09
Mar

Raspberry Pi rpi rasbian debian wheezy headless 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian minimal

I have stripped out loads of the development tools and extras in the 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip image, I have installed minidlna on mine taking my rootfs up to 716MB.

My minimal image can be found here:
2013-02-09_minimal_wheezy_2013-03-09_updates.7z

After loading this to your sd card (1GB or more) with dd or Win32DiskImager (i haven't tested anything else) run
sudo raspi-config
and expand the rootfs to fill to the size of your sd card. This will load without expanding, swap has been disabled...

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09
Mar

How to remove codeigniter index.php

The information provided in the tutorial in codeigniter 2 seems to give several people problems when trying to remove the index.php from the urls.
the following code:
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]
Should be put in a .htaccess file in the root of the codeigniter installation along with the index.php, application and system folders.

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08
Mar

MiniDLNA on raspberry pi database disk image malformed

Running:

/usr/bin/minidlna -f /etc/minidlna.conf -R -d

rebuilds the database for miniDLNA. This fixes the minidlna database disk image malformed error i was receiving when minidlna wouldnt restart. I believe this was due to the usb HDD i was having getting IO errors and crashing the pi. Me then unplugging the pi was killing the database.
Hope this can help some other people!

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04
Mar

Broken updates and network error on Samsung 32" EH5300 Series 5 SMART Full HD LED TV

So, my TV managed to update itself again today, to an unusable state again, no apps, and I received a network error when trying to access samsung apps to re-install them. I'd been putting these updates off for a while as the last time it updated, it broke everything, so i've been clicking no all the time, and turned off update on standby. Regardless of this, the TV did some sort of update and because useless as a smart tv.

So, I went off to the Samsung website and downloaded the latest firmware ...

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03
Mar

Power usage on Raspberry Pi (rpi) using uptimed

using the same data i get from uptimed, i have used normal electricity usage calculations to calculate my power usage on the raspberry pi based upon the specifications of it using 700mA at 5v, with the average cost per unit of electricity to my local rate of 14.39p (GBP) per kWh.

You can now see the data regularly update at the bottom left of this page.

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