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@Arthur - Have a read of my post - I think you've been sleep posting Si

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One issue with Pi s is that there is no VGA output and since a lot of old monitors just have VGA then that's a problem when trying to cobble together cheap kbd/mouse/monitor I just had one of 1080P HDMI Male to VGA Female Video Converter Adapter Cable For PC DVD HDTV AC33 | eBay delivered today and it seems to do what it says on the packet. It certainly worked first time when I connected it to my Pi and the VGA input on an old 15in Dell LCD Display Now there may be some issues with it as it obviously needs to draw power from the Pi but since the HDMI spec is for 5V and as long as the 5V on the RaspberryPi HDMI connector is directly wired to the 5V main source then all should be fine. Anyway - its worked for me and made it dead easy and cheap to use a PI with an old monitor (which is prob going to cost us geeks zilch as we have 10 in the garage) but more importantly will make it cheap to use in schools with existing kit if the Pi takes off. Si

PS Both FS teachers are I-Girls so don't bother recommending 'droids Si

been given a- "order it ASAP with 2 Ipads and 2 Ipods!" Anyone here running it, what IPod/Ipad versions will do the job FAQ says 8Gb Ipod touch but has anyone got actual experience of it? Si

What a slur - I've never owned a Win95 computer in my life! I went straight from WfWG 3.11 (Ah - those were days when you had to roll your own TCP/IP stack) to Win98SE Before the court passing judgement m'lord, in myclients defence - he is running it as a Virtual Machine on top of a W2K3 server with Raid 7 and an ISCSI NAS (did I use the right words???) Si

...by your network! "Can you show Y3 how to use Audacity?"- certainly says I - we'll edit samples to make ringtones. Into the suite we go - switch the suite PCs on I say and wait for the Choose (my own little autoit script that maps P: drive to their server class folder) Box to come up - now press Year 3. I turn around to start talking about Audacity and the the cries go out - M Walters, Mr Walters, Mr Walters - its coming up red!!! shout the little darlings. I think server has failed - no - its working and goes on t'internet and everything I check works except they can't get onto their classfolders Well I ploughed on a bit but when I started getting internet wav downloads saying they were going to take 8 mins (I only had the class for 30 mins between lunch and swimming) it was time to hand the towel in. Once they left, I closed and locked the suite door and then me and the server had a little chat!!!!! Needless to say, it all works again now and it promised not to do it again the little ......... (I think it was my Win98 VM getting tired from being on for a whole term ) Si

What they said (I use mdf myself) Si

following my post that why don't they reward us paying customers as well as giving freebies out to the rest of you - They've doubled my 50Gb to 100gb for the same money (I actually can't afford to use it all as my servers will run out of physical drive space ) Si

Thank god you won't have time anymore for the full half-hour arguements Si

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Phew - I'm finally able to switch my Pi on and have it autostart VNC so I can remote in from the comfort of main computer - in fact I'm typing this post from there now Hopefully, this will apease Mrs Pi-man as I can now shift the Pi from the dining room table (complete with montiro/kbd/mouse/usb hub/arduino etc etc) to somewhere else I'm thinking that the All-Weather BBQ area may start serving a dual purpose Si PS Day 5 might not have any activity as I'm getting older tomorrow and therefore might be inbibing distilled Scottish peat water

#! /bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tightvncserver # # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system case "$1" in start) su pi -c '/usr/bin/vncserver' echo "Starting VNC server " ;; stop) pkill vncserver echo "VNC Server has been stopped (didn't double check though)" ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/blah {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 This was copied in chrome on my windows machine [edit] so it looks to be a Linux/Midori/Nano issue[/edit]

I don't adam and eve it - just as I thought i'd got it all running - it stopped connecting (using my 'droid as the vnc client) Turns out that the pi after days of happily been given 192.168.1.70 has now been given 192.168.1.81 So I'm back here at main PC to hack into the Router and set it up (hopefully) to hand out same IP to the Pi's USB Wi-fi dongle each time! (don't want to set Pi up with static as intend taking it into schools to show off next week ) Si

And of course when I use the backspace key in nano to remove all those uncensored (which BTW just appear as spaces!) from the file it all works fine #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tightvncserver # # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system case "$1" in start) su pi -c '/usr/bin/vncserver' echo "Starting VNC server " ;; stop) pkill vncserver echo "VNC Server has been stopped (didn't double check though)" ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/blah {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 I wander what the problem is - is it a Midori browser issue or a nano issue or what???? Any way - its onwards and upwards now - just need to add in the stuff to get it to autostart and then I can try the Pi our headless Si

!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tightvncserver # # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system case "$1" in start) :censored: su pi -c '/usr/bin/vncserver' :censored: echo "Starting VNC server " :censored: ;; stop) pkill vncserver :censored: echo "VNC Server has been stopped (didn't double check though)" :censored: ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/blah {start|stop}" :censored: exit 1 :censored: ;; esac exit 0 This is coped from my version of the file from nano Lets see what IT looks like Si

What happened there then! I'm using this article Raspberry Pi • View topic - Setup PI to work without monitor (debian image) and the above was copied from there and pasted in WTH is going on???? Si

OK - followed the basic advice and just ran tightvncserver from console and it works This is the script thats causing me headaches #! /bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tightvncserver # # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system case "$1" in start) :censored: su pi -c '/usr/bin/vncserver' :censored: echo "Starting VNC server " :censored: ;; stop) :censored: pkill vncserver :censored: echo "VNC Server has been stopped (didn't double check though)" :censored: ;; *) :censored: echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/blah {start|stop}" :censored: exit 1 :censored: ;; esac exit 0

Read the OP I want to replace my 6 Ruckus APs with 12 Unif at no cost to me So I need about £720 So assuming £720 for 6 then I 'd sell each AP for £120 My plan would be buyer buys me the Unfi's (2 per Ruckus AP) and gets them shipped to me and I'd ship mine direct to them in return I thought their might be people out there with exisiting Ruckus network that might be after extra APs and willing to do a deal Si PS god knows if the head will go for this but he normally trusts me - lets face it - he let me pay zillions for the Ruckus in the 1st place

So - no-one else needs/wants some Ruckus APs? Si

PS If I can't sell these, I'll just have to consolidate all the ruckus into Junior area and cover infants with Unifi as my next cost-effective solution Si

PS If I can't sell these, I'll just have to consolidate all the ruckus into Junior area and cover infants with Unifi as my next cost-effective solution Si

Thats the problem, the controller only does 6 APs- Ruckus have declared it EOL so even if you could get extra licences you'd be dealing with an EOL product I want to swap it out because 1. We've had classrooms added and the 6APs were pushing it anyway for our site so need more and cost of buying more ruckus is a non-starter (as would need new controller as well) 2. half of our netbooks and the Ruckus don't like talking to each other for 30% of the time So I'm really just selling the APs but the lucky buyer is free to have the controller as well I really,really,really recommend buying a pack of 3 Unifis for £180 and seeing if they will do what you want cause unless you have 20 whizzy VLANS on your net or somesuch high tech requirements - they are a Ronseal solution Si

Made me think and I've totalled up 6 schools, 1120 pupils,116 staff and 340 machines Its a good job that either that they A. Work well most of the time and don't require attention or B. Don't work well but staff can't find Helpdesk icon But I would have thought that even a guru as yourself would require a few extra days in holiday time/weekends/evenings to do a XP/w2k3 to Win7/w2k8 across a large school in any sort of short term timescale Si