FOSS And Crafts Podcast

If you enjoy the LibreLounge podcast [2], Christopher Lemmer Webber [6] appears to have left this, and started up a new podcast called FOSS AND Crafts [3]. This is a “A podcast about free software, free culture, and making things together”

This is something that is worth checking out, as with LibreLounge you can subscribe to the podcast and also download on .ogg [5] and .mp3 file formats.

I wrote a post in December on how to subscribe to LibreLounge using vlc [7] so the procedure is the same.

REFERENCES

1 Free Software Foundation 2 LibreLounge 3 FOSS AND Crafts 4 Mastodon 5 FSF Ogg vorbis page 6 Christopher Lemmer Webber 7 Subscribe how_to

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#Podcast,#vlc.#Subscription,#rss, #Media,#help,#support,#FOSSandCrafts,#Mastodon,#ogg, #mp3

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Subscribe to Librelounge podcast with vlc

In today's video, I do a quick run through on how to subscribe to the Librelouge podcast using the vlc media player.

I am already subscribed to this, so before I paste the link in I remove the existing entry. But this also illustrates that it is just as easy to remove subscriptions.

#podcast,#vlc.#subscription,#rss,#media,#howto,#help, #support,#LibreLounge

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Add new users to Debian

To do this you need to install gnome-system-tools then from the menu select Users and Groups

apt install gnome-system-tools

The video below illustrates the, short, simple process of adding new users to your system.

#debian,#add,#new,#user,#howto,#help,#support,freesoftware

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Liberoffice 7 Impress – Text formatting tool bar

By default libreoffice 7 impress does not display tools for text formatting on the toolbar.

To fix this, you need to

Click View —> Tool bars —> Text Formatting

And the tool will be displayed

Video below illustrates process

#libreoffice7,#impress,#display,#text,#formatting,toolbar, #help,#support.

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Support

You can get help / support on IRC with the widget below.

Server : set to irc.libera.chat/6667 (TLS) Channel : set to #libreoffice

• Webchat

This is IRC:

Please,

1. Don't ask to ask just ask
2. Be patient
3. Be clear as to what you are asking
   

• Documentaton

If you need a different kind of support, this is available but you generally have to PAY FOR IT.

#libreoffice,#support,

tmate

tmate — terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing

tmate is a useful Linux application. Lets say you need some help with fixing a problem. You need to be able to share your terminal with a trusted party, so that person, can help you within a shared terminal.

You can load tmate by :

• opening a terminal
• typing tmate at the terminal window

You are presented with a screen, similar to that shown below. At the bottom, you get a unique a link, which you can give to the other party.

At the bottom you get something like this

[tmate] ssh session: ssh ALw*************QjF@l.tmate.io

I have added some *** so I am not putting my own system security at risk, but it is essentially a long lost of characters.

This only shows for a while however. You need to copy / paste this link in to an e-mail / irc or whatever your using to send it to a colleague who is going to help, so DO NOT post to a public forum.

You can see what that person is typing, and if any passwords need entering you can do that yourself and the other person can carry on with helping you.

At times this can be a really useful tool to help solve issues.

You are strongly advised to read the man page for this before use.

#Linux,#tmate,#terminal,#multiplexer,#technical.#support.

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FreeBSD 1

Further to my post on Vultures-eye earlier . I spent some time last night installing FreeBSD with the view to getting the game working. The page on freshports.

I also joined #freebsd on irc.freenode.net to ask for any help.

Once I had downloaded the ISO file and created an install DVD. I set about installing it. Text based installer is easy to use. Very similar to Slackware.

Once installed, I set about installing nethack with the package manager. (pkg install <packagename ) Once installed I realised that I probably need to run this through X.

I then set about installing X11 on the target netbook. This was painless, once installed started X11 with startx then ran the vulture-nethack game

Worth noting the config file can be found in /usr/home/user/.vulture as: vulture.conf

You may want to: Change the game window size Turn off music if you want to play the game and :-

• watch a video
• listen to other music.

The game worked fine, so I can get back to playing again.

The only issue I did seem to have was setting up a normal user account, this failed during the install process, not quite sure why, but I just added a new user with adduser from the root prompt. One thing to note about BSD is the user home director is in a different place. But that much different to under Linux.

I also installed prboom which is a free Doom game.

Given that I have never actually touched BSD at all. The ease of use is down to the great work of the developer team(s).

FreeBSD Handbook

#freebsd, #unix, #nethack, #technology, #computing, #irc, #freenode, #support, #install, #configure, #x11, #setup, #netbook

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As I have signed up to various science based courses, mostly with OpenLearn at the moment. I have signed up to the ScienceForums website.

This is a free message forum where you can discuss a wide range of science topics, ask questions, help others. It is quite advanced in places but this suits me fine. You can learn by just reading the questions and answers from different users.

As I am also on IRC then I have joined both physics and chemistry channels on Freenode. This is in order to ask questions or clarification. The physics channel is more useful for the astronomy and astrophysics based courses.

You can join the IRC community via the Freenode Webchat tool.

These websites can really complement e-learning and they provide a way to chat to people who share a real interest in these subjects.

These sites should also be able to complement the e-learning forum that I posted about yesterday.

#science, #forums, #help, #support, #homework

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I am working on a series of $\LaTeX$ flashcards to help people learn the basics.

I am not creating a fully comprehensive set of these. LaTeX has far too many features for this.

What I want to do, is create a set, that just covers the basics:

• Setting up a preamble
• Document types
• Sections
• Table Of Contents (TOC)
• Cross referencing
• Bibliographies
• Citations
• Plus a few examples of Maths and Science typesetting.
  

Hopefully enough for people to get started or for myself to support the teaching of the system.

I feel confident enough to actually try and tech LaTeX, so another reason for these cards would be to help me with this, should I get the opportunity to do so. It is a good idea to prepare for this sort of eventuality.

As LaTeX is aimed at academia, once you have the basics, you can keep going and learn more depending on your usage case. There is a lot of help available too.

Despite it being aimed at academic applications, it can produce very professional looking letters, CVs / Resumes and a whole range of other documents too.

• LaTeX Project Website
• CTAN

#typesetting, #LaTeX, #Document, #preparation, #help, #teaching, #support, #maths, #science, #formulae, #equations.

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Chemistry Help

I came across this website on the Fediverse as part of a thread on science. I had a look and it appears to be something could really help anyone studying Chemistry

• Chemtube3d

A discussion that mentioned Atomic Orbitals led me to this page on the above website. This site has some nice simulations of topics that are included in the A'level Chemistry Syllabus.

There is also a website with a nice forum on science that I found too. This has a section on Chemistry and then sub forums for Organic, Inorganic and Physical chemistry.

• Science Forums

$\LaTeX$ may also be of interest to Chemistry students as you can type set Chemical Formulae etc.

In a sort of related topic, I found a useful site that gives tips on technical writing, I am familiar with some of the ideas presented here, well mostly Constructivism by Jerome Bruner from studying the Supporting Learning in Primary Schools course with the Open University.

• Technical-writing

I am trying to follow some of this idea when writing instructional blog posts. Provide information on how I do things but put quite a lot of emphasis on the reader actually going away and researching topics. Everyone's system and circumstances are different.

#science, #chemistry, #study, #alevel, #help, #support, #websites, #forum, #simulation.

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