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After much fussing, I managed to get Ubuntu with the Unity desktop installed, and here I am in a FireFox browser posting on CP!
I'll write an article on this soon. You won't believe (or maybe you will) the number of websites and tries that I have gone through to get a desktop up and running. Not that it's actually necessary (or even desired) -- it was more an exercise of "it should be able to do this!"
Short story:
Get a good (and large, 8GB or >) uSD card
Put Ubuntu 12.04.2 on it
Boot and install ubuntu-desktop (takes about 4 hours)
Also managed to get a 128GB SSD (on USB) mounted. Now I'm trying to move "home" onto the SSD but encountering a few issues.
Fun stuff, goofing around with all this.
Good thing is, it's ultimately for a client's project for some custom controller stuff, so obviously won't need a desktop environment. We're still debating what to use for handling the web services (Ruby, JavaScript / node.js, etc)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: After much fusting fussing, I mangled managed to get Ubuntoo Ubuntu with the Unity deskrop desktop instwled installed, and here I am in a beagle FireFox berowsr browser posing posting on PP CP!
FTFY 
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F#%*ed that for you?
Why?
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That's cool. I've got a couple server processes that I have running on full blown desktop server machines. All they're doing is polling feeds and moving data to a NAS. I've been wondering about scaling down to something like this.
Noob question: How does a BeagleBone compare with something like a Raspberry Pi?
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The BBB has better specs, I believe. You might want to check out odroid[^] Quad core!
Marc
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That odroid looks like a neat piece of kit. But I'm happy to sacrifice performance for market share on this. I only need the thing to run a couple perl scripts.
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Except for graphics, the GPU on a RPi is better.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Is it any better than running on Raspberry Pi? I recall that was quite a horror and not worth the bother
I guess the Beagle series are higher spec?
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The BeagleBone really looks good. I've got to get hold of one, I can already think of a few projects for it
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What problem did you have with the Pi? I've set up a few and never had any difficulty.
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Restful Api Model Language[^]
Ever heard of it? Ever use it?
Supposedly "better" than web services (SOAP/WSDL). I don't know about that, but my client suggested I might want to use it for a project. As far as I can tell, it's not gaining much traction.
Marc
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Never heard of it. Can't see the point of it (mind you I only spent 2 mins on the website) and anything which talks about 'The Application Programming eXperience, or APX' should probably be mercilessly destroyed! My APX is going bad-to-average today by the way, how's yours?
I've done a little bit of REST and I thought the idea of it was to simplify things. SOAP was too complicated (it is actually), and this was the answer. Now they want to create a whole new meta-language on top of it?
Hmm. That's my final thought.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Thanks for sharing, I'm doing a lot of Restful interfaces at the moment for interfacing Android to Windows (WCF Rest).
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Well, there's another one I've not heard of. While some parts of it look quite promising, it looks to be a bit overkill to me. My RESTful APIs, nowadays, tend to be a node.js express application picking up the requests and handling them. It's very easy to use. For a moment, I was prepared to be impressed by this but I realised that the versioning they were talking about had absolutely nothing to do with API versioning - which would have been something I would be very interested in.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: the versioning they were talking about had absolutely nothing to do with API versioning - which would have been something I would be very interested in.
Huh, I hadn't caught that. I thought it was API versioning as well and thought, oh, that's a nifty feature.
Marc
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Oh yes. That would have simplified my life immensely.
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What do you see as the advantage to REST vs. something like SOAP? Mind you, from what I've been reading, REST is an architecture and SOAP is a protocol, so I think it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges.
But from what I've been reading regarding REST, I just don't get it. Looks like nothing more than HTTP get/post commands.
Marc
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That's pretty much what it is, HTTP commands; but don't forget UPDATE and DELETE commands. I like being able to quickly test my APIs through CURL. Yes, SOAP gives you the object wrapping that you don't really get with REST, but REST provides a simpler, more ubiquitous architecture.
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So does that mean that you effectively need a web server running, rather than "just a" web service?
Marc
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Basically yes. But as I use node most of the time for the back end now, this isn't an issue as node acts as my server.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: But as I use node most of the time for the back end now, this isn't an issue as node acts as my server.
That's what I figured. Thanks for the info!
Marc
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Sounds like an attempt to make REST more SOAPy.
I don't know why REST seems to be gaining popularity when SOAP is superior.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: I don't know why REST seems to be gaining popularity when SOAP is superior.
There are thousands of people who prefer to have a rest than use soap.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: than use soap.
Clearly you are a SOAP denier, and don't like tidy clean SOAP objects.
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