Categories
Hardware News Personal Software Technical

Raspbian Wheezy armhf Rasp~ Pi minimal image

Hi friends, Hi to myself in the future. Here is a updated Raspberry Pi minimal image. This one is compiled with hard float support; hardware instead of software emulation. Include: A minimal Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) Hard Float binaries: floating point operations are done in hardware instead of A disabled incremental updates, means […]

Categories
Hardware How-To Technical

My Raspberry Pi needs a Swap

About Swap: Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space […]

Categories
How-To Software Technical

Boot Live Ubuntu CD/USB to Memory

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. And for the first time I got it working with the simplest of ways. This is what I did, and what you can do. Place your CD or USB into computer and start booting it.  Press F6 and then put “toram” (no quotes) into the […]

Categories
How-To Technical

Lync not populating contact cards phone numbers from Active Directory

So you have Lync, and every time you want to look up an extension of someone in your office you are left with nothing. Why, Why is this, why doesn’t things just work. As frustrating as this may be it happens for a reason. Lync expects all the phone numbers in Active Directory to be in the […]

Categories
How-To Technical

Raspberry Pi – Root FS on USB Thumb Drive

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton Today I worked on resetting up my Raspberry Pi with a minimal image from Chris’s Digital Realm. I like this image because its very basic and does what one would want. Boot, and assigned an IP Address via DHCP, and best of all, fits on a […]

Categories
News Technical

My first slice of Raspberry Pi

Today, I got my hands on Raspberry Pi. I was able to get a Debian image working on a 1GB SD card, but that wasn’t all I did. After my initial boot I installed open-ssh, mysql client and server, lighttpd, and php.  I even took this to the next level and installed WordPress. it’s not something I’d use to […]