[raspberry-vi] Re: Introducing myself Gena

  • From: Rill <starbasecafe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:57:24 -0500

Hey Gina,
I've seen your name around and I'm delighted you're here.  Do you have 
your jam-box working?  I am trying to figure out how bluetooth works 
from the Arch command line.  I get more geeky every day. Smile.
Rill
On 10/12/2013 4:02 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I guess many of you will have seen my name around GNU Linux and Ham Radio VI 
> lists. Well I monitored what you guys were saying about the Pi and thought I 
> wouldn't bother as I'd had enough of people calling me a geek etc. Plus I 
> simply just have too much stuff.
>
> Well I saw Mike's notice that speakup was running on a Pi, so I was tempted. 
> But still resisted until my personal assistant informed me of a raspberry jam 
> here in Preston. So I booked his support for that meeting. That was Monday. 
> On Tuesday, I got in a taxi to our CPC outlet and got a Pi.
>
> I had found the accessible Arch image and grabbed it. I couldn't wait to have 
> the time to play with it.
>
> I firstly, run it with a HDMI cable attached. Not because I have enough sight 
> but I'd be able to see if it was doing something and I hoped the sound would 
> come through the TV's speakers. But this didn't work. I eventually found a 
> pair of headphones and plugged them in and pressed return. I was well 
> impressed, I heard that old familiar espeak voice.
>
> I'm not familiar with Arch but I've already installed programs via pacman. I 
> intend upon going to the next jam and leaving it hooked up to my jam-box 
> playing some music.
>
> Mike, regarding your comment on the site: Using ssh is the same as Linux for 
> the Mac. I have run ssh from my Mac to run pacman etc. However, VoiceOver is 
> nowhere as good as speakup. I used the ifconfig command on the Pi to 
> establish it's IP. Then went to the Mac opened a terminal and entered:
>
> ssh user@192.168.1.9
>
> I was then prompted for the password. I have installed xcode and macports but 
> I do believe that ssh is a standard part of OS X.
>
> I have had problems subscribing to this list with my personal domain email 
> configuration, so out of frustration used my hotmail address.
>
> 73 to Hams and Regards to the rest. I look forward to contributing and 
> learning from you all.
>
> Gena
> Georgina Joyce
> Applied Psychologist
> Training and Coaching.
> Because individuals of groups matter!
>
>
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