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Issue #14      December 15, 2000      Refrigerate After Opening What's New Bloody 'Bunnies' Game in Beta: BlackHoleSun Software, creators of the commercial puzzle-strategy game Krilo for the BeOS and with three more titles on the way, has released BeOS version 0.99f of their upcoming game Bunnies, which can be downloaded for the BeOS. BlackHoleSun is hoping for a lot of beta feedback on this game. Bunnies is a game where bunnies stomp each other to death, causing little bunny parts to fly everywhere (a la Quake). Yee-haw! Note: The BUN will be away for the holidays and back in the New Year. See you then! The Hidden Question The last hidden question was, "This album by The Beatles included the song 'Martha My Dear.'" The answer is The White Album. About 35 people answered correctly (don't forget to include your address!), and here are the fabulous five who won user-friendly Be CD cases: Daniel Usmar -- United Kingdom Noel Abela -- Malta Brian Chaney -- Maryland Ignasio Torres Masdeu -- Spain Tipton Cherico -- Texas The Hidden Question Rules: Somewhere in the newsletter there will be a hidden trivia question. If you've registered your copy of BeOS 5, send an e-mail to hidden@be.com with the correct answer (and your name and address, please) and you will be entered into a drawing to win some nifty BeOS swag. PLUS your name will be announced in the next newsletter as one of the Big Winners. That is all. Add Replicants to the Deskbar Time is money, or so they say. So, if I give you a tip that saves you time, you're actually saving money. In other words, you'll owe me big time after this tip, where I save you money by sharing how to put Replicants into the Deskbar for easy clicking. You can do this from the command line or from your UserBootscript. To do it from the command line, simply launch Terminal (go to the BeOS menu, under Applications click Terminal) and then insert this command: desklink /boot/beos/apps/NetPositive The Replicant will remain in the Deskbar until you restart your computer. If you like the look and feel of this Replicant-Deskbar pairing and you don't have a fear of commitment, you can make things more permanent by adding the command to your UserBootscript. To do it from the UserBootscript, go to home/config/boot/UserBootscript. There may only be a UserBootscript.sample file, in which case you'll just need to delete all the stuff after the first line and then insert the same command as above: desklink /boot/beos/apps/NetPositive Then save the file as UserBootscript. Restart your computer and the NetPositive icon should show up in your Deskbar. Neato! To remove the NetPositive icon, simply use the command: desklink remove=/boot/beos/apps/NetPositive ...or remove the line from UserBootscript, depending on how much you want the Replicant out of your life. You can also substitute the path to any application on your system, or tell the Replicant exactly what to do when right-clicked. For example: desklink "cmd=Open TipServer:/boot/beos/apps/NetPositive http://www.betips.net/ &" /boot/beos/apps/NetPositive Now a left-click will launch a fresh NetPositive window, while a right-click will give you a context menu asking whether you want to "Open NetPositive" or "Open TipServer." Remember to include the ampersand; if you leave it out, the Deskbar might become temporarily unresponsive. The desklink command doesn't necessarily have to point to applications, either -- it can point to any file or folder on your system. Who played Lieutenant W. D. Kivel in 1964's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"? If you want to do this graphically, download Jon Watte's HotLink utility (http://www.b500.com/bepage/), but remember that you can't use the graphical version to automate the creation of Replicants at boot time. Also useful is Mike Crosland's linker (http://www.bebits.com/app/922), a Tracker Add-on that places a link to any folder, file or application in the deskbar. Make your checks out to Wendy Hall (no middle initial), please. Check it Out A holiday gift from Gobe Software! If you purchase software from Gobe's web store before December 31, 2000, your purchase could be free! One lucky customer each week will find their purchase not charged to their credit card. You could purchase Gobe Productive, BeOS 5.0 Pro Edition, Corum III, and the BeOS Bible and not pay a dime -- such a deal! Gobe Software is the developer of the premier personal productivity application for the Be Operating System (BeOS), Gobe Productive. Gobe also publishes and supports the BeOS Pro Edition and Corum III, a fantasy roleplaying game for the BeOS: Warning: This has nothing to do with Be or BeOS -- if you're not interested in anything but, you should probably stop reading now. Okay! For those of you still with me, I thought I'd forego the horoscopes this week and tell you a bedtime story. "Grocery Store Crime" by Wendy Hall I did the weirdest thing in the grocery store the other night. I ran into the store to grab some crucials before "The Simpsons" started. So I've got my list and I'm scooting around, finding what I need and flinging it into the cart. The one thing on my list I can't find is salt and pepper (yes, I know it's two things, but you know what I mean). I leave the cart and walk around the corner to ask the guy stacking milk where the salt and pepper is (are). He tells me and I zoom over there, find what I need, then dash to the check-out. I pull up behind the single guy (ALWAYS get behind the single guy -- never has checks, doesn't buy much, no coupons -- low-maintenance customer through-and-through) and reach down to unload my groceries onto the conveyor belt thing. I do an inner double-take as I realize there is a foreign magazine in the kiddie seat of the cart. How did that get there? I look down into the cart and all the groceries are unfamiliar! This isn't my cart! Omigod, I grabbed someone else's cart and whisked it away. My eyes darted around. I felt like I had inadvertently stolen something from someone (which, okay, I had) and they were about to appear and yell at me. No one was eyeing me, and no one looked like they were searching for their lost cart. I grabbed my salt and pepper, pushed the cart back against a cranberry juice display, and made a beeline to MY cart. It was still there, sitting alone in the aisle I left it in. I was all discombobulated and had to check that each thing on my list, which was still in my hot little hand, was indeed in the cart. I thought, who knew how many things I loaded into that Other Cart? A thorough head-count of items -- and the realization that all I had gotten was salt and pepper after I abandoned the cart -- convinced me that I was in the clear. I guiltily pushed my cart to the check-out lane, still looking for that angry customer who would berate me loudly in front of everyone for stealing their cart and then not even trying to give it back -- which I considered, but then thought, geez, I really don't want to wander the store asking everyone, "Is this your cart?" Besides, then I wouldn't get AWAY with it. Not only did no one approach, the cart was still sitting there in front of the cranberry juice display. Maybe they got frustrated and left the store. Maybe they hadn't noticed yet. Hm. I checked out, hauled the groceries out to my car and drove home with fifteen minutes to spare until "The Simpsons." As my boyfriend Mark unpacked and put away the groceries, I considered telling him my tale. But I didn't. I'm not sure why. Credits & Legal Stuff Editor, Writer, Criminally Sane: Wendy Hall Copyeditor, Remotely Wired: Mike Popovic To answer that hidden question, send e-mail to hidden@be.com If you missed the horoscopes something terrible, send e-mail to wendy@be.com and let me know -- otherwise they'll probably get phased out. Read past issues of The BUN here. The BeOS User Newsletter Copyright (c) 2000 by Be, Inc. All rights reserved. Be, Inc. 800 El Camino Real, Suite 400 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: (650) 462-4100 Fax: (650) 462-4129 Web: http://www.be.com/ Be, BeOS and BeIA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Be Incorporated in the United States and other countries. Other brand product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. 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