Notices for 7th December 2022 to 13th April 2021
Wednesday, 7th December 2022
A long time ago, there was the Cy/VOS wiki, within which I wrote copious illustrated notes on operating system design. It looks like the server that hosted it died around 2007, although I thought it lasted a bit longer than that. I don’t anticipate ever writing that amount of material again, but I have decided to document a few ideas under the new OS section. No illustrations at present, and no huge amount of detail, but it is nice to have the information out in the open again. I have no pretences that it will ever be used by anyone as it’s just too late now to try to recapture the lost world of the desktop operating system, but maybe the ideas will help someone with something nonetheless.
The existing RISC OS GUI is also an important read with regards interface design.
Sunday, 11th July 2021
Three software updates today:
- A new toy, Explorer Restart, to restart Explorer and re-open all the folder windows that were opened prior to the restart
- 7-ade version 1.2 brings the ability to touch the modified timestamp on the outermost item as well as inherit from [Defaults] into rules
- PDF Page Extract 1.0.1 just corrects a mistake where it still only preserved the most recent 10 authors instead of the intended 20
Tuesday, 13th April 2021
Another throwaway utility in case anyone ever finds some kind of use for it … PDF Page Extract. Something created last year to work around limitations in Tracker PDF-XChange Editor.