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How to set VNC security settings using SSH? `No security types supported. Server sent security types, but we do not support any of them`
With the latest Dist-upgrade, it appears the VNC security settings have been changed which means I cannot access my Pi through VNC until they are changed back. I have SSH access.
As the Pi is over 100 miles away I would like to find a way of…
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Which (currently) compatible SD Cards have wear levelling?
This question asks Which SD cards are compatible?
This answer describes the advantages of getting an SD card with wear levelling to extend the life of the card.
How can I find out which of the currently compatible SD cards have wear levelling?
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What are the benefits of using Arch Linux over the standard Debian build?
From the Raspberry Pi downloads page:
Debian “squeeze”
If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Gray and Dom, containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for…
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How can I use a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card?
How can I set up a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card and maximize the performance of my Raspberry Pi?
Related: How can I extend the life of my SD card?
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Adjusting the Brightness of the Official Touchscreen Display
Is there a way to adjust the brightness of the official touchscreen display? I couldn't find a definite answer. I'm running the latest release of Raspbian Jessie.
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How do I update Java 8 in Raspbian
My Raspberry Pi 3 came with Java version 1.8.0_65 installed. I could not update it to a later version using apt-get - I assume there's no Debian repo for it. I do not know how to update it, and installing a newer version does not replace the…
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Does the BCM43438 WiFi chip in Raspberry Pi 3 support "monitor" mode
Does it support the monitor mode (known from aircrack-ng & co.)?
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Is there any workaround for Netflix compatibility?
I know that Netflix does not work with Linux because Moonlight (an open-source implementation of Silverlight) doesn't support encryption.
Have any workarounds or solutions been identified to bring Netflix to the Raspberry Pi for those of us that…
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How do I configure my sound for Jasper on Raspbian Jessie?
I'm using Raspbian Jessie (2015-11-21) to run Jasper (master branch) on the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
The installation instructions in the documentation seem to be for Wheezy and not Jessie.
Running Jasper on Wheezy works fine. But, on Jessie, I had…
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How often to reboot raspberry and is it even necessary
If you have a raspberry on some location and it must run a python script "forever" (a year, maybe two, without me being on location), how often should I reboot it? I know people are keeping them alive for a year+, but I wrote a simple script that…
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Can the USB ports be used to power the Raspberry Pi?
Does the power need to be supplied via the micro USB port or can one of the two normal USB ports be used as well? I intend to use SSH only, so the USB port would not be used in any other way, but I'd prefer to have all plugs on one side.
(Model B…
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Which Python IDEs/interactive shells are best suited to the Pi?
I know this is perhaps slightly dodgy teritory, but I'm going to go ahead.
I'm wondering which of the many python IDEs/interactive shells are best suited to the RPi? By this I mean low RAM, and fairly low memory on the SD.
If anyone has any other…
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Can the Pi Zero act as an USB peripheral device?
Can the currently announced new member of the Pi family - the Pi Zero - act as an USB peripheral device?
Obviously the schematics are not yet available and the blog entry linked above does not go too much into detail, other than:
"Micro-USB sockets…
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Where do Cron error message go?
I have a python script running by cron. For what ever reason, it is not running. I am wondering if there is anywhere that error messages are sent? Script runs fine by itself. If I run a simple script with crontab, that just writes to a file that…
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Why cleanup the GPIO pins?
When running a program in Python, why would I want the cleanup command when using the GPIO's?
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