Sikosis's BeOS/Haiku Developer Blog http://blog.sikosis.com/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:01:00 -0700 18th August, 2008 12:01 AM - A flyer, a donut and some clipart. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=80 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:05:00 -0700 17th August, 2008 10:05 AM - On 17th August, 2008 - the first annual Australian Haiku Users and Developers conference took place. Here is a recording of the event:- For more information, please visit the Haiku Down Under site. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=79 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:20:00 -0700 13th August, 2008 10:20 AM - http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=77 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:22:00 -0700 12th August, 2008 10:22 AM - Urias has posted his Day 3 blog of the LinuxWorld event. Today, he was joined by Scott Mc and also had a surprise guest - JLG. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=78 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:23:00 -0700 6th August, 2008 11:23 AM - Urias has now posted Day 2 of Haiku at LinuxWorld, noting it was more of the same, but was also joined today by ScottMc (BeDrivers). http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=76 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:11:00 -0700 6th August, 2008 06:11 AM - Urias has updated his Haiku blog with Day 1 of Linux World 2008. There were a few hiccups, however, it sounds like it was a long day and I would like to thank Urias, Koki and others for maning the booth. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=75 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:18:00 -0700 4th August, 2008 11:18 AM - Urias has posted a blog entry about Day 0 at LinuxWorld 2008 for Haiku. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=74 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:10:00 -0700 26th July, 2008 07:10 AM - Thanks to Fredrik Holmqvist, we have a Code Swarm video generated from Haiku's SVN commit messages. It starts from the time Haiku OS moved to Subversion (Berlios) up until revision 26538. Code_Swarm for Haiku OS from Fredrik Holmqvist on Vimeo The soundtrack is Parte 2 by Jaime Heras from the album "El Hombre Que Venia del Siglo XX" which Fredrik Holmqvist found on Jamendo under a Creative Commons License. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=70 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:25:00 -0700 19th July, 2008 10:25 AM - Urias McCullough on the Haiku Mailing List writes "We're proud to announce that Haiku will be in booth #1617 at this year's LinuxWorld Expo 2008. The event takes place August 5 - 7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Here is a floorplan image showing our location on the floor." http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=71 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:32:00 -0700 15th June, 2008 05:32 AM - Unfortunately, I've just learn that Berlios is no longer accepting connection via svn -- which is how the Build Factory works. After thinking, they must have been down on the weekend, I've now learnt that you have to do the following to check out the Haiku OS source. You now have to use:- svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk That's http rather than connecting via svn and they've also changed the repository path. If you want to update your existing source, go into the trunk and type:- svn switch --relocate svn://svn.berlios.de/haiku http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku So, hopefully soon you'll see the Build Factory back to normal. Update (17/6): Unfortunately, I've just tried to run the command and now it fails with the following error message:- svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk' svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem I've written to Berlios Support, so we'll wait and see what happens. Update (18/6): Berlios Support blames it on Haiku's directory structure, however, this was not the issue. Issue was then later rectified at Berlios end. Happy Days ! http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=69 Fri, 30 May 2008 04:19:00 -0700 30th May, 2008 04:19 AM - Thanks to the incredible generosity of the Haiku OS community, and with a little help from Google, the Haiku Code Drive 2008 will sponsor four students, bringing the number of students that will be coding for Haiku this summer to nine. Click here to read more. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=68 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:41:00 -0700 19th May, 2008 04:41 AM - Yes, they're finally available -- Haiku Files, the archive of nightly builds for the Haiku Operating System, now has two RSS feeds for your to ingest. There's one for the RAW Image and one of the VM Image. http://haiku-files.org/raw/rss/ http://haiku-files.org/vm/rss/ Add them to your favourite feeder reader now, or just go to Daily Haiku. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=66 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:42:00 -0700 21st April, 2008 08:42 PM - "After a quite intensive and challenging review and selection process, we are pleased to announce that Haiku has been assigned five (5) student slots for the Google Summer of Code 2008. This year, Google accepted many more mentor organizations than ever before, which made the allotment of students slots a lot more competitive." Head on over to the Haiku web site for more information. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=65 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:54:00 -0700 18th April, 2008 11:54 AM - On the previous weekend, Koki and Scott Mc attended LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco. Koki mentions in his in-depth blog that this event was a bit of a mystery at first but in the end it all came good. I can understand why Koki was feeling like this as the event is centered around LugRadio, a podcast that takes a relaxed and humorous look at Linux and open source. Head on over to the Haiku site for more. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=64 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:02:00 -0700 9th April, 2008 09:02 AM - Koki has written an article over at the Haiku site, detailing the statistics that are captured via Google Analytics. Head on over and check it out. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=63 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:11:00 -0700 2nd April, 2008 10:11 AM - Bruno Albuquerque aka BGA has posted on the mailing list "Today I committed r24720 and, with that, I was able to compile Haiku inside itself without the need for any hacks or reboots or anything like that." He tested this using VMware with 1GB of memory and was able to create a generated image and then test that in VMware successfully. This is great news and definitely a milestone for Haiku ! http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=62 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:42:00 -0700 20th March, 2008 08:42 PM - For the second year in a row, Haiku has been accepted into Google's Summer Winter of Code. And thanks to Koki, we had a great flyer promoting the event, which Mojo and I went and put up on noticeboards at ITEE (The University of Queensland's IT and Electrical Engineering School). Hopefully, we'll get some interest from the students. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=61 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:09:00 -0700 18th March, 2008 02:09 PM - Good old Frank PS, has posted about how he's taken over the source code for Jabber (IM Client), renamed the projects as Jabber for Haiku and more importantly, got it working. Check out this screenshot (above) and posting over at ICO. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=60 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:35:00 -0700 5th February, 2008 11:35 AM - Ingo Weinhold aka bonefish has written an in-depth article about using Haiku's Kernal Debugging Land (KDL). He calls it "one of the most important tools of a Haiku kernel developer is the built-in kernel debugger." I've sure seen a few KDLs in my time (aka crashes), just never knew what to do once there. Thanks for the insight. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=59 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:23:00 -0700 23rd January, 2008 11:23 AM - "Backed by new investors, a new team and deeper pockets, GoBe Productive is now back with a vengeance promising to shake up the Office space. Blue Lotus Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, the new company founded by a clutch of new investors and with equity participation by GoBe Corporation, has launched the product again from India. "We have access to a lot of money and there is a tremendous amount of resources behind us in this project," he added. GoBe's features apart, its pricing is the USP that Blue Lotus is banking up on to give Microsoft a run for its money. The MS Office ranges from $149 for the home and student edition to whopping $679 for the Ultimate edition in the US on eBay. GoBe Productive is being sold at one-twentieth the price: Rs 1,250 or $31 per licence in India. It is likely to be priced similarly in the US where it is slated for launch within 60-90 days." Personally, I found GoBe 2.0 on BeOS was a little clunky. Sure, there were people who raved about it and still do to this day, as long as they can compete with the file formats of MS, then I think they'll do well. It also mentions that they're planning to buy BeOS ... which is even more interesting ... so, waiting for more info, before commenting on this one. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=58 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:03:00 -0700 13th January, 2008 12:03 PM - The BeOS/Haiku European developer weekend kicked off recently in Düsseldorf, Germany. As DaaT at ICO reported, "Source commits have increased according to the all-knowing CIA and some of them are quite... tasty. For example, today Michael Lotz submitted a patch that should enable USB 1.1 mice and keyboards to work when connected to a 2.0 hub. Also today, François commited some old code I wrote that implements multiuser the same way R5 did as a hidden feature..." If you're curious what they're up to, why not check out the CoderCam they've got setup. Update: Also, be sure to check out Stephan Aßmus's (aka stippi) personal account of BeGeistert. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=56 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:30:00 -0700 10th January, 2008 12:30 PM - Dennis d’Entremont aka TheNerd has an interview with Haiku developer Ingo Weinhold over at HaikuWare. Great work and thanks for taking the time Ingo aka bonefish. PS. Yes and Wordpress still sucks. I posted this twice and lost it both times. Oh and don't get me started on the categories ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=55 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:53:00 -0700 6th January, 2008 09:53 AM - Serdar Yegulalp at Information Week has writing a short blog article on our favourite OS and it's history. Check it out here. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=54 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:48:00 -0700 27th December, 2007 08:48 AM - When Daily Haiku was initially started, it's focus was to be a storage area for Haiku Image files, however, with the Haiku project now getting sponsored hosting from Dream Host and have now setup the very cool Haiku Files, our site's goal became moot and so, we went through an overhaul. I now present to you - Daily Haiku, your one-stop site for all Haiku News via draggable RSS feeds. We plan to make the site more customizable in the future, so keep your eyes peeled in 2008. Until, then enjoy. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=53 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:59:00 -0700 9th December, 2007 11:59 AM - Today, I launched the Haiku PC Store, which is an online store powered by Amazon. All profits will be donated to Haiku Inc., the founding body that steers the Haiku Operating System. So, if you need to get your geek on haiku-style, head on over and exercise your credit card. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=52 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:51:00 -0700 30th November, 2007 08:51 AM - We've just had word from François Revol aka mmu_man, that Haiku has been accepted for a booth (1 table, 2 chairs, 1 mains socket) and will be sharing the table with another project, OpenAguila. FOSDEM will take place on the 23rd and 24th February 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=51 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:02:00 -0700 29th November, 2007 11:02 AM - I've been using Wordpress for awhile now, dealing with all the crap whenever you need to upgrade. However, the last upgrade has broken all the categories and for me that's the straw that broke the camel's back. So, I'm going on record to say Wordpress Sucks ... and I'll be moving to a new CMS over the next month or so - definitely by the new year. You might be thinking, well what are you going to move to ? I was asking myself that question. I've used a lot of popular CMS's like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, etc and each one has suffered from problems on upgrades or in Drupal's case is just plain awful. I've actually been working on my own, on and off for awhile and I feel now is the time (cue Scott Brown track). Keep you eyes peeled (or I'll peel em for ya) ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=50 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:46:00 -0700 24th November, 2007 10:46 AM - "Haiku Inc. recently received from Google a check for $4,000 for its participation in the last Google Summer of Code 2007 program. This is ten percent of the total $40,000 that Google disbursed to sponsor the eight Haiku related projects alloted for GSoC 2007. We want to thank Google for giving us the opportunity to participate in the program for the first time this year, and hope they will consider us again for next year." Hit the Haiku OS site for more details. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=49 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:45:00 -0700 20th November, 2007 09:45 AM - With all the various Haiku events that happen around the world, I thought I'd take the time to collate all this information and group them month by month. So, here goes ... January - BG (Germany) / BeGeistert (Germany) February - SCALE (California, USA) / FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) March - Numerica (France) April - May - Google Summer of Code (thru til August) June - July - WalterCon ? August - Linux Picn*x (California, USA) / Haiku Anniversary September - October - T-DOSE (The Netherlands) November - Kansai (Japan) / BeGeistert (Germany) December - I thought I'd better put this on the Haiku site, so I've created the new Haiku Events page. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=48 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:52:00 -0700 14th November, 2007 08:52 AM - Jorge Mare aka Koki writes "I am pleased and very excited to announce that our application for a booth and a feature speaker spot at the SCaLE 6x Expo have both been accepted. Yes, you read well: we will not only have a booth (for the second consecutive year), but Haiku developer and “Googler” Bruno G. Albuquerque will also be presenting our project and operating system as one of the few featured speakers that SCaLE invites every year among prominent members of the open source community. This is the first time Haiku is awarded a speaker spot at a renowned open source event, and we are proud of this achievement." I'm pretty chuffed too :) http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=47 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:29:00 -0700 11th November, 2007 06:29 PM - Kokito writes on his Haiku blog about his Impressions of the Kansai Open Source Forum Conference on Day 1, with the Day 2 report and photos to follow in the next few days. ATC complex in Osaka, Japan http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=46 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:23:00 -0700 28th October, 2007 05:23 PM - I've setup a new site that will contain Daily Haiku HD Images, stored with their version number in the filename. At this stage, I'm not sure how many images I'll store here, probably as many as I can fit :) There is also an RSS Feed you can subscribe to, showing the latest files available. Update: The site can now be found at dailyhaiku.net http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=45 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0700 22nd October, 2007 12:30 PM - Koki gave me the heads up on an upcoming Linux Conference in Australia that is run by Linux Australia. I enquired if one of their mini-conference rooms was available, but unfortunately, they are not. The closing date for submissions for these rooms was in July - I've diarized that for next year, however, we have been asked to sign up for a Birds of a Feather session. "We will have some rooms available at the conference to run Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions during the week. You will be able to book a BoF space at the conference proper and I'd like to invite you to do so." With that in mind, I started putting together some prices on what it would cost to get to this event and put it on:- Item||Cost Accomodation||$35 per Night to $150 per Night Flights||$178 Return from Brisbane Food||$20 to $100 per Day I estimate about $350 AU to $450 AU for myself to travel from Brisbane to Melbourne and stay for two days. Of course, I'll have to get the time off work as well. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=44 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:49:00 -0700 19th October, 2007 10:49 AM - Stippi aka Stephan Assmus has posted on the Haiku web site about the current transition phase that is underway. There's been a lot of discussion behind closed down and it was decided that now was the time to get the community involved, a call to arms, so to speak. Anyway, head on over to the Haiku site for the full lowdown. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=43 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:01:00 -0700 15th October, 2007 07:01 PM - "A few hours ago I had my Haiku talk on the Dutch Open Source event T-DOSE, and I'm still glowing all over. The attendence was above all my expectations, around 25 people were in the room. And despite of the last minute all night changes I had to make, the speech went fluently. Someone made a few pictures, which I hope to be able to post soon, and more importantly, I'm on tv! I'm on Sunday around 11 AM, so have a look! I'd sincerely like to thank the T-DOSE organisers, Jeroen Baten and Jean-Paul Saman, for making this event possible. Read on for more!" You can also head on over to City TV and stream the tech talk. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=42 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:15:00 -0700 9th October, 2007 09:15 AM - I came across a site today that I heard was built by a guy named Janne, called uses OpenGrok Search to browse the Haiku source repository. I must say, this is a nice resource to use when you need to find something in a hurry and onto of that, it's very quick. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=41 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:16:00 -0700 8th October, 2007 11:16 AM - Here's a screenshot of CheckItOut running on Haiku version 22479. As you can see, the application appears to look the business, with a few font issues and the lack of transparency on the picture, but unforuntately, it's all downhill from here. Instead of the app invoking the CVS command, the Terminal pops up and nothing happens. As Haiku is still pre-alpha, these things can be expected. I'll look into it some more and will in due course post on Haiku's bugtracker. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=40 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:54:00 -0700 16th September, 2007 09:54 AM - I decided to dig out and dust off one of my old BeOS drives, mainly because I was looking for my HIDE code. Anyway, I found it and all the rest of my code, so when I saw that one of my published apps on BeBits - CheckItOut wasn't working, due to a change in the way you access SourceForge servers via CVS. So I thought, it was my duty to fix the bug and update the app. Now that I've got my HIDE code and thirst for BeAPI again ... who knows what the future might bring. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=39 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:18:00 -0700 12th September, 2007 09:18 PM - On the 8th September, I attended a local Unix user group called HUMBUG, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. This was their Annual General Meeting, which was very much an informal gathering of 34 unix users and with the Haiku presence we had, we definitely made an impression; certainly more people know about Haiku than yesterday, and that's gotta be a good thing. Earlier that day when I was driving to the University, I got stuck behind this white hatchback, which had the license plate letters KDL. I thought, this was some sort of omen, however, I can announce there were no hiccups during the demos I gave. For more of this article, head on over to the Haiku Official Site. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=38 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:51:00 -0700 23rd August, 2007 11:51 PM - "Happy 6th Birthday Haiku OS !!! It's that time once again, the Haiku Podcast - Episode #10. I'm now back from travelling around the globe, we've got tons of news for you this month, as well as my impressions of FalterCon, the impromtu Haiku gathering that took place at Linux Picn*x, our BeBits choice app and what we'll be up to very shortly ..." You can find us on iTunes, Feedburner or visit us at HaikuPodcast.com. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=35 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:11:00 -0700 18th August, 2007 11:11 AM - FalterCon 2007 took place on August 11, as part of the Linux 16th Anniversary Picnic held at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park in California, USA. For more information, check out http://www.myhaiku.org/faltercon/ http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=34 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:59:00 -0700 1st August, 2007 09:59 AM - As WalterCon was cancelled on 24th July due to a lack of interest, the remaining Haiku loyalists/fans have decided to hold their own conference named FalterCon. "We will be gathering to get to know each other, do some much needed advocacy/PR for Haiku (we will bring leaflets and CDs to hand out), exchange information about the project and, of course, have some fun! Some of us will bring our laptops with us, and some network gear (ie., wifi router, cables, etc.) so that we can access the net from Haiku. Keep an eye on the forums for the details as they develop." So, head on over to their site to check out more info. Update: FalterCon has now been official endorsed by Haiku Inc. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=32 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:37:00 -0700 23rd July, 2007 08:37 AM - Today I wrote a Facebook app for the Haiku Build Factory - where you get your Haiku OS fix. This app displays the latest Build image with links to the VMware image and the Official site. Are you down with Haiku and on Facebook ? If so you must add this app now. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=33 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:00:00 -0700 5th July, 2007 09:00 AM - Axel Dorfler, admin lead and coding legend of the Haiku Project, has been posed 5 questions in interviewed by OSNews. Click here for the OSNews article. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=31 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:36:00 -0700 4th July, 2007 04:36 PM - "The upcoming Haiku conference WalterCon 2007 has finally been announced: this year, it will be held in San Francisco, California, on August 11-12." Head on over to the WalterCon site to check out more details such as the agenda for the event. Update: Due to a lack of numbers, WalterCon has been canceled for this year. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=30 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:42:00 -0700 22nd June, 2007 06:42 PM - In the case of the OzHUG Haiku Edition, it does. They recently held a poll from April til June on the size of the Haiku distro they plan to distribute. With the results in, the majority are in favour of a 600mb image, with even some users wanting it larger. The OzHUG Team have gone over the results and have decided that the users have spoken and 600mb will be the size of choice, also meaning the team can stock the distro with a lot more goodies for the users. :) We like goodies ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=29 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:14:00 -0700 12th June, 2007 02:14 PM - After being away for 6-7 weeks travelling, I came back to find the BeOS Build Factory machine was not in a good state. Everytime, it tries to checkout the source, it crashes. After spending a week trying to fix the issue, I've decided that due to the other issues such as poor networking on net_server, I'm now setting up a Linux Build Factory machine. I decided to pick Ubuntu 7.04, as it's gained a lot of hype recently and someone had posted in May that they built Haiku on it. The new factory is now checking out all the source, so hopefully, it should be operational in the next day or two. Update 13/6: Run into a few issues, but so far, I've been able to overcome them thanks to gotaku on the IRC channel. Jam is built, so are the cross-compile tools. Unfortunately, it's not letting me update the source I checked out yesterday, so I'm forcing it to get the source again. Update 14/6: Source is down and it's now jammin' away quite nicely. Hopefully, I'll have a new Haiku HD Image and Haiku VMware Image ready for consumption soon ... Update 15/6: Things seem to be okay. I've now updated the VMware Virtual Appliance site to link to the daily built vmware image. Update 19/6: Today, I managed to spruce up the Haiku Build Factory page, by converting it from a standalone site to drupal blocks and pages. I've also left off the jam packages at the moment, as they're not currently being updated. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=28 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:46:00 -0700 9th April, 2007 12:46 PM - "Back for 2007, it's the Haiku Podcast - Episode #09 - our one year anniversary episode. We've got lots to catch up on this month, as well as we have an interview with Team Haiku's operators - Curtis Wanner and Urias McCullough." http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=24 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:34:00 -0700 8th April, 2007 06:34 PM - I've just uploaded the latest version of Haiku in VMWare format. This was created from Build 20610 and has been tested as working. Networking is still very basic, so don't expect too much just yet. Hopefully, the GSoC will add a lot of more stability and functionality to our beloved OS. Until then, click here for VMWare's Free Player and click here for the Haiku image. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=23 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:50:00 -0700 1st March, 2007 01:50 PM - "Haiku co-developers Bruno and his associate Axel talk about the new OS that has been in development for several years. Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired in the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and void of any unnecessary complexities." http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=25 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:55:00 -0700 15th February, 2007 12:55 PM - According to the Haiku site, the guys have reported that the event was a success. "Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project." http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=22 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:25:00 -0700 21st January, 2007 09:25 AM - This week, I haven't had much hands on with Haiku (an Exchange server at work has been causing me no end of grief and still is). But in the northern hemisphere, things have been going well at the Haiku Tech Talks at Google. Long time Haiku developer and OpenBFS (God) Team leader Bruno Albuquerque (BGA), who has been working with Google since last year, made arrangements for these talks, giving Haiku a very unique opportunity to introduce the Haiku Project to many Google engineers. And Google engineers are happy, switched-on people, just check out this video if you doubt it ;) http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=21 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:43:00 -0700 31st December, 2006 11:43 PM - In the middle of a few beers, I managed to record and put together the final podcast for 2006. Unfortunately, no guests, just straight into the latest Haiku news, so you (and I) can start ringing in the New Year. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=20 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0700 25th December, 2006 12:00 AM - Merry Christmas to all and have a Happy Haiku New Year ! Yes sire, 2006 has been an interesting year for Haiku. It has certainly overcome quite a few milestones, one only needs look at the WalterCon videos to see that. With that in mind, 2007 is going to be bigger and better, so stay tuned for more Node monitor goodness. Peace. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=19 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:47:00 -0700 12th December, 2006 09:47 PM - "Thanks to the dedicated work of lead developer - Axel Dörfler, the Haiku network stack has started taking it's first baby steps." And with those first steps, I managed to try out the latest Haiku image under VMware's Free Player. You can download the VMware image from here. For information on how to configure your network, click here. If you're on Windows and looking for an easy way to get and try out the latest Haiku, try my vmHaiku app. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=16 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:00:00 -0700 4th December, 2006 06:00 PM - Now that the dust has settled from WalterCon 2006, we at the Preferences Team, are looking forward to the coming year. We have a new team page, which will hopefully be launched with the new site within a week or so (fingers crossed eh Koki). The new team page is designed to give focus to new and existing developers. I'll also be creating some tools of my own, as I'm using DotProject to manage all the Applications. DotProject has no public front end, and over the coming months, I hope to develop something to show off the status of the various applications. Also, I was bored the other day, so I made up some Haiku OS chicklets. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=15 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:48:00 -0700 30th October, 2006 11:48 PM - "WalterCon 2006 was held this past weekend in Orlando, Florida, and for those who have been waiting to know what it was all about, the wait is over. Jem Matzan of The Jem Report was at WalterCon, and he has written an interesting article on the conference that gives an overview of the event, and also makes some insightful observations as someone new to the project and the platform." links Official WalterCon Site "Haiku Rocks" - Video - YouTube "Haiku Rocks" - Video - Google Video "Haiku Rocks" - Video - 54mb (Torrent) WalterCon 2006 - Intro - YouTube WalterCon 2006 - Intro - Google Video WalterCon 2006 - Intro - 9.9mb (Torrent) WalterCon 2006 - Michael Phipps - Google Video WalterCon 2006 - Michael Phipps - 56mb (Torrent) http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=10 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:20:00 -0700 19th September, 2006 11:20 AM - With just 39 days to go til WalterCon 2006, I thought you might want to head over to the Official WalterCon site and check out the details for this year, along with photos and write ups of previous events. For more coverage of WalterCon, HaikuPodcast are rumoured to do a few interviews / segments as well. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=9 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:21:00 -0700 18th August, 2006 09:21 AM - The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list. In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference. Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=8 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:18:00 -0700 30th October, 2005 10:18 PM - Please find the link below to download the latest HD Image built from the source. Haiku HD Image (x86) (13.25 MB) Please note, these Images are for *** Test Purposes Only ***. For a copy of the Full license, please refer to the source. For the Instructions on what to do with the Haiku HD Image, click here. For alternative downloads, click here. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=7 Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:49:00 -0700 22nd October, 2005 10:49 AM - I thought I'd just like to share with you the statistics for this past week, since we started hosting the Haiku HD "Plain" and the Virtual PC Images. The response has been great and we look forward to providing you with more in the coming months. VPC Image: 558 times HD Images: 455 times The more testers of Haiku will lead to more users and developers for our community. This response shows that there is indeed support out there and I find that rather refreshing. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=6 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:34:00 -0700 18th October, 2005 11:34 PM - We now have, for your pleasure, the latest Hard Drive Images of Haiku. Please refer to the instructions on how and what to do with the image file, once downloaded. Click here for the scoop. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=5 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:52:00 -0700 16th October, 2005 11:52 AM - Backgrounds allows you to set each workspace's background colour or image. It also allows you to select an image for the background in your Tracker windows, Icon or Mini Icon mode only, List View mode doesn't support background images. The first pop up lets you set the target workspace (or folder), the next pop up allows you to select No Image (None), a previously selected one or the option to browse your Hard Drive for a suitable picture. The next pop up deals with placement of the image, with the options being Manual, Center, Scale to fit and Tile. Center and Scale to fit do not apply to folders. The Icon label background box, when ticked, applies your chosen colour to the label boxes of your Desktop Icons, otherwise, the labels are transparent. Finally, the colour picker is where you select the colour for your background/labels. Status: 100% Completed Binary: Download (x86) Source: /trunk/src/preferences/backgrounds/ Developer: Jerome Duval aka Korli (jerome.duval at free.fr) Bug Reporting: Click Here http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=4 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:00:00 -0700 15th October, 2005 05:00 PM - Here's the latest version of Haiku checked out of the SVN fresh and compiled for your enjoyment. You'll need Virtual PC, in order to mount this drive. Click here to download (20MB). At this stage, I will be updating these images weekly. Also, on the weekend, I managed to put together a new P4 2.6Ghz machine for the Build Factory. Just having driver issues with a NIC, that I hope to sort out this week. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=3