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General Discussion / Re: Audio/Video Streaming for Events
« on: September 12, 2014, 08:57:17 pm »

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Networking / Re: Network clarification question
« on: September 12, 2014, 08:33:50 pm »
So, the main's router owner could be that he say right.
Since some sites are not available for me, i thought it was the firewall or a particular configuration of both routers.
Should i ask for a better configuration?

A router firewall usually doesn't block access to sites. Most routers have a possibility to block certain sites though, parental control). You might want to check the router configuration because it should be possible to access everything the isp lets through without bypassing the firewall.

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Networking / Re: Network clarification question
« on: September 12, 2014, 06:32:29 pm »
That probably depends on the router. Mine can be set to 'exposed host' per user. Why do you need to completely bypass the router firewall? Won't a few port forwarding rules do?

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Events / Re: Are you going to WarpStock USA?
« on: September 12, 2014, 03:32:12 am »
I'm currently not in a position to spend much. So I'll start the donations with 10 euro)

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Storage / exFAT
« on: September 12, 2014, 12:58:19 am »
The latest release of DFSee supports exFAT. exFAT is slowly gaining more importance for large (>32Gb ) flash drives. I just noticed that Samsung has a GPL licenced Linux kernel space driver for exFAT http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=exfat Would it be possible to use that as a basis for an OS/2 IFS driver?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 06, 2014, 10:45:32 pm »
Or go through a distributor. Doesn't work foe specially made parts though. www.mouser.com has a lot of Alps items, but no doubt you have already checked them out.

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Applications / Re: HTML to epub conversion
« on: September 06, 2014, 09:50:30 pm »
Should have used my brain. There is an epub version on project Gutenberg. For now, problem solved)

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Applications / Re: HTML to epub conversion
« on: September 06, 2014, 09:37:26 pm »
Yes, but the index (library) will only show all html files, no menu structure. Not very convenient.  If I choose index.html it will display it, but links not clickable. Silly software.

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Applications / HTML to epub conversion
« on: September 06, 2014, 08:52:12 pm »
I want to convert http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/index.html to epub for easy reading on my e-reader. Are there tools that can easily convert html to epub for OS/2? I have tried several online converters, the ones I found and tried do not recurse through the pages(. There seem to be some java tools, but what I have found are no ready 'end-user' products.

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General Discussion / Open Sourced Software
« on: September 04, 2014, 11:22:51 pm »
As an aside, and no doubt to your great pleasure, Martin, Peter Moylan is releasing his software as open source, GPL licenced. He has uploaded, and will upload future releases, to Hobbes.
I can recommend Peters software and his support of it without any reservations. Wonder if Brian Havard would do the same for FC/2?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 04, 2014, 11:16:17 pm »
Interesting.Not because of the font issue, but the solder thing) I have never used anything but lead solder, and never had to repair a 'modern' circuit with lead free solder. Looks like I'll have to buy a new soldering station with thermostatic temperature control and 3 different kinds of lead free solder for future repairs. Not that  I actually do a lot of repair work these days, all that SMD stuff is just too tiny, and hey, it's mostly cheaper to buy new then buy parts....

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As for Sigurd, it is nonsense that all ecosoft sotware is 'bad'. I do use ecosoft software and am very happy with some of the software I bought from them. Especially the stuff developed by Glassman. On several occasions he has corrected minor bugs or added features, some major additions, on my request, usually very fast.

Can you please say a little bit more? What software exactly?



dvd/cdtoys, zippy.

I agree, these are cool. There are some limitations I've noticed while using Zippy, like some d'n'd lacks and some odd GUI drawbacks, but both dvdtoys and zippy are pretty cool pieces of software.

If you have issues, write to Glassman or Eugene, in my experience defects get fixed fast and feature requests, at least mine, have all been implemented ( I asked for command line options for zippy, it got added).

But there is an issue regarding prices. Zippy costs 913 Russian rubles; summing it with DVD/CD toys (1248), and we get 2161 Russian rubbles; converting to USD, and we get roughly $60. eComStation 2.1 Home & Student license costs 149 USD.

Sorry I'm not ready to pay 149$ for a base operating system, and then nearly half of it to be able to burn optical media and upack compressed archives. Please remember also that eCo Software offers two software subscriptions 15$ each annually (quoting, first: "sysinfo + russification + fixpack + eCo Market + Panorama VESA", second: "png desktop + piano launchpad + virtual keyboard + file open container").

149+60+15+15 = $239.

I have paid far more over the years with software subscription from Mensys, upgrading a few times from  OS/2 2.1  and a host of shareware programs I have bought since 1994 when I started using OS/2. I don't regret it. It was all free choice.

Show me that insane person who've paid $239 for a bunch of not-that-well developed outdated software, while knowing there's a Windows 8.1 license selling at $119 which includes all these features and lots more, but costs twice as lower.

You are talking to that insane person)))) What I personally think is more insane is that a bottle of Russki Standart in Russia is much more expensive than a bottle of similar quality no-brand vodka in Germany)
I have a netbook running Windows 7. I used Windows at work. Twice as cheap, 10 times the aggrovation)



I literally interpret all the above as an attempt to squeeze the last cent from the community.

I don't see it that way. There are alternatives that you can use. Nobody forces you to buy the software.


I would better pay that sum for open source software development work rather than getting a copy of middle-quality software with no rights.

Yes and no. Zippy and dvd/cd toys were developed because some money could be made from it. Despite the price, it won't be much money because the user base is small. If, and only if, people would shell out the money anyway to pay for other people developing similar software open source, that would indeed be better. But people don't, or only in a limited way. You and Martin talk about 'squeezing money out of people'. That isn't the case. Nobody forces you to buy. I would of course prefer if ecosoft would produce open source software. I'm not so sure they would be able to continue as a business if they did.

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As for Sigurd, it is nonsense that all ecosoft sotware is 'bad'. I do use ecosoft software and am very happy with some of the software I bought from them. Especially the stuff developed by Glassman. On several occasions he has corrected minor bugs or added features, some major additions, on my request, usually very fast.

Can you please say a little bit more? What software exactly?



dvd/cdtoys, zippy.

I think those are based on GPL code.  If they are then there are some problems for someone.

dvd/cd toys is a shell for cdrtools, don't see how that would be gpl code. cdrtools itself might be, but that is distributed seperately.
As for zippy, not a clue about the licensing. It only supports extraction for rar, not archiving and that goes for many other formats too. So it looks to me it conforms to all licensing requirements.

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For answers to technical questions you might want to go to  irc.freenode.net #netlabs where quite a few developers hang out.

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Hi,

> ... wrote> I'm sorry Alexander that your forum thread got hi-jacked [...]


I dare a humble philosophical Zwischenschnitt aus dem Rheinland:

I always dare a decent Riesling aus dem Rheinland)

[C:\]usr\local490\gcc490

Not a clue if it has anything to do with it, bat afak the latest gcc we have on os/2 via yum/rpm is 4.7.3. Paul Smedley has built a 4.9.0, are you using that?


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