GeminX
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
GeminX – exactly what is this alluding to? I did ask earlier in the year about this. The website invites questions via a contact box but refuses to process it without a ‘valid’ telephone number – which, not living in the UK I don’t have! Can anyone tell me what GeminX is planned too do please? |
Vince M Hudd (116) 527 posts |
Scroll down to the RISCOSbits section of the 2016 London Show report |
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
Thanks Vince. I missed that report last year. Is GeminX a software solution ie something like Windows on a USB drive? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7925 posts |
The answer is in the article, but short form: both. |
RISCOSBits (3000) 127 posts |
Give me a couple of days or so to finish the article, and it’ll not only tell you what it is, but also how to “make” your very own! |
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
Must have been a bit slow reading the report and didn’t take it all in. Sorry :-( Looking up the Intel product there are numerous versions, with and without Win 10, varying in price from around US$150 to $750. Reviews of the device are also variable depending on model used and tasks required of Win 10 and the software. The RISCOSBits article will be avidly read to see how it will work on my ARMX6 – and of course how much it will cost. |
RISCOSBits (3000) 127 posts |
Okay, the article is here, for your perusal! |
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
Thank you for taking the time to produce a comprehensive guide to the project. It would remove the need to have a Win machine alongside our ARMX6. Currently we need one to access web pages particularly for banking etc. |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
Thanks seconded, but there is an alternative which is probably¹ cheaper and avoids Windows altogether²: I have a second Pi (actually a Pi3) elastic-banded to my RISC-OS Pi (actually an over-clocked Pi2, ARM v.7 version) and with wi-fi enabled. I can use it via VNC or, for occasions demanding a lot of scrolling which seems to upset Avalanche, directly with a second mouse and a USB and an HDMI switcher (that’s two gadgets and buttons, but, again, cheaper than a “real” KVM switch). All my banking works fine with Chromium browser under Raspian, and other RISC OS impossible things like BBC listen again. And, of course, no shortage of USB ports! ¹I haven’t costed the Windows stick things, just made assumptions. ²Which I believe to be “a good thing!”, being prejudiced. |
RISCOSBits (3000) 127 posts |
Me too! Well, maybe not the elastic band bit… I also built a Stacker Pi using a Pi2 and an UpBoard, which uses the Pi form factor and runs Windows. More expensive than a Pi though.
Try RDPClient and install xRDP on the Pi3. It’s much smoother, and IMHO, more efficient than VNC and allows you any resolution you want, so you can run your Chromium browser on fullscreen on the Pi3, but it’ll look like Chromium in a window in RISC OS. You will have to remove the RealVNC server on the Pi3 to do it, but it is worth it. At least you can just clone your card before you mess with it. |
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
At the end of your page of How to do It you say When I tried to contact through that page it required a UK telephone number. Interested parties from around the world will need to steal someone elses telephone number to contact you! |
Chris Mahoney (1684) 2100 posts |
The Contact page doesn’t even have a field for a phone number when I look at it. Weird… |
Rick Murray (539) 13393 posts |
He means this one: http://riscosbits.co.uk/contact.htm For what it is worth, a company that requires a phone number just for some information on a product is not a company I’d be doing business with. (and the fact that it’s an international number is an added cerise sur le cupcake!) |
RISCOSBits (3000) 127 posts |
To be fair, I’m not going to call it unless you specifically request me to, so just make one up – if I see a message from 01234 567890, I’ll ignore that part! :-) I keep meaning to take that requirement off (it wasn’t intended to be a mandatory field!). |
Rick Murray (539) 13393 posts |
Back in the UK, around 2000, I used to get a lot of calls at obscene times of the morning, by people who could barely speak English. The police were not interested, OFCOM could care less, and BT’s advice was to unplug the phone (don’t leave it off the hook as that uses network resources). |
RISCOSBits (3000) 127 posts |
Turns out I was right, sort of! It isn’t a mandatory field, but if you try to enter any number at all, it checks for the UK format, and then balks if it’s not correct. However, just leave it blank and it’ll carry on without one and send the message. I was even beginning to suspect my own sinister motives there, for a moment! Although I can’t be bothered to get up at 4am to phone anyone, let alone try to sell them car insurance! ;-) |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3125 posts |
Nor can I, but if I absentmindedly phone my sister-in-law at nine in the evening, she jumps out of bed at half past two in the morning to answer it. |
Ross McGuinness (1739) 66 posts |
My sincere thanks to Andy from RISCOSBits for his generous assistance to connect my ARMX6 to a Win machine, so that we can now utilise a browser in a Win 7 window on the RISC OS desktop. It means that it is possible to switch to Firefox or Opera for web access to sites that Netsurf can’t handle. The GeminX icon sitting on the icon bar looks really great. Thanks Andy |