It's time of JFS

2002-05-30 19:39:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Pavel Shtemenko recommends use the JFS file system. In the interview (russian text) he describes features and advantages of the system, talks about process of data recovery if problems occur.

Plugins for Mozilla page

2002-05-30 10:44:55 -- Deniska [WarpBrowsers mail-list, Ralph Cohen]

Steve Wendt has contributed a page with instructions and links for plugins that work with the latest Mozilla drops. Steve, of course, also maintains the Warpzilla Tips page.

Warpstock 2002 International

2002-05-29 21:47:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Luc Van Bogaert]

The Warpstock Event Team is very pleased to announce that Warpstock 2002, the sixth edition of the annual Warpstock event, will be held in Austin Texas, October 5th and 6th, 2002 at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.

If you are interested in giving a presentation at Warpstock 2002, please contact our speaker coordinator, Oliver Mark with a synopsis of your presentation and any requirements.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina non-profit 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.

IBM MPTS class

2002-05-29 21:42:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, EMEA Warp Services]

Technical Training for OS/2 MPTS 6.0 enhancements

We want to inform you about a technical class on all MPTS enhancements and changes since Warp Server 4. These are for example TCP/IP 4.x (aliasing), TCPBEUI changes, multiple adapters, big enhancements and changes in Name Resolition (DDNS, Shadow,...), Tuning Parameters and such.

The Agenda in Detail:

• NetBIOS, NetBEUI protocol overview.
• TCPBEUI overview based on RFC 1001 & RFC 1002.
• Comparisons between the two protocols.
• NetBIOS names and name types.
• Name resolution options in TCPBEUI: B-node, H-node, P-node, DNS resolution with domainscope and their relative advantages and disadvantages.
• Logical adapters/multiple instances of protocol binding. How it is arbitrated.
• Windows way of interaction. Implication on TCPBEUI.
• Tuning parameters at protocol level: RFCNAMES.LST, RFCBCST.LST, RFCCACHE.LST 64k boundary restriction calculations.
• Troubleshooting: General PD/PSI tools and usage.
• IBMLAN.INI parameters, intended use of the same and tuning.

The class will be held in week 24 (June 10th - 14th) at IBM facilities in Munich.

To enroll,

• go to IBM.Com
• select your country
• click on "Course Booking" (or whatever it says in your language)
• Enter the course code: TAMPE0DE (attention: name has changed!)

Course price is 1.880,00 Euro.

More details;

New articles and reviews

2002-05-29 21:10:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Summer is coming.. What is summer?! You are right! It's time to write new articles and reviews. Don't be lazy! Fill os/2 users with energy and knowledge.

Your database managment system

2002-05-28 23:44:44 -- Deniska [eComStation.Ru]

We want to know your opinion on our new survey - your prefered DBMS. This information can help ODBC-drivers' developer. If your program is not listed, please write it in the entry-field.

What is better? eCS or IBM SWC?

2002-05-27 23:04:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Tim Martin]

Tim Martin (known as OS2Guy) is dissatisfied with purchase of eCS. He published arguments and recommendations.

APeCS report

2002-05-27 11:28:35 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (10 programs updated) :

• Mozilla by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.0 rc3
  Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of most powerfull multiplatform internet suite . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 4.23
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• ZxMail by Zeryx Software Inc. is updated to 1.2.3
  ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server . . .

• World Clock by Goran Ivankovics is updated to 1.3.0
  World Clock is a highly configurable clock for OS/2 . . .

• W3F file archive system by Mike is updated to 0.0.1
  The W3F HTML/PHP/MySQL file archive system . . .

• TreeSync by Mike is updated to -
  Treesync is a high-speed directory tree synchronizer . . .

• Thumbkin by Mike is updated to -
  Thumbkin - The image catalog thumbnailer . . .

• P6K7MTRR by Takayuki 'January June' Suwa is updated to 0.08
  Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD . . .

• PMFormat by - is updated to -
  PMFORMAT.EXE replacement, PM program to format volumes with options. . . .

• Java Movie Database by Juergen Ulbts & Uwe Freese is updated to 1.0 Beta 1
  Java Movie Database is a Java based application for searching and getting information about movies, actors and all that has to do with these . . .

Poll "Which is the OS of the future?"

2002-05-26 00:11:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, BigWarpGuy]

I found this link about a new poll on what people think the operating system of the future will be. OS/2 is listed among them.

APeCS report

2002-05-24 17:16:22 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (21 programs updated) :

• AiR-BOOT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.91b
  AiR-BOOT is a Multi-Boot partition loader with some extra features built in . . .

• DaniS506 by Daniela Engert is updated to 1.4.3
  DaniS506.ADD - replacement for IBM1S506.ADD . . .

• cdrdao/2 by nickk is updated to 1.1.6 pre1 fix4
  Enhanced Os/2 port of cd writing program in DAO mode . . .

• JFig by Dr. Norman Hendrich is updated to 1.55
  JFig is a graphics or diagram editor written in pure Java . . .

• FAST Editor Lite by Sergey Yevtuschenko is updated to 0.2.23
  FED is VIO mode programmers editor . . .

• The Compulsive Gambler's Toolkit by IglooSoft is updated to 1.10
  The Compulsive Gambler's Toolkit is a set of some card games: * Blackjack 1.0 * Caribbean Poker 1.0 * Caribbean Stud Poker 1.3a * Multi Poker 1.05 . . .

• LanScan by Oleg Zhukov is updated to 2.3
  Program LanScan is a tool for the network administrator . . .

• Maul Publisher by Frans Morre is updated to 2.10
  Maul is a DeskTop Publishing program that will handle posters, booklets and long documents . . .

• Sokrates by - is updated to 1.0
  Sokrates is a 100% pure Java servletrunner for the Xitami webserver . . .

• TVShow by Aleksandr Cherkaev is updated to alpha 2
  Program TVShow is intended for viewing teleprograms with bt878 based tv cards . . .

• Hardware EnDIVE by Valery Gaynullin is updated to 0.0.7
  Many years ago IBM was designed DIVE infrastructure to provide OS/2 game and multimedia applications with fast graphics . . .

• WarpVision GUI by WarpVision Team is updated to test version (22.05.2002)
  WarpVision is an OS/2 video player . . .

• Gotcha! by Thorsten Thielen is updated to 1.73
  Gotcha! is a small (well not so small anymore ;-) utility for OS/2 which allows to easily capture windows, window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk or clipboard as a picture (in several file formats if OS/2 Multimedia is installed; otherwise only BMP format) . . .

• Minta by Thorsten Thielen is updated to 2.50
  Minta is an MP3 information, tagging and listing utility for OS/2 . . .

• ThumbIndex by - is updated to 1.3
  ThumbIndex creates, and delivers, thumbnails of images . . .

• HTTPTunnel by - is updated to 0.3.3
  httptunnel creates a bidirectional virtual data connection tunnelled in HTTP requests . . .

• Netwide Assembler (NASM) by NASM community is updated to 0.98.32
  NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax . . .

• PMLinks by - is updated to 2.0 pre 1
  PM port of well known Links browser . . .

• CD Boot/2 by Roman Stangl is updated to 2.00
  CD Boot/2 is a utility to enhance bootable OS/2 CD-ROMs so that when the CD-ROM is inserted into the drive, a menu is displayed immediately after BIOS has started booting from it . . .

• XComp/2 by Roman Stangl is updated to 3.10
  XComp/2 is a multithreaded recursive file comparison tool (as a counterpart to XCOPY) that is especially useful to compare CDs burned with the original data . . .

• RxWeb by Igor Pool is updated to 0.1.5
  Provides additional REXX functions for CGI scripts . . .

Surveys

2002-05-23 03:06:17 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New surveys in the Internet:

• If your boot disk uses HPFS(386) or FAT; what is your secondary non-network FS?
• Your opinion about Links for PM web-browser (use command line: links.exe -g).

Week of Digital assistants in Hardware section

2002-05-21 19:11:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We collect info about eCS compatible PDA devices and mobile phones. Welcome to Hardware section.

IBM Updated Java and IBM Browser

2002-05-21 19:07:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.com, Bob St.John]

IBM has updated the Java Run Time, Java Development Kit, IBM Broswer 1.2. These files are now available from Restricted Area of eComStation.Com site.

APeCS report

2002-05-20 10:43:53 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (11 programs updated) :

• SysInfo/2 by Alexey Smirnov is updated to Beta 0.8.14
  SysInfo.exe - OS/2 PM System Information utility, a ground-up clone of the Symantec NU for Win 95/NT SysInfo concept . . .

• Amouse by Noller&Breining Software is updated to 2.0u (May, 15th 2002)
  This is alternate mouse driver . . .

• Jad by Pavel Kouznetsov is updated to 1.5.8d
  Jad - the fast JAva Decompiler. . . .

• Smart Cache by Radim Kolar is updated to 0.72
  Smart Cache is full featured proxy cache server . . .

• SoundMax Audio Driver by Analog Devices is updated to 3.1.1
  Driver for soundcards based on Analog Devices AD1881/ AD1881A/ AD1885/ AD1887 (SoundMax) chips. . . .

• socksd by nickk is updated to 1.2
  Native multithreaded socksd server with built-in TCP/UDP portmaps . . .

• ZxMail by Zeryx Software Inc. is updated to 1.2.2
  ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server . . .

• StHWMon by Stefan Milcke is updated to 0.18 beta Build 705
  Health monitor for mainboards with W83781D/W83782D/VIA 82C686 chip . . .

• Kаspersky Anti-Virus for OS/2 by Kaspersky Labs is updated to 4.0 beta
  Kаspersky Anti-Virus for OS/2 . . .

• COM.SYS by IBM is updated to -
  The Asynchronous Communications Device Driver (COM DD) is a OS/2 physical installable Device Driver (DD) that allows OS/2 application programs or system programs to utilize the serial COM ports . . .

• PRINT01.SYS by IBM is updated to -
  This updated PRINT01.SYS driver is modified to support up to three PCI Parallel Ports in the Standard Parallel Port (SPP) mode. . . .

APeCS report

2002-05-18 13:03:39 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (16 programs updated) :

• QLAY-Config/2 by J Rouffiac is updated to 1.2.0
  PM front-end to configure QLAY control files - (QLAY is a freeware Sinclair QL emulator for DOS) . . .

• RAR by Eugene Roshal is updated to 3.00
  RAR Archiver . . .

• UpdCD by Zsolt Kadar is updated to 2.03
  With UpdCD you can incorporate public IBM fixpaks into your installation CD . . .

• Mozilla by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.0 rc2 fix2
  Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of most powerfull multiplatform internet suite . . .

• Lines/2 by Eugeny Rubtsov is updated to -
  Well-known Lines, compiled for OS/2 PM. . . .

• Hardware EnDIVE by Valery Gaynullin is updated to public beta
  Many years ago IBM was designed DIVE infrastructure to provide OS/2 game and multimedia applications with fast graphics . . .

• GOAT by - is updated to 0.04a
  GOAT is a graphical frontend/extension to the GNU OCR program . . .

• OpenSSH for OS/2 by nickk is updated to 3.1 p1
  OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on . . .

• socksd by nickk is updated to 1.1
  Native multithreaded socksd server with built-in TCP/UDP portmaps . . .

• ndpiso by nickk is updated to 1.4
  ISO FS plugin for netdrive, supports plain ISO, joliet, rockridge, hpfsnames, multisession and many more ;) . . .

• RexxMail by M.C. de Geus is updated to build 20020516.115712
  RexxMail is an e-mail client that makes full use of the extensive range of features offered by the OS/2 Workplace Shell for managing and processing files as objects . . .

• LanScan by Oleg Zhukov is updated to 2.2
  Program LanScan is a tool for the network administrator . . .

• PHP (for Apache2) by PHP Development Group is updated to 4.2.1
  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 4.2.1
  PHP is a popular scripting language most commonly used with a web server to produce dynamically generated web page . . .

• Links by Evgeny Brednya is updated to 0.97
  Links is a text-mode web-browser. . . .

• AiR-BOOT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.91b
  AiR-BOOT is a Multi-Boot partition loader with some extra features built in . . .

May OS/2 eZine now available

2002-05-16 20:56:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Robert Basler]

OS/2 eZine is online.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• From The Editor -- Robert Basler finds a Mozilla to love.

Editorial

• It's Not Easy Being a Convert -- Roland Casselbrant brings a bit of outside perspective.
• I've Got Everything I Need . . . Almost -- Pete Grubbs

Reviews

• Virtual PC for OS/2 -- Robert Basler reviews this highly anticipated application.

Articles

• Advanced Virus Filtering with Weasel -- John Bijnens is back with an improved email virus filter.
• Securing your Internet Connection -- Robert Basler helps those of us with always-on internet sleep a little better.

The Art Department

• Cool desktops for you.

Forums

• Ask Bas and John -- Bas Heijermans and John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
• May Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.