[BLUG] How to relieve stress

[Steven Black]

Mark:

You are correct. I worked for Be, Inc. I even wrote a few newsletter
articles for them during that time.

I worked for them between late 1997 up until they no longer had a
development staff in late 2001. Release-wise this was from the time PR2
went golden (the second release available for PPC-based Macs/clones)
through the Intel days to the last days as an Internet Appliance
operating system.

I really liked BeOS. BeOS had a balance between being easy to use and
having a relatively POSIX underbelly (complete with BASH) that was a
real breath of fresh air in its day.

At one time Apple was looking in to buying BeOS for their "next
generation Mac OS". Of course, they went with Steve Jobs' NeXT operating
system instead.

In the end it was anti-competitive practices by Microsoft that finally
killed Be. (Microsoft violated NDAs and prevented products from
shipping.)

The promises offered by Be's products, of multiprocessors for desktop
computing, products easy for novices, quality underpinnings and standard
interfaces, and free development environments for the masses are now
realized for many more people. These are seen in Mac OS X, and as Linux
becomes easier for the novice it becomes realized there as well.

I'm still a little bitter about how it all went down.

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 17:42 +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>   You didn't work for Be Inc. did you?  On their BeOS R3, they had some
> sample videos of them dropping monitors from the roof of a 4 or 5 floor
> building.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:16:29PM GMT, Steven Black [blacks_at_indiana.edu] said the following:
> > At a previous employer we would occasionally throw machines from the
> > roof.
> > 
> > We not only filmed it, we had some of the files included as "Sample
> > Media" on some of the later releases.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven Black
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:07 -0400, Simon Ruiz wrote:
> > > That would have made an AWESOME presentation for the BLUG. We could have brought baseball bats and made it interactive.
> > > 
> > > PC Load Letter?! What the...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: blug-admin_at_cs.indiana.edu on behalf of Mark Krenz
> > > Sent: Fri 4/6/2007 7:29 PM
> > > To: blug_at_cs.indiana.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [BLUG] How to relieve stress
> > >  
> > > 
> > >   Sorry, can't take pictures where we did it.  This wasn't at Suso. ;-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:26:32PM GMT, Gaddis, Jeremy L. [jlgaddis_at_ivytech.edu] said the following:
> > > > Where's the Youtube link?  =) 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Jeremy L. Gaddis
> > > > Network Administrator
> > > > 812.330.6156 (w)  812.391.0358 (m) 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: blug-admin_at_cs.indiana.edu [mailto:blug-admin_at_cs.indiana.edu] On
> > > > Behalf Of Mark Krenz
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:54 PM
> > > > To: blug_at_cs.indiana.edu
> > > > Subject: [BLUG] How to relieve stress
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  Wow, I'll tell ya, nothing quite relieves the stresses in your life
> > > > like throwing a 1U Dell server against the floor REALLY HARD!
> > > > 
> > > >  Except 3 of them.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Mark Krenz
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