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Article Discussions / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS 64Bits Kernel Discussion
« on: December 18, 2020, 01:17:24 pm »
Since the OS/2 kernel is not open source, I always thought that some alternative for OS/2 kernel evolution issue will be to replace completely the OS/2 kernel for a different 64bit kernel and interpret the OS/2 personality with the IBM binaries over it. People will complain that the kernel is the OS, but I'm starting to believe that OS/2 is more about the experience of the desktop and being able to run the OS/2 applications software that we like and use.

Long term this probably will be the only choice if there is to be a 64bit OS/2. Being closed source there is always going to be roadblocks.
If someone took an open source kernel, recreating the WPS desktop experience, and then there could be some kind of "classic mode" like they did with OS X that would allow you to run legacy OS/2 apps. Moving to some open source base OS would also mean resources could be spent where they matter, instead of recreating the wheel such as with web browsers etc.

That being said ArcaOS and other developers have done a fantastic job keeping os/2 alive.

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Internet / Re: Do little QT donations matter?
« on: December 18, 2020, 01:05:19 pm »
What Dave Yeo said is true.  I never said small donation are not welcome. I said it takes money to keep development moving forward.
At least that is what I intended to say. Not being a native English speaker, sometimes what I type is maybe not 100% correctly written.

Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE
No Worries - I was being a bit dramatic :). Hopefully the work will pay off with a new browser.

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Hardware / What happened to the hardware database on ecomstation.ru?
« on: December 13, 2020, 09:21:26 am »
Wondering what happened to the hardware database at ecomstation.ru:
http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php
It used to have great lists of tested hardware but now all the entries seem to be blank when I click the categories (such as motherboards, network cards etc).

If it's dead then maybe i'll consider making my own site for the same purpose.. since it was a great resource and a shame to see it disappear.

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Internet / Do little QT donations matter?
« on: December 13, 2020, 09:10:15 am »
I read on this old post about donations to the browser project that small donations are not good enough (the response from Roderick)
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1726.msg18671.html

I get it's a huge project but I find that sentiment discouraging.. since I probably can only make small donations now.
Maybe if my business takes off I can make more - but not sure if I should bother now since it would just be a drop in the bucket.

Your opinions welcome:)

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Internet / Re: Any updates on the Falcon QT browser?
« on: February 29, 2020, 05:53:02 am »
I was planning to donate to it soon but wanted to check the status to make sure it's still a thing.

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Internet / Any updates on the Falcon QT browser?
« on: February 29, 2020, 05:43:18 am »
Just curious if anyone has heard anything. Still being worked on?

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Internet / netdrive question
« on: February 29, 2020, 05:15:10 am »
I'm considering purchasing netdrive for sftp connections.
Does anyone know if it keeps the connection live with the shortcut - or does it disconnect but if you click the shortcut it reconnects?
I would prefer the later since not sure it's good to stay connected when i'm not using it.. waste of bandwidth/load on my internet.

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General Discussion / Re: Future death of the personal computer?
« on: February 29, 2020, 05:10:40 am »
A few days later, when I started up Firefox (OS/2) Something started to cause process dumps, about every 10 seconds. When I investigated that, it was a program called HELLO. When I investigated that, it was probably one of those things that encrypts your data, with an offer to decrypt it, if you pay <whatever> within a few hours. So, technically, the plugs didn't cause the problem, but what they did, was open the path through port 6667 (internet relay chat), and as soon as something (Firefox) opened the port, it was in, and tried to run. If it had actually succeeded, it probably still wouldn't do much damage, because of an unknown directory structure, but. After that, I also had some weird settings in my router. Fortunately, a factory reset fixed that problem. The plugs went back, since they didn't seem to be interested in fixing the problem.

So, OS/2 saved me, that time. Over the years, I have often noticed that Firefox would simply crash, for no obvious reason. I assume that some of those crashes were bad code in Firefox, but I am pretty sure that a lot of them were malware trying to do something.
Wait are you saying this program was running from os/2? How did it install itself?
Seriously freaky if so.

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General Discussion / Re: Future death of the personal computer?
« on: February 22, 2020, 07:36:54 am »
Another interesting attack vector is USB sticks. There's cases of them having an extra keyboard controller to inject commands, not really a worry for us besides making things unstable and the scariest is USB devices designed to kill your computer, a big capacitor or such injecting a large voltage through your USB port. Depending on the motherboards design, it might only blow a fuse or might fry the board.
Always be careful of USB sticks found in a parking lot :)
After you mentioned it I surfed around and found a video of the killer usb stick being used on different devices, including a car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4OmkBYB4HY

Yeah i'm not using strange usb sticks now :). Not that I was before but i'm really not now.

So enough of these being distributed could definitely lead to the death of the personal computer  ;D

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Applications / Re: Is the Arca Noae update service worth it?
« on: February 21, 2020, 10:04:48 pm »
If finances are tight, there's always the option of letting the subscription expire for a while then renew it or buying a new version of ArcaOS.
That's a possibility for sure, thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: Future death of the personal computer?
« on: February 21, 2020, 09:09:03 pm »
That depends on how you define "progress". From a user point of view, small steps happen, mostly to keep users interested. From the point of view of those running the spy uhm advertising uhm cloud services, huge steps have been taken. People have been sucked in, so they can inspect whatever you store there (you do agree to that).
I guess my definition of progress is making a real positive difference in peoples lives, such as I mentioned spreadsheets were a pretty huge development in the dos era as giving people power to compute and crunch numbers in all different ways not previously easy or possible.
Or the car allowed people to travel further distance in shorter time - measurable and real progress.
Or the mobile revolution allows people to compute on the go, something no one could do before.
Other than cloud storage and integration of apps with internet services, I think the cloud is mostly hoodwinking people. Sure people have been taken by the concept because of marketing, but that doesn't actually make it progress unless the marketing is telling a real story.
For example I don't think office 365 is really offering anything that standard office or open source office suites like libraoffice, in fact it's worse since you have to keep paying for it. Microsoft might suck some people into the marketing, but it isn't really progress, at least from my point of view.

I admit some things are subjective, like features you might like that I don't care about -- but things like the car and the PC actually transformed peoples lives.

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General Discussion / Re: Future death of the personal computer?
« on: February 21, 2020, 06:42:52 pm »
The browser is a weak point. There was a case years back of something trying to run C:\WINDOWS\CMD.EXE from the browser, it turned out ours was too buggy for it to work as well as Windows cmd.exe not working on OS/2 but they could have targeted plain old %COMSPEC%.
More possible is one tab spying on another tab.
Ah didn't know about that. Yeah I can see how using an older version would put things at risk.

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Hardware / Re: Liquid/Water CPU Cooling systems
« on: February 21, 2020, 10:30:09 am »
Never tried a water cooling solution but I think this is just been added to the future things i'm going to be tempted to try at the loss of money and time  :o

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Polls / Re: My ArcaOS Youtube Channel is Online since January 1, 2020!!
« on: February 21, 2020, 10:19:20 am »
Sigurd: I really liked the anniversary video too. Will keep checking out your other videos. Great job!

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General Discussion / Re: Future death of the personal computer?
« on: February 21, 2020, 10:00:08 am »
Security by obscurity maybe..... If you're going to write malware, why would you target OS/2 given it's miniscule market share?
Yeah, I know Security by obscurity is supposed to be not really considered security, but in reality it is right, since like you said, no one is really going to bother with making viruses and trying to hack OS/.2.

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