I wouldn't say that all the development hours have been wasted. While you can argue that releasing the source would provide for quicker adoption of Be features by other OSes, the functionality and concepts that Be handled correctly can still be emulated. Now, more than ever, OS developers should be interested in adopting ideas found in Be OS in order to woo Be users looking for a new platform.
When I woke up this morning I woke my PowerBook G4
to see if service was still up. The flakey AirPort wasn't on, so I went to my desktop machine to test with it. I got the page with instructions to move to the new service and made it happen. So the desktop machine was happy.
Then I went back to the PB and AirPort was up again, got the same page with instructions, but have had no luck whatsoever getting it online period. I've tried to use the base station for routing, tried plugging the PB in and not using wireless, tried everything in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, even trying the configurator software in 9. No dice.
With @home I had bought another IP to share the connection using a hub. Now I can't even get my other machine on alone. What's going on and what could I try? The tech supports have only been able to tell me they're in the process of migrating me over, but I don't see a magical fix coming for this problem. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
I'm not going to rant about my opinion on this subject, but there is one thing to keep in mind. Sega has a new program with the Dreamcast where you can pay a small-ish fee and download Genesis and TurboGrafx games to your Dreamcast and play them there. This might only be in Japan, but it would be a whole lot less appealing if you could just as easily download the game for free and keep it forever.
I know there is probably a whole dramatic story behind this, but Xerox probably didn't sue Apple because Apple paid them to look at their GUI project. If someone else knows more I'd be happy to see the whole story behind all this.
The company that makes FireWire HDs for Macs is VST Technologies. They make a variety of FireWire drives colored bright red and yellow, and a FireWire Zip. The drives are as big as 37 gigs, but they come at a steep premium as I believe VST one of a limited amount of FW drive makers, along with LaCie, and maybe Sony (I know they have a FireWire CD-R). VST is also making this very cool product that is like a little tower that you can plug a bunch of drives in, and a bottom slot that can hold a PowerBook battery to power them all portably. I think FireWire is just beginning to bloom and will become quite standard soon enough, Linux support for FireWire will only strengthen FireWire's future.
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I wouldn't say that all the development hours have been wasted. While you can argue that releasing the source would provide for quicker adoption of Be features by other OSes, the functionality and concepts that Be handled correctly can still be emulated. Now, more than ever, OS developers should be interested in adopting ideas found in Be OS in order to woo Be users looking for a new platform.
When I woke up this morning I woke my PowerBook G4
to see if service was still up. The flakey AirPort wasn't on, so I went to my desktop machine to test with it. I got the page with instructions to move to the new service and made it happen. So the desktop machine was happy.
Then I went back to the PB and AirPort was up again, got the same page with instructions, but have had no luck whatsoever getting it online period. I've tried to use the base station for routing, tried plugging the PB in and not using wireless, tried everything in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, even trying the configurator software in 9. No dice.
With @home I had bought another IP to share the connection using a hub. Now I can't even get my other machine on alone. What's going on and what could I try? The tech supports have only been able to tell me they're in the process of migrating me over, but I don't see a magical fix coming for this problem. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
I know there is probably a whole dramatic story behind this, but Xerox probably didn't sue Apple because Apple paid them to look at their GUI project. If someone else knows more I'd be happy to see the whole story behind all this.
The company that makes FireWire HDs for Macs is VST Technologies. They make a variety of FireWire drives colored bright red and yellow, and a FireWire Zip. The drives are as big as 37 gigs, but they come at a steep premium as I believe VST one of a limited amount of FW drive makers, along with LaCie, and maybe Sony (I know they have a FireWire CD-R). VST is also making this very cool product that is like a little tower that you can plug a bunch of drives in, and a bottom slot that can hold a PowerBook battery to power them all portably. I think FireWire is just beginning to bloom and will become quite standard soon enough, Linux support for FireWire will only strengthen FireWire's future.