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Edward Rogers |
Message #107538, posted by Monty at 17:26, 30/5/2008, in reply to message #107537 |
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If 'they' won't give a review copy to drobe for having a fortnight off, who were they intending to give it to? I can't think of any other RISC OS news outlet thats more up to date. |
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Mike |
Message #107539, posted by MikeCarter at 20:22, 30/5/2008, in reply to message #107538 |
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If 'they' won't give a review copy to drobe for having a fortnight off, who were they intending to give it to? I can't think of any other RISC OS news outlet thats more up to date. Archive Magazine is prety upto date. |
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richard cheng |
Message #107552, posted by richcheng at 11:22, 3/6/2008, in reply to message #107539 |
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If 'they' won't give a review copy to drobe for having a fortnight off, who were they intending to give it to? I can't think of any other RISC OS news outlet thats more up to date. Archive Magazine is prety upto date.
It's not more up to date than Drobe, though. One of the main reasons that I let my subscription to Archive lapse was that the "News" columns were never news to me.
(The other being that the feature articles had a tendency to be things I happened not to be interested in.) |
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Jim Nagel |
Message #107553, posted by jimnagel at 12:42, 3/6/2008, in reply to message #107552 |
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Richard --
seems to be two years since you lapsed from Archive. you still at 29 H Ho? i'll send you a comp issue so you can see what you're now missing.
--jim
(prob best to copy reply to www.archivemag.co.uk (contact address there) in case i don't see it here.) |
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Jim Nagel |
Message #107555, posted by jimnagel at 12:51, 3/6/2008, in reply to message #107553 |
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PS to everyone else: Archive has always had a "two sample issues free" offer to people who have not subscribed before.
just email me if you want to take advantage of it.
see www.archivemag.co.uk (the Contact page).
--jim |
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richard cheng |
Message #107556, posted by richcheng at 15:31, 3/6/2008, in reply to message #107553 |
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Richard --
seems to be two years since you lapsed from Archive. you still at 29 H Ho? i'll send you a comp issue so you can see what you're now missing. A kind offer. I'm at 58 A Ro now, though. 
Email is on it's way. |
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Edward Rogers |
Message #107560, posted by Monty at 21:55, 3/6/2008, in reply to message #107556 |
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Just clicked on your blog and, yeah, his death got me to. Almost an tearful moment when I found out, emotional fool that I am. |
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Edward Rogers |
Message #107638, posted by Monty at 01:15, 12/6/2008, in reply to message #107560 |
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Still nowt but the tumbleweed drobe side. Wasn't there a story someone sent their way? |
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Peter Howkins |
Message #107639, posted by flibble at 10:13, 12/6/2008, in reply to message #107638 |
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Still nowt but the tumbleweed drobe side. Wasn't there a story someone sent their way? Allegedly, however a story being sent doesn't mean it can go straight up on the site. Stuff I've done for Drobe has often required a fair bit of editing by Chris to make it reasonable.
I find it amusing that because of one unpaid person taking a break, it now appears to everyone outside the RISC OS world that RISC OS is dead, shouldn't take too long for those inside it too to realise too.
(edit due to not typing the right words)
[Edited by flibble at 12:02, 12/6/2008] |
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Edward Rogers |
Message #107643, posted by Monty at 01:48, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107639 |
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Do you really think that anyone truly 'outside' the Risc OS world visits Drobe on a regular basis? |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #107644, posted by filecore at 05:21, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107639 |
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Stuff I've done for Drobe has often required a fair bit of editing by Chris to make it reasonable. Maybe you shouldn't have written unreasonable stuff in the first place. |
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John Hoare |
Message #107645, posted by moss at 05:49, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107644 |
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Stuff I've done for Drobe has often required a fair bit of editing by Chris to make it reasonable. Maybe you shouldn't have written unreasonable stuff in the first place.
God, you really can be uncharitable! Remember a while ago you were surprised when you people said you came across as abrasive at times? It's because of stuff like this.
Professional writers often get their stuff changed for publication, in whatever medium. It's hardly surprising that it'd happen on Drobe as well, with a (presumably) non-professional writer. The same happens with me and contributors for noisetosignal.org all the time - things take time to knock into shape. |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #107647, posted by filecore at 06:59, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107645 |
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You know, I have a degree in journalism and I've worked in that field in the past (including for the Scotsman, Scotland's equivalent of the Times, and some local rags), I've been a teacher of English as a foreign language for almost four years and now for the past three years I've been a professional language editor, subbing and proofing for a translation company. I've been at both ends of the editing process. I say this not to boast, but because I feel it's relevant to communicate my understanding of the topic at hand, and to ensure that you're aware that although I may not run a user-generated-content website, still I actually do know something about the field.
Yes, I'm aware that writers - professional or otherwise - don't always put things right the first time, and things take many redrafts, as well as consistency and fact checking. However - and this appears to have escaped your notice, perhaps because I failed to include a smiley face in my post - my comment was something called a "joke". That's one of those humourous things people often make in response to any given situation. I'm sorry it failed to pass your quality assurance process. Perhaps you should be more flexible in your outlook rather than jumping to see the most negative possible interpretation of a comment - particularly on a BBS. Surely you should know better by now.
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Edward Rogers |
Message #107648, posted by Monty at 09:31, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107647 |
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Guess I could do with having my humour fine-tuned a little, because I missed the joke in that too. |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #107649, posted by filecore at 09:39, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107648 |
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Guess I could do with having my humour fine-tuned a little, because I missed the joke in that too. I didn't say it was particularly good, or particularly funny. Did you find it offensive, though, in the way that Moss clearly did? |
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Peter Howkins |
Message #107650, posted by flibble at 09:48, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107643 |
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Drobe's major articles were largely syndicated on osnews.com (a good general comp news site for alternate OSes).
Other than that only Castle breaking the GPL would be likely to make the outside news sites. [1]
[1] http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224 |
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Michael Drake |
Message #107651, posted by tlsa at 10:35, 13/6/2008, in reply to message #107650 |
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Other than that only Castle breaking the GPL would be likely to make the outside news sites. [1]
[1] http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224 There's been a few others, like:
The Resister: RISC OS rights daftness
Slashdot: Iyonix
Slashdot: A9home
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Phil Mellor |
Message #108096, posted by monkeyson2 at 10:58, 20/8/2008, in reply to message #107651 |
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Chris has posted a link to a new beta site on his blog. 
[Edited by monkeyson2 at 11:58, 20/8/2008] |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #108098, posted by Phlamethrower at 11:01, 20/8/2008, in reply to message #108096 |
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New minimalist design? 'BBC Micro' link on the header bar? Is drobe planning to launch a BBC Micro web browser, perhaps? |
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James Lampard |
Message #108102, posted by Lampi at 13:23, 20/8/2008, in reply to message #108098 |
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New minimalist design? 'BBC Micro' link on the header bar? Is drobe planning to launch a BBC Micro web browser, perhaps? I'd imagine it refers to the existing on line BBC Micro emulator at http://www.drobe.co.uk/micro/. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #108103, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:44, 20/8/2008, in reply to message #108102 |
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New minimalist design? 'BBC Micro' link on the header bar? Is drobe planning to launch a BBC Micro web browser, perhaps? I'd imagine it refers to the existing on line BBC Micro emulator at http://www.drobe.co.uk/micro/.
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Andrew |
Message #108106, posted by andrew at 22:36, 20/8/2008, in reply to message #108098 |
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New minimalist design? 'BBC Micro' link on the header bar? Is drobe planning to launch a BBC Micro web browser, perhaps? Hope so! |
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James Lampard |
Message #108177, posted by Lampi at 11:54, 28/8/2008, in reply to message #108096 |
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http://www.drobe.co.uk/ is currently showing:
Drobe currently undergoing maintenance, we will be back shortly!
DRB-002-POWER-FAIL
I don't know if this means that something is about to happen, or if the server is down. |
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