news:comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Another Dave
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OT Raspberry-pi newsgroup starts
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Only just? I'd have thought it would have had one a long time ago.
Brian
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11 years ago
Within the last week. It seems they're a lot more picky than they used to be about starting newsgroups or maybe it's persuading servers to carry it that's the difficulty. I supported a campaign to get it going so it's not automatic.
Another Dave
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11 years ago
Ta...
Looks rather devoid of messages at the moment!
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11 years ago
Something up with your news server? I see 11 active threads at the moment.
Theo
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11 years ago
just as the Pi goes on sale in the USA.
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En el artículo , John Rumm escribió:
Get posting then. A decent x86 emulator has just come out for it, and it'll play Doom! What other reason do you need to get a Pi?
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eh? Around 28 posts today.
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I thought it was available worldwide anyway. Has something else happened to aid sales in America?
James
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11 years ago
Quite - I currently see 66 posts since Tuesday. Maybe John needs a new news provider! ;-)
James
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11 years ago
Perhaps giganews is too much of a backwater! ;-)
To be fair, I can see some thread there now - just not when Dave posted the original message.
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En el artículo , James Harris escribió:
model B available for a year, model A just launched, according to this:
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beats me why anyone would save a couple bucks by going for the A.
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11 years ago
The main attraction of an A is the low power consumption. Being cheaper is also a bonus for some "embedded" style applications.
I used one the other day for a client who wanted a promo video running on a TV in a window display. The original plan was simply to stick it on a USB flash drive and let the TV's media player deal with it. Alas it gave an ugly warning each time it started to play the particular video they had had prepared. So a bit of experimentation with a pi showed that it would play it flawlessly over HDMI. A model A had a low enough power requirement that it could be powered from the TV's USB port, giving a simple self contained solution.
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11 years ago
Ah, looks like it was the cheaper Model A going on sale.
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11 years ago
Great! I hate to use all those web based forums. It's so inefficient to point, click, type, paste, and copy in the browser. It's so much better to browse the threaded groups and typing messages in emacs/gnus.
//Petter
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11 years ago
En el artículo , Petter Gustad escribió:
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And you can't killfile idiots and trolls.
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11 years ago
I agree, but Usenet is dying.
:o(
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In article , Huge writes
Still twitching, but I fear 'Film at 11' will shortly become a reality.
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11 years ago
Not for another year - paid my Berlin sub the other day. :-)
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11 years ago
No: just shrinking back to the places where it actually is a superior way of doing things.