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collateral
6,851 posts
87 months
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I've been messing with one, although I've yet to find a proper use for it.
Having several SD cards means I can mess about and not worry too much about the results.
The new wheezy seems useable, although sftp mounting didn't work until I installed gvfs-backends
It'd be really nice if someone made a GUI for omxplayer...
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0000
9,322 posts
60 months
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While I'm at it with Raspbmc.
Rolling a whole distribution just for an application?!
And it appears to have disabled text logins on other ttys, really helpful when it's decided to forget its network settings so I can't connect via SSH!
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Stew2000
2,513 posts
47 months
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collateral
6,851 posts
87 months
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Trying to compile snes9x at the moment and not having much success - failing at make
Giving it another crack now with the following edit:
sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile
Change:
CONF_SWAPSIZE=100
to:
CONF_SWAPSIZE=400
eta bah, still didn't work!
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DuncanM
1,813 posts
148 months
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Hello, About to order my Pi. Can anyone recommend a good SD card/place to buy SD cards? Really looking forward to playing about  Duncan
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OldJohnnyYen
938 posts
18 months
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Dude it's an SD card there are no good places to buy one, just pick one up on eBay, amazon,7dayshop, which ever sites you use often will sell em. You can even get thm in the super market. I think I got a bunch of class 10 4gb for £4 each on eBay.
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Stew2000
2,513 posts
47 months
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I used the 8GB card from my old camera :P
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collateral
6,851 posts
87 months
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I bought a pack of 2x 8GB from PC World (12 quid iirc) and they seem to work fine
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DuncanM
1,813 posts
148 months
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Thanks guys, over thinking it I guess
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_dobbo_
9,077 posts
117 months
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DuncanM said: Thanks guys, over thinking it I guess Actually to be fair you aren't - lots of people having problems are having them because of the SD card they are using. It's worth exploring the supported hardware list and selecting a card from there. Same goes for wireless keyboards and mice - lots of potential problems there. AS to where you buy it - matters not!
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daveake
642 posts
95 months
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collateral said: I bought a pack of 2x 8GB from PC World (12 quid iirc) and they seem to work fine I killed the 4GB card that came with my Pi from RS. Might have bent it - dunno. Anyway I bought that same twin pack at PCWorld, plus a C270 webcam they had cheap, and did this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18900862 with them. Dave
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DuncanM
1,813 posts
148 months
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daveake said: collateral said: I bought a pack of 2x 8GB from PC World (12 quid iirc) and they seem to work fine I killed the 4GB card that came with my Pi from RS. Might have bent it - dunno. Anyway I bought that same twin pack at PCWorld, plus a C270 webcam they had cheap, and did this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18900862 with them. Dave That is so seriously F-ing cool I don't know what else to say
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S6PNJ
1,810 posts
150 months
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Well there's good news and bad news in my inbox today! My Pi ships w/c 30 July - that's the good news. The bad news is that I don't have time to play with it as I'm meant to be writing my MSc dissertation so haven't really got the time until mid September! Boo Hoo!
Of course if I sorted my life out and actually wrote my dissertation, I might have time, but I'm too busy procrastinating!
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collateral
6,851 posts
87 months
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daveake said: collateral said: I bought a pack of 2x 8GB from PC World (12 quid iirc) and they seem to work fine I killed the 4GB card that came with my Pi from RS. Might have bent it - dunno. Anyway I bought that same twin pack at PCWorld, plus a C270 webcam they had cheap, and did this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18900862 with them. Dave Small world! I saw that on the Pi blog. Always surprises me quite how far and wide PH's oily tentacles reach
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0000
9,322 posts
60 months
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collateral
6,851 posts
87 months
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0000 said: Is there improvement over the standard raspbmc? I haven't found raspbmc too bad, aside from there are some videos it thinks it can play, but then all you get is a black screen. It's a shame the pi seems too slow for vlc to work properly
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JVaughan
5,212 posts
152 months
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Whoop Whoop ... I now have Pi !!!
Arrived yesterday afternoon. Loving it so far
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MattDell
2,041 posts
24 months
PH Senior Techie
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Accelebrate
2,721 posts
84 months
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MattDell said: He's built XBMC from source on Raspbian, rather than using Raspbmc.
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nosuchuser
343 posts
85 months
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daveake said: I killed the 4GB card that came with my Pi from RS. Might have bent it - dunno. Anyway I bought that same twin pack at PCWorld, plus a C270 webcam they had cheap, and did this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18900862 with them. Dave That is indeed amazing. I haven't even powered the little git on yet...
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