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Applications / Re: Arca Noae Package Manager Comments
« on: January 20, 2016, 08:00:16 pm »
After I installed the Package Manager and downloaded the needed packages, finally, I could use OO.
BTW, yum/rpm installs a lot more than just some DLLs.
And you do know in detail what yum/rpm did? No, see my first comment about it. And what if something breaks, you know how to solve?
Up to now I did install all myself. Yes, had have troubles in starting up, but always it did go back to or nothing mentioned in the read.me, install or whatever they call the file or I did read it wrong because my native is not English. I just want to know what's happening on my machine and what's installed on it.

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Applications / Re: Arca Noae Package Manager Comments
« on: January 20, 2016, 01:26:26 am »
But I kind of like how RPM/YUM manage the library prerequisites of the packages, and it makes it easy to install everything from a server instead of going package after package.
Sorry to say, but it makes you dumb/stupid. All is done by a program, what's happening you don't know. So you also can't solve problems because you don't know how to. Why are OS/2 users handy with their systems? Because they did install it all by "hand", they know what's happening. Why is Windows always a disaster? A program does the work, the register is way to deep and way to nested. Information is not on one place in the register. User don't know what's happening and how its done, all is shielded.

So a clear readme solves the problem for OS/2 and we can invest the time better in applications which makes the OS more attractive. My two cents so to speak. We are OS/2, not Windows, not Linux. So don't try to be one of them, they have already the struggle to understand our desktop, don't make it any harder.

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Applications / Re: Arca Noae Package Manager Comments
« on: January 19, 2016, 09:37:12 pm »
Linux FHS sucks, look at it, they call that organized, my ass. I also dislike RPM/YUM, when it fails your in deep shit on your system.
Its so easy. OS/2 components OS/DLL, all other dll files in ECS\DLL. If only used by the program, in the program directory. What's so difficult with that concept. By doing so you have most lines already in config.sys. It keeps the config.sys also clean and tidy.


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Applications / Re: Coolreader 3.1.2
« on: January 11, 2016, 12:06:12 am »
Version 3.0.57 works well:
ftp://cyberia.dnsalias.com/pub/filebase/gfd/app/misc/cr3.zip
No, this version doesn't work on my system. As usual, no manual. As usual, too short information in the readme or in this case install.os2. According instructions in this file it should work, but it doesn't. All I get is that the program can not start and if I want to examine the path and so on. Path is okay, its put in by OS/2. Only thing could be memory, but how much does the program need?

Found the problem. The file kintl.dll was missing on my system. So I downloaded wget-1.14-1-os2.zip from Hobbes. Put the dll in the ecs\dll as it is not a part of OS/2. CR3 is starting now, but I don't have files, so I can't test if it works.
Again proof that the readme or whatever instruction is short of information. Sad...

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Storage / Re: Share a 2TB USB drive between Windows and OS/2?
« on: December 28, 2015, 06:02:20 pm »
Little bit of topic. Always installs more than one drive in your computer. Be sure your power can handle the load easily, I always use factor 2. At start up a drive uses the highest amps and they do start same time. Because your power is twice what's needed it will stay cooler and less stress at tops. Clean the fan now and then, it helps. Now you have at least two drives in your system. So you can copy important data on both drives. Its very unlikely that both drives will fail same time. Have backups on also more drives, so you can have important data on more backup drives. If your private user, don't backup too often, once a month or so. Backing up more often does have the risk that you backup not noticed problems with it (from own experience). Backup is one thing, restore is totally different. Try at least once to be sure you have a working set for your system. I use a backup system which lets me the choice to make a restore in a total different configuration. As we go along our views, way of thinking and insights will alter and do have the outcome that we will do things different, after all we are the thinking generation...

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Applications / Re: Java applications
« on: December 20, 2015, 03:56:25 pm »
Managed some time ago this year to install DataCrow and run it without stalling or so. But I had problems with importing pictures. There is a warning on the official website. According the website its some incompatibility between Java from Oracle and OpenJDK. But we don't have a choice. To make a long story short, I found out that PNG images are read and saved in the database. If you go to the database and you peak around you will find your images as....JPG. But those are not accepted when you want to import them, so I wonder what's wrong. I have updated my website.



An other problem was downloading. The author has moved to an other web location and with this move he erased all files. The only available are the ones for minimum Java 7. I wrote about it and now the 3.12.5 upgrade version is also available. But this is downgrading and I haven't test it. You can download version 4.0.1 from my site. Its a huge file, ouch for my web space... You can find the page here http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl/os2ecs/ecs6e37.htm

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Applications / Re: Java applications
« on: December 20, 2015, 03:03:31 pm »
Managed today to install DataCrow and run it without stalling or so.



I'm busy with a page for my homepage with as usual a file with cmd files and an icon. I hope I can put it up today, otherwise check it later.
You can find the page here http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl/os2ecs/ecs6e37.htm

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Storage / Re: Share a 2TB USB drive between Windows and OS/2?
« on: December 19, 2015, 05:24:47 pm »
All backup programs which works through drivers do work, I do backup with a backup program on USB disk. All backup programs which do work direct with media needs to know how the media works, as progress is going more rapid with time its to be expected that all backup programs which works direct with media will vanish, the investment is too high to develop or rework source time after time. I use 120Gb USB drives for my backups and have real problems to fill it. My harddisk of 160Gb is formatted for 100Gb, the remainder is never touched. 2T, that's a nightmare, what do you do with it?

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I use dSync/2 v.0.1.6z. You have to write a simple small script which tells the program what to do. I have subdirectories on the backup drive with the name and drive letter. In this way you can always see to what drive the backup belongs to. You can restore with a script, but you can also take a file manager like FC/2 to restore one file or the complete drive.
As a private user I backup every two months. If a drive is going wimpy then that drive is backupped more often as long as it is safe. If its becoming unsafe the drive is replaced. Restore is easy. There is still a small problem with dSync/2. If you have programs that run in dosbox then all the files  that the program touched are backupped every time, for some reason the backup bit is not set. Besides this small problem the program runs now for many years without problems.
Why this program? The only things you need are OS/2 with drive support  and this program which can be started from a floppy if needed. If things go terribly wrong you mostly don't have all the needed programs and have to start from scratch with minimal support. I have had this situation and this setup did work (for me).

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General Discussion / Re: What to do with OS/2 Books?
« on: November 15, 2015, 12:24:59 pm »
as far I can know it seems that do not have copyright issues
It does, in about every book I have (few hundred) there is a page with the text that it is not allowed to reproduce in any way with sometimes explicit list of systems.

Regards

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Applications / Re: Help: YouTube Live / VLC / Firefox / Flash
« on: October 04, 2015, 05:34:39 pm »
H.264 is not supported in OS/2-eCS. Is this internal FF or an add-on? Flash sucks and remains Windows code, Adobe is unable to translate it to other OS'es, question is why?  Backdoor politics?

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Applications / Re: How to install from external USB CD/DVD?
« on: September 23, 2015, 12:32:29 pm »
Hi Martin,

In the bios you have set USB 3.0 mode to "auto", set it to "off" or something. So first time its a go, second time after spin down its probably reset.  Forcing to usb 2.0 mode or even to usb 1.0 mode is always better. I'm not sure if install will negotiate with a drive if it was set at first time right and second time needs again negotiation for what mode, my guess is that it will run down installation procedure and the time of scanning and negotiation with parts is behind. So forcing hardware to work in a OS/2-eCS acceptable mode is always better.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 31.8.0 Beta 5 - First Impressions
« on: September 23, 2015, 02:19:54 am »
One other difference between 24ESR and 31ESR is that 31ESR supports VP9. VP9 is more CPU intensive and I understand Google prefers it or will prefer it soon. Whether this is part of the problem or not I don't know.
I think it is. With 24ESR the user (program) cpu usage stays around 60%, never above 80% (on my system with single cpu). With 31ESR the same footage gives user (program) cpu usage around 70% with spikes up to 98%.  So more cpu is used, but the spikes tells me that something is wrong with the buffer. It looks like the buffer is too short. Ie, buffer is filled, footage playing, after a short while you get buffer under run (buffer is almost empty and can't fill next frame), buffer gets filled and this cost cpu power, so with not enough for next frame the footage halts and sound too. After buffer is filled footage goes on uninterrupted up to the next buffer under run. I didn't found a setting for buffer.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 Google Trends ?
« on: September 21, 2015, 07:37:42 pm »
According to https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3031966  there are two reasons that we are in lite mode which has restrictions on such things as route dragging to change. Normal mode relies on 3D and a webGL enabled browser.
Yes, I know, but they lie about the dragging and dropping, did it before without 3D and suddenly you need 3D for it? Just merchandising to get you to an other system which does support what they offer, your warned, they sold the drawing/cad app to an external firm some time ago, they are now locking up some favorite things, tomorrow (whatever day that may be) you can't use your own data anymore in their "office app" store and this will go on. And if you want your data back you probably have to pay for it because today your already not the owner of this data, read "the small text" in their end user license.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 Google Trends ?
« on: September 21, 2015, 07:29:06 pm »
...ohh, this thread really shifted away... sometime happens :)

Just to clarify, the Google Trends are refereed to the people that are searching for the "OS/2" words on their search engine. It seems there was a raise of people searching for OS/2 on Google lately, because of the Apple Watch OS 2.

I was just posting it as a curious thing.

Regards
Martin, my comments just cover that too. You type in "OS/2" in the search engine and you get lots of stuff which doesn't have "OS/2". First you get adds in some high ranking search founds which of course have nowhere the search pattern "OS/2". I regularly do it in finding stuff for our system. Some years ago it did give you what you asked for, today they serve you with answers which do right to their pockets.

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