Thanks Pete for a very entertaining and stimulating talk. It brought back memories of a similar event when O2 launched the iphone in the UK and similarly had difficulties handling the demand. What a great success story!
Eoin Jennings Sales Director DataCentred [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)7500 807679 Twitter: eoin_Jennings LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eoin-jennings/1/31/204 www.datacentred.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: uknof [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 23 April 2015 12:00 To: [email protected] Subject: uknof Digest, Vol 76, Issue 20 Send uknof mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.uknof.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uknof or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of uknof digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Raspberry Pi talk questions (Pete Stevens) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:56:12 +0100 (BST) From: Pete Stevens <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [uknof] Raspberry Pi talk questions Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone who said nice things about my hurried rant at UKNOF31 on Monday. Couple of things to add, (1) In the launch for Pi2 I told you the problem with Wordpress but not the solution, we forced the front page to be static and generated it periodically putting a 60s delay on comments appearing but moving the logic of when to do this from Wordpress to cron. (2) <tgreer-48204> question: why's it not hosted on rPis? Those of you who can use Google would know that the answer is a v1 Pi can only sink 2500 syn packets per second, https://www.raspberrypi.org/mythic-beasts-ddos-attacks/ so you'd need 400 versus four real machines (don't have your network stack on the end of USB). (3) <dotwaffle> who would play you in a TV mini series about UK computer manufacturers? ;) I reckon Dawn French could pull it off perfectly. (4) If you want to hear me rant off the record and in more detail I'll be at the Cambridge Beer Festival, demonstrating that in extreme circumstances we can still run the company from a laptop in a field with only mobile connectivity. A very large and remarkably well stocked field admittedly. http://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/ (5) The link for the 1U server castle and rack rail trebuchet is http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2014/11/17/server-castle/ The rest of our blog is full of boring stuff like service announcements and other dull stuff like that. Regards, Pete -- Pete Stevens [email protected] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/ The last time humans crossed space to a destination was the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. In the 32 years since, no man has seen, with his own eyes, Earth as that beautiful, solitary blue sphere, and - reality check - no woman has ever seen it at all. -- James Cameron ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ uknof mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uknof.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uknof ------------------------------ End of uknof Digest, Vol 76, Issue 20 ************************************* -- DataCentred Limited registered in England and Wales no. 05611763
