| |
Wakefield Show this Weekend |
| |
This is a long thread. Click here to view the threaded list. |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114096, posted by trevj at 15:09, 23/4/2010 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
I wonder if the AA will be signing it as the RISCO OS show again?  |
| |
 [ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jason Togneri |
Message #114097, posted by filecore at 16:10, 23/4/2010, in reply to message #114096 |
Posts: 3868
|
Considering how many people have heard of it in this day and age (and that's a lot fewer than have vague memories of "Acorn" and "Archimedes" from school), I think the AA did quite well, actually. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Bryan Hogan |
Message #114098, posted by helpful at 18:26, 23/4/2010, in reply to message #114097 |
Member
Posts: 255
|
The opening times are wrong on this article - it says 10am - 4.30pm on the show website.
Because of the engineering works on the trains between London and Wakefield, I've come up on Friday and I'm now sitting in my room in the Cedar Court Hotel, which seems to be right under the new location of the show! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Martin Bazley |
Message #114101, posted by swirlythingy at 21:10, 23/4/2010, in reply to message #114096 |
Posts: 460
|
Can we expect a Drobe-style write-up of the show on here after it happens for those of us who can't attend? It looks like being an interesting one! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #114102, posted by monkeyson2 at 21:26, 23/4/2010, in reply to message #114101 |
 Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
Can we expect a Drobe-style write-up of the show on here after it happens for those of us who can't attend? It looks like being an interesting one! Drobe style? Why not Iconbar style?
EDIT: found another URL that the forum code can't parse correctly 
[Edited by monkeyson2 at 22:27, 23/4/2010] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Rob Kendrick |
Message #114103, posted by nunfetishist at 23:58, 23/4/2010, in reply to message #114102 |
 Today's phish is trout a la creme.
Posts: 525
|
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD WHY AM I NOT IN BED YET? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #114107, posted by monkeyson2 at 12:20, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114103 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
I'm live tweeting from the show - http://twitter.com/monkeyson |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jason Togneri |
Message #114108, posted by filecore at 12:34, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114107 |
Posts: 3868
|
I'm live tweeting from the show - http://twitter.com/monkeyson A RISC OS show full of twits? Surely not. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Chris Williams |
Message #114109, posted by diodesign at 14:48, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114107 |
 The Opposition
Posts: 269
|
I'm live tweeting from the show - http://twitter.com/monkeyson Cheers for making me giggle and rage at the same time with tweets like these...
#wakey10 Paul Middleton is showing off all the ways you can display a desktop wallpaper - stretch, fit, tile etc.
#wakey10 Draw application doesn't have user interface for the back end charting facility. Instead we are shown how to resize a rectangle.
#wakey10 That's it. The grand finale was a demo of keyboard navigation in the Filer and failing play an incompatible MPEG. *** edit: rant snipped. tldr: Nice to see some stuff happening betwixt utter madness.
[Edited by diodesign at 15:53, 24/4/2010] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Simon Willcocks |
Message #114110, posted by Stoppers at 15:16, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114109 |
Member
Posts: 302
|
Aw, I missed it! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
VinceH |
Message #114112, posted by VincceH at 16:18, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114108 |
 Lowering the tone since the dawn of time
Posts: 1600
|
I'm live tweeting from the show - http://twitter.com/monkeyson A RISC OS show full of twits? Surely not.
It's worse than that - there were a load of mugs on the RISC OS Open Ltd stand! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #114113, posted by monkeyson2 at 18:30, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114112 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
My twitter feed will probably get filled with me whinging about the onscreen graphics during Doctor Who, so search for the #wakey10 tag instead: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wakey10 |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114114, posted by trevj at 19:31, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114107 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
I'm live tweeting from the show - http://twitter.com/monkeyson
#wakey10 ROOL are pleasantly surprised that there are new people interested in RISC OS. (Not lapsed ex-Acorn types - new ones!) Wow! When was the last time this happened?  |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114115, posted by trevj at 19:37, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114112 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
It's worse than that - there were a load of mugs on the RISC OS Open Ltd stand! That's not so bad. It confirms (as if we needed to know) that the mugs were neither behind the stand nor in front of it |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jason Togneri |
Message #114116, posted by filecore at 19:55, 24/4/2010, in reply to message #114114 |
Posts: 3868
|
#wakey10 ROOL are pleasantly surprised that there are new people interested in RISC OS. (Not lapsed ex-Acorn types - new ones!) Wow! When was the last time this happened?
Um... when the Beagleboard was released? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
VinceH |
Message #114127, posted by VincceH at 15:17, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114116 |
Lowering the tone since the dawn of time
Posts: 1600
|
I now understand why RISCOS Ltd's corporate colour is green, in that AFAICR Paul Middleton always wears a green t-shirt at shows. The reason is here:
(adopts a terrible Irish accent and raises voice an octave or two)
Paul Middleton is a wee little leprechaun. Aww... |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114130, posted by trevj at 16:55, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114116 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
Um... when the Beagleboard was released? Possibly... not much evidence here though. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jason Togneri |
Message #114131, posted by filecore at 17:08, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114130 |
Posts: 3868
|
RISC OS people didn't join the Beagleboard community; Beagleboard people joined the RISC OS community. You're searching in the wrong place (and more specifically, RISC OS-related IRC channels have been abuzz with RO/BB talk). |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114134, posted by trevj at 18:56, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114131 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
RISC OS people didn't join the Beagleboard community Which is why I didn't search under c.s.a.*.
Beagleboard people joined the RISC OS community. You're searching in the wrong place Perhaps there are online forums of BeagleBoard users where they're excited by the prospect of trying RISC OS - if so I've missed them or forgotten about them. (And the Touch Book forums don't show much new RO interest to date either.)
(and more specifically, RISC OS-related IRC channels have been abuzz with RO/BB talk). I've not been on IRC for about 15 years so am not really in a position to comment... but even so, following your argument, is there a lot of RO talk on the BB channel? Cheers anyway - just happy to learn of the news really. Hope you are too! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #114135, posted by monkeyson2 at 19:11, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114134 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
It will probably only be one or two users and they may have engaged in private correspondence rather than ask on a public forum. Let's not scare them off by having an argument about whether they exist or not. 
Anyway - here's a new article with my photos and tweets from the show:
http://www.iconbar.com/articles/Wakefield_2010_photos_and_tweets/index1257.html |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jason Togneri |
Message #114137, posted by filecore at 20:12, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114134 |
Posts: 3868
|
following your argument, is there a lot of RO talk on the BB channel? Following my argument, I can say that yes, there is a lot of talk about RISC OS snd the Beagleboard. Mosts of it happens on IRCnet/#riscos. As for talk on the Beagleboard channels - why are you so obsessed with it that way round? I couldn't possibly comment, since I'm a RISC OS user and not a Beagleboard user, and therefore don't frequent their IRC channels or forums. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Eric Rucker |
Message #114138, posted by bhtooefr at 20:37, 25/4/2010, in reply to message #114137 |
Member
Posts: 337
|
What he's asking is whether RO is being discussed in other communities than the RO community, I believe.
If it's being discussed extensively in other communities, that means it's a potential source of new users. RO users discussing Beagleboards means interest in new hardware, but no new users. Beagleboard users discussing RO may mean new users have interest in playing with the OS.
Anecdote is not the singular of data, but I do know someone who is getting a Beagleboard, and plans to run RISC OS on it (as well as Linux,) to play with the OS. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114139, posted by trevj at 01:33, 26/4/2010, in reply to message #114138 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
What he's asking is whether RO is being discussed in other communities than the RO community, I believe. Indeed. (Not lapsed ex-Acorn types - new ones!)
Let's not scare them off by having an argument about whether they exist or not. Couldn't agree more. Please come back, new users. We'll try to bicker no more!
I do know someone who is getting a Beagleboard, and plans to run RISC OS on it (as well as Linux,) to play with the OS. More good news! How long do you think it'll be before there's a RISC OS show in the US?  |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Eric Rucker |
Message #114140, posted by bhtooefr at 02:19, 26/4/2010, in reply to message #114139 |
Member
Posts: 337
|
I suspect that if there is one, it'll be more like hijacking someone else's event that everyone was going to go to anyway. 
(And, I highly doubt there'll be the critical mass to actually have such an event. More like a couple of RISC OS users that happen to be in the same area at the same time meeting up. The US is pretty big, and there's not many active users at all. )
[Edited by bhtooefr at 03:35, 26/4/2010] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
van Engelen Thomas |
Message #114148, posted by highlandcattle at 08:58, 27/4/2010, in reply to message #114130 |
Member
Posts: 78
|
Um... when the Beagleboard was released? Possibly... not much evidence here though.
That is because you have typed RISC OS wrong. It must be with all capitals!!!! The devil wil get you now!
[Edited by highlandcattle at 09:59, 27/4/2010] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114149, posted by trevj at 09:07, 27/4/2010, in reply to message #114148 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
That is because you have typed RISC OS wrong. It must be with all capitals!!!! The devil wil get you now! Ah - excuse me... I must've been getting confused with the ROOL forum search! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
van Engelen Thomas |
Message #114151, posted by highlandcattle at 10:37, 27/4/2010, in reply to message #114149 |
Member
Posts: 78
|
Touché
By the way I've finally got network going on my IGEPv2 board and I'm typing this straight from that. Almost turning into a fully usable computer... |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Trevor Johnson |
Message #114164, posted by trevj at 20:27, 28/4/2010, in reply to message #114151 |
Member
Posts: 660
|
By the way I've finally got network going on my IGEPv2 board and I'm typing this straight from that. Almost turning into a fully usable computer... Just got the network going on my BeagleBoard! 
 RISC OS rules! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
van Engelen Thomas |
Message #114212, posted by highlandcattle at 06:52, 30/4/2010, in reply to message #114164 |
Member
Posts: 78
|
Hooray! |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Graham Thurlwell |
Message #114243, posted by Jades at 21:10, 2/5/2010, in reply to message #114212 |
Member
Posts: 12
|
To my considerable annoyance, my family's Omega chose /this/ weekend for its hard drive to enter the Disc Error 10 Spiral of Death rather than a few days before the Show. 
Luckily, I installed a network card in it several months ago and I'm currently ShareFSing the files over to my A9. I managed to semi-fix the drive with DiscKnight (money well spent, BTW) and got to the desktop to do the transfer but on this session I've only managed to get to the command prompt and had to set networking up via the command line.
New drive time, methinks. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
| Pages (2): 1
> >|
|
The fifteenth Wakefield Show will take place this weekend in, er, Wakefield. It runs from 10.30am to 4pm this Saturday, and a ticket will set you back a fiver (free for children).
