Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
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joe text editor – enable line numbers
When using a text editor it is sometimes really useful to have line numbers. This is especially useful when programming as sometimes an error message will indicate which line has a potential problem, it may not always be this line but it is a starting point. If you are using the joe text editor…
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Code Club week 2 went well, I am going to run a session this coming Saturday 6/10/2018 in order to take code club back to the first and third Saturday of the month. As a result of this it is synchronized with the flyers that the Library service have produced. This week the attendees…
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Just a quick update. I will hopefully running the Paignton Code Club from 15th September 2018. I am NOT taking over on a permanent basis, but want to keep the club running until the group leader is able to take over and carry on. I can then go back to just helping out…
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If you are still using google for e-mail, then you should read the recent article disclosing that 3rd parties may be able to read PRIVATE e-mail, the fact that this is NOT against their policies is rather worrying. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44699263 If you want real privacy, then perhaps it is time to dump Google, if you need…
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ToriOS Manual Update 6 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 13/3/2018. Added detailed information for installing using the OBI installer , which is…
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DWP Project 4 Another session at the DWP today in Torquay, Controlling a PiStop with Scratch1.4 using the Pi GPIO pins, this went really well and we got a nice sequence of lights going. Next session we will be starting to look at WordPress. So this will be setting up a free WordPress thinking about…
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ToriOS Manual Update 4 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 30/1/2018. Mainly in the Install /download section. ToriOS Manual on Github Git clone…
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Further to a recently created page regarding the programming languages behind the various decentralized social media networks. I was provided (via Diaspora discussion) with a far more comprehensive list on Wikipedia. This list can be found here. This list also includes the language and licensing for each of the social media networks listed.
Continue readingJanuary 2018 Tech Jam
January 2018 Tech Jam The next tech jam is on Saturday 13th January 2018. 12:30 to 15:00 This month we have the usual physical computing activities set up We also have Shelley from Encounters Arts dropping in to do a workshop on the Chrysalis mobile hackspace being developed so a good chance to find…
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