27 Feb
2013
27 Feb
'13
3:05 p.m.
The Internet exists and these days, that is something
that is pretty much
assumed as a given fact. Besides, where did you _get_ your Raspberry? Don't
tell me you mailed Farnell (or whoever sold it to you) a filled out order
form via snail mail. ;-)
I don't belive I have admitted to ownign an Rpi...
In any case : firstly there sxist public access internet systems in the uK
(libraries, internet cafes, etc). It's quite possibel to use on of those
to order from Farnell. It is much less practiucla to use one to download
stuff for the Rpi (and then ahve to go back becuase you didn't know you
needed soem other package as well).
And as I poitneds out, over herem Maplin shops, in the high street, sell
the Rpi. You just walk into he shop, hand ove rthe cash, and walk out
with one.
Yes, they could have included a set of "programming starter books", but
that would probably have been another USD 100+ on the bill.
If you can;'t figure out how to sue somthing, it's useless.
A machine designed to teach programming should have at least one
introductory book _avaialble_. Not necesssarily included, but available.
And yet Maplin dont' sell noe. I've not seen one in any bookshop.
Unless they dropped the relevant drivers from the Raspbian standard kernel,
accessing USB optical drives should be trivial. It _is_ running Linux,
after all.
Yes, 'should be trivial'. I have learnt over the years to only know
somehtign is trivial when Iv'e done it, though.
As for "just download it": A full repository
mirror fof Ubuntu Lucid for
arm has almost 90000 files in it. I don't expect a full Raspbian mirror
to be much smaller.
So? Why is the file count a problem?
-tony