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Summer volunteer work
My plans for summer volunteer work sadly fell flat. YMCA South Devon were not interested. I also contacted the Acorn Centre in Barton, they also want volunteers but didn’t bother to get back to me, so I ended up wasting a whole day, waiting in for them to call back. So I assumed they…
Continue readingProjects update June 21 2016
I seem to have been busy with a few things over the last few days. Firstly as my Arduino clock has failed (basically the time needs re-setting ). I decided to therefore use the breadboard for something else. I also need the LCD display for another project. I found instructions for a HC-SR04 triggered alarm…
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I have just set the dht11 temperature and humidity module up to work with the Raspberry Pi. Having found some instructions here. As usual it was pretty simple to connect everything together. I am looking at perhaps trying to record the data from the module in to a file. But perhaps use Python as the…
Continue readingUpdate 07th Feb 2016
Yesterday I attended the Exeter Pi jam with Tom Brough and have put a write on the tech jam website. I have also downloaded the latest ToriOS image. This is so that I can carry on working on the JWM settings manager section for the manual. The ToriOS team are still looking for more…
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Superbowl weekend also sees the start of the Six Nations Rugby. Saturday fixtures France vs Italy then Scotland vs Italy While on Sunday Ireland take on Wales. Games will be on Live on the big screen at @PaigntonRFC. http://www.paigntonrugby.com So if it is too wet for club rugby at least there will be some internationals…
Continue readingI love free software 2016
Dear Free Software lovers, Last year on “I love Free Software” day we rocked the internet and showed the world how important Free Software is for us. Countless people in social networks and blogs praised various projects or aspects of Free Software. Our sister organisation initiated the cryptovalentine activity, and the EFF used this day…
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Q : What does a play work assistant do on his day off ? ; A install debian Jessie on an old computer. This is what I spent most of today doing. My Old Duron 1600 has been sitting under my desk for ages, not doing much. It had a few technical issues which…
Continue readingLinux Mint 17.2 and Open GPG
I have been looking at the webpage for the Tails GNU / Linux distribution. Tails routes all traffic through the Tor network in order to protect the privacy of users. As I am using Linux Mint 17.2. Following the instructions for downloading and signing the Tails OpenGPG key needs the user to install Nautilus-seahorse…
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Work on the ToriOS manual seems to be progressing nicely, I am at present working on a section concerning the JWM settings manager for the JWM desktop which ToriOS uses. For this purpose I had created a folder within the manual structure for this. However this was getting rather messy, so I decided to…
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