VOICE Homepage: http://de.os2voice.org

März 2003 [Inhaltsverzeichnis] [Vorherige Seite] [Nächste Seite] [News-Verzeichnis] submit@os2voice.org

News Seite 5

Lucent Modem driver package

Hello,

The Thinkpad T20 family modem had been updated.

T20 Lucent Modem Support Package
Last Updated on: 02/25/2003 08:04 AM

Driver Information

The T20 Lucent Modem driver package provides support for the Lucent V.90 PCI modem on the OS/2 Operating System.

You need to have IBM Software Choice paid subscrition to download the driver: http://www7.software.ibm.com/2 bcprod.nsf/...

or you can get it from the eComStation site:
http://www.ecomstation.com/ecsdb/customermain.phtml

WarpVision GUI update

27.02.2003

 Added DVD Audio switch "on fly" (R) (not sure about switching different audio types: AC3->MP3 for example...this should cause 3175)
 Added DVD Subtitle swith "on fly" (R)
 Fixed restoring ONTOP status

26.02.2003

 Fixed freeze while open/close cd tray
 DVD title autodetection reworked
 Fixed calculation of DVD title's time
 Fixed antistop on DVD
 Fixed 3175 when stop while pause

25.02.2003

 Added MP2 audio files support
 Added playing of DVD-rips. You must have video_ts.ifo within dvd-rip directory on HDD
 Fixed green stripe on right side when postprocess is on
 Fixed OGG size calc
 Fixed wrong behavior on some AVI's with mp3 audio (slowdown at beginning, fast play after seeks etc)
 Fixed Fullscreen<->Window flip from pipe
 Fixed cutting end of running text
 All keys for Movie window now works in Control window

Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/

http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20030227.zip

Pillarsoft News

I am relocating as of today (Thursday Feb 27) and will be unable to make keys for new software registrations untill the second week of March. I will have connectivity in our new home in the western US as of Monday but will be spending a week in Phoenix before we settle in LV and get our systems up and running.

I will check in as often as possible in the meantime. Thank you all for your patience support.

Wayne Swanson
PillarSoft

Some more changes at consultron.c

I've rejigged my news feeder programs again. They're now running every fifteen minutes, at a higher priority, and I've also boosted the priority of the news server itself. I'd appreciate it if people would test the news.consultron.ca news server and let me know if they are experiencing better performance. Please let me know by posting in

news://news.consultron.ca/consultron.discussion

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Jack

WarpOverlay fix

This is not an official new release. The file is on the authors testcase server. If you have problems with WO you maybe want to give it a try.

http://www.logicsystems.ru/elf/data/WO/WO_FIX.ZIP

WarpOverlay web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/overlay.php

[Note: If it isn't broke, don't fix it. There is a readme file (WOVERLAY.NEW) in the package that includes installation directions and a change log. WarpOverlay requires Scitech SDD or SNAP display driver. WarpOverlay is shareware.]

WarpVision CLI 20030224

WarpVision CLI has been updated:

Program URL: http://www.os2.kiev.ua/

http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvcli/wvcli20030224.zip

Changelog:

wvision-cli 0.0.14p ( Mon Feb 24 15:20:57 2003 UTC )
- libdvdread 0.9.4
- unencrypted disks without dvdcss.dll playback fixed
- unencrypted DVD harddisk copy playback (see README for details )

Please participate in survey on operating systems

Dear visitor,

Do you still use OS/2, IBM's operating system? Maybe you've heard of eComStation, a new distribution of OS/2. I'm a student and currently writing an essay (for educational purposes only) on the market potential of eComStation. I need to gather some information to be able to make an estimation of the market potential. I'd like to ask you to help me gather that information.

I've drawn up a survey containing 12 questions concerning the operating system(s) in your organisation or home situation. Would you be so kind to participate in the survey? You can fill it out online; this will take you 10 minutes at the most. Every proper submitter will receive -if desired- a demo CD of eComStation 1.1 representing a value of $6. Of course it is also possible to submit the survey anonymously.

So, whether you're a professional or home user: go to the survey!

http://www.ecssurvey.tk/

On this site you can find more information on the background of the survey, my education and me.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Yours sincerely,
Borre Benjamins

borre@benjaminz.org

Sophos AntiVirus

I was surfing the web today for information about a Virus I found on a client's computer and discovered a company that has AntiVirus software for OS/2 that I was not previously aware of. Sophos AntiVirus has a GUI and CLI version, both of which are downloadable from the company website (information registration required). The latest version is 3.67 and is dated March 2003, so they seem to be rather up to date. Thought my fellow OS/2 users might be interested in checking it out.

URL: http://www.sophos.com/products/software/antivirus/savos2.html

IFS based RAMDISK for OS/2 version 1.07

Public domain virtual filesystem driver with performance optimizations.

Program URL: http://karl.myip.org/ramfs.htm

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ramfs107.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ramfs107.zip

Weasel version 1.63 released

The Weasel mail server has now been upgraded to version 1.63. You can get it from
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/Weasel.html
or
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/Weasel/weasel163.zip

This is a relatively minor update to consolidate some changes following the large changes of version 1.62, and to confirm that SMTP AUTH has been tested.

LIST OF CHANGES

Version 1.63
Don't automatically create a 'postmaster' account if there is an alias, possibly wild, that will handle 'postmaster' mail.
Fixed: crash when loading complicated set of aliases, a crash that appears to be caused by an OS/2 Prf API bug.
Increased the "listen" queue length to 5.
Removed the "routing loop?" from the "no relay path to destination" error message, because there are too many cases where this is a temporary loss of connection rather than a routing loop.
For outgoing mail, increased the timeout on the initial connection attempt from 75 to 150 seconds. This is to accommodate the deteriorating network performance now that so many ISPs are replacing their fast Unix mail servers by slow Windows servers.

OS/2 Wireless Users mailing list

I've set up an open mailing list on my server for discussion of wireless connectivity under OS/2. Topics of discussion include wireless networking (802.11x, IrDA, Bluetooth, etc.) and related networking protocols & technologies (TCP/IP, IPX, routing, etc.) in an OS/2 environment (or connectivity between OS/2 and other operating systems).

To subscribe to the list, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command

"subscribe os2-wireless_users"

in the body (omit the quotes).

Sslurp! 2.66 Web Mirroring tool released

Version 2.66 of Sslurp! has been released and is available for download from ttp://www.nefkom.net/miho/sslurp/

This version adds support for IFRAME

Also changed audio notifications and handling of HTML comments.

The author (mailto: "Michael Hohner" ) describes his product as follows:

Sslurp! 2.66 WWW mirroring tool;
retrieves Web pages from a HTTP (WWW)
server; can be configured to follow
all hyperlinks leading to other pages
(configurable); images and Java applets
can be retrieved as well; retrieved
data is stored on disk for later
viewing; needs HPFS; Proxy support;
support for user authentication;
automated (command line) mode; PM
application;
!! Now with internal filtering proxy !!

Sslurp! is Freeware, i.e. you can use and distribute it for free. However, you may not sell or rent it! Sslurp! is still copyrighted software.

Sslurp! can also act as a filtering proxy.

USB Scanners for Tame 0.96

Tame 0.96 will be a PM-Frontend for Sane, it is currently as Release Candidate at our beta testers. It will be officially available as soon

We got the confirmation from our testers and the NLS-files (it will be available in english, german, japanese, russian and swedish).

As there will be a Tame USB version too containing Sane Epson USB (relying on latest sane 1.0.11 build, unfortunately with the bugs in there too, by Maeda Haruyuki) it would be nice to have as many as possible Epson USB Scanners supported out of the box.

If anybody has one of the following scanners please drop me a note staedtler-przyborski@web.de (please _don't_ ask for others, you are only increasing our workload and will get no reply), so I can send you a sane USB build for testing your scanner and getting the scanner-specific settings into Tame.

> EPSON USB-Scanner Product ID
> 0x101, /* Perfection 636U and 636Photo. Not tested.
> 0x103, /* Perfection 610. Not tested.
> 0x10c, /* Perfection 640U. Not tested.
> 0x104, /* Perfection 1200U and 1200Photo. Not tested.
> 0x10b, /* Perfection 1240U. Not tested.
> 0x106, /* Stylus Scan 2500. Not tested.
> 0x107, /* Expression 1600. Not tested.
> 0x10e, /* Expression 1680. Not tested.
> 0x110, /* Perfection 1650. Not tested.
> 0x11b, /* Perfection 2400 Photo. Not tested.
> 0x11c, /* Perfection 3200(GT-9800) Not tested.
> 0x11e, /* Perfection 1660 Photo. Not tested.
> 0x801, /* CX-5200 Not Tested.
> 0x802, /* CX-3200 Not Tested.


The following scanners are tested and working:
> 0x10a, /* Perfection 1640SU and 1640SU Photo
> 0x112, /* Perfection 2450(GT-9700F)

MMAudio Pak 1

MMIOMP3 has been renamed to MMAudio Pak.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMAudioPak/

Most notable changes are seeking is enabled for FLAC files, and one can specify the bitrate for encoding Ogg Vorbis files.

Let me know if I broke anything.

vCDROM and new vCOMPAT released!

Hi!

VDDs are virtual device drivers for the operating system OS/2 / eComStation. They emulate or restrict access to hardware. They can also add APIs, fix problems or do almost anything in VDMs (Virtual DOS Machines).

Just released a vCDROM replacement that has the full functionality of the original one by IBM, but - It includes all the fixes from vCOMPAT
- It won't trap on some special pointers sent by the VDM application
- Checking input/output buffers for segment overflows
- If a VDM application locks a CD-drive and the session is closed afterwards, the CD-drive is automatically unlocked
- Workaround for OS2CDROM/CD-ROM IFS bug, that doesnt allow getting handles for a drive, if no CD is inserted
- Workaround for a buffer-overflow problem, when using a special FSCTL on CD-ROM drives. - 100% rebuild, 95% assembly
- Larger than the original version, because I didn't do pseudo-optimizations (like the original one) that also were responsible for the ring-0 traps due mishandling of pointers.

New vCOMPAT v0.32b contains the following changes:
- Another CD-ROM specific inaccuracy in VDM. Thanx to Max Alekseyev for pointing this out (This bug is actually just worked around, it's 100% fixed in my new vCDROM resulting in one device header per CD-ROM drive)
- Support for vCDROM replacement (disabling of CD-ROM related patches, which will safe realmode-memory) - Reworked the realmode injector, uses VDD-space and much less V86 memory now

Downloadable from: http://ecomstation.ru/kiewitzsoft/vdd-vcdrom.php
and http://en.ecomstation.ru/kiewitzsoft/vdd-vcompat.php

Source is also available, but only for people that are really interested in. But I won't give out the source for people trying to fix the braindead VDM from Windoze eXPeriment. Thank you.

[News-Verzeichnis]
submit@os2voice.org
[Vorherige Seite] [Inhaltsverzeichnis] [Nächste Seite]
VOICE Homepage: http://de.os2voice.org