Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011)

Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by Crontab on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:44AM (#16149928)

In addition to the BeOS Bible, Scot Hacker also created the BeOS Tip Server, which was a great resource at the time. He also wrote a book for O'Reilly on MP3 (MP3: The Definitive Guide) that I found very useful. And he created RipEnc, a BeOS/Bash shell script to rip CDs to MP3 while making use of BeOS metadata.

After I left BeOS behind, I haven't heard his name very often, but I still appreciate his advocacy for BeOS.

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by grahams on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:51PM (#16154562)

Don't forget he was a major contributor to BeNews (as was I, full disclosure) one of the major Be news sites of the time...

It's a shame all of the BeNews content was lost to a database failure, though you can still find bits and pieces in the Wayback Machine..

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by qubex on Monday January 15, 2018 @07:46AM (#16150139)

I still have his The BeOS Bible on my bookshelf. I don’t know why, really. (For context, I also have Inside Windows 2000 and Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, all of which are pretty dated.)

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by rcarmo on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:40AM (#16150402)

Me too. It was a nice enough read, but it sticks out between Singh's book on OS X and Cutler's NT magnum opus...

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