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by Heater
Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:16 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: too much of a good thing
Replies: 10
Views: 2367

Re: too much of a good thing

plugwash,

It's kind of depressing. Last century I was able to build an entire Linux OS on an 266MHz AMD. Don't remember how much RAM it had but for sure not a Gig.

I'm sure the Pi could rebuild a headless Debian. Webkit and such new monstrosities are not really essential.
by Heater
Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:58 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Best Projects so far
Replies: 9
Views: 10254

Re: Best Projects so far

If you are talking presentation skills don't forget the wonderful Amy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35XINnYFtA
by Heater
Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:34 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Help! Cannot boot
Replies: 9
Views: 3029

Re: Help! Cannot boot

ACT led just gives a brief green single blink when card is inserted...
I presume you have tried putting the card in first then applying power?
by Heater
Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:23 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Canon Printers and CUPS: ARM drivers availabile?
Replies: 32
Views: 48432

Re: Canon Printers and CUPS: ARM drivers availabile?

Never, ever buy a Cannon printer. We have a network Cannon printer/scanner/copier machine in our office. Took a whole day of scouring the net to find a recipe for getting that thing to print under Debian on a PC using CUPS. The Cannon web site is totally useless for finding any help. I had to write ...
by Heater
Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:15 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: too much of a good thing
Replies: 10
Views: 2367

Re: too much of a good thing

Who cares how old threads and posts are? Mathematicians are renowned for reviving threads after hundreds or thousands of years:) I was wondering about our opening posters statement that some Raspian packages cannot be built of the Pi. I have managed to build a GCC cross compiler (Runs on the Pi gene...
by Heater
Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Concise Wi-Fi guide
Replies: 14
Views: 4123

Re: Concise Wi-Fi guide

On my Chrome browser at 100% zoom it is almost totally unreadable.
I don't know if it's the font, or font size of if it's just screwing with my vision.

Content wise it looks good.
by Heater
Wed Jun 12, 2013 1:21 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ghans,

Never heard of gpsd before. Sounds great. I'll have to see if I can hook up my old gps module to it.

Oh, and thanks for the link to bancroft. That has finally inspired me to get node.js events into my head.
by Heater
Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:55 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Minicom won´t show a popup (CTRL-A +Z)
Replies: 5
Views: 2303

Re: Minicom won´t show a popup (CTRL-A +Z)

Might be something odd in that I'm using a Finnish layout keyboard.
by Heater
Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:25 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Minicom won´t show a popup (CTRL-A +Z)
Replies: 5
Views: 2303

Re: Minicom won´t show a popup (CTRL-A +Z)

This does not help but CTRL-A+Z works just fine for me. I'm using putty on a Windows XP machine and just now did "sudo apt-get install minicom". No changes to any configurations at either end. I would imagine this is an issue with Windows other than XP in that case. Strangely after all these years o...
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:51 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Concise Wi-Fi guide
Replies: 14
Views: 4123

Re: Concise Wi-Fi guide

Ah, I see, so those commands actually change the wifi config files so that wifi comes up on next reboot without having to do anything. I got the impression they were only temporary actions like ifconfig.
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:00 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Concise Wi-Fi guide
Replies: 14
Views: 4123

Re: Concise Wi-Fi guide

What I meant was, if you you don't have your GUI available how to you set up your WIFI? What files to tweak and how?
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:52 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What do I need for a Web Server?
Replies: 12
Views: 4399

Re: What do I need for a Web Server?

Sorry yes, that was a bit harsh.
I guess that's why we have the Pi, we have all got a lot to learn.
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:08 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Using Laptop as Monitor
Replies: 3
Views: 1872

Re: Using Laptop as Monitor

Have a google for "raspberry pi VNC".
You should be able to display you Raspies GUI over a network connection on your laptop using VNC. It will probably be pretty slow though.

Me, I just use ssh (google "ssh putty") from my windows running PCs and do everything on the command line.
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:53 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Concise Wi-Fi guide
Replies: 14
Views: 4123

Re: Concise Wi-Fi guide

The colour still makes my eye bleed.
Also where is the information?
The hard part is getting your WIFI link to come up automatically on boot up and reliably staty connected.
I guess the GUI app does that, I have never tried as I rarely have a screen attached to my Pi's, no HDMI devices in this house.
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:59 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What do I need for a Web Server?
Replies: 12
Views: 4399

Re: What do I need for a Web Server?

Install the Raspian operating system on it as in the instructions you will find around here. Install the apache on the Pi: $ apt-get install apache2 or perhaps you prefer nginx or some other webserver, installation is probably just as simple. Create web pages. It's not clear to me how a web develope...
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:21 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ahmedwahdan,
Well done.

Yes connections here are a bit fussy and will fail under some circumstanse as you see, I' have a go at fixing that up to make the demo better.

I'll have to get back to you I'm of to work now.
by Heater
Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:18 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

Jezmo, OK, I'll bite. Jesus Heater, you work with embedded systems and you put together that monstrosity? Yes I do and yes I did. Although "monstrosity" over the top and inappropriate as we shall see. Firstly you are going to have to reevaluate your old fashioned ideas about what an embedded system ...
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:41 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ahmedwahdan, The error "EADDRINUSE" means you are trying to run more than one server on the same port number. You must have left one running on another terminal or in the background. have a look with ps -A, kill all node processes you see and start again. Have to say I have never seen an ETIMEDOUT w...
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ahmedwahdan, OK, I went through the whole prosess on a fresh Pi, I did an apt update and dist-upgrade first. It worked straight away. Here are all the commands I used wit hsome comments added: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade $ sudo raspi-config # Used the update option. $ sudo apt-...
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:47 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

Wait a minute, I have another Pi here I can load up and try it on again.
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:15 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

Do you have the sever up and running when you start the client and get:
"connect ECONNREFUSED"?

Best to have two terminals to the Pi open when you do this.
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:22 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

You have spelled "install" incorrectly there.
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:06 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ahmedwahdan

After step 6 you should see a directory called node_modules in the node_tls_example directory. In there are installed all the modules.

Seems you missed a module:

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$ npm install  socket.io-client
Or was there some error when you did that?
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:32 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Industrial Embedded
Replies: 25
Views: 6223

Re: Industrial Embedded

iso9660,

Thank you. Those Olimex boards are impressive. Not quite there for our industrial temperature requirements ( −40 °C to 85 °C).
by Heater
Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:12 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: please help
Replies: 40
Views: 11987

Re: please help

ahmedwahdan,

I have added those rather lengthy instructions above to the repo at http://github.com/ZiCog/node-tls-example
such things are a bit heavy for forum posts and I have been meaning to that for a while.
Do let me know if anything is incorrect there.

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