Had this too.........
Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer
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Had this too.........
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You can still init 0 or shutdown which will cleanly unmount your filesystems for you. The only thing which annoys me about the lack of switch is that my power supply (TV service port, lol) doesn't cut out when you turn the TV off, so the RPi stays on unless I turn it off at the wall.Tenda, Tenga? Same difference!
No. You pull the power cable out. Can't imagine that's brilliantly good for the SD card but meh!
And as we all know, leaving a 3.5W device on all the time kills all the polar bears, or something...
Got caught out by the "red power LED" last night. Powered up and was getting no video output, and only a red led, i was thinking "oh boy, RMA time...". Read the RaspPi forums, formatted an Arch ARM img onto a SD card, and voila - it booted! Very happy, time to get compiling 
Caporegime
Is Viera Link different to HDMI-CEC?
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Caporegime
Cool.
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Caporegime
Ordered mine with a clear case from RS, has anyone got a cased one?
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Soldato
Can I have the code if it's spare?
Do you still want it PiKe?
WooHoo, been asked to pre-order by Farnell. They are quoting a 'should be' August delivery.
RS have told me last week that I will be able to pre-order next Wednesday (27th) with an expected delivery of 13 weeks after that, which puts it into September.
Its interesting because i registered with Farnell a full week after registering with RS on the 21st of May.
Look like Farnell are either optimistic, or have a bigger supply / smaller demand?
Anyway, will be ordering both so can I have one to put xbmc, iplayer etc on the TV in the bedroom and one to play with.
Cant wait tbh
RS have told me last week that I will be able to pre-order next Wednesday (27th) with an expected delivery of 13 weeks after that, which puts it into September.
Its interesting because i registered with Farnell a full week after registering with RS on the 21st of May.
Look like Farnell are either optimistic, or have a bigger supply / smaller demand?
Anyway, will be ordering both so can I have one to put xbmc, iplayer etc on the TV in the bedroom and one to play with.
Cant wait tbh
Caporegime
You can still init 0 or shutdown which will cleanly unmount your filesystems for you. The only thing which annoys me about the lack of switch is that my power supply (TV service port, lol) doesn't cut out when you turn the TV off, so the RPi stays on unless I turn it off at the wall.
And as we all know, leaving a 3.5W device on all the time kills all the polar bears, or something...
Out of interest, what TV are you using?
I've got a 4 series Samsung and was under the impression that the USB service port was only 500mA. But if it's pumping out 700+ than my dream of velcroing the Pi to the back might well come true!
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Out of interest, what TV are you using?
I've got a 4 series Samsung and was under the impression that the USB service port was only 500mA. But if it's pumping out 700+ than my dream of velcroing the Pi to the back might well come true!
It's a Samsung 5 series, and it may well be only 500mA, however because I'm using a powered USB hub, the extra draw seems to be matched by this -- it's not actually something I'm particularly keen on. If you unplug the Pi's power (but not HDMI) from the TV, but leave the hub plugged in and powered on, it doesn't switch off.
I guess I could always just run a micro USB cable from the hub to the Pi, but I'm not exactly sure how that'd work.
Caporegime
Even if it tries to draw more than USB spec it won't damage the TV it will just shut the ports down.
Soldato
just get one of the cables that 3 supplied with their dongles, dual headed for supplying extra power.
So...
OpenELEC is still downmixing the DTS to PCM, causing buffering/pausing every 10seconds.
The newest debian build is good, currently running Apache2 / PHP / MySQL / PHPMyAdmin on it.
However PHPMyAdmin maxes out the Pi, takes about 1-2 seconds to fresh a page on it. Standard lighter PHP scripts are fine though.
I should point out it was the first time I've ever installed the above, and I did it all quicker than my current host could get back to me regarding an issue on their server. Time for a new host!
Just ordered another Pi from RS-Online along with 2 transparent cases at £5 each, 10 week delivery though.
Also if anyone is on Quakenet IRC, join #RaspberryPi
OpenELEC is still downmixing the DTS to PCM, causing buffering/pausing every 10seconds.
The newest debian build is good, currently running Apache2 / PHP / MySQL / PHPMyAdmin on it.
However PHPMyAdmin maxes out the Pi, takes about 1-2 seconds to fresh a page on it. Standard lighter PHP scripts are fine though.
I should point out it was the first time I've ever installed the above, and I did it all quicker than my current host could get back to me regarding an issue on their server. Time for a new host!
Just ordered another Pi from RS-Online along with 2 transparent cases at £5 each, 10 week delivery though.
Also if anyone is on Quakenet IRC, join #RaspberryPi
Probably not worth it then, as I'm not using a powered hub. Thanks for the quick reply, though
Unfortunately there's only one USB socket on the TV, so nowhere to plug a second in.
Just got my RC6 remote working (using the walkthrough here), though, so that's good!
Soldato
Just got my code through so will get one on order. I'm guessing the waiting period is still around 4-6 weeks?
You'd probably fair a lot better running a LEMP stack over LAMP as Nginx isn't as resource hungry. Also worth having a look on the LET (LowEndTalk) forums, loads of info on running web stacks on low resourced boxes (Lowendbox/Lowendtalk is geared more towards VPS's but would say it's still valid info considering the RPi specs). Plus there are a fair few handy install scripts for LEB webservers (http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/69894).
You'd probably fair a lot better running a LEMP stack over LAMP as Nginx isn't as resource hungry. Also worth having a look on the LET (LowEndTalk) forums, loads of info on running web stacks on low resourced boxes (Lowendbox/Lowendtalk is geared more towards VPS's but would say it's still valid info considering the RPi specs). Plus there are a fair few handy install scripts for LEB webservers (http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/69894).
Soldato
I would love it please if it's not gone.
Caporegime
Is there a list of recommended SD cards or doesn't it really matter what you use?