[Nottingham] Who wants some Pi?

[Eben Till]

Who's brilliant idea was it to let the thousands of people hammer the
searches rather than post a direct link. Sigh.
On Feb 29, 2012 6:42 AM, "Martin" <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> So...
>
> Who's for a Raspberry?
>
>
> 0550:
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.com/ shows:
>
> Down for Maintenance
> This store is currently unavailable. Please visit our main website at
> www.raspberrypi.org.
>
> And http://www.raspberrypi.org/ doesn't respond...
>
>
> 0556:
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.com/ shows:
>
> 502 Bad Gateway
> nginx
>
> And http://www.raspberrypi.org/ gives "The connection was reset"
>
>
> 0559:
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.com/ shows:
>
> Down for Maintenance
> This store is currently unavailable. Please visit our main website at
> www.raspberrypi.org.
>
> And http://www.raspberrypi.org/ doesn't respond...
>
>
> 0601:
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ gives:
>
> The Raspberry Pi Launch
>
> We've temporarily changed to a static site, while we're experiencing a
> very high level of traffic for the launch of the Raspberry Pi. The full
> site will return once traffic levels have subsided, hopefully later on
> today. ...
>
> Although we are still waiting for units to arrive from China, you can
> start buying the Raspberry Pi today. We have entered into licensed
> manufacture partnerships with two British companies, Premier Farnell and
> RS Components. They’ll be manufacturing and distributing the devices on
> behalf of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and handling the distribution of
> our first batches as they arrive in the country. The Foundation
> continues to make a small profit from each Raspberry Pi sold, which
> we’ll be putting straight back into the charity. ...
>
>
>
> And then:
>
> 0602:
>
> http://uk.rs-online.com gives:
>
> Register here to express an interest in Raspberry Pi
> Raspberry Pi SBC
>
> http://uk.farnell.com/ gives only a "The connection was reset"
>
>
> 0625 (approx):
>
> http://uk.rs-online.com gives: "The connection has timed out"
>
> http://uk.farnell.com/ gives only a "The connection was reset"
>
>
> 0630:
>
> http://uk.rs-online.com gives: "The connection has timed out"
>
> http://uk.farnell.com/ gives:
>
> Site unavailable
>
> Our websites are currently unavailable whilst we perform a scheduled
> system upgrade. ...
>
>
>
> With that, I'll let the rest of the world battle it out...
>
> Looks like a friendly DDoS is in progress!...
>
> Even though the first Raspberry Pi boards are not immediately available,
> the "licensed manufacture" means we should see a much more rapid ramp-up
> of Raspberry Pi availability. Also, the people making it all work can
> concentrate undisturbed on their next moves rather than be distracted by
> logistics issues.
>
> I managed to register my "interest in Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi SBC" at
> the RS site before it became swamped.
>
>
> And the Raspberry Pi talk is still a TBA :-(
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> martin at ml1.co.uk
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