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I want to comment that the Lian Li cases were beautiful to have. I didn't find that they were better, but they were the best looking cases that I found when I was building systems.

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I stopped building my own computers. If you want to build your own, I can understand that.

A quick look at e-Bay found this system for under $100 including shipping, which will run rings around what you propose to build. Graphics are built into the CPU, so I would use Panorama.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324499818422?hash=item4b8db247b6%3Ag%3AxpYAAOSwliBgOU98&LH_BIN=1

I do not know this seller, nor anything about the system other than that I have been using used Lenovo computers for some time, and I like their excellent manuals.

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General Discussion / Re: eCS 2.2 purchase
« on: May 19, 2021, 03:16:47 pm »
So, Neil, you say Arca Noaea does not have re-sellers?

I am an Arca Noae reseller. You can buy ArcaOS from me in digital download, DVD, USB stick, virtual machine, and pre-loaded on laptops, towers and desktops.

http://www.blondeguy.com/computer/BlueLion.html

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General Discussion / Re: eCS 2.2 purchase
« on: May 19, 2021, 03:45:05 am »
The latest current version is 5.0.6 with 5.1 in the pipeline, assuming it is released in the next 6 months, you also will be able to download that.

You will be able to download 5.1 if you pay for it. If there is a 5.0.7, that is included in the support and maintenance agreement.

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Something looks wrong with the file dates. They are all 17-May-2021

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General Discussion / Re: eCS 2.2 purchase
« on: May 18, 2021, 03:53:18 pm »
I sell eComStation. I can sell you the final beta build eCS b2 2.2 (Dec 31) for the price of eCS 2.1. eCS Demo beta 5 is based on eCS 2.2 beta 2 from May, 2013.

Others have said ArcaOS is a much better idea. For your case, I agree with them. If you buy eCS b2 2.2 (Dec 31, 2013), it is pretty much unsupported. You are on your own.

ArcaOS 5.0 was less feature rich than eCS 2.2 b2 (Dec 31), but with the current ArcaOS 5.0.6, it is much better than any eCS.

https://www.blondeguy.com/computer/eComStationForSale.html

The only case where eCS is better is where you have a product based on eCS and you want to buy a license for one more copy of your product. In that case, ArcaOS is not acceptable. I have tried, but Arca Noae will not accept the order. As such, my largest accounts are eCS-only.

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Utilities / Re: controlling stunnel as if it were a daemon
« on: May 17, 2021, 03:28:35 pm »
Can you post the relevant part of stunnel.conf? I'm trying to do something like that, too.

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Martin, I would welcome an alternate archive of OS/2 programs. I think it's an interesting bit of history. A well laid out archive would be a legacy of a legacy operating system. I think you are a good person to do it because you have studied archiving OS/2 material for years.

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on Virtualbox with 8 COM ports
« on: May 06, 2021, 04:16:25 pm »
I'm an OS/2 consultant. I have some picture of the few remaining OS/2 users. There are quite a few industrial automation programs from the 1990s that relied on serial ports communicating to programmed logic arrays to do their machine control. Many of these machines only lack a working OS/2 computer with serial port support to work again.

There is also the dongle situation, which traps users on old hardware. I worked at a dongle manufacturer, and I know that OS/2 was always supported, but never was a large part of the market.

OS/2 developers have the source code for the IBM serial port driver as a part of the device driver developer kit. This support is limited to hardware available in the 1990s, but if hardware documentation were available for new serial cards, someone could extend support of the existing driver.

I don't want to exaggerate the size of the opportunity. Most of my industrial customers have migrated to newer platforms. I'm hoping someone here has a clearer idea of what would be needed to extend the device driver support.

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General Discussion / Re: Installing eCS on a EEEPC 701 with USB
« on: May 06, 2021, 01:00:20 am »
eCS definitely boots from a USB DVD drive.

Unless it is a museum piece, ArcaOS does not support the wireless feature of your laptop.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting with NVMe
« on: April 26, 2021, 05:13:43 am »
I had the same flashing - at some point. I had to order the drives in BIOS so the NVMe drive was first. I had to install AirBoot on the NVMe drive. I had to make sure that the NVMe driver came before other disk drivers in Config.Sys. And I had to make sure that ACPI was not called with /VW.

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Utilities / Re: QT5 Runtime
« on: April 23, 2021, 05:50:55 am »
For Ivan's case, it might be enough to run chk4dll on a system with rpm/yum and the target application installed, then parse the output into a list of files to be zipped. You could automate that process with Rexx.

I can't really see the developer being bothered to do that, but someone who wants to make a non-rpm/yum version could do so without much trouble. Just run yum update and then use chk4dll and your own Rexx script to recreate the distribution.

Although, as Dave Yeo points out, you might have to update as the rpm repository changes. But that only happens twice per day. You could recreate the distribution every twelve hours and you'd be good.

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Utilities / Re: QT5 Runtime
« on: April 21, 2021, 09:30:29 pm »
Code: [Select]
yum install qt5
If you already have simplebrowser running, you already have QT5 installed.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting with NVMe
« on: April 15, 2021, 05:51:48 am »
I got a Vantec PCIe adapter, and installed a 250 GB Samsung 980 PRO (PCIe 4.0 NVMe M,2). It works well, after the driver loads, but I cannot boot from it. The problem is that it is mounted on a plug in card, that the BIOS doesn't know about, so it won't boot from it (because it doesn't know it is there). Air Boot also cannot "see" it, because BIOS doesn't know about it. Most (if not all) machines cannot boot from a plug in card, if the BIOS doesn't know about it. This is true for USB too.

If you have a machine, that knows about the adapter, it should boot from it.

Then again, it really doesn't make much sense to waste one of those things for boot code, unless you boot 14 times a day, or it is your only choice. I am still thinking about how to use it effectively. At least it is non volatile, so it remembers what was put on it, unlike what the RAMDISK does.

I'm booting just fine from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 with a StarTech PCIe-4x NVMe card. It's easily twice as fast as a SATA SSD. As far as being a waste, new machines only have this type of drive, so we need booting support.

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 15, 2021, 01:08:24 am »
Hi Mike, can you please let me know the model of the Lenovo docking station that you are using? If it is not much to ask, can you please take a pci.exe report without the dock and with the dock to notice the difference, so I can add it to the OS2World wiki?

Hi Martin,

I am using the Thinkpad Pro Dock 90W. Please see attached picture for the type plate.


Kindly note that I have the USB3 feature of the X250 disabled, due to problems with the AN USB drivers. Even if only USB2 is enabled I need Lars Erdmann's drivers to use my external keyboard and mouse.

Greetings,
Mike

I have the same dock. It does not work well with Arca Noae USB. If you must use Arca Noae USB with this dock, set USB to Auto in the X250 BIOS and use USB 3.0. Even then I need to unplug and replug the keyboard and/or mouse to get it to work. Before 12.08, it didn't really work at all. Once in 50 times, it traps. If you get a trap screen for this Dock, post it here or open a ticket at Arca Noae.

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