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It is pretty amazing to see the thing boot .. the blinkenlights .. the hum and whir of the disks .. straight to the desktop just like the day I got it. And then open the dozen videos that stream seamlessly, which is all I do really.
What a world it would have been if JLG had focused on the laptop as the driver of his revolution, as SJ did ..
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I have a non-working Indigo 2 10k that I keep meaning to refurbish, but finding a monitor that supports sync on green that still works is exceedingly difficult.
IIRC many Samsung, EIZO screens from recent past support SOG.
BeFS was amazing. I miss BeOS, TBH. I ran a heavily customized BeOS R5.05 install that had upgraded bits from OpenBeOS (later, HaikuOS), ZetaOS etc. I ran it as a daily driver on a Dell GX1 SFF that I swear was designed for BeOS: Max RAM the BeOS kernel supported without hackery was 768MB - The GX maxed out at 768MB; The GX1 had a Rage GPU that BeOS natively supported (Including 3D Acceleration!) which was a very sho…
Helf!!! I haven't seen you online in years! Maybe not since the demise of bebox.nu? I'm still plugging away with BeOS, have a few Macs running the PowerPC version still.
BeFS was amazing. I miss BeOS, TBH. I ran a heavily customized BeOS R5.05 install that had upgraded bits from OpenBeOS (later, HaikuOS), ZetaOS etc. I ran it as a daily driver on a Dell GX1 SFF that I swear was designed for BeOS: Max RAM the BeOS kernel supported without hackery was 768MB - The GX maxed out at 768MB; The GX1 had a Rage GPU that BeOS natively supported (Including 3D Acceleration!) which was a very sho…
If you can recall how you got SSL going, please let everyone know! Edit: also, you're photos made me quite happy. Beautiful machines.
The IRIS3130 went to a museum, at least!
As for the SSL… I’ll dig through my stuff and see what I have. On it. I have a screenshot of gmail loaded up… lemme find that.
BeOS was fun. I recall attending BeGeistert and showing my Blender port (as a Not a Number/NaN employee) running on its software OpenGL driver (eventually I also beta-tested OpenGL hardware on BeOS). Be had a close knit community, with a similar passion as the earlier Commodore 64 'demo parties'. Official BeOS C++ API's included 'is_computer_on()' and 'is_computer_on_fire()': a sign that Be creators enjoyed working o…
Be was amazing when it came out. I was introduced to it when the company came out to do a demo of it for the computer science department of the uni I was at. The multimedia abilities they demoed were amazing. Coming from Atari ST and TT this seemed like the next generation. I loved the BeFS. I could not afford a BeBox at the time and the uni. decided against buying any. We did have quite a few NeXTstations in the dep…
Its easily one of the sexiest machines in my retro-computing collection. Sure, the SGI boxes actually have some useful software - but the BeBox has sexier blinkenlights by far. ;)
Even now over 20 years later we still haven't had anything near as cool as BeFS. Who needs an email client when the file system can literally index it all and your inbox and email messages are literally files in a folder in a Tracker window that's just displaying email specific metadata for its columns.
Everyone who uses more than one device to access his/her e-mail? Sure BeOS had nice features, but it seems to me that it solved the wrong problems.
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That's crazy. And pioneer can't make rekordbox to work with linux in 2022.
Audio has been a disaster on Linux for a long time (yes I know about jack, ardour, pipe wire, and so on). It's not surprising that pro audio applications ignore it wholesale.
Even now over 20 years later we still haven't had anything near as cool as BeFS. Who needs an email client when the file system can literally index it all and your inbox and email messages are literally files in a folder in a Tracker window that's just displaying email specific metadata for its columns.