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yellowTab Announces Complete BeOS/Zeta Systems
Allman writes "The return of the BeOS? Seems like Bernd Korz is delivering what he had promised (and more). After all these years it seems that yellowTab ("the new BeOS company") is finally ready to release and sell new BeOS-based products. Surprisingly, they're not only selling software, but in some way following the footsteps of Be Inc. by also selling hardware - will these things eventually become the new Be Box-es? Hehe.. who knows? From their website: yellowTab is proud to announce the "Complete Zeta Solution". Both in laptop and desktop forms, yellowTab will sell, to Europe only, complete and compatible systems. All systems come with a 2 year Warranty included.""
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IAAL
third pr0st!
Well, well, so you are interested about FF? There is so much to say
that it might be difficult to arrange all my thoughts but I will try.
If you are still reading this you might just happen to have a
subscription to one of their sites, be interested about the company,
or just curious. If your reason is the first one mentioned, I suggest
you keep reading and maybe even tell others about what you may have
discovered.
Some background info first. FF was established in 1996 by Andrew
Conru. The network of his sites is about a dozen aimed at different
markets. These websites are basically personal adds on the internet.
They offer free accounts, however these have great limitations. Paying
members on the other hand have more abilities, and the more you pay
the more you can do. Well that's not too bad you might say, not many
things are free in this world. But there are so many troubles behind
company that your money could be better spent somewhere else. I would
have to say that most of the problems this company has begin with the
owner himself Andrew.
The websites were built on very poor code to start off with and for
the longest time they just implemented patch, after patch. Sometimes
doing more damage than good. Did you ever emailed or call FF when
something was wrong and were just told " O were are simply updating
the website, they will be up in just a few minutes." The trouble here
arises from the fact that Andrew has always been the head of the
programming department, and for some reason or another he has to touch
everything that other programmers have worked on.
Another issue that the sites usually have is that they are very slow
and unstable, even on DSL, and CABLE connections. Well, you might be
surprised to know that the sites for the longest time have been hosted
on basically home made computers. A high school kid could go to Fry's
and buy all the stuff he needs to build a computer that FF uses to
host its websites. Just imagine what kind of computers the rest of the
company has to use on a daily basis for their work, especially
Customer Service. I'm talking about 586 machines or Pentium 1 and 2
machines.
Have you ever had a "Corrupt Profile" on any of the FF sites?
Sometimes CS can restore them and sometimes they can't. When they are
not able to, it usually means that Andrew turned off this ability and
CS can't do anything about it. But why does the corruption occur? Well
most of the time it's because the computer hosting the sites runs our
of memory or disk space. It's that simple. If you are confused let me
elaborate. When you create an account the information gets written
into the hard drive. However, when you use your account the
information gets transferred to the RAM for faster access of the
information, and when you log off the info goes back to the hard
drive. But if the computer runs out of hard disk space it has nowhere
to go and Poof!!! You got a corrupt profile. This was their problem
for a while, later on they had another massive rash or corrupt
profiles due to poor implementation new security Andrew wanted. I
won't bore you with the technical details, however in that case he had
no choice but to let CS restore profiles because it was such a massive
issue. However, I know for a fact that when CS was not allowed to
restore profiles it was because the Andrew wanted people to create new
ones with new email addresses just so that they could sell that new
email address, and because they wanted to claim more listings.
Have you ever been really frustrated with the Billing or Customer
Service department? I know I have. There's basically a bunch of dumb
asses in both departments. Specially the ones who run the show, the
promote people who are not qualified for the positions and they can
control them with money. The rest are just as shady as Andrew and
don't have a problem working for corrupt company. But to be
Be...OS
More like,
Be a Wankmeister
Hahahahahahaha Suckers!
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Why the heck is the parent "redundant"? "flame-bait", "troll", or "offtopic" I could understand, but "redundant"? Is Europe that unimportant?