Tim Walker's Public Library

For reference if/when I get the message they talk about during a package upgrade...

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A feast of info on GUIs from the 1980s onward:

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A HOWTO for connecting a Motorola Atrix "lapdock" to a Raspberry Pi, so the Pi can use the lapdock as a display, keyboard and pointer.

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I am intrigued by what I have read and seen about awesome (a tiling window manager for X11) - there are some useful-looking tips here.

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Hope this'll fix things...

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Very interesting JavaScript library for data visualisation use

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Could be useful for compiling software

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Useful tips for SSH and GKrellM

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Possibility for the Raspberry Pi?

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Hopefully this will tell me how to regrade (colour-correct) video that was shot with the wrong white-balance setting :-(

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A line of ARM-based netbooks - they look as if they're developing nicely...

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Handy for GNU screen keyboard shortcuts

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Hope I won't need this again, but just in case...

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The VIA APC looks like the Mini-ITX board-maker's answer to the Raspberry Pi. Looks superficially interesting - a bit more expensive, but adding extra RAM, 2GB onboard Flash storage and VGA video, plus a MicroSD card. I for one welcome the new competition - more ARM computers means less Windows (for now) ;-)

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