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Event: BayWarp meeting Tuesday, April 29
SW: NDPNTFS 1.0 Netdrive NTFS plugin
Event: Warstock Europe 2008: Call for topic suggestions and speakers
Net: Books for eComStation users
Net: eComStation PC: Week of notebooks
SW: SW: Maul Publisher V3.15
SW: Maul Publisher V3.15 Translators tool kit
SW: InstPDR 1.02 on BetaZone
Net: eComStation: Not for Everyone
Net: Solutions based on eComStation
| Event: BayWarp meeting Tuesday, April 29 |
2008-04-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Neil Waldhauer
Date: Tuesday, April 29
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Place: Denny's Milpitas, 442 W Calaveras Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035
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.
Hint: Denny's is right off of the 880/237 interchange to the east of 880.
Phone: (408) 262-9090
WiFi is available at the restaurant.
Note: the BayWarp e-mail list is available
http://lists.blondeguy.com/mailman/listinfo/baywarp
Topics:
* Warpstock 2008 planning
* Survey of recent Flash animation
* OS/2 Question & Answer
Web Page http://www.baywarp.org/
Neil Waldhauer neilDESPAM@DESPAMblondeguy.com www.blondeguy.com
Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation
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| SW: NDPNTFS 1.0 Netdrive NTFS plugin |
2008-04-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"NDPNTFS is NTFS filesystem plugin for NetDrive for OS/2.
NDPNTFS allows read/write access of NTFS volumes and images in files (like
VHD uncompressed images from VPC)."
NOTE: There is a warning that this is a first public release and advise to
use it in read-only mode . Be sure to read the included README file for
more information.
Requirements include, NetDrive for OS/2 and libc063.dll.
Hobbes incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ndpntfs-1.0.zip
Search hobbes: HTTP://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ndpntfs
For support and bugreports see the readme file for contact information for
nickk and froloff.
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| Event: Warstock Europe 2008: Call for topic suggestions and speakers |
2008-04-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
What topics would you like to see dealt with in presentations and workshops
at this year's Warpstock Europe event? After the success of the last years'
wish lists, a Wiki has been set up again where you can easily enter your
suggestions:
http://www.warpstock.eu/en/agenda/wish_list.html
Please take the time to add some suggestions to this wish list. This will
not only help us in looking for suitable speakers but may also convince
potential speakers that they have something interesting to say and to step
forward.
All those interested in making presentations or conducting workshops are
asked to submit their information to our Session Manager
(infoDESPAM@DESPAMwarpstock.eu) as soon as possible.
If we do not receive any offers to give a presentation about a requested
topic, we will do our best to find an expert on that topic.
The ninth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the City Hostel in
D³sseldorf, Germany, from November 14 to 16. 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: Books for eComStation users |
2008-04-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
eComStation market is changing, new users need books and tutorials.
eCo Software support service published the 3-rd brochure (russian text):
* Frequently asked questions. eComStation drivers: ACPI, JFS, Panorama, USB.
Photo: http://ecomstation.ru/ecoshop/pic/eComStation-Book-Q&Ac.jpg
(A5, 80 pages)
The books are aimed at users and companies which have many computers and
should solve different problems in short time.
The books play important role in the development of eComStation market:
* we can advertise eComStation via bookshops (it's impossible promote eCS
via TV, there are banners in the Internet already)
* this increases the turnover of resellers (extends selection of goods -
good addition to eCS box and electronic shareware products)
For comments on this http://en.ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1499
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| Net: eComStation PC: Week of notebooks |
2008-04-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
The next week is dedicated to collection of reports about Dell notebooks.
Our database contains 231 records only --
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=brand
Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore.
Post new reports using the web-form --
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new
Try the latest ACPI 3.9 driver
Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of
unsupported notebooks.
eComStation PC homepage --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/ecspc/?action=notebook
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| SW: SW: Maul Publisher V3.15 |
2008-04-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Koller
Maul Publisher V3.15-25.4.8Ge
=============================
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
Further information
===================
For more information and screenshots see
http://www.manglais.com/promo/maul.html
Product, download, purchase and other web pages can all be accessed via
http://www.manglais.com/subs/php/product.php?MAULE300
New in this version
===================
This version adds features designed to make certain common DTP tasks much
simpler. The colour tuning dialog has been moved out of the bitmap handler,
and can now adjust the colours of any object in the document. This has been
extended with the ability to adjust groups of frames, such as used for
company logos. Further still, the colour adjustment has been modified to
make it possible to turn a colour logo into a grey tone version without
turning primary colours into white.
To simplify the creation of business cards, you can now add several to one
page, and drag them around until they snap to each other.
* Improved error logging messages are more readable.
* Fixed 'text object in a chain' deletion, undo and redo.
* Allows cut, copy paste and delete of lassoed sets of frames.
* Changed - Colour sliders from YUV (wrong) to HSB, and fixed the maths
involved.
* Fixed application freeze when editing some unicode characters.
* Fixed incorrect bitmap handling - this may cause faulty display in
older docs with 24bpp bmps.
* New - Snap to frames. You can now set the frames to snap to each other
when dragging.
* New - Adjust colours of whole groups of frames, regardless of their
content.
* New - Adjust primary colours to equivalent grey tones.
Software Maintenance Subscription
=================================
Please help to support further product development with a voluntary low
cost annual software subscription! Thank you.
To install or upgrade Maul:-
============================
Download maulebin315.zip, and either maulelen315.zip or maulelde315.zip or
both, depending on the language(s) you want. Registered customers can
simply run 'Check for updates' from Maul's 'Help' menu, or from the maul
installer.
Try
http://www.manglais.com/download.php
or later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule
Unzip all the files in the .\maul\install directory where maul was
installed and run the installer. You need to install the binary executive
and library files, as well as the appropriate language packs. It is safe to
install later versions of Maul V3.xx over earlier ones.
Bugs
====
Please take the trouble to report any bugs that you may find!
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| SW: Maul Publisher V3.15 Translators tool kit |
2008-04-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
The 'Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.15 language translation tool kit' has been
uploaded to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/maulettk315.zip
later http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maulettk
This tool kit is provided to allow others to translate Maul Publisher V3.15
resources to their own language. As this may require some concerted effort,
please contact the Maul Publisher support Yahoo group 'maulpub' to
coordinate your effort with other potential translators. Similarly, if you
just want to fix some spelling, please share the result with the rest of us.
The tool kit already contains both English and German language resources to
help you get started. See the file TRANSLATE_INSTRUCTIONS to set up
translations, and to see what changes have occurred since the last version.
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| SW: InstPDR 1.02 on BetaZone |
2008-04-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Alex Taylor has released an update to his InstPDR utility on the
eComStation BetaZone. It is available to anyone with an ecomstation.com
logon. InstPDR is a utility to upgrade your existing printer drivers or to
update the Postscript driver with details for a new printer using an
existing windows, or Linux PPD file.
instpdr_102.zip 55 kb 27/04/2008 05:44 am
InstPDR is a GUI tool for installing new printer drivers. Includes a
graphical frontend for importing PPD files. 1.02 (2008-04-27) is a bugfix
release.
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| Net: eComStation: Not for Everyone |
2008-04-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/459.html
An article by Ed Hurst on OFB.biz about his recent attempt to install
eComStation. This is just the beginning of an on-going project to evaluate
eCS.
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| Net: Solutions based on eComStation |
2008-04-30
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
eComStation may attract new users if it's commercially successful.
OS/2 (eComStation) is alive while people are using and improving the
system. The developers of solutions ensure long life for our operating
system because computers with OS/2 make money for their customers year by
year. The developers bring new industrial technologies to OS/2, feed
support service, fill OS/2 with unique features to keep the solutions
competitive.
Examples of solutions based on OS/2: ATM, sound processing (speech, digital
restoration of sound), training devices (astronauts, oilmen), technical
appliances (measuring, medical), virtual machines (mainframes, SVISTA),
CMMS, restaurants, etc.
Why should you write the story today?
* You should do this to protect your investments made into OS/2 platform.
* OS/2 users are located in different countries and cities. They will read
the story because of OS/2 word :) And spread the information about your
company and products among own colleagues.
* The developer of the operating system will get information about your
requirements and improve OS to satisfy them.
* Your story gives stimulus to thousands of users, developers and companies.
* It's easy. Solution story is based on usual product flyer.
Where to collect solutions? www.ecomstation.ru site is hosting Solutions
list since 2002. You can publish German, Dutch, and English texts there.
How to write Solutions story? Take the flyer of your product, add
Introduction, add one-two paragraphs about advantages of OS/2 usage, add 2
advertisement photos/screenshots, 2 screenshots of back-end demonstating
usage of OS/2.
Use the web-form to send your contact information --
http://ecomstation.ru/support.php
Welcome to homepage of solutions! --
http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=solutions
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