Paul Sutton

ShellCon 2020

ShellCon 2020 takes place 9th – 10th October 2020

ShellCon is an information security conference that is held annually in the beautiful beach cities of Los Angeles. Our conference is a growing event that creates an atmosphere of open communication, collaboration, and connection. We value community, technical knowledge, and getting your hands dirty. Presentations and events at the con will have a focus on practicality and real-world applications. We want you to walk away from ShellCon with an itch to try what you just learned and the knowledge to do so

• ShellCon2020

#conference,#information,#security,#InfoSec,#virtual,#event

XFCE Desktop notes

The XFCE desktop is one of the options for a Graphical User Interface that comes with the Debian GNU / Linux operating system.

One of the many tools is a small application that provides the user with the electronic equivalent of sticky notes.

This is a really useful 'always on' application. Great for taking quick notes, saving URLs, passwords (well just delete them afterwards) and other information you may want to just store. You can add new pages as needed.

Technical info

Debian 10 comes with version 1.8.1

If you are wondering where the actual data files are stored, then I had to do some research on this. Turns out from:-

unix.stackexchange.com

The location is

*.local/share/notes/Notes/

Within your home directory.

Install and set up

If not already installed then it can be installed using

apt install xfce4-notes

When you first launch this from the menu, you get the following

Right clicking on the top bar gives access to various configuration / set up options.

There are various options to change the colour.

The application appears as a icon in the top panel.

You can also add to the bottom panel by:

1. Right clicking on the panel (try doing this on a spacer)
2. Select Panel —> Add new items
3. Select Launcher

A new icon will appear on the panel, which you can set up to launch xfce4-notes.

Short video of application in action.

Hosted on Peertube.

References

1 XFCE * XFCE Twitter 2 Debian 3 Adding items to Panel (video) 4 xfce4 notes video

LaTeX project update

The fall 2020 LaTeX release is available

This release introduces a number of important enhancements.

• More information

#LaTeX,#project,#update,#fall2020,#release

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

6th October

So following on from Septembers lecture, the Space telescope science institute present their next lecture.

With details here

You can find more upcoming (monthly) lectures below.

http://www.stsci.edu/public-lectures

#video,#astronomy,#space,#science,#stsci

Adding items to the XFCE Panel

This is a quick video, created with Vokoscreen to illustrate the process of adding an item to the XFCE4 Panel

• Vokoscreen Homepage
• Video on peertube
• Peertube Channels

#video,#peertube,#debian,#xfce4,panel,#add,new,#item

Free Software Foundation at 35

Join us in celebrating the FSF's thirty-fifth year of fighting for software freedom.
Online and via IRC in #fsf (on Freenode)
Celebration image

Our work will not be finished until every computer user is able to do all of their digital tasks in complete freedom -- whether that's on a desktop, laptop, or the computer in your pocket. The fight for free software continues, and we wouldn't be here without you.

When Oct 09, 2020

from 12:00 PM to 05:00 PM Where fsf.org and #fsf on IRC

For more information, please check the link below:

• Free Software Foundation at 35

European code Week 2020 Reminder

The European Code Week is taking place between 10-25th October.

• European code week

Wasps vs Exeter Chiefs

Rugby Fixture

Sunday 4th October away to Wasps kick off 15:00

• Game info
• BBC Radio Devon

Scores

• Wasps 46 Exeter 5 Full time
• Wasps 25 Exeter 0 (½ time)

#rugby,#Union,#premiership,#Exeter,#Wasps,#result,#fixture

Free Code Camp Update 02/10/2020

I have now completed all the modules in the FreeCodeCamp responsive web design course.

Profile can be found here that details the time line for this. I have also updated my LinkedIn profile with this update.

As yet I have ONLY completed the actual modules and have not undertaken the assessment projects. However my intention was to follow the course to help support Paignton Library Code Club anyway.

#learning,#freecodecamp,#web,#design,#update,#html,#html5,#css,#css3,#flexbox,#grid,#websites,#codeclub

Basic IT course update 8

So further to my previous update on the Level 1 Digital skills course. The certificate for this has arrived.

This has now been scanned in and uploaded to my new LinkedIn profile

#education,#courses,#digital,#skills,#level1