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OS/2 - eComStation News - July, 2008Browse - July 2008: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 2008: January February March April May June 2007: January February March April May June July August September October November December 2006: January February March April May June July August September October November December 2005: August September October November December SW: Enhanced Mozilla applications updated to Gecko 1.8.1.16 SW: SeaMonkey 1.1.11 News: netlabs.org newsletter #65 Event: Warpstock Europe 2008: Pictures from the event location Event: Warpstock registration Event: BayWarp meeting Tuesday July 22 SW: Firefox 3.0.1 released Net: WSE2008 -- calculate the advantages (unofficial message) SW: Post the bug-report today, don't be lazy SW: Pronews/2 v1.60 cp125 now available SW: DFSee version 9.10 released SW: Clipview 3.3 is released SW: FM/2 3.12 Released Net: VOICE Newsletter: Call for articles Net: Updated history of eComStation Net: Please use the eComStation 2.0 RC5 Feedback Wizard SW: CUPS updated to v1.3.8 Net: eComStation PC: PCMCIA/Cardbus/Expresscard SW: Privoxy for OS/2 3.0.9 Beta Released
2008-07-16 From: Peter Weilbacher Again, another security release of my enhanced Mozilla based apps is available from <http://pmw-warpzilla.sf.net/>: - SeaMonkey 1.1.11 (PmW) - PmW-Fx 2.0.0.16 - PmW-Tb 2.0.0.16 They are all based on Gecko 1.8.1.16 on the date of 2008-07-15 and built from the exact same sources. They correspond directly to the respective official releases of SeaMonkey, Firefox, and Thunderbird (which is not yet released but it should be in about a week). These releases pick up all the changes done by Mozilla since my Gecko 1.8.1.15 release, i.e. between 2008-06-12 and 2008-07-02. This includes fixes for at least one critical security issue. (For PmW-Tb the last release was with Gecko 1.8.1.13, so the timespan is even between 2008-03-11 and 2008-07-02.) No OS/2 specific changes were applied between Gecko 1.8.1.15 and 1.8.1.16. Top
2008-07-16 From: Peter Weilbacher The "official" contributed OS/2 package of SeaMonkey 1.1.11 is available from http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ Until the webpage mirrors are updated, you can find it at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.11/contrib/ This release fixes one critical security issue. Top
2008-07-16 From: netlabs.org 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: 7. July - 13. July * ACPI o Quite some updates again, including the 3.10 release! o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline * eCUPS o Two updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline * FM/2 o Still going strong with the regular updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline * kBuild o Various updates and fixes o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline * kLibC o Two new defects raised o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline * NewView o Number of updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline * NOSA o A change and a fix o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/nosa/timeline * Samba o And some more updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline * UniAud o A problem raised about 30 sec freeze o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline 30. June - 6. July * ACPI o Tickets coming and going. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline * eCups o Various updates, mainly on the HowTo o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline * FM/2 o Big pile of updates. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline * kBuild o Some updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline * Lucide o Interesting updates, including Poppler library updated to version 0.8.4 o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline * netlabs.org o A problem solved (25) and an enhancement implemented (11) o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/netlabs/timeline * NOSA o This project is reactived and is undergoing various updates. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/nosa/timeline * Samba o Now on 3.2.0 GA level and added missing file. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline * SWT o Updated again o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt/timeline * UniAud o Bug reported about cardinfo.DLL o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline * Voyager NOM o Some progress o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/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: news@netlabs.org Greetings, netlabs.org team Top
2008-07-17 From: Christian Hennecke Warpstock Europe 2008 takes place in the stylish City Hostel in Düsseldorf, Germany, which has already hosted this year's netlabs.org Developer Workshop. After a complete refurbishment, the City Hostel now probably is the most modern youth hostel in Europe. See for yourself and browse the gallery section of the Warpstock Europe 2008 web site at: http://www.warpstock.eu/en/location/gallery.html The ninth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the City Hostel in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 14 to 16. 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. Top
2008-07-17 From: Andy Willis Have you registered for Warpstock 2008 yet? Oops! Missed the July 15 deadline? The Board of Directors has considered that there were many changes in this year's location and a change in policy for booking this location. We realize that some individuals may not have realized that early commitment was needed. To accommodate this, we have made special arrangements to extend the registration deadline by 10 days. July 25th is now the cutoff date. Because of the need to advance book the accommodation and meals, there can be no further extension to this date. This year's conference will be held on the campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz from August 15 - 17, 2008. Complete information about the conference is available on the Warpstock web site:http://www.warpstock.org/. We look forward to seeing you in Santa Cruz. Warpstock Corporation is a Virginia corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of eCS/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 Top
2008-07-17 From: Neil Waldhauer Date: Tuesday, July 22 Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM Place: Denny's Milpitas, 442 W Calaveras Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035 Come join us in our monthly meeting. We are OS/2 and eComStation users, and we meet every month to show off our latest software and hardware. Hint: Denny's is right off of the 880/237 interchange to the east of 880. Phone: (408) 262-9090 WiFi is available at the restaurant. Note: the BayWarp e-mail list is available http://lists.blondeguy.com/mailman/listinfo/baywarp Topics: * Warpstock 2008 planning * eComStation 2.0 rc 5 * Survey of recent Flash animation * OS/2 Question & Answer Web Page: http://www.baywarp.org/ Top
2008-07-17 From: Mark Dodel [Moderator note: Please send all comments and general discussion to the news group news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 Please enter all problem reports into https://bugzilla.mozilla.org.] Firefox 3.0.1 was just released for OS/2. It contains many fixes in cross-platform code, including two critical security issues. One OS/2 specific bug was fixed: - Limit the URL-classifier cache so that Firefox doesn't hang the system at regular intervals (bug 439340) More details on issues and workarounds in the ReadMe file. Both the release package and the ReadMe are linked on the Warpzilla page: http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ Top
2008-07-19 From: Eugene Gorbunoff Warpstock Europe 2008 is coming -- http://warpstock.eu/ (November 14 to 16, 2008, Dusseldorf, Germany) You are right, the cost of the trip to Dusseldorf may be very high for you. 300 EURO.. 500 EURO.. 1000 EURO.. or more. What is the reason to spend the money? A. Are you going make a presentation? The conference is a good chance to * demonstrate your applications to the users * present success story of eComStation usage; * share your libraries with other developers; * learn new eComStation technologies and share the knowledge with other developers; * present own concept of OS development; * inform developers which software and drivers should be created; B. Moreover, the visit of the conference gives you: Building Relationships * You are meeting with other users and developers from different countries, different cultures; * If you are a developer, then you are meeting with your clients. Ask them what do they need; * Meet the users from your city and region. The conference may help you create Local User Group; * Get fresh news and secret information while chatting. Income/experience * The visit of Germany is good for your experience, you can see how german people are working, why they are so productive. * You are collecting information what is the trend of OS/2 development. This helps you safe the efforts and don't spend then time to fake goals after return to home. * If you are a designer then watch the design of german houses, clothes, banners * Improve your english(/deutch/dutch), no need to buy tutorials of english language * You are mobilizing while preparing for the conference. You are generating more ideas, more code while preparing for D-Day. * Present your program to sell it Vacations * If you don't have a report then use the trip as short summer vacations Full list of conferences: http://ecomstation.ru/conferences.php Top
2008-07-19 From: Eugene Gorbunoff If a program doesn't work properly on your computer, don't expect the next version will work better. The bugs are fixed only if users notify the developers. Please, post the bug-report to the tracker today, monitor the tracker during 1-2 weeks. For example, * http://ecomstation.com -- eComStation 2.0 bug-tracker -> Login -> bug-tracker (you should have eCS license, software subscription) * http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1 -- ACPI tracker Register to Login -- http://www.netlabs.org/site/member * http://trac.ecomstation.ru -- NeoWPS cpmponents (login: ecotrac, password: nhfrerth) * http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud -- Uniaud audio driver * http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups -- CUPS/2 (printers) bug-tracker * http://svn.netlabs.org/samba -- Samba bug-tracker * http://ecomstation.com/support/tickets/ticket_create.php?DepartmentID=7 -- OpenOffice tickets * http://xtracker.netlabs.org/index.php?project=2 -- XWorkPlace bug-tracker * http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user -- Genmac forum * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ -- Firefox bug-tracker Other useful links: http://ecomstation.ru/links Top
2008-07-19 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Trevor Hemsley I'm pleased to announce the release of Pronews/2 v1.60 Pronews/2 is a multithreaded NNTP Newsreader program for OS/2. If you are upgrading from any Pronews/2 release prior to 1.59 you are strongly advised to make a backup copy of the file \pronews\toolbar.ini as this release changes the on-disk format of this file. You will not be able to run a previous release of Pronews/2 unless you restore an old copy of this file. 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 1.60 on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming (later to be ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader) as pn2v160.zip. Hobbes search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pn2v160.zip Pronews/2 is shareware and all profits from its sale are donated to the charity Save the Children. Pronews/2 v1.60 is a relatively small update with a few bugs fixed. There are no new features in this release. A list of the fixes is available in your \pronews directory after install in the file fixed.txt. More information about all changes and installation instructions can be found in the readme file after (or during) the install. Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com Top
2008-07-20 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Jan van Wijk This is a minor release with some updated messages and supporting more disks in Linux. 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/dfsee910.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee910.msi http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee910_warpin.exe http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee910_dsk.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_linux.tgz http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_iso.zip Or from the HOBBES website: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee910.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee Functional changes since 9.09 - FAT FS Hint to use FORMAT when bootsector is empty - MEDIA Allow upto 24 IDE/SCSI disk on Linux (hdX/sdX) - PART Added details to 'invalid partition table nr' - SETBOOT Allow colon on /IBD:C: syntax Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - info@dfsee.com Top
2008-07-21 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Dave Saville Clipview 3.3 is released http://www.deezee.org/ClipView.html New features bug fixes etc: Added -F Font switch. Added timeout to "Browse on URL Capture" query pop up. Added allow comments in ClipProcess file. Fixed some minor problems in the help file. Implemented context sensitive help. Clipview is now NLS ready. Supported languages are: Dutch, French, German & Swedish. If you want your language and are prepared to translate then drop me an email for the files etc.. N.B. ClipView 3.3 implements context sensitive help via the F1 key. If you use xwpwidgets then you must get the latest 0.7.3 release from Hobbes or Netlabs to avoid a crash. ClipView 2.5 & above uses a changed .ClipSave format. It is NOT backwards compatible. Upgrading from earlier versions should not present any problems. I don't know about you, but I always seem to want to paste what I clipped three operations back :-) So I wrote ClipView, based on the Unix program cutview. The Clipview suite of programs consists of: ClipView v3.3 - Gives multiple text clipboards. Clips may be printed, edited, saved to a buffer and locked. Optionally the entire set of clips and their state can be saved across invocations of ClipView. ClipPrint v1.2 - Prints the current text contents of the clipboard. PipeClip v2.3 - Used on the command line to pipe output to the clipboard. eg dir /w | pipeclip ClipPipe v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe input from the clipboard. eg clippipe | someprogram ClipWait v1.0 - Used in scripts to wait until something gets written to the clipboard. CV_Client_OS2 2.1 } These are now considered stable. } They allow clipboards to communicate CV_Server_OS2 2.1 } across machines. CV_Client_WIN 2.1 } These are considered Beta. } They allow clipboards to communicate CV_Server_WIN 2.1 } across machines. http://www.deezee.org/ClipView.html Top
2008-07-21 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Gregg Young I have just uploaded FM/2 3.11 to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/fm2 (moving to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fm2 ) and to hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/incoming&sort=date moving to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/util/browser FM/2 3.12 Fixes a bug introduced in 3.11 (trap when viewing multiple files from an archive at the same time). It also adds Open Default, Open Settings and via an accel key ctrl + l Open Multimedia (using FM2play.exe) to the archive viewer. FM/2 now uses the system TMP/TEMP directory for it temporary files and cleans up after a crash on the next restart. FM/2 creates a subdirectory of the pattern $FM2*.*. The settings notebook can now be closed using esc, F3 or enter; the last 2 save any changes that have been made. You can now select which environment variables to show when using show the environment in the drive tree. Just add or remove from the list on the "Tree" page of the notebook. It defaults initially to the current list. You can now save/append either a full pathname or just a filename or a list of either to the clipboard. We have changed the wording in the menus to make this easier to find. We fixed a few other minor issues see the history for more details. Top
2008-07-22 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Christian Hannecke The VOICE Newsletter is committed to providing the community of OS/2 and eComStation users with useful, accurate, and current information. To do so it relies on contributions from members of the community it is serving. Please consider contributing yourself by submitting an article. Our guidelines provide extensive information about article content and presentation. This includes potential topics, structure and formatting, and detailed instructions for unexperienced authors regarding several types of articles as well. The guidelines are available at: http://www.os2voice.org/newsletter_submission.html Also available is an author package that includes template files and a tutorial with step-by-step instructions for writing articles with the NVU/KompoZer editor: http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/author_package_en.zip The deadline for the next issue is August 10, 2008. Please send submissions to editor@os2voice.org Top
2008-07-22 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Eugene Gorbunoff The history of eComStation is updated -- http://ru.ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=163 (russian text, use Google to translate), Where is English version of the history?! eComStation history: http://ecomstation.ru/pic/history/hist4a.png Other interesting links for fans: * Mensys catalogue with software for IBM OS/2 Warp (Year: 1997, prices in Dutch Guilder!) -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/reseller/mensys-catalogue.html * eComStation attributes -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/attributes/?action=artwork * eComStation merchandise -- http://forum.ecomstation.ru/viewtopic.php?f=25&p=8713#p8713 * Gallery of eComStation desktops -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/eschemes-gallery.phtml Top
2008-07-22 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Joachim Benjamins eComStation 2.0 RC5 introduces the Feedback Wizard to enable the development team to easier collect data on specific hardware and the success rate of ACPI support. This wizard will be invoked automatically once, if ACPI support is configured on the system. Since it's release on july the 4th, the eComStation 2.0 RC5 ISO file has been downloaded over 500 times. We have received a bit more than 70 reports generated with the Feedback Wizard. We would like to ask you to run the Feedback Wizard and in order to have more systems identified. Please make sure you answer the 3 questions on ACPI, APM and performance accurately. If you want to manually start the Wizard, this can be easily done by clicking the Feedback Wizard icon in the Help Center. ('Desktop' -> 'Local System' -> 'Help Center') Once you have submitted a report, you will be able to review all reports by others and review/edit your own reports via a webinterface. Details of this will be emailed to you shortly after the submission. Please note: The use of the Feedback Wizard requires a working Internet connection. Some FAQ items specific to eComStation 2.0 RC5 have been added to the RC5 support page at: http://www.ecomstation.com/support/rc5report Thanks in advance for your support! Serenity Systems International / Mensys BV Top
2008-07-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley Hi guys, Just a quick one to say I've updated the CUPS port to v1.3.8 It can be downloaded from http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort At this stage - I haven't updated the CUPS+Gutenprint+Ghostscript package - so just unzip the cups 1.3.8 package over the top of what you already have - it shouldn't break anything :P A list of changes in 1.3.8 is at http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L562 Cheers, Paul. [Moderator: Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple registration. If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/ ] Top
2008-07-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Eugene Gorbunoff Are you interested in support of PCMCIA/Cardbus/Expresscard controllers? APSoft company is able to update their drivers if users agree to purchase it: http://www.tssc.de/products/cardware/ss_os2/default.htm -> CadWare -> Socket Services for OS/2 Aymeric Peyret is collecting users which are interested to purchase the drivers. Please post your contacts information to: http://ecomstation.ru/support.php * Your name, email * What to fix? Which problems do you see? Your adapter, problems, temporary solutions * Are you going purchase the driver, purchase upgrade? Main problems, example: * APSoft drivers don't work with ACPI (it's necessary patch? OEMHLP driver, pass the code to the developers of ACPI) * Expresscard are not supported * It's difficult to select switches * no .wpi package Other problems: * Is it possible reduce price for eCS users? 70 EURO down to.. 35 EURO? * Driver description -- http://www.tssc.de/download/docs/sspcic%20for%20os2.pdf * List of adapters supported by APSoft -- http://os2warp.be/index2.php?name=pcmciaentry * Reports from users regarding PCMCIA -- href='http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=cards Top
2008-07-23 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: David Schmidt Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. 3.0.9 is a beta release which includes many enhancements but no major new features. See: http://www.privoxy.org/ Top
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