Because I forget...
I have a new toy, but because I forget to say anything about it, I have not yet posted. So here it is: It's a Raspberry Pi. Got it from Adafruit a month or so back. More specifically I got: The Rasberry Pi Model B 512MB Ram A Pi Shell - clear case Cobbler Breakout Kit HDMI to VGA Video _ Audio Adapter Armed with these goodies and a spare Dell 17" LCD monitor we had I started setting up. I grabbed and erased a spare 4 gig SD card & grabbed a copy of Wheezy and an imager from the Wiki . Adafruit, of course, has some awesome tutorials on the subject as well. One annoying thing about it was that I couldn't get the thing to display on my old Dell 17" LCD. I had some newer LG monitors it was fine with, so I knew it was working. There is a config file you can set on the SD card from any other computer prior to boot up that sets a variety of initial state items. One was an HMDI boost setting which did the trick. Some time after getting it initially