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OS/2 - eComStation News - January, 2006
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Event: K-W OS/2 Users Group January 2006 Meeting
Event: Warpstock 2006 Announcement
SW: ACPI 2.0.4 on eCS Betazone
SW: PHP 5.1.1 for OS/2 & eComStation Beta 3
SW: OpenLDAP for OS/2 & eComStation updated to v2.3.17
SW: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Has Been Released !!
SW: Net: Week of networked storage devices
SW: PHP v5.1.2 for OS/2 & eComstation - Beta 1
SW: pmm_tbird (PMMail to Thunderbird migration utility) updated
SW: BACK_ME 1.01
| Event: K-W OS/2 Users Group January 2006 Meeting |
2006-01-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From:walter.os2DESPAM@DESPAMrogers.com
KW/2
K-W OS/2 Users Group
Serving Kitchener-Waterloo and south-western Ontario area
OS/2 and eComstation Users
January 2006 Meeting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DATE: Tuesday, January 10, 2006
TIME: From 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Room DC1316, Davis Centre, University of Waterloo
Meeting facilities provided courtesy of Institute for Computer Research.
Everyone is Welcome to Attend!
Topic Under Development
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Topics of discussion for this monthly meeting are still under
development.
OS/2 User Forum
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Sharing OS/2 Ideas)(Bring Your Questions)
(What's New with OS/2)(Announcements)
As a courtesy to our presenter, please plan to arrive by 7:00 p.m.
For up-to-date information check our homepage at:
http://www.sentex.net/kwos2cug/
For directions to get to the meeting check:
http://www.sentex.net/kwos2cug/directon.html
Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
*****************************************
Walter F. Metcalf
VOICE Vice-President
Warpdoctor Co-ordinator
walter dot os2 at rogers dot com
*****************************************
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| Event: Warpstock 2006 Announcement |
2006-01-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
The wait is over!
It gives the Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc. great pleasure to
announce the tenth edition of the annual Warpstock event. The location
selected for 2006 is Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We will gather for 4
days (October 12th to the 15th) at the Holiday Inn Select Hotel for
this year's edition of Warpstock.
We will have much more information about the Windsor area and the
event itself on the Warpstock web site [ http://www.warpstock.org ]
soon. Watch this site for further information about the event and make
your preparations to meet your colleagues and friends this October at
Warpstock 2006.
We also offer the Warpstock eNewsletter mailing list where you can get
more detailed 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
subscribe wsenews myemail.address
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Haven't been to Warpstock before? Come and learn more about your
favorite operating system, how to use it, and where it's going from here.
Remember: Mark your calendar for Warpstock 2006 -- October 12 to 15,
2006 and make your plans to join us in Windsor.
Have you been to Warpstock yet?
1. Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California
2. Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois
3. Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia
4. Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5. Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6. Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas
7. Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California
8. Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado
9. Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania
10. Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada
The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of 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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| SW: ACPI 2.0.4 on eCS Betazone |
2006-01-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: eugenegorbunoffDESPAM@DESPAMmail.ru
ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI
replaces Plug and Pray, MultiProcessor specification and APM)
The purpose of the ACPI driver is provide ACPI interface to applied
developers. ACPI project consists of:
* ACPI-CA driver
* Toolkit for developers of drivers and applications
* Utilities, widgets, monitors, etc
Attention! Installation procedure changed. Put basedev=acpica.add line
to the top of CONFIG.SYS
Whatsnew:
* Added support of embedded controllers (now you can watch notebook
batteries)
* Reset to PIC mode on reboot
* Optimized SMP-related code in psd
* Cleaning code
* Added some code for C2/C3 state
Additional information:
* ACPI driver is a product of netlabs.org
* You can get ACPI from http://betazone.ecomstation.nl
[Moderator note: This never works for me. I have to login at
http://shop.mensys.nl/indexuk.html and go through "Your Downloads"
next "Software Subscription Services for eComStation 1.2 " then
"Access eComStation BetaZone".]
* Let's collect ACPI tools here: http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools
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| SW: PHP 5.1.1 for OS/2 & eComStation Beta 3 |
2006-01-11
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
PHP5 OS/2 port - v5.1.1 - beta 3
This is a quick port of PHP v5.1.1 to OS/2. Currently only the cgi &
cli versions of PHP are included. I do not yet have Apache modules.
This is built with Innotek GCC v3.3.5 and requires libc06.dll
(available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.0-ga2.zip).
This has not been extensively tested, but has been running on
smedley.info with Apache2 2.2.0 (also built with libc06) for the last
month or so. Whilst there is no apache module, running the cgi
php.exe with a shared php5.dll does not result in any significant
performance deterioration (IMHO).
Patches for thread support and detection of php.ini in c:\mptn\etc
have been included in the executable largely based on Brian Havard's
patched for PHP 4.3.1
I have included support for some external databases - dbase &
pdo_mysql are loadable as shared modules. Now that I've nutted out
how to do this, other databases will be added as time permits, with
those that people request to be given priority.
As always, any feedback to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info is
appreciated. It's really nice to hear of people using my ports!
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
11th January, 2006
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| SW: OpenLDAP for OS/2 & eComStation updated to v2.3.17 |
2006-01-12
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
Now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
I tried (and failed dismally!) to find a succinct description of what
OpenLDAP is and does, but some information on LDAP is available from
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/3.html
From the readme.os2 file:
Openldap v2.3.17 compiled for OS/2 & eComStation with Innotek GCC
v3.3.5 GA version.
Requires libc06.dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.0-ga2.zip
**This has only had very limited testing so all feedback to
paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info is appreciated**
Note: Under unix, symbolic links of slapd are made in ./sbin to create
the various slapd utilities (ie slapadd, slapcat, slapdn, slapindex,
slappasswd, slaptest, slapauth, slapacl). As we don't have symbolic
links, I haven't included the slapd utilities, but have included a
script 'makeutils.cmd' in \openldap to make the necessary copies of
slapd.exe with the appropriate names.
Known issues:
- only supported database type in slapd.conf is ldbm - bdb will not work.
- slapd utils in .\openldap\sbin are large - future release is planned
to use a dll to reduce package size
- no threading support due to lack of full pthreads implementation for
libc.
Sample configuration:
A sample slapd.conf and example.ldif file to create an LDAP database
are included in the ./examples directory
Extensive (although not necessarily easy to understand!!!)
documentation is available online at http://www.openldap.org.
To create a database, modify slapd.conf and example.ldif to suit your
organisation.
To load the data in example.ldif into a database, run slapadd -l
example.ldif No output means the data has been correctly imported.
Then run slapd, and try a search using ldapsearch - ie ldapsearch -L
-b "o=smedley, dc=info" "(sn=smedley)" - which will show all entried
with sn=smedley
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
12th January, 2006.
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| SW: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Has Been Released !! |
2006-01-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: 2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 for OS/2 & eCS has been released. As was the
case with Firefox, Thunderbird 1.5 is an immense improvement over it's
1.0.x predecessor. Aside from improvements to stability, the
following is a partial listing of features that differentiate the new
Thunderbird.
New features since Thunderbird 1.0.x include:
* Spell check as you type.
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
* Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
* Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
* Deleting attachments from messages.
* Integration with server side spam filtering.
* Reply and forward actions for message filters.
* Kerberos Authentication.
* Auto save as draft for mail composition.
* Support for saved search folders that can search across multiple
accounts. * Support for message threads for single folder saved search
folders. * Improvements to product usability including redesigned options
UI, search and filter UI, and SMTP server management. * Filters for Global
Inbox.
* Many security enhancements
You can download it here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5/contrib/thunderbird-1.5.en-US.os2.zip
NOTE: This release requires 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
Thunderbird extensions (add-ons) that add new functionality are
available here:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird
Thunderbird themes (skins) are available here:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/?application=thunderbird
A utility to migrate mail from PMMail to Thunderbird is available here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm_tbird.zip
For more information on the Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
For a list of what's new in this release:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5.html
Tips and tricks for Thunderbird can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips
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 Nyman
-- -----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"<2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
-----------------------------------------------------------
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
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| SW: Net: Week of networked storage devices |
2006-01-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: eugenegorbunoffDESPAM@DESPAMmail.ru
The fourth week of 2006 is dedicated to collection of info about
compatible/non-compatible networked storage devices. Our database
contains 1 record only
(http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=disk)
Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new
reports using the web-form (http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new)
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| SW: PHP v5.1.2 for OS/2 & eComstation - Beta 1 |
2006-01-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
As per the subject - now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
From www.php.net - What is PHP?
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
From readme.os2:
PHP5 OS/2 port - v5.1.2 - beta 1
This is a quick port of PHP v5.1.2 to OS/2. Currently only the cgi &
cli versions of PHP are included. I do not yet have Apache modules.
This is built with Innotek GCC v3.3.5 and requires libc06.dll
(available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.0-ga2.zip).
This has not been extensively tested, but has been running on
smedley.info with Apache2 2.2.0 (also built with libc06) for the last
month or so. Whilst there is no apache module, running the cgi
php.exe with a shared php5.dll does not result in any significant
performance deterioration (IMHO).
Patches for thread support and detection of php.ini in c:\mptn\etc
have been included in the executable largely based on Brian Havard's
patched for PHP 4.3.1
I have included support for some external modules - curl, dbase, gd,
gettext, mbstring & pdo_mysql are loadable as shared modules. Now
that I've nutted out how to do this, other databases will be added as
time permits, with those that people request to be given priority.
Note that for some reason, the sue of pdo_mysql seems to also required
libc06b2.dll which is available from
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/libc06b2.zip
PHP 5.1.2 has problems detecting the timezone in OS/2 - to workaround
this, and set the default in your php.ini you need to add
date.timezone simular to what is shown below in context. You can get
the timezones supported in the php.ini from :
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
date.timezone = Australia/Adelaide
As always, any feedback to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info is
appreciated. It's really nice to hear of people using my ports!
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
14th January, 2006
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| SW: pmm_tbird (PMMail to Thunderbird migration utility) updated |
2006-01-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Moylan
The announcement of the Thunderbird 1.5 release on this list included
the pointer:
> A utility to migrate mail from PMMail to Thunderbird is available
> here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm_tbird.zip
Note that I have just placed an update to this utility in Hobbes
incoming. If you follow the above pointer and see a 2005 date, fetch
pmm_tbird.zip from the "incoming" directory instead. The new version
fixes a problem in migrating address book entries containing commas.
Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmm_tbird.zip
Search: HTTP://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmm_tbird
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| SW: BACK_ME 1.01 |
2006-01-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Don Hawkinson"
I have posted BACK_ME 1.01 on my web site, the URL is at the end of this
message. This time I did try the URL to verify that it is valid.
Back_ME is a way to make a quick backup of a file that is often changed.
There is a PM and a command line version of the program
For a longer description of BACK_ME see:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/back_me.htm
New in version 1.01
The command line version will accept multiple files on the command line,
but does not support wildcard expansion.
For example:
back_me file1 file2 file3
The command line version will accept file names via redirection.
For example:
dir /b * | back_me
or
dir /b >filelist
back_me
will back up all the files in the current directory.
The file back_me.zip may be downloaded using the following link:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/back_me.zip
Unzip it and execute install.cmd to install BACK_ME.
The install.cmd file does not modify any of the system files, it only
creates two program objects on the desktop.
Don Hawkinson , author of CCA, DH-Grep-PM,
PMStripper, Pastry Box, DH_ClipSave/2,
DJPrint, and TextHelper
http://www.dwhawkinson.com
dwhawkdDESPAM@DESPAMintcon.net
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http://www.warpstock.org
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