He's got work to do to avoid ending up on the scrap heap like Narcissus Negroponte.
First, how about a good set of tutorials that let grown up people use the Pi, which will then send the Pi sales through the roof, generate moderate profit and thereby enable him to do truly great things for the cause of mankind?
Like?
A tutorial that shows you how to put a decent OS on your Linksys WRT54G v6 (unfortunately, the Tomato bloke decided this is too hard to support). The only one around seems to be : dd-wrt.com - which unfortunately, though it looks like it's written in English, was actually written in Spanish, then auto-translated into Finnish and then into English manually. They did their best, but I'm not sure if it's written for 21st century humans or 23rd century machines. The ultimate goal is to be able to set static IP addresses for your Pi's - so you'd know 192.168.1.105 is for the garage, 106 is for the living room, etc. You get the idea.
A tutorial that tells you how to set the default console screen size in the case of booting without a display connected - nothing at the TV port or the HDMI port.
A tutorial that tells you how to use a free DNS service (preferably one certified and endorsed by the RP Foundation) to be able to enter a meaningful URL to get to your Pi - assuming you're running a server.
A tutorial that tells you how you can use a $5 webcam to implement no-running-cost (but for the cost of your internet connection) home-surveillance. Ooops - sorry, that's my job - that's what these next few posts will be about.
A tutorial that tells you step-by-step how to get your RPi connected to your internet via a WiFi USB dongle. Sure, there are folks out there who claim that the Patriot dongle or the Whizzpup dongle work right out of the box, but, what if you go into the crazy wpa_gui deal and it doesn't see a single service though every other internet device in your house does? What if you run wpa_gui and now, though ifconfig has shown you wlan0 exists, wpa_gui doesn't show it? Eben!
A tutorial that shows you how you can work on your Raspberry Pi (that is, as if you had a keyboard and mouse and monitor connected to it), except those keyboard, mouse and monitor actually belong to your laptop and you VNC'd into your Pi by first setting up X11 forwarding on it. Fortunately for us mere mortals, Technobabble has come to the rescue : http://tech.element77.com/2013/05/remote-desktop-access-to-raspberry-pis.html
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