Ha! Yes... I wondered how cryptic that might have been.

This was the version I originally wanted to post.

More the Risc OS thing. I can only wish you good luck with the file server...

This is an utterly pointless post but I just wanted to say that I'm writing to you from my Pi using RiscOS plugged in via ethernet. It's WAY faster using the internet with RISC than it is with Raspian.

They've said they wont make anymore changes to the Pi until around 2016 and all improvements from here on in will be with software optimization. So fair enough that'll be good if they can get linux running on it smoothly but I can imagine it's going to take a long time. Currently its way too slow to be usable. RISC is written to be used with ARM but surely thats a lot of work to do something similar with Linux?

Scotswahey wrote:

RISC is written to be used with ARM but surely thats a lot of work to do something similar with Linux?

dynamiteReady wrote:

If it's GUI is faster than Rasbian for general purpose stuff, then it's probably a good way to run a £30 PC...

The only thing that stops it being my default install on my Pi is the lack of wireless support. But then I'm still struggling to get my Pi online wirelessly anyway, so I guess I can't hold that against RiscOS. I would wager getting Linux to run on another architecture is a whole Thing™. A billion Internet Points for the first person to get Raspbian running with HURD rather than Linux. You will forfeit having sex ever again, though.

Scotswahey wrote:

Only thing is it says to edit the conf file. How the fuck do you do that?

If it's the same as the Unix under-pinnings in OS X, it'll be something like "nano ~/.bash_profile". Also have a dig around online, something like this should help. I think BASH is the default shell in Raspbian, but I'm not 100% sure.

Scotswahey wrote:

Cheers Blue I'll give it a BASH... tomorrow... Sorry.

Ba dum, tish.

Scotswahey wrote:

In other news theyre released a new web browser called Epiphany.

Sold. HTML5 FTW.

dynamiteReady wrote:

That will launch Nano. A command line text editor. It takes some getting used to, but it isn't that much worse than notepad. You may have to Google the commands though as I don't have a clue what they are, but understand that ctrl + 'o' saves, and ctrl + 'x' exits Nano.

Nano displays the basic commands at the bottom of the terminal window. And as you say, it's about a hojillion times easier than something like Vi(m) or GNU Emacs.

The new browser really isn't all that fast. I tried overclocking the pi to 900 and it's still chugging like fuck loading anything. It's just not got enough speed or memory to run linux properly in it's current state. 

It'll be another 2 years before we get the Raspberry Pi 2. It'll be interesting how much performance they can get out of the current setup but I'm not holding my breath. 

Still glad I've got the thing though. I'm in my man cave every chance I get messing around with the thing.

I've been instructed by the GF to set my spare pi up in the babys room with a camera so we can log in with the laptop and check on the baby. I nearly had it all sorted but something didn't work. I'll get there eventually.

Ooooh nice, haven't seen that. Mmm would be really handy with a Pi with Pure Data patches...

Is that an LG charger?

n0face wrote:

It's taken about 5 hours some dodgy soldering and a lot of head scratching but it works. Music plays and it sounds good. Now to figure out how to make it work a wireless access point.

Nice one.

I wired my d class amp up to a 12v battery and the raspberry pi through a car charger and it played! Then I turned it up, it cut out and now i can't get it to play again? 1 step forward 2 steps back.

I've finally gone wireless, I feel like a raspberry pi ninja right now.

Now to figure out how to set it up as a wireless access point.

Don't know yet, but I've run it for a good 12 hours over the weekend and it was still going strong. Planning to have a solar cell on the finished article so if it's a bit sunny hopefully it should run forever.