allows me to control the desktop of my Ubuntu machines from a MAC. the software of choice is X11VNC – reasonably easy to enable just a few stumbles to get it to load at boot – code below is copied from here https://tecadmin.net/setup-x11vnc-server-on-ubuntu-linuxmint/

I have been struggling to get PD and Jack to work on my MAC OSX – in the end it was a simple of setting the correct path to the server.

this should have been straight forward but my code comments were not adequate and it took me a while to figure out what I had done. Anyway finally got it to work and tally with what was going on in Asterisk.

I have reconfigured all the function calls to go to files on Dropbox – making them accessible to me from anywhere. Previously they were hidden in the bowels of the linux system now only the asterisk extension and sip files are hidden in the linux bowels and have to have accessed locally or via VPN

I have installed RecordMyDesktop on Ubuntu it seems to work fine but is very slow to render probably because of the limitation of the Shuttle PC Ubuntu is running on.

Its nearly November. I have had a long break from the K6 but today I was able to spend a bit of time reacquainting myself with the issues I left hanging in June. Needless to say I had forgotten where I was and have not been taking adequate notes. Any hope of getting it all to work on my most up to date computer were dashed by the fact that

I have yet to get used to working with the Linux operating system. Sometimes stuff works and sometimes it doesn’t. Of course there are reasons why this is the case – Linux is free, it is supported by a community of enthusiasts, there are many flavours, it is under constant revision, it is fiendishly complicated (to those like me who cannot be bothered to do the work to learn it

Given the persuasiveness of the box itself (often referred to as an iconic architectural object representing Britishness) a sensible objective is to provide a setting in which the telephone box itself is displayed to full advantage and thus provides a credibly realistic as well as atmospheric experience. Happily, it is set in a relatively remote place, in some respects a likely location for a phone box, outside my house on