I've just uploaded to Hobbes (currently at
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bzip-1-0-2-os2.zip) bzip2 compiled for
OS/2 & eComStation using Innotek GCC for OS/2
From the readme:
BZIP2 v1.02 for OS/2 & eComStation
Compiled with Innotek GCC
I recompiled BZIP2 v1.02 as the previous version from a couple of years
ago did not work correctly on files greater than 2gb.
As I wanted to un-bzip a greater than 2 gb file, I have recompiled bzip2
from source with Innotek GCC, and tested successfully with a 2.1gb bzip of
Mandrak 10.1 DVD release.
Note that this release has not been extensively tested.
Contact me with any problems via email at paul@smedley.info
Enjoy!
Paul.
17th Feb, 2005
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17 Feb 2005 08:44:48
From: Paul Smedley
I've just uploaded to Hobbes (currently at
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bzip-1-0-2-os2.zip) bzip2 compiled for
OS/2 & eComStation using Innotek GCC for OS/2
Hobbes Search:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bzip-1-0-2-os2.zip
From the readme:
BZIP2 v1.02 for OS/2 & eComStation
Compiled with Innotek GCC
I recompiled BZIP2 v1.02 as the previous version from a couple of years
ago did not work correctly on files greater than 2gb.
As I wanted to un-bzip a greater than 2 gb file, I have recompiled bzip2
from source with Innotek GCC, and tested successfully with a 2.1gb bzip of
Mandrak 10.1 DVD release.
Note that this release has not been extensively tested.
Contact me with any problems via email at paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
Enjoy!
Paul.
17th Feb, 2005
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16 Feb 2005 22:52:21
From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net
Hewlett-Packard Company : Business Inkjet 2800 PS 02/16/2005
Hewlett-Packard Company : Business Inkjet 2800 02/16/2005
Hewlett-Packard Company : Color LaserJet 9500MFP PS 02/16/2005
Hewlett-Packard Company : Color LaserJet 9500MFP 02/16/2005
Hewlett-Packard Company
Color LaserJet 9500MFP
Last Updated on: 02/16/2005 08:24 AM
Driver Information
This product is supported by IBM. For Technical Assistance, please refer
to the following sources:
1. Any README documentation contained within the driver.
2. Technical reference material shipped with your device / system,
3. The Users Guide to OS/2 Warp, and other reference material contained
within the OS/2 Warp product,
4. The IBM Software home page for technical support information in your
country. http://www.ibm.com/software/
Printer Supported by the IBM OS/2 PrinterPak
Thank you for your interest in the IBM OS/2 PrinterPak device driver.
The OS/2 device driver for the printer you have chosen is available only
by contacting IBM OS/2 Technical Support. To receive this driver, you or
your company must have an active contract for Passport Advantage with
Software Maintenance.
For U.S. customers entitled to technical support, the driver can be
obtained by calling 1-800-IBM-SERV (1-800-426-7378) to open a problem
record (PMR). Inform the Service Coordinator that you want to receive the
latest IBM OS/2 PrinterPak.
For non-U.S. customers, contact the IBM Support Center in your country and
request the latest IBM OS/2 PrinterPak.
If you have purchased an active contract for Passport Advantage with
Software Maintenance, the terms and conditions of that contract will
determine what services, if any, you are entitled to with respect to the
IBM OS/2 PrinterPak.
Please be prepared to provide the following information when speaking with
the Service Coordinator:
1. Name of the Printer for which the IBM OS/2 PrinterPak is required.
2. Type of IBM OS/2 PrinterPak device driver that is required. Your
choices are:
* LaserJet driver
* Omni driver
* PostScript driver
3. Language of IBM OS/2 PrinterPak device driver that is required. Your
choices are:
* Worldwide English
* Brazilian
* Simplified Chinese
* German
* Spanish
* French
* Italian
* Japanese
* Traditional Chinese
This IBM OS/2 PrinterPak will install on Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp
4 and Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp Server for e-business. Although
the IBM OS/2 PrinterPak can install on prior versions of OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business, OS/2 Warp 4, or OS/2 Warp 3, we recommend that you use the
later Convenience Package products in order to receive any entitled
service and support. Refer to the OS/2 Defect Support information in the
OS/2 Strategy . http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
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15 Feb 2005 22:11:02
From: gnomeDESPAM@DESPAMhawaii.rr.com
Note: Mozilla & Firefox users who do not need access to domain names using
Unicode characters and have the Ad Block extension installed can add the
following regular expression filter to their AdBlock filters:
/[^\x20-\xFF]/
It disables access to web sites using Unicode characters. I would think
that it could be refined to filter out sites that use common homophones.
David
gnome@hawaii.rr.com
[Moderator note: Adblock is a Mozilla extension to, what else, block ads
from specified web sites. See https://update.mozilla.org/ and select your
Mozilla based app (Firefox or Mozilla) under extensions (or just select
Extensions from your browser Tools menu and then "Get more extensions".)
for more information. Adblock is listed under Miscellaneous.]
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15 Feb 2005 18:02:56
From: "Sander Nyman"
Mozilla Foundation Response to IDN Homograph Spoofing Attack
Last week, we reported that Mozilla is vulnerable to a homograph spoofing
attack using international domain names (IDNs). Today, Gervase Markham,
acting on behalf of staff@mozilla.org and drivers@mozilla.org, announced
the Mozilla Foundation's short-term response. In the forthcoming Mozilla
Firefox 1.0.1 and Mozilla 1.8 Beta releases, IDN support will be disabled
(bug 282270). For those users that need it, an XPI will be released to
turn IDN support back on (bug 282269).
This is obviously an unsatisfactory solution in the long term and it is
hoped that a better fix can be developed in time for Firefox 1.1. For now,
the Mozilla Foundation (and other browser vendors such as Opera Software)
maintain that the problem is mostly the fault of domain name registries
and registrars that let people register homographic variants of existing
domain names (the ICANN guidelines specifically warn against this). More
discussion of the problem and possible solutions can be found in bug
279099 (please do not add unnecessary comments to any of the bugs linked
to this article).
Update: Gerv has posted a followup clarifying the change and the likely
long-term solutions. He also confirms that there will be a Mozilla 1.7.6
release with IDN disabled. Netcraft also has a nice report outlining the
problem and the temporary solution (note that despite what Netcraft says,
this article is not an official Mozilla Foundation advisory).
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Aim low boys! They're a-ridin' Shetlands!"
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15 Feb 2005 15:35:41
From: "Frank Beythien"
[Moderator note: This isn't related to OS/2 but a number of OS/2 users
(Including myself) use news.indidual.net for Usenet access.]
[german version deleted]
Dear users of News.Individual.NET,
effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be
free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based
service.
The details:
============
Effective immediately, registration for our news service is only possible
through our web site:
http://news.individual.net/
Registration by e-mail (as hitherto) is no longer possible.
Holders of existing accounts who want to continue using their account need
to convert it into a pay account. This is also only possible through our
web site:
http://news.individual.net/
You will also find all details on payment options, terms of use, and terms
of contract on the web site.
The time until March 31th, 2005, is a transitional period so that holders
of existing accounts will have plenty of time for convenient conversion.
Sign-up for new accounts or conversion of existing accounts made within
the transitional period (before April 1th, 2005) will not cause any
disadvantages:
Contracts concluded within the transitional period will last until March
31th, 2006 (Annual Subscription) or June 30th, 2005 (3 Months
Subscription) without additional costs. Then the contracts will auto-
matically renew themselves for another year or another three months
respectively.
Important notes:
Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop
working.
Users who use the server News.CIS.DFN.DE as part of the DFNNetNews project
are not effected by the changes described above. Nothing will change for
these users, they do not need to do anything.
The fee:
========
The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year (annual
payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month. The price includes VAT
at 16%.
The background:
===============
The tradition of running news servers at Freie Universitaet Berlin goes
back as far as 1989 (historic keyword: "Methan"). The news service was
open for external users ever since: Until 1992, there was no access
restriction at all (as usual at that time). Later, a basic access
management where IP numbers and domain names were added on request was
established.
Starting with the CIS project (a third-party funded project of DFN) of
ZEDAT of Freie Universitaet Berlin, the news service was expanded by the
feature of registration for individual users in the beginning of the year
1998:
News.CIS.DFN.DE was born. (*)
(*) see Message-ID: <6apqmg$rbe$1@fu-berlin.de>
After the CIS project was finished in mid 2002, the administrators kept
this service alive by maintaining it mainly in their spare time. Since
this was not sustainable in perpetuity, options on how to raise money from
external people and institutions for the provision and maintenance of the
service had to be researched and created. Several approaches to find
sponsors for the service eventually failed, especially due to the lack of
understanding by the potential sponsors for the nature of Usenet.
Since July 1th, 2003, ZEDAT offers - again in cooperation with DFN - news
services to other research and education institutions for money (service
name: "DFNNetNews"). In the course of this cooperation, the server name
"News.CIS.DFN.DE" vested exclusively to DFNNetNews:
"News.Individual.DE" and "News.Individual.NET" are the new server names
under which the service is available for the more than 250,000 external
individual users that were registered since the beginning of 1998.
After a long evaluation and preparation period, the service will convert
to a fee-based service for these external individual users effective from
April 1th, 2005. We regret that it is no longer possible to offer this
service free of charge.
We would be very happy if our service convinced its users of its quality
and of the engagement of its operators during the many years of its
existence so that they decide to stay our users even if the service is not
free of charge anymore.
Besides, we would - of course - like to thank all people that recommended
our service over the years and used it responsibly and carefully in the
spirit of Usenet!
Best regards,
the NetNews Team of Freie Universitaet Berlin
Glossary:
=========
CIS = DFN project "Center for Information Services"
DFN = Germany's National Research and Education Network
ZEDAT = Computer Center of Freie Universitaet Berlin
--
Frank Beythien fBeythienDESPAM@DESPAMgmx.de
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15 Feb 2005 11:44:00
Forwarded message from David Rocks on Tue, 15 Feb
2005 14:40:40 UTC Posted on: comp.os.os2.misc
hobbes has received about $2000 in donations as of 2/13. The support
from the community is much appreciated. We will probably invest im making
the disk system a little more fault resistant. And we may be able to
move to a 'newer' system this year which will mean some investment in
hardware, as these surplus systems are usually stripped before I see
them. Although I would love to build an 'OS/2' hobbes the staff here is
most comfortable with AIX and RS/6000's and I don't want to make support
of hobbes difficult.
Again, thanx for the support. The attitude here for long term support of
hobbes is very positive and I am confident your investment in hobbes
will keep it going a long time. Back again next year, if needed.
---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---
[Moderator note: For anyone still interested in donating, here are the
details from a previous post by David Rocks on this:
"So if you go to ' http://giving.nmsu.edu/ ', select "GIVE TODAY" from
the navigation bar and then select the appropriate donation method. To
target your donation for hobbes under 'Step 1" select 'where the need is
greatest for' and write in HOBBES. If you do send a check write it on the
check also."]
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15 Feb 2005 11:07:02
Forwarded message from Aaron Lawrence on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:20:38 UTC
Posted on: comp.os.os2.apps
Somehow I forgot to release this, anyway, it is not on Hobbes, so that is
what I assume... :)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/newview2_15_2.zip
later
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/misc/mewview2_15_2.zip
V2.15.2
- /? works from view.exe (full replacement)
- Updated usage dialog (newview /?)
- Corrected help about /pos and about adding a note
- Support for Maul Publisher
(Support HM_SET_HELP_LIBRARY_NAME and HM_SET_HELP_WINDOW_TITLE,
while help window is open)
- Fix for problems when network printers configured.
- Left margin "fit" code now correctly
breaks line if margin already past
- Compatibility; also search global names for HM_PANELNAME
- "help on help" from applications works
NewView is a free replacement for the original OS/2 or eComStation online
help system.
Major enhancements are:
- New user interface (split window)
- Select and copy direct from window
- Easy to use global (all files) search
- Remembers size & position
- Most recently used files list
- Smooth scrolling display
- Current topic always highlighted in contents
- Can go forward as well as back in history
- Options for fonts, colors and more
- Annotate help files
- Bookmarks
- Fully resizeable
- Automatic web, ftp and email links (uses default WPS browser)
- Drop files to open
- Open additional files
- Automatic language selection
- Automatic index creation
- Enhanced file dialog with help file titles
--
aaronl at consultant dot com
For every expert, there is an equal and
opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---
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15 Feb 2005 09:13:01
From: "Tom Lee Mullins"
http://forum.thinkpads.com
There is an OS/2 section of the forum at Thinkpads.com
(a FYI post).
TomLeeM/BigWarpGuy
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14 Feb 2005 14:25:38
From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net
http://odin.netlabs.org/
"Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to run
Win32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT) applications in OS/2 Warp operating
system natively, almost as if they were intended to be OS/2 applications
in the first place. It also makes porting from Win32 to OS/2 easier by
providing a Win32 API implementation in OS/2: the Odin32 API."
This appears to be a Warpin install version of the ZIP version released a
couple days ago. at least the Changelog hasn't been updated since that
release. In fact the Changelog listed during the install has a last
change date of 2005-02-08, but the weekly changelog shows the updates from
2005-02-12. Build is listed as (Version 0.5 Build no.681 - 14Feb 2005)
Release version:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Weekly/odin32bin-20050214-release-xp.wpi
Debug version:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Weekly/odin32bin-20050214-debug-xp.wpi
Report successes and problems if any on the Odin user support group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/odinusers/
Changelog: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Weekly/Changelog
/* $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2755 2005/02/11 19:33:54 sao2l02 Exp $ */
2005-02-12: Dietrich Teickner
- kernel32: o src\kernel32\wintls.cpp
small regression.
- ntdll src\NTDLL\rtl.c, ntdll.def changes
RtlFillMemoryUlong,
RtlInitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount 2005-02-08: Dietrich Teickner
- kernel32: o src\kernel32\wintls.cpp
src\kernel32\asmutil.asm
faster tls-handling, one check more.
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14 Feb 2005 13:54:03
From: OS/2 Warp News and Rumours http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/
Posted on OS/2 Warp News and Rumours: "CDS was acquired by IntraDyn
nearly a year ago. It seems that their OS/2 backup product, BackAgain/2,
was completely discontinued at the beginning of 2005.
http://www.cds-inc.com/support/backagain.html Thanks to Peter Lazarski for
the info."
From the web site:
"Effective January 1, 2005, Intradyn Inc. will no longer sell or support
BackAgain OS/2 versions. There will be no further upgrades or enhancement
for these versions of BackAgain. Those customers now on a maintenance
contract for OS/2 versions will continue to receive technical support for
the remainder of their maintenance period.
In addition, effective January 1, 2005, Intradyn will no longer sell or
support Primafax."
There doesn't appear to be any mention of Primafax (the windoze product)
or PMFax on the site any longer(other then the single line above). There
are still updates for BackAgain/2000 Workstation and Server versions
available for download at http://www.cds-inc.com/support/badown.html
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14 Feb 2005 08:54:56
From: martin@DESPAM.os2world.com
Due to a platform change, Darrell Spice, Jr. is no longer maintaining his
OS/2 emulator ports. In case anyone is interested, He made the source code
for Stella/2 and ColEm/2 available here:
http://spiceware.org/downloads/
Due to prior agreements with Marat Fayzullin, He is unable to release the
OS/2 source code for MasterGear/2 or VGB/2.
Visit also the Spiceware web site.
http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/
Url: http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/
From: Martin Iturbide (martin@DESPAM.os2world.com)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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13 Feb 2005 20:57:53
From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net
http://odin.netlabs.org/
"Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to run
Win32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT) applications in OS/2 Warp operating
system natively, almost as if they were intended to be OS/2 applications
in the first place. It also makes porting from Win32 to OS/2 easier by
providing a Win32 API implementation in OS/2: the Odin32 API."
There are new releases of the Zip versions as well:
Release version:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/odin32bin-20050212-release-xp.zip
Debug version:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/odin32bin-20050212-debug-xp.zip
Report successes and problems if any on the Odin user support group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/odinusers/
Changelog: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/Changelog
/* $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2755 2005/02/11 19:33:54 sao2l02 Exp $ */
2005-02-12: Dietrich Teickner
- kernel32: o src\kernel32\wintls.cpp
small regression.
- ntdll src\NTDLL\rtl.c, ntdll.def changes
RtlFillMemoryUlong,
RtlInitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount 2005-02-08: Dietrich Teickner
- kernel32: o src\kernel32\wintls.cpp
src\kernel32\asmutil.asm
faster tls-handling, one check more.
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13 Feb 2005 18:37:49
From: jksamphere@tds.net
OS2IRC Org. is currently in the process of electing a board of directors
to serve in OS2IRC Inc.(A non-profit company chartered to serve OS/2 &
eComStation users)
Currently we are circulating a ballot via email to all members of OS2IRC
Org. If you are a member of OS2IRC Org. or #os/2warp on the IRC Undernet,
you are elgible to vote. Check your email accounts for your ballot. If you
are a member and have not received a ballot, send a brief request to
jksamphereNOSPAM@tds.net
All ballots must be recieved no later than Feb. 15, 2005 at 11:59PM(CST)
in order to be valid.
Regards,
Jeramie Samphere
Url:
From: Jeramie Samphere (jksamphereDESPAM@tds.net)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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13 Feb 2005 16:19:28
From: doodle@dont.even.try.spamming.scenergy.dfmk.hu
Doodle's Screen Saver v1.3 has been released.
This new screen saver integrates into the WPS, replaces the old Lockup
Desktop facility, and can be extended with new screen saver modules.
Some of the main changes of his release are:
- Three new saver modules
- Various fixes in the core
- National Language Support (English, Hungarian, Dutch and German)
Note: The previous version must be uninstalled before installing this
version, installing it over v1.2 is not possible!
It can be downloaded from hobbes.
Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dssaver_v13.exe
From: Doodle (doodle@dont.even.try.spamming.scenergy.dfmk.hu)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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