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Does Haiku in near future have encrypted folders, or filesystems?

Forum thread started by lukves on Tue, 2012-10-30 11:40

i try in linux EncFS and is easy to setup and get to work. EncFS uses fuse and encrypt files and folders, not full partitions like TrueCrypt. only need fuse support in operating system.

more read about EncFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS

there is easy GUI utility, but command line is more powerfull: http://tom.noflag.org.uk/cryptkeeper.html

Haiku boots on my Gateway NV53 Athlon M300 system again

Forum thread started by cb88 on Mon, 2012-10-29 04:51

Back when the ACPI changes were implemented Haiku started hanging at boot (something with the usb controller not getting handed off from the BIOS IIRC) ... anyway It boots up now on the latest git code I checked out and built!

So Working Wifi (atheros), radeonhd 4200, usb, touchpad, audio... also MediaPlayer played ALL the files I tried with it this time which is a massive improvement from a year ago.

Not working my NTFS volume for some reason wasn't being shown, 3d acceleration and cpu throttling(laptop overheats and shutdown when loaded and poorly ventilated rather than just downclocking). Another minor annoyance is often the backing of window tabs often don't get updated when they resize. A good example being when you browse to different pages in web+ with a window tabbed with web+ the titles get garbled and such since they seem to be writing over one another and then not updated correctly. As glaring as that issue is I imagine I may have just miss compiled something.

ETA for WPA Wifi Support?

Forum thread started by SteveW on Sun, 2012-10-28 10:44

I'd like to install and run Haiku on my laptop but at this moment the lack of support for a WPA encrypted wifi connection is the one thing that holds me back.

How high on the list of priorities is implementing this?

Thanks.

Haiku® R1/Alpha 3 Commemorative CD WANTED!!!

Forum thread started by el.tigre.20 on Tue, 2012-10-23 19:46

As you may or may not know, CafePress will no longer be shipping or selling the Haiku R1/Alpha 3 Commemorative CD. I somehow missed the boat, and would really like to get my hands on a copy of it... would anyone be willing to sell it to me...

If you have an extra copy for me to buy, send me an email @
el.tigre.20@hotmail.com

I'd be willing to buy it for $10.00 - $15.00 (or more).

Cheers!

dates for alpha 4

Forum thread started by Haikurocks on Tue, 2012-10-16 13:55

i know this might be a difficult question to answer, can anybody tell/confirm the release date for alpha4? seemed 15 ofrece october was con schedule. thanks in advance, keep up the good job.

Haiku slower on Core2 Quad than BeOS 5.03?

Forum thread started by kp3ft on Tue, 2012-10-09 23:08

Not actually sure if it's slower or not, but anyway, I've been experimienting with Haiku R1A3, and a recent nightly build, and BeOS 5.03 on an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard. I've noticed that Chart runs at a much higher framerate in BeOS at 100% CPU usage (290 framrate, fullscreen, bitmap window) than either of the Haiku releases at 100%. In both Haiku versions, the framerate is around 175, and around 290 in BeOS.
In all cases, I kept the BIOS settings the same, and the screen set to 1024x768, 32-bit. The only difference is that I need to run BeOS using a Promise Ultra100 IDE pci card, and Haiku using the onboard SATA in IDE mode, but I don't see how that would affect processing. Pulse shows all four cores working in BeOS and Haiku. Turning cores on/off one by one in Haiku and BeOS noticably changes the framerate. Not sure if I understand exactly how SMP, threading, etc. works... in Haiku Chart says it's running at 100% CPU with 175 max framerate, but at the same time ActivityMonitor says each CPU is using only around 30%, and Pulse shows generally the same. Turning on "2 Threads" in Chart brings up the framerate to around 190.

I don't care about Chart itself, but I'm wondering if this is indicative of the overall processing speed being somehow hindered in Haiku ? Are there any other programs I can try to test out processing speed in Haiku? Also, are there any tweeks I can do in a config file in Haiku to bring it up to BeOS performance? It might not be related to overall processing speed, but rather just something to do with how BeOS and Haiku process video. I noticed that changing the screen settings make a big difference in both Haiku and BeOS, regarding the framerate. When switching to "direct window" in Chart, the framerates are almost equal in BeOS and Haiku.

The computer specs are:
Abit IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad, 2.4 Ghz
Radeon X300 SE PCIe 16x video card, 128 mb
512 mb RAM, DDR2 800 MHz

Java in WebPositive

Forum thread started by Skuld on Mon, 2012-10-08 20:06

Hi @ All,

as the subject says, i was wondering if it's possible to use the new JAVA (thanks a lot for that) for Web Apps? Is there a plan for a plug-in, for WebPositive? Or is there still one? The most i had found on web search was out dated...

I need this for a special app and i don't have a alternative. At the moment i have to use mAcOs on a terrible slow MBA (probably it's the MacOS which is terrible slow not the hardware...). Thats also the reason i write this the seconde time (that's the hardware problem)...

Another point, i had also tried a vers. of Ubuntu. The build-in JAVA wouldn't work for this app, i had to install a "original" SUN JAVA. Is it possible to get the same problems on Haiku (whitout the choice to use another/sun JAVA)?

Please, i beg you developers i need a right OS. REAL multi threading, REAL multi tasking on all levels. 6 Jahres ago i had decided it would be better to use MacOS instead of BeOS as primary OS. Now i could throw this stupid garbage on a wall cause of it's lack of speed and the "not feeling who's the boss on my hardware". Every time i'd tested an new vers of Haiku i don't understand why BeOS is gone and the other 3 "big OSs" ar still on life...sorry for the last, but i hope in this forum the most will understand this...

Thanks for answers

Greatings M.B. Skuld

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