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Applications / Wiping a hard disk back to 'as bought' condition

« on: January 13, 2025, 07:05:51 pm »

Do we have a way/program that will wipe a hard disk back to 'as new' state?

I ask because since my computer  was messed up by friends trying to use windows on it, I am unable to run many of the programs I used to, it will lock up for no known reason, programs that I used every day no longer start.  I used to have an up time of several weeks now I am lucky to get a day.  I can't afford to get a  new multi TB disk, my pension doesn't allow that kind of expenditure (in the summer not a big problem but with the temp down to 4 C not an option.

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Applications / QT4 Problem - CoolReader 3

« on: December 30, 2024, 11:18:38 pm »

Since there has been a lot of traffic about QT on here I might as well add my problem.  Some time ago I had my computer messed up by friends trying to load windows programs on it.  I have almost got it back to what it was except for CoolReader 3 which requires QT4 runtime which I have.  Unfortunately, although it loads nothing is shown on the screen and since this is the program that displays all my e-books I am at a loss when I  want to relax with a good story. 

Any advice that helps me get CoolReader3 back up and running will be very much appreciated.

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Hardware / cloning

« on: November 25, 2024, 05:14:39 pm »

My question is simple but I assume the answer won't be.  I had friends over and they 'accidentally' messed up my ArcaOS install, so much I had to reformat the boot partition.  I have another computer upstairs that is a copy of the messed up one, now how do I transfer that system to the messed up one?

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Setup & Installation / cloning OS/2

« on: October 14, 2024, 08:14:04 pm »

One of my computers died on me and I would like to clone my work computer to the new one - yes I have backups of all the data but not the OS or the customisation.  So it boils down to recreating what I had when I built that computer over 10 years ago - is it possible?

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General Discussion / RPM to WarpIn

« on: October 12, 2024, 01:37:15 am »

Martin,

I may be an old fogy but I don't see any real use for your "warpsnap" idea unless you have a very small screen (about the size 10 inch tablet).  My 30 inch (2560x1600) monitor has enough space without trying to be smart.

What I would like to see is the return of WARPIN as the main way of installing software rather than trying to use yum to convert OS/2 to Linux

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Internet / firefox question

« on: September 26, 2024, 03:23:28 pm »

This question comes from running out of disk space for the mozprofile directory.
Digging through the files I found a cache2 dir which has a sub dir entries which had several thousand files in it.  I deleted that subdir and got the disk space back.  The problem is it keeps on being created and I don't see a way of killing its reproduction.

Why is it created and how does one get rid of it permanently?

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Applications / XWP Problem - Shut down

« on: July 03, 2024, 09:14:16 pm »

I have just updated xwp 1.0.16 on one of my computers and found a problem or I'm missing something.

All my earlier installs of xwp  actually shut down the computers when I use the extended shut down - 1.0.16 closes the OS but does NOT actually shut the computer down which is what I expect.  Am I doing something wrong or have I missed some setting?

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Applications / Panorama Maximum Resolution

« on: December 20, 2023, 12:28:59 am »

While we are on this topic I have a question.  What is the maximum resolution that can be displayed by panorama?  At the moment I am running 1920 x 1200 on a 28 inch monitor.  I would like to go to 2560 x 1600 on a 30 inch monitor.  Is that possible?

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Utilities / hardware information

« on: August 08, 2023, 11:19:31 pm »

Do we have a program that gives ALL the hardware information especially the make and model of the motherboard?  I am looking for something like the windows Speccy program (see attachment taken from my win data logger box).  Hardware explorer does most things but for some reason does not give the motherboard info.

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Networking / Changing subnet on network

« on: May 23, 2023, 10:29:12 am »

I have a problem. 
I have just moved to fibre from my internet supplier which is great but the the DHCP server in the freebox is set for 192.168.1.xxx and my old network is/was set for 192.168.0.xxx.  The change over on my Linux boxes was simple, just fill out a new profile and I was back on air - not so simple for OS/2 or ArcaOS. I spent a couple of hours tracking down every instance where the old subnet was mentioned and physically changing the refference.

Now the question, is there a simple way to do this change over on OS/2 and ArcaOS?  If so please let me in on the secret.

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Hardware / getting ArcaOS to remember video resolution

« on: May 04, 2023, 05:08:22 am »

Is it possible to get ArcaOS to remember video resolution if it is started without the monitor connected?

I have three computers connected to a Samsung S24E659 monitor (1920x1200) via a HDMI KVM switch.  I had to replace my old KVM switch (don't ask but it involved the cat and the dog) that used to auto sense any of the computers being switched on.  The new switch does not do that but the linux computers remember the resolution and not the ArcaOS one, it reverts to 800x600 which means I need to reset it to 1920x1200, reboot and then rearrange the screen icons back to where I have them normally which is a pain, hence my asking this question.
I wouldn't mind if it switched to 1920x1080, that I could live with.

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Setup & Installation / ArcaOS 5.1

« on: April 12, 2023, 11:53:16 pm »

Why would I want ArcaOS 5.1 if the 5.07 version I have does all that I want - it even runs on my Ryzen third generation processor and motherboard.

It would have to have some impressive improvements to make me want to change and if so what are they?

Change my mind.

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Setup & Installation / NUC (Next Unit of Computing) - Another quick question

« on: February 16, 2023, 11:47:16 pm »

I have a need for a very small portable computer that will run ArcaOS.  I saw this at a friend's place but he is running windows rubbish and won't change so I thought I'd ask for the forum members views.

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Hardware / panorama not remembering monotor resolution

« on: December 01, 2022, 08:11:49 pm »

I have a very annoying problem.  If I boot the computer without the monitor being on panorama reverts to something like 640 x 480 which is stupid on my 1920 x 1200 28 inch monitor. 
Is there a way to make panorama remember the monitor resolution?  I have no problems like this with Linux on the same monitor via a kvm switch.

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Storage / HPFS and JFS

« on: November 20, 2022, 09:38:31 pm »

A friend asked me a question to which I don't have an answer and I was wondering if anyone here could help me.

Why do we use JPS formatted partitions when is anything goes wrong there is no way of recovering that partition?  With HPFS we might lose the odd file but not the whole partition.  My experience is that you had better have a full up to date backup and hope for the best with a JFS partition.