Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Neil Waldhauer

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 76
1
General Discussion / Re: Hobbes is down
« on: June 13, 2025, 03:58:04 pm »
Nathan informs me that HobbesArchive.com is back up.

2
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.

Quote
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When I noticed that my access to the Netgear system was no longer active, I did shutdown the system at 10:50 am per my last access to the NAS per my computer.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.

3
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.

4
Internet / Re: Dooble releases-Qt6
« on: June 08, 2025, 05:51:17 am »
There are no "Above 4 GB" settings. This is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M90t Gen 5. All my memory posts are just after boot with very little running.

Fortunately the end user probably does not need dooble-QT6. I am successfully running it on some of my older systems.

5
Internet / Re: Dooble releases-Qt6
« on: June 07, 2025, 09:32:19 pm »
Here are some mem/v results with different VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT

Code: [Select]
{0}[c:\] grep VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT config.sys
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560

{0}[c:\] mem /v

Total physical memory:     15,998 MB
Accessible to system:       1,670 MB
Additional (PAE) memory:   14,328 MB

Resident memory:              148 MB
Available virtual memory:   1,440 MB

Available process memory:
  Private low memory:         336 MB
  Private high memory:      1,792 MB
  Shared low memory:          257 MB
  Shared high memory:       1,715 MB


grep VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT config.sys
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=1536
mem /v

Total physical memory:     15,998 MB
Accessible to system:       1,670 MB
Additional (PAE) memory:   14,328 MB

Resident memory:              148 MB
Available virtual memory:   1,440 MB

Available process memory:
  Private low memory:         338 MB
  Private high memory:        896 MB
  Shared low memory:          259 MB
  Shared high memory:         819 MB


grep VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT config.sys
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=3072
mem /v

Total physical memory:     15,998 MB
Accessible to system:       1,670 MB
Additional (PAE) memory:   14,328 MB

Resident memory:              148 MB
Available virtual memory:   1,440 MB

Available process memory:
  Private low memory:         337 MB
  Private high memory:      2,240 MB
  Shared low memory:          259 MB
  Shared high memory:       2,163 MB


I'm using the default, SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 2048

This is a new computer with an i7-14700. With hyper-threading OFF, it has 20 processors.


6
Internet / Re: Dooble releases-Qt6
« on: June 07, 2025, 01:30:54 am »
I'm trying dooble-QT6 on a new computer.

Code: [Select]
SYS0008: There is not enough memory available to process this command.
All available memory is in use. "QT6WEBEN"

This is the output of mem /v

Code: [Select]
Total physical memory:     15,998 MB
Accessible to system:       1,670 MB
Additional (PAE) memory:   14,328 MB

Resident memory:              148 MB
Available virtual memory:   1,424 MB

Available process memory:
  Private low memory:         337 MB
  Private high memory:      1,344 MB
  Shared low memory:          258 MB
  Shared high memory:       1,267 MB

I'm using VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560
I marked every DLL to load code into high memory -- most were already so marked.

I think for some new machines, dooble-QT6 will be out of reach...

7
Hardware / Re: URGENT Need for OS/2 Compatible Inkjet Printer
« on: May 31, 2025, 03:25:02 pm »
I provided OS/2 support to several semiconductor equipment manufacturers. The equipment lived in a clean-room environment, and the OS/2 computers were embedded in the equipment. The operating system was OS/2 Warp 3/Connect with no fixpaks.

USB is out of the question for Warp 3/Connect. If you've got Warp 3/Connect, then Ethernet would be available, and you can print that way, which would be superior to the USB/parallel port. If you have TCP/IP installed at all, you should be able to find the TCP/IP configuration panel for it.

While I doubt an inkjet printer will be available with a parallel port, perhaps an ethernet connection would work. I'd recommend that with one of the printers that supports PCL. You may have to use the HP Laserjet 4 driver already in Warp 3.

8
Storage / Re: How to discover the newly assigned USB drive letter?
« on: May 14, 2025, 03:25:31 pm »
Code: [Select]
x = SysDriveMap()
externalDiskLetter = ''
do while x <> ''
   parse var x this x
   i = SysDriveInfo(this)
   parse var i letter free total label
   if strip(label) = 'Blue 2TB' | strip(label) = 'Red 2TB' then do
      externalDiskLetter = strip(letter)
   end
end

9
Setup & Installation / Re: Troubleshooting process trap/dump...how?
« on: May 05, 2025, 03:24:05 pm »
Rsync would crash here, too. I was doing a pretty large network rsync, but reliability improved greatly when I removed a lot of EA from my files. I used eaclean to remove the unnecessary UID, GID, MODE, INO, RDEV, GEN, FLAGS EAs. A side benefit was that my rsync ran several times quicker.

10
I can't seem to do it here, either. I thought I had done it earlier.

I did find the neat command to enumerate my changes:

Code: [Select]
vboxmanage getextradata $YOUR_VM_NAME enumerate
The administrators guide to VirtualBox says you can set the resolution of the host to be up to the resolution of the host, but it isn't working here.

I did try this
Code: [Select]
VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution any
Edit: I changed from
Code: [Select]
VBoxManage.exe setextradata "ArcaOS RC" "CustomVideoMode3" "3840 x 2160 x 32"to
Code: [Select]
VBoxManage.exe setextradata "ArcaOS RC" "CustomVideoMode3" "3840x2160x32"
and it does come up. However, one time I got VirtualBoxVM.exe application error: A breakpoint has been reached.
Another time, it boots at requested resolution, but it isn't working very well. The mouse gets confused, going from host to guest, and screen looks funny when I shut down.

11
I appreciate what you are doing to make a Warpstock presentation.

OK, picture I am on Linux or Windows, and I'm running ArcaOS inside a VirtualBox session. I'm also running a web browser on the host platform. Inside that web browser, I have dozens or even hundreds of tabs open. Those tabs are running diverse web applications, such as office suites, email clients and database front ends.

From time to time, the web browser is going to call a native app. I want it to be possible to configure that native app to be an OS/2 app running in the ArcaOS session. I also want the OS/2 WPURL object to open a web page on the host in a reasonable way. These two capabilities shouldn't be difficult, but do require some specific OS/2 customization.

This should have been easy with DSOM. I'm sorry DSOM went away or we would already have these capabilities.

12
Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: April 25, 2025, 05:05:37 am »
Thanks! I downloaded and followed Martin's instructions and I have dooble-QT6 running.

Interesting observation: I wondered if I was missing some depenencies, so I ran PMDLL Qt6WebEn.dll

PMDLL does not do anything useful after that. Maybe it was never intended to work on such a complex DLL.

13
Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: April 24, 2025, 01:24:20 am »
When I try to download https://smedley.id.au/tmp/qt6weben-6.2.6-20250124.zip I get a 404.

I'm trying to follow Martin's guide to installing Qt6 and Dooble on page 1.

14
Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: April 21, 2025, 04:38:08 am »
NOTES: this code taken from Dr. Dialog

#define IDDLG_DIRECTORY             5500

15
Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: April 19, 2025, 04:09:04 pm »
In the FILEDLG structure, set the usDlgId member to IDDLG_DIRECTORY to get a dialog that can select directories.

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 76