Back in the 80’s, before the actual world wide web was even thought of, people could still communicate over the Internet using a wide range of protocols such as e-mail, gopher, and usenet, or newsgroups as they are commonly known. usenet uses the NNTP (Network News Transfer protocol) which is described in RFC 3977. …
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IRC CLIENTS
Anyone wanting to get involved with free software development, may need to start using IRC (Internet Relay Chat). To help new users or even those of us who already use IRC. There is a list of IRC clients on Linuxlinks. IRC CLIENTS Which is really useful. It is also nice to see Hexchat and…
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On 14/2/2019 the House of Lords had a Immigration Procedures Debate. This debate was started by Lord Roberts of Llandudno I caught this part way through and carried on watching as it was interesting to listen to. Background to the debate: “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to improve immigration…
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On 14/2/2019, I attended a course presented by SEAP ( https://seap.org.uk/ ) aimed at raising awareness of Veterans’, their needs and how their life in the military can impact their life out side of the military. For example finding jobs can be harder veterans may not be used to interviews, within the military finance such…
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Next code club is on Saturday 16th February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website Also looking forward to more discussions on Twine.
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Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. [1] 1. https://twinery.org/ Download and unzip the archive file for your OS. Once extracted. /home/user/twine/twine_2.2.1 (where user is your username) Files can be stored in home/user/Documents/Twine Under stories. Twine can be loaded up from the cli terminal window with ./Twine (This IS case…
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As I am committed to improving my skills, I am undertaking a course on veterans awareness tomorrow (14/2). Looking ahead I am now confirmed on two other courses later in the year; WRAP, which is prevent awareness and Online Safety. In terms of Open Learn study this is going well, completed the 6 hour…
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Geany, is one of the Text Editors and IDE utilities available for GNU / Linux. It is quite nice and I have posted previously on how to configure the build settings so you can either run for Python 2 or 3. Recently however it seems to be not playing ball, as the screenshot below shows…
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I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
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SUPERBOWL LIII SUNDAY FEB 3 2019 To conclude the NFL 2018 season. New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3. Game highlights can be found here.
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