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Internet / Re: Firefox Developer Edition 24.8.1b4
« on: May 24, 2015, 01:05:39 am »
Hi Joop.

Did you reported those issues on the "ticket system" on the project's github?
https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/issues

I also experimented the one when you tried to download something and Firefox just closes very fast.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Re: How to improve the installer of OS/2?
« on: May 24, 2015, 12:08:49 am »
For a start it needs to be a two part installer because of the very wide range of hardware that people use.

Should an OS installer should ask which drivers to install? Even that there are some people that don't like the "dumb installer mode" I don't see moderns OSes that asks which driver the user should install.  For example, Windows just install the standard drivers it can find , and once the OS is installed and boots the GUI, the user need to install the "good drivers" replacing the one that are not working fine.

I think that moderns PC has simplified a lot the hardware that we knew from the Warp 4 days and there is a lot of hardware that used to be important on the 90's that now has disappeared. Maybe the issue is that on OS/2 sometime the wrong driver will lock the boot process.  It is open for discussion.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Re: How to improve the installer of OS/2?
« on: May 23, 2015, 11:42:13 pm »
I think its time the people in the community stop having this negative attitude towards YUM.
It makes no sense. Yeh it has issue's but problems can and should be fixed.

We already discussed this subject and I think we already have listed the good and bad about RPM/YUM. While I'm "sucking it up" with RPM/YUM because it is very good to install dependencies, I really hope that the "YUMIE thing" will be a step forward. But from what I had been told having the option to move away the FHS from the root drive is not on their plan.

Neither of us can say what the community should stop taking about, if it is your opinion is good, but it does not mean that we should stop having a positive or negative attitude towards a software on this platform and be silent about it. A community is just a bunch of people that may have different opinions and I want to keep it a free space for people to talk about this platform.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Re: How to improve the installer of OS/2?
« on: May 23, 2015, 05:23:08 pm »
Hi.

My idea (or what I understood of the original message) was to discuss installer for the operating system, when you want to install OS2-eCS from scratch.

Going back to the idea, it can be great if a new installer, not based on the one included on OS/2, can be produced. I can not count anymore on improvement on the eCS installer, since I don't know what is happening with the development of the OS and who owns the rights of the installer (Mensys/XEU may have the rights to use the installer, but I'm not sure if the own 100% of the source code).

Time ago I remember that Fedora used to have the Anaconda project (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda) but I don't know if it still used in the Linux scene.

What about creating an OS installer based on RPM?  Something that has an easy path, an advanced path (with or without options to select the software) and something else that can allow customize the OS installer with some scripts?

Regards

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Article Discussions / How to improve the installer of OS/2?
« on: May 22, 2015, 12:14:07 am »
This looks like an interesting discussion topic that ecomstation.ru is asking.

For what I see on other OSes, it seems that is a tendency to simplify the install procedure. The user no longer choose what should be installed or not on the OS.

It seems that the standard options on OS installation to ask the user is:
a) Easy Install, grabs all the free unpartitioned space on the HDD and install the OS there.
or
b) Advanced install, gives you the option to install the OS on the partition you choose and options to resize partitions.

And that's all...

Of course that there are installers that allows the user to create their own personalized installer of the OS to create their own install image.

I'm not sure if it is right or wrong for the OS2-eCS platform to have an GUI installer without asking which software or drivers to install, but "that menu that I forgot the name" that loads before the GUI installer when you can select which drivers to boot the installation CD is a must have.

If there is some interest maybe it can be good to discuss the idea. What can it be improved on the installer?

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Hi Eugene.

You can get that information (the missing videos) from here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514032012/http://www.youtube.com/user/jasonscottpage

Regards

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Now I checked better and this does not looks like a DCMA takedown, but it is an account whipping.

Google removed all the Jason Scott account and removed all his google stuff:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140514032012/http://www.youtube.com/user/jasonscottpage

The videos that interest the community and was removed was (the other I listed was only watchlists) :
- 1993 HAL-PC OS/2 NT Shootout (Uncut)
- Installing OS/2 Warp 4 (Merlin)
- Installing OS/2 Warp 3.0
- What happened to OS/2? Computer Chronicles (1993)
- OS/2 Warp introduction on Computer Chronicles (199
- OS/2 vs NT Shootout Part 5
- OS/2 vs NT Shootout Part 4

For the moment Jason has no idea why his account was removed.

The OS/2 VS. NT Shootout (1993) 2 hour video by HAL-PC it is also available on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/OS2NTShootout

Regards

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I'm searching on :
- https://www.chillingeffects.org/
- http://www.copyscape.com/

I can not find anything related. It does not looks like a DMCA take down because YouTube usually post that the copyright has been claimed by someone (BMG, Sony music, etc). Here it just says that the account was terminated.

Regards

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There used to be a site when you can search the violation. The issue is that Google is not giving details why this videos was removed and who claimed any copyright violation if applies.

I will check around.

Regards

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Hi

I was notified that Google deleted a YouTube account and several videos related to the "OS/2 NT Shootout".

I just checked youtube and in fact some videos was removed:
Check: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=OS%2F2+NT

The videos I can not found anymore are:
- Windows NT & OS/2 at Comdex 1993
- OS/2 vs NT
- HAL-PC 1993 OS/2 Vs. NT Shootout

This videos had been removed with the following message: "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated. "

Does anybody has any idea where to ask the reasons why Google removed this videos?

Regards

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General Discussion / Re: Update on Warpstock Euroep 2015
« on: May 20, 2015, 08:21:51 pm »
Hi Roderick

Thanks for your efforts with Warpstock Europe 2015 and for offering an audio streaming solution.

I know that you are on the last days before it start and I don't want to stress you more, but if by any chance you can find a volunteer with a Win/Mac/Lin machine to do video streaming, it can be very easy with Google Hangouts on Air : https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html

If anybody going to Warpstock Europe can volunteer to do it (with Roderick's permission) to do this it will be great.

Regards

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Applications / REXX Collection Package - CMD-Scripts
« on: May 20, 2015, 04:19:08 pm »
Hi

When collecting the public source code from hobbes to github, I also collected in one single repository the REXX scripts I was able to find here: https://github.com/OS2World/CMD-Scripts

I'm not a very skilled on REXX and I don't have time to try/test all the scripts I collected. I don't know if someone else has an idea of what something to do with this repository.

Remember that you can fork it, stretch it, break it, or do any thing with the forked repo, at the end that is the idea of github.

Regards

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Hi

I'm wondering if OS2\ETC\WPDSERV.IR and \OS2\ETC\WPSH.IR should be part of SOM or WPS ?

Regards

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Applications / Re: Favorite/Required non-opensource OS/2-eCs apps?
« on: May 20, 2015, 12:01:08 am »
Thanks for sharing.

Association Editor - useful tool for setting what app *you* want to open what file type/filter

If you are referring to AssoEdit, it may not be specifically open source, but it is public domain, so it can be turned to open source.

Regards

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Applications / Re: Favorite/Required non-opensource OS/2-eCs apps?
« on: May 19, 2015, 04:31:58 am »
Thanks for the feedback.

Maybe "File Freedom" should not be on the list. It is not opensource because it does not specify any license, but the source code is available for download. http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/FileFreedom

Keep posting your favorite/required non-opensource software !!

Regards

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