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Hello. As you’ve surely noticed, when connecting the Raspberry to a FullHD monitor, the resolution isn’t 1920x1080, and it’s not possible to select it. To force this resolution, go to: sudo nano /boot/config.txt look for all disable_overscan=0 and change the value to 1 (from 0 to 1). Finally, at the end of the file, comment out the following lines (comment with #): overscan_left=24 overscan_right=24 overscan_top=16 overscan_bottom=16 Restart the Raspberry. ...

Hello. You’ve surely noticed that on Raspbian there is software that may be useless for us. To uninstall this software you can use the command: apt-get purge –auto-remove software_to_delete I deleted these: sudo apt-get purge scratch sudo apt-get purge debian-reference-en dillo idle3 python3-tk idle python-pygame python-tk sudo apt-get purge minecraft-pi sudo apt-get purge sonic-pi Finally a nice: apt-get autoremove Bye! ! :) ! Source: http://www.stefan-seelmann.de/wiki/rasperrypi-homeserver

Hello. After installing Raspbian (on the Raspberry website there are all the necessary guides), the first things to do are: enable ssh: sudo raspi-config navigate to the “SSH” option under “Advanced options” and enable it (it’s not necessary but it might be useful for remote access). Change the default username and password (respectively “pi” and “raspberry”): enable the root user with: sudo passwd root log out from the pi user, log in as root and give these commands (new_user = your new username): ...

Hello. I bought a Raspberry Pi 2 and started configuring it. For this reason, I decided to collect all the material used and report it here in case of a new configuration. All links to the guides will be inserted here. Let’s begin: After installing Raspbian Remove unnecessary software Force 1080p resolution Install LogMeIn Hamachi Installing No-Ip Install Chromium Install Squid Configure blacklist for Squid Mount NTFS hard drive Share folders with a Samba server Install SquidGuard Let’s install a Torrent client, Transmission Print server, Cups Bye! ...

Need to navigate a remote folder via shell? Well, as you’ve noticed, it’s not possible to do this without mounting the folder somewhere. To do this, you need smbfs (which, from what I’ve found online, is a file system or, better, a “mountable” SMB). To install it, open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install smbfs After that, you’ll need to create a folder where you’ll mount the remote folder; this can be in any location you prefer (I put it on the “Desktop”) and you can create it however you want (via GUI or with a simple “mkdir”). ...

Network Manager is an excellent wireless/wired/VPN/Dial-up network manager, but it doesn’t always work well. A worthy replacement is Wicd. To install it, you can follow the instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki, but on Lucid Lynx, when it tries to uninstall the Network Manager packages (“network-manager” and “network-manager-gnome”), it fails. You might say “Who cares? I’ll leave them there and start Wicd!”. Why? In my case, they conflicted with each other and Wicd couldn’t connect. ...