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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: August 04, 2014, 01:57:17 pm »
Thanks Alex.  I will give it a try when I get home tonight.

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Setup & Installation / Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: August 03, 2014, 07:41:51 pm »
I have a manual in PDF form that will not display the diagrams because they have a Japanese font as well as an English embedded in them.

Is it possible to add an available Japanese font (MsMincho.TTC) and map it to Shingo-medium?  Alternately, does anyone have Shingo-medium as a true type font and where did you get it?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Re-organizaing OS/2-eCS Directories.
« on: July 31, 2014, 11:47:21 am »
Martin, I remember seeing an expanded dir of the ecs directory and it looked as if it was trying to emulate the os2 directory.  If that is the case why not move everything in it to the os2 directory as this eliminates one more directory.

I would also think it would be a very good idea to move the /home, /programs, /usr, /var to another partition.  Doing so will reduce the size of the boot partition considerably and gets away from the windows idea of 'everything on the root partition', although I shouldn't complain as it helps our cash flow when we have to clean up the problems it causes.

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Martin, if you are playing about with windows grab the free version of Speccy from Piriform.  We use it here to get quick information about clients windows computers.

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Applications / Re: Firefox error message
« on: July 29, 2014, 07:05:42 pm »
Joop, as far as I can see jAlbum 12-1-9 is not that much different to jAlbum 11-4-1.  The differences are the builtin browser and having to pay for it ;) so, unless there is some absolute 'must have' improvement in future releases I am sticking with 11-4-1.
Ivan, thanks for the remark, but its not fully true. JAlbum 12.1.9 does have a few things more and is faster. I just test Java programs for OS/2-eCS users and have a website about it. I can't test all, special then when a server is needed. I'm very busy the last few years and work is piling up, so the website is a little behind in maintenance. Right now busy with the English version of Java, its not online yet. Also have strange effects with ImageJ, for some reason update gives a strange error. But testing is sometimes difficult because the number of combinations of Odin and Java is going up. There is good news too, this week I got the source from a program, but with the restriction not to give it away. So finally I have to dive into programming, did I say I was busy?

If you are like me busy is a slight understatement.  Actually I didn't note any real speed improvement, but then I was using a 4 core AMD processor running at 3 Ghz and I had 4GB memory and some rather fast disks.  I have no problems with ImageJ 1.48.  It is a little better than 1.47.

Best of luck with the programming.  The last time I did any was about 30 years ago and that was assembler.

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Applications / Re: Firefox error message
« on: July 29, 2014, 09:47:17 am »
Joop, as far as I can see jAlbum 12-1-9 is not that much different to jAlbum 11-4-1.  The differences are the builtin browser and having to pay for it ;) so, unless there is some absolute 'must have' improvement in future releases I am sticking with 11-4-1.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Re-organizaing OS/2-eCS Directories.
« on: July 21, 2014, 07:51:03 pm »
Martin, I'm sorry but I just don't understand what you are trying to do.

Moving those directories around id not going to save space so why bother?  The standard boot partition we use is less than 1 GB in size and that includes a few things we have added to the standard OS/2 install disk image ( cups, java, snap tools, utility and warpin ). 

For us 'programs' is a different partition as is 'data'.  We chose this because it makes backups very easy and by having images of the various partitions in both their 'first installed' state and 'when something changes' after that.  Restoring after system or disk failure is usually less than 2 hours including replacing failed parts.

What you are trying to do has the appearance of rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic - may look nice but is useless in improving the OS.  The examples you give in 'Recommendation #8 – Directory and File Structure', make me wonder if you have ever looked in the 'windows' directory - it is a mess much worse that anything seen on OS/2 and any flavour of Linux isn't much better.  To follow the windows way and dump everything on the boot partition (I know win7 does create a hidden boot partition if you let it) is just asking for trouble, something IBM were careful to try and avoid when they designed OS/2.

My thoughts can be summed up as, 'if it is working then there is no need to fix it'.

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Applications / Re: FF 17.0.11 won't run youtube films
« on: July 15, 2014, 01:15:41 am »
You actually get youtube flash films to play?  Do you have a special version of flash player because most of the youtube offerings require at least version 12 and some now require version 14.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Help ! How to: Installing MPlayer/2 !
« on: July 12, 2014, 02:08:41 am »
The drivers are the latest as confirmed from your post.  Although we have had this machine for over 18 months this was the first time we tried to use sound on it - and that was only because it was up and running when I decided to try your how to and I couldn't be bothered to go to my office.

I can't get sound out of VLC or a CD in the CD drive using WarpCD player so I will have to investigate further to find the problem.  I have a memory of having to set various IOs on another box a couple of years ago, copy it and then load it at every boot of that machine - maybe that is what is needed here.  Anyway that is for another time - after 2 in the morning here so I think it is time to call it a day.

Thanks for your help.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Help ! How to: Installing MPlayer/2 !
« on: July 11, 2014, 08:09:38 pm »
No, just those two, though if I unimix -names list I get the attached list:

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Setup & Installation / Re: Help ! How to: Installing MPlayer/2 !
« on: July 11, 2014, 06:39:12 pm »
Hi Greggory,

Thought I would give this a try on my 4 core box - everything is OK except no sound output.

On checking, unimix does not show anything other than line playback and mic volume, yet systems sounds work.  Any ideas?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: July 04, 2014, 05:17:43 pm »
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I really hope that XEU slaps me back in the face with a long term strategy for the platform, with community leaders collaborating in the forums, open source development and with better driver short term support.  I urge Mensys/XEU to do something and announce something, because it is waist of resources to discuss about them speculating.

Martin, I think you will be waiting a long time for any response from them.  I get the impression that they have absolutely no idea about what they are going to do with OS/2 or eCS.  I doubt they will continue to support it in any way - they don't have the OS/2 source code so that is out and I don't see them doing any support for multimac or any of the other efforts or we would have heard about it before now.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: July 03, 2014, 10:44:13 pm »
Jan, as far as I know the eCS product is OS/2 with addons and an improves installer.  I don't think that Mensys has access to the source code for any of the base OS/2 because if they had that should have their first priority to update.

Based on the above there is no reason why the product couldn't be split into its two parts, OS/2 and addons/installer.  In fact I think there would be a number of people interested in the addons/installer as a stand alone product.  Also, as I understand it, most of the addons are open source which only leaves the installer to be opened.

Yes, that does mean that a source of the base OS/2 would need to be found but that is not insurmountable - we manage to pick up licences when we need copies for our clients even if it does require a little detective work to find them.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 17.0.11 won't start
« on: June 30, 2014, 12:05:16 am »
Hi Joop,

The Mozilla foundation, in their wisdom, decided to change the way the Firefox 23 and up works with one of the things being how tabs work.  As far as I know there are two things that must be done to restore tabs to the old way.  One involves changing 'Browser.Tabs.OnTop' from true to false and the other is installing the 'Hide-Tab-Bar-With-One-Tab' addon.

I am not sure what is the problem with your passwords as I have no problems using passwords for the various sites I visit that require them to login.  The only thing I can think of is that I have never set/used a master password in any of the browsers.

Also I have not seen the 99.99% CPU usage, maybe because I have multi core processors here, but I have seen a process remain open when firefox is closed - in my case it was the addons not closing.
 

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Programming / Re: Compiling XPCOM (xpidl) fails -- need help!
« on: June 26, 2014, 02:42:52 pm »
Klipp, you are not the only one having this type of problem, in fact http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/26/boffins_untangle_why_your_software_builds_fail/ it is a well known problem that world+dog are looking at.

I also have to say that I hope you are successful in your endeavour. 

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