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February 23

BayWarp meeting February 25, 2003

Baywarp will meet on Tuesday evening, February 25, at 7:00 - 10:00 PM in Los Gatos, CA. Directions and full address is located at http://www.baywarp.org

Meeting is open to everyone; a $5 donation to cover food and drink is requested.

Meeting topics:

Linux interoperability. We will try sharing files, printers and displays between Linux and OS/2 machines over the network

BayWarp may take over The Notebook/2 Site, which is a web site compiling hundreds of OS/2 notebook owners experiences.

Warpstock 2003 may be held in the Bay Area. Neil will present the status of the Warpstock bid. Suggestions will be solicited on how to complete the bid document.

As always, we will welcome OS/2 questions and answers. This is how our members can keep their systems functioning nicely.

BayWarp meetings are generally held at Help Desk Computers (WTW Group) in Los Gatos. The address is:

1456 Pollard Road
Los Gatos, Ca
95032-1031

Hint: It's between the Mexican Restaurant and the Chinese Restaurant in the corner (Safeway is on the far right).

Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com


February 21

WarpDoctor Mtg

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 23 February 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

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This week we will be meeting in the irc.ecomstation.* network of servers. The irc.comstation network has servers all over the world. Choose the one closest to you:

ITALY
===- irc.ecomstation.it port 6667 (International Hub)
===- irc.itisvinci.com port 6667
===- irc.dinosoft.it 6667
SWITZERLAND
===- irc.aroa.ch port 6667
NETHERLANDS
===- irc.ecomstation.nl 6667
U.S.A.
===- irc.ecomstation.com 6667
===- irc.dacdigital.com 6667
===- irc.gamezero.com 6667
RUSSIA
===- irc.ecomstation.ru 6667
===- irc.rnlease.snc.ru 6667
===- irc.muravlenko.ytc.ru 6667
AUSTRALIA
===- irc.ecomstation.com.au 6667
===- irc.ecssite.com 6667
BELGIUM
===- irc.celkunststoffen.khlim.be 6667
CANADA
===- irc.ecomstation.ca 6667
DENMARK
===- irc.ecomstation.dk 6667

For more information including the use of Mozilla and Chatzilla, go to http://www.ecomstation.com/ecs_demo_view.phtml?url=content/ircnetwork.html

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PLEASE READ the log of the Warpdoctor meeting on February 9, 2003 before coming to the meeting this week. It will give you some important background. You can find the log of this meeting at http://www.warpdoctor.org/irclogs/2003/%23warpdoc_2003-02-09.log

Thank you.


February 20

Melbourne Victoria OS/2 SIG

Hello all!

A short note to say that the Melbourne Victoria (as distinct from Melbourne Florida) OS/2 SIG will be meeting next Tuesday Feb 25th in the usual venue (map available at http://www.os2.org.au/melbpc/ from 6:30pm

Topics of intense interest will include:-

News/Views: latest developments in the world of PC computing and eCS-OS/2

DTOC: a demonstration of the current release of Desktop on Call for OS/2, using a local server and client - right before your very eyes

OS/2 Usefuls: a collection of software, manuals etc for OS/2 which has been donated to SIG members

Whilst I can't be there due to a double-booking, Bob and Ian will host the evening in their inimitable style ;-) and I hope to catch up with the March meeting

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au


February 14

WarpDoctor Mtg

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 16 February 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). Visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

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NOTE:

Please connect to any of the following servers

207.168.37.132 (California)
homeos2.homelinux.org: (Florida)
plazenby.homeip.net (British Columbia, Canada)
216.174.132.66 (Manitoba, Canada)

all using Port 6667 to get the WD chatroom .

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If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

Please read the agenda at http://www.war pdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_2003-02-16.html so you will be ready for the meeting.

Thank you.


February 14

Norman Virus Control $11.00

VOICE is making another bulk purchase of licenses for Norman Virus Control. If you are a member please contact our treasurer Peter Lazenby treasurer@os2voice.org. The pricing will be $11.00 for each license.

For further information on Norman Virus Control please see:

http://www.norman.com/


February 07

WarpDoctor Mtg

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). Visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

***************************************************************************
NOTE:

Please connect to any of the following servers

207.168.37.132 (California)
homeos2.homelinux.org: (Florida)
plazenby.homeip.net (British Columbia, Canada)
216.174.132.66 (Manitoba, Canada)

all using Port 6667 to get the WD chatroom .

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If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

Please read the agenda at http://www.war pdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_2003-02-09.html so you will be ready for the meeting.

Thank you.


January 31

WarpDoctor Mtg

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). Visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

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NOTE:

Please connect to any of the following servers

207.168.37.132 (California)
homeos2.homelinux.org: (Florida)
plazenby.homeip.net (British Columbia, Canada)
216.174.132.66 (Manitoba, Canada)

all using Port 6667 to get the WD chatroom .

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If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

Please read the agenda at http://www.warpdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_2003-02-02.html so you will be ready for the meeting.

Thank you.



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