A Feast of Raspberry Pi

That turned out to be a good bit of Pi and a good turnout for both nights with people young and not-so-young converging from far and wide.

The NottingHack Raspberry Jam soon had a mini-Brambleweenie collection blinking their lights and displays. See below for a few pictures from the night. They will be continuing each . . . → Read More: A Feast of Raspberry Pi

A Raspberry Pi Gone Postal

After an early start, and a long delay, “CE” compliance testing done, bureaucracy overcome, and whatever follow-on production batch and random delivery queue…

I have one Raspberry Pi arrived in the post today!

Below are the inevitable pics of the arrival 🙂

To be fair to Farnell/Element14, they undoubtedly have worked hard along with . . . → Read More: A Raspberry Pi Gone Postal

man ntpq (Gentoo brief version)

Using “man ntpq” or “man 1 ntpq”, you get the ‘brief’ version as shown below of the ntpq man page from a Gentoo system. Contrast with the more widespread and more informative ‘long’ version example or the Gentoo man 8 ntpq example that include the tally codes and output descriptions…

Much further explanation is given . . . → Read More: man ntpq (Gentoo brief version)

man ntpq (long version)

Below is the more usual ‘long’ version of the ntpq man page (from a Mandriva system for this example).

Much further explanation is given on “ntpq -p” output.

ntpq(8) ntpq(8)

NAME ntpq – standard NTP query program

SYNOPSIS ntpq [-inp] [-c command] [host] […]

DESCRIPTION The ntpq utility program is used to monitor NTP daemon . . . → Read More: man ntpq (long version)

man ntpq (Gentoo long version)

Using “man 8 ntpq” on a Gentoo system, you get the more useful ‘long’ version of the ntpq man page as shown below, as opposed to the Gentoo system man 1 ntpq ‘brief’ version. Confusingly further, it still shows “ntpq(1)”!

Much further explanation is given on “ntpq -p” output.

ntpq(1) ntpq(1)

NAME ntpq – standard . . . → Read More: man ntpq (Gentoo long version)