Waleed Kadous' Be Software Projects
What is Be?
Be is a company that make a revolutionary new operating system called the
BeOS, which runs on PowerPC hardware. Formerly, Be also made a very cool
machine called the BeBox, with dual PPC603e's at 133MHz (or dual 603's
@ 66 MHz). Unfortunately, they don't make them any more. You can still
run it on PowerPC hardware, though (e.g. Macs, PowerComputing machines,
Motorola boxes, etc). Recent news is that a Pentium version of the BeOS
will be available soon (i.e. first quarter '98!).
The BeOS is special in that it is a truly modern OS. Some people assert
that Be actually stands for "buzzword-enriched" - all the things you'd
expect plus more. For me, my favourite feature is that it has both a good
GUI and a good command line interface - it's rare to have a computer that
has both.
A BeBox in action. Only 2000 or so were ever made, but they are still
incredible machines.
You can find out more about Be at their Web
site.
Currently available software
Err ... umm ... I've been busy with other things recently, which means
I have not had the opportunity to code much, or to work on my favourite
Be projects, even though I love doing so. But hopefully, things will get
back to normal, and I'll code some more ...
It turns out things will never return to normal :(. I've now accepted
a position as an associate lecturer; which means that I barely
have time to work on my PhD, let alone work on the BeBox :(.
BeSalat
BeSalat is an application for calculating prayer times for Muslims. It
is configurable to cope with a number of different schools and handles
different cities. It is based on original source by Waleed Muhanna. The
current project is a quick port, until I can get my act together. Unfortunately,
this means shell-only right now.
It consists of:
-
hdate & hcal for the Islamic calendars & dates
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praytime for calculating the five daily prayers for Muslims
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premind to remind you when it's time to pray.
The current version is 2.1. You can download it for PowerPC or Intel:
- For PowerPC:
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From Australia (here): via HTTP
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From Australia (here): via FTP
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From Be: via FTP
- For Intel R4 (courtesy of Ted Hodges at BeBit):
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From Australia (here): via HTTP
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From Australia (here): via FTP
If you have any comments, suggestions or advice, please e-mail: waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au
.
If you'd like to find out more about this somewhat abnormal person (not
advised), feel free to check out his home
page.
waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au
Last modified: Sun Aug 15 11:24:42 EST 1999