RISC OS News, Software and Information

About drobe.co.uk

What's the deal?
Drobe Launchpad, otherwise known as drobe.co.uk or just Drobe, is a regularly updated source of news and information for all RISC OS users. Drobe Launchpad usually takes a light hearted approach to reporting news however we hold truth and accuracy above all else.

Our readers are keen to tell us that we're arrogant, overly sarcastic, childish, irresponsible and unprofessional whilst some developers claim our editors possess "appalling" attitudes. One rival editor once commented, "Drobe's style reminds me much more of The Sun or the Daily Mail, where each perceived fact is loaded with opinion that try to manipulate the reader."

For real?
We're nice people really, all you need is a love for RISC OS and a sense of humour and we'll go out of our way to make the site interesting and informative. We don't try to be the best RISC OS portal - we are the best RISC OS portal.

Credits
Drobe is made possible by the following good people.

Editor	Chris Williams	email \| www
Server master, web code & general pap	Ian Hawkins	email \| www \| Hobby: wooot,Celebrity Spy \| Work: Save Energy Management
Writers	Martin Hansen, Nick Brown
Drobe founder	Peter Price	www
Other contributors	Many thanks to the following people who've contributed in some way, past and present: Peter Naulls, Ian Jeffray, Ian Chamberlain, Theo Markettos, Dan Shimmin, Paul Stewart, Eddie Lord, Mark Stephens, Stewart Brookes, James Carey, Mike Stubbs, Chris Johns, John "jmb" Bell, Andrew and Antony Sidwell, Jon Wright, Peter Howkins, Justin Fletcher, Robin Edwards and everyone else who's helped us put articles together, given us advice and answered our questions.
Drobe Rocket Logo	Designed by Article7
Powered by	JustForYou 2.03 and Ubuntu Linux on dustbunny
Legal	Simon Brooks
Managed by	Diodesign
Prefered bribe	Pizza

Oh please, next you'll say you have your own theme song
Say no more:

"There sits a roving reporter / Respected on IRC / Owner of copious webspace / And StrongARM RiscPC. / His site is often updated / With news both useful and new / Resources left, right and centre / Without it, what would we do?" - Toby Hunt, 2001

Read this bit
Drobe Launchpad (www.drobe.co.uk) is an independent media website, based and served from the UK. All article text and images are copyright of the Editors and individual contributors. Drobe Launchpad cannot be held responsible for the content of external websites. The views expressed by an individual in articles, features, comments or the forum are not necessarily those of Drobe Launch Pad and should be attributed solely to the individual. Comments or forum posts deemed to be defamatory or derogatory in nature may be removed by the Editors. All trademarks and copyrights mentioned on drobe.co.uk are owned by their respective companies. You will not sue, you will not sue, you will not sue.

The Drobe.co.uk editors also strive to adhere to the PCC Code of Practice.

Privacy Policy
We know that you trust us to ensure your privacy when visiting drobe.co.uk and we go to great lengths to achieve this. If you do not agree with our privacy policy, please email us your comments and consider simply not using the site.

Logging visitors: When you visit the site, we record and log which pages you visit, your IP address, your referer URL and the 'user agent' string your web browser sends. We use this information purely for monitoring traffic to the site and it will never be disclosed to any third party. The drobe.co.uk Editors and webmaster have access to this traffic information. Please note that we do publish traffic statistic summaries on the site. These generalised statistics will not reveal the activities of individual visitors. Our traffic logs are stored securely on a web server, located in a remote secure hosting facility.
Cookies: We use cookies to provide user account facilities. When you log into drobe.co.uk using your user account details, we send your web browser a 'cookie'. The cookie uniquely identifies you, as a registered drobe.co.uk user, so that when you visit the site, you have have access to features provided only for registered users. It also allows us to identify you so that we can serve drobe.co.uk pages in the format you have personally customised from your account profile settings. The cookie is persistent, in that, when you close your web browser, the cookie will stay stored on your computer so that when you next visit drobe.co.uk, you are automatically logged back in. To delete the cookie from your computer, click on the 'log out' link, which can be found at the top of each drobe.co.uk article and front page.
Additionally, when you visit drobe.co.uk, we send a cookie to your web browser which uniquely identifies you to us. You will get this cookie if you log in or not. This cookie merely allows us to ensure that people cannot abuse the voting system on the front page. You can chose to block this cookie if you wish, but this will prevent you from using the voting system. Also, the cookie expires after a few weeks. It is not used to track individual visitors' browsing habits.
Personal information: Registered users must declare a full name, a username, a password and an email address. We will never disclose your password to anyone but the owner of the email account of the email address registered when you created your account. When you post a comment on the site, you willingly disclose your username in the comment text. Your username can be used to look up your submitted full name, your registered email address, your biography, your homepage URL, your instant messaging client handles, your user account 'face' and also the comment moderation system's evaluation of your commenting and moderation history. You may choose to disclose any of these details from your account profile settings page, except your full name, user account 'face' and moderation system evaluation, which are always made public. Your private account details, that is, the ones you have not made public, will never be passed onto a third party. Your drobe.co.uk browsing activities will never be passed onto a third party. Your account details are stored securely on a database server, located in a remote secure hosting facility.
User content: Unless permission has been specifically granted by the site owners, commercial content such as for example: using the photo gallery for product or advert banners, 'anti os' images are forbidden and any such content shall be removed by the editors.
Email: Registered users can, from their profile settings page, opt in to receive emails sent from us about the site. Users can also opt in to receive emails when their comments are replied to. We will otherwise never mass mail our users. We reserve the right to contact via email an individual user if we are concerned with their user account, a comment posted by them or any other reasonable matter regarding the running of the site or what may concern public interest.

Website hosting facilities
Registered users can also host their own website from drobe.co.uk provided they accept and abide by the above terms and following extra restrictions:

You do not upload illegal, libelous or otherwise questionable content on your site {username}.drobe.co.uk.
The site has at least something to do with RISC OS.
You do not upload binary files with the intention of directly linking to those files from another site (ie: bandwidth theft).
This resource is intended for non-commercial use only, however users wishing to have commercial content hosted are welcome to email us.
The content of your drobe.co.uk hosted website is yours, not ours. We won't necessarily endorse it, agree with it or defend it. It should not be passed off as official drobe.co.uk editorial content.

If you have any questions, just drop us an email.

Creative Commons
We use a Creative Commons license for the drobe.co.uk editorial content ("The Content"). The Editor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform The Content. In return, licensees must give the original author credit. Licensees may not use The Content for commercial purposes -- unless they get the Editor's permission. The Editor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform only unaltered copies of The Content -- not derivative works based on it. [More]

Getting in touch
If you want to write an article for drobe.co.uk, feel free to get in touch and tell us what you have in mind. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know. If you wish to send us news, we welcome all and any statements, press releases and announcements. Please note that all correspondence is for publication and we reserve the right to reproduce any material sent to a drobe.co.uk email address - especially if you're trying to threaten us or we're liking what we're reading.

Last modified: Wednesday 20 Apr 2005 by Ian