The September 2002 OS/2 eZine is out

2002-09-18 01:26:19 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Robert Basler]

IN THIS ISSUE:

From The Editor

• Robert Basler is looking for some new writers.

Reviews

• Xact -- Mike Engle looks at a scientific graphing application.

Articles

• OS/2 is Boring Part 2 -- Bas Heijermans looks at a web serving solution.
• Warpstock on a Budget -- Jason Stefanovich tell us how to get Warped without breaking the bank.

The Art Department

• Cool desktops for you.

Forums

• Ask John & Rob -- John Bijnens and Robert Basler answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
• September Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

Warpstock 2002 Must See presentations

2002-09-18 01:26:05 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [ecomstation.com, Luc Van Bogaert]

At Warpstock 2002 in Austin Texas you can see with your own eyes what many have only heard about. Sorry for the length of this post, but the Warpstock weekend will be packed with exciting things to see and hear about OS/2 and eComStation. Some of the great things expected at our show this year include:

• Bob St. John of Serenity Systems will be telling us what to expect in eComStation 1.1. In addition they will be giving away copies of the 1.1 beta.
• Greg Shah of Golden Code Development will be presenting the recently announced OS/2 port of the Java 2 Standard Edition ("J2SE") platform, release 1.4, as well as the ongoing development and support for the the Mozilla Web Browser under OS/2.
• Greg Shah of Golden Code will be demonstrating a new product called SESAME. This product is the most complete security system ever created for OS/2. It turns OS/2 into a true multi-user system from both a local and remote access perspective.
• Brian Smith of F/X Communications, will present the new features of the InJoy Firewall and Dialer with an emphasis on crossplatform operability. Demonstrating platform independent management and serving using clients and servers of varying systems, including OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS. As well demonstrating some of the new tunnelling and firewalling functionality, using the new GUI.
• Kendall Bennett of SciTech Software will be showing off Snap Graphics for OS/2 2.0.
• Connectix will be presenting VirtualPC 5.0 and will have a special show price as well.
• Richard R. Spurlock & William F. Kershner of Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. will discuss their "Titan Single Logon" package.
• Jan Van Wijk will be showing off his latest version of Display File Systems (DFSee), a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser. DFSee supports partition-tables (FDISK, LVM), (V)FAT, FAT-32, HPFS-structures, some NTFS and JFS stuff and it might support different file-systems like EXT2 in the future. This presentation will be an introduction to DFSee : a demonstration of the product's main features, some usage examples and finally a Q&A session.
• Netlabs will be showing Lookout/2, HW Overlay and much more.

So be sure to come to Warpstock 2002 for the chance to be one of the first to learn the latest information about OS/2 and eComstation. This year, Warpstock is taking place in the home of OS/2 development. Warpstock will take place the weekend of October 5-6, 2002 in Austin, Texas at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. You can find the complete presentation schedule as well as event registration and hotel reservation information at our web site.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina 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.

APeCS report

2002-09-16 17:51:27 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (10 programs updated) :

• vCOMPAT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.22b
  VCOMPAT is a special VDD, that will fix some issues in VDMs to further enhance compatibility . . .

• LXAPI32 by Stefan Milcke is updated to Build level 1254
  Linux API support layer driver . . .

• BTTV-Project by Stefan Milcke is updated to Build level 1143
  New BT8X8 driver for TV-Cards . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 5.01
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• TVShow by Aleksandr Cherkaev is updated to 0.42
  Program TVShow is intended for viewing teleprograms with bt878 based tv cards . . .

• Fritz! ISDN PCCard Driver by - is updated to 2.01
  This FRITZOS2.EXE package provides you with most current support for the Fritz! based PCCards on the OS/2 Operating System . . .

• VIORoute by nickk is updated to 0.0.9-alpha
  VIO<->term (ansi, vt100, etc) routing . . .

• Mozilla by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.2 beta
  Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of most powerfull multiplatform internet suite . . .

• eBayWatch/2 by Ken Kirchner is updated to 1.09f
  eBayWatch/2 is an auction management tool for OS/2 users . . .

• Squid by - is updated to 2.4 STABLE7
  Speeds up web browsing by caching most recently visited web pages . . .

Music processing

2002-09-16 15:09:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff

Another successful example of OS/2 usage - System of digital restoration and phonogram remastering "Kanon" (russian text).

We continue filling of section

New site related to RDBMS

2002-09-14 15:26:51 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, David Del Col]

I am pleased to announce the "Relational Database Management Systems for OS/2 and eComstation" site.

Covering topics from MySQL/2, Postgres SQL for OS/2, DBExpert, Tools and Online Tutorials and References with more to come.

wxWindows 2.3.3 UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT

2002-09-14 15:23:41 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

wxWindows is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls, has been released as beta OS/2 port.

For more information on wxWindows see homepage of the project.

A popular application developed using wxWindows is Audacity.

Solutions based on eCS and OS/2

2002-09-12 15:06:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We collect successful stories about OS/2 and eCS usage in industry and commercial area. Some dozens of texts are not completed because no contact information or illustrations. We appeal to authors (russian and foreign) of the texts - "make the last step" and support OS/2-community now.

Additional software

2002-09-12 15:05:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

In frame of eComStation/Rus operating system we are creating additional software: system utilities, tools for developer.

Users of eCS/Rus are able to download cryptographic library for GOST 21847-89 (state standard in exUSSR), XObject - technology for visualization of complex configuration files.

Various projects by Kiewitz

2002-09-12 15:04:06 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Reminder: eComStation.Ru is a home of some cool projects created by Martin Kiewitz.

• AiR-BOOT is a highly customizable boot-loader with colored menu, built in Setup and some other features that no other boot-loaders offer today.
• Virtual Device Drivers:
  • VCOMPAT is a special VDD, that will fix some issues in VDMs to further enhance compatibility.
  • VDMA is for virtualization of DMA transfers within any VDM (Virtual DOS Machine).
• "OS/2/eComStation - VDM Compatibility List" - list of DOS games working in OS/2. ANY working game was started/played using the DOSGAMES.set configuration.

USB MSD in action

2002-09-12 15:02:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Vadim Rumyantsev talks about Mass Storage devices in eCS. How to configure system and safely use the devices. (russian text)

Restricted area

2002-09-10 10:43:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [os2.mmdl.ru]

eCSDB.MMDL.Ru published *list* of files located in restricted area of eComStation.Com. This files are available for registered users of eComStation. You can find updates of the operating system, drivers distributed by IBM Software Choice subscription.

StarOffice 6.0 / ODIN

2002-09-09 20:50:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [en.os2.org, Joerg Skottke]

With the latest weekly build it is - once again - possible to run StarOffice 6.0 and OpenOffice 1.01. StarOffice requires Freetype, OOo does not. Printing does not work - even touching the dialogs crashes the office. Saving in native .SX-format might fail. Use the 5.x format then.

APeCS report

2002-09-09 16:45:19 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (33 programs updated) :

• JJSCDROM by Takayuki 'January June' Suwa is updated to JJ20020824
  JJSCDROM.DMD is a modified version of OS/2 CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVDs device manager driver (OS2CDROM.DMD), based on the latest OS/2 DDK on-line source code . . .

• QuickView by Wolfgang Hesseler is updated to 2.50
  DOS Multimedia Viewer including DivX, AVI, MPEG, MOV and MP3 . . .

• ProNews/2 by Trevor Hemsley is updated to 1.52 build cp012
  Pronews/2 is multithreaded newsreader for OS/2 . . .

• Privoxy by Privoxy Team is updated to 3.0.0
  Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk . . .

• Mozilla (release) by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.1
  Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of most powerfull multiplatform internet suite . . .

• MMIOMP3 by Russell O'Connor is updated to 0.4.1
  With the codecs the OS/2 mulitmedia system is able to play (and convert to WAV) MP3 and OGG Vorbis files without any additional software . . .

• WebAlizer by Bradford L. Barrett is updated to 2.01-10
  The Webalizer - A web server log file analysis tool . . .

• ImageJ by wayne is updated to 1.28
  Image processing and analysis in Java. . . .

• VDMA Driver by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.9 Beta
  VDMA is for virtualization of DMA transfers within any VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) . . .

• PMRA (Poor Man's Roaming Access) by Mike is updated to 0.5
  Poor Man's Roaming Access (PMRA) is freeware that extends the roaming access feature beyond Netscape 4.x to Warpzilla, the IBM web browser, and other versions of Netscape . . .

• Smart Cache by Radim Kolar is updated to 0.75
  Smart Cache is full featured proxy cache server . . .

• UpdCD by Zsolt Kadar is updated to 2.22
  With UpdCD you can incorporate public IBM fixpaks into your installation CD . . .

• Maul Publisher by Frans Morre is updated to 2.20
  Maul is a DeskTop Publishing program that will handle posters, booklets and long documents . . .

• WarpZip by PillarSoft is updated to 3.7
  WarpZip offers a fresh new way to handle your archives . . .

• DirDiff by Wolfram Schmid is updated to 2.01
  DirDiff is a Directory compare program for OS/2 and eCS and compares all files in two sub-directorys or whole directory trees . . .

• OS/2 Servolution Logon Client by Comtarsia is updated to 3.0
  The Servolution Logon Client enables NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Workstations to log onto OS/2 domains . . .

• WinWPI by - is updated to 0.21
  WinWpi is a program that allows to list and unpack WarpIN (WPI) archives on a DOS/Win32 system. . . .

• WarpVision by Alex Strelnikov is updated to build 20020827
  DivX v3/4 video player with MPEG Layer 3 audio playback . . .

• WarpVision GUI by WarpVision Team is updated to build 20020904
  WarpVision is an OS/2 video player . . .

• Opera by Opera Software is updated to 5.12
  Web-browser . . .

• Intel Pro/100 Ethernet Drivers by Intel is updated to 4.25
  Drivers for Intel Pro/100 network adapters. . . .

• Guiffy by Bill Ritcher is updated to 4.6
  Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component . . .

• PHP (for Apache2) by PHP Development Group is updated to 4.2.3
  PHP is a popular scripting language most commonly used with a web server to produce dynamically generated web page . . .

• PHP by PHP Development Group is updated to 4.2.3
  PHP is a popular scripting language most commonly used with a web server to produce dynamically generated web page . . .

• WebMail/2 by Dimitris Michelinakis is updated to 12
  WebMail/2 is a web interface system for your existing POP3/SMTP servers . . .

• PMRecord by Deniska is updated to 0.1.0-preview
  

  PM front-end for mkisofs/cdrecord - very simple way to record your CD-R/RW disks and create CD images . . .

• DawiControl SCSI-Drivers by DawiControl is updated to 4.31
  Drivers for different DawiControl SCSI-adapters are placed on this page. . . .

• PMDisk by Daniel Valot is updated to 1.09 beta
  OS/2 PM Binary file and disk editor . . .

• WarpOverlay! by Valery Gaynullin is updated to 1.0
  The main goal of this project - provide modern motion video players, like WarpVision, with accelerated YUV->RGB color conversion and scaling . . .

• QueenCy by Masami Kitamura is updated to 0.1.2a
  QueenCy is a painting program for OS/2, supports layers and TWAIN scanners . . .

• BootAble by Hajo Baan is updated to 2.4
  BootAble is a script which can be used to create a maintenance partition or bootable CD with enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system . . .

• WaveCut by Frank Wochatz is updated to Beta 5
  WaveCut is a (PM) wave player and cutter for os2 and eCS . . .

• CW-USB Mass storage class driver kit by Chris Wohlgemuth is updated to 1.1
  CWUSBMSD.ADD is a enhanced USB mass storage driver which supports more (orother) devices than the IBM version . . .

eComStation/Rus 1.05 installation

2002-09-08 23:08:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

How to install the operating system? Some useful advices.

Opera 5.12 - Better surfing for OS/2

2002-09-08 23:05:52 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, Deniska]

Opera Software releases Opera 5.12 for OS/2 today after extensive beta testing. Stability issues from the previous versions have been fixed, namely INI file corruption from starting a second copy of Opera, background problems with GIFs, and running Win32 plugins.

Opera 5.12 Screenshot

Articles mentioning OS/2

2002-09-06 23:28:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Two articles related to OS/2 was found in Internet:

• An Octet of Operating Systems (Byte.com) -- Bill Nicholls
• Article about IBM in India (economictimes); Talks (briefly) about IBM's worldwide OS/2 support center in Bangalore, which also does some programming.