Forum Overview :: Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego

Posted from a Raspberry Pi by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/25/2014, 7:38am PDT I have connected up one of a couple of Raspberry Pi units I bought several months ago but haven't gotten around to using. I bought the kit version, which includes the SD card with thew operating system already installed, the power supply (the Pi uses a sub-mini USB connector for power, in theory I suppose you could run it off a powered hub from another computer) and the video cable, that allows me to plug it into a TV set and view it as a direct connection. I also pulled a spare Ethernet cable out of a drawer and plugged it in, then borrowed a keyboard and mouse )both USB, of course) and plugged them in. Fired it up and had to fiond the login credentials through a web search (username is pi, password is raspberry), then that gets me to a shell prompt. Type startx and X Windows comes up, and I am using the Midori web browser to access this site. Keyboard is OK except I think it's mapped slightly oiff, the pipe key, the vertical bar, shows as a tilde. Buth the mouse is recognized as 3 buttons and the scroll wheel works. I think the development of tiny but powerful computers like the Pi - it has 512MB of memory, it uses an SD card for booting and storage, has an 800mhz processor and costs $39 retail (the kit cost $89 because it has the extra components plus a breadbord kit) can be a significant game changer. The first new computer I bought in 1995 was an eMachines Windows 95 machine with 256meg of memory, 333mhz processor, 4gb of disk space and cost $400. This device is 10% of that price and has more than twice the capacity of a machine from 20 years ago. Plus you can run it on a TV set, you don't need a monitor. Or if you customized the operating system to use a different runlevel (the underlying OS on the Pi is BSD) so it either ran as root or started up an application under a non-privileged user, you could run it headless as a specialized device or service provider,, and possibly do some amazing things with this.

Posted from a Raspberry Pi by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/25/2014, 7:38am PDT     Re: Posted from a Raspberry Pi by Jerry Whorebach 07/25/2014, 1:01pm PDT         Tdarcos just got WHOREBACH'D NT by *crying baby sound drop* 07/25/2014, 2:06pm PDT         Unfortunately Whorebach is correct by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/27/2014, 3:31am PDT             Unfortunately? by Eurotrash 07/27/2014, 1:12pm PDT             Still doubtful. by Jerry Whorebach 07/27/2014, 8:06pm PDT                 Re: Still doubtful. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/16/2014, 5:42am PDT                     You're in luck! We should be able to determine the date of manufacture from the NT by model number on the case sticker. 08/16/2014, 7:13am PDT     Second Correction by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/27/2014, 3:39am PDT         In this thread, Tdarcos cites 9 facts. 6 of them are wrong. NT by 3 remain unverified 08/18/2014, 5:12am PDT             Okay, what's wrong? Prove it or it means you're lying and you know you are. NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/25/2014, 9:25am PDT                 In this thread we shoot fish in a barrel NT by TSummary 08/28/2014, 5:35pm PDT                     Are you saying that making fun of wheelchair-bound retards on the internet by Eurotrash 08/31/2014, 11:05pm PDT                         No. I'm saying Tdarcos is as smart as a fish. NT by TSummary 09/10/2014, 7:27pm PDT                 We can't prove a negative and you know it, Commander. by Jerry Whorebach 09/10/2014, 9:09pm PDT