BeOS/Haiku

Once upon a time this was my favourite operating system. It is still a reference platform for me and many others.

Windows Search – From Vista to Win 7

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3 years ago
by frankps in ,

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I have written some notes from a lecture about how Microsoft is implementing search in Windows 7. It is impressive. These notes will be edited as soon as I am back from the conference. If you haven’t started using Windows Search 4.0, please do. If you are an IT pro, please deploy it! If you as me have used BeOS in the past, be thrilled …

Introduction

Finding and organising files. “My stuff” and the corporate cloud. Is indexing gonna take my machine away, is it so heavy that it is gonna slow my work down?

Using Information in the Enterprise

Information workers (IWs) routinely look for information

  • Search performed within a task or goal
  • Targets a know, familiar set of sources
  • Data is increasingly becoming distributed on the network
  • Data found through browse and search activities

Finding Data in the Enterprise

Situation today it is hard to find and use data

Hard to provide and manage access to information

Windows 7 Search for Enterprise

Information is easy to find and use

Ease of management for data access scenarios

  • Provide consistent access to corporate data

Utilize data and IT resources to their fullest

Win 7: Search and Preview

UX for easy finding. Help users be productive when looking for data

Relevance indicators in the UI

Search Input Suggestions

Libraries – Organize Stuff … So You Can Find It

A screenshot published by Paul Thurrot on WinSuperSite

A screenshot published by Paul Thurrot on WinSuperSite.

Selecting the right Search Scope

Demo – Search and different view are amazing fast. Feels like sitting in front of a machine running BeOS! Finally Windows is getting a working indexing. Microsoft’s Libraries technology is gonna make us a lot more productive. No longer will be spending hours on the look for a specific document. We can now use keyword serches, by tagging our documents.

You can build queries as in Terminal in BeOS, but directly in the search window. No pop down menus needed.

The deault libraries might no be the ones that you want for your organization, and you can therefor create extra folders in Library. And you then build up what folders on what locations you want to search through. It makes Search smart to the folders that you have included in your defined Search/Library. Hit Win-key and E or F.

Library Locations

Fat drives, NAS, removable media (DVDs) and some share technologies.

Search Federation With OpenSearch

Search for data, regardless of location

Search through the corporate portal

MSW People

MSW Search

Metadata is shown down in the panel

Demoes – A few preview problem really not worth mentioning. Search in Win 7 is already very mature.

http://www.opensearch.org

Open Search Standard (now v1.1) and OpenSearch Description Document

Open Search has support for RSS and Atom. A new way of consuming RSS feed. IMPRESSIVE.

Rich Client experience: Preview, metadata, drag and drop, thumbnails, hit highlighting

Windows Authentication

Accept URL queries as defined by the OSDX.

One of the first applications to use the search connectors that will be introduced with Windows 7, is Flickr Search Connectr.

Useful References

Please visit OpenSearch. More references will be added.

This sucks!

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3 years ago
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According to VG this video is an official Microsoft movie ment for internal use, that some how ended up at Youtube.

Something tells me that MS should get rid of their sales department cause the torture my ears were put under during the playback of the video makes the way over to only using MacOS X at home, so, so tempting! This was so amazingly dull compared to Apple’s set of Apple vs Windows commercials, that I can only conclude with “Get a Mac!”

And yes, I almost forgot: Windows is so 80s …

Jabber for Haiku

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3 years ago
by frankps in ,

I recently took over the ownership of the Jabber for BeOS source code, originally developed by John Blanco (Rapture from Venice). The IM client is now renamed to Jabber for Haiku, and the source code released under MIT (same license as Haiku) on OSDrawer.net. I have asked Andrea Anzani to maintain the code, but any one interested in working on the code are encouraged to make contact with me or Andrea. Today we would like to give the community a small Easter present. We hope to see you haiku-os@conference.jabber.org.

jabber-haiku

Jabber (XMPP – eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is an open, XML-inspired protocol for instant messaging (IM) and presence information ( buddy list). The protocol is built to be extensible and other features are Voice over IP and file transfer, but are currently not implemented in the client for Haiku. What has been implemented so far, is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer – for secure communications on the Internet). SSL is also needed to use client with Google Talk, something that is now possible to do with the client. SSL is not included in the package, but can be downloaded from BeBits (has been tested with the BONE version).

As I am not a coder and this is an open source project, I would like to come with suggestion for a roadmap:

1.  Typing Notification
2.  Emoicons
3.  Graphics
4.  Group Chats is supported, but more functionality is needed.
5.  Multi account support
6.  Avartar support
7.  Libjingle – For VoIP, voicemail, video and file transfer.

Zebuntu – Why?

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3 years ago
by frankps in , ,

Yesterday OSNEWS wrote about a new project, Zebuntu:

Bernd Korz explains the goals of Zebuntu in the project’s announcement [German]: “Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new platform for our former Zeta customers. In the future, Zeta, BeOS, as well as any future Haiku applications, will run natively on Zebuntu. This also offers a distinct advantage for developers for these platforms; they can use Zebuntu to develop for their platforms while utilising the performance and versatility of Linux.” In other words, run BeOS applications on Linux. They have not forgotten about BFS support either. The project is, of course, completely open source.

I have known about this project for a while, mostly cause of great humoristic article on BeDoperer: Do you Zahoo! I laughed and I laughed and I …

I downloaded the mini-version of the distro, ran it 3-4 minutes under VMWARE, and dragged and dropped in to the Trash. It should stay there till I empty the Trash bin! It is simply nothing more then yet another linux distro in it’s current stage and not a particular good one either. You will be far better off running an officiale Ubuntu distro. They started in the wrong end! They should have gotten something working with B.E.OS, as in having something unique and then go public. Finale words, having Haiku/BeOS/ZETA layer in Linux would have been awesome, but Bernd and his new team is far from having achieved that.

My New Computer

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4 years ago
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My parents visited me last week, and during their stay, my dad told me that their computer had stopped working. I had put together a computer last november, and I gave it to them.

Today I fetched my new computer, and put it together:

  • MIST, 500W, ATX 2.2, 20/24 (power supply)
  • Lian Li Miditower, Aluminium,black
  • OCZ DDR2 4096MB Platinum XTC Dual PC2-6400 4x1024MB 800MHz
  • LG GGW Blu-Ray writer og HD-DVD player (internal player), black, SATA Retail w/ Cyberlink software
  • FOX+ P35A Intel P35 + ICH9 Socket 772xPCIex16, 12xUSB2, GbELAN, 5xSATA
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz LGA775 8MB, BOXED w/ fan, FSB1066Mhz
  • Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB, SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
  • Club3D Radeon HD 2600PRO Heatpipe 512MB, Dual DVI, HDMI, TV-Out

First of all, I chose the same cabinet and power supply as for the last computer that I built, as that was the most silent computer I had built so far. 4 GB of memory is perhaps a bit more then I currently need, but prices on memory historic low and I now that I will be doing some virtualization on this computer, of both Haiku and Linux. No, no, not Zebuntu (a horrible bad joke!). Since I plan to virtualize, rather then do triple-boot operating systems, I chose a quad core CPU.

I chose a silent graphic card without fan that had HDMI connect ability, and with inbuilt HD Audio and Blu-ray / HD DVD decoding capabilities. I guess this will be my Blu-ray player for some time. I bought a combo player as I already have 15 HD DVD movies. Something tells me that I have bought the last one.

I haven’t installed any operating system yet. There seems to be a bug with both Vista and XP (32 bit versions) when trying to install them on a machine with 4 GB. The process is incredible slow. I ran out of time, and will install Windows Vista Ultimate tomorrow.

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