My project to create a presentation for Debian seems to be going really well. While I am using Overleaf for this, I can compile from the command line in the usual way as well as using TeXStudio to create a pdf. Shows the power and flexibility of LaTeX for publishing. I have received lots…
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Code Club 6/4/2019 : Write up
Another successful tech jam. We had about 3 children, probably due to it being the start of the Easter Holidays. Progress has now been made with the platform game being worked on, as well as other projects. It is all one big learning experience. We now have a parent joining us as a volunteer. We…
Continue readingToriOS Testing 1.5 Released
March 2019. ToriOS 1.5 has been released. ToriOS 1.5 is based on Debian 8 – Jessie. Can be downloaded from here. I have updated the manual to include fresh instructions for how to get the new version. We could really do with more documentation for related software, for example virt-manager (Virtual machine Manager) as…
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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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If you use tools such as GNU Privacy Guard to sign and or encrypt e-mail then you have the facility in Thunderbird, with the Enigmail extension to attach your public key (.asc file) to your e-mails. This is found as an option within the e-mail compose window. Enigmail Menu — > attach My Public…
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I have been creating some activities for Scratch 3. These are hosted on Github. I have links on my wiki section. Github + stackedit + markdown = easy on-line publishing and resource creation 🙂 I have also uploaded to ScratchEd.
Continue readingCode Club 5/1/2019 write up
First session of 2019. So we are now up to 8 attendees with 3 three new attendees today, so a great start to 2019. Using scratch 3 went without any major problems. The children also like some of the new features such as Text to Speech. So positive start to the new year. My…
Continue readingCode Club 1/12/2018
Code club is back this Saturday 1/12/2018. I have created a CodeClubPaignton Studio, so that some of the scratch activities that require custom resources that are not included with scratch can be accessed easily and worked on. Most of the activities can be completed using the graphics, sounds and backgrounds provided with Scratch. UPDATE…
Continue readingCode Club 20/10/2018
Yesterdays code club went well. The attendees are still working on their own projects, which is fine. Everyone helps each other out, so very collaborative. However there are enough resources for any new starters who would like to use the code club materials. We have a few spaces left so are up to roughly…
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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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