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timothy3592

Try grabbing the zip and unzip packages. I believe they add .zip functionality to Xarchiver the same way p7zip added .7z support. Also, there is an rar packages in standard Debian but the rar program is in the non-free section (which is where Debian keeps non open-source freeware) and it's x86/amd64...

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Hm, I've never seen thin speaker wire like you speak of (but then again, I'm no wire aficionado). However it is possible to purchase USB connectors (male or female) complete with through hole leads from some place like digikey (or other electronic components source). You could do that and just solde...

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The honest answer is "no, you can't." The pi has 1 CSI-2 interface for the camera board. the Camera Serial Interface (CSI) is part of the MIPI specifications (it's specifics are here http://www.mipi.org/specifications/camera-interface#CSI2 ) I am unsure weather or not this type of interfac...

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It's gets complex sometimes when using sudo. There is confusion over what commands in a string of commands run as root or sudo complains that the command isn't found, and it doesn't like loops. I usually avoid all of that by logging in as root, usually with sudo -s, and then running all my commands ...

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Well glad you solved it. You can also prefix something with - to not install it (or remove it if installed) so aptitude owncloud -apache will try installing owncloud without apache. aptitude will probably complain and offer solutions to your problem which may or may not be closer to your ideal solut...

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It's true that SD cards have a limited number of writes to them. However, this number is very large (think tens or even hundreds of thousands) and the card has wear leveling built in to distribute writes. So it takes a while to fully wear out the entire card. Also note that SD cards have a limited n...

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From a framebuffer - cat /dev/fb0 > screendump.pnm this excludes the pnm header though which is simple enough P6 width height bits per color eg. echo -ne "P6 1024 768 255" | cat - /dev/fb0 > file.pnm From X - I prefer to use scrot - sudo apt-get install scrot Doing it over ssh seems like i...

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Never, the BCM2835 at the heart of the pi is a mobile SoC and is designed to run happily inside of a phone or tablet, neither of which include a fan, or even adequate space inside for air cooling. This thread has come up before though, and the general consensus has always been, even when its overclo...

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A lot of those are libraries. They serve the same function as .dll files on a windows machine. If you ever look into C:\Program Files\ then you'll see what I mean. However it's also pulling in nautilus and bits of the GNOME desktop environment. I assume that this is because cheese is one of the stan...

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I've managed to get apt-offline working, but It's so unfriendly that I'd second just grabbing the deb packages. The repo is probably browsable online, at least the debian wheezy repo is, and that is mostly compatible, without the hard float optimizations. I'd forgoe mirroring the entire repository t...

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I'm surprised nobody suggested using a powered hub, it seems to be the standard default response to any problem with high current draw USB devices (like wifi dongles). I hate to break up a deep and intense conversation over internal resistances and such, but their is a pair of polyfuses that keep th...

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That's strange, when installing the package you should get the binaries, desktop-launchers, menu-entries,manpage... It seems as though the package did not install properly. sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude reinstall system-config-printer sudo aptitude -f install Try that, it's possible that the in...

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You can just run system-config-printer in a terminal.

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A lot of programs can X11 grab. Personally I just use ffmpeg for that, since it lets me save the capture in any format i choose, which for the pi would probably be something like mpeg2 anything else just takes too much cpu time to encode. X11 grabbing FFmpeg can grab the X11 display. ffmpeg -f x11gr...

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My raspberry pi does this, It blanks the screen after a certain amount of time has passed. I haven't checked whether it suspends other operations or not. I do know that in the suspend-like state I've been getting pressing on the keyboard brings it back to life.

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you could zero out the free space of a card before imaging by filling a large file with zeros like so.
dd if=/dev/zero of=~/reallybigfile

run until you get a no space left on device error.

rm ~/reallybigfile

then image.

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Yes, it is as simple as switching if and of. As for flashing while in use. Its a tricky question, you will destroy the root filesystem, of course you don't need to worry about deleting the program you're running as it will be stored in memory while running. The problem is that any reads to the root ...

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PhylloPi?

comes with honey and walnuts

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I'm still running the raspbian image that was on the downloads page. I've only ever gotten crackling when I play music with omxplayer though. Other players seem to do just fine, like alsaplayer or vlc. It would seem from that that the alsa driver in the raspberrypi kernel is fine. Of course omxplaye...

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You could do it like this dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 the first 512 bytes are the master boot record and partition table. dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 of=part1.img grabs the first partition on the sd card, the 60 meg boot partition/ dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=part2.img grabs the root partition...

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Actually, your right, it is a for buffering the power supply, its a standard size too, (220uf). However, its not strictly necessary, if the pads are intact you could solder another 220uf capacitor on it, or just run without it. This knowledge coming from the forum (or the faq, can't remember) rather...

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You might also want to start x automatically, because if an X server isn't running on the pi you can't forward it. raspi-config does this, so does editing your .profile and adding the startx command to the end.

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Actually I've noticed that either the wheezy or the sqeeze image actually ran the x server on tty1. CTRL-ALT-F1 is the gui and CTRL-ALT-F2 is the next available terminal. This is a little counter intuitive even for linux users

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That's Amazing!!! oh, and I do find that console emulation isn't as good on linux in general. Generally, your favorite emulators for windows or mac might be available under linux, but they just don't work as well anymore. I've have found that fceux for nes, snes9x gtk build for snes, and kega fusion...

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Have you placed the private and public keys in the right places. I've just set up ssh authentication on my pi. The following steps worked for me. The raspberry pi is the remote machine. You are using the local machine. 1.) run ssh-keygen on the local machine, accept defaults. You now have a ~/.ssh/u...

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