My name is Jacques Francois Mostert. I live in Capetown, South Africa.

Please help me sell my encryption algorithm.

Please contact me on my email address.

jacques@h2tech.co.za

Thank you for your big contribution to the open-source community.

Kind Regards,
Jacques Mostert.

Funny you should mention human-meaningful names. When I was young, at about the same age as you, there were 3 things I thought were great; 1.Transformers, 2.My bicycle and 3.my Amiga. You might think; oh boy, a fundAmigalist. No no, don’t worry it’s not THAT bad. Although I do miss one thing; transparancy.

I think,when you fool around with computers, even when you’re not really into computers, you try to get an idea of how to get some controle. You sniff around the system for some clue to your query or quirk in the OS. Trying to get a feeling why things happen, happen as they happen. Because people get frustrated when things happen when it does not fit into their idea of how something should work (a mental model as they say) For example, listitem or tables in Office and my stepmom…need I say more?

When I was young, and less geeky then now, I also was sniffing around my file system on my Amiga OS for some query or quirk and at on point I got it. Which was strange because when I look around on windows or linux (sorry) now, I kinda don’t. Worse is, I studied Artificial Intelligence and am a bit embarrassed about that (in my defense I just did top-level programming and didn’t really need to know what was going on at bottom-level…stop laughing)

‘Well, read about it here and here and here and this url’; I have been told, but to be honest, reading on a screen is not the favorite past time for most. When you got Amiga OS you would get a pile of little books, with well, everything. But even then you would start perhaps trying to do the following; open folder c: or root:\. In Amiga’s case it was c: and you would see the following.

C
Classes
Devs
Expansion
Fonts
L
Libs
Locale
Prefs
Rexxc
S
Storage
System
T
Tools
Trashcan
Utilities
WBStartup

See if you can guess what these things are for. The answers are on http://www.amigau.com/amigarealm/thisoldworkbench/html/towb18.html
When I get something for free, I don’t complain. I mean a free OS is the best thing since sliced bread, but I think, I could never really have the understanding of computers without my Amiga OS. Maybe what I am wondering is, if there are systems right now which are not really giving clues on how they work, how are we helping the tomorrows programmers?

Kind regards,

A concerned user.

Once it hit’s version 1.0, I’m sure there will be new GUIs that will make the use of bazaar almost as simple as working with regular directories.

I love Bazaar!