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Has fall-backs for non-javascript and NetPositive.

As always, any comments are appreciated.

If the colors aren’t to your taste, the layout doesn’t work for you - then talk to Mikael and he can fix it Yep, I’ve made him an administrator and so he can now fix stuff here.

If you want a plugin added, yell quickly (list is available here http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility) and I’ll see what I can do to get it installed. Apart from that, let me know if you have any problems

Enjoy!

Update: slaad asked for gravatars, so they’re now installed… No idea what they are, let alone if they work, so go figure

In short, the following users are invited to test images for correctness.
-AMD users
-Intel users that require the IDE Replacement Driver ( or require it be absent )

The archive is 48 images made up of all possible combinations of
{R5, R5bone, R5.1d0} , {intel, amd}, {floppy, cd}, [ ideReplacementDrivers, ramLimitBootloader ]

items enclosed in [ … ] can be combined with each other, eg, none, ideRepl, ideRepl+ramLimiter
items enclosed in { … } cannot be combined.

The floppy images were created with `makebootfloppy -cd` and saved as a raw image by using `dd`
The cd images were created from the above with, `mkhybrid -b foo_floppy.img -c boot.catalog -a -r -J -V BeOS_Boot -o foo_cd.img` ( http://betips.net )

The images can be downloaded from : http://mmadia.zelect.org
Those that need to be tested are are prefixed with “untested_”.
On BeOS, the images can be written with `dd if=/path/to/foo_floppy.img of=/dev/disk/floppy/raw`
*nix and *BSD’s can use a similar `dd` command.
In Windows, rawwritewin-0.7.zip can be used.

Please leave a comment or email me at mattmadia -at_sign- fuckmicrosoft -dot- com
Thanks to ChaOS for file hosting.

Post a comment here, or send an email to the IM Kit list!

In other news, Andrea Anzani (xeD) just commited an inital version of a brand new Jabber protocol to the SVN. Works well, just needs a few finishing touches! He’s also working on adding emoticons for the im_client, for those of you who fancy that kind of thing..

Well, I’ve been working on school stuff mostly, which means that I’ve done next to nothing on the Kit. Shame on me. slaad on the other hand has been coding here and there, among other things he’s been making a very fancy web client, have a peek over at his web site!

Other news include localization in Zeta, maybe someone can take that as a challenge and add localization for R5 too? What else.. I’ll have to have a look at the SVN log.. Oh, the Info popper has been updated and polished and now support multi-line messages. Very nifty. Now if I could just find some time to update the email notify add-on for MDR 3.0.. Shots over at that .au place.

Other than that it seems to be mostly bug fixes, which is a good thing too. I’m hoping to have more time free from school in the spring, so maybe I’ll be able to add a thing or two to the Kit then.

And of course those that know me know that i’ve been using BeOS since R3 (x86…ie Intel) came out in March/April 1998. I used Mail-It from Beatware http://www.beatware.com/ and i paid for it, and i paid for the various upgrades as it was (and still is) a quality product.

So here at Loved Central ( )…aka Loved.com i’ve been using a few Linux distros for a long long time. Mandrake 6.5 saved my @ss a few years ago and i’ve liked it a lot, but then when i went all out and installed Mandrake 9.1 on all of my servers i discovered that Mandrake Linux enabled all Apache plugins that were known to mankind. This resulted in a couple of Chinese sites hooking in to my site (Loved.com, which i hosted at home on my own servers) and taking advantage of the Mandrake Linux Apache mod_proxy “open door”.

I closed the “door” after a few weeks and thankfully there was not much traffic from the Chinese ppl, but i think i was lucky for being vigilant. I removed the Mandrake Apache RPM (rpm -e httpd-2) and compiled my own and rolled that out to my servers.

Very very lucky as it didnt cost me anything in terms of increased bandwidth.

So i tried a few other distros…and here i am now.
I have Yoper http://www.yoper.com/ on all of my computers. It’s fast. It’s reliable. But it also suffers from a few issues all the others have.
Mainly around hardware detection and drivers. Yoper actually works. I was very suprised. Version 2.2 is due to come out in the first quarter of 2005 (Q1, 05 for you marketing tyoes) and i really look forward to it.
I like Yoper though as it is a nice quick distro and it’s one of the very FEW distros where all of my hardware is detected and well…just works.
Nice.

I also tried Ubuntu. Everything workd, except for my TV card. Which works in Yoper, and Mandrake 9.1, (fails in 9.2 and 10.0) and 10.1it works again.
I actually paid for Mandrake 10.0 and well…am sadly despondent about that release.
Ubuntu….well…yeah it’s all nice and works (not my TV card though) ….but it has the Debian mantra of stuff like “no Sun java” coz it’s not open source.
Well….given people who would want to try Ubuntu would most likely be developers (like me) and would pass on their experience based on that….well i find this whole “Debian/Ubuntu no Java coz it’s not open sourced” crap to be well…crap.

As an acive developer and one who uses Eclipse ii can understand that i may have to download a compatible version of Suns Java, but to read the doco on the Ubuntu site about their stance on Java is well….in MHO amateurish.

And i tried the new Novell “Desktop Linux” and aalso arranged to meet with Novell as i work with a large Aussie bank….and got a very interesting presentation from them.

They are not going to be dropping SuSe like some other past errors they have made. SuSe/Novell Linux is here to stay.
Given issues we have around Red Hat’s ability to servicee us it’s highly likely we may end up using SuSe/Novell Linux before the end of 2005. Sweet. And i like SuSe. And compared to the slug that is Red Hat (kernel 2.6.x anyone???) i think that that is a Good Thing.

And don’t get me started on the AMD Opteron v Intel Titanic…i mean Itanium…..i’ll save that for another blog

And so….back on topic and back to the subject.

I’ve been using Mozilla as i mentioned in the opening paragrah for a long time.

So i have finally stopped using Mozilla as an application. I now use Firefox and Thunderbird. I had a few issues with importing my Mozilla mail into Thunderbird, but found that i could drag and drop the contents into Thunderbird ( i copied it, not moved it just in case) and lo and behold all of me email was there.
Fantastic.
The next thing i am looking forward to is Sunbird, the Calendar application. I have a few thougts on that and may convey that to the Sunbird team.
Anyway, i just thought i’d say that Thunderbird works damn fine down here in Oz for my multiple email accounts and so you should NOT hesitate and switch over to it.
cheers
peter

So far, Qt’s code is significantly easier to follow in terms of API complexity. Out of 20 files, only about 5 or so need to be changed.

A decent amount of it is rewriting Qt’s “emit [signal](data)” to BMessages and that should be more tedious than difficult.

I even feel mildy confident about most of the Qt –> Be API changes. Although if you’re decent at Qt and would like to lend a few minutes to answer some questions, things would go smoother.

In other news, Nokia released an early alpha of a Gtk WebCore/KHTML. It’ll be interesting to see how they worked around Apple’s Objective C.

Showing a message can be as easy as “hey InfoPopper ‘’ipAM’ with title=SomeTitle and content=’woot! it displays’”, or you can do it the coder way. Incredibly handy, if you ask me, and easy to use. I’ve already written a little filter for MDR that shows a message when an email is received, took maybe thirty minutes including the time it took to figureout the MDR filter stuff.

screenie.

I’ve heard that other people are considering adding support for it too.. Let’s hope it spreads like wildfire!

The reason was to add the functionality for blocking the annoying comment spams that had been getting a bit out of control in recent weeks. The web used to be such a nice place…