[openbeos] Re: A joke ?
- From: Steve Vallée <svallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:44:19 -0800
Mille Bornes ... Yes it's me. And I still have nightmares about it.
That night (3 am) I just fixed the last bug for a R3 version. I go to bed
and in the morning ... my hard drive was totally screwed up. I felt my heart
getting out of my chest : the only copy of my source code was gone. I was
only able to save my last binary build, and in order to release it, I had to
hack directly into the executable to change my testing values (just 2 cards
in the deck, had to hack it to return to the 102 cards, etc. ). Then I
released it for BeOS R3. Two weeks later, the bomb : Be Inc will release a
BeOS R4, that is not binary compatible with R3... yeah !
Since then, I never got the patience to remade from scratch my code. I know
it's a pretty small program, but re-programming something exactly the same
I've done few days ago... urg...
But I gain something precious : a strong compulsivity to multiply source
code backups ... :-)
- Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vandermark, Jason" <jvandermark@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: A joke ?
> Is this the same Steve Vallée that create Mille Bournes for BeOS R3????
> If so please contact me offline as I would love to continue your work
> and get it working for R5. You can email me at maverick@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks,
> Jason "Maverick" VanDerMark
> OBOS Input_server Lead
> Proud BeOS(and soon OBOS) User
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Vallée
> Sent: Sun 1/20/2002 1:37 PM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Subject: [openbeos] A joke ?
> OK, maybe I'm the last one in the world to know that, so please don't
> flame me if I'm sooo off time about it.
>
> I just found this french web site :
>
> http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2002-01-20#1983
>
> talking about the BeOS 5.1 (not 5.0.1), the one we seen screen shot in
> osnews.com and that was supposed to be used internally by Be Inc at the
> end.
>
> But they have the binary (69 mb) to install it at :
>
> http://snotling.free.fr/
>
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
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