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Messages - Olafur Gunnlaugsson

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Lewis,

I seem to recall that one of Serenity System's early products was a product that could easily push configurations and applications from a central server out to multiple workstations.  Unfortunately i can't recall the name of that product, but I do seem to recall it worked fairly well.  Any idea what happened to that software (and did you happen to get the rights to it as a part of this announcement)? 

Just curious.

I recall that too.  My memory is faulty here, but I seem to recall that Bob St. John and Kim Cheung were working with a concept of rippling a slimmed down workstation or smart terminal off of a mainframe or a server.  I doubt I understood the concept though.  Might Serenity Managed Client be the application you have in mind?
There were three separate products, one of whom may never have shipped
One was a automatic configuration software that shipped with eComstation preview and possibly 1 but later disappeared and was somewhat underwhelming in practice, the other was the Serenity Managed Client, that was a version of WarpSpace on Demand with the automatic configuration client on top and some other tools to make deployment and remote config easier, that pre-dates eComStation

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Just speaking about the term "Asset":

There are (more) than two ways to take over a company.

But the two most important are named:

"Share Deal" - the new owner buys the whole "old" company, including assets and liabilities

"Asset Deal" - the new owner does "only" buy the assets of the "old" company, not the liabilies. The old company does exist still but is usually liquidated after a short period of time by the still (former) owner.

So I would guess that Arca Noae "just" bought the Assets of Serentiy, and as I guess as well that the most important assets are "Licences or Owner Rights".
http://www.serenity-systems.com/
Says "a Arca Noae company", that would mean bought the company, and since Serenity was an LLC not an incorporated company, there were no shares, meaning that buying the company is simpler than buying the assets, not the other way around, there is no need to liquidate an LLC, just de-register it.

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- Did Serenity Systems company was sold his company twice ? - I wish I can do that :)   ...or it was not sold at the first place.
Mensys never bought serenity and never claimed to, the company has always been owned by Bob and listed as such, that is a matter of public record and can be looked up on the net

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Setup & Installation / Re: Completing Warp 4.5 install
« on: February 14, 2015, 04:30:00 pm »

I removed the Java that came with Warp 4.0. I have IBM Java 1.1.8 downloaded, although I doubt there is much point in installing it.

Java 1.1.8 is actually useful at times, it is a excellent implementation and some older Java software refuses to work or is buggy on newer versions, I keep Java 1.1.8, java 1.3 and Java 6 all installed, make 6 the default and then with try out which one works best, for frequently updated programs Java 6 is often the only option but for instance NetRexx works better with 1.1.8 and 1.3 than with 6 although a couple of functions are missing under 1.1.8.

I notice that you installed the vbox additions, if you are running under vbox you should use the vbox video driver and not SNAP or gengradd.

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Networking / Re: Any benefit to running dual/quad port NIC?
« on: February 10, 2015, 11:30:56 pm »
Olafur,  with most small NAS boxes the second ethernet port is only usable as a failover and then only if the managed switch will allow it.

Dariusz,  On a workstation there is little use for a second ethernet port especially since OS/2 doesn't have the necessary software to make use of the failover ability.  If you intend to use your new workstation as a firewall device then there would be a use for the second port - first port input from the wan and second port output to the internal lan.  Other than that they are usually used in servers either as failover or for running different subnets.

You are buying the wrong NAS boxes ....

Other than filtering, you can use the second port for IPX network, I use this so I can keep my music computers connected to the internal network while at the same time off the net (IPX is not routable), useful also for testing DOS networks ...

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Networking / Re: Any benefit to running dual/quad port NIC?
« on: February 10, 2015, 03:35:03 pm »
Looking at eBay I'm finding a pile of ads for multi-port NICs. Is there an advantage to doing this on our platform? Or is this merely something useful for servers where you do run separate interfaces?

It does have advantages although mostly for servers or for speed reasons, but I sometimes use them to create separate subsystem either for compatibility reasons or for filtering, one computer acting as a filter for the rest of the system. it is possible to do that without a dual Ethernet, but it is a practical and psychological division of nets if you have two interface that helps with getting your head around it

They also have an advantage if you have Ethernet disks or NAS boxes that have more than one Ethernet port, your disk/NAS can be on a separate net for internal use that can be filtered from the rest of the net and still work via the other port over the internet running bittorent, email or whatever services you need. Also on the average having a separate connection for the disk/NAS is slightly faster than having it on the same net as the rest of the network even if it is only an internet connection.

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Hardware / Re: Any luck with Azarawicz's new NIC driver for RealTek?
« on: February 05, 2015, 06:53:56 pm »
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I found r8169100.zip which is David's BETA release of the chipset driver

The main problem that I see, with Realtek NICs, is that they are SLOW (even in windows, they are much slower than Intel NICs). This seems to be a known drawback with them, on all platforms, but it seems that they are cheap, so manufacturers keep on using them. FWIW, I would not be surprised if your 100 mbs 3c905B would be just as fast as a 1000 mbs Realtek device.

They are in no way slower than the Intel Nics, they do have a very conservative handshake implementation and need to have their settings tweaked to force them to connect to switches at full speed, but that is something you should do to any NIC any-ways.

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Hardware / Re: 20 Years OS/2 Warp - my new Video!
« on: January 25, 2015, 06:55:03 am »
Gregg, thanks to Sigurd I just found out also that Sony is no longer producing laptops anymore :)

Bought by JAI
http://vaio.com/

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This are only my opinions about it, but I don't think "Translations and Localization" should be set as priority, only as a nice to have. (for the moment). I really prefer if some spark can be ignited to try to clone (as open source) important components of the platform (PM, WPS, SOM).

So users that do not understand English should do what?

Eff off?

Your "nice to have" is someone else's "must"

And as for coding replacements versus "wasting time on translations", everyone that understands more than one language can contribute a little as far as translations go, this is not just a "from English" game, there are tools out there that do not exist in English, although they are fewer than they used to be.

On the other hand only a small subset of OS/2 users can code, an even smaller subset has the needed reverse engineering skills, a smaller still subset has systems programming skills, and of that subset only a minuscule portion is willing to give up their free time to meet "your objectives" because

a) They have their own objectives
b) With those skills they can sell their time and have no interest in offering it for free
c) They are not interested in going backwards by replacing 20+ year old code with identically behaving code, they want a replacement "inspired by" not exactly as OS/2

and so on, so forth

So we should not be discouraging people to help with translations and so on, but the other way around, encouraging them to do anything to help.

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Networking / Re: xmas message for nerds
« on: December 29, 2014, 08:15:07 pm »
Gave me a strange FIDONET flashback ........

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Mail-News / Re: Send email from commandline (actually a rexx script)
« on: December 13, 2014, 01:35:24 pm »
RexxMail?

There was also WebMail/2, the later versions were compartmentalised enough so you might be able to rip off some of the scripts used, I recall that the last versions never showed up on hobbes and I had to get them off archive.org

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General Discussion / Re: The Mascot
« on: December 04, 2014, 11:56:07 pm »

eComStation - Secure in its masculinity, whatever happens.

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General Discussion / Re: The Mascot
« on: December 04, 2014, 11:45:45 pm »
Well these old public domain woodcuts and engravings are fun to play around with:


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Since Microsoft seems to like to put their stores near Apple stores, perhaps the eComStation store could be near either the Apple or Microsoft store?  :P

How about close to a Charity Shop?


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General Discussion / Re: The Mascot
« on: December 04, 2014, 06:05:25 pm »
A) Should it not be a dancing elephant? Tutu optional

B) An elephant looking straight ahead is too much like the Postgresql and other open source logos

There are some old PD images that might be a start:
http://www.ntprints.com/image/354731/textile-trade-label-from-quarry-bank-mill-depicting-a-dancing-elephant-walking-along-a-tightrope-carrying-a-parasol-&-a-fan-&-is-wearing-a-hat-&-a-ribbon-tied-in-a-bow-framed-with-flowers

The alternative is a war elephant:
http://minimumwagehistorian.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/war-elephant.jpg
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/LX/WarElephant.html

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