“There’s Haiku Logos Everywhere, Man!”
Stephen B. - October 25th, 2007
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That is some truly-brilliant guerilla-marketing: a logo that literally grows on trees! That also has to be worth some “green computing” brownie-points too.
This past Saturday, Firefox 2.0.0.8 was made available for download on BeBits. In addition to bringing the BeOS release up-to-date with the latest official release, the new build also includes a number of BeOS-specific changes. From the release details:
It’s especially nice to see that the shutdown bug – a long-standing issue – is now resolved.
After being stuck in (primarily) Windows for the better part of two months, I finally have my BeOS machine up and running again. From three days of off-and-on troubleshooting, it turned out that the sole cause of the problem (OS refusing to boot fully) was simply a corrupted app_server_settings file. My apologies if you’ve EMailed me recently and haven’t received a reply yet – I’m hoping to get caught up on replies and recent news over the next few days.
I must once again apologize for the recent lack of updates, as I’ve done far too often. And unfortunately, I’m far too busy to write a proper update – so this is merely an update on the reasons for the lack of updates (meta-update?). At the risk of descending completely into self-indulgent blogdom, this summer has involved a ridiculous amount of work, a miniature flood in my apartment (thanks to a water leak in the toilet tank), and a resulting hasty move to a new apartment. On the plus side, I may soon get to deploy BeOS for a work-related project – hopefully I’ll be able to post some more details on that soon. Within a few days I’ll hopefully get the site caught up on some of the most significant recent news, at least – and there has been no shortage of BeOS-related news this summer. Thankfully it’s been well-covered by sites like IsComputerOn, HaikuNews, and BeGroovy (and OSNews from time-to-time). There’s also our own News Aggregate page that lists the most recent headlines from the various BeOS-related websites. P.S.
For the past two years, I’ve been using a cheap KVM switch to share a single set of devices (keyboard, mouse, and monitor) between my BeOS machine and my Windows PC. Due to the extra cost, I didn’t bother getting a KVM switch with audio support – and it seemed unnecessary at the time, as the majority of my audio playback needs were served by the BeOS machine. Over time, however, I began looking for a way to share my speakers between both machines. The answer: a rather convoluted setup that would make Rube Goldberg proud. Since many of our fellow BeOS users are probably in similar situations, I’ve written a description of the setup for anyone who might find the information useful or interesting. Read on for the details.
Remi Grumeau of HaikuNews has recently confirmed – via EMail correspondence with Frans van Nispen – that they are no longer developing software for BeOS-related platforms and have moved to OS X as their target platform. The future of Xentronix’s flagship product – the image editor Refraction – had already been in something of a state of limbo due to the discontinuation of ZETA (development of Refraction had been handed over to Magnussoft just under a year ago), but this is the first official confirmation from Xentronix. While we’re sorry to see him go, we wish Frans and company success with developing OS X software. The story has also been posted by IsComputerOn and BeGroovy.
Despite the apparent recent-inactivity of the site, we’ve been making a few changes behind the scenes. There have been the usual small tweaks and fixes – E.g., author names of news items are now EMail links, registration and login links have been added to the lefthand navigation (handy for frequent comment-posters), some requested links have been added, etc. One fairly significant new feature has been added: the News Aggregate page. It contains links to several BeOS / Haiku-related sites and their latest headlines (grabbed via RSS). I’ve been using a similar page to keep track of BeOS-related news – hopefully others will find it useful as well. If there are any requests to add (or remove) a feed, please contact us or post a comment. And one old feature has been added – for lack of a better description. After a few people had written in asking where to find articles from the old version of the site, I finally got around to finding a way to import the old articles into the current, shiny WordPress-powered version. WordPress has a handy option to import articles from the contents of an RSS feed (in a .xml file) – so while it’s not entirely perfect (images are missing, old comments weren’t imported either), the majority of the precious, precious content is is there. Even the horrible, horrible puns. Stay tuned for a few more tweaks and new additions – and maybe even a few news items (*gasp*).
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