Past News
December, 2001| Saturday, December 1 2001 |
- The December edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- Pay to play
- Cisco 340 PCMCIA Wireless network card
- Interview with Serenity's Bob StJohn
- An OS/2 History Lesson: OS/2 2.1
- A short report on Warpstock Europe
- Manual Installation of Win32-applications using Odin - Part 4
- BBC News Ticker (and AOL) for eComStation and OS/2 Warp
- Multi-language websites with Apache web server
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addenda, Errata,
November, 2001
| Friday, November 2, 2001 |
- The November edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- Whither OS/2?
- Using Watcom C/C++ 11.0c on OS/2
- Choosing the Best Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader
- An OS/2 History Lesson: OS/2 2.0
- Warpstock 2001 - An OS/2 Odyssey.
- Manual Installation of Win32-applications using Odin - Part 3
- Partitioning Harddrives under OS/2 - Part 2
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addenda, Errata,
October, 2001
| Wednesday, October 3, 2001 |
- The October edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- What's going on?
- Partitioning Harddrives under OS/2 - Part 1
- Introduction to Perl
- An OS/2 History Lesson: The Beginnings of OS/2
- Removing "Red Eye" from a photo using Embellish.
OS/2 Warp PC! - Installation of Win32-applications using Odin - Part 2
under MultiDesk V0.2.0 - File Sharing on the Gnutella Network using LimeWire: Installation.
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addenda, Errata,
September, 2001
| Sunday, September 16, 2001 |
- The log from Thursday's Warpstock 2001 SpeakUp is now available on the Tanscripts page.
The winners of the three day pass to Warpstock 2001 in Toronto are:- Frans Morre aka Suske
- Gordon Emerson Snider aka Gord
| Monday, September 3, 2001 |
- The September edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- What a Beauty!
- POVRay
- Warpstock Europe 2001 in Belgium
- An OS/2 History Lesson - The Early Years
- MultiDesk V0.2.0 - Your own Desktop on a shared
OS/2 Warp PC! - MultiDesk V0.2.0 - Dealing with Sound Schemes
under MultiDesk V0.2.0 - Manual installation of Win32 programs under Odin
- View from the End(User:
eComStation Gold Release - OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addenda, Errata,
August, 2001
| Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
- The log from Monday's General VOICE Meeting is now available on the Transcripts page.
| Thursday, August 9, 2001 |
- The log from Monday's SpeakUp with Sundial Systems is now available on the Transcripts page.
| Wednesday, August 1, 2001 |
- The August edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- Yesterday, today, tomorrow
- Crown of Might.
- Installation and Configuration of Software for
the Sound Blaster Live! and 512 Sound
under the OS/2 Operating System - An OS/2 History Lesson - Ten years ago
- Setting the System Clock to UTC.
- From Your New President...
- Make me hot!
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addenda, Errata,
July, 2001
| Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
- The log from July 16th's General VOICE Meeting is now available on the Transcripts page.
| Monday, July 2, 2001 |
- The July edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:
June, 2001
| Monay, June 4, 2001 |
- The results of the elections for VOICE President and Secretary are in! Our new president is Walter Metcalf and our new secretary is Andrew Welty. We look forward to the future of VOICE and OS/2 with a now fully staffed board of directors!
| Friday, June 1, 2001 |
- The May VOICE elections are over! Results will be announced at the June 4th Speak-Up with Sundial Systems. Be there! (Check the Events Calendar for times.)
- The June edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:
May, 2001
| Friday, May 18, 2001 |
- The ballot for the VOICE Elections is now available! Please visit the the Election area, decide on a candidate, and vote!
Remember, only VOICE members may vote in this election!
The ballot will be available from today, May 18th until May 29th, 2001. Results will be announced at the VOICE Meeting on June, 4th.
| Wednesday, May 9, 2001 |
- The VOICE Board of Directors will be accepting nominations for President and Secretary from May 4, 2001 - May 11, 2001.
This may be a self nomination or you may nominate another VOICE member. Should you nominate another member, please check with them to assure that they will accept the nomination. Submit nominations and bio to: nominate@os2voice.org.
A bio is requested from each nominee. This will be posted on the VOICE site, upon receipt, and will offer the members some insight into your OS/2 background and assist them in electing the person they feel most suitable for the position. A description of the duties each positions entails may be found in the VOICE bylaws at: bylaws.html
The ballot will be available on the VOICE web site from May 12, 2001 - May 20, 2001.
The results of the election will be announced on May 21, 2001 at the bi-monthly VOICE IRC meeting and followed-up with the announcement to the members mailing list.
We currently have 242 members and the Board of Directors would like to thank each and every one of you for your support!
Any questions or comments may be sent to nominate@os2voice.org.
-- VOICE Board of Directors
| Tuesday, May 1, 2001 |
- The May edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features: - Logs from the 04/02/2001 and 04/16/2001 General VOICE Meetings have been added to the Transcripts page.
- The VOICE Speakup with Sundial Systems originally scheduled for May 7th has been rescheduled for Monday, June 4th at 8PM EDT (00:00 GMT). The topic remains unannounced at this time.
April, 2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2001 |
- VOICE will have a General meeting on IRC on Monday April 16th at 8PM EDT (00:00GMT). The main topic is VOICE server services, particularly providing our own secure server for membership payments and hosting Warpstock's website and transaction processing. VOICE is in need of someone with LDGW experience to help with this project if they can spare the time.
Please try to attend if you can. We need more participation in the affairs of our growing organization. We also need to fill our two Board of Director vacancies - President and Secretary. So far we have had only one nomination for Secretary. If you are interested please send a short bio to nominate@os2voice.org along with the position you are interested in.
For more on VOICE meetings and IRC please see the Meeting Information page.
| Wednesday, April 4, 2001 |
- The April edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- The Power of "Thank you".
- OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin Convenience Pack
- Emacs 20.6.1 under OS/2 -
Part II - Additional Setup - Using the Toshiba PDR-M4 Digital
Camera with OS/2 via USB - Snakes and Hammers: Ogg Vorbis
- Networking FixPaks under OS/2 Warp
- The Free Files - Vol. 6
We make Music - Part 2 - OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addendums, Errata,
| Sunday, April 1, 2001 |
- A message from Mark Dodel: First off, we have a VOICE General meeting on IRC on Monday April 2nd at 8PM EDT (00:00GMT). The main topic is VOICE server services, particularly providing our own secure server for membership payments. Please try to attend if you can. We need more participation in the affairs of our growing organization.
For more on VOICE meetings and IRC please see the VOICE Meeting Information page or send me an email and I will try to help you.
Speaking of participation, we have a great opportunity for members to help the OS/2 community by nominating themselves for the positions of President and Secretary of VOICE. If you are interested in helping us continue to grow and serve the OS/2 community, and you have the time to help, please give this serious consideration. We need your help, as it is difficult to continue to expand ourservices when we are short-handed. VOICE is an all volunteer organization, dedicated to the education and support of the OS/2 user community. If you are intersted please send a short bio to nominate@os2voice.org along with the position you are nominating yourself for.
The VOICE mail lists have been extremely slow in processing since yesterday due to an inadvertent DOS attack on our mail server caused by a looping bounce message from an invalid email address subscribed to the news list. We are proud of the fact that VOICE1, running Warp Server eBusiness, remained functional despite the problem. We have contacted the ISP involved, but they have yet to fix their problem, and they keep sending the post, hundreds of them every hour. We finally fixed the problem on our end by blocking the loop at our router. The mail lists remained up throughout the ordeal, just running slow. The websites hosted on the same machine continued to be available as well. Another big thank you to our SysAdmin, Abel McClendon, who has been devoting large amounts of his time to keeping our server running and adding new features and services as well.
If you subscribe to a VOICE list, be aware that unless you explicitly subscribe an address in the body of the post, our Mailing list server uses the From address in your post. If that is incorrect or mangled to prevent SPAM, you will be subscribed with an invalid address and any list posts will just bounce. Most only cause a minor headache for the list moderators. This one happened to cause a bigger then usual one. :-(
To subscribe a specific address to the VOICE News List send the following text to majormajor@os2voice.org
SUBSCRIBE NEWS my@email.address
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The VOICE Newsletter will be 3 days late this month. We plan to go live on April 4th. This is due to several hardware problems on the part of the editorial staff, as well as the couple of days lost when our server was in transit to it's new location. The April issue will have articles on:- OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin Convenience Pack
- Emacs 20.6.1 under OS/2 - Part II - Additional Setup
- Using the Toshiba PDR-M4 Digital Camera with OS/2 via USB
- Snakes and Hammers: Ogg Vorbis
- Networking FixPaks under OS/2 Warp
- The Free Files - Vol. 6 We make Music - Part 2
Finally, I received a very nice note of thanks from Dan Casey's parents today.
"Thank you very much for remembering our son Dan with your generous gifts to the Edelweis House. Though I don't know you, I feel a closeness through Dan, for he spoke often of his friends at VOICE. He was committed to that organization, and from the outpouring of email and condolences, he treasured your friendships. We feel the sorrow you have with us, but please know that we are truly comforted by your thoughtfulness.
Should "Warpers" ever convene in Indianapolis, we would love to welcome you to our family.
Most Sincerely,
Marguerite and Dan Casey"
March, 2001
| Thursday, March 22, 2001 |
- A message from Mark Dodel: Our server (which we have dubbed voice1) is now online again after a trip from North Carolina to Michigan. A big thank you to our SysAdmin, Abel McClendon, who pulled this off with only 2 days of downtime after we were blindsided with our former ISP closing down for construction work.
Voice1 is now safe and secure with Wilson Rook of Internet Walkabout (http://www.walkabout.org) in New Era, Michigan. Wilson runs a mix of operating systems, and he is quite comfortable running an OS/2 server. A big thank you to Wilson for stepping in to offer us a new home.
So if the DNS change has filtered through to you, you should now be able to access our websites (http://www.os2voice.org, http://www.warpdoctor.org and http://de.os2voice.org) and our mail lists and mail addresses.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope you will bear with us a while longer. If you have attempted to subscribe or unsubscribe from any VOICE mailing lists over the past 2 days, you will most likely have to do this again. If you submitted a mail post to any VOICE address or mail list, you may want to resend it. Some went through some didn't. I am currently beginning to process a backlog of News list submissions. These will take some time as the News list is over 500 subscribers now.
We plan to expand services available to members in the coming months. So stay tuned, and join VOICE if you haven't already. It is the support of our members that makes these services available, including those free to the entire OS/2 community like our monthly newsletter (in both Engish and German), our News mailing list, The Hear our Voice list (help@os2voice.org) and the Warp Doctor site.
If anyone is interested in sponsorship, VOICE can use the revenue at this point to help defray the cost of services, which are currently being provided by Internet Walkabout. We can't continue to expect low cost services though. VOICE has gone without sponsorship for over 4 years now, other then the free site hosting by BMT/Falcon for several years. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our members who fund VOICE's activities, and also those folks who contribute time and talent to the newsletter.
If you are ready to add your voice to that of the VOICE community, you can join online at http://www.os2voice.org/membership.html. For information on Sponorship, please see our sponsorship page at http://www.os2voice.org/sponsorinfo.html or contact our Marketing Representative Phil Butler at marketing@os2voice.org.
| Friday, March 9, 2001 |
- The log from Monday's SpeakUp with Sundial Systems is now available on the Transcripts page.
| Thursday, March 1, 2001 |
- For those who have expressed an interest in contributing toward a memorial fund in memory of Dan Casey, you can send a check to:
Edelweiss House
P.O. Box 55946
Indianapolis, IN 46205-0946
Contributions should be made "In Memory of Dan Casey Jr."
Mrs. Casey (Dan's mother), will be notified when these are received by Edelweiss House. - The March edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- The pipes, the pipes are calling.
- VOICE, The Volume Lowers, The Mission Continues.
- Writing Effective Product Announcements
- Emacs 20.6.1 under OS/2 - Part I
- Palm Desktop under OS/2
- If IBM made colas
- The AOpen PA256MX display card and Scitech Display Doctor for OS/2
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addendums, Errata,
February, 2001
| Thursday, February 22, 2001 |
- From Mark Dodel: This is very difficult for me to write, so I will come to the point. Dan Casey has just passed away after a very short, but very serious illness.
Dan has been President of VOICE for 3 years now and most recently was elected to President of Warpstock within the past month. If that were all, he would be sorely missed, but Dan was a lot more then just a leader of two great OS/2 oriented organizations.
Dan was also one of the most helpful people in our small, close-knit community. He helped everyone that he could, and asked for nothing in return. What always amazed me most was that Dan wasn't an IT professional. He was a building contractor who just happened to love computers and of course OS/2. If he didn't know the answer he usually knew who might be able to help. He was Abraxas or DCasey on IRC. Dan was not one to put on airs, and he always had a kind word for just about everybody.
His passing is a major blow to VOICE, as he has been our strength, and the person either leading a project or helping with it. He was the main force behind our Warp Doctor site and our participation in the past three Warpstock events. He was deeply involved with our decision to purchase our own server. Dan was one of the most prolific contributors to our Newsletter.
At this point I'm not sure what else to say other then I am truly stunned and shocked at this. If anyone wants more information, all I can add at this point is the following:
He will be layed out tomorrow 2/22/01 from 4p - 8p at:Wilson St. Pierre Funeral Home
1977 S. State Road 135
Greenwood, Indiana 46142
The funeral will take place on Friday, February 23rd.
Dan requested that any donations go to a fund for homeless children, but the exact details are not yet available. If anyone is interested please contact me and I will pass it on when I find out.
-- Mark Dodel
| Saturday, February 17, 2001 |
- VOICE will hold a general meeting on IRC in the #voice channel on WEBbnet, Monday February 19th at 8PM EST (01:00GMT). As always everyone is welcome.
The main focus of Monday's meeting will be member services. We need input to develop a policy for e-mail, web site and news usage. Currently we are looking at offering:- A standard e-mail account.
- An alias account that emails to a users choice of address(es)
- 5mb of webspace, with ftp access for that webspace. (5mb limit total webspace with a temporary 10MB 4 day limit)
- Mail list service (list@os2voice.org)
- private and/or public newsgroup service (within the week)
As always, check out the Meeting Info section of our web site for information on attending VOICE meetings.
| Thursday, February 1, 2001 |
- VOICE now also has a German home page! You can reach it at http://de.os2voice.org. Most of the original page has been translated to German, although some section will remain English. If you experience any problems with the new pages, please contact us at web.de@os2voice.org.
VOICE hat nun eine Homepage in deutscher Sprache! Ab sofort ist diese unter http://de.os2voice.org zu erreichen. Der größte Teil der originalen Homepage wurde übersetzt, allerdings werden ein paar Sektionen im Original verbleiben. Bei Problemen mit den neuen Seiten wenden Sie sich bitte an web.de@os2voice.org.
| Thursday, February 1, 2001 |
- The February edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- Abandoned Gems
- Dawicontrol DC-2976UW SCSI Controller
- Actiontec PC700 Internal PCMCIA Reader and a Compact Flash Adapter under OS/2
- Selecting a Modem for OS/2, The IBM V.90 PCI Data/Fax Modem
- Graham Utilities for OS/2 Task Manager
- The Free Files, Vol. 5: Let's play the music
- OS/2 Tips
- Letters to VOICE, addendums, Errata,
January, 2001
| Saturday, January 13, 2001 |
- The log from Monday's General Meeting is now available on the Transcripts page.
| Saturday, January 13, 2001 |
- For current OS/2 news you can go to any of the following URL's:
http://en.os2.org http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/ http://www.os2world
For an OS/2 News mail list there is:
The VOICE News List, to subscribe yourself to this list, send the following message to majormajor@os2voice.orgsubscribe news
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If you have news you would like to broadcast on the VOICE News List, please send it to submit@os2voice.org Please include a valid Reply or From email address as well as a contact name.
| Monday, January 1, 2001 |
- The January edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available!
Features:- Your Voice!
- OS/2 xDSL Experiences
- Using a Cable or DSL Internet Connections in OS/2 Warp 4
- Guidelines for configuring OS/2 Warp 4.0 for Access to a Routed NT Domain
- Choosing the hardware connection between your DSL or Cable Modem and OS/2
- eComStation (eCS) Preview - 2 Month's Later
- The Free Files: Copying and Archiving, Part 2 (SOHO, Part 2)
- OS/2 Tips
- The first VOICE meeting for the new year is scheduled for New Year's day (well actually New Year's day evening here on the East coast of the United States). Please join us in the #voice channel on the webbnet IRC network at 8PM EST (01:00 GMT). We plan to discuss new services to be provided on the VOICE server for VOICE members and the OS/2 community.
If you are unfamiliar with IRC please see the information on the VOICE Meeting page which lists OS/2 IRC clients and links on webbnet servers and even a link to a IRC web interface that allows you to access #voice via a web browser.
Confused about the meeting time? There is a link to a time zone conversion page so you can make sure you show up on time - http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc :-)
