Paul Sutton – personal blog
Libre Office 7.4 first point release
LibreOffice 7.4 Office Suite Gets First Point Release, 80 Bugs Fixed
The FLOSS office suite LibreOffice has had it's first point release update for the 7.4 branch, taking it to 7.4.1.
You can read more here.
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Code Club 17/9/2022 Write up
Really good and productive session today. After some initial scratch work, and some Rocks and Diamonds level creation, we moved on to the topic of game design.
As we have access to Blender, a 3d graphics package, which can also handle animation etc. We can hopefully start to look at this as an activity for longer term. A good few of the attendees seem to be interested in learning more about this. So this is a topic for the next code club meeting on 1st October.
I highly recommand that attendees bring a USB memory stick for saving work / projects. We can't save work to the Library computers, saving work to a cloud service is do-able, but this is sometimes tripped up as due to logging in from a different IP address than normal.
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#CodeClub,#Blender,#Scratch,#RocksAndDiamonds,#Coding, #GameDesign
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Please contact Paignton Library for details.
LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course
LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course | Call for sessions announced!
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#LibrePlanet,#Conference,#FSF,#FreeSoftwareFoundation, #CallForPapers
Artemis 1 – Mission part 6
The plan is to try another launch during the next window. This will be week commencing 20/9/2022. Check the NASA site for details. Fingers crossed all the issues have been solved and the launch can go ahead as planned.
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#NASA,#Moon,#Mission,#Artemis,#ScienceForums
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Debian point release upgrade
Following the recent upgrade to the Debian Operating system, 11.4 to 11.5 I decided to make a video / screen cast of the upgrade process..
This was partly as I wanted to make something to contribute to the Debian Academy and it made sense to make this.
The video is quite long about ½. I am hoping the team can take the source file and edit so it is shorter.
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Torbay Trojans Training 18/9/2022
Great session today, next session is on Sunday 18th September 2022.
New contact and Flag players (16+) are welcome.
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Astronify – application
Last year I watched a lecture on some software called astronify, This is used to scan an image from a telescope and turn different parts of the image in to sound.
So for example, a blue star may be presented at a high frequency, where as a red star may be presented at a lower frequency when played as sound.
The original lecture was about making astronomy accessible to people with sight loss. I wrote more about this in a blog post
Fast forward to 2022 and this technology has been used for further research which is presented in the following paper:-
Evaluating the efficacy of sonification for signal detection in univariate, evenly sampled light curves using astronify
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National Coding Week
National Coding Week 19th-25th September 2022
It will be national coding week soon, starting on the 19th September 2022 (Monday)
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*NationalCodingWeek,#STEM,#UnitedKingdom
Moving to Move Up: Why and How to Relocate for Work
Moving to Move Up: Why and How to Relocate for Work
Latest Scismic Webinar
In this event we will share tips and strategies to decide whether relocation is right for you, as well as share input from hiring managers on what assistance to expect from hiring companies.
We’ll show you multiple tools to use when considering relocating for work, such as:
-Salary needed to maintain your lifestyle
-Estimating quality of life in a new city
-State to state differences in taxes and benefits
September 28th 2022
Signup Link (eventbrite) here
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