Sikosis's BeOS/Haiku Developer Blog http://blog.sikosis.com/ Depot CMS Sat, 15 May 2010 12:14:00 +1000 15th May, 2010 12:14 PM - On the 9th May 2010, the Haiku Operating System R1 Alpha 2 was released. This release is a signifigant improvement on Alpha 1 and so far I have successfully installed it (minus a slight hiccup) on a Dell Optiplex 960 and on VirtualBox (OS X 10.6). So, check it out today! http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=96 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=96 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:00:00 +1000 25th January, 2010 03:00 AM - I know I've been pretty quiet on the Haiku front for awhile, but with Australia Day just around the corner, I'm back with my latest Haiku project I've been tinkering with ... HaikuNAS. The goal is to create a fully functional Haiku based NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, which can be used headless and operated remotely by a web interface. Like Haiku, this project is Alpha and is a little rough around the edges at the moment, but we're working on that. For more information, head on over to the site. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=95 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=95 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:46:00 +1000 13th December, 2009 04:46 AM - http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=94 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=94 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:52:00 +1000 7th October, 2009 05:52 AM - Since Alpha 1 of Haiku has been released, I've been able to get Haiku to install on my MSI Wind and with that my development juices have started to flow again. Yes that's right, I've been getting back into the swing of coding on the Haiku (BeOS) platform and C++ coding. So, what have I been working on -- you ask ? Well, Rhino. So, what's Rhino you ask ? It was originally designed for backing up your Haiku's Settings files, but it now backs up your Home folder as well. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=93 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=93 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:47:00 +1000 23rd August, 2009 10:47 PM - On Sunday 23rd August at 9:00AM, the Australian Haiku Developers and Users (Virtual) Conference - Haiku Down Under kicked off for the 2nd year in a row. Unforunately, the lack of support from the Australian users and developers meant I had to come up with the content, as well as run the event. This isn't what I was originally intending to do. I would have preferred to be the MC / Organizer of the event. Anyway, with this in mind, the crown jewel of content I had was a special 50 minute Haiku Podcast episode featuring myself, TheNerd, Urias McCullough and Matt Madia. I was actually still editing this podcast at 2AM :( Technical difficulties plagued the entire event. From IE browser plugin issues with uStream, presentation slides being cut off, the strange echo and last but not least the uStream stream dying half way through the event. In other words, the streaming was an utter steaming pile of fail. With that said, I managed to rip the audio from the recording and I have made a re-edited video with additional demo footage, which is available on Vimeo. Congratulations to the winners of the prizes:- Urias McCullough - WonderBrush Single User License Colin G - Haiku T-Shirt OCO - Haiku T-Shirt All in all, there were 12 people in attendance (1 live and 11 virtual), which isn't the best turn out, so I would love to see us double or triple these numbers for next year. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=92 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=92 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:05:00 +1000 20th April, 2009 07:05 AM - Haiku is pleased to announce that Google has allotted them with six students for this year's Summer of Code. Internationalization support for Haiku * Student: Adrien Destugues * Mentor: Oliver Tappe CIFS client Implementation * Student : Obaro Ogbo * Mentor : Bruno Albuquerque Port Haiku to ARM architecture * Student : Johannes Wischert * Mentor : Francois Revol Update DriveSetup/Disk_Device * Student : Bryce Groff * Mentor : Ingo Weinhold Integrate WebKit in Haiku native browser * Student : Maxime Simon * Mentor : Ryan Leavengood Implementing ZeroConf support for Haiku with mDNSResponder * Student : jie ma * Mentor : Axel Dörfler Excellent news for Haiku and we wish the students and mentors the best of luck over the coming months. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=90 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=90 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:34:00 +1000 5th April, 2009 03:34 AM - Seems I wasn't the only one to notice that the super secret organization Dollhouse runs BeOS. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=89 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=89 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:29:00 +1000 28th March, 2009 09:29 AM - "Adrian Panasiuk has done an amazing job on getting Gnash working on Haiku, including porting a handful of libraries. To be able to enjoy it, the following is required: You need to have OpenSSL optional package installed, a Haiku-hybrid or Haiku-gcc4 build and BeZilla-gcc4." Click here for the full story. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=87 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=87 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:05:00 +1000 20th March, 2009 07:05 AM - Haiku's application for Google Summer of Code 2009™ has been accepted ... that now makes it three years in a row, which is quite an achievement in itself. This year, the role of Haiku's Google Summer of Code primary administrator has been taken up by Matt Madia, with Stephan Aßmus acting as the backup administrator. Click here for the full details. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=88 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=88 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 8th March, 2009 12:00 AM - They're back for 2009 - Sikosis and TheNerd bring you the sixteenth episode of the Haiku Podcast. So, head on over and check it out. Also, if you have something you'd like to tell the Haiku community about, please don't hesitate to get in contact with either Sikosis or TheNerd. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=86 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=86 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:14:00 +1000 20th October, 2008 02:14 AM - "BeGeistert 19 was held last weekend in Düsseldorf and was, as far as I can tell, a great success. I've been to BeGeistert twice in the past (I think 2002 and 2003) and in my opinion the spirit of BeGeistert hasn't changed since then. Maybe there used to be some more non-coders among the guests and the focus was more on applications; that was of course because Haiku was still in its OpenBeOS nappies at that time... Today, the main focus lies without a doubt on the development of Haiku, which is currently in the exciting time leading to its upcoming first alpha release. Most of the European core developers were there and discussed problems and possible solutions that they could implement and transfer to the code repository right away, as the conference rooms had a (most of the time working) internet connection." Wicked ... BeGeistert events have always struck me as really fun events ... you Europeans have it too good with your currency and BeGeistert! Well done Charlie and Team. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=85 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=85 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:10:00 +1000 5th October, 2008 02:10 PM - da Barrett over at Haiku-OS.it has written an interesting article on the basics of using Hey, a BeOS/Haiku program that allows calls to applications via their scriptable layer (BHandler objects). Head on over to their site and check it out or click here for the Google Translate English version. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=84 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=84 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:47:00 +1000 3rd September, 2008 04:47 AM - I need a Hero and soon you will have one. So, what is Hero ? Hero (Haiku Environment Rapid Operations) is a scripting Language for the Haiku Operating System. With this language, you will be able to perform many simple tasks using English-like words. The new project site is up, not much available at the moment, so in the meantime, why not enjoy the Bonnie Tyler classic. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=83 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=83 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:53:00 +1000 1st September, 2008 09:53 AM - Ever wondered why when using Firefox under Haiku, that the highlighting is a dark blue colour, which makes it hard to read what's underneath ... well I did and thanks to tigerdog (Doug Shelton), I was able to find out why and I thought it was time to share:- "I think this may be a Haiku problem, not Firefox. I'm not quite sure why this happens. Firefox's default theme pulls colors from the system palette, supposedly. This seems to work fine under BeOS and Zeta but not Haiku. You can (of course!) install HaikuFox theme. HaikuFox uses hard-coded colors to look more BeOS-like." So, there you have it. Get HaikuFox today ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=82 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=82 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:27:00 +1000 24th August, 2008 07:27 PM - Haiku 7th B-Day has rolled around and here's a video demonstration showing some of the many ways Haiku can be used, including showing off Firefox's support of modern social networking sites such as Facebook and Plurk. This video was also intially intended to air at Haiku Down Under 2008, the Australian Haiku Users and Developers Conference. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=81 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=81 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:01:00 +1000 18th August, 2008 12:01 AM - A flyer, a donut and some clipart. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=80 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=80 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:05:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=79 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:20:00 +1000 13th August, 2008 10:20 AM - http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=77 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=77 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:22:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=78 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:23:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=76 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:11:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=75 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:18:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=74 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:10:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=70 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:25:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=71 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:32:00 +1000 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 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=69