[raspberry-vi] Re: Thomas Edison
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:49:58 +0000
Mo,
You definitely have to shop around for memory cards now. And this is
definite proof that Morgan Computers aren't the cheap supplier they used
to be. And they have now changed their search engine to incremental
search which just annoys me as it isn't of any help to screen-reader users.
I am trying to collect small capacity SD cards, like 256MB cards which
aren't of much use to anybody else any more but which are big enough to
boot from and put the rest of the OS on a USB stick.
Mike
On 27/03/2013 11:29, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
> hi mike. i got a 32GB sandisk one from ebuyer a few days ago for £17,
> who's charging you £10! daylight robbery!
>
> Mo.
>
>
> On 27/03/2013 11:17, Michael A. Ray wrote:
>> Darren,
>>
>> Regular expressions are great! As a Perl programmer for quite a few
>> years I can tell you that once you have regular expressions mastered you
>> will miss them in a language that doesn't have them.
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>> I had to take a break from trying to get the wifi dongles to work
>> properly and the problems with these 2 memory cards were annoying me
>> since an 8 gig memory card is ten quid's worth.
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>> Mike
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>> On 27/03/2013 10:46, Darren Brewer wrote:
>>> Thought you had been quiet the past few days Mike.
>>> I felt simlar the other day trying to get my head around regular
>>> expressions. Just when you have that, by jove I think I've got it moment,
>>> you realise you haven't. lol
>>>
>>> Darren.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael A. Ray"<mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To:<raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:05 AM
>>> Subject: [raspberry-vi] Thomas Edison
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have spent two days trying to get two memory cards resurrected. For
>>>> some reason every time I tried to zero these cards with:
>>>>
>>>> sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
>>>>
>>>> I was getting 'device full' when only about 156 megabytes of 8 gigabytes
>>>> had been written.
>>>>
>>>> I've messed about with fdisk, parted, gparted and came pretty close to
>>>> trying a scraper.
>>>>
>>>> I think I have finally traced the problem to a dodgy USB card reader.
>>>>
>>>> But like Thomas Edison, who said he didn't fail in his attempts to make
>>>> a light bulb, but learned 2000 ways not to make a light bulb, I now know
>>>> far more about parted and disk partitioning under Linux and Windows than
>>>> I did 2 days ago.
>>>>
>>>> There are two morals to this story, which I seem to have to learn and
>>>> re-learn periodically:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Don't trust the hardware if logic is telling you it's faulty.
>>>> 2. Even if you're tearing your hair out by the roots and close to
>>>> throwing the computer and peripherals out of the window, you're probably
>>>> still learning something...even if it doesn't fall into place until the
>>>> last five minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Once you have dismissed the impossible, whatever remains, however
>>>> improbable, must be the solution. Sherlock Holmes.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Michael A. Ray
>>>>
>>>> Analyst/Programmer
>>>> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
>>>>
>>>> github username: cromarty
>>>> raspberrypi.org username: cromarty
>>>> Ham Radio Call-sign: G4XBF, licensed since 1982
>>>>
>>>> 'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's razor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Raspberry VI:
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>>>> NVDA, the best free screen-reader in the world:
>>>> http://www.nvda-project.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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--
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
github username: cromarty
raspberrypi.org username: cromarty
Ham Radio Call-sign: G4XBF, licensed since 1982
'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's razor
Raspberry VI:
http://www.raspberryvi.org/
NVDA, the best free screen-reader in the world:
http://www.nvda-project.org/
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