Applicable to : Xubuntu 14.04 and others
How to change the program that opens a file type. e.g a text file.
Go to settings manager which should be on the menu or an icon on the panel
Select MIME Type Editor
You then see the following
If you click the program name in the far right column, then you should get a list of options as to which program is used to edit that file type.
Changes seem to be immediate so closing the window should mean the changes take effect.
The deal that forced Microsoft to offer a choice of browsers for users of windows has / is coming to an end according to the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30501518
There are several alternative browsers avaialble
Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
Chrome
Seamonkey
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ This seems to be a whole suite of internet utilities. (browser, mail, chat etc)
Here is a poster for the January Pi jam. If anyone is able to print off or display on their website I would be very grateful as this really helps to promote.
Another pi jam today and it went very well highlights as follows
We helped on visitor get up and running and ended up re-creating an sd card with raspbian (1)on in order to get the Pi up and running. In the end Tom got everything up and running, with some help from myself as I seem to have an array of adapters and other bits and pieces which always seem to come in handy. Including various images on my netbook.
Our younger visitors were busy with various projects Arduino (6) hacking and getting Arch (2) Linux up and running in a virtual machine, (Virtual box) (3))
I have loaned out my pi-liter (4) to one of the younger visitors so he can demonstrate at school
1.) http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
2.) https://www.archlinux.org/
3.) https://www.virtualbox.org/
5.) http://shop.ciseco.co.uk/pi-liter-8-led-strip-for-the-raspberry-pi/
Support repositories for the pi liter
https://github.com/zleap/RaspberryPI
and
https://github.com/zleap/compgroup
Which has some ladder board source code, but should demonstrate the use of the GPIO.
You can also download the pi liter data sheet from the website http://shop.ciseco.co.uk/pi-liter-8-led-strip-for-the-raspberry-pi/
However you DO need to install python-pip with
sudo apt-get install python-pip
For some reason the data sheet instructions missed out this step.
The next Pi jam is on 10th January so if you get a Pi for Xmas come along and we can help you get started or show you what you can do with it. We don’t BYTE 🙂 and are happy to help.
The raspberry pi foundation are offering a chance to have your code sent in to space on 2 raspberry pi’s which will form part of science experiments on board the International Space station. This will be open to all primary and secondary school aged children who are resident in the United Kingdom.
For more info check out the post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog.
The following dates (2nd Saturday) are proposed for the Torbay Pi jam, they should get booked in very soon.
10th Jan 14th Feb 14th March 11th April 9 May 13 June 11 July 8 August 12 September 10 October 14 November 12 December
An update from Mark Shuttleworth
Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough OS) — the smallest, (merely 63MB compressed!) functional OS image that we can still call “Ubuntu”. In fact, we call it Ubuntu Core.
This looks interesting as a base to develop bigger systems
The next Torbay Raspberry Pi jam is on Saturday 13th December 13:00 to 15:00 at Paignton Library.
The next Exeter Raspberry Pi jam will take place on Saturday 6th December at Exeter Library 10 – 12.