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2004-01-18 11:04:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Some applications which grow jointly with eComStation/Rus was updated:
Moreover, some IFS drivers was significantly extended (goto resticted area of www.ecomstation.com site):
- NTFS.IFS - Driver of NTFS file system (now supports compression, perfectly works with USB flash drives, extracts correct dates.);
- UDF.IFS - Driver of CD-RW, DDCD-RW (Double Density CD-RW), DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM file systems (lock and unlock, DVD-RW and DVD+RW, Double Density CD);
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January 2003 issue of OS/2 e-Zine is now on-line.
In this issue:
From The Editor -- Isaac Leung meets The New Year with OS/2
Reviews
- Home Finance Software -- Isaac Leung takes a look at a trio of offerings
Articles
- Salesbook for Travel Agency -- Edgar Scrutton shows what can be done with Mesa2
- PMPDF -- Mike Engle looks at a utility to help you generate PDF's
The Art Department -- Tim Swank has a few fun graphics again.
Forums
- Ask John -- John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
- January Forums
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2004-01-14 23:50:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Eugene Gorbunoff, F/X Communications]
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As you know, work over the Internet requires excessive responsibility from both sides (both employer and employee). F/X Communications has listed some of the possible reasons why a normal work flow is not always possible:
- Developers disappearing for long periods, sometimes even without notifying the company. Examples include military service, illness, problems in the family and even jail.
- Slow and sometimes very unreliable (dial-up) Internet access combined with constant loss of electricity (especially in ex-USSR countries).
- A different mentality and sometimes a very different work-ethics.
- Self-taught programmers that aren't always capable of working professionally.
- Difficulties with managing employees, since the boss can't see what employees are actually doing.
- Excuses about family, like the famous "sick grandmother".
- Poor hardware situations and difficulties with sending test equipment back and forth.
- Poor English capabilities and inability or unwillingness to document the work.
- Lack of team-spirit, if the developers and the manager can never meet in person.
- More...
Please, be careful with taking a job over the Internet if you expect such problems to happen (this relates to work for any company).
One might think that part of these problems can't be controlled by the developer and use that as an excuse, but real-world business doesn't care about that and such problems shouldn't be allowed to continue forever. Developers should work actively to solve such problems or it would be better to find a local job.
Visit F/X here: F/X Communications homepage
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2004-01-14 11:50:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Eugene Gorbunoff]
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Tame/2 1.0 GA is coming. You are welcome to new homepage of the project.
The further development of Tame/2 depends on purposeful users! The developers need either *qualified* testers with clean working systems, ideally with an alternative Linux installation too (just for comparison of debug informations). It is offered join testing of this groups of scanners:
Hewlett-Packard USB-Scanner Product ID
0x1005, /* ScanJet 5400C Not Tested.
0x1105, /* ScanJet 5470C Not Tested.
Snapscan USB-Scanner Vendor ID Product ID
Benq/Acer/Vuego 310U 0x04a5 0x1a20
Benq/Acer/Vuego 320U 0x04a5 0x2022
Benq/Acer/Vuego 620U / 620UT 0x04a5 0x1a2a
0x04a5 0x2040
Benq/Acer/Vuego 640U 0x04a5 0x2060
Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BU 0x04a5 0x207e
Benq/Acer/Vuego 1240U 0x04a5 0x20c0
Benq/Acer/Vuego 3300 / 4300 0x04a5 0x20b0
Benq/Acer/Vuego 4300 0x04a5 0x20de
Benq/Acer/Vuego 5000 0x04a5 0x20fc
Benq/Acer/Vuego 5300 0x04a5 0x20fe
Agfa 1236U 0x06bd 0x0002
Agfa 1212U 0x06bd 0x0001
0x06bd 0x2061
Agfa Snapscan e10 0x06bd 0x2093
Agfa Snapscan e20 0x06bd 0x2091
Agfa Snapscan e25 0x06bd 0x2095
Agfa Snapscan e26 0x06bd 0x2097
Agfa Snapscan e40 0x06bd 0x208d
Agfa Snapscan e42 0x06bd 0x20ff
Agfa Snapscan e50 0x06bd 0x208f
Agfa Snapscan e52 0x06bd 0x20fd
Epson Perfection 660 0x04b8 0x0114
Epson Perfection 1670 0x04b8 0x011f
The only way to surmount the debug stage is continue debug attempts.. This may require some days of active action and *patience*.
If you can't turn your computer room into Tame/2 test banch then you may choose the second suggestion: spend Maeda Haruyuki sample devices (at least one sample scanner for each backend). This variant is more preferable and the only working model now but requires direct investments into hardware and postal delivery.
The message is based on materials received from Klaus Staedtler and news from Jonas Buys.
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2004-01-09 02:25:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, martini]
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Microsoft continues his battle with OS/2. Here is a collection of messages related to ATMs battle.
- Operating System Choices for ATMs
According to this Microsoft propaganda, IBM will stop supporting OS/2 at the end of this year. Of course, "support" is a very vague term - on the one hand, they have already ended "support" for OS/2, and on the other hand, they have promised to deliver device driver "support" for a few more years. Thanks to Daniel Jones for the link.
OS2World.com News Master Notes:
Please also remember to add this features to the Windows ATMs Machines
- Now you will need to Patch your Windows ATM machine at lease once each month due security bugs that microsoft posts. (More maintenace Costs)
- Your ATM machines will get virus at least each 2 months (Many Windows ATMs network had been reported to get viruses) (More costs on fixing this machines)
- You will need to buy an antivirus program for every ATM machine (More Costs on Antivirus Software)
- Are you going to be so smart to get out of a close propieraty OS to fall into another ??
This are good news to Symantec and Panda !!!
Please check this articles:
- Windows ATMs Raise Security Concerns
Banks everywhere are replacing OS/2 with Windows, but are hackers happy? Read details here.
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Monday, December 22, 2003
A recent disclosure by Diebold that its automated teller machines operated
by two financial services customers were struck by the W32/Nachi worm has
heightened concern of even wider disruptions from virus and worm outbreaks,
and highlights a growing security concern about vulnerability of cash
machines running Windows XP and interacting with other Windows systems....
- Windows-run ATM hit by virus
Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, reports MSNBC news here.
That's alarming, but not so much because the ATMs were infected. Rather, it's frightening because banks are apparently using an ordinary, commercial Microsoft O/S which is itself plagued by virus-slash-security problems and needs constant fixes and patches....
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2004-01-08 17:12:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eComStation@yahoogroups.com, David E. Sawyer]
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The link came from OS News -- OS/2 and EComStation are mentioned often and very positiively.
Here's the nicest one of all: "eComStation (OS/2) - Desktop & Server - IBM's OS/2, offering the most usable desktop environment on PCs, is now updated, enhanced and distributed by Serenity Systems as eComStation (by contract with IBM). It's economical, secure, free of worms, virus, trojans, crackers and license raids. It's easy to use, and plays well with other systems (Windows, Linux, etc.). It can be outfitted to run Microsoft Office for light usage."
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The January issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
In the latest issue you can find:
- New Chief Editor at the helm. -- by Mark Dodel
- DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 11 -- by Thomas Klein
- Tapping into the OS/2 Multimedia Structures with REXX -- by Armin Schwarz
- PostArmor: Spam killing in brief. -- by Peter J Brown
- Sharing user profiles between Warpzilla and Mozilla -- by Karl Steinsky
- And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the previous month!
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2003-12-29 15:40:20 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]
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eCo Software released new game 'TiE REVENGE' for children and alien-hunters.
Screenshots of the game:
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Beer barrel
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Your spaceship
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This is a "shoot'em all" game. Author of idea: Dane Torson, graphics and music are borrowed from StarWars.
 Download TiE REVENGE (demo) (6.23 Mb)
P.S. Are you interested to get more eCS and OS/2 native games?
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2003-12-27 03:25:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]
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There is an update of printer pak for eComStation/Rus. Current version 30.800 supports more than 1200 printing devices! (Lists of supported devices: LaserJet, Omni, Plotter, Postscript).
You can download english and NLV versions of Printer Pak from IBM site.
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2003-12-25 21:12:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]
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eComStation.Ru hosts a catalogue of solutions based on OS/2 and eComStation. You can see that the operating system is used in various sectors of russian economy.
We invite you publish information about solutions working in United States and European Community. You may send us common information about OS/2 usage or advertise your own solutions. Supported languages are: english, german, spanish, italian.
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December 2003 issue of OS/2 e-Zine is now on-line.
In this issue:
From The Editor - All Flash and no substance -- Isaac Leung is going to fire web-developers which are using Flash
Reviews
- eZip -- Isaac Leung finds a utility to make your life easier
- Password protectors -- Isaac Leung looks at password protectors
Articles
- Using VisualAge UML Designer to capture and analyze requirements -- Russell Kneebone talks about UML
- C++ Lesson 6: Class Inheritance -- Terry Norton teaches about class inheritance in OOP
The Art Department -- Tim Swank has some holiday artwork for us!
Forums
- Ask John -- John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
- December Forums
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2003-12-17 15:26:36 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Jonas Buys]
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Dated 2003/12/12, Dr. Martin Senftleben and os2warp.be reached an agreement concerning the future of the outdated NoteBook/2 web site, initially developped by Martin. The web site will be taken over by os2warp.be and will be given a new home at www.os2warp.be/notebook2, with the online publication during March 2004.
The old web site will be updated completely. os2warp.be intends to continue the NB/2 initialive and we hope a lot of motivated OS/2 users report their feedback or write reviews about particular notebooks and OS/2 or eCS. The old NB/2 web site will be put offline soon and will then temporarily be hosted at os2warp.be until the renewed one is finished.
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2003-12-17 01:42:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Herbert Rosenau]
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www.ecomstation.de is now online! It is continual growing to the german centre of eComStation. It offers informations and help for interessents, users and developers.
It works close to www.ecomstation.com, but as ecomstation.com speaks only english it will speak only german and presents not only that one can find there.
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2003-12-09 15:24:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eComStation@yahoogroups.com]
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Don "Freiheit" Eitner published his personal viewpoint on "The 13th Floor" web-site.
The idea was spurred by recent discussions about eComStation and virtual machines as well as discussions about things that MacOS X can do that some users feel should be done in eComStation.
Since it is entirely a personal viewpoint, however, any feedback (flames, praise, counter-arguments) can be sent to the author directly.
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2003-12-09 15:23:47 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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An internet provider is searching for two network specialists with os/2 experience in Moscow. [details skipped] |
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