Nyan Cat Telnet Server

Open up a terminal and run:

telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

Webserver on the Raspberry Pi

Wanna run a webserver with Apache, PHP5, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin on the pi? Check out following post:

http://www.raspberrypiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?689-Guide-Building-a-webserver-on-the-Raspberry-Pii

Duke Nukem Pi!

wget http://apt.duke4.net/pool/main/d/duke3d-shareware/duke3d-shareware_1.3d-20_all.deb
wget http://www.berryterminal.com/dl/eduke32_2.0.0rpi+svn2789_armel.deb
sudo dpkg -i duke3d-shareware_1.3d-20_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i eduke32_2.0.0rpi+svn2789_armel.deb
If you want to use head phones instead of HDMI audio: amixer cset numid=3 1
eduke32 

Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=9934

Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps.

Some examples of what users can do with Ubuntu WebApps:

Launch online music site Last.FM directly from the Dash and control the music from Ubuntu’s sound menu

Access and launch your social media accounts (Google+, Twitter, Facebook) from the Launcher, and get native desktop notifications

Quickly and seamlessly upload photos to Facebook from Shotwell
Pause and play the video you are watching on Youtube

See how many unread messages you have in your GMail account, in Ubuntu’s messaging indicator

Ubuntu Web Apps will be available as a preview for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS soon and will be available by default in Ubuntu 12.10. I think we’ve made something that’s about to radically change users’ expectations of the web!

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/07/19/introducing-ubuntu-web-apps-setting-the-web-free-of-the-browser/

How to Overclock your Raspberry Pi’s CPU to 850MHz+ (& RAM to 500MHz)

http://fusionstrike.com/2012/overclock-raspberry-pi-cpu-850mhz-ram-500mhz

From site:

Overclocking your Raspberry Pi is ridiculously easy because the values are simply stored in a text file on the root of the device, they can be easily edited and changed via Nano or VI, and if you brick the device or get a kernal panic, you can change the values by plugging your SD card into a computer and editing the file there.

Pre-compiled XBMC for Raspbian

http://www.memetic.org/pre-compiled-xbmc-for-raspbian/

From site:

As there are no .deb packages for XBMC on Raspbian armhf yet and it takes almost a day to compile it by hand, I’ve tar’d up my pre-compiled version and made it available. My version is confirmed to work on Raspbian Pisces and DarkBasic images from June/July.

Boost your Raspberry Pi!

Found an interesting post regarding tweaking your Raspberry for higher performance.

Basically you can gain up to 25% performance simply modifing some text file :)
There are lot of thing to do, to cut down RAM usage, tune the sd card and hack a bit the CPU.

Here the complete list of improvment:
RAM usage: remove not needed services and daemon, change start.elf file
Disk tuning: we use an sdcard so everything is writing/reading from our sdcard will drop our (already very low) performance. There are lot of improvment we can use to minimize the hidden i/o and it can be integrated in the kernel or not. So, we have to remove unecessary log from /etc/rsyslog.conf, change the disk scheduler to deadline, add noatime/relatime, noadirtime, writeback to ext4 partition and use squashfs+aufs as filesystem for /usr
CPU Hack: just change in config.txt the arm_freq, gpu_freq and sdram_freq... at your own risk!!!

http://rpitc.blogspot.se/2012/06/rpi-tuning-boost-your-rpi.html

Rasberry Pi as a simple seedbox!

Why not? This was my second purpose beside using XBMC. So here we go!

Gonna make use of Transmission, which is a excellent bittorrent client. I assume that you have already installed Debian(otherwise head over here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup).

Make sure to enable SSH-access.

ssh-keygen (I hit enter for all three options to accept defaults and no passphrase)
sudo service ssh start (to start sshd)
sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults (to run the ssh server on startup by default)

Install and configure Transmisson.

sudo apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon
sudo mkdir /Downloads
sudo chown debian-transmission /Downloads

Next we need to configure Transmisson.

sudo service transmission-daemon stop

The config file is located at /etc/transmission-daemon/setting-json

Change rpc-authentication-required to false and download-dir to /Downloads

Start the service and we are ready to go!

sudo service transmission-daemon start

Thats it!

Raspberry Pi!

Finally got my hands on one(actually i got two!) of these bad boys. 


So what’s Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video(more at: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs).


One of these babies will replace my 10-years old Xbox1(running XBMC) bedroom media solution. Actually im trying Raspmbc(http://www.raspbmc.com) at the moment and it's looking pretty sweet(still in beta stage). Maybe implement the other one in my car? Or just running a simple server with torrent/NAS support. Time will tell :-)

Since there is no official case for the Raspberry, I had to build my own :-)

Blog reboot!

Alright, it has been a while since posting. Time to pick this thing up and get running again :-)