The Long Haired Dude Talking Tech
If you are a Haiku OS enthusiasts AND an Austin Powers fan, this will make you smile. I just found the following Easter Egg in the naming of one of the threads of ‘media_addon_server’….
These folks are having too much fun….:-)
If you are a tinkerer of alternative OS’s, then you might know about Haiku OS. It is the Open Source recreation of the old BeOS, that was created by the now defunct, Be, Inc. It is the OS that was ‘almost’ the new Mac OS (Steve Jobs won that battle), but lost out to NeXTSTEP OS (the basis for todays Mac OSX).
Recently, in their development, the Haiku team has implemented a Package Management (PM) system (something that has always been sorely missing on BeOS and HaikuOS). That’s the good part. The bad part is that most BeOS/HaikuOS software that was previously packaged, is broken by the addition of the PM system.
There are a few software packages that I use with the Nightly HaikuOS builds, such as SoundPlay (for listening to Dark Matter Radio Network), OpenSound Driver (to make sound work in my VMWare HaikuOS VM) and Paladin (a development IDE, modeled after BeIDE, which itself was a port of MetroWorks CodeWarrior).
To help out Haiku OS enthusiasts, I have repackaged these software packages for use in the 4.1x+PM nightly builds. You can find these packages on this website or on HaikuWare. For the links, go to this page:
Enjoy! 
Wow! I just saw this posted on FaceBook. You can find the story over at “Screen Daily“. This guy was a legend in the screenwriting business. I think most regarded him as the Master Teacher on the subject.
Me and Hollywood will miss him. Thank goodness that he published a lot of material, so his knowledge will go on for future screenwriters.
So long Syd, you left this place better than when you came into it.
If you are an Art Bell fan, you know that he returned to the Airwaves on September 16th of this year (about 7 weeks ago) on SiriusXM Indie 104. If you visited his site ArtBell.com on Monday, you saw that the scheduled guest was replaced with a “Best of…” episode.
Over the past 7 weeks, Art’s listeners (that includes me) were having trouble with the Internet streaming feed, which is where a lot of listeners tuned in to hear the program. Art pressed SiriusXM to do something to address issue, including providing some temporary solutions to tide the listeners over, until SiriusXM could fully address the technological issues they were having with their streaming system.
As of Monday, after a Thursday evening ultimatum, this message appears on the site:
We are sorry that Dark Matter on SiriusXM has come to an abrupt end. We’ll examine our options and may be able to return in a different format and medium.
We have already identified many ways to bring a LIVE stream to you, it’s now just a contractual issue. Stay tuned…
In the mean time, ArtBell.com will still operate as long as financially possible, hoping for a workable solution to bring Art back to you, soon. Keep checking back here often.
Since that time, Art’s webmaster, Keith Rowland, has been testing alternative streaming solutions on the website. Based on comments on the official Facebook page of the site, by Keith; when asked about a possibility of a live streaming show without with or without SiriusXM, he replied that, “… Nothing heard from SiriusXM. We’re still working for either scenario.”.
So, at this point, there is no resolution to the question of will Dark Matter continue, whether it be on SiriusXM or an alternative solution.
I will be “Staying Tuned”…:-)
UPDATE (11-13-2013): Last night on the GabCast Podcast, Art Bell called in and had a discussion with the panel. You can go listen to the podcast yourself, but the bottom line seems to be that Art and SiriusXM’s relationship is over and he is now looking to break (legally) his Non-Compete agreement (not sure of the duration; someone said 2 years), so that he can get back to broadcasting the show, in a internet only, streamed format.
Also, before this podcast aired, I sent a message to Paul Bowman (Art’s SiriusXM producer), for an update on the situation, but have yet to receive a response. I’m guessing that SiriusXM is currently under a “no comment” policy regarding the issue. That would be standard practice. If I receive any update from Paul, I will post it here.
Again…I will be “Staying Tuned…”:-)
#FreeArtBell
UPDATE 2 (11-22-2013): Art has made a post on BellGab.com about what is going on. It’s a pretty long post, but the bottom line seems to be that SiriusXM is still standing firm on the Non-Compete and Art is moving forward with legal options, however long that may take, hoping for a resolution sooner than the length of the Non-Compete (2 years).
The “Free Art Bell” FaceBook page has posted a copy of Art’s post, which you can read here:
https://www.facebook.com/machfrei/posts/1393292777580673
UPDATE 3 (11-25-2013): Well, it looks like Art Bell and Keith Rowland aren’t resting on their laurels…this was posted yesterday on the ArtBell.com website:
ANNOUNCING THE DARK MATTER RADIO NETWORK
While we wait for Art’s return, we’ll be offering up other Internet radio shows on our LIVE stream, for your listening pleasure.
Monday 8pmEST / 5pmPST – Paranormal Podcast w/Jim Harold
Tuesday 8pmEST / 5pmPST – The Spec Sheet w/MV and Curtis
Wednesday 8pmEST / 5pmPST – Podcast UFO w/Martin and Sam
Thursday OFF AIR (Thanksgiving)
Friday/Saturday 12amPST / 3amEST – After Dark w/Bryan Alvarez
Saturday – TBA
Sunday 8pmEST / 5pmPST – Paranormal Central w/Jeffre Gonzalez
Sunday 10pmEST / 7pmPST – Supernatural Science w/Tobias McGriff
Listen Live
The stream will be active 15 minutes before the scheduled time of the show. We may repeat some shows, if they were pre-recorded. Watch for more shows to appear here. If you have a show and would like to be streamed here, contact webmaster@artbell.com.
Shortly after their 10am (PST) media event, announcing new iPhones, Apple has released the iOS 7 GM (Golden Master) to their developer community.
Additionally, they have released the GM for the new XCode 5. The version of Apple’s developer tools that supports iOS 7 and OSX Mavericks development.
If you are a developer or have a developer account, you can get the GM release by going to the developer site:
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