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OS/2 - eComStation News - October, 2007
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2006: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2005: August September October November December
SW: "GetTYPO3v4forOS2" v2.11 released
SW: Regarding Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Official) for OS/2
SW: PM123 RC1 Has Been Released
SW: enigmail-0.95.4 for OS/2 available
OT: Vintage Computer Festival 10.0
Event: Only 48 hours left to register for Warpstock Europe!
Net: eComStation PC homepage
Net: Some information on IBM OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition)
SW: GCC Build environment Updated
Net: OS/2 World Poll: Do we need GPS/Mapping software for Warp/eCS?
Net: Update: Some information on IBM OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition)
SW: enigmail 0.95.5 for OS/2 available
SW: Suntan Special 0.60 released
SW: Drawingboard theme 1.0.0 released
SW: Drawingboard theme 1.0.0 released (update)
SW: MPlayer for OS/2 r24878 3.3.5 (based on MPlayer 1.0 RC3)
| SW: "GetTYPO3v4forOS2" v2.11 released |
2007-10-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Roland Schmalenberg
Hi folks,
The day before yesterday the TYPO3-team released TYPO3 version 4.1.3 with
some bugfixes mainly around the extensions HTMLArea and IRRE (Inline
Relational Record Editing).
During our time at Munich Sytems 2007 where we represent the well known
"Voyager project" of netlabs.org I changed my script today, finished the
tests and uploaded GetTYPO3v4forOS2 version 2.11.
What is TYPO3?
--------------
For those people not knowing TYPO3 yet it should be mentioned that TYPO3 is
a free Open Source Web Content Management System, released under GPL. More
informations can be found at http://typo3.com/ or for developers at
http://typo3.org/
Where to get, what to need?
---------------------------
You are able to download the script package from the home of "TYPO3 goes
eComStation", http://os4you.org/typo3goesecomstation.html All you need to
run is a working OAMP or AMP4eCS (OS/2+Apache+MySQL+PHP, WPI available from
http://www.amp4ecs.de/ ), my package and time to study ;-)
Hint for TYPO3-Beginners
------------------------
Those who want to use that CMS with OS/2 or eComStation the first time
should start with reading our documentation (available in English, Dutch,
French and German) for the TYPO3 version 3.8.x (outdated but still
available) and examin the quickstart-package.
All others will be recommended to use the latest versions ...
Yours sincerly
Roland Schmalenberg
Team TYPO3 goes eComStation (TT3geCS)
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| SW: Regarding Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Official) for OS/2 |
2007-10-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Official) for OS/2 has been delayed. The following from
Mike Kaply:
"Sorry, having major OS/2 build issues.
when I tried to build it I got some weird failures and when I rebooted the
machine, it wouldn't come up.
When I get back in town next week I'm going to figure out what to do or get
a new machine... "
Regards,
Sander
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| SW: PM123 RC1 Has Been Released |
2007-10-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
PM123 RC1 has been released. PM123 is an excellent open source PM based
digital audio player for OS/2. It is capable of playing MP3's, WAV-files,
Ogg Vorbis audio files, and audio CDs. PM123 supports audio streaming,
plugins, skins, visualization and more! There is also excellent
documentation in .INF format.
Originally developed by Samuel Audet and Taneli Leppa, it is now being
developed by Dmitry Steklenev. Credit is also given to Marcel Muller for
several fixes, and new features.
This latest version includes MANY new features, fixes, and improvements
over version 1.31, and previous 1.32 betas. One GREAT improvement is
(FINALLY) support for ID3v2 tags. The first & only OS/2 player to have it.
See the history file for further details.
PM123 version 1.32 beta 3 is available at:
ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32_rc_1.zip
Source code for this version is also available:
ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32_rc_1-src.zip
You can download a collection of skins here:
ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32_beta_1-skins.zip
Many skins are also available on Hobbes.
You can find Plugins for PM123, and more information on PM123 here:
http://glass.ptv.ru/software/english/pm123.html
Regards,
Sander
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| SW: enigmail-0.95.4 for OS/2 available |
2007-10-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Walter Meinl
Source: news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2
Thanks to the enimgail developers, they loaded up my new builds of the OS/2
libc05 (for official TB and SM builds) and libc063 (for Peter's enhanced
builds) versions of enigmail-0.95.4 to http://enigmail.mozdev.org . For
Seamonkey-1.1.x users please remember to uninstall first the old version,
quit any instances of Seamonkey and delete enigmime.dll from the components
subdir before you install the new version.
There is a nice comprehensive up-to-date tutorial to be found here:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14963/2/
Just a remark: in this article is a note that some users have problems with
using enigmail under eCS-2.0rcx. However I could send an encrypted message
to the enigmail devs containing the attached builds w/o problems with
official TB-2.0.0.6 on eCS 2.0rc2. Comments are very welcomed.
Happy encrypting
Walter
[Moderator note: From the Enigmail website:
"The latest version of Enigmail is 0.95.4, working with Thunderbird 2.0 and
Seamonkey 1.1
Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla Thunderbird and
Mozilla Seamonkey which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by GnuPG (see screenshots).
Enigmail is open source and dually-licensed under the GNU General Public
License and the Mozilla Public License. You can download and install
Enigmail from the Download page. See the Help page for post-installation
instructions. "]
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| OT: Vintage Computer Festival 10.0 |
2007-10-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Sellam Ismail
[Moderator note: Though I don't see anything directly related to OS/2 in
the exhibits listing, perhaps some folks in California might be interested
in attending this event since it relates to older computers and many of us
have been in the business for a long time and probably worked with some of
this stuff. Perhaps you can even pickup some interesting OS/2 related
items if anyone has any for sale there. It also might be good for someone
to consider an OS/2 exhibit at a future event.]
COMPUTER HISTORY PIONEERS CONGREGATE ON NOVEMBER 3-4 AT VINTAGE EVENT
Vintage Computer Festival Celebrates History of Computing with
live antique computers and living legends from the computer industry
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) October 26, 2007 -- The Vintage Computer
Festival, a yearly event that celebrates computers and their history, is
being held on November 3-4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
California.
Anticipation is building for what is expected to be the biggest and most
well-attended event since the Festival's founding ten years ago.
Celebrated once a year in Silicon Valley, as well as three other locations
worldwide, the Vintage Computer Festival is the largest and most
prestigious event of its kind, featuring a lecture series, an exhibition of
working vintage and antique computers, and a marketplace for traders to buy
and sell vintage computers. Collectors from around the world attend this
event, which was founded in 1997. The Festival also recognizes its own
history this year as it marks its tenth anniversary.
This year, attendees will be treated to several historical figures in the
computer industry, including Lee Felsenstein (designer of the classic
Osborne 1, one of the first portable computers, and the SOL-20, one of the
first personal computers), Al Hoagland (designer of the first commercial
disk drive), legendary MIT proto-hackers Bill Gosper Steve Russell (author
of the first videogame, Spacewar!), Wesley Clark (not the general, but the
inventor of the first transistorized computer in the US) and prolific
computer book author Lance Leventhal, who wrote dozens of computer
self-help books throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
One of the keynote sessions at the Festival this year is a panel featuring
the engineers who in the early 1960s designed the LINC (Laboratory
INstrumentation Computer), which was a revolutionar computer design that
some consider to be the first "personal computer".
The Festival also features a marketplace for collectors to buy, sell and
trade vintage computers. There is also a screening of documentaries and
films on both days of the event that have vintage computing or vintage
technology themes. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk about
their work and give introductions to their films. There will also be an
abstract artist (Christine Finn) on site throughout the event constructing
a collaborative artwork based on discarded technology, culminating at a
talk she will give on the piece at 3:00pm on Sunday.
The Computer History Museum is an ideal location for the Festival as it
allows attendees the opportunity to tour the Museum's collection while also
attending the lectures and exhibits organized by the VCF. Tours of the
Museum's collection will be given throughout the afternoon on each day of
the Festival. Special theme tours during the weekend will include "A Brief
History of the Internet" and "The History of Video Games", which are both
guided by Museum docents. There will also be live demonstrations of
ancient mainframe computers that have been painstakingly restored to
working condition, including an IBM 1401 mainframe circa 1960 and a Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer circa 1961 running
Spacewar!, the first ever videogame, written in 1962. The game's author,
Steve Russell, will also be speaking at the Festival.
The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd. in
Mountain View, California, just off highway 101. The Vintage Computer
Festival opens at 9:30am each day, with first sessions beginning at 10:00am
and the exhibition and marketplace opening at 2:00pm each day. The film
festival runs from 11:00am to 6:00pm each day. The Festival officially
ends at 6:00pm on Sunday.
Complete event information including admission, directions to the venue and
the event schedule can be found on the VCF website:
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/
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| Event: Only 48 hours left to register for Warpstock Europe! |
2007-10-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
Although officially the online registration for Warpstock Europe closes on
the 26th, because there is nobody present until 9 o'clock Monday morning to
close the registration, it will still be possible to register via
http://www.mensys.net/warpstockeurope2007/ during the weekend. So you still
have 48 hours left to do this.
Remember online registration is cheaper than at the venue, it means you
will be served quicker, and you will be helping the event team. So
register now.
We hope to see you all there in Valkenswaard.
The eighth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the Stayokay Hostel
in Valkenswaard close to Eindhoven, the Netherlands from November 2 to 4.
Warpstock is an annual conference for the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems and related technology. It is dedicated to information, education,
support, and exchange and addresses users, developers, and software
vendors. To achieve these goals, the event offers seminars and workshops,
exhibition areas, and room for personal exchange.
More information is available at http://www.warpstock.eu.
Warpstock Europe is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.
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| Net: eComStation PC homepage |
2007-10-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
eComStation PC (http://ecomstation.ru/ecspc) site is aimed to support the
sales of eComStation and increase the population of eComStation world.
Discussion of eComStation PC in the Internet:
* RUS -- http://ru.ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1377
* RUS --
http://groups.google.it/group/fido7.su.os2/browse_frm/thread/3aa18c7423d49a82/5e381be2c6a8ef3c#5e381be2c6a8ef3c
* ENG -- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eComStation/message/75195
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| Net: Some information on IBM OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition) |
2007-10-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
I'm trying to document information about the ill-fated IBM OS/2 Warp
(PowerPC Edition) release. I have it installed on an IBM PC Power Series
830 machine and I plan to document the installation and general usage, in
an upcoming article in VOICE (assuming of course there are any more issues.
Almost no one seems to have responded to Christian's plea for help in the
last issue).
As part of that project I have scanned some of the material that came in
the released package, including the CDs (Installation and Applications
Sampler), the brief overview manual, the license and the package envelope
itself. If anyone is interested in this bit of OS/2 history they can
download a zip archive at: ftp://os2voice.org/OS2PPC/OS2PPCpackageScans.zip
In the same directory you can also find an IBM redbook on the OS/2 Power PC
Edition: ftp://os2voice.org/OS2PPC/sg244630OS2WarpPowerPCEditionAFirstLook.pdf
as well as the announcement letter from June 19, 1995
ftp://os2voice.org/os2ppc/OS2PPCAnnounce.html . I tried making a PDF of
this announcement letter which is only available as HTML from IBM's site,
but OpenOffice 2.0.4 would not display the rightmost words and wouldn't
wrap the lines. If anyone knows how to fix that or has a copy as a PDF I'd
appreciate the help.
I'd very much like to thank Guy Sotomayor for donating a copy of IBM OS/2
Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition) and Hollis Blanchard for donating the IBM PC
Power Series 830 system to the OS/2 Museum.
Mark
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| SW: GCC Build environment Updated |
2007-10-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Just a quick announce that I uploaded an updated version of my GCC build
environment to my site at http://os2ports.smedley.info a few days ago.
There are a bunch of new libraries since the January release, as well as an
update to the latest libc (libc063).
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Paul.
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| Net: OS/2 World Poll: Do we need GPS/Mapping software for Warp/eCS? |
2007-10-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Someone is working on GPS mapping software and wants to know if there is an
interest in it for eCS users. You need to register and/or login to vote:
"The app would be designed to work with (most) Garmin GPS units, though
could be easily modified to work with others that support sending the
appropriate data to the PC (location, routing info) - mapping data would be
stored locally and easily updatable."
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,477.0/
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| Net: Update: Some information on IBM OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition) |
2007-10-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Thanks to everyone that sent me a PDF version (Kirby, Felmon, Ted, Brian,
Jayant and James) of the OS/2 PowerPC announcement. Its now up on the
VOICE site at ftp://os2voice.org/os2ppc/OS2PPCAnnounce.pdf
Mark
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| SW: enigmail 0.95.5 for OS/2 available |
2007-10-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Walter Meinl
Source: news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2
Sending the 0.95.4 versions to upstream created under certain conditions a
garbled message (others on other OSes encountered this too). The enigmail
maintainers were very busy to fix the bug. Particularly when you don't use
a passphrase for encryption you should upgrad to enigmail 0.95.5. libC05
and libC063 Builds for OS/2 eCS are available on the
http://enigmail.mozdev.org homepage
ChangeLog: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/changelog.html#enig0.95.5
Have fun,
Walter
[Moderator note: From the Enigmail website:
"The latest version of Enigmail is 0.95.5, working with Thunderbird 2.0 and
Seamonkey 1.1
Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla Thunderbird and
Mozilla Seamonkey which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by GnuPG (see screenshots).
Enigmail is open source and dually-licensed under the GNU General Public
License and the Mozilla Public License. You can download and install
Enigmail from the Download page. See the Help page for post-installation
instructions. "]
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| SW: Suntan Special 0.60 released |
2007-10-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Neil Waldhauer
The newest release of Suntan Special, version 0.60 is available. Suntan
Special is a system configuration tool that installs and maintains a
collection of useful software to OS/2 or eComStation systems.
http://www.blondeguy.com/suntan6.html
Current Suntan Special users are entitled to a free upgrade to 0.60. The
upgrade may be downloaded by using the update feature of Suntan Special.
The price of Suntan Special has been reduced to $25.00.
Features new to version 0.60 include
Broadband edition - This new edition of Suntan Special combines support for
eComStation, Warp 4 and Warp 4 Convenience Pack. Whereever possible, the
applications to be installed are downloaded from the Internet. A fast
internet connection is recommended.
464 new or updated applications
Install or upgrade applications easily over the internet
Application status is displayed: up to date, update available or not
installed.
Updated documentation
Thanks to current users whose many suggestions have been incorporated in
the new version of Suntan Special.
Neil Waldhauer
neilDESPAM@DESPAMblondeguy.com
http://www.blondeguy.com
Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation
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| SW: Drawingboard theme 1.0.0 released |
2007-10-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
David Graser and Christian Hennecke have released the Drawingboard Theme
1.0.0 for eComStation. This theme was inspired by the MacOS Drawingboard
theme by Apple Japan and uses intersecting, fading lines to create the look
of engineering pencil sketches.
The theme takes a new approach and bundles support for the Window Theme
Manager, Icon Theme Manager, eStyler, the Scheme Palette, and Animated
Mouse Pointers.
You can obtain the WarpIN package from Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=drawingboard-1-0-0
If you would like to support the authors' projects, please see the included
README file.
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| SW: Drawingboard theme 1.0.0 released (update) |
2007-10-30
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
David Graser and Christian Hennecke have released the Drawingboard Theme
1.0.0 for eComStation. This theme was inspired by the MacOS Drawingboard
theme by Apple Japan and uses intersecting, fading lines to create the look
of engineering pencil sketches.
The theme takes a new approach and bundles support for the Window Theme
Manager, Icon Theme Manager, eStyler, the Scheme Palette, and Animated
Mouse Pointers.
The theme comes as a WarpIN package that includes an option to display a
screenshot prior to any installation activities to help you decide whether
you want to give it a try or not.
You can obtain the WarpIN package from Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=drawingboard-1-0-0
If you would like to support the authors' projects, please see the included
README file.
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| SW: MPlayer for OS/2 r24878 3.3.5 (based on MPlayer 1.0 RC3) |
2007-10-30
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
KO Myung-Hun has released a new version of MPlayer for OS/2 on hobbes. This
program is the OS/2 port of MPlayer. MPlayer is a movie player which runs
on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI,
Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT,
NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native,
XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX
3/4/5 and even WMV movies.. Supports DIVE/WarpOverlay!, DART. The main
MPlayer web site (not for OS/2, just general information) is
http://www.mplayerhq.hu
So far I have not been able to get this release to work at all. If anyone
has success I'd love to hear how you did it.
Requires kLIBC v0.6.3 ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi
Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/video/players/mplayer-dev-svn-r24878-os2-3.3.5.zip
MPlayer for OS/2 source:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/mplayer-dev-svn-r24878-os2-3.3.5-src.zip
From readme.eng:
9. History specific to OS/2
---------------------------
- dev-SVN-r24878-OS2-3.3.5 ( 2007/10/28 )
.Support -vf screenshot
.Support wild cards
.Support pre-scaling
.Changed the default dir from /usr/local/lib/codecs to /codecs
( Suggestion by Rainer )
.Changed 'MPOPT' env. var. to 'MPLAYER_OPTIONS' ( Suggestion by Rainer )
.Use thread
.Status line is scrolled. Fixed.
.-aspect option doesn't work. Fixed( Report by Mike Forester )
.-colorkey option doesn't work. Fixed.
( Use '-colorkey 0x000008' for the same as before )
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