What a tremendous failure. Why check with your distributors before going live? It's not even the traffic; RS never sold any and for the rare moment that you could get to Farnell, they were already (or always have been) out of stock from minute one.
Raspberri PI Release Announcement
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Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I'm reading it right, tonight will be the first batch of 10k, the 'later in 2012' release that we will be able to pre-order for will be from their licensed partners and not so limited in quantity. I could be wrong, I can't seem to access any website claiming to sell it.
You appear to be right. "We believe Farnell has sold out already. Blimey."
Farnell had a product site up at launch time. When I first clicked "Add to Basket" I got a "Could not determine product stock, please try again" error. The second time just some AjaxError. And then the whole shopping cart crashed. Now they are serving a "Site unavailible" Page. I really wonder if they managed to sell all the stock before the page was DDOS'ed.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dont think so, if you need ethernet connection you need to buy an external lan/wifi card, spend at least a couple of bucks (3$ if you are lucky?)), lose one usb port (or use an usb hub), hope it will work in your OS, just to save some bucks (10-3 = 7$). For me, no way
However WLAN beats LAN, especially if I chose to build a small case and use this as a HTPC that I can use to watch.
is the wifi powerful enough for full HD streaming? I think the typical sub-10$ chinese WLAN card is just b/g
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#44I'm sorry, but I don't know what Raspberri PI is. The site literally doesn't tell me anything about the actual product. I see an image of an arduino-like board -- is that it?
Not being snotty or anything, I just literally can't find any information on the site.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dont think so, if you need ethernet connection you need to buy an external lan/wifi card, spend at least a couple of bucks (3$ if you are lucky?)), lose one usb port (or use an usb hub), hope it will work in your OS, just to save some bucks (10-3 = 7$). For me, no way
However WLAN beats LAN, especially if I chose to build a small case and use this as a HTPC that I can use to watch.
Different people have different use cases. Apparently yours fits the Model B better.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#46What a tremendous failure. Why check with your distributors before going live? It's not even the traffic; RS never sold any and for the rare moment that you could get to Farnell, they were already (or always have been) out of stock from minute one.
The tweets from the foundation make it look more like Farnell actually took about 10 minutes to sell what they had. Nobody's quite sure whats up with RS yet.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#47What a tremendous failure. Why check with your distributors before going live? It's not even the traffic; RS never sold any and for the rare moment that you could get to Farnell, they were already (or always have been) out of stock from minute one.
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Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#48I'm sorry, but I don't know what Raspberri PI is. The site literally doesn't tell me anything about the actual product. I see an image of an arduino-like board -- is that it? Not being snotty or anything, I just literally can't find any information on the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
There's usually more at their site, they went static about a half hour ago because of the load on their servers.
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#49People might have some luck with their telephone ordering
RS Online: +44 8457 201201
Farnell: +44 8447 111111
Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#50What a tremendous failure. Why check with your distributors before going live? It's not even the traffic; RS never sold any and for the rare moment that you could get to Farnell, they were already (or always have been) out of stock from minute one.
The tweets from the foundation make it look more like Farnell actually took about 10 minutes to sell what they had. Nobody's quite sure whats up with RS yet.
Then I blame their fucked up shop system with yet another site for every other region? All I can say is that one minute after launch, the product page on Farnell was showing "out of stock". After that, the site never loaded again.
Apparently the only way you could actually get one is through some back of the woods partner site of them in Australia. Hooray.