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OS/2 - eComStation News - September, 2006
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2005: August September October November December
Event: Warpstock Europe 2006 News update
SW: What's new with NewView
Net: Updated Unicode API documentation
SW: ACPI v2.12 on eCS BetaZone
SW: Samba 3.0.9 Alpha9
Net: netlabs.org newsletter #17 [NewView, WarpVision, Uniaud, WarpIn,
SW: Stunnel 4.17 released for OS/2
SW: Apache 2.2.3 updated to Beta 3
Event: Warpstock.CZ Starts in 10 Days
Event: Warpstock X Hotel deadline one week away
SW: Firefox 2 Beta 2 milestone
SW: Cameraderie v1.0
SW: Subversion 1.4.0 for OS/2 & eComStation released
SW: Mysql v5.0.24 updated to beta 2
SW: SW: ffmpeg/ffplay updated
Event: SCOUG-Announce: September 2006 SCOUG Meeting
| Event: Warpstock Europe 2006 News update |
2006-09-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Warpstock Europe
It gives the organizers of this years community event great pleasure to
announce that the first speakers have signed up and we have settled the
first couple of presentations. Peter Koller, Christian Hennecke and Dave
Saville were the first to knock at the doors, followed by Andreas
Schnellbacher, Eugene Gorbunoff and fellows from the eCoSoft team. Adrian
Gschwend (netlabs) will be onsite with at least one session and Chuck
McKinnis will even cross the Atlantic to give us the pleasure of two
presentations. More details are available on the event website at
www.warpstock.eu
Yesterday, Team OS/2 Germany also committed its presence at Cologne,
coupled with sessions yet to be announced and - many thanks - various
onsite helpers to ensure a smooth organisation of the event. Team Ruhr,
Team Trier and Team Hamburg will have booths in the user groups room.
The overall "international" character of the event at this very early stage
of planning is already impressive:
So far, we have people coming here from countries like Sweden, Spain, UK,
France, Russia, Ukraina, USA, The Netherlands, Switzerland (and Germany of
course).
We have updated the event website with information about the rooms at the
Youth Hostel, registration information for visitors planning to stay the
youth hostel and travellers by air plane (a minor update about train ticket
machines at the Cologne airport).
Nevertheless, we are still open for suggestions and offerings for sessions.
Use the website contacts page to tell us what you have to say or show to
the community.
And if you ever wondered what certain people look like - the developers of
your favorite piece of software - why not come to Cologne and have chat
with them? Meet fellow warpers in person, get the latest news about the
present and future of the operating systems of your choice, get onsite
trobleshooting for your problems and see that everything is far from being
so-called dead.
By the way:
If you're not tuned much into computers and just need to come to Cologne
because your husband or wife is busy "warping" around at the Youth Hostel,
Cologne offers great shopping, sightseeing and entertainment facilities. :-)
Looking forward to see you in Cologne!
The Warpstock Europe 2006 organisation team
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| SW: What's new with NewView |
2006-09-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Ronald Brill (newviewDESPAM@DESPAMrbri.org)
Maybe someone has already notice that Aaron stop development on NewView.
But the development is not stoped. The project is now hosted on netlabs.
There is also a yahoo group. More details can be found at www.rbri.org.
Url: http://www.rbri.org
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Net: Updated Unicode API documentation |
2006-09-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Alex Taylor (Posted on comp.os.os2.announce)
My OS/2 Unicode API documentation has been updated (September 2nd).
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/os2/toolkits/uls/index.html
There have been many corrections and other improvements made since the
initial release in July; see the website for a complete history.
This release has two major changes worth noting.
* The Unicode Keyboard functions have been added (or rather, restored)
to the API reference.
* I have released an initial draft of a Programming Guide, which
describes the Unicode APIs and how they can be used. This may
be downloaded in INF format; IPF source is included.
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| SW: ACPI v2.12 on eCS BetaZone |
2006-09-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."
Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the
eComStation BetaZone: http://betazone.ecomstation.com
The ACPI beta drivers have been updated on the eComStation BetaZone:
acpi-20060909.zip ACPI for eComStation (Includes... 495 kb 09/09/2006
08:28 pm
ACPI-CA driver WHATSNEW
20060909 (vesion 2.12)
* Added code to support S3 sleep state
* New driver SHARHIRQ.SYS included to improve support of APIC mode.
apm-20060909.zip APM.ADD (Power management for ... 60 kb 09/09/2006
08:24 pm
APM.ADD is a driver of power management via ACPI interface.
acpi-snooper-20060909.zip ACPI snooper (IRQ control, ACP... 14 kb
09/09/2006 08:35 pm
(This zip archive is password protected but you can obtain the password at
http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft )
ACPI snooper allows control IRQ and evaluate ACPI commands on boot:
* Use IRQn instead IRQm in APIC
* Reload DSDT from file
* Set IRQ to link (irq router)
* Evaluate a path
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| SW: Samba 3.0.9 Alpha9 |
2006-09-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
http://samba.netlabs.org/
"Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client set
originaly made for UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and
OS/2 servers or clients."
Samba Server has been updated:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/samba-3.0.9-a9.zip
Bugs should be reported to the XTracker at:
http://xtracker.netlabs.org/index.php?project=22
According to the web site comments about SAMBA Client for OS/2 and eCS
should be posted to the OS/2 newsgroup news://comp.os.os2.beta
6. Changelog
____________
alpha9:
- moved to libc custom build
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| Net: netlabs.org newsletter #17 [NewView, WarpVision, Uniaud, WarpIn, |
2006-09-11
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: News from netlabs.org
This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter
News from netlabs.org:
4. September - 10. September
* NewView
o NewView is now a netlabs project as well.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview
* WarpVision GUI news:
o Fixed freeze in SNAP plugin (thanks to Rudi for tip)
o Fixed settings for Video Out plugins
o Added native VP5/VP6 codecs
o Testing of native WMV3 going on. There are some issues with stability,
so no release possible until it will be fixed and stable.
* Uniaud news:
o Started driver modifications for better/safer handling of
DART<->UNIAUD APIs
* WarpIn Release 1.0.12
o Fixes:
+ Fixed the severely broken package attribute parsing caused by
attempting to fix bug 718 in the previous release. Bugs 836 and 718.
+ "wic -t" used to exit silently if it couldn't read the script file.
o Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
o Netlabs download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-12.exe
o Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/warpin-1-0-12.zip
o Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=warpin-1-0-12
28. August - 3. September
* WarpIn Release 1.0.11
o Lots of small fixes
o Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
o Netlabs download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-11.exe
o Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/warpin-1-0-11.zip
o Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=warpin-1-0-11
* Lucide Beta 3
o Basic printing features were added
o Redraw and scrolling bugs were fixed
o Improved national language support
o Plugins can now be compiled with GCC
o Download at the eComStation Betazone (after Login):
http://www.ecomstation.com
o Bug Reports: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide
o Support Mailing List and Newsgroup: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/
* LIBC Development
o There have been various bug fixes and a few new features added to LibC
o The next release will be 0.6.2, a date for this release is not yet set
o More Details: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/
Thanks for your support!
We can be reached at: newsdaDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
Greetings,
netlabs.org team
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| SW: Stunnel 4.17 released for OS/2 |
2006-09-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Following on from the recent source release of Stunnel 4.17, I've uploaded
an OS/2 binary to http://smedley.info/os2ports
From the original announcement:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [stunnel-announce] Stunnel 4.17 released
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:14:50 +0200
From: Michal Trojnara
This is a bugfix release. Upgrade is recommended.
Version 4.17, 2006.09.10, urgency: MEDIUM:
* New features
- Win32 DLLs for OpenSSL 0.9.8c.
* Bugfixes
- Problem with detecting getaddrinfo() in ./configure fixed.
- Compilation problem due to misplaced #endif in ssl.c fixed.
- Duplicate 220 in smtp_server() function in protocol.c fixed.
- Minor os2.mak update.
- Minor update of safestring()/safename() macros.
sha1sum for stunnel-4.17.tar.gz file:
7a0ea800935e798bf938756000b57d002a99c280
Homepage and download: http://stunnel.mirt.net/
Best regards,
Mike
------ end Original message --------
Cheers,
Paul.
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| SW: Apache 2.2.3 updated to Beta 3 |
2006-09-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I just uploaded beta 3 of Apache2 v2.2.3 to my site at
http://smedley.info/os2ports
New in this release is:
- really, REALLY fixed the problems with modphp
- various APR (Apache Portable Runtime) fixes
Please send general feedback to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, or submit
bug reports via my bug tracker at http://mantis.smedley.info
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Paul.
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| Event: Warpstock.CZ Starts in 10 Days |
2006-09-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Jarda Kacer (jardaDESPAM@DESPAMkacer.biz)
Czech Warpstock 2006, a local OS/2-related conference and user group
meeting, starts in 10 days! The event will take place in Decin in the North
of the Czech Republic, next to German and Polish border, in premises of the
Faculty of Nuclear Engineering of CVUT.
URL: http://www.os2.cz/warpstock2006/
There is no registration fee. You an even come without the registration.
Everybody is welcome!
Please contact the organizers if you need accommodation or more information.
Url: http://www.os2.cz/warpstock2006
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Event: Warpstock X Hotel deadline one week away |
2006-09-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
Warpstock 2006 is rapidly approaching.
7 days to reserve your hotel accommodation.
We have a cutoff date coming up soon.
The hotel has agreed to hold our room block until September 20th, 2006 at
the special conference rate of $115 CAD (Canadian dollars).
After that date, any unbooked rooms will be released for general sale.
All requests received after this date will be handled on a space and rate
availability basis.
This could leave you paying a much higher rate for the same room.
Warpstock needs to meet a certain number of room nights or we will be
forced to pay a penalty.
By booking your room through Warpstock, you help keep the costs of
Warpstock manageable.
General Warpstock location information:
http://www.warpstock.org/staticpages/index.php?page=ws2006_location
including link to:
http://www.allisonstravel.on.ca/warpstock.html#hotelreg
where hotel reservations are being done.
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| SW: Firefox 2 Beta 2 milestone |
2006-09-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Warpzilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
September 13, 2006 Firefox 2 Beta 2 milestone has been released.
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/08/31/firefox-2-beta-2-milestone-released/
Zipfile:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b2/contrib/firefox-2.0b2.en-US.os2.zip
Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html
Requires a libc0.5.1 based version of the GCC runtime library.
http://www.innotek.de/products/gccos2/download/gccos2download_e.html
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
* A new theme that updates Firefox’s familiar interface
* Built in Phishing Protection
* Enhanced search engine management and search suggestions for Google,
Yahoo! and Answers.com
* Improvements to tabbed browsing, including the ability to re-open
recently closed tabs
* Firefox will resume from where you left off after a system crash or
browser restart
* Better support for previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
* Inline spell checking in Web forms
* The ability to create bookmarks with “Live Titles” for Web sites
that offer microsummaries
* New Add-ons manager that simplifies management of extensions and themes.
* Support for JavaScript 1.7
* Extended search plugin format
* Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to
allow for easier localization of extensions
* Support for client-side session and persistent storage
* Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
If you have questions, or just want the latest, greatest tips for Firefox,
Thunderbird, & Mozilla (Seamonkey), Steve Wendt's excellent "Tips For
Warpzilla" page can be found here: http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
For Firefox "Tips & Tricks", see: http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_6.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/mozilla.dev.ports.os2
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| SW: Cameraderie v1.0 |
2006-09-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: richDESPAM@DESPAMe-vertise.com
Cameraderie is a GUI downloader for your PTP-based digital camera (e.g.
Canon, Kodak, etc). With Cameraderie, it's easy to organize your photos
while they're still on your camera and fresh in your mind. Thanks to its
Groups feature, renaming a photo and saving it into a directory with
similar pictures requires little more than the click of a button.
While Cameraderie offers features that should make saving your photos easy,
it doesn't require you to use any of them. Similarly, it offers a lot of
info about each picture, but doesn't force you to view any of it. You can
hide columns which don't interest you and rearrange the ones you want to see.
Cameraderie supports cameras that use PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) and
connect via USB (v1.1 & v2.0). It can be used in English or German (thanks
to Franz Bakan), and is easy to translate into other languages - no
toolkits or technical skills required. Cameraderie is open-source and is
released under the Mozilla Public License.
You can get Cameraderie from hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=camera10.zip
or directly from my site:
http://e-vertise.com/misc/camera10.zip
You can also obtain the source code from:
http://e-vertise.com/misc/camera10-src.zip
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| SW: Subversion 1.4.0 for OS/2 & eComStation released |
2006-09-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've just uploaded Subversion 1.4.0 beta 1 for OS/2 & eComStation to
http://smedley.info/os2ports
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system
that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The
software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.
What's New in Subversion 1.4
* svnsync, a new repository mirroring tool
* Huge working-copy performance improvements
* Support for BerkeleyDB 4.4 and its "auto recovery" feature
* Size improvements to the binary delta algorithm
* A handful of new command switches
* Many improved APIs
* More than 40 new bugfixes
If you want to help support continued ports of software to OS/2 &
eComStation, please consider donating via the Paypal link in the footer at
http://smedley.info/os2ports; or via the Mensys online store at
http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
14th September, 2006
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| SW: Mysql v5.0.24 updated to beta 2 |
2006-09-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've just uploaded Mysql 5.0.24 for OS/2 & eComStation beta 2 to
http://smedley.info/os2ports
No changes have been made to the server executables, however the following
fixes are included:
1) Updated client executables that fix a problem with the echoing of
keyboard input (Also available as a separate download to save bandwitch)
2) Fixed mysql_install_db script (+ instructions on how to use in
readme.os2) thanks to Steven Levine
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link in the footer at
http://smedley.info/os2ports or via the Mensys online store at
http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
14th September, 2006
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| SW: SW: ffmpeg/ffplay updated |
2006-09-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've just uploaded fresh version of ffmpeg/ffplay to
http://smedley.info/os2ports
FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and
video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.
FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating
systems, including Windows.
The project is made of several components:
* ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another.
* ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and on the FFmpeg libraries.
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports,
or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
General feedback should be sent to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bugs can
be reported via http://mantis.smedley.info
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
14th September, 2006
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| Event: SCOUG-Announce: September 2006 SCOUG Meeting |
2006-09-15
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Steven Levine"
This was going to be the SCOUG is 13 party, but it looks like a lots of
folks will not be able to make the meeting. Let's make the party happen
next month. Plan ahead.
This month we are going to have a lite and lively meeting.
First will be another of our Saturday Live Help Desks. If you have a
system with a problem, bring it in. We will try to fix it. If you have
questions, bring them it too. We might have answers.
If there's time we might squeeze in another of those famous surprise demos.
Bob Blair is going to finish up the meeting with with next installment of
his "Introduction to PM Programming" tutorial.
See you there.
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