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by W. H. Heydt
Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: A Differnt (physical) set up...
Replies: 12
Views: 2967

A Differnt (physical) set up...

Got my RPi in yesterday and hooked it up (worked just fine), but my physical setup is--I think--a bit different than most people are using. I have a VGA&PS/2 8-port KVM switch (TrendNet TK-802R) and a 16-port 10/100 switch next to my desk through which I run several machines. So using a Neewer HDMI-...
by W. H. Heydt
Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Farnell running late?
Replies: 6
Views: 1466

Re: Farnell running late?

Newark/element 14 appears (for my order, anyway) to be running ahead of schedule. When they committed to a estimated ship date, it was for the week of 18 June (I ordered on 3 March). The UPS label was cut on 1 June, and UPS tracking showed receipt starting 4 June, with a scheduled delivery date of 8...
by W. H. Heydt
Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:19 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How many Pi's are out there now?
Replies: 35
Views: 7350

Re: How many Pi's are out there now?

I don't have one YET, but... Newark/element 14 did a lot of shifting around of dates. When they finally were able to give an actual "estimated ship date", it was for the week of 18 June. Since then, it moved up. AS of Monday, it was in UPS' hands with a delivery commitment of 8 June...so I should ha...
by W. H. Heydt
Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:36 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: VAX/VMS on RaspberryPi
Replies: 11
Views: 22264

Re: VAX/VMS on RaspberryPi

Now...can you make your simulated VAX run bsd 4.2 unix? (UCBerkeley used to run that on a VAX 11/750, aka ucbvax and bsd 2.9 on 5 PDP 11/70s--unixa through unixe.)
by W. H. Heydt
Thu May 31, 2012 4:26 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How many sold so far?
Replies: 19
Views: 6173

Re: How many sold so far?

RS has been sending out confirmation numbers allowing one to "convert" interest into an order. I got mine last week and have put in the order. When the order goes through, they are quoting delivery in 5 weeks. Since I didn't get around to "expressing interest" until 3 March, my order is after the bi...
by W. H. Heydt
Wed May 02, 2012 4:40 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Anyone in the US get a ship date from Newark (Element/14)
Replies: 188
Views: 38066

Re: Anyone in the US get a ship date from Newark (Element/14)

Order 188xxx, on 3 March.  E-mail giving week of 28 June shipping date.  I live in California.
by W. H. Heydt
Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:37 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: HDMI-VGA Adapter with chip GBP 12, free shipping
Replies: 59
Views: 31519

Re: HDMI-VGA Adapter with chip GBP 12, free shipping

US Amazon price is $20.  Since the next cheapest HDMI-to-VGA converters I've look at are around $40 (and go up from there to $200 or more), this looks like a--potential--winner.

It would be nice to be able to use an R-Pi with my 8-port VGA KVM switch...
by W. H. Heydt
Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:54 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Price
Replies: 12
Views: 3472

Re: Price

<t>Kernel said: <br/> <br/> <br/> JamesH said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Prices in $ for above reasons. $25 and $35 for Model A/B. Contract with resellers (RS and Farnell, not those who then sell them on on Ebay for example) specifies they must be sold for $25 and $35 (before shipping and tax).<br/> <br/> <...
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:54 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What is the bottleneck in web-browsing performance?
Replies: 4
Views: 1716

Re: What is the bottleneck in web-browsing performance?

<t>Loading time...lot of stuff loads with a modern browser, so no surprise there.<br/> <br/> Page loading time...given all the cruft included in modern web pages, 5 to 10 secs isn't a big surprise either.  On a fair number of web sites even on a 2.5GHz XP Wintel system, I'd be happy to get pages to ...
by W. H. Heydt
Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: List of games for Raspberry Pi
Replies: 39
Views: 19610

Re: List of games for Raspberry Pi

Hmmm...  Once I actually *have* an R-Pi in hand, I'm thinking of seeing if I can get "Crusaders of the Dark Savant" to run on it.  Since the last time I ran it was on a 120MHz 386, which was *way* over spec, it ought to run okay in the DOSBox.
by W. H. Heydt
Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:42 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Short video of Raspberry Pi booting on 4 AAA batteries
Replies: 24
Views: 5651

Re: Short video of Raspberry Pi booting on 4 AAA batteries

<t>May not be as much over voltage as it might seem.  There will be a drop through the power cable (which appears to be pretty long) and since AAAs don't have a lot of capacity, there may be a drop in output voltage due to load.<br/> <br/> All in all, the rig probably isn't actually supplying 6v, bu...
by W. H. Heydt
Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:18 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: MS SmallBASIC
Replies: 27
Views: 11437

Re: MS SmallBASIC

rubikwizard said:


Thanks for all the responses to my original question! I had no intention of starting yet another 'language war' thread.

Don't worry much about it.  You're perfectly safe so long as don't express a preference for either vi or emacs.

by W. H. Heydt
Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:10 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: 350,000 RPis pre-ordered
Replies: 18
Views: 4298

Re: 350,000 RPis pre-ordered

I think the real consequence of the runaway success that appears to be happening is that Microsoft should be very, very worried.  They'll be looking at a generation of kids growing up using Linux instead of Windows.
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:26 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: MS SmallBASIC
Replies: 27
Views: 11437

Re: MS SmallBASIC

<t>rmm200 said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Object oriented code is not just a buzzword - it leads to maintainable code. Basic is as far from that goal as you can get. People that learn in Basic typically have a hard time switching to the object oriented paradigm. Why start your students off with a handicap?<...
by W. H. Heydt
Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Possible UPS (Uninterruptible power supply, not courier!)
Replies: 1
Views: 1006

Re: Possible UPS (Uninterruptible power supply, not courier!)

<r>Helpme1986 said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Was looking for a good enough power supply on Amazon (as mine isnt that great and had no recommendations yet) and stumbled upon this:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Tr.....38;sr=8-19">http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Tr.....38;sr=8-19</URL><br/> <br...
by W. H. Heydt
Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:19 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: RS update today
Replies: 14
Views: 3097

Re: RS update today

I got that one.  I think it amounts to, "Hi, there! We haven't dropped dead yet."
by W. H. Heydt
Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:17 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Close call - nearly bricked my RPi
Replies: 18
Views: 4618

Re: Close call - nearly bricked my RPi

teh_orph said:


More experience = more kit ruined? :p



On the hardware side, exactly.  On the software side, experience is directly proportional to the amount of machine time wasted.
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:35 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pi in mass production?
Replies: 12
Views: 3633

Re: Pi in mass production?

rmwebs said:


I recall reading that after testing they just needed copies of the paperwork, then could start. However it may be a case of waiting a week or so for a new dye to be done for the boards....


Raspberry red, no doubt....
by W. H. Heydt
Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:47 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Home v School
Replies: 27
Views: 5381

Re: Home v School

<t>clive. said: <br/> <br/> <br/> W. H. Heydt said:<br/> <br/> <br/> If "computing" had been taught the way music was when I was in school, I'd never have become a programmer because I would have avoided computers at all costs after such an experience.<br/> <br/> <br/> That's  a red herring. All you...
by W. H. Heydt
Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:53 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Home v School
Replies: 27
Views: 5381

Re: Home v School

<t>clive. said: <br/> <br/> <br/> N.B. If anyone is still worried that "computing for all" will be compulsory at KS3 even though not everyone has an aptitude for it (or even enjoys it) - just replace the word  "computing" with "music" in any such discussion. Few people would say that music shouldn't...
by W. H. Heydt
Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:51 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Creating R pi Start Up Disk in Ubuntu
Replies: 10
Views: 3883

Re: Creating R pi Start Up Disk in Ubuntu

<t>Jim Manley said: <br/> <br/> I"m coordinating R-Pi user groups meeting at the Computer History Museum where I"m a volunteer senior docent, artifact restoration engineer, and historian. I hope to be able to meet as many other R-Pi owners as possible so we can share our ideas and help solve issues....
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:45 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: STICKY: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 3775
Views: 244428

Re: Introduce yourself!

<t>I suppose by now, I ought to do an intro post...<br/> <br/> Wilson (Hal) Heydt...<br/> <br/> Learned to program starting in the Summer of 1964 on an IBM 1620 Mod I owned by San Diego State College, where the older of my two sisters was a student and a student operator on the system.  At that poin...
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:04 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Programming with *insert language here*?
Replies: 49
Views: 10137

Re: Programming with *insert language here*?

<t>rurwin said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Try writing something that requires bitwise boolean operators in a language without them.<br/> <br/> <br/> I once had to help someone extract the 4 lower order bits from a byte in COBOL (shop standard...I'd've done in easily in ALC if given the choice).  It took ver...
by W. H. Heydt
Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:50 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi Raq anyone?
Replies: 18
Views: 5126

Re: Raspberry Pi Raq anyone?

<t>With regards to controlling multiple R-Pis...<br/> <br/> I have, sitting in the rack next to my desk, an 8-port KVM switch (Trendnet TK-802R) that can be ganged together with 15 more of the same, giving--potential--control over 128 machines.<br/> <br/> Granted, this particular switch would be a b...
by W. H. Heydt
Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:12 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Programming with *insert language here*?
Replies: 49
Views: 10137

Re: Programming with *insert language here*?

And just to add to amusement... I learned programming on FORTRAN IID and SPS IID on an IBM 1620 Mod I.

A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in ANY language.

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