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My nephew knew how to get to cbeebies to play games online at 4, he's nearly 8 and I'm expecting him to popup on facebook/twitter anytime soon ;) My eldest's first two recognised words at the age of two were 1) their own name 2) "LOADING." Yes. We had dial up... A few years on and one of my other c...

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reiuyi wrote:It's not like my very own neighbours would rob me. It's not like anyone's neighbours would rob them (I hope).

Mine would. I'm currently up to around £20,000 in pre-court-case legal bills... but that's another story.

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If you have a decent power supply you may not need that bit. You're by no means the first person to break that part off. It's there to smooth out the input power - but a decent power supply will not necessarily need it. Other people have reported no problems using the board without it. http://www.ra...

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This is, of course, why you use the "tongue test". It's way more sensitive than a finger tip, and funnily enough, heals faster if you do hit a hot spot. Same principle as using your elbow to test a baby's bath water. Z. Do you only use your elbow because it's so uncomfortable bending over the bath ...

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I would prefer Parcel Farce over Shitty Link any time.

They don't even bother to ring the doorbell before shoving pre-written "you were out" through the door. Our "local" depot is over 45 mins each way. The reception area smells like an open sewer.

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Yes. No restrictions other than in the FAQ to do with names.

*edit* I mean trademark page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules

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Well I did wire up my darkroom safe lamp when I was 10. I cut through the twin twisted wire with a pair of scissors when it was still plugged in. Took a good notch out of them. :o You just reminded me of my darkroom wiring age 8 or 9. I managed to wire up my bayonette extension cable taking power t...

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So you’re experience is that the power supply shipped with the H7 is not good enough, right? That's sooo lame. D-Link is supposed to be a quality brand. It's quality in as much as the thing limits the output to 500mA as it should....which means it doesn't properly power the pi withouth a rather exp...

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New stuff is always a little scary. Your parts list really helps. Thanks. The last time I used a soldering iron for more than the odd repair was twenty-mumble years ago when I test-built circuits for a chap doing a series in a computer magazine (it may have been you, though my recollection was that ...

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Will do. Thanks.

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IDC socket - says "No Longer Manufactured" on Farnell. Clearance item on rapidonline.

resistor - 18 needed, pack of 100
ribbon cable £18.96 for 30M

Hmmm. Would be nice just to be able to buy the bits needed in a little plastic bag (hint hint).

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Ahhh - I thought this was just me!

Surely "Shutdown" should umm.... shut down..... and "Logout" should just drop you from desktop to CLI?

Is there a particular reason for not letting the end user go back to the CLI?

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Looks rather too much like a toilet air freshener to me....sorry...

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FeersumEndjinn wrote:I am working on using a different python module to create this file purely in RAM in a tempfile but it hasn't been fully tested yet - watch this space.

I don't do Python, but can't you just grab the command output into a string?:

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import os
x = os.popen('ip -4 addr | grep eth0').read()

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I'm planning on purchasing one both to use for regular everyday things As long as you keep your expectations of performance realistic for a very low CPU powered machine with very very little memory everything is fine. It is possible to run a desktop environment and browse the web or write documents...

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It didn't work for me either from the start I used something like "links2 -g -driver fb". It also needed some console mouse library. gpm or something like that. This works for me (am using it now from cli). Without -driver fb all I got was a load of red lines on the screen. Before running it I had ...

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Montala wrote:Just a quick, and possibly silly question, but do the firmware updates actually change anything on the Raspberry Pi itself,

Just the SD Card. Nothing permanent.

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I'm in the same boat. No idea about electronics design and was looking at these in addition to the gertboard: SK Pang starter kit for Raspberry Pi,: http://www.skpang.co.uk/catalog/starter-kit-for-raspberry-pi-b-p-1107.html - however I don't want that case. Not sure where best to get the bits withou...

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MattHawkinsUK wrote:Works for me on Windows 7 x64. It throws an error on initial launch but I just ignore that and carry. No problems with the Debian images I have written.

Ditto

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I suppose you could use a rooted Kindle, and ssh to it over USB or WiFi.

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_ ... break_Hack

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/kindle-root

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My script already guessed it unless you're over 100 years old

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Am I first? I assumed that you are less than 100. This is my first Python script ever! from datetime import date, timedelta birthday = date.today() count = 0 while (count < 365*100): print birthday.strftime('%d. %m. %Y.') birthday -= timedelta(days=1) count += 1 ps. If I win the pi will go to my loc...

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Eugh! Fugly! I can't find any case on the RS site. Maybe it's only shown on order pages. I'm still looking for a basic clear enclosed case with enough ventilation. I dare not leave the pi out as I have young children who would find it irresistable. Top/bottom covered only case look pretty but still ...

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I'd suggest that there are very few new lonely lost users who would expect to try to ssh to a pi before trying it with keyboard & monitor attached.

If Pi had static IP already assigned it would be a nightmare when brought into school. All the new Pis with the same ip?

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RaTTuS wrote:my class 10 works fine

As does mine - microSD in an adaptor.

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