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Web applications / Re: Django
« on: May 13, 2016, 04:42:24 pm »
Anyone familiar with django?

https://www.djangoproject.com/

Is it available for OS/2?

Looks like it should work as we have all prerequisites.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with JFS
« on: May 13, 2016, 04:24:29 am »
With older versions of JFS, I've had chkdsk run  out of resources a few times, IIRC, with a 8or16GB partition and a GB of memory except the last time, which was a newer one and running chkdsk once the system was up succeeded. Previously there was one time where even the Linux fsck couldn't finish, ended up mounting it read-only under Linux and copying everything off the partition. Another time the Linux fsck finished really quick successfully and another time I was saved by using the undocumented /d switch, chkdsk f: /d.
I've also seen the marked clean but dirty warning a few times. My guess is the journal didn't get finalized during shutdown but the drive was still marked clean.
The only thing I've lost was parts of my Thunderbird profile when the computer ran out of shared memory and trapped while downloading mail.
I now use a script to run chkdsk on my data partitions after the system is up, which also has the advantage of running 2 instances of chkdsk, one for each drive.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing Boot Manager on second disk
« on: May 11, 2016, 07:16:36 am »
Not only that, grub won't boot OS/2 unless chainloading on the first primary partition as C:
Last time I used Grub, it installed itself into the MBR and I had to set it to chainload BootManager.
OTOH, my son screwed up his Win7 install and can only boot it with Grub :)

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey 2.35a2
« on: May 11, 2016, 02:59:09 am »
Sorry, I'd forgot that I used the icu from the experimental repository, icu-56_1-1_oc00
For those not using YUM/RPM, Steve has updated his mozsupport package at http://os2news.warpstock.org/Warpzilla.html

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 04:38:51 pm »
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The problem is I have an 8GB drive and FAT16 has a max partition size of 2GB.

I did create a 2GB FAT16 partition using DFSee but was unable to access it outside of DFSee.

Maybe the drive itself needs to be configured in some way for OS/2 to access it...

Should I completely wipe it first?

Use DFSee to set it up for FAT32 (it'll wipe it and put in a new MBR IIRC), then after it works, re-partition it and reformat it


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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 08:31:39 am »
Hi John, in DFsee under scripts there should be options Make FAT32 Data (USB) disk >> and similar for FAT16. Use those and follow directions.

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OS/2 does not currently support exFAT

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Internet / SeaMonkey 2.35a2
« on: May 09, 2016, 01:54:49 am »
I've uploaded https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.35a2.en-US.os2.zip, commesr updated to 38.8.0, Bitwise currently at 38.6.1, along with various fixes from Bitwise, who are given a big thanks.
New requirement is icu (yum install libicu) for internationalization support in JavaScript and if the FFmpeg/Libav (not FFmpeg 3.x) DLLs are found in the Libpath, MP4 and AAC should be supported in HTML5 video.
Yum install ffmpeg_libs or I have a couple of minimal libav builds at https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/libav/downloads. They'll have a couple of small requirements such as libz and bzip2.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: May 08, 2016, 06:09:29 am »
John, do you have %TEMP%, %TMP% and %TMPDIR% correctly set pointing to a writeable volume? Probably should use \ in %TEMP% and %TMP%. IIRC Firefox first saves to %TEMP%

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Internet / Re: Firefox 38 problem
« on: May 07, 2016, 04:04:33 am »
The danger is having an older DLL on the LIBPATH, including the dot where it can be loaded by another program. One example that bit a few people was having the real libc065.dll in ecs\dll or os2\dll, which only stopped add-ons from working
Assuming you have installed exceptq, are you getting trp files in your program directory?
Are you sure you have fontconfig set up properly.
Personally I hate needing all these DLLs and prefer static linking, which is what I did for a long time and Peter did before. Unluckily the Python shipped with RPM/YUM is the only one that works to build Mozilla and it has become easier to just use the whole environment. I'm also stuck on dial-up that makes it hard for me to upload any builds I do, otherwise I'd do and upload a mostly static build.

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Internet / Re: Firefox 38 problem
« on: May 06, 2016, 05:25:19 pm »
If it is running long enough to do the DIVE test, it may be a bad fontconfig install or an old DLL, probably gcc*dll, stdcpp*dll or possibly a libc06*.dll that is not a forwarder.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing OS/2 on 320GB disk
« on: May 05, 2016, 04:08:32 am »

I have been unable to create a 320GB partition on the disk using LVM.

You probably need an OS/2 friendly MBR with CHS values that fit in 16 bit variables. The usual way is to use DFSee to wipe the MBR and write a new one.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: April 29, 2016, 02:57:14 am »
Flash is no longer supported and will fail in various ways.
That error is usually the plugin not finding the Flash binary due to registry corruption or stuff being moved around. Being a Windows binary, the usual advice is to reinstall Flash.
It may also be a problem with pluginreg.dat in your profile, delete with Firefox closed and retry.

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Setup & Installation / Re: NIFS for Intel NICS
« on: April 28, 2016, 02:50:18 am »
Just plug it into a USB2 socket. Won't be as fast but USB3 is supposed to be backwards compatible so it should work. Of course still need a network driver for it

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: April 27, 2016, 04:39:26 pm »
layers.acceleration.disabled can be toggled in about:config.

It could be a buffer overflow. It would explain why it just vanishes.
Workaround, you could install awget (hobbes) which includes a plugin and also can check the clipboard and passes downloads to wget.

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