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- Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:51 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Availability in CANADA
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48559
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:30 am
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone
- Replies: 156
- Views: 50239
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:54 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: persistent Wrong Hash value
- Replies: 3
- Views: 899
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.
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:03 pm
- Forum: Graphics, sound and multimedia
- Topic: PIANA Chamber Orchestra
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2191
Re: PIANA Chamber Orchestra
So what does it do? Looks interesting!
- Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:24 pm
- Forum: Other projects
- Topic: RPi as a mother board
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1094
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).
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:21 pm
- Forum: Bare metal, Assembly language
- Topic: Raspberry Pi boot
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7516
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 ...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:08 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: How to find the RAM size?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21669
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...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:19 pm
- Forum: Graphics programming
- Topic: Glade on the raspberry pi
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5336
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.
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:36 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Naive question: Why have an sd card slot at all?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9267
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...
- Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:00 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Rev2 boards are here!
- Replies: 103
- Views: 16919
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?
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:09 pm
- Forum: Python
- Topic: Morse machine problems...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1849
Re: Morse machine problems...
Look up the 'for' loop in Python. For example, you could do something like:
This would print each letter of the string, one per line.
Code: Select all
for letter in string:
print letter
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:04 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: You wanted MPEG-2? You've got it!
- Replies: 207
- Views: 95248
Re: You wanted MPEG-2? You've got it!
Yeah, should be interesting to see how many keys are accidentally made public by virtue of people sharing their config.txt...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...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:45 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: RPi will not power on
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1319
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.
- Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:53 pm
- Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
- Topic: Pi hangs when start.elf replaced
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3041
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...
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:04 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: Alternative phrases
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1993
Re: Alternative phrases
"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."
I believe that one is meant to be something like "The toast always falls butter-side down".Gert van Loo wrote:My knowledge of English phrases is not good enough to translate that one.
Please enlighten me.
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: Other projects
- Topic: 19" rack?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4042
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.
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:31 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Minimising SD card writes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8740
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...