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by memsom 9y ago
Anyone who enjoys this should also take a look at this: the Be Newsletter archive : https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/ I read these all back in the day. They are an amazing time capsule for the BeO
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by memsom 9y ago
I was heavily in to BeOS. I read Scott's BeOS Bible cover to cover. I had most of the other books (The BeOS API gude, Advanced topics, Programming the BeOS, Practical Filesystem Design) and also had a BeBox (a 66MHz model) and a PowerM
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by memsom 9y ago
The issue is - if you don't understand why the marketers are calling you, it can seem like an unsolicited call. As I mentioned, they never answered the calls till the very last one and that took a good 2 - 3 months. I think they were u
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by memsom 9y ago
I once got my daughter a phone from CW. As part of the process I needed to give them my mobile number - it was a show stopping requirement. About 3 months later I was getting spammed by an autodialler 3 or 4 times a day. The dialler never c
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by memsom 9y ago
I know than a lot of the lines had to follow weird quirky routes as they are built under the roads, not the houses. This was something to do with the cost of getting permission to build under other people's properties IIRC
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by memsom 9y ago
I had a copyright claim once on songs my band wrote and performed. Original material. Our original material. None of which vaguely sounded like any one else's songs. The person I had to talk to to resolve the issue was very difficult t
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by memsom 9y ago
My stepson is type 1, so saw this first hand. Slowly the child loses weight. It's initially not very noticeable, but for example - in our case he stayed with his father over the summer and when he came back he was noticeably thin. The
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by memsom 9y ago
I had an Oric Atmos at one point. I got it in the late 80's as I always loved the look of the Oric computers and (ahead of my time) collected retro computers at that point. I sold it sometime in the Noughties, but I keep thinking to ge
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by memsom 9y ago
I think it depends on what you are trying to achieve. They are all slightly incompatible to some degree. I've written quire a few libs in .Net Standard and had them work on all three platforms, as well as writing Core command line apps
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by memsom 9y ago
No, Core happened before Mono integrated in to the Standard platform. I believe Mono started to use the open sourced components of Core/.Net framework to replace some of their components.That might be where the confusion lies. Then at
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by memsom 9y ago
I think a lot of the Mono Team worked for Xamarin. As Microsoft acquired Xamarin and by that act, opened up most of the Xamarin/Mono codebase that had previously been licensed to ensure a commercial fee could be generated. Miguel poste
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by memsom 9y ago
That looks a lot like the old Pascal assignment vs equivalence operators. In Pascal (read Delphi) we had '=' for equality and ':=' for assignment. So: x = 5 <-- a boolean statement, true if x equ 5 x := 5 <-- an as
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by memsom 9y ago
Personally, I wee it more like the bad old days before "Option explicit" and "Option strict" being turned on and every variable being declared as "dim x" with no type. Sure, that then used a variant in the back
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by memsom 9y ago
No. (Caveat, last version I used was version 5 from 1999.) Delphi forms are in one of two formats. 1) Binary serialization of the form data (this is the older versions, pre 4/5) 2) A textual representation. The code for a Delphi form w
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by memsom 9y ago
Cinnabon is a guilty pleasure when I'm visiting family in the US and Canada. There was only one remaining store in the UK in the Trocadero Centre in London last time I looked, but it seems they have expanded again and have a bunch of L
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by memsom 9y ago
The Alto is getting a lot more press recently! CuriousMarc is currently fixing another one for the Digibarn[0]. I'd never seen one till the first of his videos, only knew they existed because of the Apple history and through a semester
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by memsom 9y ago
The Crimea is a funny old place. Last vestige of the Goths, possible Anglo-Saxon colony.. interesting stuff. Makes me wonder if those peoples ever met. They might have at least had a common ground for communication. I don't know enough
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by memsom 9y ago
I did this too. The issue with using an RDMS for a KV Store is that the data you are storing often has to drop to lowest common form, or the database structure gets wildly complicated. So we initially had: subject (varchar), key (varchar),
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by memsom 9y ago
About 15 years ago, I worked on a team with a product that used an object based database. No SQL didn't exist, but it was kind of in a similar vein. The database was a pure object storage and there was an index b-tree to make sense of
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by memsom 9y ago
For me it was number 7. I fought with it for a number of years. I went on summer break one year around 8 or 9, came back and all my 7's were backwards again. Thing is I couldn't see it till the teacher pointed it out.
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by memsom 9y ago
I'm mildly dyslexic. I sometimes read words incorrectly - so for example a local hill is called "Butser", but I frequently will read "Buster" as I drive past. So I find I read slowly aloud, because I need to process
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by memsom 9y ago
Clarification: BeOS PPC uses PEF (because that was the main format MW supported, there was a lot of Apple knowledge in the building and there wasn't a better exe format for PowerPC at the time.) The offshoot of this is that some of the
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by memsom 9y ago
Open-sourcing would have left massive holes in the OS. A lot of code under the hood was licensed. Remove all that and at best you'd probably have a kernel and not much of the UI, networking, graphics subsystem, media kit etc. The OS di
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by memsom 9y ago
BeOS was single user. I don't think it lacked memory protection any more than any other OS that was active at the time (i.e. Mac OS 9 and Windows 95/98.) Also, though it lacked file permissions and multi user security, the hooks w
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by memsom 9y ago
The messaging system got a massive overhaul between R5.03 (R5 was code-named "Maui") and the leaked R5.1 (aka "Dano".) They did a lot of stuff to improve it. Dianne Hackbourne wrote a massive post about it on OS News[0]
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by memsom 9y ago
How? Wikipedia tells the story [0]. But here is my take. After Be Inc stopped making BeOS[1], some guy (no names, google yT, he was the CEO) tried to license the Personal version of R5.03 to allow it to be repackaged. After Be Inc folded, t
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by memsom 9y ago
It's unfortunate that my 13 year old step son insists "beta" is "beyta", not "beeta". British English traditional pronunciation has been eroded.
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by memsom 9y ago
BeOS for PowerPC didn't use GCC. It used the Metrowerks Compilers (mwcc etc). One of the reasons is because the BeOS used PEF exe format. As Apple wouldn't open that up, hardly any comilers support that format - which kills gcc on
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by memsom 9y ago
Yep, but it would only run up to 8.x. I think, 8.5, but it could have been 8.1. They Mac OS after 8.5 changed a lot, and I think the BeOS version of sheepshaver stopped being able to load the OS. It worked with no extra files on a Mac runni
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by memsom 9y ago
It's just the way I chose to style them. Any of them could be written with a space, Mac OS X was for a while. The point is that in the US, as you mentioned, they would be pronounced as "Oh Ess", but in the UK, it wouldn'

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