Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation on the Raspberry Pi

2012-04-21 Thread Clayton Smith
HDMI to VGA converters do exist, but they are fairly expensive, starting at around $40. See for example: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1607391&CatId=3667 (If anyone from the club has one of these, I'd be grateful if they could bring it to the June meetin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation on the Raspberry Pi

2012-04-21 Thread Clayton Smith
Yes, I'd say it lives up to expectations. I'm having a lot of fun with mine. The software still has some rough edges, but I expect that will improve quickly now that more developers have them in hand. I'm looking forward to the release of XBMC. My only small gripe is that the USB ports are limited

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation on the Raspberry Pi

2012-04-21 Thread Clayton Smith
That's fine, I should be able to squeeze something interesting into 10 minutes. I'll make sure the presentation works well even if I can't hook the Raspberry Pi up to the projector. - Clayton On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi Clayton. > A lightning talk (max 10 minutes) w

[OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: Re: RetroShare P2P]

2012-04-21 Thread Francis J. A. Pinteric
Forwarded Message From: Rob Echlin Reply-to: Rob Echlin To: The Linux Doctor Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] RetroShare P2P Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Hi Anyone in OCLUG using this? Anyone willing to do a short demo at a meeting? Can you pipe other apps through i