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OS/2 - eComStation News - October, 2007
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Event: Warpstock Social Outing Deadline
Net: netlabs.org newsletter #45 [ACPI, eCups, FM/2, FAT32, kBuild,
Event: Warpstock Hotel Deadline
SW: Uniaud 1.2 .0beta1 *** Experimental release. ***
Net: Week of Network Access Storage devices
SW: DFSee 9.02 released today
event: Half-day Maul Publisher workshop at Warpstock Europe
Net: Most popular applications for eComStation
Net: eComStation FAQs
SW: whois v4.7.23 - Command line WHOIS client.
SW: ACPI 3.03, suspend/resume, QuadCore
Net: Sad news from Sundial
| Event: Warpstock Social Outing Deadline |
2007-10-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
The Social Outing at Warpstock 2007 is at Stage West Dinner Theatre.
Warpstock has a deadline of October 14, 2007 to confirm the number of
tickets that we need.
If you wish to attend this outine, please get your tickets reserved before
October 14th.
This can be done by going to the registration page and reserving your tickets.
Once we reach the cutoff date and we confirm the total number of tickets
needed, we may not be able to get additional tickets. At that time, any
unrequested tickets from our current reserved block will be released for
general sale by Stage West.
Further details can be found on Fact Sheet 4.
http://www.warpstock.org/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=18
Warpstock Corporation is a Virginia 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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| Net: netlabs.org newsletter #45 [ACPI, eCups, FM/2, FAT32, kBuild, |
2007-10-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Netlabs News
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:
1. October - 8. October
* ACPI
o Lots of updates!
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* eCups
o Updated
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline
* FAT32
o Some updates, including speed improvements
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32/timeline
* FM/2
o Ongoing work on large file support
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
o Another stream of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLibC
o Various Darwin updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* netlabs
o Various updates and some tests on the website
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/netlabs/timeline
* QT3
o One update
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
* Samba
o Ongoing updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
* SWT
o Some progress
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt/timeline
* UniAud
o Some driver problems found
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* WPS Wizard
o Minor updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard/timeline
* WSE Events
o Lots of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wse_events/timeline
o See: warpstock.eu
24. September - 30. September
* ACPI
o Lot of defects closed
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* eCUPS
o Small updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline
* FAT32
o One update
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32/timeline
* FM/2
o Various updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
o Loads of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLibC
o Fixed some unwinding
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* netlabs website
o Some fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/netlabs/timeline
* NewView
o Cleanup and some additions, like the -i option
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* Samba
o Quite a lot of progress
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
* SWT
o Something started :-)
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt/timeline
* UniAud
o Minor updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* Voyager NOM
o Some updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline
* WSE Events
o Various updates, including initial scheme
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wse_events/timeline
o See: warpstock.eu
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: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
Greetings,
netlabs.org team
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| Event: Warpstock Hotel Deadline |
2007-10-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
The hotel room block deadline is rapidly approaching. October 14 is the
cutoff date for holding the room block at Valhalla Inn. After this date
the rooms that have been reserved for Warpstock will be released and no
longer guaranteed that space will be available.
Also approaching is the deadline for mail-in registrations - Oct. 31.
Further details can be found in Fact Sheet 8 - Warpstock 2007 Timeline at:
http://www.warpstock.org/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=18
Other available fact sheets:
Fact Sheet 1 - Location
Fact Sheet 2 - Getting to Warpstock 2007
Fact Sheet 3 - Registration
Fact Sheet 4 - Social Outing
Fact Sheet 5 - Official Merchandise
Fact Sheet 6 - What's Happening
Warpstock Corporation is a Virginia 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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| SW: Uniaud 1.2 .0beta1 *** Experimental release. *** |
2007-10-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"the Universal Audio Driver for eCS and OS/2."
UNIAUD32 1.2.0beta1 aka "ReSync 0.9.5"
This is an experimental test release of a Resync of ALSA 0.9.5 in UniAud.
It is only the uniaud32.sys driver. You must already have a recent UniAud
release installed to use this. Though I found this release works fine on
my Thinkpad T42p, please heed the warning below.
"WARNING
These 1.2.0 beta releases should be treated with the caution due to any
experimental/unstable software. They should not be used on a production
system without proper system backups. Always keep a bootable CD handy for
reverting to a more stable release of Uniaud32.sys in case this one should
trap."
Web site: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/
Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/experimental/Uni32ReSync-0.9.5.zip
A news group for users is at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.uniaud.general
A mail list for users can be subscribed to with an email to
uniaud-user-subscribe@netlabs.org
Problem reports can be made (login required) and existing ones viewed at
http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/report
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| Net: Week of Network Access Storage devices |
2007-10-11
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
The forty first week of 2007 is dedicated to collection of info about
compatible/non-compatible Network Access Storage devices (NAS). Our
database contains 3 records 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: DFSee 9.02 released today |
2007-10-11
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Jan van Wijk
DFSee version 9.02 has been released today
It fixes a few rather minor bugs, and adds a menu item to clear the unused
sectors in the first track of a disk. More important for me, it can now
generate static-HTML documentation for its menu-system :-)
Although not all screen-shots have been added yet, you can download the
results from the DFSee website:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsmenu-html.zip
DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS JFS, and NTFS, resizing
and smart imaging or cloning.
More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/
Direct download links from the DFSee website:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee902.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee902.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee902_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee902_dsk.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_iso.zip
Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee902.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 9.01:
- ABOUT Updated registration key text for temporary keys
- CLEANUP Add reset ACTIVE flag for logicals, rework code
- CREATE Fix type freespace on create log between primaries
- FIXBOOT Fixed missing bytes for FAT32 with Win9x bootcode
- FSTYPE 0x27 for IFShidden, like VISTA pre-install image
- MBR Added Windows Vista MBR recognition for display
- MENU Add 'wipe first disk track' (except MBR/LVM sectors)
- MENU Disable Bootmanager items if BMGR is not present
- MENU2HTML -h option generates static HTML pages, not PHP
- NTFS next-lsn preserved on auto-display related MFT
- OUTPUT Added 'underscore' separator line after each command
- PART -xml added 'beyondenddisk' warning property to XML
- SWITCH -skipfs:fs startup switch, skips Fs on partition listing
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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| event: Half-day Maul Publisher workshop at Warpstock Europe |
2007-10-12
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Christian Hennecke
Peter Koller is going to hold a half-day workshop for the Maul Desktop
Publisher at Warpstock Europe.
This workshop is designed to show how to set up Maul Publisher to create
documents on the eCS platform. The topics covered will include installation
of accompanying tools, setup of pages, creating cliparts, codepages, as
well as scanning and image manipulation.
The idea is that people bring their own laptop, and ask real-world questions.
For more information please see the Presentations page at:
http://www.warpstock.eu/en/agenda/presentations.html
The eighth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the Stayokay Hostel
in Valkenswaard close to Eindhoven, the Netherlands from November 2 to 4.
Warpstock is an annual conference for the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems and related technology. It is dedicated to information, education,
support, and exchange and addresses users, developers, and software
vendors. To achieve these goals, the event offers seminars and workshops,
exhibition areas, and room for personal exchange.
More information is available at http://www.warpstock.eu.
Warpstock Europe is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.
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| Net: Most popular applications for eComStation |
2007-10-12
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
Question 1: What do new users ask when come to eComStation world? "Where
can I download a program which allows me .."
Question 2: How to promote medium useful free utilities?
To solve this problems we have created web-page "Software for eComStation"
aimed to collect the links to popular software --
http://ecomstation.ru/software
Rules:
* Send us name of program, homepage url, links to reviews. The presence of
link to review guarantess that the program will be added to the list.
* We guarantee that all messages will be processed, no guarantees that all
applications will be added to the list.
Send information via web-form -- http://ecomstation.ru/support.php
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| Net: eComStation FAQs |
2007-10-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
eCo Software support service offers you useful FAQs. You can use this
information to setup eComStation, to write books related to eComStation or
frighten your girlfriend/wife/mother with technical details.
USB FAQs -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/usbtools/?action=faq
* Common USB FAQ (10)
* USB Dock FAQ (7)
Video drivers FAQs -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/panorama/?action=faq
* Panorama common FAQ (11)
* Panorama VESA FAQ (22)
* Panorama R200 FAQ (6)
* Unofficial Scitech SNAP FAQ (3)
ACPI FAQs -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=faq
* ACPI FAQ (72) -- ACPI common questions
* APM FAQ (7) -- Power management
Desktop FAQs
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes-deluxe/?action=faq
* Imagination FAQ (4)
* Piano Launchpad FAQ (13)
* I/O Procedures FAQ (2) http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/?action=faq
* eSchemes, common questions (21)
* How to create schemes? (8)
JFS FAQ -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/jrescuer/?action=faq
* JRescuer
eComStation FAQ (russian language) (270) -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecsfaq
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| SW: whois v4.7.23 - Command line WHOIS client. |
2007-10-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Ian Manners
Hi everyone,
Long overdue whois.exe update for OS/2 - eComStation.
What is a whois client ?
It's a utility for checking domains and IP address's in various whois
databases on the internet.
Type 'whois -h' for help/summary from the command line.
Requires OS/2 v4.xx or eComStation v1.x or higher, and libc063.dll
Might work on earlier versions of OS/2 but not tested.
Replaces whois-4.6.6-os2.zip.
Programmer is Marco d'Itri - http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
Compiled for OS/2 by Ian Manners.
Filename: whois-4.7.23.zip includes source and binary.
Can be found at hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=whois-4.7.23.zip
or at OS/2 Site - http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/
Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site.com/
MS Web-TV: 500 channels, and not a thing to watch!
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| SW: ACPI 3.03, suspend/resume, QuadCore |
2007-10-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
"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."
Now testing:
* suspend/resume on multi-core notebooks and barebones (Read APM.doc)
* support of QuadCore desktops (follow standard recommendations:
ACPI-SMP.doc), Please inform us, does it work well or not.
How to achieve success in testing?
* update danis506.add to 1.8.1 (How to update Danis -- Software updates
-- http://ecomstation.ru/apecs.php?action=item&id=203
* disable all device drivers before testing suspend/resume (USB, audio,
network)
* You can see the list of Sleep states supported by your computer when
starting ACPI daemon (S1 - computer is stopped; S2 - computer is stopped,
part of devices are powered off; S3 - all devices are powered off, except
memory; S4 - all devices are powered off; S5 - power off)
* Post the bug-report (ticket) to the tracker --
http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/newticket (login: guest, pass: netlabs)
View tickets -- http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
How to post good ticket?
* From: your name or nickname
* Title: model of notebook/motherboard/SMP, problem in 3-5 words
* if you have troubles then grab log: copy acpica$ acpi.log
* if you see trap then read ACPI-Tester.doc
How to help to other users? Share the results of your tests.
* Post report about your computer/motherboard to Hardware database --
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php
* Install ACPIFU WPI (Fast Upgrade) if 3.x is working fine on your computer.
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| Net: Sad news from Sundial |
2007-10-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Cees van Veelen
As a customer of Sundial Systems and user of Junkspy I received the
following sad news:
"On October 5th, Sundial Systems suddenly and unexpectedly lost its
President and chief developer, Randell Flint. Randell was the heart and
soul of Sundial, and we are mourning his untimely passing."
This information is confirmed by the website of the company.
http://www.sundialsystems.com/
I think the OS/2 community lost a valuable member.
Greetings, Cees van Veelen.
[Moderator note; This is truly sad news. Besides being a developer of many
great OS/2 applications, Randell was a long time supporter of many OS/2
organizations and was very supportive of VOICE and Warpstock. He will be
greatly missed.]
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