Howto: License To Killteam
Stephen B. - October 30th, 2006
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BeOS software tends to be quite stable, but as with any other OS there are times when an unresponsive application will need to be forcibly quit/killed. If you find yourself frequently having to kill specific programs, it can get a bit tedious to go through Team Monitor or ProcessController each time. Fortunately there is a fairly simple way to setup a keyboard shortcut to kill a frequently-uncooperative program – read on for the full details.
Over on ICO, a new article has been posted with details of some promising improvements in ZETA’s support for SMB, the protocol used for file sharing in Windows networks (also mentioned on OSNews). The improvements are currently undergoing testing and are apparently due – in a large part – to porting the lastest stable version of SAMBA, an Open Source impelementation of the SMB protocol. The IsComputerOn article contains some useful first-hand information from frankps, after he had a chance to put the new software through its paces with a Network Attached Storage device. Aside from reporting that standard operations work without problem, the most promising details mentioned is that video & audio playback works when playing files located on network shares. Attempting that with older versions of SMB support for BeOS was often a quick way to enter Kernel Debugging Land.
As already reported by IsComputerOn, HaikuNews, and OSNews, an Intel Pro Wireless 2100 driver is now available for Haiku, courtesy of Michael “mmlr” Lotz . In addition to being milestone in Haiku’s development, the driver also reportedly functions in R5 – which should be very welcome news for BeOS users who own laptops. The Intel 2100 chipset is apparently quite common, found in PCI, PCMCIA, and USB adapters – it was included in the first implemention of Intel’s Centrino “platform” (Carmel), which was used in many portable computers. There has also been some recent progress with Haiku’s network stack, Axel D??rfler has posted a status update on Haik-OS.org:
I *really* hate to use Stephen’s site to promote our latest CD, but he gave me access… ; ) http://www.rhymetorrents.com/halloween We did release volume five last month, as well. No BeOS references lately, but plenty of geek goodness, and High-C is in fact Sandwich Boy, so this is almost on-topic. Peace,
Over at IsComputerOn, DaaT was the first to spot an announcement from MagnusSoft regarding the release of ZETA 1.21. The post on ZETA-OS.com states that 1.21 has been sent to a CD manufacturing company for duplication (as of Sept. 19th); no official release date is mentioned, but they say that the the CDs should begin shipping to partners and resellers within the next couple of weeks. It is also currently available for pre-order. MagnusSoft have also released 1.21 version of the ZETA LiveCD, as reported by OSNews and ICO. The CD image files can be downloaded from ZETA-OS.com.
As reported by HaikuNews and IsComputerOn, developer Gerasim “_3dEyes**” Troeglaszov has released an unexpected treat for the BeOS community: an NTFS driver with exerimpental write support. NTFS, the filesystem used in current versions of Windows, has been readable in BeOS since at least R4.5 – but until now there has been no way to create or edit files on an NTFS volume from within BeOS. Shortly after the release of the driver for R5 systems, details were posted on ICO about a version for Haiku. The software is reported to be quite stable and doesn’t contain any known bugs, but as it is an early test version, the developer doesn’t recommend using the driver with partitions that contain important data. So if you like to live dangerously – or if you don’t mind creating an NTFS image file to test with – install the package, do some testing, and report any bugs you find to Gerasim.
As Chris Simmons of HaikuNews also spotted, The BeZilla team have recently begun releasing Firefox builds which are built from the branch that is due to become Firefox 2.0. Previous buids have typically been bleeding-edge “Minefield” builds – and as the Firefox page on BeBits notes, bleeding-edge bulids contain “the latest and greatest features, but often the latest and greatest bugs, too.” Builds based on the 2.0 codebase should be a bit more stable and comparable to official Firefox releases on other platforms.
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