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by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:39 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Background picture
Replies: 33
Views: 19446

Re: Background picture

I've been trying for the last couple of hours to put a metallic edge round it, like that used in the banner, top of page.
Having failed miserably, could I just suggest it might look good if you could do it?
by Burngate
Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:35 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Physical design
Replies: 120
Views: 19284

Re: Physical design

I think the word you're looking for is optimum.
by Burngate
Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:43 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doomed to use Powered Hubs
Replies: 66
Views: 12639

Re: Doomed to use Powered Hubs

<r><I><s>[i]</s>The LAN9512 data sheet states \"Full Power Management with individual or ganged<br/> power control of each downstream port\".<e>[/i]</e></I><br/> [img]<URL url="https://sites.google.com/site/burngatehouse/home/drawings/9512.svg"><LINK_TEXT text="https://sites.google.com/site/burngate...
by Burngate
Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: The gods of Pi
Replies: 15
Views: 4049

Re: The gods of Pi

<t>I was just thinking about the ecosystem of Raspberry Pi, and how it seems to have evolved, and have come up with an analogy.<br/> The Greco-Roman gods had some rather unsavoury habits - eating their kids and the like - but we could leave that side alone. Otherwise, we have<br/> Eben as Zeus / Jup...
by Burngate
Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doomed to use Powered Hubs
Replies: 66
Views: 12639

Re: Doomed to use Powered Hubs

<r>.... <I><s>[i]</s>the software (USB Drivers) itself handles that such that it will still be limited to a max current of 500 mA per port.<e>[/i]</e></I> How? or are you saying the Pi tells the device it can only use 500mA so the device behaves like a good boy and only takes that? ... makes sense, ...
by Burngate
Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:50 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doomed to use Powered Hubs
Replies: 66
Views: 12639

Re: Doomed to use Powered Hubs

<t>If I were designing the circuit (which I\'m not - there\'re cleverer people out there) the first thing the power would hit is the fuse. Then the reverse biased diode - connect the power the wrong way, it\'s shorted by the diode, blows the fuse. In parallel with that is the over-voltage protection...
by Burngate
Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:15 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doomed to use Powered Hubs
Replies: 66
Views: 12639

Re: Doomed to use Powered Hubs

<r>There seems to be some uncertainty about what the Pi can / will supply through its USB ports. Part of that is that we don\'t yet know the precise circuitry of the Pi itself. I did ask about a week ago about this (<URL url="http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=43&mingleforumaction=viewtopic&...
by Burngate
Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:04 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: How many would you make?
Replies: 60
Views: 12313

Re: How many would you make?

Should you think about a sweepstake on how fast they're sold out? With a prize of an alpha board? And what's going to happen with the alpha boards? Museums?
by Burngate
Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:00 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)
Replies: 11
Views: 2377

Re: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)

<r>Look on the General discussion >> News articles... page 15, by Liz. Pointer to nice article on <URL url="http://www.osnews.com">www.osnews.com</URL> with Adrian Lees booting into RiscOs. Still work to be done with USB &c. Also <URL url="http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=43&mingleforumac...
by Burngate
Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:29 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: How many would you make?
Replies: 60
Views: 12313

Re: How many would you make?

<t>I've just noticed you're now well past 2500 forum members - 2745 as of now according to the forum front page. If the average "I'd buy ..." is close to 4 then you've effectively sold the first batch. That's not including all the lurkers, and anyone else who may have been promised some behind the s...
by Burngate
Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:32 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: I didnt believe it until...
Replies: 8
Views: 1825

Re: I didnt believe it until...

15 pounds of fresh raspberries? So I won\'t be able to get my Pi till sometime next June when the raspberries are out?
by Burngate
Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:43 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

<t>I went along to the RISC OS London Show in Feltham yesterday, hoping to see RasPi, even though it's parents weren't with it, and found three of them - 6% of the population!<br/> Taking care of them were several "uncles", from Cambridge Uni. and from Broadcom, who were able to demonstrate their aw...
by Burngate
Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:50 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How does R-Pi boot?
Replies: 21
Views: 4199

Re: How does R-Pi boot?

I wish you wouldn\'t do that - I just get sweaty under the armpits. You\'ll next be announcing forthcoming announcements about announcements about forthcoming announcements.
by Burngate
Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:26 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Great website! (Some) brain dead posters
Replies: 4
Views: 1232

Re: Great website! (Some) brain dead posters

<t>A guy walks out of the desert to find a vast expanse of ocean: the first thing he does is jump in shouting \"Yipee!\". Only after that does he sit back and start thinking.<br/> So don\'t be too hard on them - you were that guy ten minutes ago! And reading through 12515 posts in 888 topics takes a...
by Burngate
Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:18 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wishes for 2nd gen Raspberry Pi
Replies: 272
Views: 75098

Re: Wishes for 2nd gen Raspberry Pi

<t>Yes you can't buy it yet, but a year from now when the 2nd gen. Pi is being designed you may be able to. Of course the price of that chip might still be wrong, but if we're just talking wishes we can wish for the right price as well.<br/> Mind you until I get the real 1st gen Pi in my hot stickie...
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:04 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Sealed casing
Replies: 19
Views: 4503

Re: Sealed casing

<t>A long time ago I heard that Tektronix, when refurbishing scopes, would dunk them in soapy water (don\'t know if it was actually true ... )<br/> We did the same when oiks poured coffe in their keyboards. As long as you get all the soap out, use deionised water, and dry it *THOROUGHLY* before appl...
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:42 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: raspberrypi.COM
Replies: 28
Views: 3846

Re: raspberrypi.COM

I\'m going to get a Greek keyboard. Then I can stick a sticker on the ? key. Also just to be annoying I\'ll stick one on the ? key (see separate thread)
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Consider throwing out the "Model A" / "Model B" naming convention.
Replies: 22
Views: 3625

Re: Consider throwing out the "Model A" / "Model B" naming convention.

Using pi and defining radians from it, you get ?=sin(?) for small ?.
Using tau the same way, you\'d end up with a 2 somewhere for no apparent reason.
Seems to me you have to choose between the baby and the bathwater
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:17 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

Re the develop-online article: it's a pity they're still using pictures of the mark-1 midget instead of at least the alpha board
Liked Eben's interview
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:13 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How would you use a Raspberry Pi device?
Replies: 514
Views: 227162

Re: How would you use a Raspberry Pi device?

<r>What would be the potential for a SETI@home system on RasPi?<br/> I'm thinking: set up a R-Pi, always-on and networked to my router. Then it just trundles along on its own, full-time doing SETI@home, or protein-folding, or or any other distributed computing project (<URL url="http://en.wikipedia....
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:08 am
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: RasPi for Higher Ed Radio Astron
Replies: 17
Views: 6527

Re: RasPi for Higher Ed Radio Astron

<r>Off on something of a tangent, what would be the potential for a SETI@home system on RasPi?<br/> I'm thinking: set up a R-Pi, always-on and networked to my router. Then it just trundles along on its own, full-time doing SETI@home, or protein-folding, or or any other distributed computing project ...
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:32 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Consider throwing out the "Model A" / "Model B" naming convention.
Replies: 22
Views: 3625

Re: Consider throwing out the "Model A" / "Model B" naming convention.

Ford model A? ... then the 2006 edition Pi should\'ve been model T?
by Burngate
Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:11 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Merchandise ideas
Replies: 116
Views: 23342

Re: Merchandise ideas

That's what Jamesh was doing on Helvelyn: setting up the secret HQ in a shepherd's hut for the "RasPi takes over the world" conspiracy cult
by Burngate
Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:01 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)
Replies: 11
Views: 2377

Re: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)

Satellite phone? He can\'t escape those!
by Burngate
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:48 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)
Replies: 11
Views: 2377

Re: Demo in London Risk OS Sat 29th Ocotober (£5)

As I said, hiding away on Red Pike (or Great gable or Helvelyn)

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