E.Nigma aka The Riddler was found alive and well today after an as yet unknown man and Carmen Sandiago kiddnapped Gotham's most famous quizmaster of crime! Carges will be pressed against the man police are still searching for Carmen. "I wish they kept the bastard!!!" said Police Cominisher Gordon earlier today. Police still have not determined the reasons behind the kiddnapping.
Re:A "Free" OS from a company that is croaking
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BeOS For Linux!
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First thats the qnx demo disk your talking about,theres another name for it, crippleware. you can only run what qnx desides to allow you to run off it, it's not the whole os, it's been hacked to fit on the floppy. It's nothing new,you can get Linux and Xfree to fit on a floppy,it's been done. Overall QNX demo is very impressive, but it's not the full os, running in a real world situation, ANY attempt at an evaluation based on it's performance, would be foolish. Second, people would use be for an internet appliance because beos or beia are the same os! what runs on beos will also run on beia! developers that develop for beos will see the results of their work run on beia! internet appliances are hot right now, everybody wants a small device with internet ability in their shirt pocket! beos is very practical for this purpose. moreso than bloated/crappy wince, and linux. Yes, Linux in an internet appliance by comparison to beos is bloatware!Linux as a thinclient sucks! Linux loses a hell of a lot of it's power when redused to fit on a small handheld device. beos only gains from the translation from desktop to handheld.allready i've upgraded from beos 4.5.2 to 5 and i see how much faster beos is because it's the work on beia thats made it do more with less ram. I'm benifiting from be's adventure into the internet appliance market, i hope they go further with it! Such magnificent direction!and vision! Thirdly, about the quote about beia being too big to fit on a planned new system. Read that quote carefully, anything seem strange to you about it???? He says it's a game system! and then he bitches about it not being able to handle 8 megs for storage of the os! even if you could get an os to fit in under 20k,leaving the lions share to your games, wtf kind of games would you play on it! fucking pong????? I don't think so! The game system was to be a single purpose device not a multipurpose internet cabable micro-laptop,the kind of thing beia is truly capable of. forthly, nothing, not even windows, is as hyped as Linux nowadays! and lastly! wtf do you mean when you say a microkernel and a journaling filesystem are overrated?!?!?! no other os on earth implements these "overrated" ideas better than Be! sure their concepts that have been around a long time but until now no one had the vision to use them,and use them well!!! Your blind pal! you have no right to accuse anyone of lack of vision, get some glasses first!
Why Be is pushing Internet Appliances
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Because it can! BeOS everywhere! on my desktop! on my laptop! on my wristwatch!
First i'm a faithful loyal BeOS user, going on about 2 years now.I had previously been using Linux since 93. BeOS was cool enough that it caused me to install BeOS as my main OS for all time ( no duel booting for me , when something works stick with it all the way ) Linux and totally swear off using Linux alltogether.So naturaly when I hear of the freebe release, I think of Windows and Linux users running BeOS on top of thier OS. I assumed Linux users would grasp this concept quickly, and would understand the fundamental concepts behind reletivly simple things like,disk image files, repartitioning,boot loaders,floppy boot disks etc... It has been my experiance over these last few days, that the group of people that seem to have the most trouble grasping how to get a hold of Be and running it or just plain booting it are Linux users, the most adept at it are Windows users. Most of the posters here express true ignorance and show a total unwillingness to learn or even read more about installing freebe. I'd like to help out really,I'd like to explain about say...if your having trouble getting past lilo to boot freebe sucessfully you might try the boot floppy image, and use it to create a boot floppy. I have a feeling any help I or anyone else gives you would fall on deaf ears. Slashdot:open source,closed minds
Why go thru the hassle and risk of heavy fines and conficated expensive equipment by the police, all for a lousy pirate radio station??? Most pirate signals have a lousy signal anyway,i'd try a streaming mp3 server (running linux of course:)) before i went to a pirate radio station
I was really excited about this contest, till i got to the site only to find it's really all about spam! Shame on Slashdot for posting such garbage! I put up with the bad moderating, "first post" crap, natalie portman stuff, Little/No BeOS coverage(unless redhat is involved), but i never complained. This is tooo much!!!! Just say no to spam!!!! Sick!
I'm not one to label anybody but...
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Geeks vs. Nerds
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Nerds are people that love technology, Geeks are people that know what to do with it. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are Nerds. Linux Torvalds and Jean-Louis Gassee are Geeks. Biiiiiig difference!
Your missing the point! The first line in the article says Microsoft admits an employee was behind the incident! I seriously doubt Markoff has the kind of pull to make MS admit to this!
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E.Nigma aka The Riddler was found alive and well today after an as yet unknown man and Carmen Sandiago kiddnapped Gotham's most famous quizmaster of crime! Carges will be pressed against the man police are still searching for Carmen. "I wish they kept the bastard!!!" said Police Cominisher Gordon earlier today. Police still have not determined the reasons behind the kiddnapping.
It should have been Natilie Portman!!!!
First thats the qnx demo disk your talking about,theres another name for it, crippleware. you can only run what qnx desides to allow you to run off it, it's not the whole os, it's been hacked to fit on the floppy. It's nothing new,you can get Linux and Xfree to fit on a floppy,it's been done. Overall QNX demo is very impressive, but it's not the full os, running in a real world situation, ANY attempt at an evaluation based on it's performance, would be foolish. Second, people would use be for an internet appliance because beos or beia are the same os! what runs on beos will also run on beia! developers that develop for beos will see the results of their work run on beia! internet appliances are hot right now, everybody wants a small device with internet ability in their shirt pocket! beos is very practical for this purpose. moreso than bloated/crappy wince, and linux. Yes, Linux in an internet appliance by comparison to beos is bloatware!Linux as a thinclient sucks! Linux loses a hell of a lot of it's power when redused to fit on a small handheld device. beos only gains from the translation from desktop to handheld.allready i've upgraded from beos 4.5.2 to 5 and i see how much faster beos is because it's the work on beia thats made it do more with less ram. I'm benifiting from be's adventure into the internet appliance market, i hope they go further with it! Such magnificent direction!and vision! Thirdly, about the quote about beia being too big to fit on a planned new system. Read that quote carefully, anything seem strange to you about it???? He says it's a game system! and then he bitches about it not being able to handle 8 megs for storage of the os! even if you could get an os to fit in under 20k,leaving the lions share to your games, wtf kind of games would you play on it! fucking pong????? I don't think so! The game system was to be a single purpose device not a multipurpose internet cabable micro-laptop,the kind of thing beia is truly capable of. forthly, nothing, not even windows, is as hyped as Linux nowadays! and lastly! wtf do you mean when you say a microkernel and a journaling filesystem are overrated?!?!?! no other os on earth implements these "overrated" ideas better than Be! sure their concepts that have been around a long time but until now no one had the vision to use them,and use them well!!! Your blind pal! you have no right to accuse anyone of lack of vision, get some glasses first!
Because it can! BeOS everywhere! on my desktop! on my laptop! on my wristwatch!
First i'm a faithful loyal BeOS user, going on about 2 years now.I had previously been using Linux since 93. BeOS was cool enough that it caused me to install BeOS as my main OS for all time ( no duel booting for me , when something works stick with it all the way ) Linux and totally swear off using Linux alltogether.So naturaly when I hear of the freebe release, I think of Windows and Linux users running BeOS on top of thier OS. I assumed Linux users would grasp this concept quickly, and would understand the fundamental concepts behind reletivly simple things like ,disk image files, repartitioning,boot loaders,floppy boot disks etc... It has been my experiance over these last few days, that the group of people that seem to have the most trouble grasping how to get a hold of Be and running it or just plain booting it are Linux users, the most adept at it are Windows users. Most of the posters here express true ignorance and show a total unwillingness to learn or even read more about installing freebe. I'd like to help out really,I'd like to explain about say...if your having trouble getting past lilo to boot freebe sucessfully you might try the boot floppy image, and use it to create a boot floppy. I have a feeling any help I or anyone else gives you would fall on deaf ears. Slashdot:open source,closed minds
Why go thru the hassle and risk of heavy fines and conficated expensive equipment by the police, all for a lousy pirate radio station??? Most pirate signals have a lousy signal anyway,i'd try a streaming mp3 server (running linux of course :)) before i went to a pirate radio station
I get really pissed off at the crap slashdot shovels out and i'm labled a troll? That's it i'm outta here!
I was really excited about this contest, till i got to the site only to find it's really all about spam! Shame on Slashdot for posting such garbage! I put up with the bad moderating, "first post" crap, natalie portman stuff, Little/No BeOS coverage(unless redhat is involved), but i never complained. This is tooo much!!!! Just say no to spam!!!! Sick!
Nerds are people that love technology, Geeks are people that know what to do with it. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are Nerds. Linux Torvalds and Jean-Louis Gassee are Geeks. Biiiiiig difference!
Your missing the point! The first line in the article says Microsoft admits an employee was behind the incident! I seriously doubt Markoff has the kind of pull to make MS admit to this!