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by AlArenal
Tue May 22, 2012 1:00 pm
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: Best first language choice
Replies: 140
Views: 36755

Re: Best first language choice

Back in the days you didn't have much of a choice. You powered on your Speccy or C-64 and found yourself in a Basic environment. Today it's a bit more difficult, because some language are domain specific (or at least they tend to get used more in certain environments, e.g. PHP for web development). ...
by AlArenal
Tue May 22, 2012 12:25 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: Cloud Cluster
Replies: 7
Views: 7679

Re: Cloud Cluster

The Pi is all about getting people to learn something. Sure, you won't get into the Top 500 with a Pi cluster, but you can teach and learn about such systems without having to buy a 19" rack full of blades. Take a given problem, solve it with code using a certain distributed environment and see how ...
by AlArenal
Mon May 14, 2012 7:39 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Raspberry PI ARM Clone
Replies: 66
Views: 19957

Re: Raspberry PI ARM Clone

@Lob0426

"Sold out" really tells you nothing about how many devices there are and how many get produced and sold per month.
There's a famous acoustic guitar builder in L.A. who uses to be too busy to take any more orders and it's not like he's building and selling hundreds a day...
by AlArenal
Fri May 11, 2012 8:07 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Cancelling my order
Replies: 55
Views: 11939

Re: Cancelling my order

<t>I think there're some reasonable arguments here. Of course the Pi has lots of power compared what a lot of us were used to a couple of years ago. I remember co-writing a book when I was a student on a 333 MHz Celeron (overclocked to 375 MHz) with Word on Windows. The publisher demanded me to sue ...
by AlArenal
Thu May 10, 2012 4:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Cancelling my order
Replies: 55
Views: 11939

Re: Cancelling my order

<t>usrbinroy said: <br/> <br/> <br/> I don't have my Pi yet and I am not going to muck about with Virtual Machines but I have been wondering about instruction set for the Broadcom chip.  From what JamesH says in his post he infers that this is not available.  Is it worth exploring the Broadcom web s...
by AlArenal
Wed May 09, 2012 11:40 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Oracle support for Raspberry PI
Replies: 30
Views: 13832

Re: Oracle support for Raspberry PI

<t>Joefish said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Do people still use Java? Really? Oh my. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> It's actually a great language. What's not sp great is the bloated standards some folks keep on creating. I'm glad I never had to deal with the enterprise stuff and enjoyed creating "real" Java applic...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:47 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Email from Farnell
Replies: 223
Views: 46769

Re: Email from Farnell

Got that mail, too. But where's the news in that? We've been told that by Farnell some 8 days ago. Did it really take them 8 days to send out the mails??

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1081
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:51 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Using openGL?
Replies: 89
Views: 15202

Re: Using openGL?

<t>Reminds me of the good old days when we were sitting infront of our 8 MHz machines without FPU patiently waiting to get some fractals finished. And of course some of my first programs ever painted simple fractals. Therefore I had to understand some obscure code written in another language or dial...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:43 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Using openGL?
Replies: 89
Views: 15202

Re: Using openGL?

WebGL is nice but you can't do too much on the Pi with it except of some basic stuff and demos. The X window system, window manager and browser eat up too much RAM for more ambitious WebGL applications.
by AlArenal
Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:41 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Using openGL?
Replies: 89
Views: 15202

Re: Using openGL?

Oops, should have read the thread to the end

Thanks for the recommendation. I had that one already on my Amazon wishlist but it never hurts hearing from someone who actually uses it.
by AlArenal
Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:21 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Using openGL?
Replies: 89
Views: 15202

Re: Using openGL?

<t>Just a little bit off-topic here, but what kind of literature would you recommend to learn OpenGL ES?<br/> <br/> There's a lot of good OpenGL literature available while almost all books on ES seem to be heading towards either the Android or iOS platform. I'm wondering how much of a difference tha...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:08 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: TGIF!!
Replies: 0
Views: 485

Re: TGIF!!

<t>Got up at 4 am, watched the Blues beat the Sharks for a 3-1 lead in the best-of-7 series, went to work and had to stay two hours more because some (rather nice) client of ours refused to leave until the firewalls, servers and VPN connections worked. Therefore had to cancel a dinner with a friend ...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Linus, Woz - our heads are swelling by the minute!
Replies: 7
Views: 2353

Re: Linus, Woz - our heads are swelling by the minute!

<t>Linus?<br/> <br/> Woz?<br/> <br/> Let me tell you a story...<br/> <br/> I hope it's not gonna make your heads explode, but just can't hold it back anymore.. I just have to tell you this exceptionally well kept secret.. There's someone who loves the whole RPi idea, the ecosystem that's about to co...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:15 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: debian squeeze development tools
Replies: 4
Views: 2516

Re: debian squeeze development tools

<t>Those images are not set in stone. Something is missing? Just install it! Every distribution has something called a package manager. That's an interface to an online repository where thousands of packages are waiting to get installed.<br/> <br/> Installing a package is just a matter of one comman...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:11 am
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: RISC OS on Raspberry Pi
Replies: 356
Views: 132512

Re: RISC OS on Raspberry Pi

<t>There won't be public documentation of the GPU, so you cannot directly program it and use it as GPGPU. (That's sad, cuz I like the idea of playing with OpenCL on the Pi)<br/> <br/> The graphics acceleration could be done by using OpenGL ES which is fully accelerated by the GPU using one of the Pi...
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:00 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Do anyone from germany got his RPi?
Replies: 34
Views: 4764

Re: Do anyone from germany got his RPi?

I had 164552xx, but the wrong SKU (2081347, "Chipset, Raspberry Pi, Model B").

That order is still in the system as I found out lately, although they told me they'd delete it.

P.S.:

08:21:03 29/02/2012
by AlArenal
Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:35 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: [Solved]Re: SDL not found
Replies: 3
Views: 1824

Re: SDL not found

Is libsdl1.2debian-alsa a separate package or part of libsdl1.2-dev? The latter is what you want to have installed if you need sdl.
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:54 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Do anyone from germany got his RPi?
Replies: 34
Views: 4764

Re: Do anyone from germany got his RPi?

<t>63,000 Germans? That makes a pretty bad conversion rate if I think of the number of registered users on RaspberryCenter.de <br/> <br/> One day I'll tell my kids I got up early to place my order, but couldn't get it done until three hours later because of all the other nuts who did the same. And t...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:41 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: # of Units Shipped?
Replies: 28
Views: 5056

Re: # of Units Shipped?

<t>Ervin Kosch said:<br/> <br/> <br/> I meant someone that builds the units.  I don't think that Farnell & RS should have a monopoly on the production.  So I kindly ask again, does anyone know what the licensing fee is to become an RPI producer/builder?<br/> <br/> <br/> By definition it is no mo...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:32 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: # of Units Shipped?
Replies: 28
Views: 5056

Re: # of Units Shipped?

<t>What you're saying is as soon as someone is online he has to respond to everything within hours? I mean come on, there's normal people out there who don't spend half the day sitting on a computer, checking and answering to their private emails.<br/> <br/> And selling stuff on eBay from time to ti...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:17 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: # of Units Shipped?
Replies: 28
Views: 5056

Re: # of Units Shipped?

<t>BlowingRaspberries said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Thanks for the background information! I did order on the first day sometime after the servers crashed - guess I'm just impatient and curious as to whether I'm number 3678 or 201,454.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Same here. As long as you (and everyone else wh...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:43 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi in space! Need advice :)
Replies: 25
Views: 6400

Re: Raspberry Pi in space! Need advice :)

Is a Pi gonna work in the freezing cold up there?
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:26 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: # of Units Shipped?
Replies: 28
Views: 5056

Re: # of Units Shipped?

<t>BlowingRaspberries said: <br/> <br/> <br/> So only 10k when there are apparently 250k orders (and this is going to grow as the Pi is STILL getting masses of mainstream news coverage all over the place) is due to fear of manufacturing errors? It's all a bit of a shame that expertise in large volum...
by AlArenal
Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:53 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: # of Units Shipped?
Replies: 28
Views: 5056

Re: # of Units Shipped?

<t>Montala said:<br/> <br/> <br/> After the first mad chaotic rush had settled down and prospective customer were actually able to place a firm order (or at least express an interest in doing so), apart from either a vague optimistic date, or a mention of 'August' we have received no further informa...
by AlArenal
Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:30 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: rasperry+HDD
Replies: 4
Views: 3457

Re: rasperry+HDD

These days you can buy hard disks with USB ports in almost every shop.

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