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Hi

Which is a good way to remove all the partition (wipe all the HDD drive with MBR) of a previously Windows 10 partitioned HDD using the ArcaOS 5.0.3 media installer?
On the Maintenance Mode, none of the tools provided works for me (Disk Utility, Resize Partitions, Manage Volumes, Check Disk, Format Disk).

I think it will be easy for me to boot Windows 10 USB flash and wipe all partitions, and reboot ArcaOS USB Flash, but I want to know if I'm missing a way on how to do it from ArcaOS installation media.

Regards

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Programming / Compiling my first WPS application
« on: December 03, 2018, 05:54:40 pm »
Hi

I always want to learn something when time allows it, and I want to follow the procedure to compile a WPS application and maybe write something quick about it for the EDM/2 wiki.

I only want to learn the "compiling/linking" procedure. So I want to grab some working source code and as a goal I want to produce the DLL with the WPS program (class).

I was thinking to give it a try to compile Hwman, but I was wondering if someone suggest some other project or sample.

And I would like to know if I need to install the full VAC++ 3.0 environment, or it is not necessary just to compile the source code.

Regards

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Marketplace / ebay - Warp 4 box / CD
« on: December 03, 2018, 02:58:38 am »
Hi

I got an email letting me know about this ebay bid, just in case someone is interested.

"Sealed OS/2 Warp Version 4  IBM OS/2 Operating System 1990's...with original product box-never opened with cd and support info. inside! Winner to rec. the essential book for IBMers... "OS/2 PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE, 828 pp. plus this guide has the orig. reg. card...Besides OS/2 being in its orig. shrink wrap, there are two other items in this SPECIL IBMer bundle w/ a sealed O/S2 PROMO and the LOTUS NOTES Express for OS/2...also sealed & a VERY RARE NOS treasure!
TANKS FUR LOOKIN'!"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sealed-OS-2-Warp-Version-4-IBM-OS-2-Operating-System-1990s-Support-up-to-2004/283285693641

Regards

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Applications / Increasing the size of the Fonts
« on: November 23, 2018, 03:37:07 pm »
Hi

I was wondering whats tips do you have to increase the fonts of ArcaOS to a confortable size? I'm using 1,920x1,080 resolution on a 14" display (at a VM) and even that I can increase the size of the fonts with the "Font Palete" I was wondering what tips do you have to try to increase all the fonts at the same time on each component. And it is not that I'm getting old, it is that the resolution is too high :)

Any font, size and technique is welcome.
- Going with the Font Palette window by window may work but I want to do all at once. I need something that change all the desktop and sub folders fonts at once.
- Styler seems to do a good job with the tittlebars and dialogs fonts and sizes.
- Any other recommendation, I like WarpSans but it seems to have some size limitation. Other fonts looks "rough" maybe something with the antialias is not working (check picture attached)
- How do you change the size of the fonts of the "Menu bar" in applications like Firefox?


I guess I should had take more serious the past discussions about fonts.

Regards

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Applications / PROCESSES config.sys statement - XWorkplace
« on: November 14, 2018, 05:16:37 pm »
Hi

I have some questions about XWorkplace that I want to resolve.

1) On the full version of XWorkplace 1.0.12 it gives you the "OS/2 Kernel" icon on the System Setup. The "Scheduler", if I click on "Optimize" will put this on my config.sys "PROCESSES=34", which give an error on boot.
- More Info about PROCESSES

Does anybody remembers if "PROCESSES=" was depreciated on some kernel version? or it is just me having problems on my VM?

2) Do you consider that on the "OS/2 Kernel" properties, is the "Optimize" button still working fine (being useful) for the Scheduler, Memory and FAT tabs ?


Thanks in advance.

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Applications / The Java drama and the OS/2 Community.
« on: November 09, 2018, 05:54:07 pm »
Hi guys

There is currently a drama going on with Java since Oracle is going to start charging for the use of the "runtime" (Java SE) since January of 2019. I'm watching customers here in Ecuador that are counting the Java applications they have developed and calculating how much they have to pay Oracle to use their runtime on their java applications server.

Oracle says that will charge of the Java SE only for commercial and business use. Which I understand is that if you use "FreeMind" (for example) for non commercial use you can keep using Java SE free of charge, but if you use it for work/money you need to page a license to Oracle (Like $40 for the Java SE Advacnced desktop) (Source). And there is also a different way to calculate the cost for  a server running several Java web apps.

In my understanding, this applies to Java SE, and does not apply to OpenJDK (the open source spin off). On the OS/2 community we have the OpenJDK (GNU GPL) ported to OS/2, which means we are not using the Oracle binaries for the Java runtime. Which I understand there will be no problem for us using "Freemind" (or any other Java app) for commercial use, and it would not be any issue (or payment fee) if Bitwise or any other guy wants to port the latest OpenJDK (version 11) to the platform.

I think it is not time to demonize Java as a development language, but it is time to be careful on which runtime do you install to run Java apps. On the case of the OS/2 community we have OpenJDK 1.6 which I think it does not gives issues.

Do you think I'm understanding this right? Any other thoughts.

Regards

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Networking / Dual Network adapters
« on: November 01, 2018, 04:52:46 pm »
Hi

I guess this is a very basic thing that I don't know how to do on OS/2 and ArcaOS.

If you have two networks adapters configured in OS/2, one wired working and connected to an ethernet network, and one not working wifi (with a Genmac driver). How do you tell ArcaOS to use the Ethernet one for internet/network, without deinstalling the non-working wifi driver?

If I remove the non-working wifi  from the "adapter protocols" it will work, but I don't want to uninstall it for some testing that I'm doing with Genmac.

Regards

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Hi

Between the things I don't know about being a SEO I got this warning on my mail.
I checked the Google trends : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=%2Fm%2F05l_5

And got this. ( check attachment).

Related queries = "calcium perchlorate" --- ????
It seems that the IBM buying Redhat news spiked some OS/2 searches. Maybe there is an article there that talks about OS/2 while referring to the buyout.

Regards


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Off Topic discussions / RISC OS now Open Source.
« on: October 24, 2018, 06:36:38 pm »
Hi.

There has been an interesting announcement about RISC OS
- https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2018/10/22/risc-os-is-open-for-business

"The release of RISC OS under the Apache license is scheduled for this weekend, to coincide with the popular RISC OS London Show on Saturday 27 October."

Regards

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Off Topic discussions / The New Latin Faction — La Fortuna
« on: October 23, 2018, 07:13:04 pm »
Hi

It is good to finally know the name of this song. Thanks Shazam.
You all remember it, right?
- URL1, URL2

Regards

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Hardware / Lenovo 500 Multimedia Controller
« on: October 02, 2018, 05:56:33 pm »
Hi

Just in case I had tested the "Lenovo 500 Multimedia Controller" with ArcaOS 5.0.2.
Here are my comments. https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Lenovo_500_Multimedia_Controller

Regards

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Off Topic discussions / Happy 35th Birthday GNU!
« on: September 28, 2018, 06:51:32 pm »
Hate it or Love it, according to the news, GNU was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, so yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the GNU Project.

- Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

Even that I dislike how Stallman turned free software into a holy way with people measuring who is more pure (free) than the other, I agree with what Soylent news has posted: "Richard Stallman's genius in crafting the copyleft license that is the GNU General Public License is probably the best hack of the 20th century software industry."

While everybody at that time was worried how to pull money and to create business models, nobody really cared about the impact of software on society. Even that today the GNU GPL can be seen as a reverse hack of the commercial copyrighted (I squeeze out every single dollar from software as it was a book) model, I still think it was genius at that time to focus on software for the common good and not just for business.

Even that "Software does not grow on trees", we have very interesting things on our platform thanks to the people touched by Stallman's original idea and his license.

Regards

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Article Discussions / OS4 Kernel Discussion
« on: September 24, 2018, 06:02:28 pm »
Hi

I was criticized at my Warpstock intervention because I told that the OS4 kernel was illegal (depending on the copyright laws of the country) since it was based on leaked source code of the IBM's OS/2 Warp 4 kernel.

OS4User told me on IRC that I was wrong and that I should correct that but it didn't not provide me any more feedback about it.

Even that I can found some exception according to the US copyright law for the OS4 kernel to be "legal" for some specific uses, I would like to give the opportunity to the OS4 kernel people to explain me in the last years if there had been any changes on the OS4 project and if it no longer using IBM's leaked source code.

Regards

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Events / Warpstock 2018 Questions
« on: September 05, 2018, 04:24:28 pm »
Hi

First of all, I want to thank the people that sponsored my trip to Warpstock this year. If everything goes fine I will be there video streaming the event.

The agenda for Warpstock 2018 is now online and I want to ask you if have any questions about those topics that can be asked in anticipation of the event.

Also, I hope to be connected to #netlabs on the IRC those days to get questions for the speakers.

Regards

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Applications / Problems with lsusb and usb.ids
« on: August 16, 2018, 05:29:01 pm »
Hi

I'm using lsusb-20130526.zip and it is not longer working on my ArcaOS 5 system. If I get the newer usb.ids from its web site (2018-08-15), when I run lsusb I just get a blank return from the command.

When I wrote my "Extracting Hardware Information from ArcaOS and OS/2" article, lsusb was working fine, it haven't been updated from that days, so my only guess is that the newer usb.ids file is producing that issue.

I have also libusb dll installed.
Code: [Select]
Directory of C:\usr\lib

 6-17-16  5:24a        24,217    124 a---  libusb10.dll


Any ideas?

Regards

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