[Ql-Users] 1980sThe future has landed

2012-09-07 Thread François Van Emelen
Hi all, I saw Sinclair's ZX Spectrum and the C5 latest night in 'Britain's Greatest Machines' on National Geographic in the series '1980sThe future has landed'. The comments were not very flattering. Have a nice day. François Van Emelen ___

Re: [Ql-Users] 1980sThe future has landed

2012-09-07 Thread tobias.froesc...@t-online.de
Francois, the C5 doesn't quite fit that heading. ;) The Spectrum, however, (and especially its impact on introducing computers to the non-technical public) was a revolutionary piece of technology. Tobias -Original-Nachricht- Von: François Van Emelen francois.vaneme...@telenet.be An:

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Bryan Horstmann
Sony are now making R-pi in the UK, and the foundation estimate possibly one million shipped in 2012. It is inconceivable to me that there won't be a rub-of for QUANTA. It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did, providing

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Bryan, On 07/09/12 15:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote: It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did, providing programming straight away, or the Xchange suite if needed. No need for it to be a QL look-alike. Login to your pi as the pi

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
PS. If you are running a vncserver, you have to stop it first, make changes to .xsession, restart it and log back in to the GUI. It seems that the user's .xsession gets loaded at startup of the VNC Server daemon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address:

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 7/Sep/12 16:10 | Sep7: Hi Bryan, On 07/09/12 15:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote: It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did, providing programming straight away, or the Xchange suite if needed. No need for it to