VECTOROIDS APPLICABLE TO DEBIAN 9.x (STRETCH) Vectoroids – is a rock based shooting game, along the same lines as the old 8bit arcade classic asteroids. you can install using apt install vectoroids on Debian. (use root, either with su or sudo). vectoroids/stable,now 1.1.0-13+b1 amd64 [installed] vector-based rock-shooting This version comes with Debian 9 Stretch. By default…
Continue readingEncryption of Draft Messages
If you have been following my posts on Public Keys and email then the following my be of interest. To add more security to your system you can encrypt any messages saved in your Drafts folder (Thunderbird). As per This is perhaps useful as some messages such as those on IMAP mail servers will…
Continue readingWeekend Fixtures 1st to 3rd Feb 2019
We have a very busy weekend of sport ahead of us. To night is the opening game of the 2019 six nations Rugby. With both the Mens and Womens teams involved. BBC sport has all the details for the weekend Rugby action. Sunday sees the New England Patriots take on the Los Angeles Rams…
Continue readingPublic Keys and e-mail 2
In a related topic to my previous post. As I am now using Debian. I was looking for the application in the menu called ‘passwords and keys‘ It turns out that this is in fact called ‘seahorse’. This offers an easy to use interface for GnuPG, ssh keys and security certificates. So a good…
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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…
Continue readingCode Club 2/2/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch and Python and hopefully a new helper will be dropping in to see what we are doing. More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website
Continue readingToriOS Manual v2 – 1
More updates to the ToriOS manual. Starting to add information on the various applications that come with the Operating System and also update and maintain other parts of the manual. Help with this and documentation for free software generally is always welcome. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton add…
Continue readingCode Club 19/1/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 19th Jan 2019 at Paignton Library.
Continue readingToriOS Manual v2
I spent a few hours last night (12/1/2018) re-writing the ToriOS manual in LaTeX using Overleaf. This is and important step forward. ToriOS is now based purely on Debian, due to the continuing support for older systems. This has gone well. Overleaf allows projects to be downloaded the project (zip file) and the pdf…
Continue readingLatest Scratch Projects
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.
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