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True; and Blackberry weren't starting from scratch, either. Personally I'm kind of rooting for them without being entirely convinced; if there are enough people like me, they're pr…

It also occurred to me that with Nokia's history as a rubber manufacturer they're bound to have made rubber rafts at some point (which would indeed be called `jolla'). Or I could b…

No-one said the whole point of the phone is HTML5 apps. The reviewer thinks HTML5 apps are the future, that's all. Native Sailfish apps are Qt based; with android apps as a seconda…

That's true. But money in that micropayment sense might not be entirely insane (assuming the whole micropayment model isn't entirely insane to begin with). The idea (as I understan…

I recall recording software onto audio tape from radio broadcasts, I think it was a regular BBC radio show. (If anyone remembers I'd love a reminder of the details.)

That's interesting. As you say, it's a no-brainer. I wonder if some kind of micropayment market in functions could be pulled off... The kind of thing Ted Nelson or Jaron Lanier tal…

Used to use my own wee C prog that just passed the alert unparsed to libnotify; currently using a modified version of this far superior shell script (which I can't take any credit …

I use a FIFO to pipe alpine's new mail alert to notifyd; not sure how clever that is, but it works for me.