I used a few building some hobbyist level stuff and I found it easy to use, tons of software and documentation available in proper english and if you want to build network/internet enabled stuff it's way cheaper than using arduino, pic based stuff or any other thing I found available.
Latest example: I built a nixie clock with ntp sync. Is the pi wildly overpowered? Of course, but the A+ + 8gb microsd card ran me ~22eur plus the cost of a 8gb microsd and a wi-fi adapter (I had those and don't remember the original prices but probably another 10eur). I couln't find any arduino/microchip based solution with wi-fi that was even close to this price. The fact that it runs linux, can pull it's code from git has a sound card and hdmi for future use ideas is a nice bonus too.
I've had friends use allwinner based boards for similar stuff and none had the simple experience the pi provides.
About the new pi I'm much more interested if the USB bus still has the same bugs , if the ethernet is still attached to a usb hub chip, than the processor power it has. If I need networking / storage / multimedia performance I'll buy the proper tool for the job with proven reliability and open source software available not a cheap arm board no matter how good the specs sound on paper.
I used to say exactly that. I owned a Galaxy S2 in the past and was convinced the above is true. But now after setting up my wife's nexus the S5 I bought for me is a pleasure. After all the crap google pulls just to force G+ down users throats (multiple sms anybody?, facebook pictures for contacts?, etc) the samsung extensions are a pleasure.
Imagine you have a 6 disks raid6 - you need 4 to have the array working in a degraded state. Unless you steal 4 disks *at once* you won't be able to rebuild it offsite. Unless you get drives from RAID1 arrays you're better off smuggling in a 2tb 2.5 usb drive. If their physical security is any close to the IT security you can probably smuggle a f-ing NAS inside and nobody would care.
If you can't imagine multitasking on a system with a quad core 64 bit cpu and 2 gb ram it shows just how shitty and filled with useless (but shinny) crap current mobile OS's are.
If I'm ever to reproduce on test system, sure I might do all that. Or if it gets worse, otherwise I'm not really inclined to spend my time hunting systemd bugs.
e.g. I issued systemctl httpd restart on a stock centos 7 (with latest updates). The command hanged (didn't return to terminal prompt). Nagios promptly informed me that sites on that server are no longer responding.
CTRL+C and issued systemctl httpd stop it returned me to the command prompt with no message of success or failure. I assumed succes and issued systemctl httpd start Nope sites still offline.
Again systemctl httpd stop and did ps aux | grep httpd - yep it was still running. I did a killall -9 httpd and systemctl httpd start Phew, everything is running again.
Where would you start diagnozing what the hell happened there. And to stress again, stock system, no third party repos not even a db server (it's on a separate machine) only apache, php, ssh and the usual base services.
John Doe sees that his cheap whatever stopped working all of the sudden. One of the two happens: - It was expected that this cheap shitty something off ebay or alibaba will not last. Let's buy another one for 5$ including shipping and accessories. - In the off-case it was acquired from somewhere it can be returned to Doe returns it, manufacturer/distributor knows it's a cheap shit with knockoff chips so shuts up, uses the available tool to fix the ID/replaces it with a new one, instructing John to install an old driver and disable all windows updates in order to ensure stability in the future
What's stopping you? Last time I heard IMAP was pretty easy to master. Wait, is it because other providers don't offer it for free? If it was up to me not only would I let those searches trough but also make a nice list of all the fucking idiots who leak private customer data like this. Maybe so the retards running those sites would move on from the "who would guess the link?" security model.
I run a collocated Raspberry PI and never had a networking issue (it's monitored). I also ran one at home as a vpn server (slow) for a while and it also was mighty stable. I'm willing to bet that most networking issues on the pi can be traced back to crappy power supplies.
Yes, I have one myself and it's a great device. I also use it as a portable HDMI montior but the keyboard makes it a bit cumbersome. But they are getting harder and harder to find and also the new found interest seems to be driving prices back up.
Not to mention that they still add 16Gb of (sometimes unexpandable) storage to those devices basically forcing you to watch low resolution/bitrate content on a high-end screen.
Same in my country (at least for copy machines, scanners, printers, writable cd's and dvd's I think)
Just one question, since they collect "piracy tax" on storage media doesn't that mean that it's ok to pirate everything, since you've already been taxed in advance for exactly that?
When I (used to) recover from old floppies I would turn to an old Thinkpad 750p laptop. It's floppy drive recovered many more discs successfully than the 5$ flimsy drives that equipped the last desktops that had floppies.
I got married, I have a family and I still take care of archiving:)
One doesn't replace the other - it just optimizes it. Instead of burning trough tens of cd's/dvd's for pictures, family movies and so on I jutst keep 2 backup copies of each on a closet server and external hdd. Normal movies are ripped and sit inside the 3Tb media center. If this one blows up I simply rip again / re download the movies. Yes family means less time for this things and so simple scripts keep my pc, my wife's laptop, the backup server and a remote rented linode nice in sync. I simply download my pictures or my home movies on my pc and the rest happens by itself.
The fact that we don't see many specialized multicores around still supports my opinion.
In order to switch a core on/off you need something that accepts commands from software and that something should be running all the time - let's say that the base core takes care of that. You still have lot's of cores switching on and off, overlapping from time to time. Not to mention the base core that would be busy all the time - running basic functions and switching the others on and off.
The bottom line: a basic core running consumes a lot more than an advanced core idling.
I can't find a number but I bet that a smartphone cpu say the omap3 idles at pretty much nothing.
Microchip PIC mcu's can idle drawing less power than the natural discharge rate of a battery - just to give you an idea.
I think that we won't see many specialized cores soon inside smartphones outside the graphics and multimedia area.
Yes and no...
You already have multiple cores if you want: besides the general purpose cpu you usually have a dsp core used for a/v decoding. It's usually best to have a core as fast as possible that will spend most of the time idling (race to idle) than to have many cores running all the time. Not to mention the expense of silicon surface.
And in the end imagine the nightmare of programming for such a platform.
and make a nice table: computer1, computer2,.... all the machines you usually use with your removable media
Write under each of them the file systems it knows how to read. You'll be happy to see that fat32 is the only option. No matter how much you discuss it, unless you want to take the road explained by someone before me and partition your drives in fat32/ext2 and use something like ext2ifs which is fine (i use it myself) excepting some (rare) bluescreens. Oh and to that commenter I would be very *happy* if everybody visiting me would install some crap so that he can use his usb drive:)
Add to that that most stand-alone media players (car radios with usb, dvd players, etc) usually only know how to read from fat32 disks the decision will be simple. Need bigger files ? Split them !
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Sure dumb-ass,
What about firebug, passifox, user agent switcher, autoauth? What do you set in your hosts file for that functionality?
I used a few building some hobbyist level stuff and I found it easy to use, tons of software and documentation available in proper english and if you want to build network/internet enabled stuff it's way cheaper than using arduino, pic based stuff or any other thing I found available.
Latest example: I built a nixie clock with ntp sync. Is the pi wildly overpowered? Of course, but the A+ + 8gb microsd card ran me ~22eur plus the cost of a 8gb microsd and a wi-fi adapter (I had those and don't remember the original prices but probably another 10eur). I couln't find any arduino/microchip based solution with wi-fi that was even close to this price. The fact that it runs linux, can pull it's code from git has a sound card and hdmi for future use ideas is a nice bonus too.
I've had friends use allwinner based boards for similar stuff and none had the simple experience the pi provides.
About the new pi I'm much more interested if the USB bus still has the same bugs , if the ethernet is still attached to a usb hub chip, than the processor power it has. If I need networking / storage / multimedia performance I'll buy the proper tool for the job with proven reliability and open source software available not a cheap arm board no matter how good the specs sound on paper.
Hm,
I used to say exactly that. I owned a Galaxy S2 in the past and was convinced the above is true. But now after setting up my wife's nexus the S5 I bought for me is a pleasure. After all the crap google pulls just to force G+ down users throats (multiple sms anybody?, facebook pictures for contacts?, etc) the samsung extensions are a pleasure.
It doesn't fill up faster and the efficiency (already poor) goes down the drain.
RAID doesn't really work like this.
Imagine you have a 6 disks raid6 - you need 4 to have the array working in a degraded state. Unless you steal 4 disks *at once* you won't be able to rebuild it offsite. Unless you get drives from RAID1 arrays you're better off smuggling in a 2tb 2.5 usb drive. If their physical security is any close to the IT security you can probably smuggle a f-ing NAS inside and nobody would care.
If you can't imagine multitasking on a system with a quad core 64 bit cpu and 2 gb ram it shows just how shitty and filled with useless (but shinny) crap current mobile OS's are.
If I'm ever to reproduce on test system, sure I might do all that. Or if it gets worse, otherwise I'm not really inclined to spend my time hunting systemd bugs.
Except when it doesn't
e.g. I issued
systemctl httpd restart on a stock centos 7 (with latest updates). The command hanged (didn't return to terminal prompt). Nagios promptly informed me that sites on that server are no longer responding.
CTRL+C and issued systemctl httpd stop it returned me to the command prompt with no message of success or failure. I assumed succes and issued systemctl httpd start Nope sites still offline.
Again systemctl httpd stop and did ps aux | grep httpd - yep it was still running. I did a killall -9 httpd and systemctl httpd start Phew, everything is running again.
Where would you start diagnozing what the hell happened there. And to stress again, stock system, no third party repos not even a db server (it's on a separate machine) only apache, php, ssh and the usual base services.
John Doe sees that his cheap whatever stopped working all of the sudden. One of the two happens:
- It was expected that this cheap shitty something off ebay or alibaba will not last. Let's buy another one for 5$ including shipping and accessories.
- In the off-case it was acquired from somewhere it can be returned to Doe returns it, manufacturer/distributor knows it's a cheap shit with knockoff chips so shuts up, uses the available tool to fix the ID/replaces it with a new one, instructing John to install an old driver and disable all windows updates in order to ensure stability in the future
What's stopping you? Last time I heard IMAP was pretty easy to master. Wait, is it because other providers don't offer it for free?
If it was up to me not only would I let those searches trough but also make a nice list of all the fucking idiots who leak private customer data like this. Maybe so the retards running those sites would move on from the "who would guess the link?" security model.
I run a collocated Raspberry PI and never had a networking issue (it's monitored). I also ran one at home as a vpn server (slow) for a while and it also was mighty stable. I'm willing to bet that most networking issues on the pi can be traced back to crappy power supplies.
Yes, I have one myself and it's a great device. I also use it as a portable HDMI montior but the keyboard makes it a bit cumbersome. But they are getting harder and harder to find and also the new found interest seems to be driving prices back up.
Sure, because streaming high bitrate 1080p video works no matter where you are.
I don't know about owncloud's news app but tt-rss is a bit much for a PI to handle.
Not to mention that they still add 16Gb of (sometimes unexpandable) storage to those devices basically forcing you to watch low resolution/bitrate content on a high-end screen.
Add a small subroutine to all drones to home-in and destroy a jamming transmitter.
This actually sounds sensible.
Same in my country (at least for copy machines, scanners, printers, writable cd's and dvd's I think) Just one question, since they collect "piracy tax" on storage media doesn't that mean that it's ok to pirate everything, since you've already been taxed in advance for exactly that?
When I (used to) recover from old floppies I would turn to an old Thinkpad 750p laptop. It's floppy drive recovered many more discs successfully than the 5$ flimsy drives that equipped the last desktops that had floppies.
I got married, I have a family and I still take care of archiving :)
One doesn't replace the other - it just optimizes it. Instead of burning trough tens of cd's/dvd's for pictures, family movies and so on I jutst keep 2 backup copies of each on a closet server and external hdd. Normal movies are ripped and sit inside the 3Tb media center. If this one blows up I simply rip again / re download the movies. Yes family means less time for this things and so simple scripts keep my pc, my wife's laptop, the backup server and a remote rented linode nice in sync. I simply download my pictures or my home movies on my pc and the rest happens by itself.
25$ (78 lei if anybody cares) for 100 Mb fiber, tv, phone and a 7.2Mb mobile internet stick thrown in. I guess prices do drop some places.
The fact that we don't see many specialized multicores around still supports my opinion. In order to switch a core on/off you need something that accepts commands from software and that something should be running all the time - let's say that the base core takes care of that. You still have lot's of cores switching on and off, overlapping from time to time. Not to mention the base core that would be busy all the time - running basic functions and switching the others on and off. The bottom line: a basic core running consumes a lot more than an advanced core idling. I can't find a number but I bet that a smartphone cpu say the omap3 idles at pretty much nothing. Microchip PIC mcu's can idle drawing less power than the natural discharge rate of a battery - just to give you an idea. I think that we won't see many specialized cores soon inside smartphones outside the graphics and multimedia area.
Yes and no... You already have multiple cores if you want: besides the general purpose cpu you usually have a dsp core used for a/v decoding. It's usually best to have a core as fast as possible that will spend most of the time idling (race to idle) than to have many cores running all the time. Not to mention the expense of silicon surface. And in the end imagine the nightmare of programming for such a platform.
and make a nice table: computer1, computer2, .... all the machines you usually use with your removable media
Write under each of them the file systems it knows how to read. You'll be happy to see that fat32 is the only option. No matter how much you discuss it, unless you want to take the road explained by someone before me and partition your drives in fat32/ext2 and use something like ext2ifs which is fine (i use it myself) excepting some (rare) bluescreens. Oh and to that commenter I would be very *happy* if everybody visiting me would install some crap so that he can use his usb drive :)
Add to that that most stand-alone media players (car radios with usb, dvd players, etc) usually only know how to read from fat32 disks the decision will be simple. Need bigger files ? Split them !
Fast 100% Java - now that's the definition of oxymoron right there.