Some miscellaneous geek stuff. I have updated my VMWare virtual machine of HaikuOS to the latest build from Sikosis as of January 30, 2007. Not much difference, just easier for people to use if they don't want to tinker with VMWare. Download it here. The screenshot you see there is me playing around with ping in HaikuOS. I'm pinging the loopback IP address just to see how well something that basic works now. So far, so good for the guys who work ceaselessly to bring us the resurrection of BeOS. With any luck, the networking system will be usable for general purposes within a few more months. Why does this matter? If you don't want to buy a Mac, HaikuOS is going to end up being the most practical way for you to run an open source-based operating system. It's already got the makings of being better than desktop Linux, and it has nowhere near as much popular support since most of us BeOS fanboys had to go to different platforms when Be folded and sold its assets to Palm (who idiotically abandoned most of them).

Also, my PHP script for exporting WordPress posts to the Movable Type export format has been updated. Think of this as version 1.0.1. It doesn't seem to have any problems with WordPress 2.0.X, but I haven't tried WordPress 2.1 yet. I'll get around to that in a little while.

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