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Port master Michael Oliveira wrote a good blog article the other day explaining the differences between the various Haiku releases and how they relate to applications. I've promoted it to the frontpage in case anyone missed it...

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Pier Luigi Fiorini recently won our June Thank You Award (with DarkWyrm). Like all winners, we asked him a few questions with regards to his activity in the Haiku community:

Q1: How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills? 

I'm 28 and I work as a software developer. ...       

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DarkWyrm recently won our June Thank You Award (with Pier Luigi Fiorini). Like all winners, we asked him a few questions with regards to his activity in the Haiku community:

Q1: How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills? 

I'm 33 years old and I live near Columbus, OH with my wife and two children. By day I teach computers and music at a Christian private school in the area. I also am the local unofficial technical support and network administrator for the school. I've done a bunch of other things for the school over the years, but that's what I've been doing the last couple of years, anyway...       

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Been a busy couple of days :)

Want Midi playback on Haiku? Andrew Hudson ( andrewzx1) writes, all you need are three commands:

cd /boot/system/data/synth
wget http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/TimGM6mb.sf2
ln -s TimGM6mb.sf2 big_synth.sy

Note, this bug was filed three years ago, with the solution available for at least a year! *update, the bug has been fixed.

P.S - I have no idea what the license is on that sound font. Use at your own discretion! *Update, apparently it's freely distributable.