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OS/2 - eComStation News - April, 2008
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Event: Warpstock Europe 2008 Announcement
SW: FAT32 0.9.12
SW: Alpine 1.10 and webmail
SW: DFSee 9.08 released
Event: SCOUG Meeting for April 19, 2008
SW: Firefox 2.0.0.14 (Official) Has Been Released
SW: DANIS506 V1.8.4
SW: MoneyDance 2008 GA
Net: netlabs.org newsletter #59 [ ACPI, GenMac, FM/2, kBuild, Samba,
SW: ACPI 3.9/APM 1.24
SW: Palm Pilot PDAs and OS/2
| Event: Warpstock Europe 2008 Announcement |
2008-04-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V. and warpevents.eu are pleased to announce that
WARPSTOCK EUROPE 2008 will be held at the City Hostel Düsseldorf, Germany
on November 14-16, 2008. For more information, visit the Warpstock Europe
web site at:
http://www.warpstock.eu
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.
Warpstock conferences are held in different parts of the world. The
originating event is targeted at the users of the United States of America
and Canada, while the Warpstock Europe event obviously is its European
counterpart. Also, there is the Warpstock Czech Repuplic, which dedicated
to the community within the Czech Republic and countries of Eastern Europe.
OS/2 and eComStation users from Europe--and anywhere else for that
matter--are invited to come to Germany this year to attend Warpstock Europe
2008. The Event Team has many ideas on what to offer during this three day
OS/2-fest.
Warpstock Europe 2008 will be an excellent opportunity to attend
high-quality presentations about a variety of OS/2- and eComStation-related
subjects, exchange ideas with other developers, meet the people behind
projects, get support from user groups, and talk to other users.
Located in the heart of Western Europe near the Dutch border, Düsseldorf is
at a convenient traveling distance for people coming from Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Attendees flying in from other
countries will arrive at Düsseldorf International Airport, which is only 10
km away from the event location. The distance to the railway station
Düsseldorf Main Station is 5 km. Public transport to the event location is
available.
Following a complete refurbishment, Düsseldorf now boasts the most modern
youth hostel in Europe. The City Hostel offers 96 sunny and stylish rooms,
all with ensuite shower and toilet facilites, and 386 beds. The
innovatively designed building also houses a very popular bistro and
outdoor terrace--the perfect place to unwind after a busy day in this
exciting city! Four conference rooms will host sessions, workshops, and the
exhibition area, while a restaurant takes care of the physical well-being.
The hostel is located directly at the left bank of the river Rhine opposite
the famous historic city centre, making it a perfect starting point for
everybody who wants to extend his visit beyond the duration of the event
itself and avail themselves to the opportunity of a broad range of cultural
offerings.
Behind the organisation of Warpstock Europe 2008 is an international group
of OS/2 users, lead by Wolfgang Wilms, chairman of organiser Team OS/2
Deutschland e.V., and Christian Langanke, chairman of the supporting Team
OS/2 Ruhr e.V. Both have vast experience in running such events as they
already created Warpstock Europe 1999 in Bochum and Warpstock Europe 2000
in Karlsruhe, and provided support for other events. This event will again
benefit from the support of warpevents.eu, an organisation with the goal of
enabling others to create OS/2-related events by providing information
about event organisation, a communication and coordination center, and the
means for running event web sites as well.
The Warpstock Europe 2008 Event Team
Contact us via email: infoDESPAM@DESPAMwarpstock.eu
Warpstock Europe 2008 is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.
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| SW: FAT32 0.9.12 |
2008-04-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
FAT32 0.9.12 is now available on the Netlabs.org FTP server.
Web site: http://fat32.netlabs.org
"This project is based on the original FAT32 sourcecode by Henk Kelder.
He released the source to netlabs.org in January 2002 because he no longer
had the time to continue work on it. The present release comes in both WPI
and ZIP formats. If you want the original package done by Henk, look for it
at Hobbes, for example. The present code is compiled by KO Myung-Hun. "
Zip archive: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/fat32_0912.zip
WarpIn archive: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/fat32_0912.wpi
FAT32 User support group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user
Please read the extensive FAT32.TXT file included in the archive for more
information. The changes for this version are listed in this file
"Version 0.9.12:
-Fixed the problem that CACHEF32 is crashed after calling CHKDSK for dirty
volume.
-Fixed the problem the regonition of USB removable media takes very long time
when inserting it since 0.9.11.
This is because FAT32 always calculates free space on mount. Now, FAT32
calculates free space only if /CALCFREE specified or free space info was not
stored on disk.
-Fixed the trap when removing USB removable media without eject.
-Improved Read/Write performance. By Lars.
*** Known Problems ***
-When using USB removable media with other OS such as Windows, free space can
be incorrect. At this time, you should use 'chkdsk' to correct it or
'/CALCFREE' to avoid it."
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| SW: Alpine 1.10 and webmail |
2008-04-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Nicholas Sheppard
This is to announce that Alpine v1.10 is now available for OS/2 and
eComStation, along with the corresponding versions of the University of
Washington's POP3 and IMAP servers.
This release includes fixes for several bugs in the OS/2 versions of Alpine
and Pico, in additon to changes made by the University of Washington that
you can read about according to the announcement forwarded below.
I'm also interested in whether or not there is any interest in a web mail
server for OS/2 and eComStation. The Alpine source code includes a webmail
server ("Web Alpine") that I have not yet attempted to port, but if there's
interest I can try it. I can't guarantee it'll work but who knows.
You can find further information at:
http://www.zeta.org.au/~nps/software/alpine/en/index.html
"Alpine is a revised version of Pine, a well-known and well-loved
text-based e-mail client developed by the University of Washington, USA. It
can access mail from POP3 and IMAP mail servers, as well as act as a client
for NNTP news servers. The package also includes the simple text editor
Pico and file browser Pilot, along with some small utilities for managing
mail stored on IMAP servers."
Nick S.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Franklin
To: Alpine Announcement List
Subject: Alpine 1.10 is now available
This note is to announce the availability of the Alpine Message System
version 1.10. This release introduces some new functionality and addresses
some bugs found in earlier versions.
Specific information about changes can be found in the built-in release
notes ("R" off the Main Menu), or via any of:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/changes.html
Source code for the latest Alpine release is available at:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/
or
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine.tar.gz
(MD5: 202eaab3c6769008e6e84437fe5778a2)
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine.tar.Z
(MD5: 1de0d953395316ad46463008000a15eb)
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine.tar.bz2
(MD5: c507684620766ed091186785a0dccbca)
Pre-built binaries for Mac OS X are also available at the above url.
The PC-Alpine distribution is available as an install program at the above
url, or at:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/setup_alpine_1.10.exe
(MD5: 127a7814f95881749f5c6774df018c7a)
Alternatively, a zip file of Windows executables is available at:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-1.10-wnt.zip
(MD5: 191bafe6a95873e35a101f145265feda)
Linux RPMs and Debian packages are now also available at:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/
or
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-1.10-1.i386.rpm
(MD5: 032924ed20092dd7060e433ee02b7497)
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-1.10-1.src.rpm
(MD5: 9ee81d3da20da38ffcf8460e2cd582f4)
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/alpine_1.10_i386.deb
(MD5: d14061b0cf756c9f809eea37b61b3b29)
As with all Alpine releases, it is important that you carefully test and
determine for yourself that it performs suitably in your environment before
placing Alpine into production use.
The Alpine Development Team
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| SW: DFSee 9.08 released |
2008-04-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Jan van Wijk
This is a minor release with a few fixes and added help texts.
DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS, JFS, and NTFS,
resizing and smart imaging or cloning.
More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/
Direct download links from the DFSee website:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee908.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee908.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee908_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee908_dsk.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_linux.tgz
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_iso.zip
Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee908.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 9.07
- CR Clear BBR on type 0x35 for 'create NEW mode'
- IMAGE Added warning on using SMART with recovery to help
- RESIZE Added 'limitations' to help, supported FS
- RESTORE Added informational REBOOT message popup at end
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infodDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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| Event: SCOUG Meeting for April 19, 2008 |
2008-04-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
Saturday, April 19th
9:30 AM - 1 PM
This month Al Hecht is really going to show us FileStar 3.0. It's been a
very long wait, but it is finally out of beta and like all good software
has already had a couple of post GA updates released.
Always Q&A. Always coffee and donuts. Always worthwhile.
Room 326 of the Eastside Christian School
at the Grace Ministries Complex
For additional information and directions, see:
http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
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| SW: Firefox 2.0.0.14 (Official) Has Been Released |
2008-04-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
Michael Kaply has released Mozilla's Firefox 2.0.0.14 (Official) for OS/2.
This is a security release to address bug MFSA 2008-20 (Crash in
JavaScript garbage collector) which was rated critical.
You can download it here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/contrib/firefox-2.0.0.14.en-US.os2.zip
NOTE: This release requires the C runtime DLLs from Innotek. Version
0.5.1 includes an installer. Available here:
http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc-0.5.1.exe
NOTE: This release requires IPLUGINW.DLL to use the Java and Flash
plugins. Available here:
http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/ipluginw20050915.xpi
or here:
http://download.innotek.de/javaos2/mozilla/ipluginw20050915.xpi
NOTE: To have both Firefox, & Thunderbird in use at the same time (or ANY
other Mozilla app) they *MUST* be at the SAME version level, or a
mismatched DLL will still be in memory when you attempt to start a second
Mozilla based program. The easiest way to get around this limitation, and
use DIFFERENT version levels of Firefox, Thunderbird, Kompozer, etc., is
with Rich Walsh's Run! utility. It is tiny, and VERY easy to set up. To
make life even easier, I HIGHLY recommend that you download & use the
Internet Application Integration utility from Chuck McKinnis, which
actually contains the Run! utility, and sets it up for you, along with
coordinating your web browser with your email client for "mailto" links,
etc. You can find it here:
http://7cities.net/~mckinnis/code/iai1050.exe
Or, if you'd rather do it yourself, here is the Run! utility:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=run_070.zip
Firefox extensions (add-ons) that add new functionality are available here:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox
Firefox themes (skins) are available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/?application=firefox
For release notes, and a list of new features, follow this link:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/
The official Warpzilla homepage can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
If you have questions, or just want the latest, greatest tips for Firefox,
Thunderbird, & Seamonkey, Steve Wendt's excellent "Tips For Warpzilla" page
can be found here:
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
For Firefox "Tips & Tricks", see:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_6.html
And finally, if you still have questions, or just want to participate in a
Mozilla for OS/2 discussion forum, the Warpzilla newsgroup can be found here:
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2
Regards,
Sander
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| SW: DANIS506 V1.8.4 |
2008-04-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Daniela Engert's IBM1S506 IDE replacement driver DANIS506 V1.8.4 is now on
hobbes. , supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD,
Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi, SiliconImage, ITE, ATI,
NetCell, Broadcom, JMicron and Marvell chips, SerialATA, disk capacities up
to 2TiB.
Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506r184.zip
Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r184
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| SW: MoneyDance 2008 GA |
2008-04-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Steven Douglas Taylor
MoneyDance 2008 GA is released.
For information see http://moneydance.com/
For OS/2 , Windows , Linux , and Unix downloads see
http://moneydance.com/other
[Money Dance is a Java based personal finance manager program.]
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| Net: netlabs.org newsletter #59 [ ACPI, GenMac, FM/2, kBuild, Samba, |
2008-04-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Netlabs News
This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter
News from netlabs.org:
14. April - 20. April
* ACPI
o Two incidents closed, two raised.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* FM/2
o Some updates again
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* GenMac
o Ticket #4 incorrectly raised.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/genmac/timeline
* kBuild
o Lots of updates again.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kStuff
o Quite a few updates.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kstuff/timeline
* netlabs.org
o Good progress on some backend stuff! Making administration and other
possibilities a lot easier.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/netlabs/timeline
* Samba
o A few updates, also in wiki.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
* UniAud
o Interesting updates again.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* Voyager NOM
o Various updates.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline
* WPS-Wizard
o Two new bugs raised.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard/timeline
* WSE Events
o Some copyrights update
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wse_events/timeline
* xATA
o Release 1.8.4 with some fixes and new options.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline
7. April - 13. April
* ACPI
o Various updates again
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* Direct Windows Library
o Some fixes and number of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline
* GenMac
o Two new tickets opened
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/genmac/timeline
* kBuild
o Piles of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* netlabs.org
o Some new requests added
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/netlabs/timeline
* QT/3
o New redraw bug raised
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
* Samba
o Some updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
* UniAud
o Stream of updates again
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* Voyager NOM
o Quite some interesting things
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline
* WPS-Wizard
o Icons inconsistency ticket raised
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard/timeline
* WSE Events
o Mainly background changes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wse_events/timeline
Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/
Thanks for your support!
We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
Greetings,
netlabs.org team
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| SW: ACPI 3.9/APM 1.24 |
2008-04-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."
ACPI Tools homepage -- http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools
Eugene Gorbunoff posted new updates to ACPI today on the eCS BetaZone.
Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the
eComStation BetaZone: ( via logging in at http://www.mensys.nl/indexuk.html )
Files:
acpi-20080423.zip 612 kb 23/04/2008 04:40 pm
Documentation, how to post bug-reports:
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=faq
ACPI-CA driver WHATSNEW
20080423 (3.09)
* fix APIC support
* remove /OSI
* rebuild AcpiDrv.lib
* add /MCPU:xx options
* restore PCIWRITE directive
acpi-apm-20080423.zip 69 kb 23/04/2008 04:41 pm
APM.ADD (Power management for eComStation; Requries ACPI.PSD 3.9)
APM whatsnew
20080423 (1.24)
* change error code from BAD_CMD to ERROR_I24_GEN_FAILURE
acpifu-20080423.wpi 218 kb 23/04/2008 04:40 pm
ACPI Fast Upgrade. If you have working and configured ACPI 3.x subsystem
and want upgrade drivers then apply this package. (Select Unlock All to
overwrite old files)
acpi-logs-collector-20080423.zip 779 kb
23/04/2008 04:42 pm ACPI logs collector. a) execute CollectLogs.cmd
from command line, b) send the generated .ziq to the tracker
(http://ecomstation.ru/?e=30 -> How to post bug-report)
To post bug-reports to the tracker
http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
login: guest, password: netlabs) and press "New ticket"
how to collect logs? http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=logs
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| SW: Palm Pilot PDAs and OS/2 |
2008-04-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Steven Douglas Taylor
For Palm Pilot or Palm PDA user's these following sites are a must have
information and utilities for plam os devices:
Plucker for OS/2 in English http://www.stellarcom.org/plucker/
PalmPilot and OS/2 http://www.stellarcom.org/palmstuff/index.htm
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