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Over at his blog (with a new URL), Bernd Korz reports that as of yesterday, it is now possible to print using Samba, in ZETA. The first command? That was smbspool smb://administrator:jugul@manager/tvs 1 1 testprint 1 test.c. Let me quote from his post:
"So Samba uses thru the CUPS system the driver which is used under the “Serving-System”. Lets say you use a TVS Printer or any other modell you installed, Samba will use it."
Good news, it's now possible to print over your network to your Windows (or any other conected) box for example. As they say, it's one less reason to boot into Windows.
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After some delays, Koki (Haiku's PR guru) posted more information about the upcoming WalterCon 2006 on the Haiku mailing list. Here's the scoop:
"We finally made a decision on the venue for WalterCon Orlando 2006. "What took you so long?" many of you may ask, and rightfully so. The truth is that response to our first call for WalterCon was much lower than expected, and we were trying to figure out why and what we could do to improve this situation.
In an attempt to make WalterCon more attractive, we have come up with a program, as well as a few little surprises. The WalterCon program includes, among other things, talks by Michael Phipps, a technical presentation by Jonathan Thompson, and a web presentation by Axel Dörfler. Furthermore, the new Haiku Icon Set will be announced, and we will have a drawing with nice prizes from our generous sponsors. There will also be free time for attendees to code, show off their desktops, discuss
development or Haiku in general, or simply socialize.
As you can see, we are trying to do our part. Now it is time for you to do yours. WalterCon is more than just a great opportunity to meet the community face to face, and to discuss development, or the future direction of Haiku. Attending WalterCon is your chance to support Haiku in a different way. Come to Orlando, help us make WalterCon bigger and better, and have some fun with us. We'll make sure you don't regret it."
For all the details on the venue, the program, to register and for everything else WalterCon related, head over to their new WalterCon site and browse your way around. Thanks to Mike for his mail.
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BeOS / Haiku / ZETA is finally on it's way to get full NTFS read and write support. The driver has been done of one of the most active developers on the BeOS scene through the last 1 or 2 years, Gerasim Troeglaszov, alias _3dEyes**. His other projects have been/are the Romashka icq client, NaviTracker, the dictionary application Paradigm, DJVU Viewer and Samba.
The first version of the driver was yesterday released for public beta-testing and the developer needs your help! The new NTFS add-on has been written in less then in two weeks, and it's current features are: Reading folders, files and symlinks, writing and creation of new files, directories and symlinks, and finally deletion of directories and files. This means that you can rename and move your files and folders, get the volume label, change the volume label and gather information about free space attribute emulation for mime imitation.
Gerasim was kind enough to send ICO his current TODO list for the driver: Implementation of extended attributes to support BeOS/Haiku features, implementation of query support so you can search ntfs partitions with the Tracker, and build a version for Haiku.
As this is an early version of the driver, there are a few known issues: The possibility of errors appearing after large operations, but the problems often can be fixed with Windows own chkdsk tool. The driver might hang your system if you enter folders with a very huge number of files. Sometimes you will not be able to unmount partitions as your system will tell you that it's busy, but in these cases a restart of Tracker might help.
To everyone brave enough and who is interested in getting this undoubtedly very nice piece of software improved, please make your backups of your Windows installation and then download the public beta, NTFS_RW_0.0.8a.pkg.zip. The package contains the add-on itself and two additional tools from the ntfsprogs linux project: mkntfs and ntfsinfo. The developer himself does not recommend testing of the driver on partitions where you have important data. For those of you who don't have a partition for this purpose, an NTFS image can be created instead. Such an image can be created with the mkntfs tool. Please then take any file which is large enough (for instance your Titanic.avi will do) or make it with the dd command and then format it with mkntfs in ntfs, mkntfs -f myntfs.img. The image can then be mounted: mkdir /MyNTFS mount -t ntfs myntfs.img /MyNTFS.
All in all, Gerasim told ICO that the driver is already pretty stable in its current form, all known bugs have been fixed and that it's unlikely that you will loose any of your data. That's all folks, happy bug hunting!
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As most of you know, YAB has been used more often to create applications for BeOS and ZETA. Among them you can find for example MyBudget or the Yab IDE itself. Now the Yab-interpreter is close to the final version, which should be ready this coming month.
For the devs out there who want to test and help the devs find and squash any remaining bugs, you can browse the CVS and download it. The interpreter itself is finished, and the only (found) bugs remaining are in the IDE (and they're not showstoppers). Left to do is the documentation, which is in progress, for the the IDE, the yabasic commands and the yab-commands. The docs should be available both in PDF and Latex.
So point your browsers to the CVS page, download, test and don't forget, provide feedback. Thanks once again to Ralf for the heads up.
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Marcus OVerhagen (whom you know from other projects including drivers and also his work on Haiku's Media Kit), is now working on another Haiku project. This time, he's trying to get PXE boot to work.
What is PXE you ask? PXE means Preboot Execution Environment, and though an old technology, it's still quite used, especially to boot computers from a network (in my previous job we used it to reinstall a Windows image for exameple).
He posted two screenshots where you can see the attempts to boot using PXE. In the on the right (the most recent one), you can see that one of the API calls worked. It's still work in progress, but Marcus is working on it daily. We'll try to keep you up-to-date on his progress.
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As promised, here's a first look at ZETA's MultiUser implementation. While reading, please keep in mind that this is a first beta, usable but still incomplete and with bugs. MultiUser (from now on it'll be known as MU) will be available as an update to the upcoming ZETA 1.21, and instalation is quite simple, all that was needed to do was place two files in /boot/home and then from a terminal run setup.sh. At the end of the script, you're asked for a password, which will be the "root" (Administrator) password. After that, ZETA reboots. What happens next? Click below to see.
Update: As some of you noticed, we disabled the comments because they weren't working. I'm glad to report that they are back online and working as before.
Update 2: Hi again, two things. First, I was told that the "reboot" after user creating won't be present in the final MU update. Second, if you click below, you'll see that user editing is now possible, screenshot present.
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In his latest post, Bernd gives us an update of what's going on with ZETA at this moment. For one, they have now successfully ported Samba 3.x (I'm not sure if it's 3.0.23c) over to ZETA, thus much facilitating accessing shares over a network. Left to do is the Sambaserver, allowing ZETA shares over the same network.
Another important change, is that they've removed libexperimental from the tree, integrating it into libzeta. This change will of course impact those applications which linked to it, which now must link to libzeta. But since libexperimental was static, this change will make the app smaller, and faster. It will affect ZETA as well. According to Bernd's estimates, ZETA should now be 50 to 80MB smaller.
Some more changes have been done to the source tree, especially the makefile engine, which has been updated to 3.0, and also the Terminal app has been updated, with some fixes and tweaks, which, after the OK from Haiku, will be merged with Haiku's tree.
Now, MultiUser (or MU for the friends). As Bernd writes, I've been testing MU since last night, and so far I like it. It has its quirks (afterall, it's an early beta), but it's a welcomed addition to ZETA after so long. Soon I'll post here at ICO more detailed info about it, with of course some screenshots, so stay tuned!
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Going away on vacation does this to you... news slip by. Not only me but Frank's also away on a well deserved (or so he says) time out. One piece of news that got away, is that, from September 7th onward, you can now pre-order your very own, freshly baked copy of Magnussoft's ZETA 1.21.
You can order the retail version, the student version, an update (if you own a previous version, of which you must present purchase proof, as usual) or the Whitebox version. Not only end-users get some, but dealers, resellers etc also get a special "Replace your ZETA" offer. With this offer, they can replace their old ZETA stock with the new one, at a discount. So get your credit cards and aim your browser at the pre-order page to get your copy.
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But that's not all, you can also participate in the in the Haiku mailing list, where, during the voting period, some brainstorming will take place as well, to help form the final guidelines, when it comes to designing icons for Haiku (a standard that every dev can/should follow is essential I think).
Bear in mind though, that "while no single icon set is expected to be adopted in its entirety, the author of the icon set with the best total rating will be awarded a special mention certificate signed by project leader Michael Phipps". A surprise gift will also be given. So what are you waiting for? Head over and cast your votes. Results should be posted early October.
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We all know (and for the most) hate onboard audio, right? Well, recently Intel launched a new onboard standard, known as High Definition Audio (previously known as Azalia). It's becoming widely spread not only in desktops but also in notebooks. So far "our" OSes don't have a driver for it, but... it could all change soon.
Enter Cola-coder. After his vacation (and being ill), he's back in business and he's been a busy little coder, which is no surprise. A couple of days ago, he posted in his blog about his efforts in writing such a driver for ZETA, picking up where yellowTAB left of: "My aim is to build a driver that will support all types of codecs, with a nice 'bus' mechanism for being able to implement the modem support for it too at a later point (or any other HDA-based 'codec', in HDA speak)".
He's trying to get permission to open-source the driver, thus making it available for Haiku and BeOS as well, we'll have to wait to know if he was successfull. For now he's working hard on it, so stay tuned as we here at ICO will bring you progress as it happens.
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