The Marking of the Bench
This article simply confirms what most of us already know. Any PC users excited about 1ghz should read it.
AOL SUCKS, PERIOD.
AOL is so big now that today someone who works there (only because AOL bought Nullsoft [the makers of winamp]) got “caught” working on his “unauthorized” side project at work and AOL had to pull the file and make the apologetic press releases… LAF.
Take a look:
“The Gnutella software was an unauthorized freelance project and the Web site that allowed access to the software has been taken down,” said Josh Felser, general manager for AOL’s Spinner and Winamp projects.
The Gnutella authors said they could not comment further.
Anyone interested in the incredible software they managed to hack out can find out more right here.
Meeting with Bush
Article found on Excite.com:
Bush Meets with Gay Republicans
I wonder if the Gay Republicans enjoyed it…
Hackers are STILL alive and well.
You may have noticed our site was down for about a week… This down time has been due to a hacker trying to use our server as his own private home. After ehancing our unix security skills and procedures in a couple days we slowly managed to lock this individual out. At least we thought we did… This goes as a warning to anyone with stuff on a server… BE CAREFULL AND BACK UP YOUR DATA ALL THE TIME!!!!
Netscape 6 preview is released…
Today Netscape released a preview of the new version 6 browser. You can pick it up here and see how you like it.
So far, I hate it… It has crashed twice in two minutes. Yuck!!!!
[ tell us what you think in the forum ]
Headline soup
Here is a strange site…if anyone else can figure out exactly what the hell the point of it is, please let me know.
My only comment is that a DHTML scramble is probably not the most user-friendly way to display news headlines. Oh yeah, and also, usually a news “headline” is associated with some kind of “story” that can then be linked to and read…I couldn’t find that feature here. I don’t think MSNBC is sweating these guys.
ByeByeBe
Well… the experiments have been completed, and the verdict is in:
The BeOS runs on a G3/4 based Mac running VirtualPC.
Only there’s one problem: It sucks. The speed is hardly what you’d expect from Be (even running on an emulated processor; Win98 is faster) and the graphics cards aren’t supported (at least natively). So you end up with a slow OS in black and white at only 640×480. That about wraps it up for me and my Be fantasy. Maybe I can find a $300 PC to run it on….
Cops are smart
Another brilliant advancement in law enforcement. Apparently in England they are going to start scanning people’s airplane tickets for cocaine and heroin.
What exactly are they going to do when they find some? Arrest you because you let some coke fiend handle your boarding pass? The next time I go to England I hope I remember to roll my ticket up in a tube shape and dip one end in powdered sugar.
FreeBe
For those of you who care… Be, Inc announced FreeBeOS 5 today. In case the name isn’t enough clue: It’s BeOS 5. And it’s free. To download. http://free.be.com. If you can get in, that is. I keep having problems connecting to the site.
Now, because the new BeOS is strictly software based (no disks used to install) I’m willing to bet it can be run on a G3 or G4. Here’s how:
1. Seeing as how all BeOS releases from here on out are going to be x86 based, install Connectix VirtualPC on your machine
2. Using your newly installed Win98, download BeOS from the aforementioned URL.
3. Because BeOS runs solely within Windows (but not really… it’s complicated) I bet you can fool it into thinking you’ve got a POS Intel processor.
I will post my results when I can get a socket connections to be.com. If anyone tries this and fails/succeeds, please let us know. You can post to your heart’s content in the Alternate forum.