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General Discussion / Re: "It will be ready when it is ready"
« on: May 28, 2016, 04:19:02 pm »
Martin, it looks like you could use a secretary to read things for you and make them more appealing. Then you can translate nice things.

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General Discussion / Re: "It will be ready when it is ready"
« on: May 27, 2016, 03:57:30 am »
As a developer I have been known to be rude while in the midst of a long session, especially one that has not gone well. I have never been rude to a customer but seem to not be as nice to fellow workers. If I hear "it will be ready when it's ready" that says to me the person is not doing to well and does not want to tell you.

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 Years ago Microsoft helped with the development of Xenix and owned a significant part of SCO (Santa Cruz Operations). That was the last time Microsoft wrote a good compiler. It was clean and efficient. It seemed at the time Microsoft was trying to reign in SCO. After Xenix did not go very far Microsoft sold their portion and Xenix became SCO Unix. A complicated version of Unix. There were some other PC based Unix flavors but non caught on until a FREE Unix (clone) was available. Then the people who want software without paying all climbed on board. Linux has become a good replacement for Unix but still has some areas of weakness compared to Unix. When the first NT was developed by Microsoft/IBM it had a "unix" layer. I tried every part of that at the time. I had been a Unix programmer and tried to see what NT could actually do. I found it was only a few parts of the TCP stack and a few other pieces of the basic system. None of it actually worked as defined by doing what Unix did in the same areas. It looked like some programmers at Microsoft were just trying out some things which were not removed from the final product. So it seems Microsoft has gone full circle.

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Hardware / Re: Anyone successfully using Brother HL-5470dw?
« on: February 07, 2016, 05:48:46 pm »
How good is the color output using OS/2.
I have a Brother HL 4040CDN that is using the HP C LaserJet 8550 driver which works but has low resolution color output.
It is not being run with the Postscript driver.

Can high quality color be printed with OS/2 ?

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Utilities / Re: SYS0005: Access denied
« on: January 16, 2016, 12:29:16 pm »
I have found that running OS/2 check disk several times in a row will normally fix the problems. This was the way older unix check disk worked.

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Internet / Re: Spam Filter
« on: January 12, 2016, 12:13:53 pm »
I did a different version of a filter using java. I wrote a smtp spoofer which acts as a relay to the actual smtp server but then intercepts address and can check mail content. It then either actually relays the mail or ends the mail session in harsh terms. This keeps the actual server (I use an OS/2 server from years ago) running normal. It also can logs entire sessions for debug or just "review". This approach allows selective forwarding of mail. I also have a pure java email server which does not do forwarding and a pop server (also java) to store the mail.

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Programming / Re: Memory issues in Java
« on: January 12, 2016, 11:55:57 am »
Some time ago I sent in a trouble ticket but did not provide enough information for any action. Since then I have heard that there is a problem with high memory usage. I think the crashing problem might be due to the high memory issue. I was waiting to see if there was an improvement in memory management before going further on the crash issue. In the mean time I put into production a few server programs written for java 1.6 and they seem to be running stable since I fixed the leaks. It can be challenging to determine when there is a real leak or just memory buffering done by OS/2.

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Programming / Memory issues in Java
« on: January 08, 2016, 02:24:32 pm »
I have been a java programmer since 1997 and used IBM Java 1.3 for OS/2 with good success. It is hard to crash. On the other hand the current Java 1.6 is easy to crash and even bring down the whole system. All you need to do is fill up memory with a series of threads holding vectors. There is no warning to the doom. I found this because I had some bad code which would store arrays in vectors with cross pointers to the arrays so the vectors would not actually leave memory after closing the thread holding the vector. (a nasty memory leak) On other systems (not OS/2) the results were an eventual hang of java. On OS/2 the results were a crash of Java and sometimes a crash of the system. At least now I have a test bed for leaks.

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Events / Re: New OS/2 distribution
« on: October 27, 2015, 01:53:49 pm »
Good news indeed.

What I have not seen lately from is any news about raid arrays. Arca Noae had said in the past that new raid devices might be supported. I for one would like to see the LSI MegaRaid supported. They work well with SSD devices.

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Applications / Re: How to install from external USB CD/DVD?
« on: September 22, 2015, 05:12:17 pm »
I have not installed  on that machine but the problem sounds like ans APIC driver problem. One of the settings for APIC plus the hard disk driver (Danis, etc) should do he trick. I have found some work better with SMP then /PIC rather than trying no SMP. Once installed the settings can be changed. At times the settings for install are different than the ones that work for the running system. Then also try the various disk driver choices per APIC settings.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing to a 1TB Hybrid SSD
« on: September 15, 2015, 08:04:51 pm »
I have installed a Seagate hybrid by using an older motherboard to do the install and then  replacing the older motherboard with a new one. I had tried to install the drive using an Asus B85m but it would not work in any mode tried. I can install regular drives and ssd drives on the Asus but not a hybrid. I was able to install the hybrid using an old mother board and simply replace it with the Asus. It works fine.

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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: July 13, 2015, 02:06:11 am »
If the installer is fixed then 2.2 would be good almost no matter what else. Also being able to buy new licenses is good.

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General Discussion / Re: Yum issue
« on: April 17, 2015, 03:19:20 pm »
Thanks Alex.

It was the LIBPATH statement.

After that yum started working again without problems.

I put the path after the ;.; so it would not override a dll in the current directory.

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General Discussion / Re: Yum issue
« on: April 14, 2015, 10:40:38 pm »
Thanks guzzi.

Not a complete fix but did get further.

here is what I get:

[C:\]yum list all
netlabs-rel          | 2.9 kB  00:00
netlabs-rel/primary_ | 654 kB  00:02     = ] 166 kB/s | 631 kB  00:00 ETA


[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/@unixroot/var/cache/yum/netlabs-rel/7af6d
d4310a296b95a23ef2735f994aed509578f28087cbf99b29a4919f3c072-primary.sqlite.bz2'

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General Discussion / Yum issue
« on: April 14, 2015, 05:12:29 pm »
Why would yum return:
Error: no such table: packages

It does this no matter what is entered. It has worked in the past.

It will do it with any command like:
yum update *

thanks

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