I just thought I'd create a diagram of what devices I have where in my network, with what names. It's beginning to get a little difficult to keep them apart.
Made a small batch script to check my network ips, just for fun.
#!/bin/bash for i in {1..150} do
ping -c 3 -w 100 10.0.0.$i | grep -e "icmp_req" -e "PING" done
As you are no doubt aware, I've based the names of my devices, the naming scheme, on characters in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Downloaded 2013-05-29-wheezy-armel.zip first, which is the Software Floating Point image. XBMC is compiled for the Hardware Floating Point image. So, it won't work. Originally, I had envisioned playing with Java, and Java SDK was not available for Hardware Floating Point at the time. This has now been remedied, luckily. So no reason not to use Hardware Floating Point.[5][6]
Installing XBMC
Now, I've already tried RaspBMC, and I didn't like the fact that my default linux network scripts were replaced by XBMC scripts. Especially, as I had a non-standard setup (two ethernet ports).
So I installed XBMC on a standard Wheezy Raspbian. [4]
My TV is Black & White?
My TV provided a black and white screen. Now, given I'm European, I assumed the TV to use PAL (Phase Alternating Line, 'Picture Always Lousy') and not the (American?) NTSC (National Television System Committee, 'Never The Same Colour'). NTSC is probably the default.
Added sdtv_mode=2 to /boot/config.txt (0 is NTSC, 1 is Japanese NTSC, 2 is PAL, 3 is Brazilian PAL.)[1]
Attaching a second Ethernet by means of USB
I'm wanting to use the thing (amongst other things) as my little firewall.
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I have my little firewall script in "/etc/network/if-up.d/" so it runs upon boot, after network setup. But I usually forget to turn on "net.ipv4.ip_forward" in /etc/sysctl.conf.
I was never a "sudo" guy, but I'm getting used to it.
Expanding the root partition by hand
My Second SD card provided the following problems, after indicating that the Raspberry Pi should expand the SD Card partition and reboot. As the other SD card I have did not have this problem, I surmise that the SD card is a bit dodgy. This is the message I saw (a lot) on the screen upon boot:
So, I attempted to expand my SD Card partition on my labtop. That fixed the problem (for now).[7]
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Recently found out I can refer directly to different revisions of a Gist, by adding the hashtag of a revision.
Instead of <script src="https://gist.github.com/maartenl/6048082.js"></script>.
This <script src="https://gist.github.com/maartenl/6048082/95c021aa4e2b1dc1570b5f70c2dcc95a26944fe1.js"></script> will show the revision with hashtag 95c021aa4e2b1dc1570b5f70c2dcc95a26944fe1.
It's very REST-y this way.
It provides an ideal way to show different refactorings in a blog.
Awesome!
References
Embedding a specific revision of a Gist on GitHub.com via JavaScript
