http://betips.net Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:45:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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: http://bebits.com/app/630 This patch enables ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/mozilla-usb-keyboards-and-international-issues/ Two years worth of Scot Hacker's articles for Byte.com's "The BeView" are now hidden behind a parent company's subscription curtain, but have been mirrored on his personal site (legally) at birdhouse.org/beos/byte/. Please consider subscribing to Byte.com if you enjoy this and other legacy computing content. His very old articles for ZDNet's ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/locating-scot-hackers-antique-beos-articles/ 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 ? HELP. These we donated computer, no doc on Motherboards, I cloned a W98 using Ghost and am trying to boot for the first time. http://betips.net/1997/09/09/bios-fail-safe-mode/ If you install the BeOS and then immediately install the upgrade packages before rebooting, a situations can occur where the machine always displays the Read_Me_First.html file at every reboot. To fix the situation, delete this file: /boot/beos/system/boot/InstallerRebootScript http://betips.net/1997/09/09/read_me_firsthtml-always-displays-on-reboot/ 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 2000/XP: /[windows partition]/Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/ Windows 9x/ME: /[windows ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/using-the-same-bookmarks-in-mozilla-for-beos-and-windows/ Ever wanted to feast your eyes on your favourite screensaver, but going to preferences | Screensaver is too much trouble? Any screensaver can be run from the terminal with the command screen_blanker "full_path_to_screensaver" Running just screen_blanker by itself runs the currently selected screensaver. From here it is quite easy to write a few 2-line scripts ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/run-screensavers-from-the-terminal/ 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? You could create a new folder full of zero-byte ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/blow-away-file-contents-while-leaving-attributes/ If you installed Windows XP on your computer after you installed BeOS on the same disk you might have some trouble getting into BeOS again. Don't worry; here is the nice way to do it without bootdisks and installation CDs. NOTE: This is a bit risky and I take no responsibility ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/reinstalling-bootman-after-installing-winxp/ There are two things to know for BeZilla international users, related to font problems: BeZilla uses system fonts for some elements, even on pages -- input fields, lists, drop-down menus, buttons, etc. Therefore, you should set the plain, fixed and bold fonts in the BeOS preferences to those with support ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/bezilla-and-non-western-sites/ How to configure an 802.11b wireless network card Install Bone7a (Do a Google search for Bone7a.zip). Enter /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/sample and find prism.conf . Load it up in a text editor and set your SSID. Rename the file to "prism" . Configure it as you would a normal PCMCIA ethernet card (see Configuring PCMCIA ... http://betips.net/1997/09/09/configuring-an-80211b-wireless-network-card/