DIY ideas for Raspberry Pi?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Now, can it pick the lottery winner, as well?

[Bob Eager]

1. It's not a Start button. It does not have Start on it. It doesn't start the system.

[Bob Eager]

I know quite a few. But then it's my job to visit them.

[Martin]

Win7 does say "start" if you hover the mouse over it.

[John Williamson]

The start button in XP, 95, 98 et al. doesn't start the system either. It does, however, open a menu which lets you stop the system.

As has been said, the "start orb" in 7 looks like a button, and if you hover over it, the caption "start" shows. If it quacks and waddles, my guess would be that it's a duck.

[Bob Eager]

University admissions....

BTw, can I have a prize for starting the fastest growing thread in uk.d-i-y for quite a while?

[Adrian C]

It never did start the system.

It's the 'Hello user, are you lost? _start_ here and find your saved and recently used application shortcuts' button.

[Ghostrecon]

league tables went some way to knock computers studies at A level on the head, students found the technical side hard I remember trying to teach them algorithms for shellsort, quicksort and bubble sort with bits of card cos visualisation helped the same for recursion and interupt handling even then some still struggled - they thought it was going to be messing around building pcs etc (which we did a bit of for the hardware side) - we taught it for about 5 years with me (physics specialist) + another guy (ICT specialist) - results were ok but not spectacular we had 40 kids (out of

280) for a couple of years and enough to run a group (20ish) for the rest - we thought that the numbers were healthy but I moved back to engineering and physics and they got another ICT specialist to teach it :-(

[Ghostrecon]

as ICT became compulsory (at varying levels and initiatives) it became harder and harder to staff at our community college and that together with pressure from league tables means it ws phased out 4 years ago IIRC we are starting to teach GCSE computer studies again from next year which is a welcome relief from the many flavours of ICT diplom btec and gcses

[Owain]

The prize would be a RPi, but they're out of stock :-)

Owain

[Adrian C]

a waste of a fairly decent router!

You have competition,

In Today's Metro ...

they've published the twitter account, that dog must be pretty fed up of treats.

[Bob Eager]

I know that. But some people complain that it stops the system and is therefore stupid.

[Bob Eager]

LOL! Oh well, just a few weeks to wait..

[Tim Streater]

Thass prolly because it says "Start" rather than "Lost? Start from Here" or somesuch.

[dennis]

How about an emulator? Or at least that is what I think it is supposed to be.

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[John Rumm]

You also spot the programmers who never learnt that trick, and hence never set a sensible tab order on their dialog designs ;-)

[Bob Eager]

Oh, there is...but I have plenty of othe rthings to play with in the meantime...like ten Arduino nanos...

[John Rumm]

Which would seem to include many "graphic designers" and any the other "arty" types that are drawn to publishing.

Early versions were from what I understand. Later ones seem to have eroded most of Quarks USPs.

Yup... for big automated jobs FrameMaker is another tool that gets the job done.

[Mathew Newton]

Yeah I saw that!

I opened my feeder up on World IPv6 Day so that whilst anyone could view the video streams those with IPv6 connectivity could actually feed them too. Every man and his, err, dog turned up so they were pretty well fed that day!

Mathew

[dennis]

You click them and they start a menu, what else do you expect it to do?