Category: Tech

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A Piece of Pi!!

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    After a long wait, my Raspberry Pi turned up today. So, just before Anne came home and wanted the TV, I booted it up to see what it can do. The Raspberry Pi is a bare board PC running an ARM chip, and is designed to get programming and computer science back into the interest…

  • Linux for my netbook

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    Warning, serious geekyness of a post! Our little Acer netbook has seen little use over the last few months. It was running Win 7, rather slowly so I thought I’d put on the consumer preview of Win 8. Even though I think Microsoft’s model of hitting every user with a touch interface even though virtually…

  • What Microsoft need to do to keep me with Windows Phone . . .

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    I moved to a Windows Phone from an iPhone 3GS in the autumn of 2010 when Microsoft decided to totally rewrite their mobile software which was getting unbelievably out of date. The Metro interface is a total change from the icon based software of Apple and Google (or should we just say Apple as let’s…

  • Raspberry Pi in action . . .

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    Further to my post of last night, read this: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/431 which contains this video, impressive!!

  • $25 (£16) computer!!

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    I heard about this a while back but forgot all about it until a BBC article today saying they were nearly finished. The Raspberry Pi Foundation (www.raspberrypi.org) is a British charity aiming to produce very basic and open computers to engage and enthuse youngsters into understanding how computers work; something which a lot has been…

  • Blogging/posting to WordPress on a Mac?

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    Got a bit of problem if I decide next year to move to a Mac from my PC, which is slowly dying. There are really good alternatives to most of the software I use apart from Windows Live Writer which is used for blogging. This is an absolutely terrific piece of software, and much underrated…

  • Mastering the Mac

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    Definite geeky post!! I’ve had the need to introduce a fairly old iMac into my office at work so I can keep up-to-date with iOS programming a member of staff is doing to make our elearning resources available on tablets like the iPad; getting ahead of the game hopefully! I’d not really been bothered about…