Sikosis finished up the editing portion of the the Haiku Podcast and has posted it on the site.

This time around we talk about the Google Summer of Code 2008 again, BeServed code being donated to Haiku, the Pineapple News Reader is being resurrected and much more! Of course, I am once again co-hosting the podcast.

I must say thanks again to Sikosis for bringing me on to the show. I’m really beginning to love this podcasting thing

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Sikosis has published the latest episode of the Haiku Podcast. This time around we, once again, talk Haiku and Haikuware news. With the Google Summer of Code coming up and lots of bounty news this should be an interesting episode for everyone This episode is 12 minutes and 11 seconds long.

Haiku Podcast Website

Cheers!
~TheNerd

I now have Haiku running on real hardware with a functioning display, keyboard, and mouse. The hardware being used is a Dell Latitude D600 (Laptop Battery Dell Latitude D500/D600) with Ubuntu installed to use as a build system for Haiku. The unfortunate part of it is that my network interface doesn’t have a driver so I’m left without Internet access for the time being. I was thinking about opening a bounty to create a driver for it but I’m thinking that there are other areas that need bounties before that.

I’ve yet to test the sound because there aren’t any sound files included in the default build. I guess I’m going to have to learn how to used the build script to copy over files during the build process. I suppose I’ll also want to play with some of the other features that aren’t included by default so learning how to configure the build process is not such a bad thing.

I was talking with Sikosis on IRC last night and told him it was time for me to hone my Haiku skills. It seems like I spend more time talking about Haiku and Haiku politics than I do using it. But I guess now that I have Haiku running on real hardware I don’t have any more excuses. I’m hoping that once I can get some more software, video files and sound files on it I could use this system as a demo and show all kinds of people what Haiku is all about. There is a computer swap meet in my area next month and if I can get there I would like to get a table and do a demo. Sadly, I’m pretty sure I’ve been spoken for that weekend so it’s not looking good.

(if I get a chance I’ll take a picture to prove it )

That’s right folks. Your’s truly is now an official podcaster. As of today I am co-host of the Haiku Podcast. I’ve been wanting to get into this for quite some time but never had the chance to until a few weeks ago when I was talking to Sikosis (a prominent member of the Haiku community) and he mentioned that he was looking for a co-host.

Needless to say I jumped right on it. It took a while  for us to meet up on Skype because he lives in Australia and I live in Canada. There is actually a 14 hour time difference between us. We finally met up a few weeks ago to test the skype connection. It went very well and we decided that I would join in on the next episode. This past Friday was the time to record.

Wow what an interesting experience that was. In all my years here on this lovely planet, I have organized events and stood up in front of crowds of people to speak but nothing really compares to this. I know it’s weird but for some reason the fact that it was being recorded and saved forever somewhere was in the back of my mind the whole time. I did manage to get through it and when Sikosis edited all of my “uhhhs and ummms” out of it, it wasn’t that bad.

I can definitely say (well as long as Sikosis agrees)  I will be co-hosting the Haiku Podcast for some time to come. If you want to listen to the episode click here to get to the podcast home page.

Cheers!
~TheNerd