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Jiminy Cricket says, "You can't be too prepared for Y2K." This is one
meeting that bug is sure to attend!
At this month's meeting, Brent Bowlby from Computer Data Strategies, Inc. will
be demonstrating the benefits of Back Again/2.
There will be News and Tidbits, Hedges Top-Ten, and givaways, which will include
a copy of Back Again/2!
Please plan on attending. The meeting will start at 7pm at the IBM Hillside Building.
Go to our website for directions.
http://www.goldencode.com/atlos2/atlos2.html
The next meeting of the OS/2 Special Interest Group of the Capital PC Users Group
(CPCUG) will be Wednesday, July 14th, at 7 PM, at the VA Building in Silver Spring,
MD.
The presentation for this month will be Priority Master for OS/2,a program for
viewing and adjusting the priority of your OS/2 programs, giving tasks the CPU time
they need to ensure optimum response times.
In conjunction with Stardock's special offer for user groups, we will also have
one copy each of Object Desktop and Entrepreneur to be given to members prepared
to give future presentations on these programs.
Directions:
DIRECTIONS FROM WASH., DC (via METRO): Take Metro Red Line toward Glenmont to
Silver Spring Station. Exit RIGHT from train and walk to the NORTH END of the platform
to the last possible escalator. Take the escalator down and exit the station to
the right. Stay left and take outside escalator or steps to upper level. Walk past
the cookie shop and enter the first revolving door on the left which will be Metro
Plaza Building 2. Sign in at the guard's desk and enter the left bank of elevators
to the second floor. The entrance to CIOFO is down the hall past the bronze sign.
DIRECTIONS FROM VIRGINIA: Take 495 (Beltway) to Georgia Avenue Exit #3lB toward
downtown Silver Spring. Stay on Georgia Avenue. Turn right onto Colesville Road.
Take the second right onto Second Avenue, then the first right into the parking
lot. The CIOFO is directly across Second Avenue in the taller of the three buildings.
Enter the lobby and take the left bank of elevators up to the second floor, Suite
200.
DIRECTIONS FROM DOWNTOWN DC: Take 16th Street, NW, toward Maryland. Just as you
cross into Maryland, turn right onto Colesville Road. Go under the Metro Station
and take the first left onto Second Avenue, then the first right into the parking
lot. The CIOFO is directly across Second Avenue in the taller of the three buildings.
Enter the lobby and take the left bank of elevators up to the second floor, Suite
200.
Additional information can be found on the OS/2 SIG web page at
Topic: Desktop Publishing under OS/2
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: IBM Building - 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
(A very well air conditioned building on the southwest corner of 57th Street &
Madison Avenue.)
No you're not seeing things, you can actually do desktop publishing under OS/2.
We'll explore a few means of doing so including a new program called "Maul
Publisher."
If you want to get a jump on your questions, check out these two web pages:
+ BMT Micro's Page on Maul Publisher - http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/maul.html
+ The developer's (Peter Koller) web page - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maisonanglais/
A quote from the Developer's web page: "Maul Publisher provides master pages,
frame style sheets, text style sheets, title extraction styles, full undo and redo.
Maul Publisher is modular and can be expanded with custom modules for a multitude
of tasks such as importing or exporting other data formats, colour management, or
scanning for example."
See you there....
Official Announcement from OS/2VOICE
From the Office of the Secretary:
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Warpicity Speakup
VOICE has arranged with Larry Finkelstein and the OS2 Central Forum to co-sponsor
the Warpicity Speakup which will take place on Compuserve. Compuserve doesn't use
IRC protocols, so please think of it going in along terms of our continuing mission
to boldly go where no Speakup has gone before. :)
Warpicity itself is a thoughtful and interesting approach to software development
and distribution.. Lynn Maxson's article in the June 1999 VOICE Newsletter can be
found here:
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0699H/vnewsf2.htm
How to get there:
Compuserve conferencing functions are available to nonmembers running either
Netscape 2.02 or Communicator/2 provided Java 1.1.6 or higher is installed and correctly
configured.
From http://go.compuserve.com/os2central
the server will redirect your browser to a page that serves as the entrance to the
OS2Central Forum (The precise URL may vary depending on your location and method
of connection.) From, there, click on the "Chat" button to load the Java
applet. The Warpicity Speak-up session will be held in conference room 20. To get
there, select 20 Warpicity from the room list and then click Enter to bring up a
chat window that will look reasonably familiar.
Users entering through the applet will show up as {Guests}, and will not be able
to change their names. For Compuserve members only, this limitation can be overcome
by logging into the conference via OS2-CIM, which is bundled in the BonusPak of
every edition of Warp 3 or higher. Compuserve membership is not required to simply
attend the conference.
This means that this Speakup will not take place on Webbnet! However, VOICE members
will be multitasking from our usual Webbnet location to assist with help and realtime
instructions on how to access the Compuserve forum.
We recommend that users not familiar with the technology visit the conference
site ahead of time briefly to get familiar with the medium.
OS/2 Warp System Requirements:
OS/2 Warp 3 with IAK or OS/2 Warp 4
Java 1.1.6 runtime correctly configured or higher. (The Java version 1.0.2 provided
with the base Warp 4 installation that installs by default into \JAVAOS2 will definitely
not work.)
Netscape Navigator 2.02 or Netscape Communicator 4.04
Minimum Fixpak 5 for Warp 4
Minimum Fixpak 37 for Warp 3
We hope everyone interested will attend. Not only would a large attendance encourage
Compuserve overall to take greater notice of their OS/2 support efforts, but it
also builds stronger links between our community and our friends and counterparts
at OS2Central. We'll see you there.
The Speakup will be held on Monday, July 12, 1999 at 8:00PM Eastern (0:00GMT).
The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be next
Saturday, July 17, at 9:00 AM PDT, at the IBM offices located in Plaza Tower, 600
Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, on the 2nd floor.
Sundial Systems returns to SCOUG
SCOUG likes Sundial Systems (http://www.sundialsystems.com) because they always
do a great presentation. So we are looking forward to another meeting in that grand
tradition. Expect to see a little of what's current and a lot of what's coming from
the company that brings you Relish, Mesa 2, Clearlook, DBExpert, and Rover. (Whew
- that's a mouthful!)
After the presentation we'll have Q&A to get your computer problems resolved.
Then a raffle and the Saturday SIG meetings:
General Interest Group - will look at IFS add-ons for OS/2.
Programming SIG - Peter Skye will continue his explanation and demonstration
of device drivers.
Afterwards: No-host lunch and friendly chat at TGI Friday's across the street
or another local restaurant.
Monday, July 19, 7 PM PDT meetings:
On July 19th, the Networking SIG will use the WiseManager software that was installed
at last month's meeting to boot the Heritage Christian High School lab computers
as thin clients. They will then use the thin clients to run the Ziff-Davis WebBench
client software to test the performance of web servers running under OS/2, NT, Linux
and Windows.
At the OS/2 Help Desk that same evening, volunteers will give you hands-on assistance
solving your hardware and software problems.
Thursday, July 22, 7 PM PDT meeting:
Join the Sundial SIG for a great hands-on learning experience with DBExpert.
For more information about the Sundial SIG, contact SIG leader Sheridan George at
Sheridan@scoug.com.
When, where, and how to get there: SCOUG will be meeting on Saturday, July 17,
at 9:00 AM (PDT) at the IBM offices located in Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Bl., Costa
Mesa, CA, on the 2nd floor. From I-405, exit onto Bristol northbound (one exit NW
of the I-405/Hwy 55 interchange). Turn right on Anton Blvd (the first signal north
of I-405). Go east 2 signals and turn right (you will see a TGI Fridays' on your
right, where our after-meeting lunch will be at). Park in the open-air lot to your
left. Plaza Tower is on a diagonal from the open-air parking lot.
For the Networking SIG & the OS/2 Help Desk on July 19, & the Sundial
SIG on July 22:
The Heritage Christian High School in Anaheim is at 2530 W. La Palma Ave. It
is on the south side of La Palma Ave. (about 200 ft. E of Magnolia) on the property
of Grace Baptist Church. There is a 2-story office building close to La Palma Ave.
with the address of 2528 up near the roof. Turn in (south) there. Drive all the
way to the back and park along the chain-link fence. NOTE: There is a lot of freeway
construction north of the school on I-5 and the 91 freeways; some on/off ramps may
be closed and/or have detours. Check the SCOUG web site for updates, and leave yourself
plenty of time to find our new SIG meeting location.
Further information (including driving directions) can be found on the SCOUG
web site at http://www.scoug.com. The driving
directions (http://www.scoug.com/directions.html)
also include maps for the general meeting and the Help Desk/Networking/Sundial SIGs
that you can print off as needed. Come and join us!
The Philadelphia OS/2 SIG web site at http://www.phillyos2.org
has just been updated again. SIG Leader Larry Lavins' July article for the PACS
monthly publication Data Bus is now on-line. This month's article includes the agenda
for the July 28 meeting featuring CDS, Inc., developers of Back Again/2, and notes
from the Q & A session at the June meeting.
Last Saturday we had Warpheads from Georgia, California, Germany and Australia
online at the same time! We hope to continue to grow the participation in this exciting
forum for connecting the Warped World.
Please join us Saturday, 1300 GMT, on Webbnet, #SCOUG channel. Details at http://www.scoug.com/chat. We'll continue our
focus on OS/2 Systems, discussing kernals, evolution, Warpicity, and other advanced
topics. Hope you can join us, and bring a friend!
See how an all-OS/2 business works!
by Mark Kerzner
Lumature is a lighting and furniture store in Scottsdale that uses OS/2 as the
only operating system. In 1994, we installed Warp Connect on all workstations, and
shortly afterwards the Novell 3.x server was replaced with OS/2 Warp Server Advanced.
At the July meeting of the Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc, on Tuesday, July 13, LUMATURE
will be opening its doors -- including the door to the computer room! See first
hand how each and every aspect of this business is run on networked computers running
on OS/2 Warp. From point-of-sale workstations, to graphics workstations that create
all labels, price tags and advertisements, to office/accounting computers, you will
observe how this well OS/2 can run a business.
But we already know all that, didn't we?
Light fantastic
Experience how every light fixture, table lamp, and wall light in the showroom
can be controlled from "virtual" switches created on workstation screens.
Using the shareware HOUSE/2, every display fixture can be turned on, off, or dimmed
from the showroom computers. Every light can be addressed individually or as a member
of a group.
For us, this has proven to be the best method of showroom lighting control ever
devised. August 10 will be the first anniversary of the opening of this showroom,
and of this new system.
Compared to the traditional direct-wiring of each light to a manual wall switch
for a showroom this size, our initial savings with this computerized lighting control
system was more than $70,000. When you have hundreds of display locations in a commercial
building, with very high ceilings, it involves running metal pipe conduit from each
fixture to its own wall switch. With many locations, the dollars add up very quickly.
See this amazing system and try it yourself !
When and where
LUMATURE is at 15620 North Scottsdale Rd, north of Greenway and about 1/2 mile
south of Bell, on the west side of the street. Using other furniture stores as landmarks,
that's north of Robb & Stucky and just south of Thomasville.
Although the LUMATURE showroom closes to the public at 6:00pm, the doors will
be open to POSSI meeting attendees, and staff will be there to demonstrate and answer
questions. And also -- just in case you see some items in the store that you would
like to own -- ask Mark about special pricing discounts for POSSI members and guests.
The Phoenix OS/2 Society (http://www.possi.org)
is the world's largest user group devoted to IBM's OS/2 operating system, with members
in 16 countries and 48 US States. Our intent is to enable OS/2 users to help one
another get the most out of the operating system. Membership includes a subscription
to the monthly print magazine, extended attributes. You can request a free sample
of the magazine from the Society's Web site.
The Philadelphia OS/2 SIG web site at http://www.phillyos2.org
has just been updated with these features:
MEETINGS
Information on the July 28 meeting of the SIG is now posted. The feature presentation
will be a representative of CDS, Inc., developers of Back Again/2, the popular OS/2
native backup application. The Recent Meetings page has also been updated with a
report from the June session on playing MP3 audio files in OS/2.
COMPUTER BAZAAR
Updated list of computer shows in the Philadelphia area during July and August.
OTHER ADDITIONS
The site now displays the logo of Euro Warpstock '99 with a link to the English
language version of that site.
The OS/2 SIG of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society invites all interested
computer users to attend the June meeting:
*** JUNE FEATURE PRESENTATION ***
-- MP3 Audio Player for OS/2 --
The main feature at the June meeting will be a presentation by SIG member Jim
Nuytens of PM123 native OS/2 multimedia program designed to play the increasingly
popular MP3 audio files found around the web and various newsgroups. PM123 was also
awarded "Runner-up" in the 1998 OS/2 E-Zine! Reader's Choice awards for
multimedia programs.
Jim will demonstrate some neat PM123 features, including WinAmp "skins"
support, the built-in graphic equalizer/pre-amp, and how to create play lists in
PM123 so that you can more easily setup an entire evening's worth of listening pleasure.
He also plans to show some of the more than 60 WinAmp "skins" that
he has converted using PM123's built-in skin converter and report on some of the
pitfalls he found while doing so.
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, June 23, at 7:00pm, to hear about all the
new and exciting developments, or if you have questions about OS/2 Warp and Java.
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: llavins@worldnet.att.net, or phone (215) 878-9609.
Our June meeting of the Triangle OS/2 User Group (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill
NC) will focus on high speed communication networks available in our area.
Our guest speaker will be :
Mr. Julian Williams
Director of Operations
Ntrnet Systems Inc.
Durham, NC
Mr. Williams will discuss the status of his company's ADSL internet connection
in this area. Any service that offers speeds 50 times that of conventional modems
will certainly generate a lot of excitement with our membership.
Please try to make this meeting:
Tuesday June 22nd, 1999
IBM Sales Office (5th Floor)
4800 Falls of the Neuse Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27612
Remember, you can always check our web page:
Steve Kissell
Treasurer
Triangle OS/2 Users Group.
P.S. This will be the last meeting before our Summer Recess.
OS/2 Users Group of South Australia
Our group's monthly meeting on June 22nd at IBM - Adelaide's office on Greenhill
Road will be devoted to OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business and IBM's Network Station
Series 2800 with WorkSpace on Demand 2.0 running.
Please refer for further details on our web site at:
The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be next
Saturday, June 19, at 9:00 AM PDT, at the IBM offices located in Plaza Tower, 600
Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, on the 2nd floor.
OS/2 Multimedia Madness at SCOUG...
This is multimedia madness month at SCOUG. After many months of searching for
just the right multimedia presentation, we've found it right here in our own backyard!
SCOUG member Jerry Rash puts together OS/2 multimedia systems that do everything
except boogie down Broadway, and he's agreed to share with us his OS/2 multimedia
secrets. Come prepared to have your senses bathed in ecstasy, and bring a pen and
paper to take notes, as Jerry performs magic for us.
After the multimedia presentation we'll have Q&A to get your computer problems
resolved. Then a raffle and the Saturday SIG meetings:
General Interest Group - will look into several distributed computing projects:
Seti@Home and RC5-64 encryption.
Programming SIG - will have guest speaker Peter Skye explain all there is to
know about writing device drivers for OS/2.
Afterwards: No-host lunch and friendly chat at TGI Friday's across the street.
Monday, June 21, 7 PM PDT meetings:
On June 21st, the OS/2 Help Desk will be at Heritage Christian High School in
Anaheim. Knowledgeable SCOUG volunteers will be on hand to help with Y2K issues
and other hardware and software problems. In another room, the Networking SIG will
have a follow-up on the WiseManager presentation made at the March 1999 general
meeting, converting the peer network at Heritage Christian High School to a WiseManager
thin client network environment with server administration capability. Should be
fun!
Thursday, June 24, 7 PM PDT meeting:
The Sundial SIG finished their address/phone book project last month and will
start a new DBExpert project on June 24. Join them at Heritage Christian High School
for a great hands-on learning experience.
When, where, and how to get there: SCOUG will be meeting on Saturday, June 19,
at 9:00 AM (PDT) at the IBM offices located in Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Bl., Costa
Mesa, CA, on the 2nd floor. From I-405, exit onto Bristol northbound (one exit NW
of the I-405/Hwy 55 interchange). Turn right on Anton Blvd (the first signal north
of I-405). Go east 2 signals and turn right (you will see a TGI Fridays' on your
right, where our after-meeting lunch will be at). Park in the open-air lot to your
left. Plaza Tower is on a diagonal from the open-air parking lot.
For the Networking SIG & the OS/2 Help Desk on June 21, & the Sundial
SIG on June 24:
The Heritage Christian High School in Anaheim is at 2530 W. La Palma Ave. It
is on the south side of La Palma Ave. (about 200 ft. E of Magnolia) on the property
of Grace Baptist Church. There is a 2-story office building close to La Palma Ave.
with the address of 2528 up near the roof. Turn in (south) there. Drive all the
way to the back and park along the chain-link fence. NOTE: There is a lot of freeway
construction north of the school on I-5 and the 91 freeways; some on/off ramps may
be closed and/or have detours. Check the SCOUG web site for updates, and leave yourself
plenty of time to find our new SIG meeting location.
Further information (including driving directions) can be found on the SCOUG
web site at http://www.scoug.com. The driving directions (http://www.scoug.com/directions.html)
also include maps for the general meeting and the Help Desk/Networking/Sundial SIGs
that you can print off as needed. Come and join us!