Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 3 14:55:40 CST 2015
Just posted the following on Facebook this morning: "Some people reading that both Windows 10 or Ubuntu can be installed, on the new PIs...but the software that can load is a specialize version of both. IoT (program) for Windows and Snappy for Ubuntu...both designed specifically for use in embedded devices. OTOH, Ubuntu has a server/terminal product which allows PIs to run as thin clients: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP." There is a lot of interesting products out there. The Ubuntu stuff should run on Mint without issues. (Now that I have retired I prefer Linux distros over Windows ones and just use Windows products so to keep my hands in. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, 2 February, 2015 8:35:49 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] I couldn't post I don't think so. I am also running it on a Linux Mint machine which I am playing with. Speaking of Linux, the Raspberry Pi B 2 just hit the internet. With a quad core v7 core and a gig of Ram, otherwise identical. I am seriously considering building out a parallel processor using a bunch of these. Lots of press on a bunch of guys doing this, using the old Pi. With a faster processor, quad cores and twice the memory, the overall horsepower just went up radically. I'm thinking of maybe starting with 8 of them. (32) one ghz cores and 8 gigs of ram anyone? I ordered a BeagleBone black last week (before this announcement) because I love ucontroller / electronics stuff. I got my start in electronics back in the late 60s, pre ucontroller. A few years back I started playing with the Atmel uc series, with many different pin packages. It was a bit of a pita to set up but was a ton-o-fun. I actually designed a pulse width modulation motor driver, driving a cmos high power driver, driving a very powerful motor from a ride on toy. The BeagleBone has most of that stuff built right in, in a package size the same as the Pi. Well, not the high power cmos amp... But it has a couple of dedicated 200 mhz controllers right on die for the real time stuff to dr. Of course you have to program them in assembler... And just a slew of i/o. Cool stuff. John W. Colby On 2/2/2015 9:16 PM, Darryl Collins wrote: > Isn't Thunderbird unsupported by Mozilla these days? I thought they stopped working on it a while back now - maybe 18 months or more? > > Anyway, welcome Back John. > > Cheers > Darryl > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby > Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1:09 PM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: [AccessD] I couldn't post > > I've been here forever, I just couldn't post because my Thunderbird install on my laptop insisted on using the wrong output email address and so AccessD servers kicked my replies back. > > I finally decided to just uninstall and reinstall (and lose all my stuff > - it's a long story). > > -- > John W. Colby > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com