Why not get a firesafe?
Some of them are rated for higher temperatures than house fires usually attain, and the response time of your fire department should give you an idea of how long they need to hold out for.
If you get one that has a decent lock you can keep your gun and your pot in there without the kids playing with them.
So, how many times have you seen a vapourware product on this site and gone to their site to see:
A) How much it costs
B) Where to buy it
and been REALLY FUCKED OFF to find that this information isn't available?
Advertising, Slashvertising and posting 250 words over 6 pages of ad-infested blog wipe doesn't sell products. It sells hype and only marketing get rich off hype.
Here is the perfect advert:
For rent: NATALIE PORTMAN
Comes with HOT GRITS, NAKED.
NPORTMAN.COM, UPS delivery to continental US only, $200 per night. Availability is 1/per customer, per night, first come first served.
And I think that makes the word "amirite" necessary here.
Are you going to check back AC?
Password Hasher lets you "bump" the password. Adding ":1" on the first bump, incrementing it each time.
Passes can be restricted to being digits only and special characters can be disallowed. Characters generated range from 4 to 26.
This page uses JavaScript to do the same thing as the extension so is completely portable. All you have to remember is how you choose a site tag (typically slashdot for this site, although you can use slashdot.org if you're doing it automatically, or anything else if you want to be left field) and your passphrase.
Copying off your profile isn't as easy as tar zcvf Firefox.July12.tgz.mozilla scp -i passphraseless.id_rsa Firefox.July12.tgz backupserver:/home/user/backups on Windows, and TBH how many people remember to back up at all, no matter what OS they use?
Because you're looking at it wrong.
Publishing content on the internet isn't about getting our eyeballs on interesting information and stories that entertain us, it's about getting ads into our browsers and trying to get us to click on them.
If you have to click through 4 links to get to the nugget of story that makes it quite likely that you're going to see some adverts and that makes the advertising system appear to work.
Slashdot needs to help the advertising system appear to work as they themselves take money out of that leaking pot. Lots of Slashbots viewing ads with their referrers set means lots of kudos from sites and advertisers.
Bear in mind that because you're not paying for this site, you're not the customer, you're the product.
For something that costs so little, it's worth playing with even if you just want to go to the forums and report on its shortcomings as an owner. Criticism is unfashionable, actionable and unwelcome unless you see it as a way to improve the product. Fortunately this thing has to improve so that the kids don't throw their teddies out all the time when they crash.
You're right about the power; a good phone charger (maybe a white triangular one) helps a lot, and having a powered USB hub to connect HIDs to. You're absolutely right about the annoying polyfuses on the USB ports, they be trippin' all the time.
As for installing a distro, I downloaded the Raspbian distro the other day. I used WinIMG to raw write it to an SD and had it in the RasPi less than half an hour after starting the download. Including apt-get upgrade, which only had three packages in it still had install time at less than 30 minutes.
The SD interface is dependent on the proprietary technology binary blob that is the only thing about this project that sticks in my craw. It will take a little while for this chip to be so outmoded that they will feel comfortable enough to release the specs in toto. I just hope it's sooner rather than later. If you choose the right card it isn't a problem in practice.
But some of the fun of this thing is that we (early adopters) are paying a few quid (several GBP) to help kids get interested in the future of computers and be able to do more than use a word processor with a WIMP interface.
If you buy one and don't like it, they're so cheap you can give it away to someone who will appreciate it, or a teacher who will get interested in buying for their school.
It's not a scam, there are lots of people out there who own them. Get an order put in and see if you like playing with something that you can afford to break by wiring it up to all sorts of (low amperage) gear.
Like you I have been using VIA for my home server needs for a few years. The Artigo A1000 actually. Until the RasPi was announced and all of a sudden the little black box died.
When I consider my RasPi stable enough to run as an rTorrent/web server I'll be using even less power and be even happier.
I ordered my second RasPi on the 23rd of June, it shipped on the 17th of July.
Production is in full swing and there are very few people desperate to get hold of one now. Add to that the restriction of one per customer has been dropped. For £30 (delivered) you could have one (or more) in much less than a month.
You're standing on my grass-covered escarpment youngster.
I'm going to get out-grey-bearded for sure, but at least I can get my toe in.
MODEMs? We used to call them acoustic couplers and that was only because we'd seen them at a distance.
Our computers had 1KB of RAM (about a page of A4) to run programs in and the OS was in a chip. The Z80 CPU was always considered modern, every time a new microcomputer with it in came out.
I never asked what specs my wooden Atari games machine had...
Have you ever heard of Password Hasher?
Mine defaults to even for sites that I'll never visit again I have as standard 26 character upper, lower and symbol passwords that I don't have to remember. All I need to know is the passphrase, something like "0nLy 1 Know Thi$ pA$$phrase!" or "mmm pizza". Makes no odds, you still get a 26 char PW that has Ul$ in it.
I know a lot of people don't use Firefox, but this really is a killer extension.
A wok is intended to be heated beyond the temperature at which some non-stick coatings flake off.
Stir fry cooking is intended to use small pieces of food flash fried so they retain their texture and nutrients.
People who care about their diet recognise that woks are a healthy way to prepare food and use them regularly.
The RasPi has got too much publicity for all the wrong reasons. Everyone here who is talking about media centres and file servers is kind of missing the point that these things are made by a charity for kids, so they can get into computers rather than websites. If you want something to run Android, buy an Android phone/tablet, or look at Android x86, if you want a file server get a SLUG and if you're after a microcontroller by all means, have at a large pile of Arduinos with a soldering iron. This device isn't for everyone and was never intended to be.
I for one welcome the flood of Model Bs hitting eBay so that kids can get their hands on them, or being able to break dad's RasPi without getting into trouble. That's why they are so cheap, so they can be replaced after they have been busted by inquisitive, experimenting kids.
Curiously, my RasPi is working fine with the "poorly documented, incomplete" Arch Linux distro I have on it. I find that the features I need all seem to be present and correct.
A lot of people can't be bothered to trawl GOOG for answers to "how do I make this Linux thing work" and so your point is correct, for those people. But if the media hadn't been all over this like a rash maybe these people wouldn't have thought "I must have one of those... Ooh Shiny".
Because some of us want to use Arch Linux and they already had a distro compiled for ARM.
Arch comes up for the first time with a CLI and a lot of people using this device (me included) won't be bothering to install a GUI. I never even considered installing FedoraRemix or Debian.
Another thing to remember is that the Foundation didn't make the distros, the community and the distros themselves developed the OSs to run on these things.
FedoraRemix was scheduled to be the OS of choice, but you know how deadlines are...
The Arch for ARM distro isn't "stripped down" by any means. It is merely compiled for ARM instead of x86.
It doesn't contain all the packages that are in the x86 repos, but cross-compiling is possible and you can use the AUR to find what you are looking for usually.
Initial boot is from the SD card, but after that you can go to the USB/Ethernet(Model B only) for /
You probably wouldn't want to bitbang to some random IC you wanted to talk to with R-Pi
Actually, this is pretty much why the RasPi was made. Getting kids to plug stuff into their computer and make it work. Gert Van Loo has made an extension board to help, taking care of buffering the IOs so that the RasPi doesn't pop a fuse or the SoC.
The RasPi has built in CSI for cameras, directly into the GPU so cameras aren't going to need much in the way of connecting and learning. They will just be used and programmed around. There is already a fairly good idea at the Foundation of which camera module will be supported.
Come over to the forums and have a look. If you order one now you won't have to wait too long for delivery.
WinCE (WindowsMobile) would be happy enough in 256MB.
I used to have a few HTC WinMo devices, helped along by the wonderful team at XDA Developers. Maybe digging that old source code out and giving it to the community would help re-establish WinMo as a viable platform on devices like this?
The RasPi has no CMOS because it would put them over budget, there was originally only going to be 128MB RAM on the model A, and there is still a $10 difference because that's how much an Ethernet port, a double USB stack and a chip to run them cost. All because one of the founding goals of the project is to hit the $25 mark.
There isn't a lot of profit on these because they are made by a charity.
The other machines on the market have more power, RAM, ports, storage and power requirements. They cost more and are aimed at a different market. These things are basically priced to be disposable toys for kids to hack, program and experiment with, not run media centres, web servers or games machines.
You seem interested, why not hop on over to the Raspberry Pi site and have a look? There are large quantities of these things in manufacture right now so it shouldn't be too long before you can own one, if you could find a use for one.
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Why not get a firesafe?
Some of them are rated for higher temperatures than house fires usually attain, and the response time of your fire department should give you an idea of how long they need to hold out for.
If you get one that has a decent lock you can keep your gun and your pot in there without the kids playing with them.
You need one of these than.
They aren't all perfect, but duct tape and superglue will help you out with the faceplate.
Someone modded this troll?
So, how many times have you seen a vapourware product on this site and gone to their site to see:
A) How much it costs
B) Where to buy it
and been REALLY FUCKED OFF to find that this information isn't available?
Advertising, Slashvertising and posting 250 words over 6 pages of ad-infested blog wipe doesn't sell products. It sells hype and only marketing get rich off hype.
Here is the perfect advert:
For rent: NATALIE PORTMAN
Comes with HOT GRITS, NAKED.
NPORTMAN.COM, UPS delivery to continental US only, $200 per night. Availability is 1/per customer, per night, first come first served.
And I think that makes the word "amirite" necessary here.
Are you going to check back AC?
Password Hasher lets you "bump" the password. Adding ":1" on the first bump, incrementing it each time.
Passes can be restricted to being digits only and special characters can be disallowed. Characters generated range from 4 to 26.
This page uses JavaScript to do the same thing as the extension so is completely portable. All you have to remember is how you choose a site tag (typically slashdot for this site, although you can use slashdot.org if you're doing it automatically, or anything else if you want to be left field) and your passphrase.
Copying off your profile isn't as easy as .mozilla
tar zcvf Firefox.July12.tgz
scp -i passphraseless.id_rsa Firefox.July12.tgz backupserver:/home/user/backups
on Windows, and TBH how many people remember to back up at all, no matter what OS they use?
Password Hasher could happily provide you with 26 character strong passwords without the hassle of remembering them.
Because you're looking at it wrong.
Publishing content on the internet isn't about getting our eyeballs on interesting information and stories that entertain us, it's about getting ads into our browsers and trying to get us to click on them.
If you have to click through 4 links to get to the nugget of story that makes it quite likely that you're going to see some adverts and that makes the advertising system appear to work.
Slashdot needs to help the advertising system appear to work as they themselves take money out of that leaking pot. Lots of Slashbots viewing ads with their referrers set means lots of kudos from sites and advertisers.
Bear in mind that because you're not paying for this site, you're not the customer, you're the product.
For something that costs so little, it's worth playing with even if you just want to go to the forums and report on its shortcomings as an owner. Criticism is unfashionable, actionable and unwelcome unless you see it as a way to improve the product. Fortunately this thing has to improve so that the kids don't throw their teddies out all the time when they crash.
You're right about the power; a good phone charger (maybe a white triangular one) helps a lot, and having a powered USB hub to connect HIDs to. You're absolutely right about the annoying polyfuses on the USB ports, they be trippin' all the time.
As for installing a distro, I downloaded the Raspbian distro the other day. I used WinIMG to raw write it to an SD and had it in the RasPi less than half an hour after starting the download. Including apt-get upgrade, which only had three packages in it still had install time at less than 30 minutes.
The SD interface is dependent on the proprietary technology binary blob that is the only thing about this project that sticks in my craw. It will take a little while for this chip to be so outmoded that they will feel comfortable enough to release the specs in toto. I just hope it's sooner rather than later. If you choose the right card it isn't a problem in practice.
But some of the fun of this thing is that we (early adopters) are paying a few quid (several GBP) to help kids get interested in the future of computers and be able to do more than use a word processor with a WIMP interface.
If you buy one and don't like it, they're so cheap you can give it away to someone who will appreciate it, or a teacher who will get interested in buying for their school.
I'll refer you to my earlier comment.
I have two of them and pictures to prove it.
It's not a scam, there are lots of people out there who own them. Get an order put in and see if you like playing with something that you can afford to break by wiring it up to all sorts of (low amperage) gear.
Like you I have been using VIA for my home server needs for a few years. The Artigo A1000 actually. Until the RasPi was announced and all of a sudden the little black box died.
When I consider my RasPi stable enough to run as an rTorrent/web server I'll be using even less power and be even happier.
I ordered my second RasPi on the 23rd of June, it shipped on the 17th of July.
Production is in full swing and there are very few people desperate to get hold of one now. Add to that the restriction of one per customer has been dropped. For £30 (delivered) you could have one (or more) in much less than a month.
My EEE 4Gs (one for me, one for wife) came with the worst distro I've ever used - Xandros.
And I've tried a LOT of distros.
Fortunately I got rid of that crap and put Arch on it fairly quickly.
How could Asus (who make some good gear) put such (unsupported, unupdated) crap on their machines?
>> Whats left for 300 million people to do?
Buy stuff? Online?
With what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret_controversy_in_Switzerland
Typical. Even when you're trying to be helpful you get it wrong.
Mr Coward, please create an account so you can come back and read replies.
You're standing on my grass-covered escarpment youngster.
...
I'm going to get out-grey-bearded for sure, but at least I can get my toe in.
MODEMs? We used to call them acoustic couplers and that was only because we'd seen them at a distance.
Our computers had 1KB of RAM (about a page of A4) to run programs in and the OS was in a chip. The Z80 CPU was always considered modern, every time a new microcomputer with it in came out.
I never asked what specs my wooden Atari games machine had
Yes, it has. ... Hang on, there's someone at the d
Now be quiet before they come and get you like they do everyone that posts things like
x86 chips are really hard to use, especially hard to boot into a usable mode
I'd put that down to some kind of Industrial Disease.
Have you ever heard of Password Hasher?
Mine defaults to even for sites that I'll never visit again I have as standard 26 character upper, lower and symbol passwords that I don't have to remember. All I need to know is the passphrase, something like "0nLy 1 Know Thi$ pA$$phrase!" or "mmm pizza". Makes no odds, you still get a 26 char PW that has Ul$ in it.
I know a lot of people don't use Firefox, but this really is a killer extension.
A wok is intended to be heated beyond the temperature at which some non-stick coatings flake off.
... Ooh Shiny".
Stir fry cooking is intended to use small pieces of food flash fried so they retain their texture and nutrients.
People who care about their diet recognise that woks are a healthy way to prepare food and use them regularly.
The RasPi has got too much publicity for all the wrong reasons. Everyone here who is talking about media centres and file servers is kind of missing the point that these things are made by a charity for kids, so they can get into computers rather than websites. If you want something to run Android, buy an Android phone/tablet, or look at Android x86, if you want a file server get a SLUG and if you're after a microcontroller by all means, have at a large pile of Arduinos with a soldering iron. This device isn't for everyone and was never intended to be.
I for one welcome the flood of Model Bs hitting eBay so that kids can get their hands on them, or being able to break dad's RasPi without getting into trouble. That's why they are so cheap, so they can be replaced after they have been busted by inquisitive, experimenting kids.
Curiously, my RasPi is working fine with the "poorly documented, incomplete" Arch Linux distro I have on it. I find that the features I need all seem to be present and correct.
A lot of people can't be bothered to trawl GOOG for answers to "how do I make this Linux thing work" and so your point is correct, for those people. But if the media hadn't been all over this like a rash maybe these people wouldn't have thought "I must have one of those
Because some of us want to use Arch Linux and they already had a distro compiled for ARM.
...
Arch comes up for the first time with a CLI and a lot of people using this device (me included) won't be bothering to install a GUI. I never even considered installing FedoraRemix or Debian.
Another thing to remember is that the Foundation didn't make the distros, the community and the distros themselves developed the OSs to run on these things.
FedoraRemix was scheduled to be the OS of choice, but you know how deadlines are
The Arch for ARM distro isn't "stripped down" by any means. It is merely compiled for ARM instead of x86.
It doesn't contain all the packages that are in the x86 repos, but cross-compiling is possible and you can use the AUR to find what you are looking for usually.
You boot it from the USB, so who cares
Initial boot is from the SD card, but after that you can go to the USB/Ethernet(Model B only) for /
You probably wouldn't want to bitbang to some random IC you wanted to talk to with R-Pi
Actually, this is pretty much why the RasPi was made. Getting kids to plug stuff into their computer and make it work. Gert Van Loo has made an extension board to help, taking care of buffering the IOs so that the RasPi doesn't pop a fuse or the SoC.
The RasPi has built in CSI for cameras, directly into the GPU so cameras aren't going to need much in the way of connecting and learning. They will just be used and programmed around. There is already a fairly good idea at the Foundation of which camera module will be supported.
Come over to the forums and have a look. If you order one now you won't have to wait too long for delivery.
WinCE (WindowsMobile) would be happy enough in 256MB.
I used to have a few HTC WinMo devices, helped along by the wonderful team at XDA Developers. Maybe digging that old source code out and giving it to the community would help re-establish WinMo as a viable platform on devices like this?
Yes, a few people.
I'm PReDiToR @ YO2, York, England.
I can't guarantee any degree of accuracy with that map, nor can the owner of the page (thanks Ryan) because there is no verification.
The RasPi has no CMOS because it would put them over budget, there was originally only going to be 128MB RAM on the model A, and there is still a $10 difference because that's how much an Ethernet port, a double USB stack and a chip to run them cost. All because one of the founding goals of the project is to hit the $25 mark.
There isn't a lot of profit on these because they are made by a charity.
The other machines on the market have more power, RAM, ports, storage and power requirements. They cost more and are aimed at a different market. These things are basically priced to be disposable toys for kids to hack, program and experiment with, not run media centres, web servers or games machines.
You seem interested, why not hop on over to the Raspberry Pi site and have a look? There are large quantities of these things in manufacture right now so it shouldn't be too long before you can own one, if you could find a use for one.