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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Using the same bookmarks in Mozilla for BeOS and Windows
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Using the same bookmarks in Mozilla for BeOS and Windows. Contributed by: adam n. This tip is valid for: Both BeOS and Haiku. There is a simple way to share your bookmarks between Mozilla for BeOS and Windows (this works for Phoenix too). Mount your Windows partition and navigate to the Application Data directory for the version of Windows you are using. Windows partition]/Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/. 60GB was posted...
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » TrackerBase
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. December 14th, 2007 by shacker. This site now runs on WordPress. The TrackerBase info below is preserved for historical reasons. Now that I have a nailed-down Internet connection, I’ve re-written the system (TrackerBase II) to generate most of the site’s pages on the fly. The menu and index pages are generated statically with a separate perl script, but all of the actual tip pages are generated in real time. About BeOS Web Servers. There ar...
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » BIOS FAIL-Safe-mode
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Contributed by: Rick Ostrich. This tip is valid for: Both BeOS and Haiku. Computer always boots in BIOS Fail Safe Mode. I have tried clearing the CMOS, changing the battery, reset to defaults, and make tried every setting on power management? These we donated computer, no doc on Motherboards, I cloned a W98 using Ghost and am trying to boot for the first time. Don’t duplicate commands (1). Installing Haiku Alpha1 in VirtualBox under OS X (5).
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Blow away file contents while leaving attributes
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Blow away file contents while leaving attributes. Contributed by: Michel Clasquin. This tip is valid for: Both BeOS and Haiku. Say you have a folder full of GIF files that you have converted to. BeOS icons. You want to upload this icon set to BeBits. But your users will only ever use the icon attributes, so why make them download the file contents? Touch file2xyz2 cp file2xyz2 $file rm -f file2xyz2 done. Now all you need to do is change the...
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Mozilla, USB-keyboards and international issues.
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Mozilla, USB-keyboards and international issues. This tip is valid for: Both BeOS and Haiku. 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 “@” symbol. But by default USB keyboards in BeOS disallow some of those keys. Problem solution is here:. This patch enables right-win key on USB keyboards.
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Don’t duplicate commands
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Don’t duplicate commands. This tip is valid for: Haiku only. 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 if you don’t already have them. But wait a minute! Haiku already has its own wget, in. Now suppose you had both, which one would activate if you typed. Now maybe the one in. So befor...
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Contribute
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. December 14th, 2007 by shacker. Info out of date? Want to contribute BeOS/Haiku info? Got something to say? Sock it to me. We’re especially interested in the possibility of updating the site with info about Haiku. If you consider yourself a Haiku expert, please consider getting involved. Don’t contribute tips or tip edits here. Instead, contact me and we can talk about making you a direct contributor to the site. More goodies for 3dmiX (1).
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Avoiding awkward file placements on Desktop
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Avoiding awkward file placements on Desktop. This tip is valid for: Both BeOS and Haiku. Wrong Here’s the trick:. Move LaunchBox back on top of the replicated Workspaces panel and you’re all set. Posted in Tracker and Deskbar. Don’t duplicate commands (1). Installing Haiku Alpha1 in VirtualBox under OS X (5). 60GB was posted on September 9, 1997" Creating a BFS volume on a partition 60GB (1). Aliases via the ‘hosts’ file (1).
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server » Blog Archive » Use a filepanel in your script
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The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server. Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users. Use a filepanel in your script. This tip is valid for: Haiku only. BeOS has long had the. 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 seems to have slipped something else in quietly:. Filepanel -d /Desktop -t “Open a File”. Documentation seems limited to running. Don’t duplicate commands (1).
