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Avoiding awkward file placements on Desktop 23 Nov 2009 | 06:48 am
If you use the desktop applet LaunchBox, or keep some other tool open at some fixed position on the screen, you may have experienced this: Newly created or re-ordered files on the Desktop can happen t...
Don’t duplicate commands 6 Oct 2009 | 03:06 am
When you start working in Haiku, it is tempting to hit the repositories and download everything in sight. A lot of command-line files can be found there from the BeOS days. But you might want to check...
Missing NetPositive? 2 Oct 2009 | 06:09 am
If you are an old BeOS user, likely one of the things you miss about Haiku is NetPositive, the native BeOS browser. Let’s all agree that its days as an actual web browser are over, this still leaves i...
Finger relief for the switcher 27 Sep 2009 | 10:24 am
It is bad enough to switch between a Windows or Linux machine, where you copy text with Ctrl-C, to a Mac, where Command-C is used. Now throw in a Haiku setup with its use of Alt-C and things get rea...
Use a filepanel in your script 25 Sep 2009 | 10:47 pm
BeOS has long had the alert command. With alert, you can put up a little message on the screen with one to three buttons: alert “Hello World” “go away” “hello” “ok” With Haiku alpha1, the dev team s...
Synchronize Bon Echo bookmarks 25 Sep 2009 | 10:09 pm
If you use Xmarks to synchronize your bookmarks across browsers and OS’s, you will know that life without your bookmarks is intolerable :-). Xmarks requires Firefox 3 to run. But it used to be known ...
Installing Haiku Alpha1 in VirtualBox under OS X 25 Sep 2009 | 09:48 pm
VirtualBox is a Virtual Machine Manager. That means that it is a program that pretends to be a separate computer, onto which you can load different operating systems. Unlike Parallels or VMWare, it is...
Haiku on a VMM: solve the mouse jitters 25 Sep 2009 | 08:20 pm
I got Alpha1 working under both Q (Qemu for OSX) and Virtualbox. No networking and I haven’t tested sound yet. But the install (from physical CD) went buttery smooth in both cases. However, both were...
Haiku on Virtualbox: getting data in 25 Sep 2009 | 08:01 pm
With the release of Haiku R1Alpha1, VirtualBox is a great way to play around with the alpha without committing a real partition to it. But VirtualBox tends to act like an island, entire unto itself. ...
Mozilla, USB-keyboards and international issues. 9 Sep 1997 | 09:36 pm
Mozilla has its own keyboard handling, and left keyboard control keys (Ctrl, Alt, Win) are reserved. So international users must use right controls in order to get some symbols, e.g. most important “@...
