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by lavers
Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:51 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Availability in CANADA
Replies: 68
Views: 45779

Re: Availability in CANADA

When I buy online and am told it is being shipped from Canada and a Canadian warehouse , I expect that it WILL NOT BE SHIPPED FROM THE USA TO CANADA AFTER MY ORDER IS PLACED They're not made in Canada, how exactly do you expect they get to Canada? When they say "shipped from Canada", they mean that...
by lavers
Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:30 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone
Replies: 156
Views: 45805

Re: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

How disappointed I was when I started getting two then four core PCs, and realised that they were no faster (for almost all appllications) than before. This is true if you're hoping to get more performance out of a single application. For me, the greatest benefit of multicore has been that I can do...
by lavers
Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:54 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: persistent Wrong Hash value
Replies: 3
Views: 744

Re: persistent Wrong Hash value

Are you checking the checksum of the .zip file you downloaded, or of the unzipped contents? I believe the checksum is for the .zip file.
by lavers
Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:03 pm
Forum: Graphics, sound and multimedia
Topic: PIANA Chamber Orchestra
Replies: 7
Views: 1919

Re: PIANA Chamber Orchestra

So what does it do? Looks interesting!
by lavers
Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:24 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: RPi as a mother board
Replies: 5
Views: 878

Re: RPi as a mother board

The GPIO pins aren't fast enough to run a video card at full speed (if you were enough of an electronics wizard to get it to work in the first place).
by lavers
Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:21 pm
Forum: Bare metal, Assembly language
Topic: Raspberry Pi boot
Replies: 20
Views: 6603

Re: Raspberry Pi boot

The Raspberry Pi boot files are not written in ARM code, but in code specific to the GPU that is actually controlling the boot process. You won't have much luck trying to write your own as the specifications for the GPU are not public. The first stage of the process you can control is kernel.img. I ...
by lavers
Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:08 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: How to find the RAM size?
Replies: 8
Views: 12935

Re: How to find the RAM size?

Exit top by pressing Q or [ctrl]+Z . Ctrl+Z does not exit top (or any other program). It suspends the currently running command/program so you can get back to your shell prompt. Top is still there in the background, type fg to bring it back to the foreground. You may be thinking of Ctrl+C which doe...
by lavers
Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:19 pm
Forum: Graphics programming
Topic: Glade on the raspberry pi
Replies: 4
Views: 5013

Re: Glade on the raspberry pi

I may be mistaken, but I think you can create your Glade UI on another computer, and then transfer the .XML file that it creates to the pi and compile your application there.
by lavers
Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:36 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Naive question: Why have an sd card slot at all?
Replies: 25
Views: 8473

Re: Naive question: Why have an sd card slot at all?

Why from a design point of view? 'There isn't any code'... or 'just because' doesnt address the question. Why design it that way? The System on a Chip (SoC) that powers the Raspberry Pi is, to my understanding, designed for mobile phones and the like. Therefore it's probably only been designed at t...
by lavers
Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:00 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Rev2 boards are here!
Replies: 103
Views: 13497

Re: Rev2 boards are here!

So out of curiosity, what exactly was the reason this had to be so hush-hush until the announcement? Hadn't informed everyone involved yet?
by lavers
Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:09 pm
Forum: Python
Topic: Morse machine problems...
Replies: 7
Views: 1533

Re: Morse machine problems...

Look up the 'for' loop in Python. For example, you could do something like:

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for letter in string:
    print letter
This would print each letter of the string, one per line.
by lavers
Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:04 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: You wanted MPEG-2? You've got it!
Replies: 207
Views: 87393

Re: You wanted MPEG-2? You've got it!

OK, but I'm at a bit of a loss how a separate plain text licence file is any less secure than a single plain text config file...
Yeah, should be interesting to see how many keys are accidentally made public by virtue of people sharing their config.txt...
by lavers
Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:45 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: RPi will not power on
Replies: 7
Views: 1061

Re: RPi will not power on

Give it a few hours and then try again. The Pi has fuses that, when blown, take a while to restore themselves. It might just be that you gave it a power surge and blew the fuse.
by lavers
Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:53 pm
Forum: Raspbian
Topic: Pi hangs when start.elf replaced
Replies: 11
Views: 2473

Re: Pi hangs when start.elf replaced

I think a recent firmware update fixed a bug that was corrupting the boot partition when it was written to (don't quote me on that though ;) ). I did a rpi-update the other day and the process of writing the new firmware to the boot partition seemed to have corrupted it and my Pi would not boot. I j...
by lavers
Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:04 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Alternative phrases
Replies: 7
Views: 1454

Re: Alternative phrases

"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."
Gert van Loo wrote:My knowledge of English phrases is not good enough to translate that one.
Please enlighten me.
I believe that one is meant to be something like "The toast always falls butter-side down".
by lavers
Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:52 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: 19" rack?
Replies: 6
Views: 3728

Re: 19" rack?

I don't think there's room on the Pi to drill any holes. All the mounted boards I've seen have been mounted with brackets of some sort.
by lavers
Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:31 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: Minimising SD card writes
Replies: 8
Views: 7584

Re: Minimising SD card writes

As an alternative to linking .bash_history to /dev/null, you can just set the HISTFILE shell variable (in your .bashrc file for example) to blank, which will cause Bash to not write a history file. I haven't got my Pi yet, so I don't know if distributions like Raspbian already do this, but you might...

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