After some wrestling with the vagaries of Linux

[vernon]

I now have a working Apache web server operating on my Raspberry Pi computer with Wordpress waiting for content for a forthcoming plog - pie blog.

Once I'm back from the half term holiday work will start in ernest putting content online.

I'm amazed at the amount of assumed knowledge that authors of beginners' projects think that ab initio Linux users have. I've had some prior experience but the quality and clarity of some documentation leaves a lot to be desired. I'm almost tempted to submit an article to a Linux comic that fills in the gaps of the 'build yourself a blog' articles.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

What distro you using, Raspbian?

 

[vernon]

What distro you using, Raspbian?

Yes. I'm getting used to it. I just wish that there was a uniformity in approaches in things like installing software e.g. apt-get vs wget and defining file permissions.

it's been a steep learning curve having to deal with Linux, php and returning to the use of text editors. I thought that I'd said goodbye to text terminals when I used telnet for the last time fifteen years ago.

The shell of the plog, or should that be crust, is now up and running at http://pieman.noip.me/pieman.

The content will have to wait until I get back from a festival in Scotland and an excursion to Brighton immediately upon my return from Scotland.

 

[yello]

That's the kind of playing I like to do; tramlines, terminal sessions, scripts, textpad etc.

I built a headless distro for my Pi to download the data from my Garmin. It was a hotplug application; plug the Garmin in and that kicked off the download and then shutdown the Pi. I never actually used it in anger, it was just something I fancied doing!

 

[vernon]

That's the kind of playing I like to do; tramlines, terminal sessions, scripts, textpad etc.

I built a headless distro for my Pi to download the data from my Garmin. It was a hotplug application; plug the Garmin in and that kicked off the download and then shutdown the Pi. I never actually used it in anger, it was just something I fancied doing!

Mine is running in a headless configuration and I'm looking at acquiring another Pi or two to allow further tinkering without upsetting the server set up. I've got one or two hardware/control projects in mind one of them involving model railways.

 

[yello]

The Pi's a great bit of cheap kit with loads of possible applications. Some folk have been very creative. Mine is used, somewhat unimaginatively, as a media centre running XBMC on OpenElec. Does the job well too.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's the kind of playing I like to do; tramlines, terminal sessions, scripts, textpad etc.

I built a headless distro for my Pi to download the data from my Garmin. It was a hotplug application; plug the Garmin in and that kicked off the download and then shutdown the Pi. I never actually used it in anger, it was just something I fancied doing!

Nurse! The voices are back...