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quick recollection on setting things up

  • If I can swear that the password is correct, then it's possible that I'm getting the ID wrong.

    Hadn't logged into the web server in a couple of months and was unable to SSH into it. After an hour or so, I ended up deleting the instance and recreating a clean instance (read: erasing everything).
    I then realized I'd been putting the wrong ID.
     
  • apt-get install
  • sudo apt-get install

Anyways, some links I visited when setting things up (pretty much a dump of whatever I copy-pasted to notes) :

Raspberry Pi
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/optimize-the-power-of-your-raspberry-pi-with-raspbian/


Logging
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging-cookbook.html


Tornado - Python webserver that supports Websocket
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2924991/what-popular-webservers-have-support-for-html5-websocket
http://lowpowerlab.com/blog/2013/01/17/raspberrypi-websockets-with-python-tornado/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11695375/tornado-identify-track-connections-of-websockets

Installing Python in Ubuntu
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/10/10/installing-python-2-7-on-ubuntu/


Physical computing with Raspberry Pi
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/buttons_and_switches/


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