Archive for August 2013

Setting up a Raspberry Pi without a monitor

August 20, 2013 Tutorial No comments

This tutorial presupposes that you’re using Raspbian Wheezy.

  1. Install Raspbian Wheezy on your SD card by following these instructions.
  2. Open the SD card’s root partition, the one not namedboot.
  3. Open /etc/networking/interfaces in a text editor.Find this line:iface eth0 inet dhcp

    Replace it with this:

    iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0

    This sets your static IP address to 192.168.1.100. Change that if you want. Don’t mess with the netmask.

  4. Open /etc/resolv.conf.Find this line:nameserver 192.168.1.1

    Replace it with this:

    nameserver 8.8.8.8

    This sets your DNS nameserver to Google Public DNS. There are other nameservers out there, but Google is robust.

  5. Eject your card and put it in your Raspberry Pi. Connect it to the same network as the computer you want to ssh into it from and power it on.
  6. ssh pi@192.168.1.100 or the appropriate IP address. Success!
  7. Do whatever else you want to do to your Pi.

Gannett: Week 9

August 9, 2013 Bloggishness No comments

This summer’s internship is over, but the project isn’t finished. They’re close. The only obstacle preventing launching the new website Monday is transferring the domain name, which requires OSU to review some paperwork.

The current estimate of The Lantern’s launch is August 30, during the first football game.

This week:

  • added categories for photos and Buckeye TV
  • uploaded the classified section
  • uploaded the interactives directory, including timeline stories made by Liz Young and myself.
  • wrote documentation for editors on:
    • posting new stories
    • uploading images
    • creating users
  • transferred some old stories from the old website to the new
  • handed the rest of the transfers off to Jay
  • set up email blast signup and un-signup forms
  • gave OCIO the email blast template for testing; received praise from our OCIO contact about the email template tool I wrote.
  • posted the Involvement Fair ad
  • various small CSS tweaks for readability and style
  • fixed the search bar’s placeholder text not actually being a placeholder

I’ve turned in documentation and the list of outstanding issues, and will be gathering my work into a portfolio.

This internship has been a tremendous learning experience. I’ve picked up some PHP and Js, have expanded my knowledge of CSS, adopted Bootstrap, learned some of the ins and outs of WordPress, and gained new appreciation of the planning fallacy.

Outside of this project, I’ve been putting CSS skills to work on creating (as-yet-unpublished) themes for the Dropplets blogging platform. I also have some projects planned that would use my new PHP knowledge. And once Bootstrap 3 settles into a release format, I plan on creating some themes for that.

 

Gannett Week 8

August 2, 2013 Bloggishness No comments

Next week is the last week of internship work before I leave town for a week. The site will need to be ready by then.

What I did this week:

  • Solicited feedback from design editors on the site design. 
  • Created a webpage comparing various site design tweaks.
  • Solicited feedback from design editors on the YouTube sidebar plugin, and chose one.
  • Fixed theme so older posts would pull and embed images from the correct folder.
  • Enabled Akismet comment spam filtering, which required talking to corporate to get external API queries enabled. (This also affected the YouTube and Twitter plugins.)
  • Featured posts are now documented.
  • Miscellaneous CSS tweaks.