Category Archives: computers

The Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy

Posted on August 25, 2012 by blogmywiki

My favourite museum in the whole wide world has to be the Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy in Cornwall. Porthcurno has a fascinating history – undersea telegraph cables joined Victorian Britain to the Empire and beyond, coming up on the … Continue reading →

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2 Pi Household

Posted on June 5, 2012 by blogmywiki

We got out 2nd Raspberry Pi this week – possibly a bit premature as we’re still finding our way with the first one. I’d like to have one in the back of the main TV as a media centre, and … Continue reading →

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Day 8 in the Raspberry Pi house

Posted on May 12, 2012 by blogmywiki

My boys made a cool Lego case for the Raspberry Pi – it has holes for the USB, HDMI, ethernet and power leads – and the coolest rotating Raspberry Pi logo on top. It’s not perfect but it does the … Continue reading →

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Days 4 & 5 with Raspberry Pi

Posted on May 9, 2012 by blogmywiki

On Day 4 I broke my Pi! I tried to install some Google calendar thing and then my Pi wouldn’t get past the ‘startx’ command – it turned out that the install had totally filled the disk space on the … Continue reading →

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I’ve realised the version of Raspberry Pi Debian Squeeze I’d been using was out-of-date. There are two problems with the Mac OS X script for making RasPi SD cards called RasPiWrite: It downloads out-of-date images (certainly for Debian) There’s a … Continue reading →

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