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24th of December 2011 by eben

I’m taking the forum offline for a bit to work on migrating to Simple:Press. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Update: normal service has been resumed, but with a much shinier interface.

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So, I’ve made a black .bmp and processed that with "merge". Two bytes are different at address 0x20. Now what does this mean?Code: diff <(cat black-ff.bmp | hexdump) <(cat black-merge.bmp | hexdump)3c3< 0000020 0000 3000 002a 0000 0000 0000 0000…
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Gordon announced this at the Cambridge Jam yesterday. I filmed his announcement, but stupidly got distracted packing up my demos when he was actually showing it right at the end of the Jam, so no film of that. I did…
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Thanks AndyAndy Armstrong wrote:If you have very tightly controlled conditions you might be able to get as low as 1s latency - but if you have tightly controlled conditions you can probably use RTP/RTSP/RTMP or just pipe a MPEG-TS stream…
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Andy Armstrong wrote:Hmm, not sure. Obviously the code hasn't been well tested - I just knocked it up this afternoon and I've only run it on my 1280x720 stream.So, to rule that out I’ve switch to 1280x720 too.The image2pipe format…

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40 comments

Canuck on
December 24, 2011 at 12:30 pm said:

Informative, maybe after the switch I will actually be able to post instead of getting invalid email address errors when I’m logged in and registered :S

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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm said:
  
  That sounds like our spam blocker rather than the forum software – I’ve just whitelisted you, so hopefully you won’t have that problem any more.
  
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  - Canuck on
    December 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm said:
    
    Ah thanks for clearing this up, I promise I’m not a bot!
    
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andywe on
December 24, 2011 at 12:32 pm said:

Thanks … that explains the erratic behaviour …
Happy Christmas …

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aminspace on
December 24, 2011 at 12:33 pm said:

Ah, now that would explain why my searches aren’t yielding any results…

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Montekuri on
December 24, 2011 at 2:44 pm said:

It is back!!!!

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- DavidS on
  December 24, 2011 at 2:56 pm said:
  
  You seem to have lost the names of the posters for the existing posts? All posts claim to be from ‘Guest’.
  
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  - Montekuri on
    December 24, 2011 at 3:06 pm said:
    
    It seems everything ok with user’s name on the forum.
    But we do not see the more recent post on the front page.
    
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    - liz on
      December 24, 2011 at 3:08 pm said:
      
      I know – I need a new plugin for that. Working on it!
      
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    - DavidS on
      December 24, 2011 at 3:16 pm said:
      
      Ok I guess I was just a bit to quick to look at it before. Now the names are showing (when I posted the above every pre-existing post was from Guest).
      
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- Montekuri on
  December 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm said:
  
  - I had to remake my signature.
  - I like the zoom function on the pictures.
  - Lost the “Edit” function on posts.
  
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mobeyduck on
December 24, 2011 at 3:09 pm said:

I cant say that i like the new forum better..
the view is to narrow, i can fit it at-least 3 times more on my screen.
and the look doesn’t fit the rest of the site.
But the thing im missing the most is the new posts on the front-page

But it does run smoother

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- JamesH on
  December 24, 2011 at 3:20 pm said:
  
  I agree about the narrowness – that’s a pain.
  
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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 3:28 pm said:
  
  New posts is back, and I’ll try to fix the narrowness later on. Biggest problem at the moment is that old posts don’t have the username next to them, which may mean we have to redo the migration later on today if SQL fiddling doesn’t work.
  
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  - hippy on
    December 24, 2011 at 4:10 pm said:
    
    Probably also a part of the narrowness problem is text of posts on the RHS being lost ( Chrome, Firefox ). Not all pages but here’s one which doesn’t work for me …
    
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/educational-applications/basic-more-harmful-than-useful/page-10
    
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  - hippy on
    December 24, 2011 at 4:36 pm said:
    
    Also [s]….[/s] strike-throughs in posts are not rendering as strike through but as [s] and [/s] tags.
    
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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 5:09 pm said:
  
  Narrowness fixed.
  
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  - mobeyduck on
    December 25, 2011 at 2:17 pm said:
    
    Thanks its much better
    
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- Curinga on
  December 27, 2011 at 10:01 am said:
  
  But the thing im missing the most is the new posts on the front-page!!
  Signed both hands under it.
  Maybe I have just to get used to it.
  
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xvilo on
December 24, 2011 at 4:04 pm said:

i thought; “there probably offline becaus there adding some cool features to the site regarding the R-Pi” but no! just a forum update! –’

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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm said:
  
  There’s a new About page, too; and the contacts page is also new…
  
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SergeantFTC on
December 24, 2011 at 4:29 pm said:

I am getting a ton of database errors, mostly with the forums, but some with the main site too.

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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 5:02 pm said:
  
  That’s nothing to do with the new forum, unfortunately; it’s because we’re getting a simply amazing amount of traffic at the moment.
  
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  - Jongoleur on
    December 24, 2011 at 5:09 pm said:
    
    Raspberry Pi is presently one of the two links under Technology on the BBC News page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
    
    The traffic is to be expected…
    
    Its going to be an interesting new year with this level of interest!
    
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ads on
December 24, 2011 at 5:11 pm said:

The interface seems shiny indeed.. could it also be *wider* ? On my PC, the actual text uses up about 1/3 of the screen’s width, there are huge left and right margins

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- George on
  December 24, 2011 at 9:16 pm said:
  
  Same problem here, at 1680×1050 the whole site/forum is just 1/3 of the screen’s width. Also don’t like much the new forum style, but who cares, I’m only interested in the hardware
  
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Zachary on
December 24, 2011 at 5:25 pm said:

I really like the new forum! Especially the easier to apply account avatar!

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ads on
December 24, 2011 at 5:32 pm said:

The new forum insists on logging me as ‘ads’. I’ve tried logging out, deleting all raspberrypi.org cookies, closing my browser, all of the above at once…

And it’s not just cosmetic too, if I request the list of the posts I started, I don’t get mine

Surely, this could be worse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DgXoUWWb4), but still.

PS in case the youtube link was not enough of a hint, I’m obarthelemy.

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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 5:47 pm said:
  
  I’ll have a poke. Noticed that earlier when reinstating you a an admin – most peculiar!
  
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  - liz on
    December 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm said:
    
    OK – try again now and let me know what happens.
    
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    - obarthelemy on
      December 24, 2011 at 6:02 pm said:
      
      Working even in Opera now, thanks.
      
      Still some issues:
      - search for “all the posts you started” with an empty search string yields only 4 results.
      - I still find there’s too much left/right margin to my taste. Luckily Opera Mobile is quite good at trimming that, but even on the desktop it looks very wasteful.
      
      What a strange project to tackle on Xmas day… don’t let the foie gras spoil ^^
      
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      - liz on
        December 24, 2011 at 6:06 pm said:
        
        We’re doing it now because there isn’t likely to be a period quieter than this in the next few months. It’s still bleedin’ awful, though…
obarthelemy on
December 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm said:

OK, it’s working if I use Chrome, which I’ve never used before for raspberrypi, so it’s either a problem with Opera, or with a stray cookie not in the ‘raspberrypi’ category.

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andywe on
December 24, 2011 at 6:42 pm said:

Have some of the topics that were present before the migration been deleted ?
Are these older topics archived anywhere ?

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- liz on
  December 24, 2011 at 7:23 pm said:
  
  We’ve lost some from General Discussion. They’re still in the database, and we’re trying to get them back at the moment. (Which is why if anybody else complains that they don’t like blue and want it changed, I shall ignore them; right now, retrieving those topics is top of the list.)
  
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Canuck on
December 24, 2011 at 8:45 pm said:

I don’t really enjoy the new style for the forum, it has alot of potential but it does not scale for widescreen. Which the majority of us have therefor feels very cramped, ah well take what you got.

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No1 on
December 26, 2011 at 2:54 am said:

What happened to the forum RSS feed?

All the links are borked, and I can’t seem to subscribe to anything but the main blog feed and the blog comment feed – the forum feed is nowhere to be found from the front page, this blog post and the top of the forum.

(WinXP FireFox 8.0)

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chris on
December 26, 2011 at 8:13 am said:

Merry Christmas

Love your work, but unfortunately the new forums seem pretty much unreadable from iOS- post text often extends off the right side of the screen with no opportunity to scroll or zoom. Even when it is working, less than half the screen width is actually used for the post text, with the rest reserved for borders and the avatar column.

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Simon on
January 10, 2012 at 10:15 am said:

A great product and I can’t wait to get one!

Regarding the forum width you can use some css along the lines of the below to make the forum take up a little more width.

body.page-id-445 .entry-content{
width:90%;
}

As for the forum not having a list of recent posts you can use a template tag to show recent posts http://wiki.simple-press.com/plugin-api/template-tags/list-template-tags/. Putting the below in your theme, in a sidebar or something, will show recent posts. I think 5 posts are default but you can pass arguments to the tag/function to extend that. It’s not an ideal solution as you’ll have to put the code in your php WordPress theme template but thats all Simple:Press gives you.

Liz: just give me a shout if you need any advice regarding any WordPress issues.

Once again, great product, I’ll be watching your progress.

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Alex WOod on
November 11, 2012 at 12:56 pm said:

Hi,

I’m very new to computers as I am 12. I cannot get the image onto my SD card using WIn32Disk imager on my Dad’s Win XP pc. Usually, I get this msg “An error occurred when attempting to write data from handle. Error 2: the system cannot find the file specified.” Sometimes I can get as far as 81% complete but then it stops and then gives the msg above.
Does anyone know why this is? My Dad thinks he’s been swindled and doesn’t like computers.

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