2016 — 31 August: Wednesday
There's been a disturbance1 to my somewhat habitual Wednesday routine. Today, I shall be picked up, conveyed to another, and all three will proceed to our walking start point. I shall also exchange some engraved portraits of Brenda in a cunning pre-arranged deal designed to bring me my third Raspberry Pi. This time, it's a Pi3, too. Rather than "wasting" it on web-serving duties that even my original Pi could cope with (let alone my present Pi2) I may even take RISC OS out for a nostalgic spin before deciding what I actually want to do with it.
I'm currently predicting personal Cloud and/or media player. Just don't ask about the i5 NUC's place in the unplanned Grand Scheme of Things. These are toys, after all.
Yesterday evening's entertainments...
... extending into the wee small hours included the complete re-building of Skylark's Kodi DB with a different movie data scraper, followed by a brief assessment of the results, followed by a second complete re-build with the scraping set back to the original. I shall treat the one oddball very-hard-to-pinpoint title that necessitated this ill-advised adventure separately in future! And rather more carefully. Some of Kodi's 'warning' messages are less clear than perhaps they could be.
Unamusing...
... to see that four great universities exercise their great minds and take precisely the same line against unions across the Pond. (Link.)
Amusing...
... to see that my visceral distaste can be vindicated:
Someone has to be in the minority, after all.
Worrying...
... to read a long, and thoughtful, essay lamenting the decline of Christian intellectuals as leading lights of the West. (Link.)
I've just succeeded in adding the errant film title to the version of Kodi running on BlackBeast Mk III under Mint 17. My next trick — to repeat this feat on the version of Kodi running on Skylark under Mint 18 — will now have to wait until the afternoon. Assuming I don't get too distracted playing with my new toy. Such things can happen.
Success. For my post-walk, post-lunch, fun I'm now just checking through all the data "one last time" and have already found both a Lost Sheep and a Sheep that has left the building, but not the data base. Typical!
Now, this...
... is what I regard as a concise Quick Start Guide!
I gather I need to remember to hold down the shift key when powering on to get to the OS image selection menu. Raspbian (a build of Debian Linux) is the default.
There's an alpha build of NoMachine for Linux on the ARMv8 that I may well try out, too. (Link.)
I've long given up...
... trying to understand what makes the BBC Radio 4 people believe they have any grasp of what constitutes radio comedy. Today's post-news example is no exception. All I ask of a comedy is that it be funny. Why the audience laughed is anybody's guess.
It's fair to say...
... my Raspberry Pi3 isn't going to be setting any speed records, but the graphic desktop here...
... on my 27" Asus display (resolution 2560x1440) offers proof that my newest computer is in good working order.