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OS/2 - eComStation News - September, 2005Browse - September 2005: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 2005: August Event: SCOUG is 12! SW: BTTV Movie Recorder Net: c.o.o.announce and c.o.o.moderated are working again SW: SeaMonkey 1.0alpha released Event: Five days until the Warpstock room rate guarantee expires SW: SeaMonkey anti-aliased font tip SW: Pixel Image Editor ported to OS/2-eComStation SW: Odin gui 1.3 SW: Dosbox frontend 2.1 SW: Java gui beta 0.5 SW: Columba Java e-mail client SW: Pixel for eComStation released for customers SW: SNAP in eComStation EVENT: PASUG Mtg: Thurs, Sep 22nd SW: Javagui beta 7 SW: Odin Frontend 1.4 SW: DOSBox frontend 2.2 SW: eSchemes 1.15 Net: Week of WiFi cards Event: BayWarp meeting September 27 SW: Harddisk Manager v1.1.4
2005-09-16 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: thombrownDESPAM@DESPAMsan.rr.com 12th Anniversary meeting Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:30 AM - 1 PM For directions, see: http://www.scoug.com/directions.html Don't know how it happened, but its our 12th Anniversary already. To celebrate, we are going to have more of our usual interesting meeting topics, coffee and donuts. Then we are going to finish up with so extras. The meeting is going to start of with a demo install (or two) of the eCS 1.2 Media Refresh. This is eCS version 1.2 with all the content updated to the latest fix levels. There's even a several new features. The Media Refresh installs easily on wide variety of systems than ever, including the latest Athon64s. Installs over existing installations is better supported than ever. Next Greg will continue his porting to GCC project. With some luck, we will see vim spring to life and edit a file or two. Following the presentations, will be a Q&A session. Finally, we will top this all off will a bit of celebrating. There will be pizza and cake. Bring your appetite and bring your friends. Top
2005-09-16 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: doconnorDESPAM@DESPAMreamined.on.ca After try several different approaches, I have created a OS/2 program designed capturing the video from BTTV for OS/2. BTTV is a port of the Linux driver for BT8X8 TV-Cards. Unlike most OS/2 TV applications, it does support NTSC. Unfortunately the methods it uses are far from ideal. To capture video it screen captures the video window of the BTTV TV application. It captures audio from the line-in of your sound card, but it does not include it in the AVI file, but stores it in a separate wav file. However, since it captures from the screen, it could be used to capture video off other applications. It is distributed under the GPL and is written in Virtual Pascal. Download from http://doconnor.reamined.on.ca/record/ Darwin O'Connor Toronto, Canada Top
2005-09-16 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net For people that have abandoned the comp.os.os2.* Usenet groups because of the psycho-troll that harasses everyone there, some good news. comp.os.os2.announce and comp.os.os2.moderated are back in business. The moderator had had ongoing posting problems and seems to have now corrected those. So please feel free to come back Usenet if you want. Mark Top
2005-09-17 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: mozillaDESPAM@DESPAMWeilbacher.org posetd in news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 There is now an OS/2 release of the first alpha release of SeaMonkey, the successor of the Mozilla suite. It is listed on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/ under contributed builds. I hope there are not too many bugs that I didn't notice during testing, but no guarantees... As there were no nightlies of the 1.8 branch there were probably not too many people besides me who would have noticed bugs. If someone who has permissions could replace the old 1.8b release (which nobody should be using any more) on http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ with the SeaMonkey alpha release? -- Cheers, Peter. Please reply in newsgroup news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 Unofficial Mozilla builds: http://weilbacher.org/Mozilla/builds.html Steve's Warpzilla Tips: http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html Top
2005-09-17 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2005 will take place in about 3 weeks, beginning Thursday, October 6th at the Wyndham Harrisburg Hershey hotel. Four days of non-stop OS/2 and eComStation classes, presentations, product demos and discussion. Please see the schedule of presentations listed at http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/schedule.html Just a reminder that the $99 Warpstock room rate is only guaranteed through September 22nd at midnight. This rate is good for both single or double rooms. The hotel has assigned us some additional rooms for 2 days prior to and 2 days after the event, but can't guarantee the room rate for those days once the limited numbers are used up. If you encounter a problem with making reservations please contact us at hotel2005@warpstock.org attempt to remedy any glitches as soon as possible. To make reservations you can call the Wyndham 800 reservation number: 1-877-999-3223 (toll free reservation) or outside U.S./Canda 1-972-915-7070 (International Direct Dial rates apply.) The direct Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel phone number is: 1-717-564-5511 and their fax: 1-717-564-2476. When calling the hotel to make your reservation, please make sure to mention you are with "Warpstock" in order to receive the special rate. Online you can access information about the hotel at: http://www.wyndhamharrisburg.com/ You can make reservations online here. <http://www.wyndham.com/wbe/reservations.wnt?PRO=MDTHT&cha=WYNDHAM&grp=1006772TH&arr=10/05/2005&dep=10/09/2005> To get the low Warpstock rate you must enter the Group code: 1006772TH You MUST USE this GROUP CODE to get the negotiated rates in their online reservation system. Parking is free for hotel guests. If you are a Wyndham By Request program member (its free to join https://www.wyndham.com/wbr/join.wnt ) you can get free brodband internet access in your room. That costs $9.95/day for non-members. For more on this year's event location, including lots of Hershey area attractions, see our web site at: http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/location.html To learn more about Warpstock visit the homepage at: http://warpstock.org/index.html Information about this years event can be found at: http://warpstock.org/index_2005.html Registration information is at: http://warpstock.org/event_info/2005/registration.html Have you been to Warpstock yet? * Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California * Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois * Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia * Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada * Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas * Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California * Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado * Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web site: http://www.warpstock.org Top
2005-09-18 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Harry Travis" For Anti-aliased fonts using the new Mozilla Seamonkey beta. It is easier just to rename seamonkey.exe to mozilla.exe than it is to fire up regedit2 and add seamonkey.exe at the appropriate places. Top
2005-09-18 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: kanzelsDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Subject: Pixel for OS/2 Text: Pixel image editor has been ported to OS/2 and eComStation this weekend. Here are first photos: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/temp/photo.jpg http://www.kanzelsberger.com/temp/photo2.jpg http://www.kanzelsberger.com/temp/photo3.jpg Url: http://www.kanzelsberger.com "Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching and manipulating program available for many operating systems formerly known as Pixel32" News: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?cat=1 "Pixel has been ported to eComStation this weekend. Here you can see first photos: 1, 2 and first screenshot here. New builds for members are about to be released tommorrow. First beta build for eComStation will be available also." From: Pavel Kanzelsberger (kanzelsDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-19 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Odin Gui, a front end program for Odin, ver 1.3 now on hobbes. Now its using the same folder as the Odin install Run the setup again and remove the old folder. I also removed the close button from the settings dialog. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odingui Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossieDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-19 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Dosbox frontend 2.1 now on hobbes. Now its using the same folder as the Dosbox install Run the setup again and remove the old folder. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Java gui beta 0.5 now on hobbes. This is a frontend for Java in the same style and functions like odingui and dosboxfront. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=javagui Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: atomic.frogDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Columba e-mail client 1.0 has been released. It is free, open-source Java based client. It is capable of POP3 and real IMAP (like Mozilla, Thunderbird, not like Polarbar). It worked fine with Innotek Java 1.4.2, but seemed to not work with Golden Code Java 1.4.1. Performance is not an issue (at least on a 1.6GHz laptop), no noticeable sluggishness. Start as you would most other Java apps like Art of Illusion, JAlbum, etc. Web site is at: <http://columba.sourceforge.net/> Url: From: Isaac Leung (atomic.frogDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: kanzelsDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Pixel 1.0 Beta 5 for eComStation was released. It is available for download in members area for all who purchased a license already. Happy testing. Url: http://www.kanzelsberger.com From: Pavel Kanzelsberger (kanzelsDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Bob St.John" SSI has completed negotiations with SciTech Software. The objective was to provide eComStation users with video chip set support in 2006. As a result of this agreement, OS/2 SNAP Enterprise product will be included in the next release of eComStation. Arrangements are now being made to make this svailable to Software Subscription users. Regards, Bob St.John Serenity Systems International Top
2005-09-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Larry Lavins" .. PHILADELPHIA ALTERNATE SYSTEMS USER GROUP .. http://www.pasug.org The Philadelphia Alternate Systems User Group (PASUG) invites all interested computer users to attend the September meeting. . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2005 7:00-10:00PM .. Bryn Mawr Community Center, 9 S. Bryn Mawr Ave, Bryn Mawr,PA *** THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd MEETING AGENDA *** .. -- BeOS REINCARNATIONS: ZETA and HAIKU -- Welcome back to all. Hope everyone had an enjoyable summer. We look forward to another year of interesting meetings. It gives me great pleasure to announce that PASUG member Ben Bowers plans to attend the September 22nd meeting, following a rather lengthy convalescence. We wish him a continued return to a 100% healthy condition. All PASUG members are urged to come on out to the meeting Thursday evening to welcome Ben back on the road to full recovery and renewed PASUG participation. In addition to his support for OS/2, Ben has also been a long- time fan of (the now defunct) BeOS which has been reincarnated as a commercial operating system named ZETA being developed in Germany by YellowTab Co. (www.yellowtab.com). Another parallel open source project named HAIKU is under development by groups of volunteer programmers all around the world. At the September meeting, Ben will conduct a presentation and demo of ZETA 1.0, YellowTab's recent first commercial product release from the BeOS family. We will examine how YellowTab's description of the ZETA 1.0 product compares to their claims, quoted as follows .... "ZETA is a very fast operating system written from the ground up to get more out of your hardware than any other. With a true micro kernel is of only 640 KB and a 64-bit journalling filesystem to make things fly. Never before was it so easy to create MP3's or encode and decode videos. Never before was it so easy to partition a hard drive or create CDs. Needless to say, ZETA is also virus-free leaving you to concentrate on getting things done. Discover the TRUE power within your computer - install ZETA today. It's the cheapest upgrade you'll ever do! Install ZETA in just a few mouse clicks and be working in a matter of minutes. And you don't even have to worry about your old system and data - use the ZETA Bootmanager to install and manage other operating systems." Ben will also briefly discuss the status of the ongoing HAIKU open source project, which is being redone. It's progressing steadily, but will probably not be ready for release any time in the near future. Other March agenda items include announcements, news & new software releases, Q&A session, and possible 50/50 raffle. Soft drinks, pretzels & chips will be available. MEETING FORMAT & TIME SCHEDULE (Subject to change) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. 7:00 - 7:30 Meeting start, announcements, etc. .. 7:30 - 8:30 ZETA/HAIKU presentation/demo .. 8:30 - 8:45 Intermission: Refreshments, etc. .. 8:45 - 9:45 Q&A Session & General Discussions .. 9:45 Close-down, pack-up & exit building by 10:00pm. - - - - - Mark the date and time: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd at 7:00pm. PASUG meetings are open and free for all users, their guests and others interested in learning about OS/2, Linux & their associated technologies. Please try to be on time promptly by 7:00pm to avoid missing earlier parts of the meeting. .. ** WE SUPPORT OPEN STANDARDS ** PASUG meetings are held at the Bryn Mawr Community Center, next to Ludington Library, at the corner of Lancaster and Bryn Mawr Avenues, Bryn Mawr, PA. on the 4th Thursdays of Jan to Oct, and the 3rd Thursdays in Nov and Dec. Directions to the Bryn Mawr Community Center (BMCC) and other useful information about the PASUG activities may be found on our web site at http://www.pasug.org; or contact Larry Lavins, U/G Leader: llavinsDESPAM@DESPAMucwphilly.rr.com, or phone (215) 878-9608. - - Larry Lavins Leader, Philadelphia Alternate Systems User Group Top
2005-09-21 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossiendDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Java gui beta 0.7 now on hobbes. This is a frontend for Java in the same style and functions like odingui and dosboxfront. Now you can look at the results from the run command and the help button should hopefully work now for everybody. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=javagui Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Update Odin frontend now on hobbes. Help button should now work with everyboddy. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odingui Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Update DOSBox frontend now on hobbes. Help button should now work with everyboddy. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: prokushevDESPAM@DESPAMfreemail.ru The eScheme project is aimed at replacing the original eComStation Scheme editor and split the functionality of Window Themes, eStylerLite, Icon Themes, Sound Schemes, Pointer scheme, and other system look & feel related settings into one place. Besides that, the eScheme project has the goal to fix some problems with colors (like gray frames). Latest changes Version 1.15 Pointers now dropable. Pointers page now sized correctly. Sounds page now sized correctly. eWorkplace/XWorkplace sounds support. Status lines in editor pages removed. Editor now at top of Z-Order. Pointers and sounds pages now can have different view (icons, text, details). WPS setup strings cut bug fixed. Apply souns bug fixed. Internationalization added. Url: betazone.ecomstation.nl From: eCo Software (prokushevDESPAM@DESPAMfreemail.ru) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Eugene Gorbunoff" The thirty ninth week of 2005 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible WiFi network adapters. Our database contains 34 records only (http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=net) Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the web-form (http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new) Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of unsupported adapters. Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Neil Waldhauer" Date: Tuesday, September 27 Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Place: Help Desk Computers (WTW Group), 1456 Pollard Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032 Come join us in our monthly meeting. We are OS/2 and eComStation users, and we meet every month to show off our latest software and hardware. We bring laptops, network cables and power, and we often do live troubleshooting of systems during our meetings. Hint: It's between the Mexican Restaurant and the Japanese Restaurant in the corner (Safeway is on the far right). $5.00 per person to be collected for help with the munchies. Topics: * Digital Cameras and USB - Nikon Coolpix 4600 * Suntan Special preview * Survey of recent Flash animation * OS/2 Question & Answer Web Page <http://www.baywarp.org/> Contact Info Paul Lazaga Neil Waldhauer -- Neil Waldhauer neilDESPAM@DESPAMblondeguy.com www.blondeguy.com Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation Top
2005-09-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Anakor_Himmelsläufer Harddisk Manager is an advanced replacement lvmgui and is updated to version 1.1.4! Advantages against the original lvmgui is as follows: - Runs with IBM JRE 1.3 or newer - All functionality is ported to swing - Fat32 and Linux support - Keyboard support - Bugfixes on EXT3 and hidden partition problems - Bugfixes on userinterface - Bugfixes on removeable drive problems - New commandline parameters - Uses lower system resources - Native language support - Java Look And Feel support The archive can be downloaded here: http://www.anakor.de/frank/dl/hdman114.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/hdman114.zip Have a nice screen Frank Top
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