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General Discussion / Hobbes is down
« on: June 10, 2025, 09:57:33 pm »
I got this e-mail from Nathan Woodruff, who operates the HobbesArchive website.

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Someone hacked into Hobbes website this morning and found the IP address for my Netgear NAS box that stores Hobbes website on and all its data. They did a reset on the Admin password and then setup a ReadyNASOS service to wipe the Netgear system back to factory settings. Notice the "Alert configuration was saved" entry is setting the Admin password back to default...

Jun 10, 2025 11:07:31 AM    System: ReadyNASOS background service started.
Jun 10, 2025 11:07:28 AM    System: ReadyNASOS service or process (readynasd) was restarted.
Jun 10, 2025 10:55:08 AM    System: ReadyNASOS background service started.
Jun 10, 2025 10:53:30 AM    System: The system is rebooting.
Jun 10, 2025 10:31:00 AM    System: ReadyNASOS background service started.
Jun 10, 2025 10:30:54 AM    System: ReadyNASOS service or process was restarted.
Jun 10, 2025 10:10:48 AM    System: Alert configuration was saved.

Admin password was reset at 10:10:48 am this morning. 220TB of data are now gone. I do have backups of the professional websites and I can recreate HOBBES but it is going to take some time.

When I noticed that my access to the Netgear system was no longer active, I did shutdown the system at 10:50 am per my last access to the NAS per my computer. I  then turned it on at 10:53am to stop all services to find the problem of no access, only to find out that the background service started back up on its own and finished the process of wiping the volume and all drives.


The person that did this, is a really sick person.  These commercial websites are my only means of income, which I will no longer have.  I do send backups to the 4 companies every month, but the backups are about a month old now. More than likely I am going to lose those businesses.

It might be a day or so before Hobbes comes back up. Can you let everyone know, Thanks.

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General Advertisements / New Lenovo Tower Computer
« on: June 09, 2025, 08:00:09 pm »


Blonde Guy recently shipped a brand new Lenovo M90t Gen 5 tower computer. It was a triple boot system, ArcaOS 5.1, Windows 11 and Debian Linux.

https://www.blondeguy.com/computer/argon.html

ArcaOS has progressed to the point of working with many new computers. Built-in video, sound, network, and USB all function under ArcaOS 5.1. The computer features M.2 NVMe drive support on the motherboard, tool-free installation of SATA hard drives and an assortment of PCIe slots.

The computer features 20 processing cores with hypertheading turned off.

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Off Topic discussions / Warpstock
« on: March 04, 2025, 02:56:37 am »
Warpstock is the in-person conference in North America. The next conference will be held later this year in a city in the USA.

I'm curious is recent changes in US policy make any difference to people outside the USA regarding travel to the USA to attend Warpstock.

I would like keep Warpstock away from politics. Supporting Warpstock neither endorses nor opposes any USA policies. Further, Warpstock is not intrinsically political. The current USA administration has never expressed a view about OS/2.

We'd like to continue to offer the Warpstock conference.

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Web applications / OS2World URL Redirect
« on: February 25, 2025, 04:50:29 am »
Rich: thanks! Typing "https://archive.org" works here, too.

https://os2world.com doesn't work
https://www.os2world.com does work.


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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / OS/2 Licensing
« on: December 29, 2024, 08:41:26 pm »
I'm looking at how people use OS/2. I think people want to try something different, and I see a lot of copies that can be downloaded.

OS/2 is not abandonware. No version of OS/2 is “free”. ArcaOS is based on an IBM licensed OS/2. It's still for sale.

That said, you can freely download any number of OS/2 versions. If you are a licensed OS/2 user, you can legitimately use these downloaded versions.

These are the license classes I recognize

OS/2 Warp 41996 release, without Software Advantage
OS/2 Warp 41996 release including Software Advantage
MCPone of the Merlin Convenience pack releases, 1, 2, 2R
MCPwith Arca Noae software
eCSeComStation release, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2R, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 beta
eCSwith Arca Noae Software
ArcaOSversions 5.0.x, 5.1
ArcaOSwith Software Subscription



While running under VirtualBox, Warp4 needs TCP/IP 4.3 from Software Choice to implement Shared Folders
While running under VirtualBox, Warp4 and MCP both need Arca Noae Software to implement Power Off
Warp 3 probably has the same restrictions as Warp 4
Earlier versions of OS/2 probably cannot run TCP/IP 4.3

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Setup & Installation / Installing CUPS on MCP
« on: December 25, 2024, 05:55:22 pm »
Well, the short answer is to install rpm/yum on MCP, then cups.

But I like the interfaces for Printman and Cupswiz. It makes configuring printers so much easier. I can download these from Alex Taylor's website, and, after installing the prerequisites, I can get Printman to start. Cupswiz initially starts with an error in DosLoadModule, but can be corrected by fiddling with UCONV.DLL and friends.

But, after that, Cupswiz comes up empty. I have both cups and hplip installed, but where did the printer models go? (see attached screenshot)


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Setup & Installation / TCP/IP 4.3 patches
« on: November 11, 2024, 09:48:18 pm »
I'm installing Warp4 from 1996 on a VirtualBox environment. I'm trying to install all the fixes.

I've installed TCP/IP 4.3, but VBoxService wants TCPIP32.DLL, and I'm not seeing it where I expect to see it, in C:\MPTN\DLL

What installs TCPIP32.DLL, and what fixes or patches are available?

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Hardware / Is this WiFi supported?
« on: October 01, 2024, 05:44:19 pm »
I have a USB Wifi dongle.

ID 0bda:c820 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.  (lsusb output attached)



How can I tell if it has a driver under ArcaOS?

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Host system: Red Hat 9.4 (same behavior also under Windows 11)
I installed the extension pack, and my ArcaOS 5.1 guest system. I shared my home directory.

I can copy files from the shared folder. I can edit files with Lotus SmartSuite (I can save the changes.)

I cannot copy (control drag in WPS) files to the shared folder. When I try the system gives error Sys0266: The specified file was not copied. A file with the new name exists in the shared folder, but it has 0 bytes. (see attachment for error message)

I can move (drag in WPS) a file to the shared folder. If that file already exists in the shared folder, then I get Sys0266 error, otherwise the move succeeds.



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Networking / NetDrive error message
« on: July 30, 2024, 10:04:38 pm »
When I boot ArcaOS 5.1 my Lenovo ThinkCentre M920, I get the following error from NetDrive:

OSSS32_Initialize: FAILEDpci_register_driver: query_device found fb 8086:a348 class=40380 checking bt87xUnable to attach 32-bit driver.

And yet I can still mount a drive using ArcaMapper.

What does it mean?

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Multimedia / Improvement in Webcam support
« on: July 25, 2024, 03:26:12 pm »
Starting with Arca Noae USB drivers version 12.16, Webcam support is working with USB 3.0 on all the machines/webcams I have available to test. Prior to this version, USB webcams only worked with the USB 2.0 drivers.

The function is nice and fast, and I see no lag with the picture. Laptops with webcams that are attached with USB 3.0 tend to be much higher resolution, probably because they are newer.

I am using WebCam, UVC Webcam Support for OS/2 (ArcaOS, eComStation) by Wim Brul.

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Utilities / K File Wizard
« on: May 15, 2024, 04:34:17 am »
K File Wizard is a file manager for OS/2 integrating file operations of both the local and the remote support FTP and SFTP. K File Wizard was written by KO Myung-Hun.

I downloaded it from HobbesArchive, but when I try to run it, I get the following error:

SYS0002: The system cannot find the file specified. "KCRYPTO"

Does anyone know where kcrypto.dll can be found?

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Networking / VNC to Ubuntu LTS
« on: May 02, 2024, 08:39:43 pm »
I'm trying to use our VNC to connect to Ubuntu LTS.

It looks like it's trying to work, but I can never get a password accepted.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

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Programming / IBM APL2 for OS/2
« on: January 26, 2024, 01:48:27 am »
I recently obtained a copy of IBM APL2 for OS/2

The previous owner gave me a load of books, magazines and notes on APL. (see photos)

If any APL enthusiast wants these, let me know. I'm in the Santa Cruz, California.


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