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by Burngate
Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:46 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Será possível BITCOINS minerar / Will be possible Bitcoins miner
Replies: 9
Views: 2660

Re: Será possível BITCOINS minerar / Will be possible Bitcoins miner

<r>[quote]<B><s>[b]</s>Quote from Montekuri on November 9, 2011, 11:06<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> You could do a better effort to write either in portuguese and in english. \"seram\" is a word that doens\'t exist in portuguese. And we don\'t write \"poster\". The right word is \"post\".<br/> If you write a...
by Burngate
Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:21 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Break out board (GPIO, SPI, I2C, and UART)
Replies: 189
Views: 47319

Re: Break out board (GPIO, SPI, I2C, and UART)

<t>Quote from Gert van Loo on November 8, 2011, 20:23<br/> Ok, I can reveal that I have been working on a simple I/O extender card. Note: It is my own development and is not (yet) official Raspberry Pin foundation work. <br/> Great! I'll take two!<br/> (just as gentle encouragement - a few months do...
by Burngate
Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:31 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: 1 PSU to rule them all ?
Replies: 49
Views: 8019

Re: 1 PSU to rule them all ?

OK thanks, Gert.
by Burngate
Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:33 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Case
Replies: 20
Views: 3582

Re: Case

<t>A long time ago I read an article somewhere about the effect of ESD. The author\'s main point was that ESD may not kill a circuit straight away: it could damage the silicon such that cracks could take time to spread, so that although it initially worked, its time-to-fail was seriously impaired.<b...
by Burngate
Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:35 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: 1 PSU to rule them all ?
Replies: 49
Views: 8019

Re: 1 PSU to rule them all ?

Overcurrent protection (resettable fuse), overvoltage protection, reverse polarity protection. Should protect it from most things except a lightning strike direct to the PSU
by Burngate
Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:10 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Composite output: resolution and overscan
Replies: 11
Views: 3294

Re: Composite output: resolution and overscan

<r>NTSC : Never Twice the Same Color<br/> SECAM : Something Essentially Contrary to the American Method<br/> PAL : Perfection At Last<br/> SECAM might be technically better in some ways, but not for the studio - you can't mix two SECAM signals with just an adder. That's why most SECAM studios origin...
by Burngate
Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:42 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: car pc
Replies: 36
Views: 17130

Re: car pc

<t>I'm forever forgetting to turn the lights off when I park the car, so I plan to use two Pis as a remote monitoring combo.<br/> One sits in the car monitoring things like the lights and central locking, and talks to the second one via wifi (or bluetooth?).<br/> Neither really needs a full size mon...
by Burngate
Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:42 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: News articles and blog posts about Raspberry Pi
Replies: 1021
Views: 231051

Re: News articles and blog posts about Raspberry Pi

But does it make it taste better?
by Burngate
Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:37 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Confused Limitations
Replies: 39
Views: 7296

Re: Confused Limitations

<t>When my daughter was starting school (early 90's) it so happened the school was thinking about computers. Since no staff were "into" them they relied on parents.<br/> Among all the golfers, footballers and duchesses, enter a local businessman who owned a hi-tech business, and kindly put up the mo...
by Burngate
Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:18 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: News articles and blog posts about Raspberry Pi
Replies: 1021
Views: 231051

Re: News articles and blog posts about Raspberry Pi

I didn't know raspberry pies had codecs
by Burngate
Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ultimate Pi Peripherals
Replies: 21
Views: 5619

Re: Ultimate Pi Peripherals

Fermilab have second-hand Tevatron if I can find the cash.... Oh, you said Practical.
by Burngate
Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:58 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Background picture
Replies: 33
Views: 19446

Re: Background picture

<t>Someone long ago asked if a vector file of the logo existed. That thread is closed, but having traced the logo, I thought I'd upload my effort here.<br/> [Image Can Not Be Found]<br/> Ok that didn't quite work how I expected. I'll come back to you.<br/> <br/> Try this (reduced to 10%)<br/> [Image...
by Burngate
Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:53 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Background picture
Replies: 33
Views: 19446

Re: Background picture

<t>Don't know how that sort of thing is done (not looked into it), but as it boots, my A9home shows an image (of the RiscOs cog) until the OS has started loading. One of yours would look good on a Pi. Power-on, the image appears, almost instead of a power LED just to let the user know the thing's wo...
by Burngate
Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:47 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Background picture
Replies: 33
Views: 19446

Re: Background picture

<t>Wow ! You're an artist!<br/> The first one was what I was thinking of, but having seen the rest, either black_glow or black_glow_curved are my favourites, and I'll be using one or the other as my desktop background.<br/> Thanks!<br/> <br/> PS no I won't show you my creation - I'd be too embarrass...
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:58 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi 101 (read before posting)
Replies: 102
Views: 97727

Re: Raspberry Pi 101 (read before posting)

I hope you caught him and put him back in before he did too much damage
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:23 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Classroom Setup
Replies: 64
Views: 14992

Re: Classroom Setup

<t>This is exactly what I was hoping could happen!<br/> Also I would hope things like this are where the buy-one-give-one donations are going.<br/> Only being one of the congregation, I have no idea how that would be sorted - how someone would qualify to recieve a GO-from-a-BO - but this seems like ...
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:03 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: The gods of Pi
Replies: 15
Views: 4049

Re: The gods of Pi

<t>So we still need to find<br/> <br/> Hades (Pluto) - underworld, but also hidden wealth. Who's in charge of finance? Jacklang!<br/> Apollo - music, plague and prophecy. Four days after his birth, Apollo killed the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi. Could be an annoying detail.<br/> Art...
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:25 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: 3D model of Raspberry Pi logo
Replies: 26
Views: 9140

Re: 3D model of Raspberry Pi logo

I'm 62. Do you think she's too young for me?

I'll shut up now
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:13 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: 3D model of Raspberry Pi logo
Replies: 26
Views: 9140

Re: 3D model of Raspberry Pi logo

Like the video. Can we have her phone number?
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:08 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Search engine of the forum - 4 letters limit
Replies: 9
Views: 2220

Re: Search engine of the forum - 4 letters limit

Ok so I do exist! thanks!
by Burngate
Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:59 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Search engine of the forum - 4 letters limit
Replies: 9
Views: 2220

Re: Search engine of the forum - 4 letters limit

Just tried that last one - didn't give me anything!
Also tried to search on my username just to see if I exist - I don't!
Ah! spelling - 2 r's in RaspberryPi: trying again... 13 results ... I still don't exist though
by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: RPVA -- Raspberry Pi VAR (Value Added Reseller) Assn
Replies: 14
Views: 2979

Re: RPVA -- Raspberry Pi VAR (Value Added Reseller) Assn

Cats out of bags, worms out of cans, horses out of stables, cows out of barns, Pis out of baking tins ...
by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:33 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Need a use for a Vertex 2 SSD
Replies: 8
Views: 2795

Re: Need a use for a Vertex 2 SSD

As far as I know "bricked" hasn't yet hit the dictionaries, and is at best slang, despite that page on wikipedia. So it hasn't yet got an official meaning. It could mean what you do to a camel to make it drink ... best not to go there.
by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:23 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Inspirational people in Computer Science
Replies: 99
Views: 20407

Re: Inspirational people in Computer Science

Who invented the abacus? - note Mayan / Aztec use pre-Columbus and therefore independently invented in America
by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:16 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Inspirational people in Computer Science
Replies: 99
Views: 20407

Re: Inspirational people in Computer Science

How about ... Bruce Dickinson: flies planes, fencer, rock star ... does all that he must be into computing.

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