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End of my frustation

Former Member

After following the Raspi infos and discussions for month, I did not get a device or a preorder, even an interest entry.

 

So I decided to stop my frustation today and have ordered a Beaglebone. This has about the same functionalties as

the Raspi, but it is better suited for embedded developments, eg. 64 GPIOs, 4 UARTs, .....

It comes with a Linux distribution and one could even implement Android on it. And TI has some nice daughter boards

in the pipeline.

OK, it is more than double in price, I have to pay around 90 € including tax and shipment. But its worth to start with

my project soon, instead of burning my time waiting for Raspi, Gert-board, etc.

 

So I will have a close look next year to the Raspi project and wish to all of you successful projects.

 

Walter

  • Yuriy Brazhnyk wrote:

     

    I wish your GF will say i'm pregnant. But will not mention that not from you... And when you will find it out she will say: "No trickery, No broken promises just the facts of life". FU and have a good life.

    not exactly sure I see the similarity but as long as she sends an email and posts to a website then it'd be fine although my wife might not be exactly happy with it.

  • Wow.  Just had an email inviting me to order my RPi.  Generated (I presume) by my filling out the 'register your interest' link that appeared shortly after the initial stocks ran out early on the 29th.  I'm a (fairly) happy camper again - I'll be happier when my new baby arrives and I can play with it properly.  Wonder if anybody does a Raspberry Pi emulator for Windows or the Mac >;-)

  • in reply to Former Member

    Spike Smith wrote:

     

    Wow.  Just had an email inviting me to order my RPi.  Generated (I presume) by my filling out the 'register your interest' link that appeared shortly after the initial stocks ran out early on the 29th.  I'm a (fairly) happy camper again - I'll be happier when my new baby arrives and I can play with it properly.  Wonder if anybody does a Raspberry Pi emulator for Windows or the Mac >;-)

    yes there are several vm's available. the links are somewhere on the wiki http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard

  • in reply to Former Member

    Yes. There are plenty of threads on emulation on the Raspberry Pi forum. When the site is up again search for Qemu. You basically load up the Debian image but there are lots of switches that need fidling with.

  • Why is everyone arguing? To cheer you up, have some ponies! :3

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3418/5736614754_15953df08a.jpg

  • in reply to Former Member

    trickry? looks like your the only person who had no idea what was going on. they told you when they were going on sale and when you can buy them. i dont see the problem... ya you didnt get a email but since they already told you... it was first come first served. if you wernt wanting to sit in line then tuff.

  • in reply to Former Member

    William Neal wrote:

     

    trickry? looks like your the only person who had no idea what was going on. they told you when they were going on sale and when you can buy them. i dont see the problem... ya you didnt get a email but since they already told you... it was first come first served. if you wernt wanting to sit in line then tuff.

    Please either post a proof of your words or read thread more carefuly...

  • in reply to Former Member

    I was watching the RasPi forum a lot  on Feb 29th (I'm in California, so 6 AM GMT was 10PM) and a lot of people -- many of them regulars on the forum -- did not get the e-mail.  Even though RasPi's e-mail was sent out to the 100K or so people in small batches, many didn't get there.  One theory is that intermediate mail servers saw so much traffic from a single source that it discarded the e-mail as spam.  I wasn't on the e-mail list myself.

     

    A plea for civility [to posters on this thread]:  There are lots of disappointed people and RasPi was clearly overwhelmed by demand, but name-calling and accusations aren't going to help.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Russell Davis wrote:

     

    Nothing on the 27th? I got three (different addresses, gmail, self hosted and ISP) and everyone I checked with in the states, england, australia, france & bosnia got theirs.

     

    it was also on the front page of the website and thus rss too but you should have received an email on the 27th although 100k+ emails at one time can cause some problems with the blacklisting services

     

    Nothing at all. The only emails I have received from RaspberryPi were the autoresponses when I signed up for the forums and created my store account, on Jan. 5 and 10 respectively. 

     

    I'm on Gmail, and while they are aggressive about stopping spam, they filter it into one place. I looked in the spam box as well, and nothing. 

     

    I'll agree that I "should have" received an email, but for some reason I didn't.  And I can't be the only one. 

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    What i'm taliing here is not about tech problems with email... i'm talking about intentional hiding important information from users:

    1) Email that was sent was totaly unclear about what will happen.

    2) There was no information about selling date until last moment

    3) Information about selling was not sent by email

    4) Information about selling was posted on a static html page thus no RSS

    5) Information about new shop was posted on static page in last moment without email or RSS

     

    So this is pure trickery... They do it on purpose, you can read on twitter(liz wrote: I am contractually forbidden to say. But I suggest setting your alarm clock)...

     

    That's why i'm angry... They just fu**** me up... All that time i spent on raspi monitoring is trashed for some unpredictable purpose(to lower server load??? or maybe to rise chances for  the "right"  people????????).

    Any way this is just frustrating =\ Total unrespect for raspi team for this set up...