I just got mine on the weekend! I have it set as a home theater PC with Rasbmc, so far I am absolutely loving it.
Two million Raspberry Pi sold
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Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
More cores, mostly. I tried using the Raspberry Pi with server software such as Owncloud or calendarserver. It just barely works, but it is still very slow. Like, response times upwards of four seconds. Recent smartphone processors have since about doubled their clock speed and quadrupled the processor count. Even half that would bring response times below a second, which would be much appreciated.
Yeah, I could see why dropping that stuff on it would pretty much swamp it. Of course your running a giant PHP infrastructure [1] there which was built the way it was in part because memory and cpu cycles were "free." What I'm saying is that you could implement the equivalent of OwnCloud and CalendarServer on the Pi knowing that it needed to be memory and CPU efficient, and no doubt get 300 - 500mS responses. But tha…
FYI, proper SI nomenclature for milliseconds is ms, not mS :)
SI units are not capitalized unless they are someone's name, such as Pascal (pressure) or Newton (force) etc.
Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold
#63I would love to get a Raspberry Pi but I don't know what I would like to do with it. Suggestions?
If you're a kinkster there was a "What do you do with your Pi" post on reddit a while ago, and some guy basically programmed it to fuck his wife - the joke of course being that a true hacker will attempt to automate everything, including romance.
Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold
#64One of those two million is sat under my desk, collecting dust. I know a few others that are, and, I wonder what percentage of that 2 million are in the same situation? Because you need a few bits and bobs to get your pi working there is a major disincentive to complete and finish whatever that hobby project was to be. Hence the situation with my pi - the wait for bits and bobs, a small bout of illness and the initia…
I got two from the first batch - one from each supplier. One runs 24x7 at home as XBMC (which is little-used by the family), a VPN server, a small file server, and to record audio from a couple radio shows I like to timeshift. The other is in a box with a BrickPi board, camera board, and a LEGO NXT robot platform that I intend to turn into a running vision-based robot if I ever get time. I'm ready to pick up another Pi just for demos and maybe a 4th for PiMAME.
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#65I got a Pi and a case and connected it via a USB-to-MIDI cable to my electronic piano, and now I can play and record performances to midi files on the Pi. Really cool. It basically gave my piano a technology update so I don't have to spend hundreds of dollars for one of those newer keyboards with a USB port. My next mini-project is to build a web app that can run these midi tools and list the performances in a nice U…
Ah cool, I do the same thing (with arecordmidi)! Would really love a web interface if you make one.
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#66How reliable are they as always-on 'servers' wrt running off an sd card? Doesn't it wear out the card in a few months time if you consider all the writing to /var/log? Anyone had one running for close to the two year's it's been out now?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. As you can see my first relay started out as an exit relay, but my fascist ISP (whom I can not choose or contact) kept on blocking my router's mac address, which made my relay unstable. Since I am not an exit anymore the relay has been running fine.
You can't contact your ISP? Will they contact you if you stop paying?
I wish and I would. But I am co-located with facilities I cannot choose. (Yes, I am a student). Also housing is too difficult to be able to move out.
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#68Would I notice any performance gain from using a cheap pc over a pi for something like BT sync? The Pi's processor is equivalent to a 300MHz Pentium 2, and that's kinds scary.
After googling for alternative arm credit card boards I'm now looking into not too old [thin]m-itx atom ones. I wonder what's the cheapest out there.
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#69Too bad that miscellaneous issues prevent them from getting an Android port out -- regardless of RAM and CPU requirements, I've been trying to get a decent accelerated web view going on it since I first got one, and _nothing_ works well enough (Qt5 took forever to stabilise - and still isn't quite there yet, X11 still has no hardware acceleration, there are no browsers that take advantage of Wayland, Firefox OS is still not stable enough, and even the JavaFX preview ships without a web view).
But hey, they can play back video pretty OK, so I eventually settled on a mix of video and live streaming a desktop browser rendered on a normal PC:
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/hw/RaspberryPi/Streaming
Thing is, omxplayer crashes out of the blue for no apparent reason (either halts the player process or locks up the RPi _completely_, on any hardware rev) and have an alarming tendency to corrupt SD cards, so I'm moving to the Beaglebone Black ASAP.
They do make very nice low-power servers (I have one doing AirPrint via CUPS for iOS devices), though, and of course I try out a bunch of things on mine - if it runs quickly enough on a Pi, then it's blisteringly fast on a "normal" machine.
Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold
#70One of those two million is sat under my desk, collecting dust. I know a few others that are, and, I wonder what percentage of that 2 million are in the same situation? Because you need a few bits and bobs to get your pi working there is a major disincentive to complete and finish whatever that hobby project was to be. Hence the situation with my pi - the wait for bits and bobs, a small bout of illness and the initia…
If you don't find a use for it, see if your local primary or secondary school has a computing course - they may be able to make use of it!