Pine A64

a lot of my “RISC OS time” is actually spent writing copy for the Wakefield Club’s monthly4 newsletter. Over the past twelve months we’ve published 116 A5 pages of material, but from a Club of 70 or so RISC OS users, that material represented only nine authors. Worse still, 94% of the content was written by just four people, and I wrote (or ghost wrote) around two thirds of the total. Yet people ask why I’ve not had any new software to demonstrate at shows since the end of 2014!

Yes, I’m pretty much in a similar position. Development has slowed to a crawl¹ – and writing stuff for RISCOSitory is a notable draw on my time.

Prompted by your post I’ve just looked at 2015’s posts on the site. I make it 155 posts, of which 41 were edit jobs, which appear as the ‘announcement’ format posts – the editing being to fix any obvious typos/spelling mistakes, add some formatting where it helps, and inline the links, and in the odd case add a !ReadMe underneath with some comment of my own. (And most of those are in the run up to a show.) These are pretty much the equivalent of:

Wearing my WROCC Editor’s hat, it’s often easier to correct an article written by someone else for technical accuracy than it is to write the same thing from scratch, and I’d imagine that’s true of most editors, manual writers and the like.

Other draws on my time aside, I expected to receive some bug reports in the latter half of 2015, and if so would have tried to set aside some time to look into them. Specifically, ZeroPain reports – but I’ve received none. Is that a good thing? Or is it just a sign that nobody’s using my software? :|

¹ Actually, I have done some RISC OS development work – just not on stuff that’ll ever be released; internal tools for processing client data, often a single program to process specific data, that kind of thing. (Yes, I tend to do that on RISC OS!)

Everybody’s using RISC OS 5.22 :)

I’m not. I’m using 5.21.

I ModMyROM and haven’t had the time to download the 5.23 archive, unpack it, mod it, and build a ROM from it.

Funny. That’s what this thread is about. Lacking time. ;-)

Indeed. I love my Pi, but I don’t really care that it doesn’t run everything I can run on the Mac. It runs things I don’t have for the Mac, and it runs my own little apps that I can write easily that would be a right pain to write for the Mac (impossible for me, in fact).

Give us one good reason why we shouldn’t ban you for being a spam bot.

Ouch!

Thing is – we can all name our favourite pet ARM board with lots of desirable features, but the problem is twofold. Firstly developer time is limited, RISC OS is simply not going to appear on every device. Secondly and more importantly many ARM devices have extremely useless documentation, certainly not enough detail to get an operating system running.
Basically, if you want it do it yourself and if you can’t don’t hassle the developers!

My Pi does stuff my PC doesn’t, and vice versa, so I use both. :-)

Indeed. I love my Pi, but I don’t really care that it doesn’t run everything I can run on the Mac. It runs things I don’t have for the Mac, and it runs my own little apps that I can write easily that would be a right pain to write for the Mac (impossible for me, in fact).

That describes me exactly.

I’m running 5.21 most of the time, too. Without swapping my SD card I don’t know – can’t remember – what exactly I’m running on the other card. The 5.21 runs everything, but is limited to 1900×1200; the other one, more recent build, does 3840×2160 but I’ve not yet got round to getting everything running on it that runs on the 5.21 (if indeed it’s possible). In particular, Netsurf doesn’t run on my other card. I know this is fixable, but I’ve not got round to it – which means to transfer files from it I save them to the hard drive, switch SD cards, and then Netsurf email them to myself to pick up on the Mac. Fortunately most of what I want to do on the Pi is quite happy at 1900×1200 – but !Draw at 3840×2160 is rather excellent…

Indeed. I love my Pi, but I don’t really care that it doesn’t run everything I can run on the Mac. It runs things I don’t have for the Mac, and it runs my own little apps that I can write easily that would be a right pain to write for the Mac (impossible for me, in fact).

That describes me exactly.

That’s because you posted the exact same thing here

Note that many posts have had phrases replaced with links to graperain’s website. Do not let the mimic fool you!

Also note that there’s one post of Alex’s that I haven’t listed above, this one – it doesn’t appear to be a copy of another post from the forums but it is directly after another graperain spam post.

You catch him/it :)

Damn. That’s… kind of impressive actually. I wonder if that’s a machine or a peanut-fed keyboard monkey?¹

Looks like the evidence is pretty compelling for stamping on the user account.

(c’mon, surely the “Nota” gave it away)

I did notice that, and thought “Oh, another Frenchie”.
Then I looked at the name and thought “Jeez”, that could pretty much be either gender and either way around. :-)

¹ Please please please Alex Paul, before you get shown the door, quote that line!²

² I have a perverse sense of humour.

Damn. That’s… kind of impressive actually. I wonder if that’s a machine or a peanut-fed keyboard monkey?

I’d suggest peanuts. The multiple “valid” posts are probably to set a profile of non-spam for the account. This is often required for a forum to accept mass posting or posting without scrutiny of the forum admin.

Any way for someone to disable the account and send a mail suggesting they justify the re-enable or go away?

His account, and most of his postings, have been deleted.

That’s because you posted the exact same thing here

ROFL

I shouldn’t be going senile at 67, but you know, I hadn’t realized…