
CPC is usually next day for me - perhaps I spend too much with them
it was over 3k yesterdayvinntec wrote:Just for laughs, I asked for 100 RPi2 from CPC - OK. 1000? Partially OK, 436 in stock according to their system. So looks like I am going to be lucky and get them tomorrow or Friday.
I think the last word in your post explains it all quite succinctly.vinntec wrote:Except all the deliveries this week have been and gone and no RPi2. CPC says my order has been "fulfilled" which I think means it has been despatched, but it must be coming by horse and cart to take so long especially when taking in a pile of parcels for my next door neighbour today!
Disappointed of Basingstoke.
There's nothing wrong with the fine Hampshire town that gets a mention in Ruddigore and on page 42 of the paperback edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (first volume of the somewhat mis-named trilogy). Arthur Dent mentions standing on a roundabout in Basingstoke.vinntec wrote:OK James - put 'em up. Are you insulting Basingstoke? Hm? There is lot to be happy about such as, err must be something other than lot of roundabouts and the ongoing roadworks by the M3 junction. I will think of something in a minute.
This is humour by the way in case anyone thinks I am serious but my town is nicknamed "Boringstoke" for good reason.
Mad Margaret. It would appear that your characterization of Basingstoke goes back to at least 1887.vinntec wrote:OK James - put 'em up. Are you insulting Basingstoke? Hm? There is lot to be happy about such as, err must be something other than lot of roundabouts and the ongoing roadworks by the M3 junction. I will think of something in a minute.
This is humour by the way in case anyone thinks I am serious but my town is nicknamed "Boringstoke" for good reason.
A character in a gilbert and sullivan opera.vinntec wrote:By the way, who is Mad Margaret?
A major character in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "Ruddigore" (originally "Ruddygore"). She marries the former Bad Baronet, who escaped his fate by locating his long-missing older brother to take the post. (There's a curse involved.) In any case, when Mad Margaret starts to start behaving in an odd way, her husband uses the code word "Basingstoke" to calm her down.vinntec wrote:By the way, who is Mad Margaret?
Despite lighting many G&S operettas since 1968, I just have never been involved in a production of Ruddigore, hence have never come across it before. You learn something new every day.BMS Doug wrote:A character in a gilbert and sullivan opera.
I never got above the third floor (4th floor at lunch time) in Alençon House except on the day before IBM closed it when we took a special trip to the top floor. We snagged a few good long abandoned cat5 cables in the last week we were there.vinntec wrote:Now I am depressed as I used to work on the 14th floor of this place: "Basingstoke's 279' high Skyline Plaza
my new favorite not enabled SSL site *.rsdelivers.comRaTTuS wrote:http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisp ... topsellers yes
order and you'll get it faster than it says [usually]
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 76#p737876plugwash wrote: More and more people use the internet on the move these days, and often connect over insecure connections (GSM encryption has been cracked, most public wifi is either unencrypted or running in psk mode with a key that is readilly available to attackers). Plain http makes it trivial for such attackers to sniff passwords and session cookies and hence potentially take over user accounts.
Using https makes it much harder for attackers to do this. Enabling strict transport security and key pinning would make things harder still for the attackers. I don't know if the rapsberry pi foundation have done this or plan to do so.