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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Re-joining the forum

« on: September 25, 2024, 11:44:01 am »

Hi Nathan,

I am also seeing other people from around the same time period (some of whose threads I participated in) whose posts show they have also been converted to "Guest" users, indicating that their accounts have also been deleted.  I wonder what happened to cause such a purge of non-spam accounts from around the same time period...

That might have been when a server fault developed, may not have been spam account purging.
Martin has a better memory that I of server problems

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Re-joining the forum

« on: September 24, 2024, 05:09:00 am »

Hi Nathan,

Apologies, might have zapped your account by accident during a cleanup of spam accounts, rarely happens but we are human.
If you could contact me off forum with the email address and any other details you can remember using and I will see if it is possible.

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Virtualization / Re: VirtualBox: Can't copy files to a shared folder under ArcaOS guest

« on: September 21, 2024, 09:45:19 am »

Hi Neil,

I noticed the same thing under Ubuntu with ArcaOS installed in Virtual box after upgrading Virtualbox to v7.0.20. Figured it will get fixed sometime so simply use linux file manager or terminal to copy or move files on the host system.

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General Discussion / Re: Introduction post....

« on: August 16, 2024, 12:01:06 pm »

Hi Jason,

Welcome to OS/2 World

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS 5.1

« on: August 03, 2024, 09:59:49 am »

Hi Remy,

You should return your protocol and other files that Injoy firewall changes back to original so the injoy drivers and settings are removed.
You will find the uninstall command file in the documents somewhere, not near my server at present so cant check what it was.
The uninstall procedure will not delete any files, simply return the ini files back to normal. After you upgrade ArcaOS, simply rerun the install file.
Same procedure applies if you want to run mpts to change network drivers etc.

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General Discussion / Re: gmail validation is not supported ?

« on: July 16, 2024, 09:17:05 am »

I havent checked, does os2world.com have DKIM records in the DNS?
gmail now requires DKIM records.

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Applications / Re: A thought remote 2 local

« on: May 26, 2024, 11:37:57 am »

Hi Jan-Erik,

Similiar to Application As a Service (AAS)?

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General Discussion / Re: Team OS/2

« on: March 21, 2024, 09:20:24 am »

I use to be on several OS/2 groups on LinkedIn but noticed I've been removed, on checking those groups still exist.
I do not think its due to being removed by those that run the groups as I note that I was also removed from IBM & NCR ex associate groups as well.

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 30, 2024, 12:47:12 pm »

After 32 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/after-32-years-one-of-the-nets-oldest-software-archives-is-shutting-down/

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 30, 2024, 09:25:34 am »

After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/01/29/2310242/after-32-years-one-of-the-nets-oldest-software-archives-is-shutting-down

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 28, 2024, 02:36:55 pm »

Shame, my vote was with hobbes.os2voice.org for the reasons you give.

I also agree having two upload sites is asking for problems, better to have one mirror the others incoming but you also run the risk of missing files when incoming is cleared. There are ways around this.

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 13, 2024, 07:06:00 am »

Hi Valery,

I stopped the mirroring, (unless someone asked me for FTP access with username access) as an entity was mirroring the website constantly, as in machine gun constant with a large number of IP's from different ranges - yes, it killed my link all the time. I would ban the IP's and they would pop up with a new collection of IP's from several ranges. This coupled with all the new search engines back then ignoring robots.txt etc, I decided I had better things to do with my time so I added limiting and blacklisting rules.

That being said, Roderick/Voice have hosted os2site.com for the last couple of years now so it is no longer on an Australian HFC link

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 11, 2024, 01:06:53 pm »

replied 

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 10, 2024, 02:33:25 pm »

Hi Roderick,

I already send an email this morning to you as well Ian :-)
I send it to your gmail address.
Roderick

ok, checked my gmail account, mostly full of rubbish as I rarely look at it, you are better off emailing me at ian@ the os2site.com website
Have a lot to think about at present but limited time to do so.
Thinking it might be easier if I got paid hosting but that limits options as to software that I can use. I think I will have to maybe go the linux route locally for os2site.com and mirror that to an external host, either way Roderick, your version of os2site.com would then be able to be updated regularly though the preference is for your version to pull the updates from my version.

Martin, yes, I would keep the last version of hobbes that I have mirrored before I moved, the last version of hobbes as it would be the day before it is closed down, and a version that you would be free to update, modify etc.

I would simply add a date to the older versions of hobbes at https://www.os2site.com/mirrors/ so there would be a hobbes_2021 and hobbes_2024. Gives you an option to have the new location called Martin if you like Webservers have this wonderful thing called 'rewrite rules'.

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement

« on: January 09, 2024, 12:31:48 pm »

Maybe one idea will be to work on http://www.os2site.com/sw/ and try to find an upload mechanism for it.

Thinking about it.

Old os2site.com website, old mirrors section, new os2site.com website based on what you have done at hobbes that you have access to.
I do have a stable location now, with a fixed IP and rev delegation.

I did continue updating my copy of os2site.com for a while but wasn't able to update os2site.com which is hosted by Roderick since I moved as my os2site.com is OS/2 server based and Rodericks is Nix based.

It is easy enough to enable file viewing under Apache with SFTP access to update the files, bit harder to add descriptions though Apache does allow file generic descriptions.

Anyways, I will update my offline hobbes mirror shortly, and going into the hobbes close down date. Just got to blow the dust off my server and plug it in again...
Might look at trying to put os2site.com on linux here as Roderick has done, then maybe Roderick could mirror the new os2site.com instead.