I was going to try to purchase a Prologix GPIB converter but I can't access
their site. I sent an e mail informing them but have not gotten a reply. Is
it just me?
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No, it's not just you.
Today is their $100 order giveaway starting at 8AM PST, and I'd guess their
site has gone down under the anticipatory load :-(
Too bad, I have a couple of GPS modules waiting in my shopping cart :-)
Scott
On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:27 AM, John Green wrote:
I was going to
They appear to be back up, but the site is taking forever to respond to
anything.
Scott
On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:27 AM, John Green wrote:
I was going to try to purchase a Prologix GPIB converter but I can't access
their site. I sent an e mail informing them but have not gotten a reply. Is
it
Nope, me too.
Joe
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sparkfun
I was going to try to purchase a Prologix GPIB converter
Their site has been slow at least since Monday. I wonder if their
migration to new servers isn't going as well as hoped?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM, J. L. Trantham wrote:
Nope, me too.
Joe
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Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, but it seems to me, they
almost willy-nilly beefed up the servers and annouced Free Day around the same
time. It doesn't seem they tested the servers to handle such a load, or simply
the response they are receiving from the public is so massive,
Hi Bill,
The pot appears to be working properly and have adjusted according to
alignment, the problem is the plug-in board revisions my is a high serial
number and the components are different than the manual and do not know if they
are right or wrong, I acquired the receiver used with many
Hi John,
I originally bought the 207-5 Used with many issues, I managed to repair some
problems, the manual that I have does not cover any board revisions , the
components are different then the manual making it difficult to find
replacement solid state devices, the serial number is very high
john.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, but it seems to me, they
almost willy-nilly beefed up the servers and annouced Free Day around the same
time. It doesn't seem they tested the servers to handle such a load, or simply
the response they are receiving
In message 4b4603e5.4050...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson writes:
john.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, [...]
What better test of server performance as a ten-fold increase in load?
And at only $100.000 - undoubtedly a lot extra sales, they get the
Good Advertisement for a company in Electronics...
Happy New Year to everyone,
Bernard
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part de Magnus Danielson
Envoyé : jeudi 7 janvier 2010 16:55
À : john.fo...@gmail.com; Discussion of
Hi Sal,
I can't help.
I have a unit that I got maybe 20 years ago. I hooked it up and got the
WWVB trace fine, but then got an Austron 2100F and a GPS/Rb. It's been
sitting in a pile for years, unpowered. I never had any doc whatsoever.
In fact, I tried to sell it some years ago, and there were
Actually, they upgraded the servers right before the last free day and used
that day as a shake down test for the new systems. (A month ago or so). I
think they're just slammed with a lot more customers this time around.
-Bob
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:38 AM, john.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Now,
There has to be a better way to get a prologix. An hour to get to the
page to order it and now I cannot proceed to the check out section at
all. Ridiculous!
There is indeed no such thing as a free lunch or a cheap GPIB adapter :^)
Dan
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In message 4b4603e5.4050...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson writes:
john.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, [...]
What better test of server performance as a ten-fold increase in load?
And at only $100.000 - undoubtedly a
Dan Rae wrote:
There has to be a better way to get a prologix. An hour to get to the
page to order it and now I cannot proceed to the check out section at
all. Ridiculous!
You could order it from them on a regular day. :)
There is indeed no such thing as a free lunch or a cheap GPIB
I've worked in IT for a long time, and I gurantee you, the guys in Sparkfun's
IT staff are all freaking out right now!! Haha, gotta love that good ol'
disaster stress in IT!
John Foege
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Date:
F1ETB wrote:
Good Advertisement for a company in Electronics...
Happy New Year to everyone,
Bernard
I don't know Bernard. Having just wasted an hour plus of my life on it
I don't think I will return there again.
Dan
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And that's how I believe *many* people are feeling. So, I think this is
actually a real big disaster for them. Sadly!
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Remember that ad a couple years ago (superbowl, perhaps), with the small
company starting their online presence, and the big number of orders counter.
It starts clicking slowly, and everyone is jubilant: Yeah, we're going to make
it; and then it starts counting faster and faster, and they get
On 1/7/10 8:32 AM, Dan Rae dan...@verizon.net wrote:
F1ETB wrote:
Good Advertisement for a company in Electronics...
Happy New Year to everyone,
Bernard
I don't know Bernard. Having just wasted an hour plus of my life on it
I don't think I will return there again.
Dan
Hmm.
At 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, SparkFun is showing only 7106.39 of
the 100K given away. Of interest to Time Nuts is that their clock is
about 15 minutes slow; it shows that the giveaway has been active for 45
minutes, not a full hour.
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They are on eBay as well
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On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Dan Rae dan...@verizon.net wrote:
There has to be a better way to get a prologix. An hour to get to
the page to order it and now I cannot proceed to the check out
section at all. Ridiculous!
I fully agree, Dan !!!
Regards,
Bernard
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Objet : Re: [time-nuts] Sparkfun
F1ETB
It's over.
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After an hour and a half of trying, I gave up. I couldn't even get the
site to let me log in. A big disappointment...
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:47 AM, John Allen wrote:
It's over.
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A couple of thoughts --
- Refusing to let people into the site at all is probably the best approach,
if you find yourself completely swamped with traffic. A customer who sees
10-second ping times is likely to be even more annoyed than one who gets a
404. What they should have done, though, is
On 1/7/10 10:14 AM, John Miles jmi...@pop.net wrote:
A couple of thoughts --
- Refusing to let people into the site at all is probably the best approach,
if you find yourself completely swamped with traffic. A customer who sees
10-second ping times is likely to be even more annoyed
Delete this supplier from your own database may be an answer...
But they probably don't care !
Bernard
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part de Steve Krull
Envoyé : jeudi 7 janvier 2010 19:08
À : Discussion of precise time and
Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
It's if it happens over and over at the same place, I get cranky, but this
probably isn't in that category.
Regardless, I think they learn some lessons right now, regardless of the
level of preparation. There is only one way to learn, try it out and fail.
Friends of
I am at work so I couldn't commit the time to trying to get in. I did manage
to get something in my cart but could never check out. They didn't answer my
e mail yesterday complaining about their site but I am going to send them
another reminding them that wasting the time of people who are
Hi!
The news reports on 30 milion credit cards in Germany which no longer
works when using their security chip, since they do not handle the year
2010. Those with magnetic only cards still works.
It would be interesting to follow this news to see how this feature
was not handled and
Try to go easy on Sparkfun. They really are a decent group of people
who've always provided me with good parts at pretty decent prices.
Timely shipping too. I think they just tried something that sounded
good on the drawing board but kind of blew up when implemented. Now who
hasn't done
Looks like they got their certification. See below.
--msa
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Interesting. Thank you.
Maybe it'd be worth contacting the Canadian government about keeping it
running, at least in part.
-John
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Looks like they got their certification. See below.
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It is possible to survive slashdotting with a small server... it helps to be
directly connected to the internet backbone at 100+ gigabits/sec, but is not
essential:
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/attention_span/
When I bought mine I did a search on eBay and found a vendor selling them
new. You might try doing the same.
Marvin Collins
In a message dated 1/7/2010 6:28:38 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
wpxs...@gmail.com writes:
I was going to try to purchase a Prologix GPIB converter but I can't
It's always possible to underestimate the demand for something. And free
seems to be a powerful motivator to people.
A while ago, someone who used to be one of the Unix sysadmins at a local
university (UBC) left to work at the group within Google that runs their
computer systems. A while later,
Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
Now, standing in line for 7 hours at some government office where there is a
cellphone ban, only to be told that you have been standing in the wrong
line: *That* is a waste of time, unless the value of the service is pretty
darn high (e.g. Keeping you out of prison or
At 13:09 -0800 07-01-2010, David Martindale wrote:
[snip war story]
Lots of people started using it, and within a very short time the Goggle
Earth server traffic was *ten times larger than the largest estimate* of
what the load would be.
What, like MS Terraserver a decade earlier?
All I can say is fill out Central Services/Ministry of Public Works Form
27B/6...
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Those of us who didn't get anywhere didn't lose anything - we just
didn't get something for free. But I agree it is disappointing when you
can't get past the front page - if that far. I tried about an hour
before it was to start and got nowhere. Being pretty ignorant of
internet workings, I
I'm totally new to this semi-DIY gps stuff. Can anyone recommend any
NMEA packet reader software that will work on my old Windows 98
laptop (using data through the RS-232 serial)?. Searching online I
find a lot of rather expensive software that does much more than I
want to do. Any
NEMA is ASCII, comma delimited. Basic stuff can be read with terminal
emulator.
Jim Mandaville wrote:
I'm totally new to this semi-DIY gps stuff. Can anyone recommend any
NMEA packet reader software that will work on my old Windows 98 laptop
(using data through the RS-232 serial)?.
Hyper-term is free and gives a window with lat, long, time and the usual other
stuff.
VisualGPS (http://www.visualgps.net/) is free and provides a nice gui wrapper
around above info.
Jamie
--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Jim Mandaville z...@dakotacom.net wrote:
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As a Tertiary Technician (if any), I resemble that remark.
Bill Hawkins
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All I can say is fill out Central Services/Ministry of Public Works Form
27B/6...
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