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Messages - Ian B Manners

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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,


Quote
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 »
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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.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Hobbes (Files) Reoganization
« on: July 26, 2023, 10:57:25 am »
Have you tried 'unzip lucent.exe' ?
Often a lot of self extracting archives can be unlzh, unzipped etc.

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Off Topic discussions / Re: Car rides etc, was Re: Qt6 Development
« on: May 08, 2023, 02:55:53 am »
Maltese - Jack Russell cross
Bad cataracts but still enjoys his walks everyday
 

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Off Topic discussions / Re: Car rides etc, was Re: Qt6 Development
« on: May 06, 2023, 03:54:09 pm »
I've been driving a Volvo T5 with updated ECU (243 horsepower) for 30 years now, great road car for long distance travel from one side of Australia to the other, as much as Volvo Australia would like to make it vanish... it still lives.

http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=25908

The front leather seat belonged to my now departed cat, the back leather seats belong to my 18 year old dog.

ie, mentions cars, and we might end up with some serious sidetracking so I thought I would move your post to its own thread :)

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Article Discussions / Re: OS/2 for Mach 20 - Final Collectors Item?
« on: May 04, 2023, 12:25:37 pm »
The sales numbers sound 'about' the same...

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Hardware / Re: AHCI and Virtualbox
« on: April 16, 2023, 02:46:34 pm »
Thanks for that insight Paul :)
I've been letting VirtualBox use all 12 cores, think I'll try it with one core as it's really just for PMMail anyway.

Added: Adding /MAXCPU=1 in the config.sys works, where as letting VirtualBox only use 1 CPU does not. Thanks Paul :)

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Programming / Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« on: April 04, 2023, 02:59:17 pm »
Looks like I cant send email to a lot of places again, so..

Hi Paul,

> Next time you're passing through Adelaide, sing out. It would
> be good to catch up - I think last time was a Melbourne PCUG
> in 2002-2003 which happened to line up with some business
> travel.

Thought about contacting you about 3 weeks ago but also thought
I would be getting to Adelaide late, will keep it in mind for next
time. Ditto if your ever over Perth way.

Toes, and foot arches are bad to break..
Hope all goes well with the surgery.

Cheers
Ian

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Programming / Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« on: April 02, 2023, 03:30:29 am »
I still need to get organised at my new address, setup my main OS/2 box and server before I do testing etc.
I do intent to install your QT6 builds.
I keep getting distracted driving from Perth-Melbourne-Perth etc, driven through Adelaide 4 times now in the past 13 months..

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Programming / Re: Using AI to Code for OS/2
« on: April 01, 2023, 05:41:09 am »
A follow on from what Dariusz talks about, I just read this at The Register. Great example of how to use ChatGPT API's.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/30/socket_chatgpt_malware/

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If you cant find the replacement Warp 3 boot FD's, try:

http://www.os2site.com/sw/upgrades/warp3/index.html
look at the pj23092.* files.

You will have to replace the ldr file on the floppy
Try WFP/OS2LDR.WFP  or WHP/OS2LDR.WHP
ie, rename each one to OS2LDR as needed, replace the one on FD and see how you go.

Next question :)
if the OS2LDR file is hidden, you will need to use "attrib -s -h -r  OS2LDR" on OS2LDR, which means booting into OS/2 somewhere. I dont have the FD's around at present to check but I certainly remember this problem in the late 90's. [ADDED: The crash problem, not the hidden files]

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Programming / Re: Using AI to Code for OS/2
« on: March 31, 2023, 03:54:34 am »
AI is not A.I., it is still Deep Learning (D.L.) but marketing.. There are some real A.I. but these are mostly still in labs but I digress.

OpenAI, and most if not all commercially available variants have been trained on a lot of data fed to it from the internet (including Github) and other sources (all that data that Microsoft and a few other companies collect). This data has been filtered to stop the programs from returning some real out there results (search the news for some early results). OpenAI and others are at the novelty stage and I think they were released too early but they are still useful as long as the user does not go overboard and expect miracles.

Most AI (excluding some purpose built ones in labs) will give results for large programs that are similar to early scan to text applications in that you need one or many people to manually scan the code for errors and apply fixes. Most news stories, and even test research articles of any length produced by AI still require a human to go through and fix obvious mistakes but its getting better but a good and experienced human editor can still normally spot these articles unless a human has taken the output and rewritten it.

It will be a long wait until we can expect this technology to do something like write a large program (example, Open Office), or an operating
system but for smaller programs the technology should be fine as long as a human that knows coding has given it at least a once over. I would expect programing code that covers something like Filepage (~ 40 pages) that I used for os2site.com would be riddled with errors but would still produce something that would be a good start as long as you knew enough about the programming language to spot and fix the errors.

Current AI is another tool, our job is to learn how to use it effectively, and when to use it.

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Hardware / Re: AHCI and Virtualbox
« on: March 29, 2023, 04:45:14 am »
Thought I would update to AHCI from IDE drivers/controller as well reading this thread but I have been unsuccessful.
I added BASEDEV=OS2AHCI.ADD to my Arca config.sys but the container stops booting, just displays the Arca boot screen, no error message, and does not progress any further even I leave it 30 minutes.

I'm using Virtualbox Version 6.1.40 r154048 (Qt5.12.8) [Stable channel] under Ubuntu.
Version 7.x of Virtualbox is not listed as Stable, I did try upgrading to it a while ago and very quicky reverted back to 6.1.40.x due to wierd stuff, so will stick to the stable channel from now on.

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