of this tells the X11 system to load twm as the window manager, the last line creates a special xterm window that, if exited will exit the X11 system too.
Following on from this is the system.twmrc file which is sets up the twm system.
#
# Default twm configuration file; needs to be kept small to conserve string
# space in systems whose compilers don't handle medium-sized strings.
#
# Sites should tailor this file, providing any extra title buttons, menus, etc.
# that may be appropriate for their environment. For example, if most of the
# users were accustomed to uwm, the defaults could be set up not to decorate
# any windows and to use meta-keys.
#
NoGrabServer
RestartPreviousState
DecorateTransients
TitleFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
ResizeFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
IconFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*"
IconManagerFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*"
#ClientBorderWidth
Color
{
BorderColor "slategrey"
DefaultBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
DefaultForeground "gray85"
TitleBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
TitleForeground "gray85"
MenuBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
MenuForeground "white"
MenuBorderColor "black"
MenuTitleBackground "gray70"
MenuTitleForeground "rgb:2/a/9"
IconBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
IconForeground "gray85"
IconBorderColor "gray85"
IconManagerBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
IconManagerForeground "gray85"
}
#
# Define some useful functions for motion-based actions.
#
MoveDelta 3
Function "move-or-lower" { f.move f.deltastop f.lower }
Function "move-or-raise" { f.move f.deltastop f.raise }
Function "move-or-iconify" { f.move f.deltastop f.iconify }
#
# Set some useful bindings. Sort of uwm-ish, sort of simple-button-ish
#
Button1 = : root : f.menu "defops"
Button1 = m : window|icon : f.function "move-or-lower"
Button2 = m : window|icon : f.iconify
#Button3 = m : window|icon : f.function "move-or-raise"
Button3 = m : window|icon : f.quit "quit application"
Button1 = : title : f.function "move-or-raise"
Button2 = : title : f.raiselower
Button1 = : icon : f.function "move-or-iconify"
Button2 = : icon : f.iconify
Button1 = : iconmgr : f.iconify
Button2 = : iconmgr : f.iconify
#
# And a menus with the usual things
#
menu "defops"
{
"Twm" f.title
"Iconify" f.iconify
"Resize" f.resize
"Move" f.move
"Raise" f.raise
"Lower" f.lower
"" f.nop
"Focus" f.focus
"Unfocus" f.unfocus
"Show Iconmgr" f.showiconmgr
"Hide Iconmgr" f.hideiconmgr
"" f.nop
"Nethack" f.exec "exec vulture-nethack &"
"Doom" f.exec "exec prboom &"
#"Xterm" f.exec "exec xterm &"
"LXTerminal" f.exec "exec lxterminal &"
"Thunar" f.exec "exec thunar &"
"XCalc" f.exec "exec xcalc &"
"" f.nop
"Kill" f.destroy
"Delete" f.delete
"" f.nop
"Restart" f.restart
"Exit" f.quit
}
IconManagers{
"Frame" "=100x50+100+100" 1
"XTerm" "=300x50+120+100" 2
It is fairly basic at the moment, but feel free to git clone from here.
I am sharing as they are more of a guide rather than something that should be just used.
#bsd, #config, #desktop, #settings, #configuration, #tool, #freebsd, #twm, #window, #icoms, #xinitrc, #system.twmrc
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South Devon Tech Jam – March 2020
The next Tech jam will be on Saturday 14th March 2020. Following on from the previous jam in February
Paignton Library and information Centre.
Time : 11am to 15:00 Cost : £2
Website : http://www.sdtj.org.uk.
What have :-
It may be good to have a discussion on the Tech Pledge which I posted about a while back.
#southdevon,#technology,#meetup,#event,#paignton,#coding,#hardware,#retropie
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The Hacker Manifesto
Even though this was written way back in 1986, some of this seems to strike a chord with me today.
There is a link to what the term 'hacker' means at the bottom. Please read this
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LibrePlanet 2020
This year LibrePlanet, takes place at the Back Bay Events Center March 14-15, 2020.
I am guessing videos will be livestreamed, there will be an IRC chat
You need to complete a captcha as part of the signin process.
I have also linked to an explanation of the term hacker in another post to try and avoid any confusion or misunderstanding.
If you are intending to attend in person, please read this update with regard to Covid-19
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Code club today was very productive, we had 8 young people attending all of whom were engaged in either Scratch or the Free Code Camp (FCC) curriculum.
We have now moved on to CSS, and we had one attendee starting with HTML. So in all, this course is actually proving to be popular.
Certificates have been awarded for the completion of the HTML module.
Good to see Ryan again and he lent his expertise too.
Next week is the South Devon Tech Jam – (14/3/2020) from 11 till 15:00. The week after we are back to code club (21/3/2020)
Hopefully, I will have figured out, why, when I log in to FCC at the library, it doesn't show my progress. Not that it matters too much.
Resources
#codeclub, #scratch, #html, #css, #freecodecamp, #responsive, #skills
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This post is NOT endorsed by FreeBSD.
I am creating this post to try and bring together some information on how to get involved with the FreeBSD project. I am not a developer in this project. This information may simply be useful as it points to various related resources.
It would be really good to get a Devon based developer / tester community set up, where people can work together, learn essential computer skills, have fun, be social but at the same time develop some real world developer / work skills that can be useful later on.
Being part of any developer community can also open up doors. Learning c / c++ for example is useful, but as would learning shell scripting.
Resources
1 FeeeBSD Project 2 About FreeBSD 3 FreeBSD Developer Handbook 4 FreeBSD Twitter 5 Default Shell 6 tcsh tutorial 7 sh tutorial 8 Repl.it 9 Developer roadmap 10 CodeCademy 11 Freshports
#FreeBSD. #Development, #Get, #Involved, #programming, #documentation, #testing
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Code Club 7th March 2020
The next code club is Saturday 7th March 2020. We will be carrying on from the previous session.
So hopefully more work with:
More work with:
At Code Club, we also have access to:
In the meantime something fun:
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