God, Allah, fate, nature, the cosmic goat, call it whatever the fcuk you want, fact is its sole purpose is to screw me over.

There’s a BeBox rev. 8 dual 133Mhz incl. all software for sale in The Netherlands. Distance? Drivable. Price? EUR 600.

BUT I’M NEAR BROKE.

In a surprise move (at least to me) yesterday evening, I’ve decided to contribute some of my time to help out on the Haiku documentation effort. The first major part of this effort is the API documentation. You all know I know fcuk all about programming, so my work will be limited to grammatical and spelling proofreading. I want to donate even more time and effort into the end-user documentation once we get to that, since I find that a fascinating subject (it fits well into my schism between language and psychology).

Apart from the fact that this will be a good exercise for my m4d English sk1llzz, I’m also doing this because I want to help out an open source project. Seeing my obsession with the BeOS, this was the most logical choice.

_hugo: i remember when i wrote an image thumbnailer just to better organize my porn
_hugo: those were the days

I still wonder at how many people seem to think that Microsoft killed Be, Inc. and the BeOS, while in fact, Microsoft only played a small part in it.

BeOS did not die because of Microsoft alone. BeOS dies for the first time when they bet on AT&T’s hobbit processor which got canceled. BeOS dies for the second time when Apple blocked it from running on Apple machines by not releasing specs (Apple knew BeOS was better than MacOS 8/9). It dies a third time when Microsoft saw it as a threat. Finally, BeOS dies for the fourth time when Jean-Louis Gassee went all megalomaniac (JLG thought Be was worth much more than the money Apple wanted to pay for it, and hence, turned down the offer).

So basically, BeOS’s killers are Be, Inc. itself, Apple, Microsoft, and JLG.