@gjacobse said in Raspberry Pi Project: EduCase:

DIY Raspberry Pi Outernet Satellite Receiver Assembly & Testing | #EduCase Project Build

Well, you could do that with nearly every piece of hardware (*). But Raspberry does one great thing: People get creative.

(*) just as an example, you could write a I2C driver for some external IC using your PC's serial / parallel port. Ok, nowadays one would need a USB-2-RS232 / USB-2-LPT, but you'll get the idea 😉

I'm looking at the Xiaomi Mi 5s for my next one to replace my Nexus 5!

@JaredBusch said in Used kit available - Hitachi StarBoard:

@gjacobse don't tempt me to make you pick it up and then meet me someplace.

Of course you know,.. it's only about an 8 hour drive from St. Louis to Atlanta...

Bomb squad called in. Had to clear the place of phones first.

@momurda said in Epic Rap Battles: Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs:

Ive seen many of these not just jobs/gates; some are very good.

This is the best one that I have seen.

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Yeah I remember that stuff. I was not in the IA16 and IA32 worlds in any significant way until I bought a Pentium 75 and then a P2 350. I was in the M68K world much more.

@jt1001001 said in Home Surveillance System (Outdoors):

I just started to check out some solutions myself. I want to explore the UniFi video equipment from Ubiquiti for our offices. We have overhangs so figured 2 or 3 cameras at each location with spare desktop running linux for the vr portion.
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFI_Video_DS.pdf

I'm really trying to stay away from hard-wired if possible.

My house is 50 years old and wiring all that up will be a chore and a half...

@scottalanmiller said in Announcing Veeam Backup for Office 365:

@BRRABill said in Announcing Veeam Backup for Office 365:

@scottalanmiller are you going to argue it's not needed, though?

🙂

Well I don't plan to use it 😉

LOL.

Round two. Typo in title because not sober.

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@IRJ said in Pandora Plus - Offline Listening:

@Dashrender said in Pandora Plus - Offline Listening:

@gjacobse said in Pandora Plus - Offline Listening:

@Dashrender said in Pandora Plus - Offline Listening:

this burned me last summer - Thought I had roaming data off - nope.. damn phone racked up $300 in charges.

Ouch.

I don't use PP - but for the Linux day Office use, I have Pithos running. If I'm travelling alone, I run regular Pandora and haven't go over a few hundred MB in an 8hour drive.

A few hundred megs - well, that would have been like $1300 in charges for me... I think I downloaded about 105 MB for $300

WTF? that's like $3 a MB.

That was common but we legislated against insane charges like that. Worked.... well enough.

$10/MB was very common before the CRTC slapped them around

@coliver said in Gaming on Linux - what is the state of play:

You could also look at PlayOnLinux or Crossover.

PlayOnLinux works well for some games, but not for others. I haven't used Crossover in a long time, so I can't speak to how well that one works.

:-O.... I can't even comprehend having those speeds, lol!

I think that efforts like what HPE and Dell have been doing to get very high density, very low cost ARM "blades" into the datacenter is where it is going to be. And that there will either be loads of hypervisor management used to push out workloads or something similar that does this for bare metal much like Ubuntu's MaaS (Metal as a Service) to get the ARM blades to act as much like VM hosts as possible.

@MattSpeller said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@s.hackleman said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@RojoLoco said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@s.hackleman said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

There are lots of cool projects out there. What about some more pyrotechnics?

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You have had a weird anti Apple vibe going the last couple days..

FTFY. They do have some good products, but they are way overpriced. More like a status symbol, if you know what I mean.

I second that. No reason to buy an overpriced item just because that's what the "cool kids" like.

In the last 2 years i have drank the Kool-aid. I don't fan girl, it is nice just being able to buy a technology, and it just works.

Compared to Win/Linux I have to give Apple credit for that

Yup, I'm the farthest thing from an Apple fan and I hate the OSX machines, but the iOS phones and tablets are so solid.

@Dashrender said in Did another one bite the dust?:

@nadnerB said in Did another one bite the dust?:

@coliver said in Did another one bite the dust?:

@nadnerB said in Did another one bite the dust?:

Slightly off topic, do you have issues with them keeping correct date/time?

Yes, we do. Have you seen the same thing?

Yes 😠
Caused mayhem when groups of them would meet and no one could get on to the WiFi network.

When we figured out what the issue was, we implemented a time sync GPO for them.

A time sync GPO, aren't they already doing that with the PDCs emulator?

Should be by default.

@art_of_shred and @Minion-Queen just arrived.

Very cool.