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johnbeetem

<t>I didn't get one either. I figured I'd try for one of the first 10K since it was so uncertain before Leap Day when there would be more, but I gave up quickly figuring that the new distribution model suggests that RasPis will be plentiful in a few months. It's all right, since porting the projec...

johnbeetem

Hmm... people must be waking up. For a while the forum was very responsive, but now it's getting database errors again so the Old World must be too excited to sleep any more

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TheShack said:

One last thought... If the whole site is turning into a static page how do we order?
I would think that even though it's a static page, the page has links to the relevant pages for acting on the news of interest.

johnbeetem

<r>rwgast said: A bit off topic but I had an interesting Idea. I have never used a USB hub that was powered this thing has diffrent cable for the... I guess master port is what you could call it. [I think the official name is "upstream port".] Now can I plug that into the pi then plug ...

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<t>hippy said: ... and why should they be active when repeatedly told to stop hitting F5 and everyone signed-up would receive an email alert with plenty of warning of when sales would start ? As to what lessons will be learned I won't even speculate on. Lesson #1: E...

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scep said:

It's actually limited by first name - so if you are called "John", get in there quick.

Yikes! Can't they do it by last name instead?

johnbeetem

<t>rwgast said: So someone said its 10pm on the coast what coast? This is a reference to the movie The Mirror Crack'd (1980). Tony Curtis plays a Hollywood producer making a movie in England. At one point he picks up the phone to call Hollywood long distance and ...

johnbeetem

10 PM on The Coast. I should be able to stay up that late

johnbeetem

<r>Here are some links: <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.....ecure_Boot">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.....ecure_Boot</URL> <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.....ontroversy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.....ontroversy</URL> <URL url="http://en.wikip...

johnbeetem

<r>It's not a DIY project — you're dealing with high-speed differential signals that require good PCB design and impedance matching, and fine-pitch devices that are very hard to solder. There's a list of HDMI to VGA adapters that "should work" at the RasPi wiki: <URL url="http://elinux.org/Rpi_Scre...

johnbeetem

<t>A woman goes to her doctor: "Doctor, I want to ask you about these hormone pills you gave me. I seem to be developing chest hair." The doctor says: "That's a strange reaction. How far down does it go?" She answers: "Well, all the way to my balls -- and that's something else I wanted to ask yo...

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Ham sandwich walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says: "We don't serve food here."

Grasshopper hops into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says: "You know, we have a drink named after you." The grasshopper says: "No kidding, you have a drink named Fred?"

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<r>liz said: I have just been invited to William Shatner's Hollywood Horse Show by a friend in Beverly Hills. (I think I'm actually getting to meet the man himself; I HAVE NO WORDS.) Apparently I have to dress in Western wear. Jeans and cowboy boots I can do; could some of you Texa...

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<t>My all-time favorite horror movie is Viy (1967), a Russian movie with special effects by FX master Aleksandr Ptushko. Based on a story by Gogol, it's about a young not-too-serious seminarian who is forced to pray over the body of a young woman for three nights, all alone, locked in a creepy old ...

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<t>U3 is a Thesys TH1008.1. Thesys was a German semiconductor manufacturer, now part of Melexis, which makes a lot of automotive electronics such as intelligent motor control. My guess is that it's an ASIC made for Frazer-Nash, probably mixed-signal electronics. What it actually does is a poser.<...

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tzj said:

http://www.frazer-nash.com/

Yep, it's got the logo right on the PC board. Some sort of controller for power electronics?

johnbeetem

<r>U4 looks like a NEC V20, described by Wikipedia as follows: "The NEC V20 (?PD70108) was a processor made by NEC that was a reverse-engineered, pin-compatible version of the Intel 8088 with an instruction set compatible with the Intel 80186." [<URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20">http:...

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<t>Practically the only thing that still tastes the same from my long-ago childhood is See's chocolates, still based in South San Francisco, California. And still an excellent value if you consider price per calorie. See's uses the excellent chocolate made by Guittard in Burlingame, Cali...

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<t>I was curious a while back about "Howdy" so I looked up Wordpress on Wikipedia and found out that its creator Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas. Odd, doesn't sound like a Texas name, but whatever. There's a great film noir called Ride the Pink Horse (1947) wh...

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<r>I don't think we have specs on how much current the GPIOs can source and sink, so you'll probably want to control external transistors using GPIOs instead of driving LEDs, etc., directly. Also, the amount of 3.3V current provided by the external connector is limited -- check the Wiki. A good wa...

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<t>A Polish airline is losing money, so they hire an American efficiency expert. He checks everything -- reservations, maintenance, fuel costs -- but can't figure out why they're losing money. Finally he says: "There's one thing I haven't checked -- an actual plane filled with passengers. Maybe I...

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<t>My favorite math jokes: one requires vector math as a prerequisite, the other requires calculus. The vector math joke: Q: What do you get when you cross an owl with an elephant? A: Owl elephant sin(theta). Q: OK, then what do you get when you cross an ...

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I heard Robin Williams tell this one in The Aristocrats:

A rabbi walks into a bar. He has a duck on his head. The bartender says "where did you get that?" The duck replies: "In Brooklyn. There's thousands of them!"

johnbeetem

<t>Perhaps a good approach would be a "qualifying exam" required to become a user -- a multiple-choice automatically-graded quiz with questions like: "If you wish to start a new thread that's not specific to RasPi, you should start it in: (A) General Discussion, (B) Features and Requests, or (C) Off...

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<t>plugwash said: With the Pi on the user presses the button and software on the Pi detects it and shuts down. After shutting down a program on the Pi resets the flip-flop cutting power to the Pi. OK, so how does the RasPi program that resets the FF run if RasPi is shut down? Is th...

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