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#1
Hardware / Windows based ATM's
2012.06.21, 20:48:16
I see this to often these days. Not a good look is it. ATM near corner of Cambridge and Jersey St's in Wembley, Western Australia.
Went back and took some photos of this one lastnight while I was walking the dogs. Normally I don't bother but this time I thought I'd make the effort.

I can never seem to make the images stick the same when ever I link them, so have added as attachments.

I see something like this about every 2-3 months. The older OS/2 based NCR 56xx models I only ever saw an OS/2 screen once (ignoring the boot screens when I use to service them).

Cheers
#3
Judge Alsup Asks Oracle&Google To Brief API/SSO Issue in Light of EU Ct of Justice Ruling on APIs ~pj Updated 2Xs

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120503175821298
#4
Hi,

Probably not looking at what ports and i/o are on it :(

I run os2site.com and several others on a VIA C7 miniITX board, NIC, graphics, audio and USB are all supported under OS/2.
http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/productSeries.jsp?serialNo=2

Cheers
#5
Martin Iturbide has also been repacking a lot of sound drivers that are on Hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/os2/system/drivers/sound  as well as at http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/audio/index.html - see sound_blaster_awe32-sb32-sb16_19970101.zip

With the SB 16 PnP cards, I had better results installing manually in config.sys as well as system.ini, ie, specifying IRQ and Port address. should be info re that etc in the file(s) somewhere.

Cheers
Ian
#6
Hardware / Re: RAM vs CPU upgrade
2012.04.19, 19:54:33
Hi Doug,

I think your having a senior moment :)

QuoteA CELERON processor is what is known as a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). That means that it doesn't have the internal smarts that a Full Instruction Set Computer (FISC) has. One of the main differences is that a FISC computer, when told to multiply two numbers, does that in one step. A RISC computer will add the number to itself, as many times as necessary to get the right answer (I told you it is very simplified). Since a program like a browser uses a lot of heavy duty calculations, you can notice a difference.

A Celeron is a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing), the same as any other x86 line of CPU's from Intel/AMD etc. RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) is a chip such as the IBM PowerPC etc. Totally different beasts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_instruction_set_computing

Cheers
Ian
#7
Mail-News / Re: Enigmail and Seamonkey
2012.04.17, 08:52:02
Hi,

enigmail-1.3.5-os2-i386.xpi is at http://www.mozilla-enigmail.org/download/release/1.3/ , I know Dave compiled this for Thunderbird but not sure if its been tested with Seamonkey but the best place to find out is probably http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.ports.os2

Cheers
Ian
#8
Hi Todd,

Don't know about Mensys but I use ircd-hybrid-7.0.3-os2.zip, (hmm, couldn't find it on hobbe's, I'll have to drop a copy in) from http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/chat/server/index.html at irc.os2site.com 6667

Cheers
Ian
#9
Hi WarpWorld,

QuoteI saw on OS2Site.com (I think that write right adress) for download boot diskette for Warp 3. Also,who need you can download absolutely legal from Lenovo site tool for making OS/2 start up diskette,right there- http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/os2_ews/loaddf.zip

I also keep the OS/2 v4 boot disks on os2site.com, these are/were all publically available from IBM so no problems with these. The OS/2 Boot CD has a lot more copyright material as well as more up to-date files than what I have on os2site.com, and they were never publicly released, so I cant publicly host them :(

Loaddsk and savedsk floppy diskette utilities simply create image files from FD's, or create FD's from image files, as you pointed out, from image files like the Warp3 boot diskette image on os2site.com, CDBoot is great for creating updated boot CD's but you still need the original OS/2 install/CD's etc as Radek pointed out.

If Kelvin is a real person I'm more than happy to help him with instructions on using those utilities etc, so I hope I haven't scared him off !  I give people the benefit but as I get older, my rope gets shorter :o)

Cheers
Ian
#10
Hi Ivan and Doug,

I though originally Kelvin might have ment CDBoot the program but I've removed two other posts were Kelvin is seeking ISO's of OS/2 Warp, Warp v4.52  Boot CD's.

He is posting from China so I'm working on the assumption that some education is required  ;)

Since Kelvin's flurry of posts shortly after joining (no claims to be a Google employee, ie, not standard bot), and conveying a sense of urgency in one removed post, Kelvin hasn't been back for 21 hours, at least not logged in.

Cheers
Ian
#11
Hi Kelvin,

OS/2 is not freeware or public domain so a link, or a copy of the OS/2 Boot CD, OS/2, or eComStation cannot be provided.
You might find a copy on eBay etc.

Cheers
#12
Applications / Re: Java6 install question
2012.03.04, 17:15:36
Hi David,

copy the dll to the c:\ecs\dll path

Cheers
Ian
#13
Hi valery and anyone else interested,

os2site.com host some kernel TESTCASE files, and some kernel files that are in IBM publicly available legacy boot images mirrored in the 'boot' section.

I have not made changes to the intellectual property of IBM or other entities to any of the files hosted on os2site.com, all copyright and ownership information remains intact on/in all the files hosted on os2site.com.

I was given permission years ago (hmm, probably around 2000/2001) to keep copies of the testcase kernels on the proviso that I only keep a couple of the latest ones, I am not allowed to put the entire testcase archive online, which is why you will note that the latest/last IBM kernels are not there either.

Kernels that are a part of Fixpacks (ie, contained in the fixpacks) are also ok to mirror as long as they are ONLY the publically available fixpacks. This is also why the latest fixpacks are not available on os2site.com, or on hobbes for that matter.

For someone to commence legal action against me they have to first issue a takedown order, then I have to ignore it's directives within the time limit set, in theory, the reality is no one is now sure of what happens because American law enforcement appears to be able to request local Australian and NZ law enforcement to knock your door down and take all your stuff away before they issue a takedown order on their way out of the door..

Cheers
Ian
#14
Hi AB,

Doesn't matter what Microsoft say, IBM's not even willing to get the legal departments talking because of both the $ involved, and distrust of Microsoft, so yes you could say certainly no ROI for IBM to open source OS/2 according to the accountants, the initial hurdles cost to much, and not much of OS/2 can be used elsewhere anyway. It's in the to hard basket and there I'm sure it will stay.

Cheers
Ian
#15
Hi valerius,

That's the way copyright works, using a little bit of something that's copyright protected is just as bad as pinching the lot. Think of it as you are saying its a little bit dead, so that's not as bad as completely dead - the end results the same :D

You also need to remember its not just IBM but Microsoft that is involved in OS/2 code copyright, if it was just IBM involved I suspect they probably would open source OS/2 code as no one in IBM really cares but because Microsoft AND others were involved, its a different ball game. Bending the law is not better than breaking the law in US, UK, and AU, the penalties are often the same  :(

Everything on your server needs to be clean, the same applies to OS4 code, you cant take what someone else has produced and modify it, to be legally correct it needs to be done in a 'clean room' environment with no 'dirty' (read copyrighted) code involved.

In relation to your Flash512 and BootCD you could provide a howto.txt text file, and all the other non copyright files, leaving it up to the user to add the copyright files themselves. By doing it this way you are in effect 'keeping your hands clean'.

My understanding re the kernels you provide is that you could provide a patch file only, once more leaving it up to the user to provide the kernel themselves as well as a quick readme.txt file explaining the simple patch process. I could be wrong here but as you are not providing someone else's code, or altered code, only the means of altering what the user already has, this then becomes legal.

Cheers
Ian