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by Nexy
Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:09 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: car pc
Replies: 36
Views: 17346

Re: car pc

... Garmin maps and while you can't really purchase the ones I'm after unlocked, they do appear to be available. Unfortunately I can't currently test this as the bloomin' Win32 SVN Bleeding Edge doesn't appear to contain the damn Garmin driver. Hurmph. <E>:(</E><br/> <br/> EDIT: Navit also lacks ...
by thinkbrown
Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:16 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Playstation Emulator - ePSXe
Replies: 13
Views: 22847

Re: Playstation Emulator - ePSXe

... Broadcom GPU, but hopefully some of the basic things (anti-aliasing, texture scaling) are possible. I need to get my hands on a RPi before I can test any of this.</t>
by Sinned383
Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: STICKY: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 3761
Views: 238081

Re: Introduce yourself!

... see me running away.<br/> I like to marry ideas together, and I also like to break apart and twist other ideas. I think that having a medical test facility in a small travel bag would save lives in the poorest of countries as well as in the richest. If a hammer cost a million dollars, would ...
by liz
Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Test post, forum software discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 4450

Re: Test post, forum software discussion

It worked! Move along, nothing to see here. 8)
by liz
Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:10 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Test post, forum software discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 4450

Re: Test post, forum software discussion

Ignore this - I\'m messing with the cacheing software in an attempt to deal with our most recent Slashdotting while still having a functional forum. Test!
by winkleink
Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:13 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Case
Replies: 20
Views: 3667

Re: Case

... was ESD as there was no way to tell.<br/> When I was dong board repair as a job for a big multi-national I would find the fault repair the board, test it, test again. mark up as passed and then send on for final cleaning and then QA.<br/> Sometimes the boards failed at QA and I suspected the fact ...
by Jongoleur
Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:24 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: 1 PSU to rule them all ?
Replies: 49
Views: 8122

Re: 1 PSU to rule them all ?

... of the Pi itself and that will discourage people on a budget from buying a better PSU.<br/> <br/> Its probably up to brave early adopters to test these devices out... <E>:o</E><br/> <br/> Edit: I remember reading a forum post about the on board protections that the Pi board will have downstream ...
by ukscone
Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Smallest Linux Install
Replies: 47
Views: 17251

Re: Smallest Linux Install

I won't know 100% until I test it on real hardware but my openwrt build rootfs which seems to work on another armv6 device is approx. 3MB and runs in about 32MB fine
by mengel
Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:49 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Known to work SD cards. Please add yours !
Replies: 33
Views: 11577

Re: Known to work SD cards. Please add yours !

... card I was planning to use to start with. Given that I'm not planning any gaming or fancy stuff, that should work OK right? I saw a data transfer test on another thread usbHD-SD at 1.3 MB/s and a class 2 card is good for 2 MB/s, so seems I should be OK.--mike</t>
by alsaf
Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:28 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: An OS for the R-Pi created completely in assembly
Replies: 54
Views: 18945

Re: An OS for the R-Pi created completely in assembly

... and stripping the excess baggage than that is not so bad.<br/> <br/> Your comment about using the console I think answers my question about how to test drivers if you have no display.<br/> <br/> Apologies if this sounds daft as I am new this but is it possible to write a driver using virtualised ...
by smoffen
Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:56 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: RAID NAS
Replies: 15
Views: 3534

Re: RAID NAS

<t>A simple test of performance could be done quite easily. Just enable the FTP server on the r-pi, hook up an external USB drive, then upload a suitably large file to the drive and download it again while noting the transfer speeds ...
by solanum
Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:34 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Classroom Setup
Replies: 64
Views: 15236

Re: Classroom Setup

... and high school(9-12th grades) and probably college level. Which covers -very- basic, to advanced topics in shorter lessons, with say a quiz or a test at the end of each lesson to very the lessons have been learned.<br/> <br/> There is a big push in the US for in home schooling, and this could ...
by giammy
Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:49 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: A smartphone as RaspberryPI monitor
Replies: 4
Views: 2655

Re: A smartphone as RaspberryPI monitor

... if, when the port is routed, we can use it for a server on the linux box and the client on the smartphone ... perhaps it works ... but I did not test!<br/> <br/> bye<br/> giammy</t>
by johnbeetem
Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:37 pm
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: Educational Programming Language
Replies: 73
Views: 25450

Re: Educational Programming Language

... of "do b while (a)", and ":=" for assignment to remind the programmer that the value is transferring from right to left and so "=" can be used to test for equality instead of the IMO rather ugly "==".<br/> <br/> Once you've learned Pascal, learning C is just a matter of picking up K&R.<br/> ...
by subminiature
Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:48 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: Classroom Setup
Replies: 64
Views: 15236

Re: Classroom Setup

... Open source software enabled the school to simulate expensive oscilloscopes and thus offer an interactive physics lab. Note: since this initial test bed, we’ve supplied a further 15 E2s (along with 15 low power monitors), all equipped with Ubuntu 9.04 and running off solar power.</t>
by Davespice
Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:29 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can we get someone to test Turboturtle?
Replies: 0
Views: 702

Re: Can we get someone to test Turboturtle?

<r>Hi guys;<br/> I'm interested to see how well the r-pi will run this, it's a python based Logo implementation. Logo was the first programming language I ever used in school. I think this’ll be a perfect teaching platform for all ages. I was actually thinking of writing something like this myself f...
by dom
Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:13 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Should I be able to boot off a 16GB SDHC?
Replies: 20
Views: 3809

Re: Should I be able to boot off a 16GB SDHC?

<t>I think we can only definitively say a card will work if we have tested it.<br/> The number of sdcards in existance is greater than we can test ouselves.<br/> <br/> A wiki seems like a suitable place where cards that have been tested to work or not work ...
by Bacan
Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:18 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Why phone charger was a smart move.
Replies: 5
Views: 2274

Re: Why phone charger was a smart move.

USofA users will expect a blade type plugs on the PSU.
Suggest doing a test market of these PSUs to some US yanks to get them use to EU PSUs.
by Lob0426
Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Doomed to use Powered Hubs
Replies: 66
Views: 12929

Re: Doomed to use Powered Hubs

... not micro.<br/> <br/> OT:<br/> As to conforming to concrete specifications. Definitely true in countries that have department or organizations to test electronics. In countries that do not have these resources it can be a real crap shoot as to quality. Knock offs are all over the place with misleading ...
by jamesh
Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:07 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can the GPU be powered down?
Replies: 10
Views: 2248

Re: Can the GPU be powered down?

... not using them. The ballpark figures I have been given for the GPU if there is no screen attached, and doing no other work, is around 8mW. We have test cases where it's playing back MP3 and it's taking around 10mW. That for the Videocore 4 itself, these figures may be slightly different on a Raspi.</t>
by raffy
Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:00 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Puppy Linux
Replies: 10
Views: 3011

Re: Puppy Linux

... in preparation for the move to ARM, and here are some of his notes that the PI community should know:<br/> I am curious, decided to try a test build for an ARM CPU. Using T2, as that is what I know best, and it has an option for the ARM1176JZF-S CPU, which is the one used in the RaspberryPi ...
by Bakul Shah
Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:19 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Test
Replies: 8
Views: 1870

Re: Test

ping!

Yay! I can post again. Thanks Liz for fixing the problem. Much appreciated.
by ukscone
Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:06 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Prepared for faulty boards and claims?
Replies: 15
Views: 2330

Re: Prepared for faulty boards and claims?

Ah NOW WE KNOW what jamesh is up to half way up a mountain in the middle of nowhere. he\'s going to subject the alphaboard to the drop test.

here we are at 20,000 feet get down shep
by jacklang
Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:42 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Prepared for faulty boards and claims?
Replies: 15
Views: 2330

Re: Prepared for faulty boards and claims?

That said, there will always be those who change their mind, or address or the like, so we have to be prepared. Whether it will be economic to unpack, test and recycle them ourselves remains to be seen
by Lakes
Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:49 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: How many would you make?
Replies: 60
Views: 12602

Re: How many would you make?

Final test run before full production?
I would guess sometime in December as well.

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