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Dear OS/2 community members:
You are hereby invited to visit and participate in a discussion group I started
at:
http://www.egroups.com/group/eComStation
I recommend using a public account to access this. It appears that some of the
"free" services on the net have a tendency to attract SPAMs. I don't know
if eGroups is such a service. Please check eGroup's privacy before joining.
If you are not familiar what Serenity Managed Client is, please visit:
http://www.serenity-systems.com
This is the product mentioned in PCWeek Peter Coffee's article at:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2377721,00.html
which begins like this:
"I pushed one button and deployed a network in 29 seconds per node. It was
worth my trip to Atlanta to see the vision of network computing delivered by Serenity
Systems' technology based on IBM's OS/2."
And, one more thing: since I am the moderator, please be kind to reduce my workload
by not posting messages like "oh, this is great, best of luck. Bye.",
or ask business related questions that I will not answer. I am only trying to search
for the answer to the question: What would make an operating system based on components
of OS/2 THE most suitable operating system for eCommerce. Messages similar to lots
of those one would find in the comp.os.os2.advocacy group WILL not be welcomed.
Please be constructive.
Thanks.
Kim Cheung
I am about to create a tool, kTaskMgr, for displaying information about processes,
threads, executable modules, open files, shared memory*, semphors*, memory map*,...
(* = not impelemented yet). kTaskMgr is also able kill processes. I've just released
a new alpha/preview of it.
It's of course available from Hobbes. Currently located in the incoming folder:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ktaskmgr002.zip
But it will probably end up here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/process/ktaskmgr002.zip
It can also be found at:
ftp://kTaskMgr.sourceforge.net/pub/kTaskMgr/kTaskMgr002.zip
BTW, for those interested in kBootManager, I am creating an open source project
for it at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4989
An update to TCP/IP 4.3 is now available for Software Choice subscribers:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm
WarpTech Early Registration Ends On Sunday
WarpTech 2000 early registration saves you $10. The last day for this discount
is Sunday April 30, and you can register online or by fax.
Your three days at WarpTech will be filled with OS/2 technology, software, presentations,
demonstrations, business contacts, e-business solutions and the chance to make dozens
of friends among OS/2 users from all over the world. See the WarpTech Sessions page
at:
http://www.warptech.org/WTSessions.html
and then sign up now (and save $10) at:
http://www.warptech.org/WTRegistration.html
- - -
Monday Last Free $1699 Warp Server Day
Register by Monday, May 1, and be eligible to win the $1699 copy of Warp Server
for e-Business at WarpTech 2000.
"You have to register now" says Craig Greenwood, the WarpTech Captain.
"Monday May 1 is the deadline. If you register for WarpTech by then, you're
eligible to win the Warp Server for e-Business prize."
The WarpTech registration page is at:
http://www.warptech.org/WTRegistration.html
"You can register online right now" says Mike Willmoth, WarpTech's
Webmaster. "You can register by fax as well. With a prize like this one, there's
no reason to wait."
Register for WarpTech 2000 by May 1 and be eligible to win the $1699 Warp Server
for e-Business package while you're there. It's one more reason to come to WarpTech!
- - -
WarpTech 2000 is a 3-day OS/2 technical conference taking place May 26-28 at
a pristine 463-acre desert resort in the beautiful Southwest. Come to Phoenix, Arizona
USA for three full days of OS/2 -- the biggest OS/2 conference ever held.
Visit the WarpTech web site at:
To volunteer or just to watch the goings-on, subscribe to the WarpTech 2000 planning
list by sending mail to steward@bitranch.com
with the following text in the body (not subject!) of the message: subscribe w2k
Hosted by the Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc.
Seems like maybe the word hasn't gotten around on this one...
Here's an excellent site with a how-to workaround for the Windows 2000 / Boot
Manager problem:
http://www.evilinternet.com/fastfat.html
Here is a reply I got from the VMware people to a question I posed about why
they dropped their OS/2 support.
Dirk,
There was no sinister Microsoft influence at all on our decision. It was based
purely on technical and business reasons. To complete a commercial product release
with full OS/2 guest support was going to require engineering and support resources
at a time when we are dedicating all our efforts to bringing some very promising
new applications for virtual machines to market. We did not want to continue providing
what we consider to be a sub-standard quality experimental OS/2 feature, so we are
getting out of OS/2 entirely.
Regards,
Eric
An update for users who have TCP/IP 4.1 is available. See the INF file in the
first disk image for list of problems fixed in this release.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/mpts/fixes/english-us/wr08621/
Yesterday (Thursday, April 27, 2000) I asked Jungo (Formerly KRFTech: http://www.jungo.com/
about compiling code generated by Windriver for OS/2. Jungo staff replied that they
were about to add makefile samples to the Windriver beta for OS/2 which would be
downloadable from the 27th of April:
"Basically this code may be compiled with any compiler , however in this
stage we will not add OS/2 support to Wizard that mean you need create a makefile
manually for each compiler that you want to use. I will add a makefiles to the samples
that we are provide with WinDriver for OS/2 so they may be used as a templates for
creating makefiles. I used gcc for compiling samples so the makefile will be for
gcc."
WinDriver for OS/2 simplifies and tremendously speeds up OS/2 device driver development
by freeing the developer from the need to master the OS/2 Kernel and the driver
development details. Using WinDriver, developing drivers for the OS/2 platform now
takes hours instead of months. WinDriver for OS/2 supports the PCI and ISA busses,
and offers enhanced Support for the leading PCI chip-set vendors (PLX, Galileo,
Altera, V3 and AMCC).
More info can be found at:
I just saw WR08621 (MPTS fixes) have been posted on:
ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/mpts/fixes/english-us
(P.S. DSKXTRCT won't process the images...)
Warpstock, Inc. (Internet) Contact: David Ameiss, Secretary david@ameissnet.com
Every year, hundreds of OS/2 users from around the world gather to talk about
their favorite operating system. And every year, these hundreds of hungry minds
cry out for more presentations.
The Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc. hereby formally calls out to adept
OS/2 users far and wide to submit their proposals for presentations to be given
at Warpstock 2000.
Presentations on any OS/2-related topic are more than welcome, regardless of
the technical level. Topic categories include programming, advocacy, software demonstrations,
internet and networking, how-to's, and anything else of interest to OS/2 users.
Interested individuals should email Luc Van Bogaert at luc.vanbogaert@pandora.be
or visit:
http://www.warpstock.org/2000/presentations.html
There, you will find example presentations from previous years, templates in
various formats for use in overheads, and a list of suggested deadlines.
To ensure that the Warpstock staff have enough time to prepare, interested speakers
should submit a title and abstract by August 12. Papers, if applicable, should be
submitted by August 25.
The 4th annual Warpstock conference will be held September 9-10, 2000, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation.
The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users and vendors from around
the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available
at the Warpstock 2000 web site:
Check the IBM OS/2 Strategy for 2000 at:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
It appears you can now order an update to RSJ CD-Writer for OS/2 3.01 (from Version
2.50 to 2.85) Internet version (license via email) for DM42.24(US$20.67) excluding
VAT or DM49.00(US$23.98) including VAT, directly from RSJ:
https://www.rsj.de/stage/en/default.asp?MainPage=orderos2.asp
They also list the CD-Writer for OS/2(Internet only) for only DM257.76(US$126.15)
or the Full package (including a printed manual and diskette) for DM301.72(US$147.66)
both prices excluding VAT and Shipping( for the full package).
You can download the 3.0 Update at:
http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/default.asp?MainPage=download.asp
"The update from version 2.x to version 3.0x (which includes dynamic detection
of new drive types) will install as a 30 day demo version, until the upgrade fee
is paid."
Changes from version 3.00 to 3.01
Wrong keyfiles in English and French version corrected
Keyfilehandling in installer improved
Writing speed in filesystem can now be set higher than 4x
Changes from version 2.85 to 3.00:
Dynamic detection of new, CDMMC or CDATAPI compatible drive types
Copy wizard for simple copies of complete CDs
New compression algorithm for installer
Installer support OS/2 2.1 again
Improved CONFIG.SYS parser in installer
CDWPOPUP has Hide button again
Improved stability for LOCKCDR on ATAPI only systems
New DANI version included
The Warp Doctor Warnings page:
http://www.warpdoctor.org/warnings.html
has alerted WSeB users that before they can install any FixPak using Remote Software
Upgrades (RSU) on a Warp Server for e-Business machine, they must apply either APAR
IC24998 or FixPak UN02101.
APAR IC24998 can be found at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/IC24998.EXE
Full information can be found at IBM's Software Updates Page, updated April 26,
2000:
http://ps.software.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html#icfix
The OS/2 port of the open source Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Linux audio
driver is now officially available.
Features
- Up to 32 simultaneous wave playback streams
- One record stream
- Full duplex
- Support for the IOCTL90 mixer interface
- RTMIDI playback ~recording (not yet implemented in this release)
- Full source code (GNU license) available at the Netlabs CVS server: http://www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/sbliveos2
Login as 'guest' with password 'readonly'
Requirements
- OS/2 Warp 4 or Warp Server for e-Business (Warp 3 not tested) - Creative Labs
SoundBlaster Live! soundcard
Download
The driver binaries have been uploaded to the incoming directories of http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/,
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/ and ftp://ftp.leo.org/
as sbliveos2.zip It's also available at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sandervl/sbliveos2.zip
Note that this is beta software and should be used with caution.
I sent a message to the VMware people asking if they might consider making it
available as a "not supported" version. This is the response I got. It's
really a shame that they have chosen not to press forward with OS/2 support. VMware
provides a nice way of being able to use OS/2 on machines without the hassle of
(a) having to repartition disks and (b) reboot to get to other operating systems.
They haven't given a reason as to why they decided not to proceed. They have
an announcement on the main page of their web site http://www.vmware.com
about having signed an OEM agreement with Microsoft to provide Windows preinstalled
in virtual machines. Given the kinds of MS tactics that surfaced during the anti-trust
trial, one has to wonder about the timing of all this...
Dirk,
Thank you for your support, but we are withdrawing our OS/2 experimental release.
Releasing OS/2 as an unsupported guest OS was considered, but we did not feel that
our OS/2 guest support was at the same quality level as other guest OSs and we did
not want that to reflect badly on our product.
Regards, Eric
After a very long time I finally found the time to update the OS/2 Netlabs with
a brand new design and a great database back-end. I will still include more features
in the future but the most important part is updated: The projects. It will now
be much simpler for me to update the projects so they should be much more up to
date than the past month. :-)
Have a look at the pages and enjoy it, I will add more later, a lot of content
is not yet in the database, this will change too. Oh yes, if you can't see the images
your DNS-Server does not yet have the new DNS-Entries for images.netlabs.org and
so on, this should change automatically after a few hours (in the worst case it
can take about 48 hours).
And for sure we are always looking for some talented developers so get in contact
with us if you are interested in joining OS/2 Netlabs!
BTW: The web server is running OS/2 with Apache, MySQL and PHP3! Unfortunately
the machine is quite old so it could be that it is slow but this will change in
a few months, I should get some new hardware then.
Have fun!
http://www.netlabs.org
Adrian Gschwend
ktk@netlabs.org
Webmaster @ OS/2 Netlabs
Contact: Craig Greenwood captain@warptech.org
1-480-968-8625 office
You'll miss a lot of great OS/2 networking presentations if you skip WarpTech
2000.
Sessions like Managing a Server-based Environment, High Availability with Warp
Server (two sessions) and Getting OS/2 Warp Server Past Impulse Power. These four
sessions will cover setting up new networks using existing legacy hardware, how
to integrate current software into the network environment, security setup, accelerating
client deployements, building in the necessary flexibility for future web-based
solutions, using new Warp Server software to cross-protect mission critical servers
and keep them from ever becoming unavailable, tuning the servers for optimal performance,
plus major demonstrations showing exactly how these benefits perform in real-world
settings.
And you'll learn remote management with sessions such as Remote-Booting Alien
Operating Systems From OS/2, Remote Access And Virtual Enterprise Networking Systems,
and Demystifying CID. You'll see how to set up Warp Server for e-Business so it
RIPL boots Windows 9x/NT desktop clients, how to manage these and other clients
remotely across an entire enterprise, and how to apply fixpaks remotely across a
network using IBM's CID (Configuration, Installation, Distribution) process to automate
this task.
Then there's The OS/2-Linux Road Map, POTS To T3: Understanding Bandwidth, and
Designing A Home Network. Attend these sessions and gain the exact technical info
you need to put together robust, cross-platform, high-speed networks in your office,
your home, or between cities.
Still Time To Register For Free $1699 Warp Server
Your WarpTech registration by May 1st makes you eligible for the $1699 door prize
of Warp Server for e-Business, and you still have a few days left before the cutoff.
"Monday May 1 is the deadline" advises Captain Craig Greenwood of WarpTech
2000. "WarpTech is three full days of OS/2 sessions, discussions, vendors and
products. There's no reason to wait when you can register online right now and be
eligible for the $1699 Warp Server for e-Business prize."
The WarpTech registration page is at:
http://www.warptech.org/WTRegistration.html
Esther Schindler, Program Chair for WarpTech 2000, has filled the WarpTech 2000
schedule with presentations for everyone. "And this $1699 prize will make WarpTech
a jump-up-and-down-with-joy experience for one attendee" says Esther. "The
winner gets the manuals, the registration, the box -- the full package."
You'll miss your chance at a free $1699 Warp Server for e-Business if you delay
your registration past May 1. Be present to win! Come to WarpTech!
- - -
WarpTech 2000 is a 3-day OS/2 technical conference taking place May 26-28 at
a pristine 463-acre desert resort in the beautiful Southwest. Come to Phoenix, Arizona
USA for three full days of OS/2 -- the biggest OS/2 conference ever held.
Visit the WarpTech web site at:
To volunteer or just to watch the goings-on, subscribe to the WarpTech 2000 planning
list by sending mail to steward@bitranch.com
with the following text in the body (not subject!) of the message: subscribe w2k
Hosted by the Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc.
OS/2 e-Zine! http://www.os2ezine.com is
looking for writers to contribute to our online magazine. Writers will review OS/2
software and cover the latest developments in the OS/2 operating system and associated
community.
Writing for OS/2 e-Zine! will initially be voluntary (i.e., you will not be paid)
but we wish to change this soon.
If you are interested in writing for us, please contact Christopher Wright at
wrightc@dtcweb.com
I just received the following depressing email from VMWare:
Dear VMware OS/2 User,
As a registered licensee of VMware's experimental release with OS/2 guest support,
the effort you have made testing VMware and reporting your OS/2 experiences has
been greatly appreciated. OS/2 users have responded enthusiastically to VMware's
technology and the freedom it gives to run OS/2 applications on Linux and Windows-based
PCs.
However, VMware users have high expectations from our products and we do not
feel, given our present strategic directions and commitments, that we can support
OS/2 as VMware guest operating system.
We have been very grateful for the interest shown by you and the rest of the
OS/2 community in testing our experimental OS/2 release. We regret that we will
not be able extend VMware support to include OS/2, but we hope you can find applications
for VMware technology with the other operating systems you use.
Thank you again for your interest in VMware. The VMware Team
FixPak 1 for Warp Server for eBusiness (US-English) is now available. It is the
same Build Level as Warp4 FP13 14.040:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/english-us/xr_e001/
Or by RSU:
http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj2.pl?/pdocs-usa/xr_e001.rsu
Tucows is planning on reinstating its OS/2 shareware/freeware section. I received
this message from Tucows helpdesk upon inquiry:
--- We are glad to know that somebody missed the OS/2 section :) It has been
gone for just about 2 years now. Good News!!! Coming later this year we are bringing
it back. Expect it late summer or possibly fall.
Tucows is at:
dBase Info is freeware PM viewer for DBF files with basic functions (GOTO, FIND,
SUM, MAX, MIN, AVG). Files can be converted into SDF, ASCII and HTML format.
Features:
- Language support: English, Croatian, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish and Spanish.
- Output to file formats (SDF with PRG, ASCII text, HTM). You can select range (start
and end record), sort options (no sort, ascending or descending) in output file.
To download dBase Info 0.96, visit:
http://redrival.com/os2util/index.htm
This morning (Apr. 25), it appears that IBM has re-released Warp 4 FixPak 13.
It is available via FTP at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m013
For those using RSU, it is at:
http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html
GammaTech, Inc., developers of OS/2 software, has announced that there is a new
corrective service for GTIRC bringing it to version 3.06 . The demo of GTIRC has
also been brought up to version 3.06.
A new version of OS2Bot, the IRC bot for OS/2, is now available for download.
This updated version fixes various Y2K problems.
Electronic downloads are available at http://www.gt-online.com
For a different (and very negatively written) account of what the new OS/2 "Convenience
Packs" mean, check out this article on Infoworld.com. It implies that IBM is
only releasing convenience packs to aid migration to Windows 2000:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pi/xml/00/04/24/000424pios2.xml
GammaTech, Inc., developers of OS/2 software, has announced that there is a new
corrective service for GTIRC bringing it to version 3.06. The demo of GTIRC has
also been brought up to version 3.06.
A new version of OS2Bot, the IRC bot for OS/2, is now available for download.
This updated version fixes various Y2K problems.
Electronic downloads are available at:
Finally: The Team Trier Collection Vol.6 CDROM for OS/2 is now available!
For only DM 10/EUR 5 it includes (among lots of other share- & freeware,
demos, etc.):
- FP 13 for Warp 4 English
- FixPak 12 for Warp 4 German
- XFree86/OS2 3.3.6
- XFree86/OS2 4.0 alpha
- The GIMP/2 1.1.19
- CrystalSpace 0.15 (free 6DF 3D engine)
- FixPak 42 German for Warp 3 Server
- Visual Age for Java 3.0 Entry
- First release of the Open JFS sourcecode for OS/2
- ODIN Alpha 5 (of course the most recent day built!)
- Povray 3.1g
- Ghostscript 6.01 and Ghostview 2.9
- Current Pentium optimized GCC (PGCC)
Two comfortable menu-systems, an HTML interface that can be used with any web
browser and a PM program, developed specially for the TTC, support you at selecting
and installing the programs.
The FixPaks and XFree86/OS2 may be most easily installed directly from the CD!
For more information and the complete list of contents see the web pages of Team
OS/2 Region Trier e.V. at:
(Note: This CDROM may be of interest only to German speaking or at least European
customers: Though most of the documentation and the installation programs on the
CD are now also available in English the shipping charges may get really steep outside
of Europe...)
I received the following from SUN Microsystems:
-------------------Susan Grabau susan.grabau@sun.com
Thanks for your note. Here's a bit of an update.
We are planning on making the StarOffice source code available in the next few
months. This will enable OS/2 users and organizations to migrate later versions
of StarOffice to OS/2. Of course this strategy will also enable interested parties
to deploy StarOffice on any operating system platform not supported by Sun.
Best regards,
Susan Grabau
-------------------Susan Grabau susan.grabau@sun.com
On saturday april 29 a session about embedded OS will be held at the KHLim in
Diepenbeek Belgium. This session is an initiative of the OS/2 UserGroup Belgium
in cooperation with the KHLim. The session will be about the use of embedded OS/2,
embedded Linux and Windows CE. The speaker will be Achim Hasenmueller of Innotek.
He is one of the developers of the MetaBox. This is a device with the size of an
ordinary VCR that allows the user to have an Internet connnection and more by using
his television.
More information can be found on the following web sites:
The session will start at 14h00 and will end about 18h00. A detailed routedescription
to the buildings of the KHLim (Dutch and English version) can be found on our web
site:
http://celkunststoffen.khlim.be
If you phone us ask for John Bijnens.
How much work is it to put on a three-day OS/2 show? Our WarpTech volunteers
like to say that they're putting this conference together for fun, but there's plenty
of work involved.
For example, our Hotel Liaison volunteer is Marilyn Pizzo. She takes care of
the meeting room requirements, the seating layouts, the preparations for the free
lunches each day of the event, and all of the other show requirements that the hotel
will supply us with.
Then there's David Azarewicz, our volunteer in charge of the show LAN. David
will make sure that every exhibitor and every presenter is connected to the Internet.
Cables, hubs, connectors and high-speed net access are all part of David's job.
Esther Schindler is our volunteer Program Chair. She's spent hundreds of hours
over the past few months contacting the speakers, discussing possible topics, creating
the three-day schedule, then writing the session descriptions and speaker bios.
Volunteer Burke Swanson is taking care of our Audio and Video needs. Every presentation
room will have high quality projection and audio systems thanks to his efforts.
Gil Day and Marilyn Pizzo are the volunteers who contact the exhibitors. Bill
Schindler runs our extraordinary web site. Daniel Goggia handles announcements.
Richard Klemmer is in charge of travel info, Robert Rosenwald does the printing,
Mike Willmoth is our treasurer and Mark Kerzner is our registrar. And Sam MacDonald
is coordinating a number of other WarpTech volunteers as well, each one helping
to create this three-day OS/2 extravaganza which is just a month away.
And don't forget the WarpTech $1699 door prize for someone who registers by May
1. It's a copy of Warp Server for e-Business, the new Warp version with the journaling
file system, the logical volume manager, and support for motherboards with multiple
processors. This big (and expensive) prize goes to some lucky WarpTech attendee
who registers by Monday May 1. See the contest information at
http://www.warptech.org/WTRegForm.html
If you register by April 30 you also get the early registration discount. And
don't forget that an on-site lunch is included in your WarpTech registration, which
saves you both time and money.
That's it for this week. We'll see you Friday to Sunday, May 26-28, at WarpTech
2000!
- Captain Craig captain@warptech.org
The May 2000 edition of "The Warped Perspective" has been posted at
OS/2 Headquarters:
This issue explains some of the reasons why OS/2 is not currently an Open-Source
platform, and what is needed to change that. OS/2 HQ has also updated the OS/2 User
Group list, as well as the Classic Articles page.
T&V HappyPlayer 1.10 is just released.
T&V HappyPlayer is an OS/2 TV-tuner applications.
New in version 1.10: more cards, user plug-in interface, a plug-in for support
AVerMedia TVPhone98 remote control (plug-in source text included).
Check T&V HappyPlayer home page:
http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/projects/happyplayer/index_e.html
or Hobbes archive.