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15 Jul 2005 21:58:01
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
The Wyndham Hotel, the site for the 2005 Warpstock, has limited
availability of rooms on the Wednesday before and particularly Sunday
night after the event. If you are planning to attend we recommend
getting your reservations in early if you are in need of a room these
nights.
To make reservations you can call the Wyndham 800 reservation number:
1-877-999-3223 (toll free reservation) or outside U.S./Canda
1-972-915-7070 (International Direct Dial rates apply.) The direct
Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel phone number is: 1-717-564-5511 and
their fax: 1-717-564-2476. When calling the hotel to make your
reservation, please make sure to mention you are with "Warpstock" in
order to receive the special rate.
Online you can access information about the hotel at:
http://www.wyndhamharrisburg.com/ You can make reservations online here.
<http://www.wyndham.com/wbe/reservations.wnt?PRO=MDTHT&cha=WYNDHAM&grp=1006772TH&arr=10/05/2005&dep=10/09/2005>
To get the low Warpstock rate you must enter the Group code: 1006772TH
You MUST USE this GROUP CODE to get the negotiated rates in their online
reservation system.
These rates are guaranteed for the assigned block of rooms only until
September 22nd at 12:00 midnight. Please make reservations as early as
possible to make sure you have the rooms you need.
We have learned that it is a good idea to join Wyndham by Request.
https://www.wyndham.com/wbr/join.wnt Membership is free and includes
various benefits such as free, in-room High Speed internet access. There
is no advantage to Warpstock for you to do this, we are just advising you
to do this for the free additional benefits. As of now, because of the
outrageous expense there are no plans to provide free internet
availablity in the exhibit area as we have done in the past.
For more on this year's event location, including lots of Hershey area
attractions (mmm, did somebody say chocolate?), see our web site at:
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/location.html To learn more about
Warpstock visit the homepage at: http://warpstock.org/index.html
Information about this years event can be found at:
http://warpstock.org/index_2005.html Registration information is at:
http://warpstock.org/event_info/2005/registration.html
We also offer the Warpstock eNewsletter mailing list where you can get
more detialed information bulletins electronically as we announce them.
If you would like to subscribe to the Warpstock eNewsletter send the
following message in the body of an email to [ majormajor@os2voice.org
]
subscribe wsenews myemail.address
end
Or by clicking on the following link [
http://www.os2voice.org/mailinglists.html ] and using the web form to
subscribe/unsubscribe from the Warpstock eNews list.
Have you been to Warpstock yet?
* Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California
* Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois
* Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia
* Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada
* Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas
* Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California
* Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado
* Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania
Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual
conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from
around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More
information is available at the Warpstock web site:
http://www.warpstock.org
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15 Jul 2005 20:41:49
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Sander Nyman"<2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
Mozilla Firefox 1.1a2, codenamed Deer Park, has been released. This
version is considered a "Non-Feature Complete developer preview". In
other words, this is bleeding edge stuff, and probably ill advised for the
weak, or those who are off thier Prozac protocol. For the rest of us...
You can download it here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/deerpark/alpha2/contrib/deerpark-os2-alpha2.zip
NOTE: This release requires the C runtime DLLs from Innotek. The latest
version is 0.5.1, which 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://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2/mozilla/
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.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox
For release notes, and a list of new features, follow this link:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
The Mozilla Firefox homepage can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/index.html
If you have questions, or just want the latest, greatest tips for Mozilla
& Firefox, Steve Wendt's excellent "Tips For Warpzilla" page can be found
here:
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
For Firefox specific "Tips & Tricks", see:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.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/netscape.public.mozilla.os2
Regards,
Sander
--
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"Sander Nyman"<2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
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All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
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15 Jul 2005 13:05:10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: estherDESPAM@DESPAMbitranch.com
It's probably no surprise that eWeek has asked me to write a column about
IBM's announcement (
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=905-163 ). Since
it's a column, I can write ANYthing. I'd prefer that my column reflect the
views of the OS/2 community, not just my own guesses. Sp I'd like your
opinions... IF YOU DO SO IMMEDIATELY. (I promised to send this in after
lunch, which means I need your input by Friday at 11am MST, which is
GMT-7. I might appreciate your comments after that, but I won't be able to
use them.)
Does IBM's announcement make a difference to you? In what way? What effect
will it have on your technical decisions?
In case I decide to quote you: please let me know how you're using OS/2
("we run our e-mail servers on it"), your name, title, company, geographic
location. (I.e. "Esther Schindler, VP of The Groovy Corporation in
Scotsdale, Arizona, uses OS/2 for her Internet servers, since the OS'
obscurity makes them unhackable.") Since this is for eWEEK, do let me know
if you work in what they'd deem an "enterprise."
Contact me directly at estherDESPAM@DESPAMbitranch.com.
Url:
From: Esther Schindler (estherDESPAM@DESPAMbitranch.com)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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15 Jul 2005 11:59:25
I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 of Knomos, an Open
Source application for the workflow, project and knowledge management in
law firms and corporate counsel departments. More information is
available at http://www.knomos.org . Languages currently available are
English, Italian, German, Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croat. French,
Danish and Portoguese are also in the pipeline.
As users of OS/2-eComStation since 1990 and OS/2 2.0, and as a (final?)
gift to a platform and a community which have been integral to my firm's
history for the past 15 years, we really went the extra mile to ensure as
much compatibility as possible with eCS, both on the client *and* on the
server side.
This has not been overly hard, as Knomos is based on MySQL, Apache, PHP,
Java, Firefox and OpenOffice.org (and each of those ingredients can even
be replaced, with varying degrees of difficulty).
Of course, we have no idea of how many potential users of Knomos are
around who may still be interested, but we trust the release of Knomos to
be a serious contribution to the continued viability of eCS as a client
and/or server platform in the abovementioned environments; and
accordingly thought the news to be of potential interest to this list.
Please note that Knomos being an Open Source product, all requests for
support should be addressed to a professionally-qualified, commercial
service provider, or to other users in the public forums made available
by Sourceforge, and *not* to my firm.
Stefano Sutti, LL.M.
Managing Partner
-------------------------
Studio Legale Sutti
Via Montenapoleone 8
20121 Milan, Italy
Central e-mail: maildeskDESPAM@DESPAMsutti.com
Web http://www.sutti.com
Tel. +39 02 76204.1
Fax +39 02 76204806
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15 Jul 2005 09:41:13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
No specific OS/2 changes in this - but I've refreshed the Sane source
from CVS.
Am kind of hoping the outstanding plustek issues are due to a problem in
the Sane source :)
The following backend source files have changed since the last release,
potentially fixing some of the reported problems:
avision.c
gt68xx.c
gt68xx_devices.c
gt68xx_generic.c
gt68xx_high.c
leo.c
matsushita.c
plustek-usbshading.c
plustek.c
sceptre.c
teco1.c
teco2.c
teco3.c
As always, builds available from http://smedley.info/sane.html
Cheers,
Paul.
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15 Jul 2005 08:41:39
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Trevor Hemsley"
I'm pleased to announce the release of Pronews/2 v1.57
Pronews/2 is a multithreaded NNTP Newsreader program for OS/2.
If you are upgrading from a release prior to 1.54 then you are strongly
urged to backup your existing filter files as the files have a different
on-disk format from 1.54 onwards. Failure to backup files *.FLT in
\pronews and \pronews\headers will mean it will be impossible to use your
filters if you should need to revert to a release prior to 1.54. You
should also read the readme.txt file installed in the \pronews directory
as this covers changes and new features from prior releases as well as
tips for making Pronews/2 quicker.
You can find Pronews/2 1.57 on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming (later
to be ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader ) as
pn2v157.zip.
Download Incoming: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pn2v157.zip Download
final: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2v157.zip
Pronews/2 is shareware and all profits from its sale are donated to the
charity Save the Children.
Pronews/2 v1.57 is a minor bugfix release and only corrects one problem
found in v1.56 where posts made in US-ASCII were missing the charset name
from the charset= parameter in the header of the article.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com
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15 Jul 2005 08:21:18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com
Like always, the OS/2 withdrawl has more publicity on the press than any
OS/2 fixpack or any new release of eComStation.
Here are some links:
IBM Officially Kills OS/2
Slashdot.org
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/07/15/0245221.shtml?tid=136&tid=190
OS/2: dead again
The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/os2_dead_again/
IBM Officially Kills OS/2, Suggests Switch To Linux
OSNews
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11231&offset=45&rows=50&threshold=-1
IBM officially kills OS/2, suggests switch to Linux
The Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24625
I think this will be a good time to sign the Open Source OS/2 petition if
you are still missing
http://www.os2world.com/petition/
Url: http://www.os2world.com
From: Martin Iturbide (martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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14 Jul 2005 15:46:15
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Jan van Wijk"
Hi all,
A short impression of the eComStation developer workshop in Dresden that
was held last weekend can be found at:
http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/mg2
then click the "eCS DevCon Dresden" thumbnail ...
About the only one not in those pictures is me :-)
Regards, JvW
Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com
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14 Jul 2005 07:39:03
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: stellaDESPAM@DESPAMvisual-paradigm.com
Visual Paradigm is pleased to announce that Visual Paradigm for UML 5.0
version has been released which adopts a refreshing new user interface
with numerous tailored modeling and usability guaranteed to satisfy and
impress you.
Visual Paradigm for the Unified Modeling Language (VP-UML) is a
full-featured UML CASE tool supporting real-time bi-directional round-trip
code-model synchronization.
VP-UML supports the latest standards of Java and UML notations so as to
support the full round-trip code generation and code reverse engineering
for Java.
Moreover, VP-UML supports Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and EJB
Development by acting as a bridge between object model, data model and
relational database, and supports the generation and synchronization of
database and code including POJO and EJB to reduce the development time.
WhatÆs new in VP-UML 5.0?
Brand-new Look and Feel - With the Microsoft Office-like look and feel, it
allows you to select one of the cool themes bundled which makes your
VP-UML looks unique, but also re-arrange the frames, toolbars and menu bar
which you are comfortable with. Other look and feels, like Visual Studio
..NET look and feel and Eclipse IDE look and feel are also available.
Enhanced Visual Modeling Features - The visual modeling features are
enhanced by configurable Toolbar and Menu Bar, Full Screen Diagram
Editing, Visual Alignment Guide, Sweeper, Split Control Flow with Branch
and Real-time Layout for Sequence Diagram.
Enhanced Smart Resources - VP-UML provides Resource-Centric interface
enabling the easy creation of UML diagrams by using the valid editing
resources listed around the diagram elements. Smart Resource becomes even
smarter as the resources of similar nature are grouped together to
minimize the number of visible resources simultaneously.
Use Case Details Editor - VP-UML 5.0 provides an all-in-one environment
for use case modeling, including general model specification, multiple use
case description with rich-text editing, sub-diagrams manipulation and
preview.
Enhanced XMI Import/Export to support UML 2.0 - The import and export of
XMI is enhanced to support XMI 1.2, so you can import and export the UML
2.0 compliant model and diagrams to/from VP-UML. EJB Diagram Support - In
order to enhance the capability of EJB Development, EJB diagram is
provided for user to model their EJB systems.
EJB Code Generation and Deployment - VP-UML simplifies the powerful but
complicated EJB development which supports remote and distributed systems
by generating beans based on the EJB model defined by user.
Customizable SQL - VP-UML generates SQL statements which are ready-to-use.
In some cases you may want to customize the SQL statements, VP-UML allows
you to override the generated SQL statements whenever you want to.
Advanced ORM Features - VP-UML promotes mapping one class to multiple
tables which optimizes the size of database and minimizes the number of
generated classes for system implementation.
Other features
Support of Use Case Scheduling
Support of Textual Analysis
Support Model sharing among diagrams
Mouse Gesture
Modeling with Visio stencils
HTML Report Generation
PDF Report Generation
Report Writer
Code Generation
Code Reverse Engineering
Support of Rose Project import
For more detailed information, please visit:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/
Free evaluation is available for 30 days. You can get an evaluation copy
at http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/ and install VP-UML from Visual
Paradigm Suite.
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13 Jul 2005 20:57:35
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Roderick Klein"
They should also replace some of the rotten VIA drivers they have issue's
with interrupt sharing.
http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=gomindis#18
VIA VT6105 Rhine III Another OS/2 NDIS MAC driver 1.01
Driver + Source: vfet3a01.zip 46053B
Vendor ID: 0x1106 - Device ID:0x3106
VIA VT6102 Rhine II Another OS/2 NDIS MAC driver 1.02
Driver + Source: vfet2a02.zip 43865B
Vendor ID: 0x1106 - Device ID:0x3065
VIA VT86C100A Rhine Another OS/2 NDIS MAC driver 1.01
Driver + Source: vfet1a01.zip 42706B
Vendor ID: 0x1106 - Device ID:0x3043
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13 Jul 2005 08:26:57
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've made available an updated version of Sane that should be compatible
with Tame at http://smedley.info/tamesane.zip (approx 1.3mb)
Unfortunately, as there is no documentation on scanners.dat it's a bit
hit and miss adding new scanners to scanners.dat, however this should
work with all USB scanners that previously worked with Tame.
To use this: Unzip into the existing Tame Directory.
Copy appropriate .conf file from tame/conf into the tame directory and
edit if required. (eg epson.conf for an Epson backend scanner,
snapscan.conf for a Snapscan backend scanner, etc)
I've hacked scanners.dat to change all references to usbscan$ to epson so
this should work for users with Epson backend scanners that were
previously supported by Tame.
Note that usbcalls.dll (http://smedley.info/usbcalls.zip) and
libc06b5.dll (http://smedley.info/libc06b5.zip) need to be either in the
libpath or in the same path as scanimage.exe
Also note, if the system traps on scanning, an updated usbresmg.sys is
required (http://smedley.info/usbresmg.zip).
Please let me know if this works for you!
Cheers,
Paul.
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12 Jul 2005 22:37:46
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Brian White
There have been some interesting developments with the extremely capable
German Wordprocessing and database pragram Papyrus.
The last English language version, 8.23, was released in 2000. However,
since then there has been continuisg development of the German language
versions. They are now at version 11.09 for Windows and MAC, and version
10 for TOS and OS/2.
Recently the English pages of their website
announced that the English language Version of Papyrus XI was now
available.
I looked at the secure order page, and since it appeared that the OS/2
version was available, I put in an order.
I have just received the following reply from Michael Kilby, of Papyrus:
"Please accept my apologies for a technical error on my part.
"Ulli Ramps (our CEO) and I are still in the process of deciding whether
or not we will release Papyrus XI for OS/2 (or possibly just version 10 in
English). Because of this, I had removed all references to OS/2 in the
current price list. Unfortunately, I neglected to comment out the matching
lines in the order form.
We appreciate your order, and will keep it on file while we work with our
programmers on a final decision (within the next few weeks). The number
of information requests (and especially confirmed orders) will be an
important factor for our release decision. While there was a large amount
of potential 'interest' in the last OS/2 version we released, the
resulting number of actual orders was very disappointing..."
So, if enough expressions of interest are received, it appears likely that
the OS/2 version will alse be released in English.
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12 Jul 2005 08:44:32
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: IBM iSource
--------------------------------------------------------
Withdrawals
--------------------------------------------------------
_ 905163 Changes in support for IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business (17.8KB)
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=905-163
"Overview
Effective December 31, 2006, IBM will withdraw standard support for the
following products licensed under the IBM International Program License
Agreement. Fee-based service offerings will continue to be available.
These offerings will provide support beyond December 31, 2006, via a
services contract. For information about the extended support offering,
contact your IBM representative.
Program Program Support number
name withdrawal date
5639-A29 OS/2 Warp(R) 4 12/31/06 5639-F93
OS/2 Warp Server for e-business Version 1 12/31/06
In addition, IBM will withdraw from marketing selected OS/2 Warp parts.
Refer to Description for details."
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12 Jul 2005 08:37:17
[Moderator Note: Previous post of this announcment was missing the year
"2006" from the Subject.]
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: IBM iSource
--------------------------------------------------------
Withdrawals
--------------------------------------------------------
_ 905163 Changes in support for IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business (17.8KB)
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=905-163
"Overview
Effective December 31, 2006, IBM will withdraw standard support for the
following products licensed under the IBM International Program License
Agreement. Fee-based service offerings will continue to be available.
These offerings will provide support beyond December 31, 2006, via a
services contract. For information about the extended support offering,
contact your IBM representative.
Program Program Support number
name withdrawal date
5639-A29 OS/2 Warp(R) 4 12/31/06 5639-F93
OS/2 Warp Server for e-business Version 1 12/31/06
In addition, IBM will withdraw from marketing selected OS/2 Warp parts.
Refer to Description for details."
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10 Jul 2005 11:32:28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com
Many OS/2-eCS users knows that we are currently requesting signatures to
ask IBM to open source OS/2 (or at least the OS/2 components that are
possible to be opened).
We are getting close to send the petition, so if you haven't sign yet, go
ahead !!
Read and Sign the petition at:
http://www.os2world.com/petition
Url: http://www.os2world.com/petition
From: Martin Iturbide (martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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