1 Million DEMO disks

2002-10-11 14:13:59 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [ecomstation@yahoogroups.com, Kim Cheung]

I know many of you have been waiting for this day and I want you to be the first to know (officially): 75,000 copies of the eComStation demo will hit the street of Germany on October 16th - as part of a DVD insert inside the German version of the PC Magazine.

We have provided them with an ISO track of the eCS demo that's base on the soon to be released eCS 1.1, as well as a eCS VPC container file. On that same DVD, there is a copy of the VPC/Windows demo. The reader can get a key from the Connectix site, and get to see eComStation right away from their Windows desktop. The container version comes with sound enabled. Once they install the VPC/Windows, they can start the eCS demo, and the Flash tour that you see here starts automatically - with sound!

Zero install, zero hazzle way to see eComStation. Now we are busy ramping up the web sites to get ready to accept orders - and to have 1.1 available to ship!

This is it, folks! With luck, I expect to reach 1 million demo CD circulation by the end of 2003.

Our sincere thanks to everybody - and we do mean *everybody* - not just the programmers but mostly importantly, all of the eCS 1.0 customers - for making this possible.

Ich kann das machen!! :=)

P-CAD and MathCAD in OS/2

2002-10-08 03:07:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is an overview about P-CAD and Math-CAD capacity for work in OS/2 environment (russian text). We are interested to know if Lotus Domino server/Win32 works under OS/2 using Odin.

Donate a copy of eCS to Mrs. Ballmer! ;)

2002-10-08 03:06:47 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Thomas Klein]

Hi folks,

just ROTFL because of what I read today in german newspaper "die zeit" (times) online news: M$'s Steve Ballmer complains about XP being too difficult to use for his wife!! According to the news, he's in search of the "finally right PC" for his spouse...

Well, heck! If Bob St. John could dig out Mrs. Ballmers e-mail adress, I'ld gladly donate my copy of eCS to her so she can check out what *real* operating systems are about. :)=)

Unfortunately I couldn't find an english version of that news, so the URL is only for german readers, I'm afraid. Have fun anyway!

OS/2 in sci-tech lab

2002-10-05 17:44:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Step by step we fill our collection of successful OS/2 usage in industry. Here is a story from one of labs of Russian Academy of Sciense (russian text).

OS/2 is an excellent base for creation of industrial devices and embedded solutions.

APeCS report

2002-10-05 00:34:40 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (66 programs updated) :

• tvisor by Digi is updated to 13.09.2002
  Calc traffics . . .

• TVisorClient by Digi is updated to 17.09.2002
  GUI client for tvisor (receive statistics over TCPIP) . . .

• INIFix by Paul Ratcliffe is updated to 1.0
  A pair of VIO utilities which clean up the OS/2 system INI files . . .

• Norman Virus Control by Norman is updated to v5.4
  Anti-virus software for OS/2 . . .

• Major Major by Peter Moylan is updated to 1.5
  Major Major is a mailing list manager for OS/2 . . .

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

• LaTeX to RTF converter by - is updated to 1.9.13
  latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the RTF format used by various text processors, most notably Word. . . .

• XSane by Franz Bakan is updated to 0.88
  XSane is a powerful graphic front-ends for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning libsane.dll (e.g . . .

• DrWeb Daemon and Sendmail Filter for OS/2 by Igor Daniloff's antivirus Lab. is updated to 4.28
  Beta version DrWeb Daemon 4.28.2 for OS/2: Ported version of DrWeb Daemon for UNIX . . .

• CommuniGate Pro by Stalker Software Inc. is updated to 4.0b8
  The leading high-end Internet Messaging platform, CommuniGate Pro has set a new industry standard in scalability and reliability . . .

• TAMARACK TC9021 MAC Driver by - is updated to 1.00
  TAMARACK(tmi) TC9021 MAC driver. . . .

• StarLogo by - is updated to 2.0
  StarLogo is a new version of Logo . . .

• Character Map/2 by GlassMan is updated to 2.0.0
  You can use Character Map/2 to insert into documents extended characters not found on most keyboards . . .

• FileCommander/2 by Brian Havard is updated to 2.30-dev
  File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner . . .

• FtpServer by Peter Moylan is updated to 1.10
  FtpServer is an ftp daemon for OS/2 . . .

• Web Family Tree by Peter Moylan is updated to 0.41
  WFT is a program that lets you display your family tree via a web browser . . .

• DASD Driver by IBM is updated to 10.083
  Driver update for DASD: HDD, CD-ROM, Floppy support. . . .

• Rexx/Gd by - is updated to 1.0
  Rexx/gd is a Rexx interface to the gd graphics library . . .

• Digital Camera Image Transfer Utility by Stephane Charette is updated to 1.8j
  DCITU -- Digital Camera Image Transfer Utility -- adds OS/2 support for more than 40 different models of digital cameras . . .

• Texas Instruments Cardbus Driver by Daniela Engert is updated to -
  Socket Services Driver which supposedly supports all TI cardbus bridges . . .

• vCOMPAT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.23b
  VCOMPAT is a special VDD, that will fix some issues in VDMs to further enhance compatibility . . .

• AiR-BOOT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.93b (RC-3)
  AiR-BOOT is a Multi-Boot partition loader with some extra features built in . . .

• JAlbum by David Ekholm is updated to 2.3
  Web photo album generator . . .

• BootAble by Hajo Baan is updated to 2.8
  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 . . .

• PM Downloader by ErOs2 is updated to preview 5
  PM Downloader is interactive multithreaded network retriever for OS/2 Presentation Manager which supports HTTP and FTP protocols for downloading files . . .

• Tonigy IFS by Defgroup is updated to 1.7
  Tonigy is an Audio/Video/Data CD IFS for OS/2 that maps tracks of Audio CD into WAV or RAW files, tracks of Video CD into MPG files and tracks of Data CD into ISO files . . .

• jOggPlayer by WebARTS Design is updated to 1.1.3
  An open source platform independant Graphical Vorbis Ogg Player! Developed using Java, so if your system has a Java VM you can use this app . . .

• WarpOverlay! by Valery Gaynullin is updated to 1.05
  The main goal of this project - provide modern motion video players, like WarpVision, with accelerated YUV->RGB color conversion and scaling . . .

• WWMastermind 2D by Stefan Wesarg is updated to 1.0
  WWMastermind 2D is based on the classic idea of finding a combination of colors . . .

• VNC Viewer by Akira Hatakeyama is updated to 1.0
  VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing, developed by ORL . . .

• Jigsaw by Jigsaw Team is updated to 2.2.1
  Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java. . . .

• JEdit by Slava Pestov is updated to 4.03
  jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. . . .

• NICPAK by Chuck McKinnis is updated to -
  The NICPAK package is a collection of various NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers and a tool for detecting and installing them . . .

• MIDI Station Sequencer by - is updated to 3.0
  MIDI Station Sequencer is a powerful and complete MIDI and Audio workstation for multi-track recording, editing, real-time mixing and hard-disk based audio sampling . . .

• EMT4PM by Daniel Valot is updated to 4.30
  EMT4PM can build diskette images write diskettes from diskette images build ARDI self restorable images convert existing images to ARDI self restorable images graphical user interface version (GUI) command line version (VIO) . . .

• IDE HDD S.M.A.R.T. Monitor by - is updated to -
  An OS/2-based S.M.A.R.T . . .

• JPhotoBrush by Tanveer Rameez is updated to 2.0
  This is an Image Editing and Enhancement Application/Tool written in Java 1.3 making extensive use of Swings and Java2D . . .

• LogView by Wolfram Schmid is updated to 1.10
  LogView is a logfile and text file viewer program for OS/2 and eCS . . .

• DirDiff by Wolfram Schmid is updated to 2.03
  DirDiff is a Directory compare program for OS/2 and eCS and compares all files in two sub-directorys or whole directory trees . . .

• WarpVision by Alex Strelnikov is updated to build 20020827
  OS/2 video player (it handles tons of video and audio formats). . . .

• WarpVision GUI by WarpVision Team is updated to build 20020926
  WarpVision is an OS/2 video player . . .

• JNapster by Michael Ransburg is updated to 0.6
  JNapster is a Java implementation of the famous Napster client . . .

• Virtual PC by Innotek is updated to 5.0
  Virtual PC for OS/2 allows you to run additional operating systems on top of your OS/2 system . . .

• KeyRing/2 by IDK inc. is updated to 2.1
  KeyRing/2 is a secure database for all your passwords, registration codes, lock combinations, Bank PINs - any small secret . . .

• XMP (eXtended Module Player) by Kevin Langman is updated to 2.0.4
  XMP is a Module player that can play an incredible number of different Module formats . . .

• PCI by Craig Hart is updated to 0.47vk
  This utility examines your PCI Bus (including devices on the motherboard, AGP port, CardBus ports and within the PCI chipset itself) and reports in detail what it finds . . .

• z! by dink is updated to ogg beta 2
  Cool MP3 player . . .

• ZOC by EmTec is updated to 4.07
  Zap-O-Comm (ZOC) is a high power terminal client for telnet, SSH, modem, ISDN, and more. . . .

• Art Of Illusion by - is updated to 1.2
  Art of Illusion is a full featured 3D modelling, rendering, and animation studio. . . .

• StHWMon by Stefan Milcke is updated to 0.18 beta Build 717
  Health monitor for mainboards with W83781D/W83782D/VIA 82C686 chip . . .

• DaniATAPI by Daniela Engert is updated to 0.3.12
  DaniATAPI.FLT - replacement for IBMIDECD.FLT, IBMATAPI.FLT, DaniADsk.FLT and all other ATAPI related filters . . .

• DaniS506 by Daniela Engert is updated to 1.5.1
  DaniS506.ADD - replacement for IBM1S506.ADD . . .

• Semtex by - is updated to 1.0c
  Semtex is an OS/2 shareware game . . .

• WSFormat by Martin Vieregg is updated to -
  WSformat is a formatting and printing program for Wordstar (DOS) files . . .

• UniAud/2 by IBM is updated to -
  UniAud/2 is based on the GPL ALSA Project from Linux . . .

• ConfigTool by Goran Ivankovic is updated to 1.2.0
  ConfigTool is CONFIG.SYS editor with searchable database which explains the entries, sort and checking routines, boot/recovery options and suggestions for optimization . . .

• socksd by nickk is updated to 1.3
  Native multithreaded socksd server with built-in TCP/UDP portmaps . . .

• Audio Index Utility by Marcel Mueller is updated to 0.1 beta
  Create index of MPEG or Ogg-Vorbis audio files . . .

• Helper scripts for encoding and decoding MP3 and Ogg-Vorbis files by Marcel Mueller is updated to 0.1 beta
  This REXX script collection is intended to support the WPS integration of lame and the Ogg-Vorbis RC1 tools . . .

• USB Scanner Support by Maeda Haruyuki is updated to 0.3
  USB scanner support driver. . . .

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

• LXAPI32 by Stefan Milcke is updated to Build level 1295
  Linux API support layer driver . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 5.03
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• phpMyAdmin by - is updated to 2.3.1
  phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web . . .

• Amouse by Noller&Breining Software is updated to 2.1beta
  This is alternate mouse driver . . .

• Inet.Mail Perseus by Hethmon Brothers is updated to 2.0.9
  Inet.Mail Perseus for OS/2 is a full featured SMTP/POP3 server for the OS/2 environment . . .

October 2002 VOICE Newsletter

2002-10-03 23:30:59 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Mark Dodel]

The October issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online.

In the latest issue you can find:

• A better View of the World Wide Web. - by Mark Dodel
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 2 - by Thomas Klein
• jetty:// - 100% Java Servlet programming under OS/2 - by A. Nonymous
• Warpstock Europe - the other annual OS/2 event - by Gerrit Schoenmaker
• How to create your own (small) ISP, in 3 easy (and 57,245 difficult) steps. Part 1- by Michael W. Cocke
• How to create your own (small) ISP, in 3 easy (and 57,245 difficult) steps. Part 2- by Michael W. Cocke
• How to create your own (small) ISP, in 3 easy (and 57,245 difficult) steps. Part 3- by Michael W. Cocke
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

Netlabs.org is alive

2002-10-03 23:27:35 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Adrian Gschwend]

Adrian Gschwend (webmaster) is happy to announce opening of refreshed Netlabs.org.

After a way too long time I finaly went to Hamburg for a complete server update! I worked a lot on the backend the past months, we now have a decent content management system (CMS) to keep our projects up to date! Everyone should now be able to support us also with just a minimal HTML knowledge! (you are very welcome to contribute, simply send us an email :-)

Beside the HTML update I completely cleaned up the server, installed loads of new deamons and wrote a bunch of REXX sccripts to clean up logs and so on. Wow it's nice to work on the machine now :-))

Beside this I successfuly finished my exams (yeah!), now I'm writing my diploma work an in January 2003 I'm a free man with plenty of ideas for netlabs.org -> you will get much more in the near future, I promise!

You are welcome to browse the projects, the navigation is somewhat different and the project detail pages look different as well. Odin application database is better integrated in the new design now, but I need some days to finish the wizzard as well to allow uploads. Plenty of other changes are planned (including a rebranding to netlabs.org btw) but I'm still too busy to finish it right now so it will change within the next months, I promise!

Thanks a lot to Arne Blankerts for having a nice time in Hamburg and for sure to n@twork for hosting netlabs.org on a excellent backbone!!

Competitions "eCS/Rus 2002"

2002-10-03 17:45:55 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Small competitions with useful and unuseful prizes.

To stimulate activity of our users we run this group of competitions (sorry, russian page only). General goal of this project is adding "details" to eCS/Rus product and its improvement.

Additional software for eCS/Rus 1.1

2002-10-03 17:30:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We collect information about additional software for eCS/Rus 1.1 operating system. Every application or driver will be approved by Serenity Systems!

It's not necessary put all OS/2 software to CDs. We are searching for:

• system utilities which simplify installation and configuration of OS;
• applications which demonstrate features of OS/2 platform;
• drivers and control programs for modern devices.

We collect information but final decision belongs to Serenity.

Localization of your software

2002-10-03 16:54:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, banshee]

Russian users can help you translate product to russian language. For example, a spanish developer requested localization of WarpExpander application.

This expands quantity of your users and reduces number of stolen english copies. :)

Warpstock 2002/Europe

2002-09-25 22:21:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is a summary of some letters related to Warpstock 2002/Europe. Read common info, view photos and suggestions.

F/X introduced support of MS CBCP

2002-09-25 22:19:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Rostislav]

Rostislav contacted the company and here is a hot message: Software of F/X company will support MS CBCP protocol (Microsoft Callback Control Protocol). Its development is completed.

eCS/Rus bugreports

2002-09-25 22:15:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCS/Rus 1.05 is better than native version ;) Nevertheless, we collect bug reports and suggestions related to the product. Here is our e-mail.

Softool in Moscow

2002-09-25 20:27:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Softool is a exhibition in Moscow related to informational technologies.

Microsoft conquested russian market. In this situation, some companies continue development of solutions based on eCS. IPLIT company is working in science area (laser hardware, etc) Some of products are based on eCS system. We collaborate with the company and present eCS/Rus here.

Objects growed by laser and eCS/Rus box in the backgound.	Flyers with description of technologies and eCS/Rus flyer too.

Now we are preparing for full-value presentations of eCS/Rus and solutions based on it.

eComStation Tour

2002-09-25 13:16:25 -- Deniska [www.eComStation.Com]

On eComStation.Com you're now can see an overview tour about eComStation operating system. Go here to view it. You'll need Flash-plugin installed.

Public catering

2002-09-18 01:35:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

OS/2 is around. It's "Warped World".

Another example of successful OS/2 usage -- 'EXPERT' - hardware-software complex for public catering (russian text).