Avnet Site is Down

rickman wrote:
> On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
>> And, they saved money using SAP!
>
> What *is* SAP?
>

The IT equivalent of
1) Invading Russia in the winter.
2) Bombing Cambodia.
3) Pickett's Charge.

It's basically the last 4GL. "Consultants" build
"applications" out of it for you.

-- 
Les Cargill

On 4/6/2016 12:43 PM, Dave Nadler wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 11:33:33 AM UTC-4, rickman wrote:
>> What *is* SAP?
>
> You are much better off for not knowing...

Lol, I think you are probably right.

I remember wanting to find some software that would let me track my 
parts inventory and anticipate ordering I would need to do.  There was a 
name for this in the 90's that was a three letter abbreviation I can't 
recall.  I looked for it around 2010 and couldn't find it, but a new 
abbreviation was in use.  When I researched that it seemed to have 
taken a life of its own and morphed into some monster that was 
incomprehensible to me.  I guess the software had become a tool for much 
larger companies and so had many capabilities I never anticipated much 
less needed.  I also couldn't begin to justify the price.

I expect SAP is not so much different.  Maybe that is why no one talks 
about it without using the acronym.  They don't understand it either.

-- 

Rick

On 4/7/2016 12:56 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
> rickman wrote:
>> On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
>>> And, they saved money using SAP!
>>
>> What *is* SAP?
>>
>
> The IT equivalent of
> 1) Invading Russia in the winter.
> 2) Bombing Cambodia.
> 3) Pickett's Charge.
>
> It's basically the last 4GL. "Consultants" build
> "applications" out of it for you.

I think I get the picture.

-- 

Rick

On 4/4/2016 3:01 PM, rickman wrote:
> Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this
> was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do
> work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.
>
> I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2
> Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the
> (new) main page.

It is now Wednesday of the following week (almost two weeks after the 
Avnet site went down) and there are still parts of the site that are not 
up. I am looking for the various downloads to go with a board I bought 
(that shipped with no disk). The page where you can order the board is 
now up, but no link to the info. The old description page is still up, 
but the link for the download doesn't work.

I contacted someone who sent me a link for a copy of the files that were 
supposed to have been made available. But I can't access the download 
without a login and I think the download is for the wrong board anyway. 
They sent a link for the files for the "Development Kit" rather than for 
the "Kickstart Kit".

This is starting to piss me off.

-- 

Rick

On 2016-04-13, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/2016 3:01 PM, rickman wrote:
>> Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this
>> was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do
>> work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.
>>
>> I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2
>> Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the
>> (new) main page.
>
> It is now Wednesday of the following week (almost two weeks after the 
> Avnet site went down) and there are still parts of the site that are not 
> up. I am looking for the various downloads to go with a board I bought 
> (that shipped with no disk). The page where you can order the board is 
> now up, but no link to the info. The old description page is still up, 
> but the link for the download doesn't work.
>

Have you tried either the Google cache or web.archive.org options ?

Note that there will probably be issues in either case however.

While the Google cache is more recent, the old page has probably been
replaced with the new page in Google's cache by now.

The web.archive.org archive will be static, but it's probably pointing
to a really old version of the page (assuming it's actually archived
the page yet).

However, if you are really stuck, it might be worth trying anyway.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

On 4/16/2016 1:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-04-13, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/4/2016 3:01 PM, rickman wrote:
>>> Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this
>>> was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do
>>> work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.
>>>
>>> I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2
>>> Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the
>>> (new) main page.
>>
>> It is now Wednesday of the following week (almost two weeks after the
>> Avnet site went down) and there are still parts of the site that are not
>> up. I am looking for the various downloads to go with a board I bought
>> (that shipped with no disk). The page where you can order the board is
>> now up, but no link to the info. The old description page is still up,
>> but the link for the download doesn't work.
>>
>
> Have you tried either the Google cache or web.archive.org options ?
>
> Note that there will probably be issues in either case however.
>
> While the Google cache is more recent, the old page has probably been
> replaced with the new page in Google's cache by now.
>
> The web.archive.org archive will be static, but it's probably pointing
> to a really old version of the page (assuming it's actually archived
> the page yet).
>
> However, if you are really stuck, it might be worth trying anyway.

I've gotten the cold shoulder from Avnet at this point.  They were 
saying it would be up in a couple of days.  Yesterday they told me to 
give it a week!

They even promote this board on their main page, but still no downloads!!!

An FAE had emailed me a month ago I assume because I ordered the board. 
  I sent him an email the other day.

I opened a ticket with Microsemi to see if they can get me the info and 
also asked them to fix the broken links on their web page to the Avnet 
page that is now gone or at a different address.

I'll try the wayback machine.  Good idea.  But I really want to see if 
they have a more recent version.  Back when I ordered the board, they 
didn't even have all the software working properly.  I had to wait a few 
weeks to download tools that would support it.

-- 

Rick