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BeHive column archive: Archive of all columns written for ZDNet's now defunct BeHive section by Scot Hacker, 1996-1998.

The Alt.OS Usability Challenge: Why is the press so excited about Linux when BeOS is in the world, and so superior in so many ways? It doesn't make any sense. Encourage your favorite tech publication to take the Alt.OS Usability Challenge -- sit normal users down at a BeOS machine and a Linux machine, and have them compare -- and report on -- the experience.

Scot Hacker's BeOS Software: Miscellaneous shell scripts I've written, along with ported binaries.

How this site is constructed: This site is hosted on a BeOS web server, using the Be filesystem itself as a native database. Find out how it all works. You can also download the TrackerBase system this site runs on from the Software page, above.

mp3box: BeOS is perfect as the operating system at the center of "convergence" devices -- bringing home entertainment systems and computers together. Check progress on the mp3box system I'm building for my home stereo.

Tip of the Day: Webmasters -- want to put the Tip of the Day on your site? Just autoparse http://www.betips.net/misc/tod.txt or http://www.betips.net/misc/todlink.txt. The TOD files are generated daily at 8:00 p.m. PST.

Why HTML E-Mail is a Bad Idea. Feel free to link to this page anytime someone sends you HTML-based e-mail.

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Scot Hacker created and maintained this site from 1997 through February of 2003. This was the first site on the Internet to use the database-like BFS filesystem itself as a live database back-end to a public web server.

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