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Is The BeOS Revision 5 Out Of Time? (BeOS Inc. BeOS Revision 5 and dates commencing January 1, 2011)

Forum thread started by LastDaysBeOSUser on Thu, 2011-02-17 05:26

Am I the first among those still using BeOS Revision 5 this 2011 to have made the unpleasant discovery that dates beyond the end of 2010 are not adequately supported? On the BeOS Revision 5 Deskbar select the time with the mouse cursor and press the left mouse button and then press the right mouse button. From the resulting drop down menu select "Change Time..." with the mouse cursor and press the left mouse button. In the "Time & Date" tab which outputs observe that beyond 2010 there is only 1965. Both through Tracker and bash, although it can maintain a date stamp of a for example 2011-modified file copied into one of its mounted file systems, Revision 5 cannot assign a date stamp beyond the end of 2010. Does this mean that the BeOS Revision 5 - actually yet an excellent operating system with myriad contemporary uses - is simply... out of time? Or is there some patch available or some corrective configuration that can be made so as to adequately support date modification stamps beyond the end of 2010? This also holds for the BeOS 5 PE Max edition version v31b1. This does not hold for Zeta 1.0 or Zeta 1.2. I have at this writing found no information regarding this somewhat major problem with Revision 5, and hope to know how the problem is known and what if any solution can be applied to it.

How to get Web Positive? Why is it not in Nightly Builds?

Forum thread started by macsociety on Wed, 2011-02-16 22:32

Updated to a Nightly Build and noticed it no longer has Web Positive. Where can I get it from?

Also, why is this browser no longer part of the Haiku builds?

tj

New guy here

Forum thread started by dupek on Sun, 2011-02-13 19:21

I read some posts related to AMD. I have e-machine ET1352G. I installed on my second HD and( for Alpha) work OK. I am not expecting, at this stage, to have everything working. What works on my computer:
Installation went fine, video works better that on some Linux distro, no sound, did recognize some USB
devices (flash drive, printer(HP DescJet 1000). Can not get recognize usb external cd/dvd(Liteon). Did recognize my external USB HD. The print server not working ( will not send signal to printer).
My BIOS let me boot from second HD.My primary is win7 x64. I did run it under the vmbox, but the v4.0.2 have screw up the USB. To fully test it - have to be installed on HD.
I am still confuse about the installation packages. It will come with time. It is a new( to me) OS and have to learn. In summary - for Alpha - look and runs good. Looking forward to Beta version.
I will hook-up my Canon printer and will let you know all about. I have Canon digital camera (T1i) and would like to see this working.

Noob boot manager question

Forum thread started by DrTeeth on Sun, 2011-02-13 10:36

Hi,

I want to give Haiku a whirl, but the boot manager information is confusing.

I use a boot manager (BING from Terabytes Unlimited. I do not want Haiku to write to the MBR. If the boot manager is necessary to boot Haiku, I want it in the Haiku partition - this is what I do with all Linux distros I try. It does not look as if this is possible from the install guide.

If the boot manager is not needed (i.e. I can use my own) the installation instructions do not seem to make it clear that I have an option not to install it. The BSD distros do not need their boot manager IIRC (only played with a few).

As you can see, I'm a bit confused as to how to proceed.

TIA

DrT

How can you delete your account?

Forum thread started by apgreimann on Thu, 2011-02-10 05:08

Hello, all.

Many of you are familiar with my posts which deal with forking Haiku. I won't get into that... :) For a while, I gave up on the idea and pretty much said I'd quit, but I'm going to give it a go--for real this time. :)

Anyway, getting to the point--I finally sat down and read the Guidelines, which say once I start building a fork is that I state I'm not associated with the Haiku project. Quote from article: " is not associated with the Haiku project." With that said, how do I delete my Haiku user account (in order to make this statement true)?

I cannot find a link to do this on the page. Any assistance here would be appreciated, guys. The Haiku forum's been a great community.

Upgrades and personal files

Forum thread started by drcouzelis on Tue, 2011-02-08 04:19

For those who have Haiku installed on their hard drives...

How often do you upgrade to the latest nightly build? Do you save your settings? Or, do you reinitialize the partition and start with a clean installation?

What do you do to save your personal files? Do you use a separate BFS partition? Do you back up your files? Do you just keep them on your primary BFS partition and only upgrade the operating system files?

I've had Haiku installed on my hard drive for a while, but it's only been the past couple of weeks that I've been using it for a lot of personal work. Now I have a lot of personal files on my BFS partition. Most of it's backed up online, but I'd like to find an easier solution for the future. I was wondering what other Haiku users do about upgrades and personal files.

Haiku progresses way too quickly to stay with the same nightly build for a long time. :P

Haiku booting on Mac Mini 2010 but no Sound no Network

Forum thread started by macsociety on Fri, 2011-02-04 03:50

Well, I actually am able to get my 2010 model Mac Mini to boot from a USB Thumb Drive now. Lots of tinkering I was able to write the haiku-anyboot.image to the USB Thumb Drive in OS X and then with a bootable CD with reFit on it, it can now see the BeOS Thumb Drive and actually boot from it. Using wired Apple mouse and keyboard of course. No wireless.

Unfortunately, Haiku does not even see the built in ethernet port and I even tried a Apple USB Ethernet dongle and Network Preferences sees it but it does not seem to communicate to the network at all. So, close, but no cigar.

Sound also does not work. The Media Preferences see the HD Audio but no sound. Tried Media Player and it acts like it sees the data but no sound. 8-(

So, can boot from either a Live CD or if you do what I did above, boot from a USB Thumb Drive with Haiku on it. Just not really too functional when there is no sound or internet.

Anyway, wonder if any gurus have an idea on how to get sound or network running in this config?

Was nice to be somewhat successful after spending hours tinkering and getting it to finally boot Haiku though. hehehe

tj

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