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Slashback: SmoothWall, Gopher, Be

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the catching-up dept.

Slashback tonight on the slipping of Be through the fingers of Palm, further squashing of ZeoSync, the age of gophers, the invention of everyone's favorite electric-powered pronoun, and more -- just read on.

But can you backtrack through a google cache? pointym5 writes "Checked out the ZeoSync web site lately? Remember all those PhDs on the scientific staff? Well, like I'm sure others did, I sent e-mail to a few of them expressing interest in more technical details. All that I contacted responded with absolute disclaimers of any relationship whatsoever with ZeoSync. This morning I note that most names are gone from the 'org chart' and the scientific team list. There are only five left, including Dr. Piotr Blass, 'developer of one of the world's first web sites.' Wow!"

How smooth is smooth? juct writes: "I appreciate it, that Slashdot gave the SmoothWall Team an opportunity to answer to the concerns in my review of their firewall. But it is full of errors and might leave a wrong feeling of security. So I invite everybody to my Tour on SmoothWall where you can judge for yourself."

Whispered words of wisdom, 'Let it be.' Sander van Dragt writes: "Many BeOS news lately. Not all so good for the BeOS community though. BeUnited, the organization which tried to license BeOS from Palm, has received today a final answer from Palm: '...we have made a firm decision NOT to license any part of this technology other than that which we incorporate into the Palm OS.' It is already known that the new 32-bit PalmOS will feature some elements of the Be technology, but that OS is built for PDAs, not for the desktop."

You can read that letter and the rest of the article on OS news.

And take this as you will -- An Anonymous Coward writes: "osnews.com is reporting that there is a new version of BeOS on the way... A German company called 'yellowTab' is said to be ready to ship a new version of BeOS (Just when everyone thought it was dead, and the final shovel full of dirt laid on top), get the full article here ... Hrm, I sure liked BeOS, I hope this one works out."

Dig, my brethren -- the Gopher Palace is almost complete! SuperguyA1 writes "Lwn is reporting that the gopher team has done it again with a 3.0 release marking Gopher's 10th anniversary. Happy birthday gopher. Thanks for helping me find all the muds I wasted so much time in college on:)"

"Bad connection, say again, you invented WHAT?" mi writes: "Yahoo! reports a potential problem, the Segway Scooter may have in Japan -- a Japanese robotics professor seems to have a patent on something very very similar since 1996. On the other hand, the USPTO knew about, when granting the patent to Segway's Dean Kamen, but still found Mr. Kamen's invention worthy of a patent in 1999. My favorite is the Kazuo Yamafuji's words: 'I would hand over my patent for one dollar if Mr. Kamen admitted that we were first.' Indeed, he just sat on the invention for 15 years."

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  1. Gopher's Alive! by Tattva · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let us dump this web silliness and return to the age of ftp and telnet.

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    personal attacks hurt, especially when deserved
    1. Re:Gopher's Alive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I agree. My packet sniffers haven't been catching anything lately with all this god damned encryption. Between SSL, SSH, secure POP and IMAP, etc. I can't get any accoutz anymore. I'm going to have to go back to paying for internet access! :-(

  2. Compression by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Remember all those PhDs on the scientific staff? ... There are only five left

    The others didn't leave, they were simply compressed down to only 5 people using their revolutionary compression algorithm.
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    "People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
  3. Re:gopher (probably slightly off topic( by Tattva · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you ever read Slashdot at -1 you will know that ASCII pr0n is alive and well, thank you very much.

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    personal attacks hurt, especially when deserved
  4. Old Internet Irony by Da+Penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have recently become quite interested in Gopher and I got to reading "The Whole Internet" which was basically the first internet book. When I got to the chapter on Gopher, it also mentioned the "Web" and said that:

    "Admittedly, Web servers and hypertext editors are scarce; but the potential here makes the World-Wide Web one of the most interesting new tools on the Internet."

    Oh how the tables have turned.

  5. Re:hrm. by jeffehobbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    "you're" is a contraction of the words "you are".

    "your" is an adjective, and generally connotes possession of something.

    neener, neener...

    neener.

    ~jeff

  6. Re:[OT] archie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes: Jughead.

  7. Re:Will we finally have free Bono? by yerricde · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that Be has gone chapter 11, can I finally get a free copy _FULL_ of Be?

    Yes. In ninety-five years.

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    Will I retire or break 10K?
  8. Re:BeOS as Embedded OS by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    WARNING: blind zealot-like advocacy ahead!

    Too bad. [BeOS is] the perfect answer for those Mac people who hate PCs.

    Yeah, it's got the same dearth of available software as the Mac, but it runs on x86 hardware! Splendid!

    Honestly, I would imagine the perfect answer for Mac people who hate PCs would be... a Mac?

  9. Re:OT: Re:Announcement *on* Gopher by Ozx · · Score: 0, Funny

    Apparently the usage of "it's" and "its" aren't important enough for your retarded ass to learn...

    I'll keep in mind that I should only use them with reasonably literate folks, or whatever fucking group of people ironically retarded 2000+ posts/day dotters think are worthy of such an honor...