http://www.iconbar.com/forums/ Technology news and views en-gb Copyright 2010 onepointnought Media richard@nospam.iconbar.com richard@nospam.iconbar.com http://riscos.me.uk/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/forums/ 150 45 Technology news and views http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11488&page=1#115279 Oh fun. I discovered tonight that all four of my RISC OS boxes here have batteries looking like this. http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11510&page=1#115278 It strikes me that the guy writing this hasn't really done his homework on the machines he is lambasting as "un useful". Well that depends... http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11418&page=1#115277 I've gone down the SCSI route and I do get much better speeds, yes. Have you had any experience with SCSI drives over 36GiB? CJE told me that that was the highest they had in stock and that higher sizes tended to not work. http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11510&page=1#115276 Just that there's a difference between continuing to maintain of minority platform and pretending to revive a long dead one, and that that was a distinction the article didn't make. It was a badly worded way of saying so though. http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11507&page=1#115275 Given RISC OS is pretty useless with only one mouse button, and even less use with multitouch UIs, no existing software would be much use on such a tablet. http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11510&page=1#115274 I'm sorry, what was your point there? http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11510&page=1#115272 'RiscOS' hardly fits into the thrust of his argument (which I broadly agree with), not because it has any particular qualities but because it has never been resurrected from the grave. http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11509&page=1#115271 It's a good plan, I can't see any harm in trying http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11510&page=1#115270 "RiscOS" (and, through the hyperlink, TIB) get a prod through this article which addresses, albeit in a fairly shallow manner, some of the recent discussions regarding things like brand revival (as per the 2006 relaunch of Acorn) and trying to make old... http://riscos.me.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11303&page=1#115269 Unfortunately not.