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jwlawler

I have been running three little websites on my old Rapsberry Pi model B for several years and it has done a very good job. It is not really necessary but I am upgrading it to a new Pi 2. I have loaded Raspbian and I am now configuring Apache. It is working but it has reminded of an annoying problem...

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DougieLawson wrote:Try using Opera on Windows. That's the best option.

I just realised that I missed the "on Windows".

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kusti8 wrote: I'm pretty sure Opera isn't on the raspberry pi.

I would go for kweb. I tried it out this morning for the first time and it certainly is speedy and works well.

Thanks. I was puzzled by other posts which seemed to say that Opera was not on the Pi. I wondered whether it had recently appeared.

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DougieLawson wrote:Try using Opera on Windows. That's the best option.

Thanks, can I install that with apt-get?

John

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I had expected there to be many posts on this topic but a quick search has not found any which closely match my question. I have owned a Raspberry Pi 1 for years. It gives good service as a web server but not as a client. It runs out of steam on anything but the simplest website. I have just bought ...

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Thanks all. Starting from scratch won't be too hard, I was just feeling lazy.

Any comments on using the new Pi as a web browser?

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I had my original Pi for years now and I am still happy with it. It runs three little websites for me very well. Its small size and running costs make it excellent for this. However, there is one project that it failed at. I wanted to leave one plugged to the TV with a wireless keyboard and mouse as...

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One of my main concerns is how to integrate DNS on the Pi with the Virgin SuperHub.

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Dougie,

Thanks.

I forgot to say that I am running Debian.

John

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Up to now, I have been using a poor man's DNS in my home network. I manually assign a 192.168.0.* address to each device, set a reserved IP address in my Virgin router, and use the hosts table on the devices. However, as the number of devices is growing rapidly, this is becoming tedious. Can I use m...

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mfa298,

Thanks. I keep an eye on logs and clear them periodically. The growth is real data that I am posting to the site.

John

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Lob0426, Thanks for the suggestions. I already run DenyHosts, would you suggest fail2ban instead or as well as that? The website software is my own. For the numerous attempts to guess at my admin pages, it simply returns page not found. If the attempts are persistent, it blocks the IP and later the ...

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RaTTus, Now, that's a nice tip - thanks. Rather oddly, my display is a 46" HDTV. Of course, it does not need this but it is near the Pi's home and has a spare HDMI socket so I have convenience of a permanently attached console. I rarely use it though since I usually SSH in from elsewhere. I did expe...

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RaTTus, Thanks. Is it not memory for a webserver? You mean that I should have said storage, disc? Without traditional discs being involved, I was not sure what was best to say. I am talking about the permanent storage and not the RAM. Fortunately, the RAM is sufficient since I don't think that I can...

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I run several little websites on my Pi and it does a surprisingly good job. The response times are impressive and my users are surprised when I show them the tiny server. One of the sites generates all of its output dynamically using servlets running in Tomcat and it still performs well. Obviously, ...

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My Pi commonly runs for weeks or months without a problem. The only two common reasons for stopping it are: the occasional power failure and a deliberate shutdown for software upgrade or a total back up. Be aware that doing a lot of writing to your SD card will eventually cause total file system cor...

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I just bought a Logitech MK260 wireless keyboard and mouse. It works fine with the Pi even though the dongle is not in line of sight of the keyboard or mouse and it is connected to the Pi via a USB hub.

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Of course, appliances do typically come with plugs and I more lazily assume or trust that an appropriate fuse has been supplied. There is no obvious good reason for the manufacturer to do otherwise. An appropriate fuse BS1362 will almost certainly be fitted in the UK but a manufacturer might choose...

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In the days when appliances typically came without plugs, I would use the smallest standard fuse that was sufficient for the load. Obviously, this should be less than the rating of the cable but that was normally supplied with the appliance and hence you would hope that the manufacturer fitted an ap...

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In general they do, but it doesn't stop some one one replacing them with a 13 A which rarely blow as you've noted and so have a long life. In the UK, fuses have a colour coding which is almost universal for the cartridge fuses in plugs, so you can tell their rating without seeing the figures. Red f...

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The 3 amp one would blow long before a 13 amp. They'll take their rating on a continuous basis, they'll blow inside a second or two at three times their rating. Very little stuff that isn't permanently wired needs 13 amps (~ 3kW at nominal 230V) . Its not a good idea to use 13A fuses for everything...

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The Einsein problem bothers me. I always thought it would be great to have piles of that really fast and expesive RAM that is the cache on board your CPU as main RAM. Then your machine would be super fast without all that horrible complication of caches. But what then if your computing elements wer...

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As a kid, I once miswired a circuit and I had a toggle switch directly across the 240V house mains. There was a 13A fuse in the plug and a fuse in the house switch board. When I closed the switch, it exploded but the fuses were fine. I was lucky not to get hurt and I did not make that mistake again...

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Hi I have a question about electronics that is very down-to-earth. Here goes: The GPIO feature of a RPi provides a +5V pin and a 0V (GND) pin. This is just similar to a 5V battery, nothing abstract here. Now I insert a resistor of R Ohm between these two pins, so from Ohm's law I get that the curre...

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Heater, I think that you are probably right. Modern supercomputers generally achieve their superness by being highly parallel. Each individual node may not be especially powerful but there are lots of them. I gave the example a while ago of seeing an IBM supercomputer. They weren't even using their ...

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