Great opportunity for some Linux tips. Here’s three off the top of my head…

1. reboot your pi with ‘sudo reboot’
2. see what storage you have connected with ‘df -h’
3. If you have an external HDD it will work much faster (x3) if you format it to ext4 (but it won’t work on windows)

“A good power source is essential to your Pi”
“Use a powered hub usb to your external HD”

1. Why are words merely reflected left-to-right in a mirror, and not also top-and-bottom? What’s so special about the horizontal axis?

2. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance (King George V)

1. ‘sudo sync’ to make sure all files are written to SD card.
2. ‘top’ to get a real-time display of running processes
3. Remember to back up SD card image from time to time!
4. apt-get install bsdgames for some classic Unix text games – adventure, wumpus, tetris, hangman, etc.
5. If you overclock too far and Pi stops working, hold down Shift during boot for ‘safe mode’.
6. Typing ‘file’ and a filename will display a description of the file’s contents.

“Make a couple of sd cards for the pi ( etc. gaming , programming, and xbmc)”
“To run something in python 3 use python3 instead of python in the command line”
“Run python in ‘sudo’ to access the gpio pins”

As it appears no-one’s said it yet:

A little potassium cyanide in the cheese will make a truly killer (and slightly almondy) cheese on toast.

SD cards don’t last forever! Always have at least one backup of any files that are important to you.

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tree -d can be handy for visual listing of directory structures.

time CMD will run CMD and display the amount of time it took. A quick way to measure long running operations.

pv when inserted into pipes will show progress and throughput.

http://www.debian-administration.org/ is a handy resource for tips, Q&A, and tutorials.

If you’re always using your phone charger to power your Pi, plug your phone into your Xbox instead.

A dollop of salad cream works wonders for cheese on toast.

Plant your pansies in spring time.
Russian proverbs
You do not get a hangover on other people’s Vodka
The sooner you go into jail the sooner you get out

To watch youtube use yt and youtube-dl

To configure keyboard and others things, use: sudo raspi-config

1) Run apt-get moo.
2) To keep your pi up-to-date, run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade .

Student Pizza:

Toast a slice of bread in a toaster, smear liberally with tomato ketchup when done, sprinkle with mixed herbs, cover in grated cheese, grill until cheese melts, eat, resume coding …

If you pull GPIO1 down, by connecting GPIO header pins 5 and 6 with a jumper, Raspbian will boot in “safe mode”.

Minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and grazes with thin strips of bacon

Get fortune and cowsay and type “fortune | cowsay” to display a cow stating a random funny quote.

Look for a wifi adapter on eBay, you can get a USB one compatible with the Pi for under £5

Did you know you can power your Pi from your TV’s USB port? Use the one marked USB (HDD) if available.

(P+L)(A+N) = (PA) + (PN) + (LA) + (LN)

I foiled your plan!

The “hostname -I” (capital i) will tell you the IP Address of your Pi.

Backup, backup backup.

The command “sudo amixer -cset numid=3 1” will send sound to the headphone socket. Use “sudo amixer numid=3 2” to return it to HDMI.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving probably isn’t the best sport to take up.

Learn from your mistakes.

If you can keep your head, while all around are losing theirs, you obviously don’t have a full idea of the problem!

Change the default password for the pi user, or, better still, add a new user and get rid of pi.

The Pi can do more than you or I can think of to do with it!

Never ever “tar” a file bigger than 8Gb (minus 1 byte). It will tar ok, but it will never untar and anything in the tar archive after it is lost. (See http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/linux/a-tale-of-failure-success-and-open-source/ for a solution though!)

You can never have too many backups.

When making scones, where the recipe says add 100g dried fruit, add 300g instead. They are much nicer that way.

Read MagPi, the Magazine for Pi people, at http://www.themagpi.com.

Use the source Luke, use the source.

That will do pig, that will do.

Cheers,
Norm.

Mark V. Shaney’s quotes are life-changing e.g. “I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt”.

Did you know… a raspberry (as in a rude sound) comes from the rhyming slang raspberry tart.

Use cvs, subversion or git for source control of code. Even for small projects it makes tracking the evolution of your project simple.

If you are operating on a large number of files and the command cannot handle the number of command line arguments, pipe the output of ls into xargs. E.g. to delete all files ending in *~ (emacs backup files): ls *~ | xargs -n 256 rm

find all files in current directory older than two weeks: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +14

One I posted a while back:
if a process (‘producer’) on one machine writes to stdout and a process (‘consumer’) on a remote machine reads from stdin, they can be chained with SSH: producer | ssh user@host consumer

If you want to turn your pi into a file hub or media center, try adding a torrent client with a web interface so it can download files when you aren’t logged in and so you can control it from almost any machine in your home. It works great for me when I run Raspbmc. Instructions for how to do this are provided in the link below.

http://blog.snapdragon.cc/raspberry-pi-as-bittorrent-server/

PS: try using the “top” command on the command line to see what is running on your pi under what user.

If you eat chilli with your fingers, wash your hands before as well as after you go to the toilet.

While it may sound delicious a raspberry pi is, in fact, not edible.

If you are running the Pi in GUI mode and you want to control the screen from a PC or Mac, have a look at Synergy.

It lets you run your mouse pointer off the side of your PC screen and onto the Pi’s screen. While the mouse pointer is on the Pi’s screen the keyboard will type to the Pi as well.

Proverb:

“It’s no fun being stupid unless you can prove it publicly.”

Observation:

“Nothing is impossible if you don’t have to debug the design.”

Never put a sock in a toaster.
Never put jam on a magnet.
Never throw your Granny in a bag.
Never suck all the juice out of a vampire.
Never lean over on Tuesday.

Assume you’re trying to install a driver for a wifi dongle on your pi, but don’t know what package to install. Try typing ‘sudo apt-cache search X’, where ‘X’ is the chipset name or number of your dongle. This will give you a list of all of the packages you can install that contain whatever you typed in for X in the title.

Raspberry Pi tip:
Pure Data (puredata) is an excellent visual programming application for handling custom input, audio, video, and other crazy stuff. Use it to prototype your ideas or just to make wildly interactive audio and visuals. You can get up and running pretty quickly with the floss manual (http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/), and soon you’ll be programming in real-time and doing crazy stuff like using an Xbox controller as midi input! Add a software hook and you can have custom input devices for any application.

Non-Raspberry holiday cooking tip:
Most people complain about baked chicken breasts being dry and not-so-tasty. This is because many recipes say to bake uncovered at 350F/175C for 45 minutes. Bake your chicken breasts covered at 400F/200C for 30 min, and they will be juicy and flavorful without adding any liquid at all. Personally, I like to butterfly the breasts and stuff the chicken with a tasty cheese and fresh spinach. 10 minutes prep, 30 minutes cooking, and it’s a holiday dish that even impresses the in-laws!

Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chillies, is fat-soluble (which is why yoghurt cools the burn)…
The ‘heat’ is measured in Scoville units.
Getting “Dave’s Insanity Sauce” in your eye is not recommended.

Easiest way to learn code is at http://www.codecademy.com/ !

1. Wear rubber gloves when chopping Habanero peppers.
2. Take off the rubber gloves before ;
a. going to the lavatory.
b. scratching your eyelid.
3. Never sneeze with a full tank.

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” – George Nada from They Live (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Running headless and want to view a picture in ASCII in your SSH session, use Cacaview;

sudo apt-get install cacaview

Sample here;
http://marks-space.com/2012/12/03/view-images-as-ascii-in-the-terminal-on-a-raspberry-pi/

BTW: -40 Celsius and -40 Fahrenheit are the same temperature.

Rules are there to make you think before you break them.

life is just virtual reality, don’t take it too seriously :-)

Don’t buy a Pi until Rev 6 next year. 2,5GHz 2GB ram :)

1. Books have endings, stories don’t.

2. You don’t get girls by playing with Lego, unless you get girls to play with Lego.

3. Operation This Will More Than Likely End Badly is a go!

4. ‘Synthetic’ reality and ‘Real’ reality are the same thing!

Tip of the day = …….nope, cant think of one

It was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.
– Henry Ford

Get a DC Voltmeter. The voltage between TP1 & TP2 points on the Raspberry Pi boards while running must be greater than 4.75V and lower than 5.25V. If it falls ouside those values, change your powersupply right away.

Need to make some quick computation while typing in a terminal ? Use “bc”, the Bignum Calculator (“sudo apt-get install bc” if you don’t have-it). It can handle Big numbers (try “12345^12345”). Use “scale=N” to set the floating point precision and “quit” to exit.

RTFM in Linux/BSD is very easy to do. Don’t know how to use a command ? “man command”. Want to find related commands ? Check the “SEE ALSO” chapter at the end of the man page.

1( GUI’s are nice… but keep a good knowledge of Linux
2( Python and C/C++ make a great pair

If you can’t find Mozilla Firefox in Debian repo it is actually called Iceweasel.

First rule of debug: what was the last thing you changed?
Second rule of debug: occam’s rasor.
Third rule of debug: whatever remains however improbable must be the bug.

Add this to your sibling’s ~/.login file:
echo sleep 1 >> ~/.login

Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?

Endless Loops.
10 Load a YouTube video of one of Eben’s talks
20 Drink if he says Uh
30 Goto 20

:)

To run the Pi’s GUI applications, when the Pi is runing headless, do this on the computer you are using to attach to the Pi:

ssh -X pi@raspberrypi

Obvioulsy, replace “pi@raspberrypi” with your correct username and alias/IP address. You will get a shell as normal, but type in a GUI application’s command, for example:

xclock &

And the GUi will appear on your computers desktop. (Ahem, not if you are running Widnows it won’t!)

You need the trailing ampersand to run the job in the background and to free up your shell ready to execute more programs.

Cheers,
Norm.

“…A quotation that you think is life-changing? (At least as life-changing as killer cheese on toast, at any rate.)”

“Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?” ~ David Hume

Happy Holidays.

1 If in doubt, use sugru. Probably.
2 If in doubt, try it anyway. And film the result. It could be helpful!
3 There is no rule 3.
4 If you’re messing about with audio, try pd-extended. It even has its own rPi build!
5 Enjoy it. I don’t know what “it” is, but it should probably be enjoyed.

use the alias command to make macros in bash eg. adding alias off=’sudo halt’ to your .bashrc makes powering off safely a breeze. WARNING! aliasing cat to rm may cause rPi to burst into flames

when using veet for men always read all the instructions before use

1: Want more detail during your terminal-based program installation antics? Try running sudo aptitude – press ? once it’s running in order to see how it all works. You can also use aptitude instead of apt-get when installing programs ( sudo aptitude install yourprogramhere ).

2: Remember you’re a Womble!

3: Interested in setting up your Raspberry Pi for playing computer games? A wealth of knowledge is available in the Gaming section of the forum – http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=78 .

Nuclear Fusion is the energy souce of the future – and always will be.

I don’t like russian dolls – they’re too full of themselves.

If Linux appears too daunting for a beginner, why not try RISC OS?

Programmers are advised to wear gloves when using a kango hammer. You don’t want to damage those “office hands” :-)

Something I genuinely had to look up a little earlier:

‘To clear the screen from the Linux command prompt, press CTRL and L at the same time’.

Is the Tip of the Day archived anywhere? It would be helpful to have all the tips available because some may be over a users head today and helpful as their knowledge grows.

Whilst enjoying, but continuously struggling with doing simple tasks on command line Raspbian, (coming from a windows background), I took comfort in this – Jesus said: “in this world you will have trouble!” (John 16:33)

For all the latest forum posts, go to: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/search.php?search_id=newposts

I had an idea the other day for some tips of the day that could really make a difference to a few lucky people, unlucky enough to need the tips in the first place. This incluede apocalyptic survival tips and other comical, but factual information. Here are two off the top of my head:

“In case of nuclear attack, DO NOT look at the initial explosion! The blast, however beautiful, is literally blinding in most circumstances.” Paraphrasing may be necessary.
“If your car is stuck under a downed power line, jump from the vehicle instead of stepping out. This will insure that you are not electrocuted.”
Odds are these aren’t the kind of tips you want to show, I thought I would put them here for fun anyway.

Is this still open for suggestions?

“The answer might be ‘It just works’ but Raspberry Pi users should want to know why and how”

Here’s mine, from personal experience:

Don’t type rm -r -f path use rm path -r -f instead and double check path (you don’t want your root directory gone).

!! or !-1 will repeat the last command you typed. !-2 the last but one and so on. If you don’t want to execute it, type !!:p

history will show all of your command history. !23:p will show your 23rd command, !23 will execute it again.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you’ve been unwise. ‘Piet Hein’

and or any other Piet Hein quotes that seam fitting ;}

Adding a vegetable stock cube to cheese sauce makes cauliflower & broccoli cheese amazing!