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OS/2 - eComStation News - December, 2008
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2007: January February March April May June July August September October November December
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2005: August September October November December
SW: NetDrive for OS/2 3.1.1
Net: Hobbes incoming information
Net: Two questions for eComStation users
Net: Interview With Joachim of Mensys
SW: Firefox 3.0.5 and SeaMonkey 1.1.14 released
SW: Enhanced Mozilla applications (Gecko 1.8.1.19 release)
SW: Holiday & end of the year software sale
Event: SCOUG meeting for December 20, 2008
NET: Net: Solutions based on eComStation
SW: cURL port updated to 7.19.2
Net: eComStation PC: Week of network adapters
SW: DOS/Win-OS/2 on multi-core processors
SW: Subversion 1.5.5 Released
SW: TimeSet 1.00RC1 on eComStation BetaZone
| SW: NetDrive for OS/2 3.1.1 |
2008-12-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Netdrive
NetDrive for OS/2 version 3.1.1 has been released. The new version of the
virtual file system fixes a number of reported problems. FTP performance
has been improved.
Please download and install the new version if you are using a previous
version of NetDrive for OS/2.
Download the new version from:
http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/download.html
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| Net: Hobbes incoming information |
2008-12-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Ian Manners
Hi Everyone,
For those that upload files, the system used at hobbes is CASE sensitive.
Please ensure all the text matches between the file name and the template
file that goes with it. (the filenames, not the contents of the template)
Also, if replacing an earlier file, make sure that the case listed matches
the file listed found in the archive.
The easiest option is to ensure all file names are lowercase.
The Hobbes maintainers have been working on re enabling file renaming in
the incoming directory, unfortunetly due to the FTP server software they
have to use [which is very secure], and site policy, there are limits as to
what can be done.
>From Debi at hobbes.nmsu.edu
"As far as uploading and renaming goes, we are using vsftp which though it
is secure, it does not allow limiting the renames. to work around this
issue we have set a chown to disable the rename after a short period of
time. It is our compromise on the rename.
I agree that it may cause havok but permitting renames has been an issue
the Hobbes community seems to desire, as we have had a lot of complaints
about not permitting renaming."
Be aware that in testing renaming is only available for a few minutes after
uploading a file.
Please also be aware that the HTTP URL's have changed from the previous
server that hobbes was hosted on.
Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site.com/
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| Net: Two questions for eComStation users |
2008-12-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
1. Please look at file x:\var\log\1_ACPI.L1 (on bootable disk)
[Systemboard info] section, lines: manufacturer and type
Send via web-form (http://ecomstation.ru/support.php):
this lines + name of notebook (written on the box) + what is it?
motherboard, barebon, netbook or mediacenter?
This information may be used to improve eComStation installer in the future.
2. Help us to collect a package of small utilities and applications,
which are not included to eComStation but should be installed on every PC.
Send the names and urls via web-form (http://ecomstation.ru/support.php)
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| Net: Interview With Joachim of Mensys |
2008-12-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Dennis Dentremont
I recently posted an article on my blog with interview questions I posed to
Joachim at Mensys. Here is the link
http://www.themadfatter.com/2008/12/17/an-interview-with-mensys-about-ecomstation/
Cheers!
Dennis
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| SW: Firefox 3.0.5 and SeaMonkey 1.1.14 released |
2008-12-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Weilbacher
Firefox 3.0.5 and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 are there now for OS/2, please get them
from the Warpzilla page http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ , where the
release package, the README files, and the MD5SUM files are linked.
Changes over previous versions include several security fixes but no OS/2
specific changes.
As usual for these "official" builds, please add bug reports to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org For help please go to the
mozilla.dev.ports.os2 newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org newsserver.
Peter.
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| SW: Enhanced Mozilla applications (Gecko 1.8.1.19 release) |
2008-12-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Weilbacher
New versions of my enhanced Mozilla based apps are available now via
http://pmw-warpzilla.sf.net/
- SeaMonkey 1.1.14 (PmW)
- PmW-Fx 2.0.0.19 (last release of PmW-Fx! see below)
- PmW-Tb 2.0.0.19
They are all based on Gecko 1.8.1.19 on the date of 2008-12-12 and built
from the exact same sources. They correspond directly to the respective
official releases of SeaMonkey, Firefox, and hopefully Thunderbird.
All applications need libc063.dll to run.
This Gecko 1.8.1.19-based release picks up all the changes done by Mozilla
since my Gecko 1.8.1.18 release, i.e. between 2008-10-30 and 2008-12-02.
This includes fixes for approximately 9 security issues, 2 to 4 of which
are rated critical (the exact numbers depend on the product).
No OS/2 specific changes were done since the last release.
Note1: Firefox 2.0.0.20 that will be released very soon only fixes a
Windows problem; I will not rebuild just to get a new version number.
Note2: because Mozilla does not support Firefox 2 any longer this will very
likely be the last release of PmW-Fx! I will try to continue to provide
PmW-Tb and SeaMonkey (PmW) as time allows and official releases are done.
But for a standalone browser, please look at Firefox 3.0.5 or later.
Note3: If you have specific reasons why you haven't updated to Firefox
3.0.x yet, please open a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org or post in the
newsgroup mozilla.dev.ports.os2. Perhaps there is something that I don't
know about and that can be easily improved.
Peter.
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| SW: Holiday & end of the year software sale |
2008-12-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Don Hawkinson
Holiday & end of the year software sale
For the rest of the year, my shareware programs may be registerd for the
bargain price of 2 for 10 (US). As before, registration includes all
future releases of each program registered.
Included in the sale are:
PMStripper
Pastry Box
DH-Grep-PM
Command line Clipboard Access (CCA)
DH_ClipSave/2
TextHelper
Details about the programs may be found at:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/share.html
Payment information may be found at:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/payment.html
Avoid the rush - shop now!!
Be sure to check my free downloads at:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/other.html
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| Event: SCOUG meeting for December 20, 2008 |
2008-12-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
This month Steven and an as yet unknown helper are going show you how to do
secure remote access to your systems using ssh.
After this, it's going to yet another Q&A session. Bring your questions.
As always, there will be coffee, donuts and fun.
For additional information and directions, see:
http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
Tom Brown, Catherder thomabrown at gmail dot com Member SCOUG,
V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA
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| NET: Net: Solutions based on eComStation |
2008-12-19
++ 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.
What's new: homepage of solutions -- http://ecomstation.ru/solutions
* Plant floor automation systems, Company: Automation ONSPEC Software
* All commercial paging in St.Petersburg (Russia) is based on eComStation
solution
* Railroad in Italy: All the ticketing kiosks and machines are using OS/2
Warp
* The New York City subway replaced Warp 4 with eComStation on their
ticket selling kiosks some time ago.
* We added new section: "Airports", please help us find the facts of
WSeB usage in the airports (USA)
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.
Your participation:
* The developers may join the development of Point-of-sale toolkit --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/developer/?action=pos
* Businessmen - publish new story for Solutions page
* Tech.specialist -- write the story about eComStation in your company.
Where to collect solutions? www.ecomstation.ru site is hosting Solutions
list since 2002. Yyou can publish german, dutch, 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
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| SW: cURL port updated to 7.19.2 |
2008-12-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Paul Smedley has updated his port of cURL to 7.19.2.
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/
cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl
supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form
based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic,
Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy
tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
Curl is free and open software that compiles under a wide variety of
operating systems. Curl exists thanks to efforts from many authors.
The main Curl website is at http://curl.haxx.se/.
Curl v7.19.2 - updated 20081220
http://download.smedley.info/curl-7.19.2-os2-20081220.zip
REQUIRES: libc063.dll - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.
If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/
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| Net: eComStation PC: Week of network adapters |
2008-12-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
Help us collect information about network adapters working in UNSUPPORTED
mode with Genmac wrapper.
Here is the list of tested adapters: 146 models
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=net&page=5
Add new reports or comment reports posted by other users.
You can share the package of drivers with other users.
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| SW: DOS/Win-OS/2 on multi-core processors |
2008-12-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
Are you interested in support of DOS and Win-OS/2 on multi-processor
computers? (SMP APIC), please join the testing (how to register in the
tracker -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=logs ) Subj of
ticket: VPIC.SYS, %short description of DOS-sessions problems in SMP APIC%
It's necessary find the testers which are ready to test:
* it's necessary test the start of dos machine
* Win-OS/2 sessions with networking
* sound in DOS sessions
* the debugging may require: join irc-channel, PC with com-port
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| SW: Subversion 1.5.5 Released |
2008-12-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
The Subversion team released v1.5.5 overnight, so I've built an OS/2 binary
:) It's available from the usual place - ie http://os2ports.smedley.info
Subversion is an open-source revision control system, which aims to be a
compelling replacement for CVS.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Paul.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Subversion 1.5.5 Released
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:22:17 -0600
From: Hyrum K. Wright
I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.5, the latest patch release in the
1.5.x series. This release includes a number of user-requested bug fixes,
as well as significant improvements to 'svn merge --reintegrate'. See
CHANGES for complete details.
Subversion 1.5.5 is available from:
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.tar.bz2
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.tar.gz
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.zip
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.bz2
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.gz
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.zip
The MD5 checksums are:
6f3701a0f2acf3fe53093491ba3d77ee subversion-1.5.5.tar.bz2
532c7d49b3cd33d712289a5ef03b7749 subversion-1.5.5.tar.gz
25f23977822f86f617c9fbbf3760f99b subversion-1.5.5.zip
2a6e6d605f1767ea8e7f9db5b2b60f17 subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.bz2
1fa3d03ff9a592a448f66c1c55907e6c subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.gz
ae7d6e0a904b8f12270b1fa5b6be1917 subversion-deps-1.5.5.zip
The SHA1 checksums are:
61c9a7209ccef8eff3c0499629d62ed4d3c89988 subversion-1.5.5.tar.bz2
e9f14065b61a52493278520436a6ba3455e3274a subversion-1.5.5.tar.gz
0c1f4bb5148afeab4027dc8357509626b7ee5f22 subversion-1.5.5.zip
f5387a8e5d40d16ebbd6721db72d071eb4d0270b subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.bz2
d2ce66c1bf043b3c22cddddbf438240593f8a09e subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.gz
f764cbd1b6357539d158e2e6b1576ac35076b82c subversion-deps-1.5.5.zip
PGP Signatures are available at:
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.tar.bz2.asc
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.tar.gz.asc
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.5.zip.asc
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.bz2.asc
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.tar.gz.asc
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.5.zip.asc
For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures:
Senthil Kumaran S [1024D/6CCD4038] with fingerprint:
8035 16A5 1D6E 50E2 1ECD DE56 F68D 46FB 6CCD 4038
Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint:
E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C 32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis [1024D/0FF33963] with fingerprint:
F699 87DA C1B7 BF23 B85F 13A5 60CF 6A81 0FF3 3963
Julian Foad [1024D/353E25BC] with fingerprint:
6604 5A4B 43BC F994 7777 5728 351F 33E4 353E 25BC
Bert Huijben [1024D/9821F7B2] with fingerprint:
2017 F51A 2572 0E78 8827 5329 FCFD 6305 9821 F7B2
Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint:
3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6 D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C
Stefan Sperling [1024D/F59D25F0] with fingerprint:
B1CF 1060 A1E9 34D1 9E86 D6D6 E5D3 0273 F59D 25F0
Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint:
D315 89DB E1C1 E9BA D218 39FD 265D F8A0 035A 96A9
Ivan Zhakov [1024D/C4F3A281] with fingerprint:
9D3C 5860 6A64 74BF 591D F3A1 F60D 1980 C4F3 A281
Release notes for the 1.5.x release series may be found at:
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html
You can find the list of changes between 1.5.5 and earlier versions at:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.5/CHANGES
Questions, comments, and bug reports to
usersDESPAM@DESPAMsubversion.tigris.org.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night,
- The Subversion Team
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| SW: TimeSet 1.00RC1 on eComStation BetaZone |
2008-12-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Alex Taylor has released an update to the new date/time sync program for
eCS on the eCS BetaZone. You have to have an active Software Subscription
to access this update.
timeset_100rc1.wpi 122 kb 22/12/2008 01:05 am
A new utility for configuring Internet-based time/date synchronization
under eCS. 1.00 RC 1: implemented TZ edit feature.
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