Fens Final Project

Installed Ubuntu. Used $ sudo nmtui to set hostname to Fens-Rock64. Another option is $ sudoedit /etc/hostname This opens a text editor and you type in the required hostname. Then $ sudoedit /etc/hosts Alter the line to match and include hostname. Save and exit. $ sudo /edit/init.d/hostname.sh start And $ sudo service --status-all Lists all currently running services. Then installed Bro and compiled it which took a couple of hours by using $ sudo apt-get build-dep bro -y $ sudo apt-get source --compile bro

After installing Ubuntu I thought I'd check out the list of active services. Turned out to be quite surprising. Alsa-utils Avahi-daemon Bluetooth Cron Dbus Dhcpcd Dnsmasq Dphys-swapfile Fake-hwclock Kmod Lightdm Lighttpd Networking Procps Raspi-config Rsyslog Triggerhappy Udev I don't know what they all are or if they're all required but I can always look that up.

Been a long time and for that I apologise. The thing is there's been that much going on your head starts to spin and you loose your way, things happen and the world moves on and things slide. The big things are being done but it the minutiae that suffers

Well after a week of terrible weather blanketing the UK and causing transport to grind to a halt. The postal service is finally back up and running. Today's post brought not only my lo g awaited Espressobin from America but also the case I had a good friend of mine run through his 3D printer. So it was a case of downloading some software to test and fettle the case to put it in. Just need to locate an appropriate power lead for it now and we're good to go.

Well I've just spent a surprisingly long time attempting to install isc-dhcp-server on to the Raspberry Pi 3 with no success ☹. Turns out the majority of the instructions out there are for an earlier version of the operating system. So the search goes on...

Just had confirmation that my third and final board has been posted out (thanks, Kristina) So hopefully that won't be too long, need to pin down the software choices now. There's so many out there it can be difficult to trim it down. But I'll finalise the list and get on with things.

Just had some of the benchmark dates confirmed. So far we have: Proposal Submission   26th Feb Progress   19th March   Report   22nd May Viva   28th May Dates may be subject to change, so we'll just have to keep an eye on things and see have it pans out. Having had a chat with my Supervisor it's now time to crack on and do some more work on my Proposal.

Finally I get to sit down and start my proposal properly. I'm not saying I haven't been thinking about it. Of cause I have it's just been pushed towards the back of my mind whilst I sort other things out. I've put a few different operating systems on cards and tried booting into them. I've so far done this with the Pi the Rock and the Cubieboard. The Pi and the Rock both behaved well, where as the Cubieboard was a bust. That's the problem with some of the SBC's they can be a labour of love for some small start-up companies and after release the support kind of dries up. People loose interest and move onto the next one. That's fine things come and go and that's to be expected but a problem if it's not compatible with anything else out there. This is why so many boards are based on the Raspberry Pi. The forums are plentiful and sizeable. The community appears friendly and helpful and as so many of them are variations on the original board and la...