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Hardware / Re: New Computer
« on: January 14, 2015, 11:38:06 am »
Andi,

Regarding the size (rated output) of a power supply a lot depends on what you are attaching to it.  As you say the video card needs to be considered as does the number and rotational speed of the hard disks.  Then the things that are attached that draw power must be considered as well.  If you are just going to use the machine for single user 'normal' tasks then I will agree with you on power draw but go beyond that 'normal' use, add a couple of external USB disks that take power from the host and maybe the odd couple of smart phones that are charging and you have gone into the realm of marginal power - not nice when you are trying to work.

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Hardware / Re: New Computer
« on: January 14, 2015, 12:35:15 am »
That is one of the boards we have on order for testing as a possible replacement for all our workstations.  One of the reasons we are looking at it and the ASUS A88XM-Plus is that they have real com ports even if you have to supply the necessary socket and cable.

With 8GB ram you will either have 4GB doing nothing or a 4GB ran disk if you use QSINIT.

The HD shouldn't be a problem - the machine I'm typing this on has 4 of them in it, all working.  As far as I know there shouldn't be any problems with the SSD, I have a MX100 128GB in my laptop running OS/2.

The power supply is large enough for what you list but if you are thinking of adding more HDs then I would go for a 600W unit.

For sound you may have to experiment to find the best version of uniaud that works with what you have.


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Applications / Re: OpenOffice 4.1.1 GA - pre-requisite uninstall?
« on: January 08, 2015, 01:22:41 pm »
Hi Dariusz,

I installed it last night on our test machine with all the other versions of AOO installed.  It installs to its own directory but does use the Home dir for config files but even there it creates its own directory.

As Pete says, backup what you have then just install as normal - you can always cancel the install if it appears to go where you don't want it.

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Applications / Re: No word from Mensys/XEU - Alternatives?
« on: January 08, 2015, 11:54:25 am »
Sorry Guys, I should have said that FP 6 is for WSeB (it was the early hour in the morning after a very long day - at least that is my excuse).  We have CDs full of various updates, fixpaks, kernels etc - although I don't remember seeing the 14.106 kernel.

My main point was, and still is, is that there is little r no change to the base OS/2 that makes up eCS.  Agreed, a new improved installer would be nice but is not essential for us - we have basic disk images that we use when we change equipment, main boards, HDs etc.

As I see it there are some things that must happen before we can push OS/2 out to the world again.
1) There needs to be a name change eCS is meaningless to most people and OS/2 is the property of IBM.  Somewhere along the line some research needs to be undertaken to find a name that resonates with the public.
2) The price has to be one that people will want to buy it to try - make it too expensive and no one will look at it.  Just how much the price is still dictated by IBM I don't know.
3) It needs to install as easily as windows on most computers.  Yes, I know that will be a lot of work that needs to be undertaken on drivers, mainly video sound and network although the main board manufactures appear to be standardising on a small number of chips which may be an advantage (example, most of the boards we are look at as possible replacements are using the Realtek 8111 gigabit network chip).

There are other things but the above are the main ones and they will cost money to implement well - much more than our dwindling community can raise.  So the first thing might be to look for a commercial sponsor, someone like Elon Musk and SpaceX or Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic.
     

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Applications / Re: No word from Mensys/XEU - Alternatives?
« on: January 08, 2015, 12:57:26 am »
Jan, is there any vast improvement in 4.52 over Warp 4 with FP 6?  We have both, WSeB as well, because we got SWC when it first came out and kept everything up to date until they stopped supplying updates. 

Since OS/2 is still working, what are the specific updates to the base OS that eCS has provided?  I don't mean the addons just the base OS/2 - Has Mensys whatever got access to the source code for OS/2 and if so why are they not working on fixing several of the bugs?

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Applications / Re: GeoGebra 5.0.xx problem for OS/2?
« on: January 05, 2015, 03:14:45 pm »
It may not be your problem Martin - the 4.4.45 version does pop up a window saying there is a new version and asking if it should download it.

It could well be a good idea to remove the reference to it though.

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Applications / Re: Printing problems with GSView 5.0 and Ghostscript 9.15
« on: January 05, 2015, 01:15:14 am »
A couple of questions.
1) Have you setup the printer correctly and can print using other programs without problems?
2) Have you also edited the printer ini in the gsview2 dir?
3) When you removed the pswrite entries did you also edit the ps2write entries to make them viable ie. giving defined values in place of [Not defined]?
4) Is there an empty directory named E312PS in the spool directory (maybe in var\spool on eCS) ?  If there isn't then the printer has not been setup correctly.
 

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Applications / Re: GeoGebra 5.0.xx problem for OS/2?
« on: January 04, 2015, 09:56:14 pm »
As far as I can see the GeoGebra 4.4.45.0 is the last one that works for us on OS/2.  They are advising people with problems to use jre 1.7.0.47 if they are having problems.

You could mention the OS detection requirement to the porters of our openjdk6 but I am not sure that it would work even if they did implement it because there appears to be OS specific jar files in each of the OS versions with both 32 and 64 bit in the Linux version. 

The only difference between the portable and installer versions for each OS is the portable has the jre 1.7.0.47 included.

You might get better results by asking GeoGebra why they require OS detection because Java is supposed to be fully portable over all platforms.

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Applications / Re: Graphical package management utility (Arca Noae)
« on: January 04, 2015, 12:18:08 am »
Err, Martin, if you look back to the days of Warp 4/WSeB I think you will find the structure you are talking about was standard in the programs folder - at least that is how all the OS/2 computers used here are setup.  Oh, and we can also get the Ubuntu style drop-down 'shortcuts' from the Warpcentre.

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Hardware / Re: Motherboard woes
« on: December 31, 2014, 03:10:11 pm »
Did you set the bios to switch off the internal video (is that even possible?) and/or tell it to use the external card first?

I have to say that we have never had good results with intel chipsets which is why we have used AMD processors and ATI graphics, with Nvidia graphics as a possible fall-back.

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Multimedia / Re: Playing DVD
« on: December 17, 2014, 09:58:20 pm »
Ian, I have a few others I could send if you want them.

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Multimedia / Re: Playing DVD
« on: December 17, 2014, 12:31:22 pm »
If that is an encrypted DVD the only way to rip that is to use a program that will remove the encryption, until you remove that you are not going to get anything that you can play.

There are programs - usually windows based, they also cost money (I have one set that I use to remove region restrictions) - that will allow you to do what you want but, as far as I know, they are illegal to use in the US with your draconian DMCA laws.   

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Setup & Installation / Re: Desktop restarting at midnight
« on: December 13, 2014, 10:16:12 pm »
Hi Andy,

I will admit it is a mystery.  There is nothing wrong with the power supply, all the voltages are normal as read from the bios health screen as well as the fact it is an Antec 600W supplying about 300W.

I do think the main problem is the mother board - it is 2001 vintage as are the CPU, memory and other cards with the exception of the video card which is 2004 vintage.

The initial 175Hz 'tone' lasts for 1.3 seconds, presumably because they know the rather indifferent nature of rural French power lines ;)

Yes I do know single and three phase power formulae having one of my degrees as an electrical engineer.  Twenty years ago the nominal single phase voltage was 220v giving a 380v three phase this has since been increased to a nominal 230v (actually it is higher) with something approaching 415v three phase.

In the new year I have updating all the computers as a project.  What motherboards we will use I haven't decided yet but they will be AMD CPUs and graphics cards.  If anyone wants to throw in a recommendation I would be pleased to have a look at it.
   

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Setup & Installation / Re: Desktop restarting at midnight
« on: December 13, 2014, 10:59:16 am »
Hi Doug,

Here we have 415v three phase which gives 230v between phase and neutral.  What they are doing is superimposing a 175Hz signal on the 50Hz supply.  The signal is like Morse Code with the first 'dash' being longer (I assume it is a wake up signal).

I don't see any way that a UPS can filter out that type of signal - the big 5Kw on the servers didn't and I assume the smaller ones on essential equipment don't either.

Regarding filters on incoming power lines, we can buy off the shelf filters designed to block the signals sent out by the 'home plug' type of network extenders (network using mains cables) so it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt them to block 175Hz as well.

My first thoughts as to what happens is that the 175HZ signal interacts with one or more of the crystal controlled frequencies in the computer which is seen by the software as a reset but that is only a thought.  On Monday I will give the problem to my service department to kick about and see if they come up with other ideas.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Desktop restarting at midnight
« on: December 12, 2014, 09:01:28 pm »
Thanks Doug, I've got the recording oscilloscopes set to start recording just before midnight and we'll see what transpires.

Nothing in popuplog Alex, apart from the normal complaints re soffice.bin throwing a hissy fit when oo4.1 is closed.

An Edit well after midnight:

Your point is well taken Doug - it was a control pulse sent down one of the phases of the three phase supply we have.  At midnight alternate street lights are turned off by a control signal and those that are turned off are on one phase.  The reason the computer started acting up was because when we changed the drive it was plugged back into a different socket, one that was powered by the phase that carried the switching signal.  Why the signal should do what it did requires more investigation but we will be looking at installing signal filters on all incoming power lines.

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