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Hardware / Re: OS/2 Warp Motherboard - CNC machine
« on: September 23, 2016, 06:38:59 pm »
That looks like an old IBM Valuepoint 486 motherboard. The extra power connector is for the PCI daughter board.
Takes a standard 3v lithium button battery. It's not unusual to buy some to then find out they are flat to start with.
If you manage to get past the date/time problem you might need to go into CMOS and try different harddisk settings.

It would also be an idea to use a brush (while the unit is earthed but off) to clean a lot of that black stuff off the SIMM's and motherboard. A blower (not industrial!) would be good  to remove the lose black stuff after its had a brushing (3-4cm wide paint brush).
Also reseat the SIMM's and CPU if you haven't.

edited for grammer

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 Warp Motherboard
« on: September 23, 2016, 06:25:42 pm »
Hm, that PC board looks like an old IBM ValuePoint motherboard with a 486DX66, 75, or DX4-100

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Hardware / Re: HP Color LaserJet MFP M477fdw
« on: July 27, 2016, 05:43:13 pm »
One of the reasons I stick with HP printers, they all seem to work with the old(er) drivers minus the extras.

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Article Discussions / Re: Writing bug reports
« on: July 25, 2016, 06:56:35 pm »
Hi Lewis,

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not posting a direct link, as I know that Ian does not like his site scraped

am I really that bad :)

It's ok to say it can be found in http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/memory/index.html, I have mentioned a few times in the past it better to give a directory link as a complete link to a file has a chance of change when older versions are moved to an "/old" directory.

re scrapping, I normally overlook minor indiscretions, its just the big multi Gb ones that are annoying.

If anyone needs access, click on the readme link on the home page top left. Only bots are denied.

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Applications / Re: fb
« on: July 22, 2016, 07:46:54 pm »
?

0 byte file :(

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Programming / Re: Scitech Software
« on: July 17, 2016, 05:32:24 pm »
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Does anybody remember if Scitech MGL 6 worked on OS/2?

I'm trying it with Watcom C. I cant be 100% sure but it does appear to work with errors. The errors all look to be to do with me.

So.. ya, include it.

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Programming / Re: Scitech Software
« on: July 16, 2016, 09:59:15 am »
Hi Martin,

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Did MGL has some runtime DLLs ? or not?

I'm checking some of the software that requires MGL and it does not include any special DLLs, only some that includes SDDHELP.SYS, and that says it is required to be loaded for MGL to work.

MGL comes with

Directory of D:\mgl\1\drivers\x86
23/11/05  10:41      65536           0  freetype.bpd
23/11/05  10:41     123392           0  jpeg.bpd
23/11/05  10:41     148992           0  png.bpd

which are MGL binary portable modules. These look like portable DLL's that depend on the SciTech SNAP SDK already being installed for your operating system. More information below/attached.

I have attached the full readme.txt file from the drivers directory.
SciTech Multi-platform Graphics Library
Version 6.0 - Release 23
Getting Started Guide

I will have to install it to check it out but not on my main OS/2 PC, need it working at present :)

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Programming / Re: Scitech Software
« on: July 15, 2016, 07:51:42 pm »
The reference guide is not much use, its actually the v5.0 one dated 2003.
The files are all dated 26th October 2006.

The readme.txt does include this..

 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-src.zip        - SNAP source archive in DOS/Win format
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-win32.zip      - Win32 hosted base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-os2.zip        - OS/2 hosted base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-drivers.zip    - SciTech SNAP device driver binaries
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-util.zip       - Source code for base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-docs.zip       - SDK documentation in HTML format
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-pdf.zip        - SDK documentation in Adobe PDF format
 mgl_6.0-r23-src.zip             - MGL source archive in DOS/Win format
 mgl_6.0-r23-drivers.zip         - MGL binary portable modules
 mgl_6.0-r23-font.zip            - Base font and bitmap archive
 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf1.zip            - Free TrueType Font archive 1
 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf2.zip            - Free TrueType Font archive 2
 mgl_6.0-r23-docs.zip            - MGL documentation in HTML format
 mgl_6.0-r23-pdf.zip             - MGL documentation in Adobe PDF format
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-src.tar.gz     - Source archive in Unix format
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-linux.tar.gz   - Linux hosted base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-qnx.tar.gz     - QNX hosted base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-drivers.tar.gz - SciTech SNAP device driver binaries
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-util.tar.gz    - Source code for base utilities
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-docs.tar.gz    - SDK documentation in HTML format
 snap_sdk_3.1-r23-pdf.tar.gz     - SDK documentation in Adobe PDF format
 mgl_6.0-r23-src.tar.gz          - MGL source archive in Unix format
 mgl_6.0-r23-drivers.tar.gz      - MGL binary portable modules
 mgl_6.0-r23-font.tar.gz         - Base font and bitmap archive
 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf1.tar.gz         - Free TrueType Font archive 1
 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf2.tar.gz         - Free TrueType Font archive 2
 mgl_6.0-r23-docs.tar.gz         - MGL documentation in HTML format
 mgl_6.0-r23-pdf.tar.gz          - MGL documentation in Adobe PDF format

I assume you already have this information but here it is anyway.
I'm calling it a night so will unzip the files and look further in the morning for you.

I see I also have ftp.scitechsoft.com\devel
26/10/06  20:41   36477788           0  full_depot_r23.tar.gz
26/10/06  20:57   45296094           0  full_depot_r23.zip

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Programming / Re: Scitech Software
« on: July 15, 2016, 06:15:44 pm »
Hi Martin,

Looking through the SciTech archives of MGL v6.0 dev and beta, doe not look like there are any OS/2 drivers listed.
64 bit, pcc, and generic 32bit bpd's.
If no one else knows I'll unzip the files and look more indepth at the generic 32bit files on the off chance there is something OS/2 related there.

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General Discussion / Windows 10 and Your Harddisk is Locked messages
« on: July 09, 2016, 07:44:33 am »
Doing the father thing and looking at my daughters laptop which acts like a brick since it was auto updated to Windows10.
Though this might help others in the same situation as I've come across this twice now, the first time I came across it I
ended up booting a Windows7 disk and zeroing the HD boot sectors before I could reinstall Win7 to replace Win10. The
data wasn't important and the person concerned wanted Windows7 back so they could use their scanner and printer
again.

Searching both the Microsoft and HP websites on locked harddisk messages when attempting to boot Windows 10 gets me no end of rubbish that is just plain wrong.

I tried this authoritative fix from the HP forums. Similar answers are to be found on other forums including MS's website.


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Insert your Windows10 DVD into your DVD drive.
Reboot and select "press any key on the keyboard to boot the computer with the bootable media.
On the first window, select your preferred language, time and currency format, and keyboard layout and click Next.
On the next window, click Repair your computer from the lower-left corner.

This can take up to 3 hours before you are presented with your Options menu.

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From the Choose an option window, click Troubleshoot.
Click Advanced options from the Troubleshoot window.
When the Advanced options window opens, click Command Prompt.

This can take another hour before you have your Command Prompt window.

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At the command prompt window, type

"Bootrec /fixMBR"  <== give this about 10 minutes
then
"bootrec /fixBoot"  <== give this about 15 minutes
then
"bootrec /rebuildBCD"  <==  Give this about 2-3 hours..

Then allow Windows to enter AutoRepair on reboot and go to bed.

The next morning you see the message that the Autorepair has fixed your problems but it also states..

  "0 Partitions found"

Reboot and get the same "Disk is Locked" message.
Seems to be a problem with Microsoft's weird container ideas they use for system images.

Give up and boot a linux DVD, see that the Windows partitions are actually there and readable.
Run a Linux based antivirus program and remove the boot infection from "frostwire-setup.exe".

Reboot and it now all works.

Booting from Windows10, running recommended fixes,  about 16 hours.
Booting from Linux, antivirus scan and repair, about 30 minutes.

Checking the Linux forums it turns out that simply booting from a Linux CD or DVD and reading the mounted Windows drives fixes the problem. So I could have fixed the issue in about 5 minutes but left the infected file behind.

I've had a few run in's with Windows 10 this year, none of them have been simple fixes, all re enforce my opinion that Windows 10 is a glorified buggy datalogger.

(edited to fix spelling)

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Programming / Re: db_mt.zip
« on: June 27, 2016, 07:13:48 am »
Hi John,

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That's excellent Ian, apart from the fact that anonymous retrieval via wget is not allowed.

I could enable anonymous access via FTP but then there would be no website access, and I would have no internet access at all due to the saturation of my link. I like to use my internet access occasionally, therefore the restrictions.

People, including some with OS/2 identified strings like to download the same files in the same directories on repeat, with multiple streams. I consider this a DoS. There is no reason to attempt mirroring the entire website, with multiple download threads from multiple IP's that end up downloading the same file x number of times. This became a very common occurrence, one that leads me to believe someone simply wants to piss me off or get rid of the website.

It's one of the main reasons I introduced username and password access to os2site.com. We can use the internet link that we have paid for, I don't need to pay more for an increase in data on my current internet plan, others can use the link to see the websites here, and the person paying the bills is a lot happier, me :)

It is also someones favorite pastime to tell me how stupid I am to host a website at home, they aren't willing to pay for server hosting though, and I wont be updating the website remotely if its hosted somewhere else because it becomes to slow and difficult to do using a remote link.

Hope that explains a bit why things are the way they are.

I've downloaded db_mt.zip from http://www.ilyaz.org/software/os2/db_mt.zip using a normal browser, it redirected to the ftp link and downloaded fine. It's the same one of yours I have on os2site.com.

(edited for grammar)

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Programming / Re: db_mt.zip
« on: June 27, 2016, 06:53:56 am »
Hi John,

Would db_mt.zip be the same one here http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/perl/index.html?

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Applications / Re: New QTpy from BWW Bitwise
« on: June 25, 2016, 01:51:05 pm »
Hi Paul,

In relation to Electrum, apologies, I thought I had posted my last update but obviously didn't checking that post.
It works but slowly on my OS/2 PC so I never tried it on the server. Went back to using Linux full client until the last
increase in oomph needed for bitcoin I gave up generating blocks, also gave up on keeping a client updated so it
became a non event for me :(

I have July off so I might revisit it, simply because if I can get it working on the server then it might be the
prompting I need to start using it and mine blocks again or not but wont know unless I look at it again :)
Block creation however isn't one of my high priorities at present.

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Programming / Re: db_mt.zip
« on: June 23, 2016, 06:34:38 pm »

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Hardware / Re: mSATA
« on: June 19, 2016, 12:42:54 pm »
I'll be watching you try to see what the results are :)

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