Learn my way 2020
Elite Training will be presenting another Learn My Way basic IT course in May 2020.
Dates : 4th and 11th May Time : 10:15 – 12:45 Paignton Library
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Wicd-curses
From man page:
DESCRIPTION
wicd-curses is a curses-based network controller that uses the Wired/Wireless Internet Connection Daemon (wicd) to control your network connections. It is suitable to run in terminal multiplexers like screen.
It is designed to imitate the GTK-based wicd-client(1) as much as possible, and uses the Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid) console widget library to vastly simplify development.
This man page only documents the current status of wicd-curses. This may/may not be the most up-to-date document.
#linux, #network, #wireless, #wicd, #wicd-curses, #connection.
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FreeBSD 1
Further to my post on Vultures-eye earlier . I spent some time last night installing FreeBSD with the view to getting the game working. The page on freshports.
I also joined #freebsd on irc.freenode.net to ask for any help.
Once I had downloaded the ISO file and created an install DVD. I set about installing it. Text based installer is easy to use. Very similar to Slackware.
Once installed, I set about installing nethack with the package manager. (pkg install <packagename ) Once installed I realised that I probably need to run this through X.
I then set about installing X11 on the target netbook. This was painless, once installed started X11 with startx then ran the vulture-nethack game
Worth noting the config file can be found in /usr/home/user/.vulture as: vulture.conf
You may want to: Change the game window size Turn off music if you want to play the game and :-
- watch a video
- listen to other music.
The game worked fine, so I can get back to playing again.
The only issue I did seem to have was setting up a normal user account, this failed during the install process, not quite sure why, but I just added a new user with adduser from the root prompt. One thing to note about BSD is the user home director is in a different place. But that much different to under Linux.
I also installed prboom which is a free Doom game.
Given that I have never actually touched BSD at all. The ease of use is down to the great work of the developer team(s).
#freebsd, #unix, #nethack, #technology, #computing, #irc, #freenode, #support, #install, #configure, #x11, #setup, #netbook
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Nethack vultures eye 1
For some time I have been trying to find a port for the 3d isometric version of Nethack, called Nethack-Vultures-eye.
I was playing Falcons-eye a few years ago, this was maintained for a few years, development was then picked up by another maintainer and falcons-eye became vultures eye. The game is now on Steam.
I tried again yesterday ( 20/2/2020 ) and failed, I decided to have a look if the game works on FreeBSD.
According to Freshports it does seem to be supported, and from the page is still being maintained.
As of 21:12 on 20/2/2020 I am downloading the FreeBSD iso file and burning this to DVD-R.
Getting help
I decided to join #freebsd on irc.freenode.net, as I would probably need to be there to ask for help. this is new grounds having spent over 20 years running GNU/Linux.
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Next Cloud Talk
A video to explain a new feature of NextCloud
Quote from text that comes with video
“Nextcloud Talk is the most secure way of communication and collaboration! Calls are encrypted and not even meta-data leaves your server. Easily share documents and work together with others on your server or guests you invited for meetings, webinars or more.”
Please click below to view video, you will be taken to the Youtube website.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)
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2020 Six Nations Rugby Fixtures 22nd/23rd Feb 2020
This weekend is the third weekend of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 22nd Feb
Italy 14:15 Scotland Wales 16:45 France
Sunday 23rd Feb
England 15:00 Ireland
#rugby, #sixnations, #sport, #fixtures,
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CEEFAX on the Pi 3
nb: I have switched to a project called Teefax, which is similar.
Further to the previous post. I have successfully cloned the Github repository for the project, compiled by running make in the downloaded repository directory.
Running the project gave me this output.
Which is probably expected, but at least it is doing something. What I probably need to do now is:
- Connect pi via the composite to a TV
- Connect to LAN
- SSH in to pi
- Run the software so that the output goes via the Composite out or as I am using a newer pi the 3.5 mm sound / composite combination output.
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Google Summer of Code 2020 Organizations Announced
The list of organizations supporting this years Google Summer of code are announced today.
As per timeline
Please use the contact details here to find out more information.
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#gsoc, #google, #summer, #code, #student, #coding, #projects, #GoogleSummerOfCode
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Chobham game
On Saturday 22nd February, Paignton Rugby Club will welcome their old friends from Chobham RFC in Surrey. The Vets team will be playing the Chobham Vets.
Kick off : 12:30 at Paignton Rugby Club
#rugby, #paignton, #chobham, #cup, #vets
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Tex Live 2019
As I am now using LaTeX for more documents. I have decided to download the TeX Live iso as this is a useful resource to have.
TeXLive is about 3.3gb in total. But is handy to have, for the resources, and different installers for Linux, Mac, Windows etc.
TeXLive2020 should be available later this year.
I will have a copy of TeXLive 2019 for the next South Devon Tech Jam in case anyone is interested.
#LaTeX, #CTAN, #Linux, #Mac, #Windows, #Typesetting, #download
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