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As many of you might be aware, the FrizBe Hardware Matrix site, has gone down due to the domain name being unregistered.

As this is a great resource for BeOS users, the people behind BeDrivers have mirrored the site with static pages. They are also endeavouring to get the actual data.

Related link:
http://www.bedrivers.com/hardware/

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The German online magazine freenet.de has made a longer review of Zeta.

The review is in German, and can be read here.

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yellowTAB is pleased to announce that it will be attending the CeBIT in Hannover this year.

Bernd Korz, yellowTAB's CVO, said that "There's so much interest in Zeta and yellowTAB at the moment that I could be in 20 different places around the world at once at the moment and still not talk to everyone. CeBIT gives us the chance not only to present Zeta and Zintr0 to new customers but also to meet and discuss with our partners."

CeBIT is the world's largest IT and telecommunications fair and is held in Hannover, Germany from 18th - 24th March. For more details and how to get there see the CeBIT homepage.

Visit yellowTAB in Hall 11, Stand E14.

For all those that want to know more about Zeta or more about the yellowTAB team there's another TV show coming up soon: CEO Torsten Linde and CVO Bernd Korz will yet again appear live on NBC Giga TV the 8th and 9th March. The German language programme is available on cable and satellite throughout Europe and on the internet.

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Warren, whom everyone knows as DarkWyrm, has been a part of the BeOS community for quite some time. Unfortunately an end has come to that.

For those following his posts over at his site, you know he's been struggling with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (a part of a group of typing injuries known as RSI - Repetitive Strain Injuries), a serious (and growing) problem which affects many computer users. His problem has been getting worst and worst and now the time has come for him to put aside everything computer related.

He had this to say:

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The developers behind the BeOS IM kit have just released a new version.

The new version has, along with several bug fixes, an improved Deskbar replicant (you can now select status for each protocol and display them), and support for the AIM protocol (Messaging, receiving, online / away / offline notifications). Other changes are:
  • The client can now handle dropped People files and prints their details into the message (name, email, IM connections)
  • Automatically creates contacts when asked for authorization.
  • Contacts are queried for, over all drives.
  • "Action buttons" have been added to the client.
IsComputerOn hopes that many of our readers will download it, and give the developers bug reports and feature requests.

This wasn't the only instant messenger that got updated today though, as also BeMSN v1.5 got released (both for the net_server and for bone).

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Charlie Clark has just announced that the next BeGeistert 012 will be held April 17th/18th (Sat-Sun).

The community gathering will, as always, be held in a youth hostel in D?sseldorf, Germany. For all of you that wants to attend, please register as soon as possible.

I was there last year, and can only say that it was a great oportunity to meet your friends from various BeOS channels on IRC and from BeShare. And as always, you will get the chance to see the latest development from various developers, including yellowTAB.

If you don't live in Germany and want to attend BeGeistert, I would recommend that you consider travelling with the German low budget airline company Germanwings. They are flying from destinations all over Europe to Cologne / Bonn.

Sadly I will not be there this time, but I hope you will!

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I visit the page at 1.30am (6.30GMT) and nothing was new and now that I get up, Rudolf updated the driver. I think he did it on purpose :)

Coder extraordinaire (and very nice guy to top) Rudolf Cornelissen has updated his NVIDIA driver bringing it up to version 0.09. This new release brings the user the following:
  • Fixed NV11 trouble with repeating screen(s) on the right side of the monitor;
  • Updated CRTC memory granularity code to work-around a hardware bug in older cards
  • Fixed fuzzy modes / no picture on GeForceFX 5700 cards: PLL discriminator restrictions updated.
So if you have an NVIDIA card, don't forget to update and really don't forget to provide feedback.

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Szymon Masiak is the absolute winner of the ZetaNews Wallpaper Competition 2004. He has submitted a large number of beautiful background images, which means that he gets both a full version of Refraction AND a signed copy of Zeta RC2 to run it on. As the five winning images were all made by Szymon, ZetaNews decided to give the best competitor, Rosa Naomi Toyonaga, a Refraction Early Bird License as wel.

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Just spotted this over at beunited.org (browsing session before hitting the sack) and they announce that Georges-Edouard Berenger has kindly donated them the source to the very useful Process Controller. And like they say, it's definitely indispensable (if you're not using it, shame on you).

They also had this to say: "The source will be released as LGPL and be listed on the developer page at beunited.org for cvs download. Active development is beginning now and developers wanting to join the team are asked to email the team lead." So if you know of ways PC can be improved, shout out and join the team.

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Just read a mail sent by Vassilis Perantzakis, from BeOS MAX fame. His idea is to create a hardware reporting tool where the user can then select all the hardware that works. The tool will then send back a report to BeOS MAX (anonymously if preferred) with the IDs of all the devices.

It's an interesting idea and the best thing about this challenge is, Vassilis will pay 100 Euros to the first one to come up with a usable app. That's around $127USD. So if you think you have the skills, start your coding engines! But beware, Daniele Protti, the author of the excelent BePC-Info is already adding this hability to his app, even extending it somewhat.