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Relatively quiet in here at the moment.

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The tsumani of comments in this forum seems to have faded away significantly compared to a couple of months ago?

 

Are we all:

 

Busy with new Pi projects?

 

Waiting for delivery and getting on with life?

 

Moving on to other boards and other projects after trying the Pi out?

 

It none of the above I'd be interested to hear any other reasons. Yes I see that about 20 regulars are still posting as they have since day one. image

 

(just time wasting here whilst sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo rpi-update etc over SSH )

 

Have a great Sunday all. Off to deal with samba.conf now. image

  • in reply to jamodio

    Hi Jamodio. Thats a great link thanks. I can see you've been busy.

     

    Oh for asbestos fingers. image

     

    Incidently after my earlier sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo rpi-update, has anyone else found the latest Deb wheezy a little slow on screen updating?

     

    Ray

  • Ray Hughes wrote:

     

    The tsumani of comments in this forum seems to have faded away significantly compared to a couple of months ago?

     

    That's as it should be Ray! image

     

    Once the boards are available ex-stock it'll be even better, no more threads full of ordering woes, more focus on technical issues.  Looking forward to that.

  • I remember a similar trajectory with BeagleBoard back in 2008.  The Google Groups postings went something like this:

     

    1. How do I get my hands on a BeagleBoard?  When is Digi-Key going to have them in stock?  The whingeing stopped when manufacturing caught up with demand.

     

    2. How do I get [USB, serial, power supply, DVI-D, VGA, Ethernet, etc.] working?  Postings settled down once the lore got copied to the FAQ Wiki, except for newbies who couldn't find the Wiki.

     

    3. How do I cross-compile for BB?  Again, postings settled down once the lore made it to the Wiki.

     

    So now the BeagleBoard Group is down to the maintenance level.  Given the number of RasPis delivered, it's actually pretty amazing that the problem reports are as few as we've seen.  The RasPi Wiki is quite good, so most people can get their questions answered there.  The RasPi software is also quite a bit easier to prepare than it was in the early BeagleBoard days.

     

    So, what are people doing with their RasPis?  Well, that's hard to tell.  Unless one has a Steve Jobs to promote one's project, it's hard for anyone to find out if it even exists.  Most projects worth anything take a lot of time to complete, and the kind of people who can complete them are often not good at marketing.

     

    A lot of poeple are probably using RasPis as media boxes and game machines.  We probably won't hear much from them.  We might hear a lot more if RasPi ever gets a presence in education.  Somehow I don't see that happening quickly.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    The old concept of webrings might be useful for making Pi projects.more visible, because as you say, techies are not usually good at self-promotion.  Their projects would then get visited at least occasionally as a random webring selection.

     

    How to publicize Pi projects might make a worthwhile thread topic here.  A http://elinux.org/RPi_Projects page already exists,  but when there are thousands of Pi projects I expect it'll be unwieldy.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    I remember a similar trajectory with BeagleBoard back in 2008.  The Google Groups postings went something like this:

     

    1. How do I get my hands on a BeagleBoard?  When is Digi-Key going to have them in stock?  The whingeing stopped when manufacturing caught up with demand.

     

    2. How do I get [USB, serial, power supply, DVI-D, VGA, Ethernet, etc.] working?  Postings settled down once the lore got copied to the FAQ Wiki, except for newbies who couldn't find the Wiki.

     

    3. How do I cross-compile for BB?  Again, postings settled down once the lore made it to the Wiki.

     

    So now the BeagleBoard Group is down to the maintenance level.  Given the number of RasPis delivered, it's actually pretty amazing that the problem reports are as few as we've seen.  The RasPi Wiki is quite good, so most people can get their questions answered there.  The RasPi software is also quite a bit easier to prepare than it was in the early BeagleBoard days.

    RasPi forum has become quite quiet lately.  Could it be that:

     

    1.  RasPi forum is already at the maintenance level as far as First Wave adopters are concerned?

     

    2.  Everyone has Olympics Fever and has forgotten all about RasPi?

     

    3.  Everyone has been banned from RasPi, or they are afraid to post lest they be banned, or their IP addresses have been locked out by excessive anti-troll shotgun fire?

     

    4.  Everyone has decided that the really cool thing to do with a RasPi is to put it back in its little box and roll it up in his or her T-shirt sleeve like "Rapid Roy the stock car boy"?

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    3.  Everyone has been banned from RasPi, or they are afraid to post lest they be banned, or their IP addresses have been locked out by excessive anti-troll shotgun fire?

     

    You now owe me a new keyboard and half a can of coke. image

  • I'm still waiting for my order to be filled but I am enjoying the wait and anticipation. I have downloaded the punnet case for RPi (http://squareitround.co.uk/Resources/Punnet_net_Alpha3.pdf) just for fun and I am busy learning about KVM, QEMM and virtualization so I can build a virtual Raspberry Pi on my Ubuntu server. I have also just picked up "Hello World - Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners" so I can teach my son Python.