Monthly Archives: May 2012

Raspberry Pi day 3: Using the right disk image.

Posted on May 7, 2012 by blogmywiki

I’ve realised the version of Raspberry Pi Debian Squeeze I’d been using was out-of-date. There are two problems with the Mac OS X script for making RasPi SD cards called RasPiWrite: It downloads out-of-date images (certainly for Debian) There’s a … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi day 2: I try to install an application

Posted on May 6, 2012 by blogmywiki

Yesterday I said I didn’t think there was an easy way of installing new software in the Raspberry Pi version of Debian Squeeze. Well, yes and no. There is a way, but it ain’t easy. Installing software in Linux is … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi est arrivée!

Posted on May 5, 2012 by blogmywiki

I had joked that the Raspberry Pi was indeed taking me back to the glory days of 1980s computing – mainly by making me wait so long; it reminded me of the interminable delays waiting for Sinclair to ship my … Continue reading →

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