New Raspberry Pi

Markverhyden said:
Yeah, any of the *nix's work fine. I was not worried about those. Looks like I have to use N00Bs to install the W10IoT preview. Guessing that will be the favored method in the future. Just wish they had picked a name other than N00B.... LOL!!!!
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Lol, I had the same reaction when I got my first PI "WTF is NOOBs!? Oh, duh...."
 
What a wasted effort that was. Turns out W10IoT is a pure IDE environment, not even Windoze per se. And you do not actually do anything on the device at all, at least what I have seen so far. You have to write the code on a W10 machine using Visual Studio and then push it to the Pi. Reminds me of Apple's XCode environment. I think M$ has missed the boat again.
 
Markverhyden said:
What a wasted effort that was. Turns out W10IoT is a pure IDE environment, not even Windoze per se. And you do not actually do anything on the device at all, at least what I have seen so far. You have to write the code on a W10 machine using Visual Studio and then push it to the Pi. Reminds me of Apple's XCode environment. I think M$ has missed the boat again.
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Thanks for saving me the hassle of finding that out. Doesn't surprise me though that m$ messed up again.
 
Markverhyden said:
Yeah, any of the *nix's work fine. I was not worried about those. Looks like I have to use N00Bs to install the W10IoT preview. Guessing that will be the favored method in the future. Just wish they had picked a name other than N00B.... LOL!!!!
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Not all Nix's work on a Pi, they are Arm CPU's and not all distro's have ARM support.
 
ZenTree said:
The bloke's monotone voice is a bit annoying though so I would recommend muting him.
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I know what you mean - he sounds like a train spotter, poor bloke ;)

Now, what can I find to use a Pi for...........?:D My wife said "but you've already got Amazon stick, Sky and all that stuff".

But I had to say "but they are not as much fun as setting it up yourself though....". Ah, the life of a geek :)
 
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I got one to have a mess about with and am just trying to make a vintage looking internet radio receiver.
 
The pi is a lot cheaper than the $99 dollar parallella. but parallella has 18 cores, and can run ubuntu and other linuxes.
 
Looking into the parallella, looks interesting but the main processor is "just" a dual core and then it has this :
"The unique Epiphany co-processor chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in bare metal C/C++ or in a parallel programming frameworks like OpenCL, MPI, and OpenMP. The mesh of independent cores are connected together with a fast on chip network within a distributed shared memory architecture.

I'm not sure how many programs in linux out of the box are going to be utilising these extra cores. There's also no spec given in that description for those processors. I'm sure if you're working on parallel processing projects it's gonna be useful but for someone like me the benefit is gonna be little to none. Maybe even detrimental as the benefit of the Pi is that so many projects are being tailored specifically for the Pi, resulting in more help online, more base images to start from and more compatibility with projects in general.

Still, a cool idea and shows how many kickstarter style projects there are that I am completely unaware of!
 
i believe they are 1.2 ghz cores for the other 16 cores. I thought of an application that might be interesting. I was thinking about Leo Stones solution for the new petya trojan, and I thought, "wouldn't it be interesting if he used a pi connected to a parallella to generate those keys?". Because the pi can do the web serving, and then the parallella could compute the cryptographic key to unlock people's files, and the whole project would use 9 watts of power.
 
jmitservices said:
DNS Adblocker www.pi-hole.net

I thought I had found a good reason to treat myself to a Raspberry...
Works great but I've installed it in a VM on my QNAP instead lol!
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For some reason I thought pi-hole was only for the pi and didn't get around to installing on the pi with the latest version. Thank you so much for this comment, installed on a vm in under 5 mintues and really impressed with it so far. Makes a huge different when loading websites on my phone as well. Now to set up on raspberry pi when I get a minute.
 
jmitservices said:
DNS Adblocker www.pi-hole.net

I thought I had found a good reason to treat myself to a Raspberry...
Works great but I've installed it in a VM on my QNAP instead lol!
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Quick question - have you had any issues with the whitelist/blacklist not working via the web interface? It just says "something went wrong". I can't remove items from them either. Did a quick google but forums seem pretty quiet so thought check to see if you'd come across?
 
jmitservices said:
I had the exact same problem. You probably saw my post on their forums!

I've installed it on Debian (Jessie) and the lists started to work for me.
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LOL! Thanks buddy, I'm currently running on something different so will give that a whirl. Just saved me a few hours!
 
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