Monthly Archives: August 2013

Okay, so working alone you often find yourself falling behind the curve. I just got my DisplayLink working the other night and today I found this little device – a 2.8" TFT resistive touch screen for the Pi. This is a much better solution than the DisplayLink for the trailer. […]

DisplayLink vs TFT resistive touch screen for PiBox

Wed August 21, 2013 in Hardware / Raspberry Pi tagged displaylink / graphics / prototype / resistive touch screen (updated 4270 days ago)

A while back I made an official 0.5.0 release for PiBox which I announced on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Since then I've made significant advances in preparing PiBox for use as a media server in my travel trailer. Some of the features I've recently implemented include: Support for running as […]

PiBox: 0.5.0 released, many new features since

Mon August 19, 2013 in Hardware / Linux / omapfb / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / X11 / XBMC (updated 4270 days ago)

NOTE: This doesn't work! It's missing all my recent saved mail. Evolution saves the newer stuff in individual files with a ",S" suffix in a different directory. Ugh. I have Evolution. My Fedora 19 upgrade at work has gone badly. I've reinstalled twice, back peddled to F18 (which didn't work […]

Evolution out, Thunderbird in (or how to migrate the quickly ...

Mon August 19, 2013 in Fedora / Linux tagged evolution / thunderbird (updated 4273 days ago)

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve. I understand it's a bleeding edge distro. But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year. Systemd is a pain for me […]