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by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:51 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Planned downtime tomorrow while we upgrade the servers
Replies: 8
Views: 1634

Re: Planned downtime tomorrow while we upgrade the servers

Yeah, some people seem to forget you, the admins and moderators are suffering, too. Looking forward to a smoother experience.
by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Why did the industry fail?
Replies: 60
Views: 13741

Re: Why did the industry fail?

<t>I mean. How many revenue may be in 10.000 pieces? Calculate the time they spend to design it, to test it, to redesign it, the money for lawyers, time to bargain, time for support, costs for hosting, beer.. (don't understimate the beer factor).<br/> <br/> You think there would be enough money in i...
by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:19 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Why did the industry fail?
Replies: 60
Views: 13741

Re: Why did the industry fail?

Yep, price.

You can't deliver for $25 or $35 if you want to make money. Because if you want to make money, your suppliers want to make money out of you, too. And as a company you probably want to control everything, do professional marketing, etc.
by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:17 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi pricing in India
Replies: 3
Views: 3426

Re: Raspberry Pi pricing in India

<t>$35 is kind of a tax-less base price in USD. This has to be converted in local currency, VAT has to be added, shipping often does not come for free, etc. There may even be some kind of punitive duty attached (blame India in that case ).<br/> <br/> Is $46,6 the end price for which they are shippin...
by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:43 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Arch Linux Arm and QEMU
Replies: 32
Views: 17916

Re: Arch Linux Arm and QEMU

<t>llewell said: <br/> <br/> <br/> ARM is a bit of a pain, isn't it? <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Yeah, but have you ever tried to use a computer without an ARM? <br/> <br/> Been with Unix and Linux for.. eh.. 16 years or so. But the experience of having to cross-compile or get a emulator up and running ...
by AlArenal
Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:37 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Getting Started
Replies: 6
Views: 1313

Re: Getting Started

<r>Hi and welcome, Brian!<br/> <br/> Everything is brand new and turned out to be a lot faster and bigger than anyone had imagined. Right now we have all kinds of people here, some are more or less tech-savvy, while right now there's a lot more geeks and nerds around than "normal" users.<br/> <br/> ...
by AlArenal
Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Website DB errors
Replies: 6
Views: 1391

Re: Website DB errors

<t>The foundation told just yesterday via Twitter, that there's going to be a bit of downtime tonight to upgrade the server and get rid of the DB error.<br/> <br/> I asked them if the intend to use W3 Total Cache for Wordpress some days ago but dind't receive an answer. W3TC can cache in files, usin...
by AlArenal
Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:22 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: cross-compiling/developing for the Debian image
Replies: 12
Views: 2091

Re: cross-compiling/developing for the Debian image

Some things just have to settle in and that's probably not gonna happen until we're sitting in front of the actual RPi iron and get our feet wet. Questions will be more easy to answer if you can actually test what's going to happen.
by AlArenal
Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:48 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Simulator & emulator downloads
Replies: 25
Views: 32592

Re: Simulator & emulator downloads

<r>Thanks alot for your work and the download!<br/> <br/> I changed the keyboard layout, system language and mirror to German, wrote some instructions (in German) and put it up for grabs:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://raspberrycenter.de/hand.....einrichten">http://raspberrycenter.de/hand.....einrichte...
by AlArenal
Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:37 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Video Adapter
Replies: 39
Views: 7709

Re: Video Adapter

Such a composite-to-VGA converter costs around 30 Euro incl. VAT over here in Germany. You'd better save some money and get yourself a monitor with digital input
by AlArenal
Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:55 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Raspberrymod.com
Replies: 2
Views: 1366

Re: Raspberrymod.com

Good work and congrats to your launch! I'm gonna sneak a peek from time to time.
by AlArenal
Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:52 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: So: what do you all think about the Model A news?
Replies: 41
Views: 7704

Re: So: what do you all think about the Model A news?

I think it's great news, because it's more hardware for the buck and it makes sure you can run exactly the same software on both models which makes life a lot easier for software developers and users of their software.
by AlArenal
Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:36 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: RS Components
Replies: 175
Views: 36609

Re: RS Components

<t>Nexy said:<br/> <br/> <br/> Farnell had two different SKUs listed, 2081185 and 2081347. This was when their website was falling down around it's ears. Presumably the cheaper one was wrong. An utter farce.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Yeah, I got my order working at 9:19 CET after trying to work through...
by AlArenal
Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:34 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: There's a time and a date on the front page...
Replies: 177
Views: 37892

Re: There's a time and a date on the front page...

Apple just entered the foundation.

They're gonna host the website in their data centers, create a PiStore and btw, it's gonna be renamed to Apple Pi.

Yummie!
by AlArenal
Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:04 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: There's a time and a date on the front page...
Replies: 177
Views: 37892

Re: There's a time and a date on the front page...

<t>They're gonna announce that they move their website from Wordpress to Drupal to be more manageable, gain performance, scalability, features and user-experience.<br/> <br/> Or was it just me while hacking together a Drupal based RPi community platform for us Germans?<br/> <br/> Tomorrow morning we...
by AlArenal
Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: STICKY: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 3749
Views: 231164

Re: Introduce yourself!

<t>Hi, I'm Alex from Germany!<br/> <br/> I started computing in the glorious days of C-64, Atari ST, Amiga, etc. I would have loved to own a Acorn A3010, but could not afford it that time when I was short.<br/> <br/> Currently I'm working as an SEO, Drupal CMS developer and Linux admin. I'm not sure...

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