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| From | rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: Anybody out there? |
| Date | 2015-09-16 11:18 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mtc14d$lmm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <55f92636$0$3310$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <mtbckr$4mc$1@dont-email.me> <mtbkr1$ud6$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
On 9/16/2015 7:46 AM, alister wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:26:51 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> In article <55f92636$0$3310$426a74cc@news.free.fr>, >> F8BOE <f8boe@bluemail.ch> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> As I didn't want to waste my time with a silly test message on an empty >>> forum, I decided to head up finding people who are using these computer >>> toys. >> >> They are toys, but they are also being used daily in industrial >> applications. The compute board is testament to that. >> >>> I have a RPi2 lying here and doing nothing but taking dust... Many >>> projects are described and that's really cool... But as for the OS, >>> sorry, Ubuntu Mate is overbloated with useless things, but works out of >>> the box, even WPA access to hidden WLAN APs with SSIDs! Openelec and >>> OSmc are unable to automatically detect any UPnP/DAAP server (bonjour >>> activated on it) on the network, the other 2 ones are only time wasting >>> tricky-tweaky ditros that run well on on Intel/AMD based hardware, but >>> only devellopped for ARM V6 and not yet for ARM V7... >>> >>> A little bit frustrating isn't it? >> >> Not really. >> >>> So I hoped getting an easy tune up with Raspbian... Not even able to get >>> the USB WLAN dongle that came with the RPi2, work correctly, as it >>> worked out of the box under Ubuntu... > > Wifi worked fine on min with a generic Wifi dongle. > did you use a raspian image or Noobs? > >>> And to get the full HD video >>> support you have to pay extra bucks for the driver??? No sorry that's >>> too much for me. I'm the uncomplaining and coolkeeping one but there are >>> limits!!! >> >> No idea what you're on about. My Pi's play full HD video without paying >> for any extra codecs/drivers. There are additional codecs you can >> purchase but for playing HD you don't need them. > > Although I guess that @ over 10% of the cost of the board (~£3.00 for > both)they are a little expensive ;-) The CODEC fee is a license required by the developers of the CODEC and has nothing to do with the rPi. They could have just not developed that particular CODEC at all. You would still be able to view HD, just not in that format. -- Rick
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Anybody out there? F8BOE <f8boe@bluemail.ch> - 2015-09-16 10:20 +0200
Re: Anybody out there? Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-09-16 08:40 +0000
Re: Anybody out there? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-16 09:51 +0100
Re: Anybody out there? Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2015-09-16 20:12 +0100
Re: Anybody out there? Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-09-16 09:26 +0000
Re: Anybody out there? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-16 11:46 +0000
Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 11:18 -0400
Re: Anybody out there? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-16 17:39 +0000
Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 13:52 -0400
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Re: Anybody out there? Stefan Enzinger <mindoms@aon.at> - 2015-09-18 00:32 +0200
Re: Anybody out there? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-18 09:30 +0100
Re: Anybody out there? Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-09-16 14:12 +0200
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Re: Anybody out there? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-16 17:58 +0100
Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 13:56 -0400
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Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-18 19:31 +0100
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Re: Anybody out there? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-18 22:29 -0400
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Re: Anybody out there? David James <david@tcs01.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-21 23:53 +0000
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Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-20 10:07 +0100
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Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 14:31 -0400
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Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-20 10:05 +0100
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Re: Anybody out there? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-20 10:31 -0400
Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 11:12 -0400
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Re: Anybody out there? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2015-09-28 20:33 +0100
Re: Anybody out there? Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2015-09-20 17:15 +0100
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