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by obarthelemy
Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:06 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Lets prove Liz wrong: 3 cheers for Broadcom
Replies: 84
Views: 16492

Re: Lets prove Liz wrong: 3 cheers for Broadcom

+1
by obarthelemy
Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:42 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: BASIC - more harmful than useful?
Replies: 899
Views: 168340

Re: BASIC - more harmful than useful?

@giles same here, but should that be taken as "only basic is simple enough to learn" or "if you start with non-OO basic, you'r lost to OO forever" ?
by obarthelemy
Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:10 am
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: BASIC - more harmful than useful?
Replies: 899
Views: 168340

Re: BASIC - more harmful than useful?

@johnbeetem. Oh. OK. Compiled is better than interpreted indeed ^^
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:35 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?
Replies: 82
Views: 28524

Re: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?

<r><URL url="http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates_dev.html?country=us&lang=en"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.archos.com/support/support_t ... us&lang=en">http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates_dev.html?country=us&lang=en</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/> <br/> nothing for ge...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:15 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: BASIC - more harmful than useful?
Replies: 899
Views: 168340

Re: BASIC - more harmful than useful?

<t>@DavidS: we're bored waiting for our Pis, so going off on any tangent we can grab ^^<br/> <br/> @Johnbeetem: the reason for software bloat is that people like it. I don't do more in Word or Excel nowadays than I was doing in (Word + 123) or Framework back around 1990 on MSDOS+DesqView when 640K w...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:50 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Passively Cooled Web-Server
Replies: 112
Views: 16235

Re: Passively Cooled Web-Server

<t>It's probably cheaper to buy 2 HDDs, and put your website alongside your data on HDD1, and bakup everything to HDD2. SD cards are very slow, too.<br/> My 3.5" 2TB HD eats up 10W. 2.5" HDs take around 2W, sometimes 1. So a laptop HD wouldn't need cooling for sure, a desktop HD might. Your case wil...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:25 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?
Replies: 82
Views: 28524

Re: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?

<t>@johnbeteem: Samsung Android Tab with 11.6\" screen @ humongous resolution strongly rumored for feb. I\'m sure It\'ll be promptly rooted and linuxed. In the mean time, Asus EP121 or Samsung something-something, x86 and 3hr battery... Most Android tablets can be linuxed, \"there\'s an app for that...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:19 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Boot off a USB Stick?
Replies: 14
Views: 6490

Re: Boot off a USB Stick?

A qualified yes. It must boot off an SD card with the GPU firmware and a bootloader or linux kernel on it, but once that's done, it can chain boot off any device the initial bootloader/kernel has drivers for. That includes USB sticks (and USB HD, network, ...)
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:05 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?
Replies: 82
Views: 28524

Re: $35 RasPi vs $50 tablet ?

<t>I bought one on those cheap ones, and threw it away after 3 months.<br/> - extremely bad touchscreen (not only resistive, but *bad* resistive), took about 5 tries *on average* for a touch to register, and 3 steps (so, 15 \"touches\") to move an icon across the screen.<br/> - random reboots 1+ tim...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:14 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: if its good copy it?
Replies: 112
Views: 24809

Re: if its good copy it?

@emercer: hey, great to see you. It does have the 68-pin connector, but it\'s not PCMCIA-compliant in the sense that they\'re using it as a system bus, not a PC expansion card. The connector carries Sata, USB, Video... so you need a specific host board to stick that into.
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:58 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: BCM2835 datasheet
Replies: 189
Views: 80235

Re: BCM2835 datasheet

Really successful people learn Bucket Passing.
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:52 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Gertboard
Replies: 4
Views: 998

Re: Gertboard

<r>The topic where it was born is there: <URL url="http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=456"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum?mingle ... opic&t=456">http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=456</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/> There\...
by obarthelemy
Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:20 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: BCM2835 datasheet
Replies: 189
Views: 80235

Re: BCM2835 datasheet

<t>I think I saw something about documentation of the low-level IO stuff being planned.<br/> <br/> The issue is not so much about being religious about anything, as about being pragmatic. It'd be nice to have more CPU, more RAM, more I/O options and ports, more docs... It wouldn't fit in the budget ...
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:41 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: if its good copy it?
Replies: 112
Views: 24809

Re: if its good copy it?

<t>Regarding the PS:<br/> - the Raspi does have schematics, they are just not public yet. That other board has photo-shopped images of side-by side ICs.<br/> - raspi even has prototypes, alpha, and now beta, boards. The design is proven to be doable, to actually work, and to be within budget. The ot...
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:23 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: if its good copy it?
Replies: 112
Views: 24809

Re: if its good copy it?

Yep the ICs fit.
And the traces are such a small detail, right guys ? ^^
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:18 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Thinking beyond Rasberry Pi
Replies: 14
Views: 2807

Re: Thinking beyond Rasberry Pi

<t>I can answer that one: not in the Foundation\'s target. The Pi is a computer designed to enable kids to learn programming and hardware hacking, not to be everyone\'s cheap server, media player, workstation... All uses of the Pi are fine, but they won\'t develop specific product for non-educationa...
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:10 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: if its good copy it?
Replies: 112
Views: 24809

Re: if its good copy it?

<t>I\'m looking at it the other way round: since there are $100 tablets (including a $35 screen and a $15 battery), there can be a $50 ARM computer without those, and, with luck, with a bit more IO. Some Israeli company came up with a similar $99 ARM PC last month, I\'m sure the same can be done for...
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:12 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Emulating a RasPi on Windows
Replies: 59
Views: 31491

Re: Emulating a RasPi on Windows

Great news. Thanks !
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:40 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Risc OS / Beginner OS
Replies: 32
Views: 6002

Re: Risc OS / Beginner OS

I'm not sure the OS is that important. The IDE, tools, support and documentation seem much more relevant to me.
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:33 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: BCM2835 datasheet
Replies: 189
Views: 80235

Re: BCM2835 datasheet

Quite a few Linux distributions are already running on the Pi. The current level of documentation (see the wiki) seems adequate for the intended goal, though more is always better.
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:23 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: if its good copy it?
Replies: 112
Views: 24809

Re: if its good copy it?

<t>With all the $100 Android tablets with terrible screens and batteries out there, someone\'s bound to realize that they could as well take away the screen and battery away and make a $30 Linux PC.<br/> I\'m rooting for one with good IO, and maybe built into a keyboard. As the Pi shows, it\'s not q...
by obarthelemy
Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:14 am
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: BASIC - more harmful than useful?
Replies: 899
Views: 168340

Re: BASIC - more harmful than useful?

<t>@DavidS: the issue is, optimizing code is irrelevant in the overwhelming majority of cases. Speed of development, maintainability, reliability, readability, even the oft-exaggerated evolutivity/recyclability of code are way more important in the great majority of cases. Unluckily, assembly sucks ...
by obarthelemy
Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:19 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: ideas for use
Replies: 4
Views: 1066

Re: ideas for use

For now it\'s been mostly resellers. Early orders are rationed 1/customer to let everyone get 1 to play with. Once the initial demand is satisfied, large orders will of course be accepted. Hopefully some will be more then 100s at a time ^^
by obarthelemy
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:29 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Smart Harddrive (with Raspi in) But need help
Replies: 13
Views: 5152

Re: Smart Harddrive (with Raspi in) But need help

<r>Just FYI, Archos have tablets with HDMI out *and a hard disk inside*, that should do what you want for less that even dumb dedicated CF-to-HD backup gizmos. 2 issues:<br/> - there's supposed to be a gen9 10.1 variant with a HD, it's not even on their site though, only the 70 is: <URL url="http://...
by obarthelemy
Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:17 pm
Forum: Staffroom, classroom and projects
Topic: BASIC - more harmful than useful?
Replies: 899
Views: 168340

Re: BASIC - more harmful than useful?

<t>I think the discussion is a bit all over the place between what we remember fondly and would like to revive, how to write good code and learn good habits, with an hidden agenda to stay in our own comfort zone...<br/> I really think the focus should be to get kids hooked by achieving fancy stuff, ...

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