Last week the “Free PCBs” link in the header began forwarding to a new Free PCB Drawer on the DEV site. Coupon codes from the three weekly giveaways can be used for anything in the Free PCB Drawer category with free shipping. Don’t see something you want? Coupons are also good for $1 off anything else in the store: SLA 3D prints, PCBs, component reels, pogo pins, etc.
Free PCBs are now part of an integrated shipment system and ship daily, instead of “occasionally”. Order status will be updated automatically…once the shipping interface is debugged later this week…
Old coupons are not yet working in the new store. Old coupons will be transferred by the end of next week and we’ll update you here.
So long Zencart, and good riddance! Working with Zencart was awful and it won’t be missed.
On a side note apologies for light updates the past week and a half. We’re struggling a bit to put the final touches on the new site. Tomorrow the first Harmony (pronounced Har-man-y) t-shirt will go up in the store. We also have to make a Hong Kong run to use internet stable enough bring up the Eagle/Gerber/3D print rendering cluster. If the cluster looks solid DirtyPCBs.com will be deprecated in a week, and we’ll only do major support for orders placed at the new site.
Next week a post about getting a Chinese driver’s license. The following week it may finally be time to drop the Expressway, we’ll see how it goes.
Free PCB coupons now give a discount in the store? Cool, I think I still have one somewhere…
Wrote the import script and will add existing coupons to the new store in about 14 hours morning china time.
“We also have to make a Hong Kong run to use internet stable enough bring up the Eagle/Gerber/3D print rendering cluster.”
Why would this be necessary? Is the Great Chinese Firewall (GFW) blocking your access, or is the bandwidth inside Mainland China so bad that you have to physically cross border to HKG to get enough bandwidth?
Anyway, I hope you are well Ian, David in JKT
Its not firewall. Normally it is pretty bad but evidently a sea cable was cut and its terrible today. We need to rerender 16,000 PCBs and SLA 3d prints submitted to dev site since July. I need ssh window open for a couple hours and that’s just not feasable in SZ ever, and at moment even login to ssh is like 20 minutes. I typed username (enter) password (enter) and then went and made dinner. When I came back 25 minutes later it was half way through welcome.messages… driving me nuts
While not a fix for intermittent internet, the screen command will allow processes to continue running when the session is dropped. You can then reconnect later.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/keep-your-ssh-session-running-when-you-disconnect/