Hi Matthijs,

Thanks so much, that's definitely helped me out, sounds like a great solution to my problem. Wish me luck!



cheers,

-Ricky

Hi Matthijs, I know this is outside the scope of the conversation but as a few of us are interested in the electrical side I'm wondering if you could elaborate for us? your system looks great! I'm looking into doing something like this but I'm looking for advice on power regulation in a device like ...

Finally.. some official news.

Piface looks interesting? Am I right in thinking the Gertboard is a more comprehensive package though?

I hope so as I just finished building one!

-R

Hurrah! That was easy then, Doh!

I understand I shouldn't ever really be using root but when using these package managers etc they seem to require you to be using them as root. This is why I wanted to know!

Thanks Bredman.

<t>Hi,<br/> <br/> Getting slightly frustrated with myself now as I don't know how to handle this situation.<br/> <br/> I cant use applications like Aptitude for example that require you to "be root" as it asks for a password but I have no idea what the root password is<br/> <br/> Does "root" even ex...

<t>I can confirm this issue as i have ran into it many times. Some applications dont care for the pi user or password privileges. They seem to want root.. but it doesn't exist right?<br/> <br/> You can get around it in the terminal but a bit annoying really. Im new to linux so hopefully in the futur...

<t>I went down the Gparted Live CD route to resize my debian partition. Works fine now and i expanded it to use the full size of the SD card.<br/> <br/> If like me you use a Macbook Pro with nvidia graphics i had to start it with the nouveau.modeset =0 flag incase anyone gets the hanging problem lik...

<t>Will be using my pi for astro use <br/> <br/> Sounds like its more than capable to be a good tracker and / or multifunctional device maybe even handling image capture.<br/> <br/> Move > acquire image > move etc and then store frames safely for stacking or whatever later on!<br/> <br/> Who knows!<...