Jim Moy

12/18/2003

ScannerBe

Filed under: Geek — jbm @ 4:57 pm

A blast from the past, Koki from Beunited got in touch with me about a piece of software I haven’t worked on for years, ScannerBe.

I’d attempted to get other developers to adopt it but failed on a couple of attempts. Maybe this time, seeing as there seems to be a devoted community for BeOS (at least, more devoted than I was…)

Being young (ahem) and idealistic, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience writing software for BeOS. Fun community, crazy-devoted company, a BeBox to play with to my heart’s content. Which is fortunate because financially it turned out to bupkis.

Mandrake 9.1 Update Notes

Filed under: Geek — jbm @ 4:46 pm

I know Mandrake 9.2 is out, but 9.1 is the set of CDs I had lying around from CheapBytes waiting for my attention, so that’s what got installed.

After my relatively positive experience with this upgrade, I’m satisfied that if I want to go for for upgrade it’ll be straightforward. The rest of this article is some notes on things that prevented this from being a perfectly seamless upgrade.

And speaking of Mandrake, I gotta try this, portable OS and apps, data on my USB key, cool.
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12/17/2003

Mandrake 9.1

Filed under: Geek — jbm @ 10:28 pm

Up and running on Mandrake 9.1 now. Things seem to be operating smoothly except for a couple of custom server components where I’ll need to tweak the perl configuration. Nice to have MandrakeUpdate running again with updated packages.

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