Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:26:00 GMT
We hope everyone is ready for an end-of-year break – we certainly are. RISC OS Open is planning to shut down over the holidays from Sat 22nd Dec 2012 to Sun 6th Jan 2013 inclusive. We may still keep an eye on emails and the site but cannot guarantee anything!
Please also note that any orders or other enquiries placed over this period will probably not be dealt with until we return.
See you all in the New Year!
Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:16:00 GMT
Over the years traffic to the ROOL web site steadily increased as news of the project gently spread out from the core RISC OS crowd to a wider audience. As more and more of the OS became available, our site page hits gradually increased, along with the amount of data we sent out (bandwidth used) each month.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Raspberry Pi release created a big spike in traffic. We fell just slightly short of 2 million hits in November 2012, with over 115GiB of data sent out. In the whole year of 2011 we reached 5.5M hits and 160GiB data; the October and November 2012 data total exceeds all of 2011 and the hit count is already at over ten million for the year, with most of December still to come.
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:32:00 GMT
RISC OS Open is, once again, a VAT-registered company. We’ve done this voluntarily because it looks like there’s a danger (!) our turnover could get towards the threshold for compulsory registration by the end of our financial year.
This is clearly great news in that it shows just how popular our various merchandise items are (mind you, ROOL only gets a small cut in the end from most of it and please remember that turnover does not mean profit), but it does mean our prices to ordinary users are affected.
Read more...Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:25:00 GMT
ROOL is currently having some trouble with its web site, partly related to the surge in visits following the release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi.
Some sections of the web site will not be available at all during this time (you may see “Not Found” pages or similar errors).
We are taking steps to try and maintain a minimal service level until we can get to the bottom of the underlying issue. Please bear with us in the mean time; sorry for the service interruption.
If the forum is up, you may find further information in this discussion thread.
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Buy RISC OS Open merchandise here, including SD cards for Raspberry Pi and more.
