Neue kernels (1015) bei IBM

2001-10-18 19:40:16 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS]

IBM hat neue SMP, UNI und W4 kernel auf ihrer testcase FTP siete - ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/
smp1015.zip
smp1015d.zip
uni1015.zip
uni1015d.zip
w41015.zip
w41015d.zip

Die xxxxxxd.zip archive sind debug kernel. Diese Austausch kernel sind für MCP/ACP/W4F15/eCS Systeme. Installation Anweisungen und eine Liste neuer features und fixes stehen in der readme file die in jedem Archive enthalten ist. Bitte beachten das zu den kernels ein neuer CLOCK01.SYS gehoert. Bitte die Readme lesen für details wie dieser genutzt werden kann.

Es gibt ausserdem eine neue Versions von SES - ses1015.zip und Dateien für den system Dump Formattierer df1015.zip im selben Verzeichniss.

Wie immer sind diese inofficiell und nicht supported by IBM ausser Sie sagen euch das sie benutzt werden sollen. Bitte sendet alle followups zu comp.os.os2.bugs im usenet. Bitte bedenkt das die Dateien nur 2-3 Tage auf IBM's testcase liegen, wer sie ausprobieren will sollte sie sich gleich holen. Stellt sicher das alle auszutauschenden Dateien gesichert werden und probiert diese nicht auf einem production System. Ihr seit gewarnt. Es gibt bereits einen Eintrag in comp.os.os2.bugs von jemanden der einen TRAP bekommen beim booten mit einem der kernel. Der SMP1015 kernel bootet ordentlich hier auf meiner eCS 1.0 test machine.

Warpstock Europe 2001

2001-10-18 19:18:52 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2world.com, Luc Van Bogaert]

The Warpstock Europe Event Team is very pleased to announce that Innotek Systemberatung GmbH, C&L Verlag, Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc will be exhibiting at the Warpstock Europe 2001 conference. All attendees are invited to visit the Warpstock Europe Exhibit Hall to discover all products and services presented by this companies.

Innotek to present Virtual PC at Warpstock Europe 2001

Innotek recently surprised the OS/2 and eComStation community with the announcement of "Virtual PC for OS/2", a new product based on Connectix technology which will enable people using IBM OS/2 Warp to execute additional operating systems at the same time on their OS/2 desktop. Innotek has also partnered with Serenity Systems International to bring this virtual machine technology to the eComStation platform. Innotek is also the company that brought MacroMedia Flash Player to OS/2.

Visitors of Warpstock Europe 2001 will be able to meet the people behind these exciting products and attend a number of presentation sessions by Innotek's representatives. Highlight of the event will be an amazing public demonstration of the "Virtual PC for OS/2" product. Other topics that will be presented by Innotek's people are "Odin - update and tips & tricks" and "Co-StandbyServer for e-business - High availability clustering on OS/2".

For more information about Innotek and their products and services, visit their web site at http://www.innotek.de.

C&L Verlag publisher

C&L Verlag is a well known German publisher of computer books and magazines. The books and some of their magazines such as Toolbox, mainly focus on the subjects software development, networking and Unix in general. Their freeX magazine is a technical magazine targeting users of free operating systems, including Linux, BSD and free Unix systems. Just like last year, C&L Verlag will be at Warpstock Europe to demonstrate their continuing support for the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems.

For more information about C&L Verlag and their publications, visit their web site at http://www.cul.de/.

Starfire

Starfire's premier partnerships with IBM and Lotus allow them to offer the "best of breed" products to tackle your most challenging business problems. Their cross-platform expertise covers the OS/2, Windows, AIX, and Linux operating systems. Starfire also provides the foundation for complex architecture, deployment, and development solutions. Starfire is recognized by IBM as one of the leading business partners in providing Server-Managed Client solutions with IBM's Network Computing software family, specifically Workspace On-Demand.

Warpstock Europe attendees will be able to attend a presentation by Richard Spurlock and Benjamin Claypool of Starfire, Inc. Their presentation is titled "Rapid and Consistent Enterprise System Administration: Starfire Titan" and discusses cross-platform administration for enterprise networked systems.

For more information about Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. and to learn more about their products and services, visit their web site at http://www.starfire.net.

The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the 'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek (Hasselt), Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org.

NetDrive Archive PlugIn, zweite preview-alpha

2001-10-17 11:00:12 -- Deniska [ecomstation.ru, Deniska]

Neue Version von NetDrive Archive PlugIn.

Aenderungen:

• perfomance changes: lesen der Dateiliste beschleunigt, Dateiheader ist read only wenn das archive geaendert wurde, Dateien werden nur neu gepackt wenn sie geaendert wurden;
• wenn eine Datei read-only war wurde sie nicht aus dem TEMP Verzeichniss geloescht;
• es gibt jetzt ein debug log.

URL: http://ecomstation.ru/ndparch/ndparch.zip

Benutzt die web-engine von eComStation.Ru um OS/2 in euerem Land zu Unterstuetzen.

2001-10-17 02:06:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru, Eugene Gorbunoff]

Testet die Power eures Talentes! :)

Anstatt eine neue Webseite zu erstellen, koennt ihr OS/2 sofort unterstuetzen. Ihr News uebersetzen, neue Artikel schreiben, oder Webseiten relavante application schreiben. Nutzt euere eigene Sprache!!

Umfrage ueber den Support von USB devices in eCS und OS/2.

2001-10-17 02:04:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru, Eugene Gorbunoff]

Untersuetzt Markus in einer on-line Umfrage! Eure Kommentare werden Markus weitergereicht.
http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=4

Markus Montkowski (Netlabs) Entwickelt den usbresmg.sys Treiber, welcher anderen Programmiereren es ermoeglicht auf USB-devices zuzugreifen: Digital cameras, FM-tuners, TV-tuners, UPS, etc.

DualMode library and MGLServer release 5 available

2001-10-17 00:36:44 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Marty Amodeo]

http://emuos2.netlabs.org

The DualMode library and MGLServer are an application interface for developers to write graphical applications which can switch between full screen and windowed operation, with advanced features such as keyboard, mouse, and joystick support, frame rate timing and frameskip regulation, and palette handling.

http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/dmlib_r5_srcbin.zip
http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/mglserver_r5_srcbin.zip

MySQL update

2001-10-17 00:33:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source database. If you don't have the C2T temporary file problem, you don't need this update.
http://yware.dnsalias.com/yuri/mysql2/mysql-3-23-42-upd2.zip

eCStacy Returns after month shutdown

2001-10-17 00:31:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.com, piggy]

eCStacy Returns after month shutdowneCStacy
(http://www.ecomstation.org)
has returned (in a more socially acceptable form)

There are now discussion forums online and everyone is invited to participate and help each other out.

We are still needing volunteers to participate with the upkeep and addition of new features of the site. We want to add software reviews, a searchable device driver archive that users are able to submit drivers themselves, more boot logos, more desktop backgrounds, bi-weekly articles on anything useful: java, installation of eCS, system customization, programming, tips and tricks. Please email to volunteer or if you have any ideas for the site. This isn't to be a personal site anymore. Let's make the eCS / OS/2 we wished existed.

Guiffy 3.2 release available.

2001-10-17 00:28:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Bill Ritcher]

Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component.
http://www.guiffy.com

Citing consumer harm from Microsoft Monopoly

2001-10-17 00:26:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com]

Full report can be found as a PDF-document at
http://www.consumerfed.org/WINXP_anticompetitive_release.PDF

The story is that Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Media Access Project and U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), reveals how the tight integration of Windows XP with other basic computer applications, restrctive licensing terms, and other anticompetitive conditions imposed by Microsoft.

AC 97 and VIA chipset

2001-10-17 00:23:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.org, Roderick Klein]

VIA is working on a new version of drivers

Some people have contacted me about this driver, asking what the status was. Well VIA released a driver about 1 or 1/2 half years ago. This driver worked in a few cases but was for the rest a disaster (sorry if developers read this). For eComStation I'm working on collecting drivers and getting a license to include them. The VIA driver also has my attention and I have contacted VIA and past along the bugs which where documented in the patch on hobbes. I also had a lot of cases where there was no sound. Or system sounds where played to fast. Also with playing a video file I got a trap. I past al this information along. Last week I was told they where working on a new version.

All I can say, lets hope it has improved and keep an eye on www.via.com.tw. When it will be released I don't know. BTW: Does somebody out there have a VIA motherboard with a BUILD ON nic chipset from VIA. I have drivers that need testing.

http://www.via.com.tw

Job offering related to OS/2

2001-10-17 00:18:28 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.ru, os2ok]

Vacancy for OS/2 administrator (WarpServer, Lotus Domino, IBM DB2). Place: Novosibirsk, Russia.
http://os2.ru/job/

OS/2 CONNECT - November 2001

2001-10-17 00:07:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, Tim Bryce]

OS/2 CONNECT is THE authoritative source for contact information in the universe of IBM's OS/2 32-bit operating system. The newsletter is implemented as a web page at: http://www.os2ss.com/connect/

SmartCache 0.5.5 released

2001-10-17 00:05:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, Frank Berke]

http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache.html

Junkbuster 2.9.9 alpha released

2001-10-17 00:04:06 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, David Schmidt]

The development of Junkbuster continues - and an OS/2 port is available.

Junkbuster is a powerful web proxy that filters out unwanted web content like advertisements, cookies, snoopy javascript, etc. Recent improvements include things like improved HTTP 1.1 support and popup suppression.

Tester input is needed... the documentation is a little light at the moment, but you can get support via the Junkbuster SourceForge website or comp.os.os2.apps. A self-installing executable, as well as the source code, is available.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118

Kobil Chipcard reader

2001-10-17 00:01:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.org, A. Roederer]

Kobil has released a new version of their KAAN* Chipcard reader-driver
http://www.kobil.de/seiten/d/download.htm