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New goodies on drobe.co.uk

Published: 24th Apr 2003, 23:19:24GMT Source: drobe.co.uk
By Chris Williams

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Event diary and more

The drobe.co.uk behind-the-scenes team have been busy bees recently and you may have noticed the sudden appearance of various goodies on the left menu section. We've decided to post this as a news item because the changes are probably useful to RISC OS users generally.

Well anyway, here's what's been added recently:

Event diary: This is a handy online calendar of RISC OS events happening throughout the year. Each event is labelled with a date, catagory, description and contact details for the organisers. The calendar is searchable and indexed. We'll list all major events and you can also submit details of other events too if you think we've overlooked something.
FTP archives: We're mirroring roughly 14GB of RISC OS software and related websites and it's available via HTTP and now FTP.
Reference material: Serving you schematics of older Acorn hardware, technical reference manuals for the RiscPC and other Acorn computers plus a collection of photos.
Online chat: Talk and discuss in real time with other drobe.co.uk readers.

This is on top of the Forums, article comments, new FAQ section, Wallpaper, Newsgroups and comprehensive search facilities absorbed from AcornSearch.

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tim_firmager 26/4/03 8:20PM	YAY - go drobe
quatermass 26/4/03 11:40PM	Funny, I don't remember giving Drobe permission to copy my Acorn Cybervillage web site? Did they also ask the people using the other sections on this site too? You should know better Drobe, after all you guys use the (c) yourself. Can I sue? If you're going to 'archive' why not archive something like www.quantumsoft.co.uk? Don't Drobe know there is Megabytes of of useful files on that site? I'll expect an email very soon lads.
monkeyson 26/4/03 11:51PM	The Drobe backlash has started! fight! fight! fight!
piemmm 27/4/03 12:28AM	The copyrights on your archived copy of the cybervillages are all perfectly preserved. Oh, dear. There appears to be a much larger copy of Cybervillage on archive.org - perhaps you should sue them as well. [Link: web.archive.org] Just look at that! -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
piemmm 27/4/03 12:33AM	FINISHED --00:32:45-- Downloaded: 65,240,354 bytes in 830 files Cheers for the quantumsoft site pointer - missed that one! Now been added to the Historical archives section. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
piemmm 27/4/03 12:38AM	Feel free to email us with any problems/concerns you have with copyright. Drobe respects copyright (as with us asking AcornUser permission to republish old AU mags), and the Historical archives section was created as we saw no copyright issues with it. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
nex 27/4/03 12:43AM	i'm a cyber copyright punk ooh yea
arenaman 27/4/03 3:53AM	Web sites are cached and archived all over the world on numerous servers. It's part of how the Web works, so Drobe and other sites making deliberate archives can hardly be deemed to break any copyright. -- Michael Stubbs, Leeds
nunfetishist 27/4/03 12:34PM	Look at the bright side - having mirrors means less of your bandwidth gets eaten.
piemmm 27/4/03 1:18PM	It's not a mirror. They're archives. Mirrors get updated frequently, these don't. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
piemmm 27/4/03 1:18PM	It's not a mirror. They're archives. Mirrors get updated frequently, these don't. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
piemmm 27/4/03 1:19PM	Cool. Clicking submit twice rocks -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai)
nunfetishist 27/4/03 3:22PM	Same difference.
monkeyson 27/4/03 4:52PM	The second post is an archive of the first! Or is it a mirror?