cannot open applications

How did you create your SD card originally? It sounds like you may have downloaded the ROM and the disc separately; it’s best to use the “RC15 SD card image” from this page for your initial setup. You can then use something like Win32DiskImager on Windows, or dd on Mac/Linux, to copy the image onto your card.

Re-posted on behalf of entityfree, who accidentally signed up with their e-mail address as their visible name and didn’t want it showing; I therefore by their request deleted the post and am re-posting here on their behalf:

so excited to add risc os open to raspberry pi and new to learning it! how can i prove it is able to add and run an application? i have been trying to with, from here, !scicalc, !sparkfs, !blocks. the message is usually something like ‘filer cannot find application to run the file’. been trying use filer_run,boot,opendir , run, exec, obey v, from the command line, and with the mouse, and reading about !boot, !run, and !runimage files, filesystems, tried clicking to change permissions or using access, editing path names in !run file, starting from different directories, moving to Public directory. we are not allowed to install any programs at the library(disadvantage for e.g. image installers). but i did get pico on :) and then i copied the r14 image over and renamed it to riscos.img. the desktop boots up once i cancel and i can run edit, and paint and stuff. sorry.

Slightly off-topic, but what’s this form for? I just changed my name in there and it didn’t seem to affect my post above.

Edit: Ah, it affects new posts (and resets the post count to 1!)

Edit 2: Hang on, what’s going on here? I’ve changed my profile back to my normal name and now I’ve lost the Edit links on all my existing posts, other than this one. Help!

Edit 3: Yeah, something’s definitely broken now… my profile says “Chris Mahoney” but new posts are coming up as “Chris Mahoney Test”.

Yeah, that sounds pretty broken.

And it’s interesting you get to change your real name while you cannot change your email/password… Given the capriciousness of cloud providers and the likelihood of people changing ISP (seriously, is there anybody here that still trusts TalkTalk?), it would make much more sense to leave the name alone and change the email/password…

is there anybody here that still trusts TalkTalk?

Never did, but the buy out transfer sequence that dumped me in their clutches had me spending much time extracting me from said clutches. Long saga taking 3 times as many weeks as it should be days to obtain the move code…

(i can move to a different post if you want to respond again) probably so, but i am not allowed. this worked though for the !blocks program: use settype in a task window to change it !run file to obey type FEB (i think) and !runimage to BASIC type FFB (i think). ’’*show’’ lists variables and the three character codes for different file types. and it launched!

The site was assembled several years ago from numerous different Rails components each providing aspects of the engine – forum, bug tracker, CMS, photos, wiki, CVS viewer, SVN viewer… It’s a giant site in terms of technical back-end complexity so writing it by hand would be out of the question.

In order to avoid having to log into each separately and with the components predating widespread of SSO systems like CAS, OAuth or OpenID – and most of those require heavy duty JavaScript anyway due to poor front-end implementations – I had to roll my own, hence Hub. Your Hub account ID is pushed via cookie into the secondary applications which have a bespoke hook which translates the Hub user details from a DRb backend information server into a locally stored clone user record in the target application. It’s not technically feasible to have the two sync, so it’s only a log out/in cycle which might cause DRb re-read in a target application and even that’s not too reliable.

The reason we lock your e-mail address is that it’s the only available common primary key across all of the independent application components, which have their own isolated databases, schema and IDs. If you changed it, you’d decouple from all previous activity on the site irrevocably. In short – it’s no different from opening a new account, so just do that.