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Applications / Synchronizing files between several machines
« on: October 05, 2014, 06:49:07 pm »
Hi

I want to know which tools are you using to synchronize files between several machines (eCS against eCS, or eCS against other OS).

I was tempted to use "owncloud". But for what I read you need to set up a PHP server to make the "main repository" to work.
I also noticed we have Synkron and rsync ported, but I had never used. I also checked on the wikipedia to see what other alternatives are on any platform.

What do you recommend to syncronize files automatically between two computer that are on the same network? I want something with "no cloud", just that when the two machine finds on the network, it starts syncing the changed on the selected folders.

Regards

392
Utilities / Convert INF to PDF
« on: September 29, 2014, 06:22:45 pm »
Hi

I want to recover all the OS/2 Toolkit documents for EDM/2, since the links to "http://cyberkinetica.homeunix.net" are now dead.

So, I want to ask permission to IBM to republish, but first I need to convert INF files to PDF format, because nobody can read INF file (with the exception of us). Plus I think that PDF will be a better format to put on the web since it can be indexed by search engines, etc.

What do you recommend me to convert the INF OS/2 Toolkit documents to PDF? or does someone has already converted (maybe I missed that)?

I tried INF2HTML which is good, but I need to go to the next step and convert it to PDF.

Regards

393
Applications / Regina REXX vs. OS/2 REXX
« on: September 29, 2014, 04:38:53 pm »
Hi

I have not much idea about this topic, so I wanted to ask you feedback to brainstorm this idea.

Since OS/2 REXX interpreter/libraries are close source, how do you see the possibility to replace OS/2 REXX library included in eCS-Warp4.52 with the open source Regina REXX (as an experiment, I'm not requesting/demanding to do it at your home).

- Do you think it may be something that can be done?
- What is the experience on running Regina REXX OS/2 port on this platform?.
- Is something else that OS/2 REXX has that Regina is missing?
- What can get broken on OS/2 replacing REXX with Regina REXX?

Just go ahead and  give your thoughts on  this idea.

Regards.

395
General Discussion / Hobbes and Libraries.
« on: August 31, 2014, 01:42:25 am »
Hi

I was thinking that maybe it is missing a "lib" directory on hobbes where it stores libraries for the platform (Binaries and source code).  Even that libraries are just apps too, I understand it like DLLs that are used by other programs, like Cairo, SDL, Qt, etc, etc. I had noticed that a lot of binary libraries file are located on "/pub/os2/dev" and I'm not sure that is complete right. (even that a library can be seen as help for development).

What do you think about asking to create "/pub/os2/lib" at hobbes? Do you think it is necessary some sub-directories to classify the libraries? (Audio, video, graphics, Qt, rexx, java, ?).

Regards

396
Events / Are you going to WarpStock USA?
« on: August 29, 2014, 11:06:07 pm »
Hi

I wanted to go to WarpStock USA this year, but sadly I do not have the funds for the trip. I will only be there via Skype --- talking about how great open source software is :) 

But I want to know who is going and to see if they can share content with community.  If you can take pictures, write review, record vide, help there with local live streaming, anything that you can share, please let me know.

I will really like that the content and things said there get preserved for the community.

Regards

397
Programming / Doxygen and XWorkplace
« on: August 27, 2014, 07:55:40 pm »
"Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D."

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/

It is open source, there not an updated version for OS/2, and the GUI tool for OS/2 seems to only run on X11.
So I tried on Windows first and made a quick and dirty report from the XWorkplace code.

I really liked what the tool generated.


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I'm sorry Alexander that your forum thread got hi-jacked by this old conflict. There is a old conflict between Eugene, that sells eCS russian software, and some other Russian developer groups.

We are merry and fun community of users :)  ....but sadly I need to reply hard on this issues and try to explain a more philosophical point of view about Open Source to Eugene.

Eugene, it is hard to discuss with you because you don't support the Open Source model, and sometime it is hard to understand your english. (my personal opinion) Money is important, and developers needs to be paid, but that does not mean that it is obligatory to produce close source software and charge for license. To me close source software today is future abandonware... because everybody will leave to be an OS/2 user in one way or other ..... or do you think we are going to leave this life alive? :)

Selling license is a 90's model that is getting close to the end. Selling software in commodities like Operating Systems, Office Suites, Web Application servers and a lot of other software sales are getting complicated because of the options you have in the market.

Eugene, you offer a library that is freeware (not open source), and someday you may change your mind, you may start charging money for it, or even someday you may die (like everybody here) and all your software will became abandonware. Instead the open source software has the possibility to live forever without depending on the developer. Please try to embrace the open source model. Thanks to open source we have firefox, OpenOffice, XWorkplace..... yes, the effort of the developers is important, but if we didn't have Firefox open sourced in the first place today we will not have a browser at all. Money is important, but this is a community, not a marketplace anymore.

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....when you made efforts to collect money for new fraud (port network drivers, etc).
Eugene, it seems that you don't understand that this kind of comments hurts you instead of others. We all know the issues on both sides (eCo Software vs Russian developers) and I'm sick of that. We are not here to define who is good or bad, we only discuss things.  Eugene, if you have problems that hurts your business, please start with legal actions and please stop this.

Returning to open source. Open Source is the only way we have to reduce the #1 issue of this community.
The #1 issue is that this is orphan platform, IBM dumped us, and nobody has OS/2 source code available to keep improving it components. I want to this platform to live forever and evolve in time, while other just want drivers, other just want their things working, other just wants to make money and other just wants their business software running. On which side are you?

Open Source will set the platform free, once we get our freedom, we can turn from a community to market again, and you can sell all your products to get millions. But right now, if we want this platform to endure in long future we need to collaborate, and open source is a formal way to do it with clear rules, and we all need to put the shoulder. 

Or.... we can try to squeeze the last dollar to the 400 (?) OS/2 community users left? Should we turn OS2World under paid subscription? :)     ....oh.. that was what killed WarpCity.... I should stop digging into the past, I may wake a Balrog :)

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Programming / OS/2 API graphic Map
« on: August 26, 2014, 05:03:52 pm »
Hi.

Some time ago I made some efforts to try to document OS/2 architecture at a high level (here some attached files).

Now I want to try to understand better, at a high level, how is the OS/2 APIs begin organized and try to generate a high level graphic about it too.

Example: This is an in-complete graphic example from the EDM/2 OS/2 API project.



My questions are:

1) Do you think that the OS/2 API Project at EDM/2 has a good organization about it? http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Category:The_OS/2_API_Project
2) Do you have any references to try to have a diagram on how the APIs are organized?
3) Any suggestions to try to organize it?

I have not practiced with UML in a long time, but if you have good examples of what can be a good way to diagram the OS/2 API organization, that can be better than this mindmap,  please let me now.

Regards

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General Discussion / Audio/Video Streaming for Events
« on: August 11, 2014, 06:31:32 pm »
I will like to discuss the idea of Audio/Video live streaming on Events.  I want that "on-premise" events had more online presence and for people that is not able to be on that events can also be there in some kind of way.

Even that I will like this for WarpStock and other meeting, I'm not discussing it to be implemented on any of the events now. So I hope this do not create any false hopes. This is just to give ideas to the possibilities.

So, we all know that OS/2 is limited on the Video Streaming area, so putting the ego aside, I'm considering all platforms I know.

And I want to discuss the possibilities.

Option 1) UStream and Android.  The most easy thing.
To have someone with an Android phone and UStream sharing the content on the UStream portal.

Advantages:
1) It is easy as hell to configure and requires little hardware.

Disadvantages:
1) An Android phone is not a camera and to not get tired it needs a tripod. Can you get a phone tripod?
2) The audio and presentation that shows up may not be a nice/sharp for the online viewer. Also any demo from OS/2 showing will had to be phone recording the projector screen.
3) The online viewer requires Flash. I haven't see an option to watch UStream on VLC for example... but it will be good to take a look.


Please, if anybody has experience with Audio/Video streaming on OS/2 or other platforms please post your ideas.

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re-organizaing OS/2-eCS Directories.
« on: July 21, 2014, 04:44:51 am »
Hi

I still dream of a next version of eCS (or anything else) that improves the directories structure to have a more clean C:\ root. Some years ago I wrote some suggestions like this one (Recommendation #8 – Directory and File Structure ).

I want to know how hard will be to move some folder from the standard structure. I still dream of moving:
- DMISL
- IBMCOM
- IBMGSK
- IBMGSK40
- IBMGSK50
- IBMLAN
- LANGUAGE
- MMOS2
- MPTN
- MUGLIB
- PSFONTS
- TCPIP

Possible a good site for those folder can be under "/OS2/System".

What do you think.? Do you have any experience moving those directories? Which ones can be moved easily and which one of those are hardcoded and can not be place somewhere else?

Regards

402
Internet / Firefox 17.0.11 - Couldn't load xpcom.dll
« on: July 12, 2014, 05:17:34 pm »
Hi

I recently installed Firefox 17.0.11 (Warpin Unofficial - thunderbird-17.0.11esrpre.en-us.os2-wpi.wpi) on a fresh eCS 2.1 installation. I installed the latest libc, gcc and the Mozilla fonts.

When I run Firefox I get the message. "Couldn't load xpcom.dll".

1) Just in case I added X:\Programs\Firefox to the path and libpath, and did not worked.

2) A also thought that it was because firefox xpcom.dll was in conflict with an older thunderbird xpcom.dll, so I installed also Thunderbird 17.0.11 WPI and I have both xpcom.dll on the same level. But it keeps giving the same error.

Can you please give me hint? Am I missing something on the config.sys?

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Programming / GitHub Repository - Public OS/2 Source Code - Feedback
« on: July 10, 2014, 06:07:30 pm »
Hi

Like you may know I had been collecting all open source and public available source code for the OS/2-eCS platform on the GitHub Repository.  I'm still checking on hobbes for source code.... currently stuck on "/pub/os2/dev/mm" directory but when I finish the rest of "/dev" subdirectories I will complete this phase.

As next step, I want you to check and give me feedback on the "Drivers" that have public source code that I have stored:

Please check the list at: http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Open_Source_Software#Drivers

Please let me know:
1) If I'm missing any other driver on the list which source code is publicly available.
2) If I have some wrong information about what does the driver does, it's license or any of the text of the driver list.
3) Any other feedback, but only related to the drivers part.

Help is appreciated.
Regards.

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Applications / Suggestions on how to recover the eCS MBR.
« on: July 06, 2014, 02:51:17 am »
Hi

I have eCS 2.1 with Windows 8.1 dual boot on a machine. Installed eCS and Windows later. Windows brokes the eCS boot, but with EasyBCD I used to have no problems with Windows boot loader helping to dual boot both OS. But lately Windows broke the eCS  MBR and the Windows boot loader does not work to boot eComStation.

What do you recommend to recover the eCS MBR? I tried booting the eCS CD in maintenance mode, changing the "startable partition", rebuilding the LVM partion tables and using "Rewwrite MBR" option, but it does not work, Windows boot loader keeps loading first on the boot. I have two "Primary" partitions, the first one for eCS, the second one for Win8.1.

Regards

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Events / OS/2 Guru Jam Session (= conference)
« on: July 04, 2014, 08:03:32 pm »
Hi Eugene.

Can you please explain how is the "OS/2 Guru Jam Session" conference it is going to work?

I have this news, but it needs more details.
http://www.os2world.com/past-news/82-events/20364-os-2-guru-jam-session-conference

Regards

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