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Glad to have you aboard Sorceror49. I'm just dropping a note this evening to say that pics from the second meeting have been uploaded here . Also, Romilly wrote up a nice blog post about the event here . Thanks everybody who came along yesterday, it was great and I look forward to organising the nex...

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Hey folks. Just a quick reminder to say that we're meeting tomorrow! For anybody who cannot make it, I'll be trying to document the event as much as possible. On a related note, I recently opened a subreddit for the group in an effort to fill the void between meets and collaborate on things. Please ...

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Try running the following at a terminal: sudo raspi-config and select the "expand_rootfs" option. After a reboot, this will expand the root partition to utilize all 8GB. When retrying the libreoffice installation, if "sudo dpkg --configure -a" doesn't work for you, then you can normally get around i...

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This problem usually occurs when either the keyboard requires more than 100mA or when the power supply used for powering the Pi is rated less than the recommended 700mA. Your desktop can provide more juice to the USB ports which is probably why they run fine on there. See this post at the wiki for m...

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I bring some great news this evening. We're listed in the latest issue of The MagPi . See us under the Raspberry Jams section. Also, I received a kind email earlier from Quick2Wire who say that they'll be coming along. I suspect they'll be giving demos of their quick2wire Python library , which prov...

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This is usually a problem with the drive having not been unmounted cleanly on Windows. May I suggest plugging it in to a Windows, let it mount and then unmount it using the safe removal tool in the taskbar/superbar? As NTFS support in Linux is reverse engineered and experimental, the NTFS-3G program...

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Are you referring to the SHA-1 checksum numbers on the download page? These are so that you can test whether your downloaded zip files are correct as the RPF intended. Sometimes downloads appear to be successful, but problems with the server or your own bandwidth can corrupt the contents. To test yo...

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On Ubuntu I've been learning to get on with Sublime Text. This is unfortunately not available for the Pi, but it's default theme Monokai (which is easy on the eyes) can be replicated easily in gedit by installing this theme from Github into /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/ and selecting it in ge...

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Moved to Other Languages and renamed the topic slightly so as to bring more attention.

Please avoid all caps too, geno

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liz wrote:Steve - can you mail me a little closer to the event to remind me about it so I can tweet something?

Will do

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Evening all. We have a time, date a venue for the next meeting. It's a few weeks later than we were hoping but better late than never right ;-) So, the next meetup will be held at House Cafe again, on Saturday 8th December , 12:00-17:00 just as before. I hope to see you all there again. Please bring...

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I privately collect a lot of Raspberry Pi related audio and video media which I hope to formally archive somewhere when the time is appropriate. I also find myself picking up a lot of the official or "blessed" third party hardware that makes it to market such as the addon boards, any Pibow variants,...

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The current youtube-dl package is broken. I would recommend removing it and instead try running the updated script here.

Move it to /usr/bin/ and issue a "sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/youtube-dl" for easy access and execution

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the cgi-bin directory is served from where, as all executable cgi code has to be there . You'll have to look at the apache config files. httpd.conf and others. Could you please explain why it's often recommended that all cgi scripts go into their own cgi-bin directory? I've been able to run a direc...

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I'm sort of new to this myself too, although I've been experimenting with Python scripts rather than C. Still, the info I have on this may prove useful to you. Assuming you're running Raspbian (Debian), you'll have website definitions in the directory /etc/apache2/sites-available/. I for example hav...

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Perhaps the easiest way to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Debian/Raspbian system is by using the tasksel tool. If it's not already installed, you can install it by running the command: sudo apt-get install tasksel Once it's installed, run it like so: sudo tasksel You'll see an ncurses interface ...

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You can look at your disk usage by using the command: df -h An easy way to free up some space: sudo apt-get clean That will remove package cache which can be quite weighty if you've been running lots of installs and upgrades. Run df -h again to see how much space you've freed up, and if it looks goo...

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You shouldn't be testing it with md5sum, you should instead be running sha1sum. Here's what you'll see with sha1sum: stevepdp@glitch:~$ sha1sum 2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.zip 3bc788d447bc88feaae8382d61364eaba1088e78 2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.zip Remember also that it's the zip you need to check, no...

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I've been able to read these on the Pi using the application evince. To install it, simply run the following in the terminal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install evince You should then be able to find evince under the menus, or you can launch it from a terminal with the path to the PDF files. L...

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Please see this thread and continue any discussion there.

Locking.

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Yes, there's that too.

SD cards are less difficult to loose and are generally far more durable than Micro SD cards.

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Where are you shopping for cards? I understand that SD cards are still very popular given their continued use in digital cameras. I'm guessing you've only looked in mobile phone shops, where Micro-SD is the dominant additional storage format. If you're interested in a flush fit, this sort of Micro-S...

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There are a couple of things to learn here: 1. .desktop files 2. m3u playlists (or another playlist format supported by vlc) Here's an example which I just put together and tested. First, make a directory in /home/pi/.config/ called autostart mkdir /home/pi/.config/autostart Next, we need to create ...

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rdatoc wrote:Posted a reply with my SD and SSD benchmarks but it seems to have fallen into a black hole...

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I bought the album which featured Hey Hey 16k a while back, see here.

Here's the flash video on B3TA.

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