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Following a very successful first meeting in January, WarpUK, a user group for UK OS/2 SOHO users, hobbyists, and developers is planning a second meeting at IBM's Hursley Park Site on Thursday 6 May 1999. The meeting will start at 1:00pm and will continue into the evening. Admission, payable at the door, will be 6ukp for WarpUK members and 10ukp for non-members, with a 50% discount for students and senior citizens.

A major topic of the meeting will be 'Java and OS/2', but details for all the speakers and demonstrations are not confirmed yet. Ideas in the pipeline are comparisons of popular Windows software and their OS/2 equivalents, and also more networking demonstrations. We are also hoping for a demo of the (hopefully) newly released Aurora GA.

Following the successful inaugural meeting in January, WarpUK has been fully constituted as a subscription-paying group with a constitution, bank account and elected officers. With this next meeting we aim to build on the success we have achieved so far, and provide a really good resource for UK based OS/2 users!

Anybody willing to give a presentation would be most welcome. Other ideas for workshops and demonstrations are also positively encouraged. Anyone interested should reply to this email, either to the OS2UK list or directly to Sid Gale on sidg@btinternet.com or Chris Lindley on chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk.

For more details on WarpUK, or for the current status on the meeting, please go to www.warp.in-uk.net. Details on how to get to IBM Hursley Park will be posted on this website shortly.

If you will be attending or require further details, please email either Sid Gale on sidg@btinternet.com or Chris Lindley on chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk.

Ordre du jour de la reunion du 21 avril 1999
   Agenda of meeting of April 21st, 1999

19:00 Ouverture de l'assemblee / Meeting opening
   avec / with Gilbert Daigle

19:15 Installation de InJoy (Garde-barriere) pour OS/2 /
   Installing InJoy (Firewall) for OS/2
      avec / with Raymond Dagenais

20:00 Comment choisir un disque dur (criteres technologiques) /
   How to choose a hardisk (technological criterias)
      avec / with Gilbert Lefebvre

20:30 Pause-sante / Coffee break

21:15 Elections de 3 nouveaux administrateurs /
   Electing 3 new members of the board

21:30 Presentation du nouveau Conseil /
   The new board of driectors

21:45 Levee de l'assemblee et tirages / End of meeting and drawings

P.S. La contribution d'entree est de 5.00$ par personne /
   Entrance contribution is $5.00 per person La reunion aura lieu a la / meeting's address
   TOUR IBM/MARATHON
   1250 Rene Levesque Ouest
   7ieme etage / 7th floor
   Montreal

N.B. N'oubliez pas de rapporter votre disquette d'enregistrement / Don't forget to bring back your registration diskette.

Disquette d'enregistrement remise aux nouveaux membres / New comers receive a registration diskette.

Notre site sur Internet / Our Web site on Internet
http://www.contact.net/os2/
Courriel / Internet E-Mail os2user@contact.net

The Toronto OS/2 Users Group will be meeting at 7:00PM on April the 8th, 1999. We will be meeting in the Auditorium of the IBM Canada Building at 3600 Steeles Ave. E.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows :

• Question and Answer (Tech Support and OS/2 Discussion)
  
• Short Demonstration of Lotus SmartSuite (This may be skipped if there is no interest - we have already had quite a few demonstrations of this product)
  
• Star Office 5.0 for OS/2 Demo
  
• MP3 Compression and Players
  
• CDR's etc. (Time Permitting)
  

Hope to see you all there!

Dear OS/2 Community!

I would like to announce our next large event, which is open for everyone interested in OS/2:

The OS/2 User Association Switzerland - Forum I/1999 on Tuesday, 4th May 1999 in Zuerich.

The speaches are in German language.

Please visit our Homepage at:

http://os2web.inserto.ch/os2ua/ to get more information about this event.

Webmasters may pick up the "Forum-Banner" from our Website and place it, together with a link to our Homepage, on their Webpages.

The Philadelphia OS/2 SIG web site at http://www.phillyos2.org has just been updated with these new features:

APRIL MEETING

Information on the April 28 meeting of the SIG.

APRIL DATA BUS ARTICLE

SIG Leader Larry Lavins' April article for the PACS monthly publication Data Bus is now on-line. This month's article includes the agenda for the April meeting and notes from the Q & A session at the March meeting.

UPDATED SECTIONS

Several pages have been edited with new content, and the front page has been reorganized.

Topic: Remote Control Software
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: IBM Building - 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
- Southwest Corner of 57th Street & Madison Avenue

R.S.V.P. Henry Ferlauto (ferlauto@mindspring.com)

Directions (via Subway):
[4],[5],[6] to 59th Street and walk 2 blocks south and 2 blocks west.

or

[N] or [R] to the Lexington Avenue stop, then walk 2 blocks west and 3 blocks south.

or [B] or [Q] train to Lexington Avenue, then walk 1 block west and 6 blocks south.

Details:

Please join us as we demonstrate two means of remote controlling other computers with OS/2. We will demonstrate Remote Management and NetOp.

Remote Management was originally known as Remote Services Management, RSM for short. It was originally produced by International Software Solutions. ISS was acquired in September of 1998 by Peregrine Systems.

NetOp is distributed by Cross Tec corporation.

Both programs are cross platform, supporting OS/2, Windows of all flavors and DOS.

Company Web Sites:
Peregine Systems - http://www.peregrine.com CrossTec
Corporation - http://www.4ctc.com

We will open with our usual Q&A session.

Also, we would like to remind everyone that NYPC will be co-sponsoring the May 19th book signing of "Format C:" by Edwin Black. To get a sneak preview visit the official web site - http://www.featuregroup.com/formatc

We hope to see you there.

The Austin OS/2 Users' Group (part of the Central Texas PC Users' Group) will be holding its next meeting on Tuesday, April 13th at 7:00pm. For more information, please visit.

http://www.ctpcug.com/SIGDetail.asp?tSIGID=12

If you live in Austin and use OS/2, please come to the meeting to show your support and prove that OS/2 is alive and kicking in its hometown!

The Belgian HCC OS/2 User Group will be holding its monthly meeting on April 9th, 1999 at the usual location :

Gemeenschapscentrum "De Kam"
Beekstraat 172
1970 Wezenbeek-oppem

(detailed driving instructions found on our website : http://www.os2ugbe.org)

The meeting starts around 20:30 cet. Tonight we will have a general discussion on OS/2 and its hardware support. We will attempt to give a round-up of the hardware devices that are currently supported in OS/2 and some useful tips that might be of help when selecting the best device for your OS/2 system.

As always, following the main presentation there will be a workshop, so we invite everyone to bring his/her PC.

Last month we were happy to see a few new members at our meeting, so we hope to see all of them again this time!

We've also done a complete refresh (again) of our website, so we would like to invite everyone to have a look and tell us your comments ...

Speed to our next meeting!

Close to 100% of Phoenix OS/2 Society members are online. In addition to being technically sophisticated, we're also very connected. But, to extend the old saying, you can't be too thin, too rich, or have too fast an Internet connection.

Unfortunately, for a lot of businesses and home users, incredibly fast Internet speeds have been far out of the budget. That might change for you, really soon - especially if you attend the next Phoenix OS/2 Society general meeting, on Tuesday, April 13, when SpeedChoice will demonstrate its affordable, high-speed wireless Internet service. And yes, it works with OS/2.

Did you say wireless?!

SpeedChoice is a wireless, data communications service company and an ISP that specializes in high-speed connections to the Internet. It offers businesses - of any size -- a full range of products and services that can help you operate faster and more efficiently. SpeedChoice lets home users experience the Internet how it was meant to be. . . fast! Enjoy download speeds up to 100 times faster than your old modem could ever handle.

That is real speed. Speed for everything you do online -- email, chat, FTP, and surfing the web. Speed for everything you could never do online before, like video and audio, large document transfer, and no waiting!

SpeedChoice accomplishes these incredible speeds through a wireless connection. Your Mac, PC, or LAN receives information through a fixed wireless 10 Megabit per second downstream data channel. The return upstream path can range from a dial-up telephone circuit or ISDN line, all the way up to a dedicated or frame relay circuit. (Realistically, you still do need a phone line. Dual-direction wireless access is coming, but it's not imminent.)

This means realistic download speeds of 1 to 2 Mbps at home and 5 to 6 Mbps for your busy corporate LAN and its stressed T1 line. The technology is called MMDS, Multichannel Multi-point Distribution Service, and it transmits 2.5GHz signals through the air, enabling superior signal transmission at higher speeds than other wireless technologies. Since no satellite transmission is involved, typical problems of latency and speed restrictions do not apply. The SpeedChoice fixed, wireless network is a highly reliable, secure medium for data transmission.

All this starts at $39.95 for a home user. It's available in Phoenix and Detroit right now, though the company is expanding. (Sensibly, they're testing in comparatively smaller markets. If it's not available near you, perhaps you should consider moving to Arizona, which we think is a good idea anyway. Until then, you can check out the company at http://www.speedchoice.com.)

And you said OS/2?!

SpeedChoice doesn't formally support OS/2, because they don't have any techies who swear to know it as well as, well, the average member of the Society. But, just like any other ISP, they use TCP/IP and dialup settings. (And, after all, I was able to talk them into showing up. That's a good sign. A better sign would be for you to show up, to make it clear that the OS/2 community is interested in technology like this.)

You'll probably have an easier time at installation if you have a Windows or Macintosh machine handy for the setup guys, but one Society board member has been regaling the rest of us with his download speeds. At the meeting, we'll describe some OS/2 specific tips and tricks to make the system work across your LAN.

When and where

The general meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 13, at 7:00pm, at the Mountain Preserve Reception Center, 1431 E Dunlap. The "random access" Q&A session starts promptly, on the dot, at 6:30pm, give or take a half hour. Visitors are always welcome, especially if they bring chocolate. This meeting is very non-OS-specific, so it might be a good time to bring along a friend that uses another operating system.

You can find a map to the meeting site at http://www.possi.org. While you're at the site, sign up for a free sample copy of extended attributes, the user group's print magazine devoted to OS/2.

The Phoenix OS/2 Society is the world's largest user group devoted to IBM's OS/2 operating system, with members in 16 countries and 48 U.S. States. (Know any OS/2 users in South Dakota or Alabama? We're trying to complete the set.)

--Esther Schindler
program chair, Phoenix OS/2 Society
http://www.possi.org

OS/2 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
PHILADELPHIA AREA COMPUTER SOCIETY
http://www.phillyos2.org

The OS/2 SIG of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society invites all interested computer users to attend the March meeting: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1999 7:00 - 10:00 PM
The Episcopal Academy, 376 N. Latches Lane, Merion, PA

*** MARCH FEATURE PRESENTATION *** -- OBJECT DESKTOP v.2 --

Main feature in March will be a Stardock Object Desktop v.2.0 presentation/demo by SIG members and OD aficionados Ben Bowers and Tom MacKnight.

Object Desktop has been for a long period of time, and still remains, one of the most popular and widely used 3rd party OS/2 workplace shell enhancement products on the market. To those who use it, OD has become an indispensible adjunct to the OS/2 operating system, especially the virtual desktops feature. Conversely, OD is also somewhat of a mystery to many other OS/2 users who haven't been exposed to it in any detail.

If you want to see and hear about all the neat features of OD and how it can make OS/2 computing more enjoyable and useful, don't miss the Ben and Tom show at the March 24th meeting. Stardock has also generously agreed to provide a copy of the latest version of OD for a raffle prize.

Other agenda items include SIG business matters, OS/2 news, new product announcements, a brief "How-To" or "Neat Feature" member presentation, Q&A session, software raffle, etc. An OS/2 system will be on hand for demos of OS/2, Java, Internet, etc., as time may permit. Free light refreshments will also be available.

Mark the date and time: Wednesday, March 24, at 7:00pm. If you want to hear about all the new and exciting developments, or have questions about OS/2 Warp and Java, this is the place to see OS/2 in action and get all the answers to your questions. OS/2 SIG meetings are open & free for all OS/2 users and guests, and all others interested in learning about OS/2.

WE SUPPORT THE JAVA LOBBY: http://www.javalobby.org

Further information, directions to Episcopal Academy, and other useful information about the OS/2 SIG activities may be found on our web site at http://www.phillyos2.org, or contact SIG Leader, Larry Lavins: Tel: (215) 878-9609 or Internet: llavins@erols.com