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The nice vendor I bought my B+ case from, put the price up by 2 quid when the Pi2 came out and he started advertising it as a Pi2 case.....

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I'd have said the overclocking was a dead cert. It should have been mentioned from the outset.

First rule of network administration, never over clock, buy better hardware....

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Now if I'd said that, I'd be out on my ear, again....

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On the whole, yes. Some tight fitting cases may need a bit of hacking to accommodate the RAM chip stuck on the bottom of the Pi2. The connectors are exactly the same.

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You can only use your desktop monitor and it needs to be an hdmi monitor or you would need a hdmi to vga adapter if it is a vga monitor. :mrgreen: It doesn't need to be HDMI, the much older DVI interface works directly with the Pi's HDMI and only needs a cheap cable. I've often recommended buying a...

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SSH actually stands for Secure SHell. as apposed to telnet which does a shell without the security. If you don't need a GUI you don't anything else on the Pi end. (You don't need anything for a GUI either but installing a remote X on the other end is a bit daunting. The unholy fudge VNC is an easier...

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I was thinking leaving the original temperature gauge alone, it will work come hell or high water which can't be said of a computer / micro controller solution. I've used epoxy to repair engine blocks, (it was actually taught as a viable solution when I did my apprenticeship many moons ago). I repai...

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I take it you haven't used epoxy, which is what I said in my first post. Epoxy will easily stand the 90-110C that the water jacket will get to (we're not interested in the temperature the exhaust manifold gets to) and is robust enough to repair the bl**dy engine block let alone stick a sensor to it ...

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You can run an individual OS on a 4GB card via the old school image installer. Raspbian recommended. Downloads link, top of page, scroll down past NOOBs (or NOBs, using it's derogatory name). Download the Raspbian Image. Follow the intructions here : http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/install...

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You need a bigger card than 4GB to run with Noobs. 8GB is recommended.

You can run an individual OS on a 4GB card via the old school image installer. Raspbian recommended.

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Yeah, the red and green lights both come on and stay on (no blinking). From what I've read it sounds like it is behaving as if I had an unreadable card? I've tried a few power supplies: apple wall charger 5v 1a kindle wall charger 5v ~.8a a new iPad charger, I believe it's 2a They all produce the s...

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rpdom wrote: No Raspberry Pi 2 at Farnell UK? I must have imagined this page then http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/rasp ... dp/2461029

I must be imagining the Pi2 that has been sat on my desk for the past couple of weeks since I bought it from Farnell.

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+1 for removing ifplugd. If you know what you're doing it just gets in the way.

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New SD card (small, low class, reputable vendor) and an entirely different power supply would be the next step. Power supply and SD card problems are VERY common, duff Pis aren't.

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A cluster of Pi's does not give you a big powerful computer, it gives you a network of small computers, and its up to you to give each of them a workload. It was true for old Pi, on Pi2 you have 4 cores and each core is about 3x faster than old CPU. 24 new Raspberry Pis still will be slower than my...

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The way I'd do it, is to forget about the existing sensor and epoxy a DS18B20 digital thermometer to a part of the engine block where the water jacket is. Hook it up to the Pi and cover it with something to insulate it from the surrounding air (foam insulation perhaps ?). That way the new sensor wil...

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Maybe I'm being too positive here, but the Wifi on my Pi2 is a huge improvement on earlier Pis. I haven't bothered with the patches to stop the Wifi dying, and its still working a week later. More to do with kernel 3.18 than the Pi2, but whatever.Haven't experience crashing out at all, but I run min...

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The best thing to do is to make a copy of the config.txt file before you start editting it, so if/when it stops it booting you can put the original back. You might be better starting a new thread, so that people with experience with hdmi tellys will come in. I know nothing of HDMI televisions.

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Outside my area of knowledge that one. My old telly doesn't have HDMI and I've never hooked a Pi up to it.

I know there are a load of settings in /boot/config.txt to fine tune HDMI,

This may yield clues :

http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... fig-txt.md

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I'm curious how you would place that diode and resistor, i have tried everything i can think off but i can't seem to figure it out. Its extreme simple charging, I've used it for batteries that are (very) forgiving about how you charge them. They are wired in parallel the resistor is to limit the cu...

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Pi clusters tend to be built as proof of concepts, educational tools or 'because I can' rather than to use for a specific purpose, because unless you're a specialist programmer with an application that can be programmed to use a cluster, its next door to useless. If you have something you actually n...

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So, what are you using as a display ? Each type of display has its own problems, and means to resolve it. I use an old PC monitor with DVI input and a HDMI-DVI cable. It just works. HDMI TV's, VGA monitors with adaptors. Composite TVs can all be problematic. and need thing putting in configuration f...

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Its the external casing protecting the innards of the USB sockets, it was possibly shorting something ?. I don't have an old B to hand that isn't doing something important or isn't in an inaccessible case to have a close look.

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I often wondered how a software daemon would respond if the Pi actually crashed, because surely the daemon would die with it ?

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Since a Pi is sold for pocket money prices, it it going to make a lot of odds if your PI dies in 10 years rather than 100 years through thermal cycling ?

The wife is talking serious bathroom work, the cost of the dozen Pi's I own pales into insignificance.....

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