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@Trapper - I was praising him BTW (This was for a YRS2012 initiative ) But even me, with my very loose security models wouldn't let the staff/pupils have access to the SLT documents Si

@Linfit e.g Graham at Siddal Moor Sports College What a great club this is Simon

I seem to have a bit of luck on the technical front Auto install a Simple Samba Setup | cymplecy Simon

He gave his pupils full access to c: :-) Si

Got a closer offer via PM so its a day trip to Bury for me Simon

I don't know about you lot - but I'm not paying £4 for a mains lead Sold to the man from York Simon

Just replaced a load of all in one viglens with desktop/monitor and run out of mains sockets Anyone know cheap source or got a box full (around 20) somewhere that they can let me have Si

Anyone here? Good on you mate if you are Si

Basically try to get Scratch controlling real world devices. I've got a few yellow FlowGo input/ouput boxes in my schools. I can write the code to translate between Scratch and generate serial USB comms to emulator the Go software than normally comes with it. BUT need someone with a bit of time to connect one up to a PC, run the GO software and sniff the USB comms (or use a serial connection and sniff that) And then tell me how to do it as well Bored in holidays - looking for fun -got a FlowGo sitting in cupboard somewhere? CVs required ASAP Si

I'm going to sell the cat and run XMBC on the $98 4D Holographic Projector that someone somewhere sometime will make/sell In the meantime, I'll carry on watching my TNG episodes on a 26in CRT TV that I've got archived on S-VHS tapes Si

Where? (Rhetorical question ) Si

Forget about USB direct windows booting - its very very very problematical Si

Hello - anyone at home? Si

PS Still no main link to our RaspberryPi forums available except via the cellar door Are we serious about hosting a RaspberryPi forum or not ? Si

its www address is just pointing to the main edugeek home page My problem is that Google links to solutions on it that I now can't access Simon

My idea would be to boot new machine from a live Linux USB distro, create partition hard drive into 2 and copy from 2nd usb drive to 1st bootable partition and then try booting Windows install from that. Simon

I've got permission to bet once e.g buy one for testing and if works buy 4 more Problem will be if 1st one doesn't work - it'll be useless (and my tech rep down in the mud ) I'm pretty much certain that a £110 Desire C will work (as it has ICS) but I know that Gingerbread proxy support was patchy and varied from model to model. I like to save my schools money wherever possible. Si

sudo killall python\ scratch_gpio_handler.py[code] gives [code]python scratch_gpio_handler.py: no process found I've now got this code from another forum sudo ps aux | grep "python scratch_gpio_handler.py" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9 which seems to do the job (its gives an error if no scratch_gpio_handler.py actaully running but I can live with that ) You DID read my bit about understanding python <0.001%? Simon

@Geoff AFAIK its not available in shops (at least not Chorley ) anymore It was the one I was going to get last year when I first muted the idea to my schools Simon

Yes I've got that one. I'm looking for PAYG models that will work through a proxy to use as smart cameras The cheapest ICS Phone AFAICT is the Desire C which carphone warehouse are doing for £110 but I'm trying to see if I can get a £70 model that runs gingerbread with a proxy setting facility (my experience in the past was that some 2.3 models did have it and some didn't) If anyone knows of a sub £100 model that has a CyanogenMod with proxy setting then that would do as well For years (OK 2 then) I thought of maybe doing that when it seemed that Mr Google couldn't spull poxy but its a real sledgehammer for the few nuts involved (And then Mr Google finally got around to doing it with ICS) Simon

OK - lets try another tact - anyone got a PAYG Android with a proxy setting available in the wifi settings? (as at least I know it stands a chance of working as opposed to none ) Si

Sorry - I'm not making myself understood - I know what needs doing - I just don't know the syntax to do it what syntax/script would kill the running process that shows up as python scratch_gpio_handler.py in the command column? Well, its a python prog that sits waiting for data to appear on 127.0.0.1:42001 and also monitors changes to GPIO pin inputs so its a bit hard to make it not loop Under normal circumstances (e.g running under windows on a 1.6Ghz machine) then the running python prog wouldn't slow down the machine enough to be an issue but I'm finding that its dragging down the Scratch GUI speed to a point where kids would think it unusable so I'm wanting (as current workaround until we can get Scratch directly talking to the hardware) to just have 2 desktop icons - one to start the script and 1 to kill it. I'm also working on the python prog terminating on receiving a defined Scratch broadcast but since I know <0.1% Python ATM, I'm having difficulty in closing threads gracefully within the program - but I'll get their eventually. I just need this bodge as I'm demo-ing my efforts so far at Monday's RaspberryJam at Preston So back to the question sudo killall ......... (replace the dots please ) Si

I've created a script #!/bin/bash sudo python scratch_gpio_handler.py that runs a python program to handle traffic between Scratch and the GPIO pins on a RaspberryPi. This program consumes a lot of CPU (as its just sits in a loop awaiting changes) and I'd like users (e.g pupils) to kill it when they are not using it. Using ps aux I find I've got 3 processes running /bin/bash ./sgh (the name of the script file) sudo python scratch_gpio_handler.py python scratch_gpio_handler.py I'm finding that if a I find out the pid of the last one and kill it - the other two seem to be killed as well But I can't work out the syntax to script killing it I can use pkill python but don't want to assume that my script is the only python one running. Any ideas please? regards Simon

Your probably not programmers so I'll explain If you give people a tool (such as sharp knives or Python) then what you need is for people to take responsibility for using them - trying to restrict their usage (such as anchoring the knives via a piece of chain to a table or restricting permissions on share access) negates the usefulness of the tool. What you need is social behaviour policies/rules/policing/sanctions not physical restrictions Simon

Quick survey please Do you have an android phone/tablet - will it upload to dropbox through schools wifi/proxy? (If you have a 'droid then negative answers just as useful as positive ones - if your an Apple FanBois - push off ) What make/model/os version is it please? regards Simon (Looking to purchase some phones and use them as smart cameras in one of my schools) PS if you know of another cloud storage solution that works when Dropbox doesn't - let me know about that as well please