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Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by koralatov »

voltagex_ wrote: post #70
Theodores wrote: post #20

One 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!

I've suggested this several times, to several different people, and their response is always an outraged, ``But it's mine!'' followed by various reasons why they won't donate something they never use.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by chopin »

Theodores wrote: post #20

One 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 have two, both collecting dust while running.

The first runs as domain controller using Samba4 for that. This was a major hazzle to setup since I needed to compile Samba4 to get it working (the one in the Debian distribution is somewhat shaky). For obvious reasons I never touch this one.

The second one runs a GIT repository and serves generally as tinkering box, such as setting up Apache for authenticating against the domain controller.

As servers, I wouldn't like to miss them.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by mokkol »

Theodores wrote: post #20

One 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 yours is collecting dust, cant you sell them for half price or something?

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by ics »

na85 wrote: post #62
ChuckMcM wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Try convincing a physicist that ms means millisecs and mS means milliSeconds. Casually remind them about the difference between bits and bytes and lament the unfortunate fact that textbook writers still don't give enough respect to the "forgotten units". Let the doubt sink in just a little bit.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100726071250/xkcd/im...

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by ersii »

Ihmahr wrote: post #3

I am running two Tor nodes on two raspberries: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/B679923178D2B63F22C984... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0A7028F6600F940D1A680A... A single pi can push about 600 kb/s. This includes a lot of circuit requests and other encryption. Thinking of buying some more.

I noticed you seem to be in The Netherlands (from the Atlas GeoIP lookup). Have you heard of the organization "Hart voor internetvrijheid"?

For what I've understood, they try to increase the number of Tor relays and exit-nodes.

Their site: https://www.hartvoorinternetvrijheid.nl/eng.html A small lightening talk on OHM2013 about 'em: https://archive.org/details/D4T208201308031515HartVoorIntern...

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by sanoli »

evandena wrote: post #50
middleclick wrote: post #12

I would love to get a Raspberry Pi but I don't know what I would like to do with it. Suggestions?

I use mine for a fermentation temperature monitor/grapher, and another for a squeezebox client.

I also use one as a squeezebox client, with picoreplayer, and it works like a charm. Also tested it as a squeezebox server with squeezeplug and it worked great.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by Derbasti »

slug wrote: post #77
Derbasti wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I own a Beaglebone Black. But the operating system and the ecosystem surrounding it is oh so aweful compared to simply-Debian it-just-works Wheezy for the Raspberry Pi. That probably doesn't matter too much if you are building some embedded thing, but I am mostly using my Pi as a web server, and I like that is so easy to set up and configure.

It's very easy to install ubuntu on a BBB. I have 13.04 and 13.10, both running from the eMMC and uSD cards. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu I own 1 rpi and 2 BBBs and all work just fine. I have the rpi 24/24h connected to a relay board and other things but tend to prefer the BBB due to the better CPU and easier to keep up to date with regular distros.

OK, I'll try that.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by mike-cardwell »

Theodores wrote: post #20

One 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…

One of mine is operating as an HTPC. The other as an Internet streaming radio. I need to get a third so I can add network and OCR functionality to my printer/scanner. It might be a good idea to get a fourth to act as a backup domain controller. I could easily find useful jobs for more.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by mike-cardwell »

sneak wrote: post #78
imissmyjuno wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's the TM backup treating you? I've set up netatalk too, and had the backup's sparsebundle get corrupted 3 times over the course of half a year leading me to abandon it. Now I just rsync to the NFS fileshare, which is less automatic.

The program you're looking for is 'duplicity'. It even supports ssh/scp so you don't need any special software on the storage server.

For those that don't know, duplicity handles incremental backups like TimeMachine, but will also encrypt your backups using GnuPG if you choose to do so. You can also configure it to store the backups to various different types of storage, e.g ssh or Amazon S3. I wrote up how I do it here: https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...
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