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Net: New Yahoo mail list for eComStation Technical issues

19 Mar 2004 19:38:31


From: "Mark Dodel"

Technical discussion of issues related to eComStation and OS/2.

< http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eCS-Technical/ >

All categories of technical issues are to be shared here rather than in
the eComStation group.

If you can be of help in answering any question brought up here, please do
all you can to assist us all as we learn and discover issues and problems
that need to be brought to the appropriate support at eComStation or OS/2.

Categories include:
Training (how to),
installation,
drivers,
internals,
video,
multimedia,
printers,
CPU's,
motherboards,
systems,
networking,
internet,
browers,
web,
DOS support,
Windows support,
applications,
development,
tools,
performance,
hardware compatibility,
tips,
techniques,
FAQ,
other hardware,
other

This forum is for technical issues.

Non-Technical issues related to the development of the product and the
future and potential changes shuld be discussed at
http://groups/yahoo.com/group/eComStation

For applications discussions goto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecsapps

For more info on eComStation goto:
http://www.eComStation.com

The eCS forums are at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/forums

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SW: EmperoarTV

19 Mar 2004 09:34:59


From: "Ruediger Ihle"


Today, S&T Systemtechnik GmbH announces the first public release of
EmperoarTV. This software brings support for the Hauppauge PVR250/350 TV
cards to the OS/2 platform, including high quality MPEG2 hard disk
recording and playback.

For more details take a look at: http://www.s-t.de/emperoar/



--
Mit freundlichem Gruss / Regards

Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Ihle

Softwareentwicklung, S&T Systemtechnik GmbH, Germany
Tel.: +49 3677 666777 Fax: +49 3677 666799




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SW: New JFS on Testcase

18 Mar 2004 17:55:28


From: "Mark Dodel"

There is a new JFS update on IBMs Testcase FTP site.

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/jfs20040318.zip

From Readme file:

This JFS has all the currently-tested fixes. Since ACP2, that includes
(but may not be limited to) the following:
2004/03/08:
APAR:
PJ29386 trap 0003 in jfs_write doing a write to a directory
PJ29664 trap 000e trying to open a filename containg a wildcard (* or ?)
PJ29665 trap 000e running large file stress test
NO APAR:
- Add bldlevel strings to jfs.ifs
2004/03/18:
APAR:
PJ29609 trap 0003 in jfs_rele

[Usual disclaimer about taking files from Testcase. They call it Testcase
for a reason. Make sure you have a backup of your data and of the files
you will be replacing, and don't try this out on a production system. If
you are not sure what you are doing don't do it.]


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SW: Warpzilla trunk builds now require libc-0.5.0 GCC runtime library.

17 Mar 2004 20:23:27


From: "Mark Dodel"

Just a heads up if you are using the daily builds of the Warpzilla
(Mozilla for OS/2) browser, that according to the Warpzilla home page
< http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ > as of March 13, 2004 Trunk builds now
require Innotek's libc-0.5.0 GCC runtime library.
< http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc-0.5.0.exe >

The latest trunk build of Warpzilla can be found at
< http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/contrib/latest-trunk/mozilla-os2.zip >


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SW: Squid 2.5 s5

16 Mar 2004 20:23:49


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

There is available for download Squid 2.5 S5
< http://www.laser.ru/evgen/soft/Squid2/squid25s5.zip >

Squid is...

* a full-featured Web proxy cache
* free, open-source software
* the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers

Squid supports...

* proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URL's
* proxying for SSL
* cache hierarchies
* ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
* transparent caching
* WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above)
* extensive access controls
* HTTP server acceleration
* SNMP
* caching of DNS lookups


Program URL: http://www.squid-cache.org/
OS/2 Version: http://www.laser.ru/evgen/soft/Squid2/index_l.html Posted
by: martini


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SW: PM beta 3 - (Process Manager for OS/2 and eComStation)

16 Mar 2004 18:04:08


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

PM beta 3 has been released (3/14/2004). This is a process manager /
killer, similar in purpose to WatchCat.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmb

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini

[Moderator note: This is a new Process Manager for eComStation and OS/2
being developed that requires the cadh.sys driver
< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/process/cadh.zip > ]


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SW: mistygrid/mistychart java component

16 Mar 2004 14:30:17


From: supportDESPAM@mitscom.com

MistyChart is a java based charting component. MistyChart requires java
Plug-in 1.4. MistyChart supports close to 50 chart formats. Some of the
chart formats supported are pie, column, 3d column, stock, etc.

Url: http://www.mitscom.com/Purchase.htm

From: m.g (supportDESPAM@mitscom.com)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php


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SW: Java: Art of Illusion version 1.7.1

16 Mar 2004 12:07:37


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

Art of Illusion version 1.7.1 has been released (3/13/2004). This is a
full featured 3D modelling, rendering, and animation studio, written
entirely in Java.

< http://sourceforge.net/projects/aoi/ >

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: bootAble version 3.1a

16 Mar 2004 10:57:23


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

bootAble version 3.1a has been released (3/10/2004). This is a script
which can be used to create a maintenance partition or bootable CD with
enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system. It contains
support for LVM, HPFS, JFS, FAT32, UDF (turned off by default), and the CD
file system.

< http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/ >

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: xman for XFree86 4.4.0

16 Mar 2004 10:08:59


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

xman for XFree86 4.4.0 has been updated (3/10/2004). XFree86 is a port of
the popular windowing system used on Unix platforms.

< ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.4.0/fixes/ >

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: z! -MP3 player Updated

16 Mar 2004 09:28:17


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

z! has been updated (3/8/2004) to "test 12".
< http://dink.org/z/ >

This is a textmode MP3 player, that can handle ogg, streaming audio
(Shoutcast), and has normalize support. There is also an FAQ.

< http://dink.org/z/zmsgbase.html?read=A4E7P6Y7K5 >

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: Perl version 5.8.2

16 Mar 2004 09:12:53


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

Perl version 5.8.2 has been ported (12/18/2003) to OS/2, and includes some
documentation in INF format. From os2.jp.

< ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/authors/id/ILYAZ/os2/582+/ >

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: SAMBA Client beta for OS/2 and eCS

16 Mar 2004 08:25:00


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

Hi OS/2 and eCS community!

We are proud to announce the first public beta version of SAMBA Client for
OS/2 and eCS. It is available as a plugin for NetDrive Filesystem and it
allows you to mount SMB or CIFS shares on OS/2 without the need of NetBIOS
(IBM LAN Manager or IBM Peer).

Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can
download the full OS/2 sourcecode including NetDrive plugin from our CVS
respository.

Samba for OS/2 is just possible because netlabs.org hired nickk for
porting it. For us this is also an experiment and we really hope that the
OS/2 and eCS community honors this effort. Please read our document about
our open source philosophy and support us with sponsoring units if you can
afford it.

We plan to provide a SAMBA Server for OS/2 and eCS as well but this highly
depends on the support of the OS/2 and eCS community. We cannot afford
that alone.

Homepage of the project: < http://samba.netlabs.org/ >
A few words about sponsoring at netlabs.org:
< http://about.netlabs.org/?detailcontentregions_id=3 >

Please read the homepage for more details and for questions about support,
do *not* mail me directly! Thanks.

Enjoy!

Adrian Gschwend & nickk
netlabs.org

Source: Adrian Gschwend
Posted by: martini


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Net: Virtual PC and Virtual Station Comparison

16 Mar 2004 06:57:44


From: OS2World.com < http://www.os2world.com >

Alessandro Cantatore ran a performance comparison between Virtual PC and
Virtual Station. He also has some suggestions for future versions of
Virtual Station (Virtual PC is a dead product now that Microsoft owns
Connectix).

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/_XOOM/acantato/articles/2004/vmtest.html

Source: OS/2 News and Rumors
Posted by: martini


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SW: Eclipse status

15 Mar 2004 21:53:53


From: < http://www.os2world.com >

2004-03-15 11:03:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [< http://eclipseos2.netlabs.org/ >]

Eclipse for OS/2 is a transitional project on porting the Eclipse
platform, an open extensible Java IDE, to the OS/2 operating system. The
project has the "transitional" status because we are planning to join the
main stream of the Eclipse development when we complete the greater part
of this work and get a functioning OS/2 version.

What's new: Font support is fully implemented. This means that the
org.eclipse.swt.graphics.GC class is completely done and all "low level"
SWT functionality is now available (i.e., graphic primitives, colors,
images and fonts), which is definitely more than 2/3 of the whole work. I
guess that's good news.

However, it seems that we will not get through in a month with all the
other stuff (widgets). So, the project finish date will be moved again --
we hope not so far.

Source: eComStation.ru
Posted by: martini


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HW: Tim's Warped Bargains: Epson C84 Inkjet Printer Under $60

15 Mar 2004 20:23:51


From: Timothy Sipples

Dear Bargain Hunters,

Note: This deal expires on March 31st, possibly sooner.

OK, this deal is a little bit complicated, so bear with me. You'll need
to do a little bit of online work to get the price down.

The Epson C84 inkjet printer is quite nice. It works great with
eComStation and OS/2 Warp. (Use the Epson C80 driver.) It's also a good
match for alternative operating systems such as Linux. Supplies are
relatively inexpensive, too, and you can get cartridge refills if you
want. The C84 has both parallel and USB ports for good connectivity
options.

Normally this printer is around $100. However, you can reduce that price
to less than $60 or so with free shipping at Staples.com. Here are the
various cost-reducing steps:

- Start by visting FatCash.com and follow the links into Staples.com from
there. (Sign up if you're not a member.) You'll get an extra 3% rebate.

- Add some paper clips (or something else very inexpensive) to get your
shopping cart to at least $100.

- Use coupon code 34704 to get $20 off a $100 order at checkout.

- After ordering, use this $20 manufacturer rebate:

< http://www.staplesrebates.com/weblogic/rebateshq/staples/searchPromotionsBySKUOrUPC?FindValue=515873 >

(It's at the bottom. You can also get to it from the Staples.com web page
for the printer.)

Do all that and you have an Epson C84 delivered to your door for about
$57.
Not bad.

I have no afilliation with any of these companies, although I just might
be ordering one of these printers.



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Net: Tim's Warped Bargains: Filing Your U.S. Income Tax Return

15 Mar 2004 16:41:20


From: Timothy Sipples

Dear Bargain Hunters,

I just filled out my U.S. federal income tax forms last night. I've
always used paper -- call me old fashioned -- but this year I thought I'd
try the online version.

< http://www.TaxAct.com > works well with eComStation and OS/2 Warp (and the
Mozilla family of browsers). Although the web site nags you a bit to buy
the $7.95 or the $9.95 online upgrades, the free version works just fine,
too. (That's what I used.) They also offer the option (for a fee) to
generate your state income tax return, but I skipped that and just went
directly to my state's own web site to file for free. TaxAct.com even
told me whether I could contribute (and how much) to IRAs if I wanted.

Kudos to the various vendors for cross-platform web sites. All I needed
at the end was an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) viewer, and both Ghostscript/GSView
and Innotek's kit work fine for that. Turn off Mozilla's pop-up blocker
while you use the web site. (Or add TaxAct to the exception list.)

I never seem to get a refund, though. (No penalties either.) I guess
that's good in a way, since the government isn't earning the interest.

Now that I've filled out my tax forms using the online process, I'm not
sure whether it's any better or not. Possibly a bit more enjoyable
(because of the novelty), and the online version does some mathematical
checks that might be helpful. It worked, and it worked with my favorite
operating system. So does paper, though.

Either way, may your refund be large. Because your kids and grandkids
will need it to pay off the burgeoning national debt. :-)




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SW: New Version of JFTP Client

15 Mar 2004 13:44:49


From: Vaughn Bender

Hello

A new release of JFTP version 3.0 is now ready for download at
http://www.myjavaworld.com . Please check
out the new version at your convenience and send your comments and/or
suggestions to support@myjavaworld.com .

JFTP is a graphical FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client application for
transferring files between your PC and an FTP site. JFTP can connect to
any system that has a valid Internet address and an FTP server program,
allowing you to transfer files between a wide variety of systems,
including Windows, UNIX and iSeries (AS/400) systems.

JFTP integrates the most widely used and widely accepted security
mechanism, SSL (Secured Sockets Layer), to securely transfer your
business critical and sensitive data.


"The Universal FTP Client"

A "true" Universal FTP Client. JFTP can be installed and run on a wide
variety of platforms such as:

* Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
* Mac OS X
* Linux
* Solaris
* OS/2
* Unix
* Any other platform with a Java Runtime Environment

+++++++++++++++

I have been using JFTP since the release of 2.0 and it has become my
default ftp program. It works very well on eCS 1.1

Vaughn Bender

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