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Articles Tagged "osx":
Enabling Networking for Haiku OS Under VMware Fusion ¬
2009-09-29
I have a fair amount of nostalgia for BeOS and have watched the development of Haiku OS over the years, even giving it a number of goes under VMware. I never bothered to get networking working, but with the release of Haiku R1/alpha1 I had to try. Here’s how:
You can edit the vmx file in a text editor, just add the following line:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000”
Restart the VM and it should work fine
Voilà!
Connect360 Version 3.34 ¬
2008-05-07
To follow up on Monday’s initial impressions of Connect360 version 3.31, specifically the following note I added after attempting to upgrade to version 3.33 which they released later that day:
Update: [Later in the day] It’s now been updated to version 3.33 and the change log notes that v3.32 was supposed to fix Mac OS X 10.3.9 support, but it still fails to launch on Emily’s G3 iBook running 10.3.9 with all the latest software updates. It (v3.33) also will not start media sharing on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Doh!
I contacted them regarding those two issues and yesterday morning received emails back from them stating that they had released version 3.34 to resolve those issues. So, last night I upgraded both machines to Connect360 v3.34 and tested.
It now works on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1, but still fails with an, “Unable to load Connect360,” error message on the iBook G3 running Mac OS X 10.3.9. I wholly expect that they’ll provide another fix or workaround for 10.3.9 shortly.
Oddly, the CHANGELOG file in Connect360.prefPane/Contents/Resources/ still only lists the following changes for the version 3.3x updates, but it’s obviously more for internal reference:
VERSION 3.32
- Fixes 10.3 incompatibility
VERSION 3.31 - Stability improvements
VERSION 3.3 - Added folder support for Movies - Made Movies folder rescan interval configurable - Fixed size of prefpane in OS versions earlier than Leopard (10.5) - Fixed port sharing with MediaLink - Fixed a little bug with the prefpane when ports are in use - Improved activation system - Fixed trial mode song counts - Updated ffmpeg transcoder - Added WMA audio streaming - Improved stability for shoutcast streaming - iTunes Library is now auto detected - Improved networking code - Improved support for multiple Xbox connections (3.31 really, pushed in) - iTunes video playcounts are now updated too (3.31 really, pushed in)
Connect360 Version 3.31 ¬
2008-05-05
Also while I was out of town, Nullriver released version 3.31 of Connect360, their Xbox 360 media streaming app for Mac OS X, on April 24th. This new version has the following changes:
- Added folder support for Movies
- Made Movies folder rescan interval configurable
- Fixed size of prefpane in OS versions earlier than Leopard (10.5)
- Fixed port sharing with MediaLink
- Added WMA audio streaming
- Updated ffmpeg transcoder
- Improved stability for shoutcast streaming
- iTunes Library is now auto detected
- Improved networking code
- Improved activation system
- Fixed trial mode song counts
- Fixed a little bug with the prefpane when ports are in use
- Improved support for multiple Xbox connections
- iTunes video playcounts are now updated too
- Stability improvements
Jump Ship or Tread Water?
I was quite surprised as Connect360’s development has been quite stagnant for a while (esp. with the release of their PlayStation 3 media streaming app: MediaLink). I wasn’t sure how long I’d have to wait for an update, if one ever came.
I had been considering1 Cynical Peak’s addition to the Mac Xbox 360 media streaming app market, Rivet, but had turned it away for the time being because it’s Leopard-only. Emily still uses a G3 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.9—Yeah, I know, it’s well overdue for an upgrade to Tiger—to stream her music to the Xbox 360, so I didn’t really want to be running two different softwares and possibly causing confusion as to why some features work here and others only work there.
Impressions
Here are my initial impressions after the upgrade, feature-by-feature (at least the ones I’m interested in):
Added folder support for Movies
This had somewhat been the bane of my existence, esp. after the Xbox 360 2007 Fall Dashboard Update had changed—for the worse—the way is shortened filenames. One big list of all the movies in my movie folder, including TV & video podcast episodes, was not only completely unruly, but took forever to scroll through.
It’s a little better now, but unfortunately Connect360 only allows one level of folders, so it dumps2 all subfolders (and subfolder’s subfolders) into the main Movies folder and tries to categorize misc. movie files in the various directories. In general it’s more organized, but things still aren’t where you’d expect them.
Two steps forward, one step back.
Made Movies folder rescan interval configurable
This one is useful since I never knew what the rescan rate was in the past. I wish they’d just use launchd to watch the directories in the movie folder you select so that they’d automatically know when anything was modified, but this is better than nothing.
Fixed size of prefpane in OS versions earlier than Leopard (10.5)
While I’ve since upgraded to Leopard, I noted this minor annoyance in regards to their update which coincided with the 2007 Fall Dashboard Update and so am glad to hear that it’s fixed. It was only a minor visual bug though.
Updated ffmpeg transcoder/Improved networking code
I don’t know if this is exactly the feature bullet point that this falls under, but it’s much faster to browse media from the Xbox 360 now and streaming starts faster.
Improved activation system
There was one side effect here, I had to reenter my activation code. No biggie.
Stability improvements
Only time will tell on this one.
The previous version had been pretty stable on my MacBook Pro running Leopard, but it frequently locked up on Emily’s iBook running Panther (requiring a full reboot). Hopefully all that will be solved.
The Not-Nearly-So-Final-At-All Word
It’s great to see that it’s still being actively developed and they’re focusing on significant improvements. Hopefully Nullriver will be able to improve the movie folder hierarchy issues, but it’s still worth the update as-is.
Update: [Later in the day] It’s now been updated to version 3.33 and the change log notes that v3.32 was supposed to fix Mac OS X 10.3.9 support, but it still fails to launch on Emily’s G3 iBook running 10.3.9 with all the latest software updates. It (v3.33) also will not start media sharing on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Doh!
1 See Jared Kuolt’s Rivet; A review. [via Daring Fireball]
2 It doesn’t really move directories, that’s just the way it displays them through the Xbox 360 interface.
