A long time ago (1996 to be exact) Be actually made their own computers. The BeBox was a blue, stately-looking computer that ran dual PowerPC 66MHz procs (and later dual 133). The most notable feature of the BeBox was that the front has two Greco-romanesqe columns jutting out that featured vertical LED's that bounced up and down to indicate each CPU's load...aka "Das Blinkenlights." The back of the computer was loaded with all sorts of ports, serial, parallel, SCSI, MIDI and the GeekPort, which is some type of analog interface for hobbyists.
When PC's became more affordable and proliferated throughout the market, Be decided to stop making the BeBox.
The code was sold to Palm. Be has only retained some bits of hardware, furniture and the right to sue M$ in an antitrust lawsuit. Some people are suggesting that Be's massive trading volume last week is a sign of the (hopeful) lawsuit annoucement coming up.
I emailed the auction company to find out if the items were going to also be auctioned online or just at the physical location. They haven't written me back yet...anybody here know?
...or BWoE. I suspect there would be a number of spikes in the connection.
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/me raises his hand. I'll let my secretary develop RSI instead of me, thank you very much. Also, there's something about long, handwritten letters that the women in your life tend to appreciate.
Then let me tell you about my Christmas gift giving experience this year. A couple months ago my parents said they'd get my fiance and me a coffee table for our new apartment for Christmas. We'd have to go with them and pick it out. It was actually in our apt a week or so before xmas. OK, fine and understandable because it's a big ticket piece of furniture.
Then, my mom goes "well, we got you the coffee table but we want to get you some other stuff so we have some presents to give you on Christmas. why don't you and your fiance pick up about 10 things you'd like and we'll give them to you."
So what we have here is not a holiday reduced to an exchange of gifts, but an exchange of money among checking accounts. The upside is that I got SimCity 3000 for Linux ($10 at EB, btw), but the downside is that the whole thing rather plays down the spirit of giving. In past years I've always been asked to make a list of things I might want because my wish list is a moving target, but at least it was just a list.
Next year I'm going to let my parents fly solo on buying my Christmas presents. I won't even make any suggestions or hints. So I'll probably be getting a lot of clothes next year.
IIRC, RipTerm worked by you first downloading the BBS's package of Rip graphics into your system. So, essentially, all of the RipTerm graphics were cached in your computer and the BBS made reference to them.
Does anyone care to share their experiences using KDE as the desktop environment and WindowMaker as the window manager? For example, how is it done and what visual elements of each show up on the screen? Does one still get to enjoy KDE's antialiasing of fonts under this method? Thanks:-)
SimCity 3000 for Linux goes for $9.99 nowadays at Electronics Boutique. I picked up a copy for my mom to give me for Christmas:-)
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Considering that December 25th really isn't the big JC's birthday, and only a marketing plot by early Popes to draw in more members, I would think that Christmas is *the* time to be flashy.
The hardware may be slightly underpowered for the game, but the problem I was having was lying somewhere in the Win32 binaries and patches for the game.
KTuberling, which is essentially Mr. Potatohead for KDE. I can't begin to tell you the number of disgusting things you can do with the large nose, cigar and earring pieces.
I bought the Windows version of Tribes 2 a while back when I had a warez'd Win98 on my PC. I could not get that game to run for the life of me. My hardware was (and still is):
PII 350, 256 megs RAM, Voodoo3 3000 AGP.
The menus would work, but the damn game would never play, no matter which patches I applied. Half Life and Q3A worked fine. Now I'm running the same hardware under Mandrake 8.1. Will I run into the same problems under the Linux version of Tribes 2? Also, can I use the map files on the CD I bought and download the Linux binaries, like one can do with Q3A?
I would avoid Creatures for personal reasons. I played that game years ago on Windows. When my first creature died I became so depressed that I never played it again.
Probably because for about the last 20,000 years or so dogs have lived among humans as companions and allies, while cows and lambs are essentially crop animals. Now, granted, there are certain middle eastern cultures that aren't friendly to dogs, but at least they don't eat them.
There was a cartoon in the 1980s (tied to a line of toys, of course) that was like that. It was about this indian-cowboy on some planet with a talking horse with robotic legs. The horse's name was 30-30. In the toy stores they even sold a line of infrared guns related to the show a-la Laser Tag.
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A long time ago (1996 to be exact) Be actually made their own computers. The BeBox was a blue, stately-looking computer that ran dual PowerPC 66MHz procs (and later dual 133). The most notable feature of the BeBox was that the front has two Greco-romanesqe columns jutting out that featured vertical LED's that bounced up and down to indicate each CPU's load...aka "Das Blinkenlights." The back of the computer was loaded with all sorts of ports, serial, parallel, SCSI, MIDI and the GeekPort, which is some type of analog interface for hobbyists.
When PC's became more affordable and proliferated throughout the market, Be decided to stop making the BeBox.
I bought one a couple years ago by posting on comp.os.be and asking if anybody had one. An engineer from SF sold me his for $200.
The code was sold to Palm. Be has only retained some bits of hardware, furniture and the right to sue M$ in an antitrust lawsuit. Some people are suggesting that Be's massive trading volume last week is a sign of the (hopeful) lawsuit annoucement coming up.
I emailed the auction company to find out if the items were going to also be auctioned online or just at the physical location. They haven't written me back yet...anybody here know?
she's been 35 years old for about 10 years now.
...or BWoE. I suspect there would be a number of spikes in the connection.
/me raises his hand. I'll let my secretary develop RSI instead of me, thank you very much. Also, there's something about long, handwritten letters that the women in your life tend to appreciate.
That's Sex *and* the City.
Yes, thanks to Christopher Lowell, I can now marbelize anything!
Then let me tell you about my Christmas gift giving experience this year. A couple months ago my parents said they'd get my fiance and me a coffee table for our new apartment for Christmas. We'd have to go with them and pick it out. It was actually in our apt a week or so before xmas. OK, fine and understandable because it's a big ticket piece of furniture.
Then, my mom goes "well, we got you the coffee table but we want to get you some other stuff so we have some presents to give you on Christmas. why don't you and your fiance pick up about 10 things you'd like and we'll give them to you."
So what we have here is not a holiday reduced to an exchange of gifts, but an exchange of money among checking accounts. The upside is that I got SimCity 3000 for Linux ($10 at EB, btw), but the downside is that the whole thing rather plays down the spirit of giving. In past years I've always been asked to make a list of things I might want because my wish list is a moving target, but at least it was just a list.
Next year I'm going to let my parents fly solo on buying my Christmas presents. I won't even make any suggestions or hints. So I'll probably be getting a lot of clothes next year.
I used to frequent Joe's Garage in the 215 area code. But that was in Morrisville and a local call for me in NJ.
God, I think my entire teenage social life can be summarized by the letters B, B & S.
IIRC, RipTerm worked by you first downloading the BBS's package of Rip graphics into your system. So, essentially, all of the RipTerm graphics were cached in your computer and the BBS made reference to them.
Does anyone care to share their experiences using KDE as the desktop environment and WindowMaker as the window manager? For example, how is it done and what visual elements of each show up on the screen? Does one still get to enjoy KDE's antialiasing of fonts under this method? Thanks :-)
that Dave will be collaborating with Iggy Pop and Lou Reed on his upcoming kernel patches?
OK, I'll bite...
did you sniff your kbd and mouse?
SimCity 3000 for Linux goes for $9.99 nowadays at Electronics Boutique. I picked up a copy for my mom to give me for Christmas :-)
Considering that December 25th really isn't the big JC's birthday, and only a marketing plot by early Popes to draw in more members, I would think that Christmas is *the* time to be flashy.
Does that mean all the lights turn blue during crashes?
The hardware may be slightly underpowered for the game, but the problem I was having was lying somewhere in the Win32 binaries and patches for the game.
:-)
You're right; I fixed Win98 by erasing it
KTuberling, which is essentially Mr. Potatohead for KDE. I can't begin to tell you the number of disgusting things you can do with the large nose, cigar and earring pieces.
I bought the Windows version of Tribes 2 a while back when I had a warez'd Win98 on my PC. I could not get that game to run for the life of me. My hardware was (and still is):
PII 350, 256 megs RAM, Voodoo3 3000 AGP.
The menus would work, but the damn game would never play, no matter which patches I applied. Half Life and Q3A worked fine. Now I'm running the same hardware under Mandrake 8.1. Will I run into the same problems under the Linux version of Tribes 2? Also, can I use the map files on the CD I bought and download the Linux binaries, like one can do with Q3A?
I would avoid Creatures for personal reasons. I played that game years ago on Windows. When my first creature died I became so depressed that I never played it again.
Probably because for about the last 20,000 years or so dogs have lived among humans as companions and allies, while cows and lambs are essentially crop animals. Now, granted, there are certain middle eastern cultures that aren't friendly to dogs, but at least they don't eat them.
There was a cartoon in the 1980s (tied to a line of toys, of course) that was like that. It was about this indian-cowboy on some planet with a talking horse with robotic legs. The horse's name was 30-30. In the toy stores they even sold a line of infrared guns related to the show a-la Laser Tag.
You know what they say about eating sh1t...a million flies can't be wrong ;-)
Blame Canada!