Usage of LimeWire in OS/2

2005-01-21 00:47:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Eugene Romanenko]

Many PC users are using file-exchange software. This is the most simple and quick way to share music, video, movies, etc with other users of network.

You can use such software in OS/2 too: XNap (OpenNap network), BitTorrent client and LimeWire. eMule may be started using Odin.

The article LimeWire under OS/2: Tips & Tricks contains information about LimeWire and tricks how to use it in OS/2 (english text).

Quake III Arena for eComStation

2005-01-02 21:06:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

One of users (nick: Shai-Hulud) wrote a small Quake 3 under OS/2 (without Voodo 1/2 adapter) HOWTO. This method supposes usage of Mesa OpenGL libraries. Read HOWTO and screenshots here.

It's necessary research Linux/DRI codes to implement hardware acceleration in Mesa for eComStation.

Santa Clauses no pasaran!

2004-12-30 01:42:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]

New year is near. How to stop the New Year holiday?! Eat all tangerines in advance and leave the New Year's Tree without decorations!

New game "DeathMorozes & Tree of Apocalipse" allows you interrupt the channel of decorations delivery. Every Santa Clause is carring one toy for the Tree. Shoot them all!

You have five weapons:

• pistol -- tickling for santa's heels,
• machine-gun -- quick spending of ammunition,
• flare pistol -- effective weapon,
• mines and
• super mines -- no pasaran! (activation is fulfilled with delay)

Homepage of the game: http://ecomstation.ru/ecobaby

Product of eCo Software. The game is developed by the 13th SUNRISE team (former sNOa gamepack).

P.S. This game is for small children only which should stay in good mood during the holidays.

Release of JUne

2004-12-18 19:30:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]

eCo Software has announced the release of JUne system utility which allows unerase files and directories from JFS volumes.

This is the unique product on the market. It's regular step in improvement of JFS support for eComStation operating system.

Previous projects:

1. Providing information to users about features and advantages of JFS file system. Propagation of JFS.
2. Participation in BooJFS project (Bootable JFS for eComStation; Customer: Serenity Systems International, USA)
3. JRescuer utility to recover data from damaged JFS volume.

"We have founded the base for future improvement of JFS in eComStation," according to Pavel Shtemenko, chief engineer of eCo Software. "We are going participate in the development of two additional JFS products in 2005."

JUne is FREE for JRescuer customers.

Additional information:

• Download JUne
• Published articles:
  • Time for JFS has come (Part 1)
  • Time for JFS has come (Part 2)
  • Time for JFS has come (Part 3)
  • JFS recovering methodology
  • Order of OS/2 boot
  • Time for JFS has come (Part I)
  • JFS recovering methodology
• JUne is distributed in bundle with JRescuer:
  • Mensys BV
• Developer:
  • eCo Software homepage

This press release is available in PDF format.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 beta

2004-11-17 01:05:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, eCo Shop]

A joint effort between Serenity Systems and InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH

OpenOffice.org for OS/2 is a port of the well known product [An Open Source Office Suite] to the eComStation and OS/2 Warp platforms with special support for InnoTek's font engine for OS/2.

To try out the beta, you have to download and install three products:

• InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 http://www.innotek.de/products/ft2lib
• InnoTek Runtime for OS/2 http://www.innotek.de/products/innowin
• OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 for OS/2 Beta 1 (65MB): English, Deutsch, Russian

Note: OpenOffice.org for OS/2 Java support requires InnoTek OS/2 Kit for Java to function.

Please download and install the order given above. Refer to the documentation of each component for installation instructions and additional information.

For support and more information, please refer to the InnoTek Online Support Forums.

Designers & painters

2004-11-11 18:25:17 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some pages of OS/2 designers was updated:

• WiZard's homepage
• eCo Design homepage
• Joerg Tiemann web-page

ISDNPM and PPtP protocol

2004-11-11 18:21:28 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We recommend use eCSCoNet (ISDNPM) application if your Internet provider uses PPtP protocol (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol).

Read instructions from Stanislav Kozlov and remarks from Dmitry Froloff (russian text).

SVISTA(tm) Virtual Machine -- Alternative to VMWare(r) and Virtual PC(r) Released

2004-11-11 02:25:31 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/preview.jsp?resourceid=2803605]

LEWISVILLE, Texas, Oct. 29 (PRNewswire) -- Serenity Systems International (SSI) has announced the release of their Serenity Virtual Station(tm), SVISTA(tm), family of virtual machine products, http://www.serenity-systems.com. This is the latest entry into the hot field of virtual machine software which allows users to run multiple operating systems on their PC. A field dominated by VMWare(r) and Microsoft's Virtual PC(r).

"I have a lot of respect for the market leaders. But we have a value proposition which allows us to compete. Part of our strategy is to go into areas not well served by other products," according to Bob St.John, Director of Business Development for SSI. "For example, some Citrix(r) users have tested the product and found it to be surprisingly responsive in that environment."

Read full text of the press-release at media.prnewswire.com site.

Installation of eComStation Server Edition inside Serenity Virtual Station 2004. Host OS - eComStation/Rus 1.2	LAN Wizard utility may be used to configure routing in physical network

Evaluation software option appears at the bottom of the SHOP link on http://www.serenityvirtual.com

Source: Serenity Systems International

CONTACT: Bob St.John of Serenity Systems International. +1-214-222-3414, info@serenity-systems.com

Web site: http://www.serenity-systems.com/

Secure PMVNC with SSH

2004-11-01 15:00:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Eugene Romanenko published instructions how to secure VNC connection using SSH (english text).

eComStation 1.2 includes two applications: PMVNC and IBM Desktop on-call. This article allows users, interested in secure connections, migrate to PMVNC.

Advantages of PMVNC: PMVNC surpasses DTOC by performance. VNC-viewers are more light and more handy than browsers.

Advantages of DTOC: DTOC surpasses by features. Example: picture scaling, files transfer.

Golden Code announcement of Java 1.4.1_07

2004-10-30 13:40:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Mark D. Overholser]

As a registered user of the Golden Code(R) RTE and SDK for J2SE(TM) 1.4.1 product, we are pleased to notify you that the latest version (based upon Sun's 1.4.1_07 release) is now available for end-user licensing.

A list of product features new to this release is available at software page. Follow the links in the left margin: 'J2SE for OS/2', 'New Features'.

Single unit price is $US42.00; volume discounts begin at 10 seats. To order, visit the Golden Code Web-Shop.

Thank you so much for your patience while this system has been under construction. We appreciate your patronage.

Sincerely,
Software Products Team
Golden Code Development

IBM makes Object Rexx open source

2004-10-23 18:23:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

After several months of negotiations between RexxLA and IBM, IBM have agreed to further their commitment to Open Source, by releasing Object Rexx to the Open Source community. As a result, RexxLA will continue to manage Object Rexx as an Open Source project, and IBM will be withdrawing Object Rexx from their product range. See IBM announcement;

"The REXX Language Association is delighted that IBM is contributing Object REXX to the open source community," said Chip Davis, President of RexxLA. "We are targeting the first release of Open Object REXX for early 2005 and are enthusiastic about the opportunities to introduce an ever increasing community to the ease and power of programming in REXX."

A more detailed announcement of the future of Open Object Rexx will be made shortly.

Formation of eCS software market in Russia

2004-10-15 09:25:54 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Russian eComStation users begin to plan out software expenses, that's why two articles was added to eCo Shop:

• Software Subscription Services for eComStation
• Software Subscription Services for eComStation Application Pack

This will allow the customer to budget software expenses for a period of 12 months as well as offering the opportunity to receive early access to new features and product enhancements. Software Subscription Services is available for both eComStation 1.2 and Application Pack 1.2 and will cover all updates and enhancements made to the product during this period, including product upgrades which may fall within the subscription period.

There is a constant interest in Server edition of eComStation. So we investigate the demand for new version based on eComStation Installation CD.

Fashionable game for eComStation

2004-10-12 12:39:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software company is working on new game for OS/2, dedicated to OS/2. The game should be released in the end of this year for subscribers of sNOa game pack.

Name: Operation "Warp" II
Description:

Corporate ethic, Corporate art, Corporate morals, Corporate everything. Dzaibatsui is your home, your family, your 'people' carved on top every corporation gate in the world.

Dzaibatsu is a clan-monopoly company in Japan, with harsh ethic, discipline and its own morals. Dzaibatsu started to blossom after Second World War. Typical sample of dzaibatsu is mobs gangs of yakudza.

That's it and nowise else. Do you think that end of 21 century is a time if mature democracy? If so then you are a victim of social engineering. If you still believe that world is ruled by governments, UN, NATO, EUN, if you can enumerate ten parameters your company is better then others just out of hand - then you are one of uncountable screws of corporate universe. If you believe that suddenly died promising young manager died because of heart attack, that multistory building was demolished by out of mind suicide, filled his own apartment with homemade explosive, if you ignore everything outside corporate police controlled area - you are a notorious middle class, a respectable bourgeois, one of many piglets, crowding near a through and noticing nothing around...

Back side of this medal is us. We are lothecs, we are inhabitants of slums, and we are poor and ragged. We die under wheels of your armored vehicles, deceases kill us in millions, deceases escaped from your laboratories. We are declassed elements making cops angry only by our appearance. We are void to you. We are genetic material, thick, live accumulation of sewage. I know that all, because I was one of you. Yes, I was a corporant. I used to be a mobile workshop manager. I was a driver and a mechanic, a boss and a worker, I knew everything about any moving artifact and I knew too much about our board of directors. When old Lee was alive, nobody could touch me... but he lived not long enough to let me climb higher.
And, alas, I am died, evaporated in a button of high-octane flame in the sky above old city. Everybody though that, at least those who didn't know the truth. Nobody saw a small dot detaching from my flyer in instant before it blew up, a dot whose parachute was opened right at a hundred meters above surface. None of your corporants, but rebels saw me. They accepted me without questioning, they gave me food and warmth. They didn't stop me when I left, and they accepted me back when I returned. I saw this and I saw that on that week, the week of my liberty. Twice I almost said firewall to my life. I didn't like what I had seen. It's not a life for human beings. There is no honor for a man to wait for a sweeter piece thrown by glutted corporants. There is no honor in hunting for human liver to sell it to corporate clinic. There is no honor in many things going on in city slums. I may agree they might be drawbacks of civilization growing. I may agree that after corporate world falls life wouldn't become a paradise at once... But I don't agree that nothing can be done to improve what've got.
I'm doing. We are doing.
May be my contribution is less then penny, but there are many of us, and our ranks getting wider. My old flyer, repaired for small money I could earn is always at your services.
When you ask me for a ride I need to know only: where to go to and how fast. You tell and I take care of the rest.

Serenity Virtual Station beta program expired!

2004-10-10 13:21:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Serenity Systems International, Bob StJohn]

Please note that the last chance to obtain Serenity Virtual Station at a bargain price is october 8, 2004. That is the last day you will be able to enroll in the beta program for 50 USD, entitling you to the full product, which will be available at the end of october. The retailprice will be 99 USD, saving you 49 USD right away!

For more information on the beta program, please visit www.serenityvirtual.com page

eComStation and IBM Software Choice

2004-09-29 22:41:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some weeks ago an announcement about IBM Software Choice Withdrawal was published (date of withdrawal: December 10, 2004);

This event has no effect on eComStation users.

Anything that IBM releases will continue to be available to eComStation users, in addition to the updates acquired by Serenity Systems for eComStation will continue.

Homepage of eComStation: www.ecomstation.com

Update of IBM basic drivers

2004-09-28 17:10:38 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

IBM corporation updated basic system drivers:

• USB Basic Device Support (OHCI/UHCI/EHCI)
• USB Mass Storage Support
• USB Printer Support
• IBM OS/2 Printer Pak
• Enhanced IDE Support (IDEDASD)

The updates are available for IBM Software Choice subscribers and users of eComStation.

The developer of the drivers is Exigen Latvia. If a device declared as supported doesn't work properly then contact the developer. They are really interested in their product quality improvement. Additional information about base drivers will be published in an overview of Warp Community Update Workshop.