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Thanks for the guide, I'll read it later.

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Mike Lake wrote:BTW: the "forgot to take the blue covering off the plastic bits" club now has six members

I know

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There are times when I really do have to pinch myself to see if I am dreaming...

Pedants are cynics without imagination.

Mattylad, get a life.

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Beautiful

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Mike - I've donated - now get Chromium working

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Zx80, ZX81, Spectrum, Commodore 64, Dragon32, Atari ST, then boring PC's

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Mistakes happen - contact Paypal or RS and it'll be sorted

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Great photographs, so much better than my Mobile fotos!

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As a father of an 8 year old and a 12 year old, I can say that children like it because it's different and it helps focus the mind as you can't simply switch it to play Sims, Battlefield 3 etc. Focus is key Yep. But also for me, the Pi is a constrained device. You will be bumping your head a lot mo...

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Which UK Linux Magazines would people recommend to newbies?

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You Sir have hit the nail on the head. And other older children are leaning Python and Linux.

The revolution has started

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Thank you
@ rurwin and @ Montala

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I think that it would be very useful to have a glossary of basic Linus instruction as a sticky that newbies like me can refer to. The Linux for Dummies book is good, but a simple on-line reference would be better.

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As a father of an 8 year old and a 12 year old, I can say that children like it because it's different and it helps focus the mind as you can't simply switch it to play Sims, Battlefield 3 etc. Focus is key

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I'd go SD card reader as well. Works every time

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Gordon, that's great to hear, I'll take a look - thanks so much

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I'm enjoying Raspian and notice an improvement in terms of speed, there's a few issues, but I'm sure they'll be ironed out soon.

Well done all

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Kingston tech 8gb card from amazon about £4.15 or so. works v well

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Debian is ultra stable, I know it's not what you want to hear, but it works. Also Kingston 8gb car works and is solid.

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The Tesco £5 multi media keyboard works like a charm...

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How I laugh at the ignorance of journalists... If you cannot understand the basic premise of the Raspi you shouldn't review or buy one. The B Board is the "development" spec., the one that will help the true retail version be user friendly enough to help kids proram instead of just use computers. Al...

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I've just downloaded issue 2 and printed it. Great quality and info.

Thanks so much for all your hard work.

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nick.mccloud wrote:When I started in computing we didn't worry about the difference between Mega Bits and Mega Bytes - mostly we were counting in Kilo Bytes and knew the location of each and every one and it's purpose

So very true! Progam a ZX80 without a ram pack - that was fun

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What I did was load a virtual environment, and then emulate the PI within that using Debian.

See: https://www.virtualbox.org/

However, what I have also done is added Debian on my laptop and at bootup choose between that and Windows.

I prefer the later to practice on tbh

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Just to follow up my post of May 4th. The PiHouse is now in production using a firm that specialises in laser cutting acrylic and based about half and hour from me - near Mansfield. Each batch manufactured contains: PiHouse top plate PiHouse base plate PiHouse Rpi supports VESA mounting plate (100m...

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