Looking Back

The average distance between the Earth and Moon
is about 248,000 miles or 400,000 km.
We took that picture through a telescope.

We wrote this blog just before the EFIKA launch (it is still valid!):

And Hello to YOU!
28 November 2006

HelloWorld\com\genesi\portlets\blog
HelloWorld\bbrv
HelloWorld\bbrv\lib

OK, then...

//portlet APIs
import org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.*;
import org.apache.jetspeed.portlets.*;

//Java stuff
import java.io.*;

public class HelloWorld extends AbstractPortlet...

Did you ever wonder what is on the other side of the computer? You know, on the other side of the Internet. Out there:

Hello World gets an answer!

Rupert Hausberger, also known as naTmeg to his online friends, has been busy with his latest MorphOS releases found here on Rupert's Homepage.

Rupert and his PegasosPPC

For an encore, Rupert is focused on more plugins. Today, if you wanted to encrypt your partitions, you can use poly.dilp. If you wanted to analyze the access to your filesystem, you could use blockmon.dilp to graphically see in realtime how the filesystem accesses the disk and spreads the blocks. That is just a start -- dil.device can be used in many ways as the plugins become available. virtualdisk.dilp. (coming soon) will allow users to share a disk over the network accessing it like a normal local drive. Some would say this work is a labor of love. We would agree. Rupert cares about what he does. He is proud of his work and we are proud of him. Thank you, Rupert.

Keep up the good work!

Rupert, please meet Alex. Here is Alex with his new EFIKA!

Yesterday, we delivered the EFIKA to an end user. Alex bought his EFIKA because he wants to run MorphOS on the small, quiet, energy efficient EFIKA. MorphOS is perfectly suited to do that. Rupert, Alex says Hello! and so the chat begins on MorphZone or on PowerDeveloper...

(The Community is the Computer) ...in marketing we must put the entity to which or whom we are communicating first. So, if we were marketing oil for home heating, we would talk about warmth not oil since warmth is what the consumer wants. If we are talking about what developers and users can do with a computing platform what better reflective use aspect of the product than Community. The Community is found at the top of the image and participation in that Community breeds all good things - and not just software (and likerabbits).

You may want to tell us that as we are marketing to experts in technology or longtime users that they don't want or need this sort of trigger message. If so, please refer to the social law mentioned. It makes it more fun when you can always put people first. Marketing is emotional and then informational or it is dead, not alive like us! So, next time you say Hello World, you can an expect an answer in this Community. There will be many more Amigos like Rupert and Alex meeting on the EFIKA. Hello World. We are all here!

With the release of MorphOS 2.0 we finally shipped Rupert the Open Client Plus we promised him. And, just an hour ago we approved a MDC registration for Alex (MorphOS Developer Connection). Good things take time! But, Looking Back we hope we will all be able to say it was worth it. We certainly feel that way already. We like what we do!

The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer. Go Zig!

R&B