Build a RADAR for Bournemouth Air Festival!

With #BmthAirFest just around the corner, now is the perfect time to build yourself a Radar system for a grand total of about £10!!

All you need is a USB stick with a Realtek RTL2832U chipset -- commonly sold as DVB-T tuners (TV tuner dongle).  You can get them off eBay for around £7-10.

Radar instructions are in this post.

Fact-Up Friday: TimBL - Bournemouth Bloke Who Invented The Web

Did you know that the World Wide Web was in fact invented by an Englishman?  Not only that, but he used to call the South Coast home?

OK, the title is a little white lie - he wasn't from Bournemouth, but the inventor of Web sites lived in Colehill, Wimborne, for a time and worked for Plessey in Poole, J D Nash in Ferndown, and for over 3 years he worked at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in sunny sunny Bournemouth!  In fact, he is a patron of the East Dorset Heritage trust to this day.

Doc's Deals: Get A GiffGaff SIM And Get £10 Free Credit

 

ONLY AVAILABLE AUGUST 2019

For a limited time get a GiffGaff SIM from the Doc and you'll get £10 free credit.

No strings attached, no contracts, no conditions.  After you top-up at least £10 or buy a Goodybag worth £10 or more, you'll get £5 free credit to do whatever you want with.  Then within a maximum of 72 hours, you'll get another £5 free credit added to your balance.  So £10 free credit that you can use on calls, texts or buying Goodybags.  Offer expires 31/08/2019 after which it reverts to just £5 free credit.

Google Assistant on Ubuntu 18.04

So I decided to do a step-by-step guide to how I got Google Assistant working on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04.  I can now say, "OK Google" and ask/change/trigger all the usual things.

You will need:

• PC/laptop/SoC running Ubuntu 18.04
• A Google account
• A working microphone (or headset)
• A working speaker (or headset)

Complete guide can be found at https://linuxdoctorafcb.blogspot.com/p/google-a.html

My Head(ache)'s in The (Google) Clouds With Google Assistant on Linux

I decided late last night that the one thing my battered, slow, old and full of crap laptop absolutely could not go without any longer was Google Assistant integration (I want to say "OK Google" to my Linux laptop, basically). I've now done it, understand it and just need to polish it up a bit, write a few scripts, change a few settings and then I'll put up a post on how to do it.

In doing this, though, I have just re-met the Google Cloud Platform... 'Kin' Ell there's a LOT of shit in there, and I mean a lot. So, in summary, Google Assistant on Linux laptop guide to follow, then probably 4 months of posts as I start hacking* the shit out of Google Cloud Platform.

* don't get excited, I mean hacking in the old old sense of the word, not "gaining unauthorised access of a computer or network or device that does not belong to you".

Doc's Deals - Google GSuite

Google's GSuite is a complete solution for managing business communications and assets.  Linuxdoc is proud to be a certified Google GSuite Partner, and in addition to offering you a 14-day free trial period, I also have a limited amount of promotion codes that will give you 20% off the first year of either GSuite Basic or GSuite Business.

Linuxdoc is doing an HTTP 301

Apologies for not posting any drivel for a week or so, I have been preoccupied with giving myself an actual (as opposed to virtual) HTTP 301 redirect (301 for you unenlightened heathens is the HTTP response code for Moved Permanently).