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Multimedia / Re: *.JP2
« on: 2010.12.29, 13:20:59 »
Sure.

Here's
one

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Multimedia / Re: *.JP2
« on: 2010.12.28, 14:31:16 »
Thanks for replying, Ian.

I tried it in Firefox 3.6.12 and Minefield 4.0b8pre and both offered me a place to save it.  :-\

However, I was hoping to find some means to manipulate the image as well.

I'll hunt around for something in JAVA and see what turns up.

Hmm... I wonder if there's anything in the QT arena, ported or not...
  :D

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Multimedia / *.JP2
« on: 2010.12.26, 23:32:43 »
Firstly, "Merry Christmas !"to everyone at OS/2 World.

Secondly, does anyone know how to view an *.JP2 file under OS/2? PMView will not do it and while GBM claims to, it will not. Embellish, Impos/2, etc., will not either.

Any suggestions?

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Hardware / Re: OpenGL ddk
« on: 2010.12.08, 00:05:44 »
The OS/2 community really, is a marvel in that it is still so solid... yet so small... as is the OS itself.

This is a testament to the quality of its original design and its implementation. With regard to that aspect of it, IBM did an outstanding job.

I personally, still love the power and the ease of use, the way that programs still fit snugly into their own, respective, folder and thus, are completely transportable; Simply archiving and unarchiving of said folder onto whatever machine, and creating a Program Object for it is enough; All done. How many other OSes can claim that?

Still, it would be wrong to say that OS/2 hasn't suffered the fate of an orphaned child having been in too many foster homes; it's now an amalgam of many different-and-varied, ideas and is the bastard child that everyone loves to feel fickle about. But still there is the core pseudo-family that will not give up on it! And keeps it alive and mostly healthy.

But some appendages have become atrophied and at risk of becoming vestigial; And despite Darwin's unprovable and wildly speculative, claims about things becoming, evolutionarially, vestigial for a reason, in my opinion, this can never be good and certainly isn't now.

To continue, it's hardly necessary to say it, but your infusion of fresh, and powerful, blood has been quietly hoped for. And I,  though I am only one, represent, (if unofficially), a train of others who are holding their breath wondering if it isn't all just a little bit too much to expect, and too good to last... for some future thoughts are more pleasant than others. And there have been many er... attempts... in the past... accompanied by many powerful words!

However... while your words are many, they are quickly followed by aggressive, and positive, action... (which is potentially, one of the finer characteristic of military training).

Whichever way that Fate follows, I'd like to say a thoughtful "thank-you" for your efforts. My skills are not in programming so I can only stand outside the work area and applaud; and I am applauding now.

Thank-you.

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.22, 22:04:49 »
Well, I got the use of a Windows machine and turned off all the power down settings.

I gave it try under OS/2 and... same thing. :-\

Next step is to try and find some drive-specific software and see what that can do.

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.20, 22:01:02 »
OK.

My drive is powered from the cable so that option is not available for me.

I remember that X-10 technology years ago when they used to make OS/2 software controllers for that line. I damn near did setup my house like that, myself, but it never happened. 8(

But that hardware must be pretty old by now... unless they are still making it?

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 21:02:17 »
FWIW, I use my X-10 power control system to turn the drive on, and off, under control of the computer. At 4 AM, the drive is powered on, my daily backup is done, using RSYNC, and the computer powers the drive off again. If I need to use the drive at other times, I have an icon set to turn it on, and another icon set to turn it off. The turn off includes an eject command, and a 60 second timeout before it actually powers the drive off (the timeout seems to be unnecessary, but it is a safety thing, that makes me feel comfortable that all I/O has terminated).

X-10 power control system? Isn't that a device to control outlets around the house?

But reading the first half of your post I recalled that when I first bought the drive i used it to backup a partition on my sister's comp, (Windows), before I ever got to use it. I'm wondering if it didn't have some effect on the settings inside the drive... definitely food for thought there.

Thanks, Doug.

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 19:24:02 »
If the current JFS maintainer had a recipe for reproducing the trap and a drive, this trap maybe could be fixed.

Now, that would be close it ideal! *crosses fingers*

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 18:49:42 »
Hi Ben

Looks like you should have some disk management (Windows) software supplied with the drive which may let you disable power down when idle.

If that does not work then at least you know not to purchase another 1 of these drives.

Thanks, Pete. The drive came without documentation and without a disk. Though both of this was probably provided on the disk itself, it doesn't matter for I don't have Windows and it was certainly all lost anyway, when I first formatted the disk.

However, the link that you sent me has two great PDFs on this particular, (my), drive that does provide some useful information and it does reference some  Windows software. So I'll hunt around for it and if I can find it, I'll see if I can also find a laptop with Windows on it to run it... right now it appears that that is my only option, but I cannot stand using Windows since it's primary function is so, blatantly obvious, (and has been for many, years). I can say that I have never owned a copy of any version of Windows... and I never will. And while those latter things are irrelevant to the topic, it is important that they be written down.

Of course, I would much, prefer to do this singularly with eCS/OS/2, so I'll keep my ear to the ground for the coming of such a solution.  :D

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 15:16:37 »
Don't know which JFS version you use, but there are updates available about 3 months ago AFAIR. Maybe you should post your trap screen at the bugtracker at ecomstation or check if there's an open ticket for that.

I am using eCS 2.0 GA so the JFS drivers have to be current or very close to it. If there are any updates to JFS since then, I am unaware of it. But it is a consideration.

Maybe you should post your trap screen at the bugtracker at ecomstation or check if there's an open ticket for that.

I'll exhaust this avenue first, and if it leads nowhere, then I'll have to seriously consider opening a ticket on it, but for the nonce, I'll continue hunting.


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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 14:31:40 »
Hi Ben

What make/model is the usb drive? - it currently sounds like 1 I'd want to avoid :-)

The few usb drives I have are all "home built", ie I purchased usb drive cases to wrap around old ide drives, and do not have this problem.

I am using a Seagate FreeAgent Go.

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 14:29:44 »
Have you tried this with other drives that are using other filesystems? FAT32, FAT16, HPFS?

The only other USB device I have is a camera. I can download off that fine, as long as I pull the cable on it after I'm finished, (as opposed to ejecting it).

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 01:24:00 »
The hardrive auto-powers down when inactive. I have no control over this whatsoever.

I'm usually transferring large files in the background while I'm doing something else. It simply isn't practical to check back every few minutes and very hard to time it when I have done this. Of course, it goes without saying that I cannot simply watch it do the xfer and wait for it to finish.

As far as I know, (and I know very little about USB devices), there are no settings for the drivers associated with this drive. I simply plug it in, it gets recognized, and I eject it when I'm done... if I can catch it in time that is... else it will crash the system, which is about 90% of the time.

If I just unplug the device it will require a very, time consuming chkdsk and sometimes data is lost; This is unacceptable and makes this dandy little drive, (500g and about half the thickness of a box of cigarettes, easily fitting into any pocket) risky at best, and near useless at worse.

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Hardware / USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.18, 18:24:53 »
The title really says it all.

My little USB hardrive works great. But when it goes idle, it powers down. If I then try to access it through an app, (like FM/2), JFS traps the system.

If I try to access it first via the commandline it will eventually power up, but inevitably it will still crash the system. This means a long chkdsk for the system on boot and a mega-long chkdsk for my removable drive... the latter owing to no, (or a partial), eject procedure prior to the trap.

Does anyone know of a cure/work-around for this?

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