Electronic stuff never fails to amaze me.

[deth502]

Damn. Windows is up to version 10 now? I'm still sporting Vista - set in classic XP mode - on my 7-year-old Gateway laptop.

me too!!

[deth502]

That will never work. People who use things like Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other open source hardware have been using Linux for years and have no love for Microsoft's security hole ridden, bloated junk.

A few may grab a copy of WinBlows just for the hell of it if it's free, but Microsoft made their bed a LONG time ago and us "hacker types" feel pain merely THINKING about Microsoft let alone USING their shit.

Only the "unwashed masses" use Windows... mostly because they don't know any better...

the article addresses a lot of that. they said the motivating factor was that they want to give it away to get ppl to use it to regain its standing as a viable platform. they realize that everyone is moving away from it and are trying to "sweeten the pot" as it were to try to bring ppl back.

and if its going to run on a 2gb micro sd card, it cant be that bloated, right? (they (pi) do run the os from the sd card, dont they?)

[Krupski]

the article addresses a lot of that. they said the motivating factor was that they want to give it away to get ppl to use it to regain its standing as a viable platform. they realize that everyone is moving away from it and are trying to "sweeten the pot" as it were to try to bring ppl back.

and if its going to run on a 2gb micro sd card, it cant be that bloated, right? (they (pi) do run the os from the sd card, dont they?)

Yes, the Pi runs Linux off a micro-SD card. The OS takes up about 2GB (that's with a TON of apps installed).

I seriously doubt that the BOOTLOADER for a Microsoft product could fit on a 2GB card.

Even if they could, what would people get? Internet Explorer, security holes and daily updates and patches?

I'll pass.

[deth502]

im going to design my own small single board computer to compete with raspberry pi. it will be designed for downloading porn from the internet. i will call it the hair pi.

that said, roger, you asshole. i just spent $120 on ebay buying raspberry pie, and touchscreen, and keyboard, ect.. and i blame you for it!!!

[Helen Keller]

can drop a 1000lb bomb down a chimney but , I cant get 4g reception .

[Krupski]

im going to design my own small single board computer to compete with raspberry pi. it will be designed for downloading porn from the internet. i will call it the hair pi.

that said, roger, you asshole. i just spent $120 on ebay buying raspberry pie, and touchscreen, and keyboard, ect.. and i blame you for it!!!

Hair Pi!

Ha ha!!! Yeah the Pi "only" costs $30... but then you need a $30 wireless USB keyboard, a $25 wireless USB mouse, a $250 HDMI display monitor (or a $100 TFT touchscreen).

I want to put maybe a 5" or 7" color TFT display on mine, but all of them (so far) connect to the Pi via the HDMI port. What's the point when the Pi has a serial RPi port for video?

We SHOULD be able to just slide the thin ribbon cable from a TFT display into the native display port on the board. But currently there aren't any available.

I built a small computer with a mini motherboard, a small SSD and a video card. The idea was to connect it to the TV and be able to play any kind of media (ripped DVD and BD disks, MP3 music, YouTube video or just browse the web on the TV). We've been using it for several years now and it works fine... but the kicker is that a Raspberry Pi board can do the same thing as our TV media player box. A board that you could hide in a pack of cigarettes does the same thing as a whole PC.

Our home file / media server is just a box running Linux and filled with hard drives. It doesn't even have any video output. But it's got five 4TB drives setup as RAID-6 (which gives me 12 TB of storage and can tolerate the failure of up to two drives at the same time).

I was thinking of making it RAID-5 (16 TB and can survive one bad HDD) but I figured with my luck when drive #1 died, another one would die while I was replacing the first one and then all out stuff would be gone.

So far only 1.4 TB are used, so I guess it's OK to basically "waste" 8 TB on redundancy.......

[Krupski]

can drop a 1000lb bomb down a chimney but , I cant get 4g reception .

If you drop a 1000 lb bomb down your chimney, you won't need 4g reception.

[deth502]

i only got the little 3.2" touch screen that plugs right into the top of the pi. it was only $20

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261653219529...3AMEBIDX%3AIT#

and im sure theres more i 'need" that i dont even know yet. i know i didnt get the wifi dongle thing. i did get the little wireless keyboard though. thats the only thing that came in the mail so far.

[deth502]

ok, fuck technology. i cant even get the damn os burnt onto the damn sd card after 2 days of screwing with it now.

[Krupski]

ok, fuck technology. i cant even get the damn os burnt onto the damn sd card after 2 days of screwing with it now.

Do you run Windows or Linux?

In Linux, it's super easy to copy the boot disk image to the SD card. If you run Windows, look up a program called "WinImage" http://www.winimage.com/

This will let you do anything with any disk... copy an image to a disk, copy a disk to an image, etc... but be careful if you write data to the wrong drive there's NO WAY to get it back. You are screwed. Double and triple check that you are on the right disk before you click "OK".

Or, if you want I can get a micro SD card and burn it for you, then mail it to you and you mail me the cost of the SD card. Up to you.

[deth502]

i just got that to work last night. all of the tutorials i saw said to use fedora to write the image. (i am running win vista) fedora wouldnt work for shit! last night i came across win image and finally got it to work.

one of the reasons i wanted to try this whole raspberry pi thing out was because it is linux based. i have a fear of linux, so i dont want to leave windows for it, but i figure this will help me get my feet wet with it and be a little more comfortable with it.