ahh thanks this boils it down to something with my company's firewall/ server then. Onto the IT guy...

Is anyone else having trouble getting onto raspbian.org? A month or so ago it was fine, i could access it fine (I'm at work but have been able to get on to the site before), and my apt-get update could access the mirror directories just fine. Now I type in www.raspbian.org and it tells me page not f...

So figured it out by staring at the autostart file and messing with other commands. Went back and tried editing the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart in leafpad You have to run leafpad from terminal window with permissions to change, FYI sudo leafpad and instead of just adding this to the autostart ...

I'm pretty new to Linux and have been trying to get a scratch program I made to boot upon LXDE start up. I have been able to get the Scratch program itself to boot upon start up by editing the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart in leafpad and adding "@scratch" to its contents. But Scratch opens it's ...