Author: nealpp

  • Pibow

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    Just ordered a Pibow (http://www.pibow.com) – this is a wonderfully colourful case for the Raspberry Pi. Cases for the un-cased Raspberry Pi are not uncommon, there are loads on ebay. However this looks really good, and also gets a good write-up on the Raspberry Pi web site (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1640). This case will go around the Pi…

  • Murder on the Nile

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    Last night we went to our annual production by the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, “Murder on the Nile”. Dame Agatha wrote the scripts for her plays and often altered books to suit the stage, often with subtle changes to the plot. “Murder on the Nile” is obviously a version of the famous Poirot novel “Death…

  • CUPS Success – at last!!

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    After lots of messing around I eventually got the CUPS server working properly on my Raspberry Pi. The main reason for doing this if you remember is so I can access my two printers from any machine in the house, but without using a server which is on 24/7 costing a fortune in electricity; with…

  • Birthday at Harewood

    Birthday at Harewood

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    Splendid morning at Harewood. Had a walk around the lake, into the walled kitchen garden and up to the courtyard. Coffee and bun with the penguins and then into the house. Always sunny on my birthday!!

  • CUPS on Rasp Pi Progress

    CUPS on Rasp Pi Progress

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    A bit of an update about my progress turning by Raspberry Pi into a CUPS server. Friday: I last left it with the Raspberry Pi with CUPS installed and the admin pages appearing in the browser on the Pi. The issue was that I couldn’t access the admin window from another computer; something which is…

  • Raspberry Pi Update

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    Spend a bit of time this evening deciding on future uses for the excellent Raspberry Pi. One use which has been mentioned in the internet is to use it as a very cheap and low power print server. This would require CUPS being set up on it, and VNC to remotely maintain the Pi. I’m…

  • Day out at Old Moor

    Day out at Old Moor

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    Lovely trip to RSPB Old Moor today (http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/d/dearne-oldmoor/). Firstly, we saw a Reed Bunting which we’d not seen before. Secondly, the Bitterns are breeding (very rare!!!) and so part of the site was shut off to protect them. Lots of swifts flying around catching insects and it chucked it down half way round but luckily…

  • Wagner’s Ring Cycle on CD

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    After seeing Das Reingold last year at Leeds Town Hall with Opera North, I decided it was time I had a full Ring Cycle on CD, and with it being a fairly hefty set, wanted the best version. After a lot of browsing, the set conducted by Sir Georg Solti came out on top. Not…

  • Die Walküre – Opera North

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    We had been waiting a year with great anticipation since the first of the Ring Cycle operas, Das Rheingold, last year at Leeds Town Hall. The success of last year’s ‘preliminary evening’ to the three main operas, as Richard Mantle the Director General of Opera North put it, was a success in ways they’d not…

  • Canada Geese at Kew

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    Forgot to mention in the last post, Anne had only said on Wednesday evening that she’s seen lots of Canada Geese around, but no chicks. Well, that was remedied when this lot trudged across the rose garden area at Kew the following day!!