You see... I like to spend some quality time in Kernel-land, User-land and, ocasionally, in KDL.
Is it travelling there expensive? (with British accent, please) You may ask...
Well, not quite... Just forget about that airplane, and ride one of my apps.

Unless otherwise noted, all the things on these pages are meant to be run in BeOS R5, Haiku, or derivatives.
There is (will be) *some* stuff for other OSs, but not much, and it's even of lower quality that the rest... Go figure!.

Without too much ado... Lo! and Behold! For these are dangerous stuff.

(As soon as any of these grows too much, it will get its own page, like poke did.)

Thinking that that nasty bug is not in your app, but hidden inside the OS?
Have you ever tried to write a device driver with little or not hardware specs at all?

Well, then maybe "poke" is for you too. It already helped my sis300 driver, by allowing me to see what the BeOS (Exp/Dano) and Win9x drivers were doing with my SiS 730 video card.

A BeOS/Haiku driver and supporting app for Philips SA713x based TV-Tuner/Video-In cards.

So far only FM and TV audio is working (and only for a couple of cards) thus the name.
See this page at BeBits for more info.

This one has the potencial to become my best project... IF I get video working :-)

Downloadable archives currently available:

This is a 10-Bands Graphical Equalizer plugin for the, IMHO, best audio player for BeOS: CL-Amp.
Implemented with cascaded IIR filters, doesn't has a great deal of quality, but it's fast and usable.

Some day it will evolve into a system-wide Graphical Audio Equalizer for BeOS/Haiku (original goal).

It does has a BeBits page too.

It seems I have problems to keep focused. I have a tendency to start many things at once, and then jump from one to the other. I have planned to use this section to list some of those things, but the list ended up being so large that got its own page!

Some times one does a really quick'n dirty port, or write a nasty hack that one, once grown enough, knows that are not really worthy of having their own BeBits page...

But... some of those can actually be useful to some other fellow BeOS user so...
Here you have them!:

Have you ever needed to look up some info from a windows help (.hlp) file while on BeOS? No? Well, I did, and luckly I've found a CGI based Window's Help files viewer, 'coz otherwise I'll still be rebooting. You'll need a CGI-capable webserver (like Robin-Hood) to make use of it.

I has some problem, like not listing the file's topics, but searching works ok. The online version seems to works flawlessly, so either I borked it while making it work with net_server, or "Robin Hood" ain't up to the task (original author recomends using it with apache. I don't have it so...).

Do you have a SiS730 based motherboard [X]? Do you fill that your Athlon is too hot? Try this hack-bit then!

It has allowed me to go from some steady 42-43 Celcius degrees to around 27-30 Celcius degrees when idle with absolutely no side effects in BeOS.

It is a totally reversible operation, do no requires any BIOS hacking or anything of that kind. So if something goes terribly wrong you simply have to reboot to roll back the change.

[X] I think that the SiS735 and some other models can also be cooled down this way.