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Off Topic discussions / Re: My Smart Fortwo Pure
« on: 2008.04.23, 06:36:28 »
Brazil still is using E85, good old American corn ethanol.  While they have discovered ways of producing ethanol from other crops, as far as I am aware none are currently in production today.  I have alot more faith in sunfuel since it is close to being viable, can be used in any currently available diesel engine without modification, has close to no co2 impact and diesel engines are more efficient then gassers anyway.

That being said, I love my Volkswagen 1.8t gasser =)  Just wish it didn't use so much gas.. =)  29mpg isn't cutting it with my commute.

... corn has sky rocket as well due to ... the ethanol producers. So I guess that there are some valid arguments in that ethanol hurts food production and is just not a smear campaign from the oil industry.

Also ethanol costs twice as much as gasoline produce and consume 30% compared when driving a car on gas.

There are a better ways to produce ethanol than with corn. As someone alluded to, Brazil is using sugar cane, which is more cost effective.

Scientists have found that switchgrass is also another cost effective source for ethanol, but in the USA, the corn producers have a good lobby that is keeping government subsidies for ethanol targeted at corn. Don't blame the scientists; they aren't the ones pulling the purse strings.


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Off Topic discussions / Re: My Smart Fortwo Pure
« on: 2008.04.23, 06:30:28 »
First of all..  I really doubt that people are pawning things to pay for fuel, and if they were then they would be doing it anyway because the 4 dollars per fillup extra that it has cost me over the last 2 years is certainly not causing me to go out on a pawning spree.

The U.S. economy is less about the price of fuel and more about everything else which is wrong today.  We are still on average paying less per gallon of fuel then most of the world is paying for a liter  (3.8l per gallon dude). 

Second, Ethanol is NOT A SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT.  Ethanol production is very expensive and uses huge amounts of resources (diesel for the tractors, petroleum or petroleum or coal based electric for the refinement, WATER.. yes.. Corn needs WATER to grow).  It uses up crops which would be otherwise used for food.  It does not burn at a sufficient temperature to be used efficiently in current cars.  Cars which are compatible with it get much worse fuel economy while using it.  A current production car would need larger fuel tanks (to keep the same range on lower mileage), larger fuel pumps to pump the extra volume required to MOVE THE CAR.  Larger injectors to get the fuel into the engine, higher voltage ignition systems to get the fuel to the correct temperature in order to have a clean burn and avoid detonation.   

Do you even understand how an internal combustion engine functions?


Third.. E85 IS AN AMERICAN PRODUCT.  IT COMES FROM AMERICAN FARMERS.  We sell it to other countries.

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Posted by: Robert Deed
Ethanol requires radical redesign in order to be feasible.   Per gallon ethanol has a much lower btu output which translates into less power, which means larger fuel pumps, larger injectors, lower fuel mileage and larger fuel tanks.

Ethanol also is expensive to produce and since ethanol cannot be feasibly used to power tanker trucks or tractors then the production of ethanol is going to be dependent on another fuel.

Hey Robert;

From what I saw on the news after posting my earlier comment it will appear that the economic situation for some folks living here in the US is really getting bad - can you imagine folks taking long held family jewels to the pawn shops to be able to afford a few gallons of gas at the petrol station (in some cases to be able to keep a roof over their heads); so, come on dude where are the comparison figures to show that ethanol cannot be a viable alternative to imported petroleum products; also, why does it appear that the Brazilian engineers, scientists and other business people can get it right with Ethanol 85 (E85) whilst Americans cannot. Do you honestly believe that this is a time to be debating or is it a time for some real action? ??? ::) 8)



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Applications / Re: Ecomstation 64 Bit Kernel
« on: 2008.04.23, 06:19:33 »
??????????

I try not to read between the lines, I personally prefer to read the WORDS, and in this case, the words make NO SENSE.


Hate to be an arse, but this really calls for it.  ;D How I love internet memes.



Hey "Saijin_Naib"; Guess one has to do what makes them "tick". 8) How about providing your email address there is some information that I would like for you to have since you appear to have lots of "spare time" at hand at a time of global economic uncertainties.  8)

BTW; Rest assured that the "Space Suite" has no relationship with the "four" illuminations that were seen last evening in Planet 3's atmosphere. (was that in the New Mexico's desert?) (with VOYAGER and CASSINI - yes). Hope you can begin to read between the lines. ;D Otherwise the "assimilation" is progressing well after the last descent from 35,000 feet. ;D ::) ;D



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Applications / Re: My eCS 2.0 hopes...
« on: 2008.04.22, 17:10:24 »
Because I can't have Lotus Symphony for free since I use OS/2.\

On the other hand, you could just use openoffice.org.

IBM is no better then MS.  Even though IBM created the OS which I love so much, they also completely mishandled it and have frustrated me at every turn.  I have no loyalty to IBM or Lotus.

Re:  ???

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Agreed with this statement to a very high degree; and, all the more reasons why the OS/2 Source-Codes will have to be locked away from the OS/2 World Foundation et al in those "underground bunkers".    ;D 8) ;D

Here is one reason why:

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 Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist....

http://www.news.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html


Why pay for Microsoft when you can get Lotus Symphony for free?  8) ::) 8)



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Off Topic discussions / Re: My Smart Fortwo Pure
« on: 2008.04.22, 17:08:08 »
The Brazilians hardly ever get things right, which is true of any government which acts in a reactionary way.  (including our own).  Progress does not come out of panic, it comes out of a clear understanding of the end results of your decisions.

Ethanol in it's current form is based off of corn.  Corn is food.  So I don't see how increased ethanol production could help global hunger.

You have to also look at the energy creation potential of every alternate fuel.  If it takes more energy to create something then can be created by that fuel this is a net loss, and seeing as you like to keep talking about your number crunching you should be able to see that this is not a sustainable path.

I have no doubt that the design of our cars and trucks and even aircraft will need to change, however care must be taken that we go in the correct direction.  This means you have to ignore your personal feelings on every new discovery and look to see if this is a system which could work.

Now, that being said ethanol has been around for a LONG time, and used to power engines for a long time, generally with less then stellar results.

Besides, we're hopelessly off topic in and off topic discussion.  Again, cool car BigWarpGuy..  been looking for something commutable (I am a 100mile round trip from home each day) however I don't know if the smart is really right for me.  I have to deal with snow, roads which have pot holes large enough to lose a smart in it =)  I guess I am back to looking at various VW TDI's =)  45-50mpg without any electronic tricks =) and full size to boot.


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Posted by: Robert Deed
Ethanol requires radical redesign in order to be feasible.   Per gallon ethanol has a much lower btu output which translates into less power, which means larger fuel pumps, larger injectors, lower fuel mileage and larger fuel tanks.

Ethanol also is expensive to produce and since ethanol cannot be feasibly used to power tanker trucks or tractors then the production of ethanol is going to be dependent on another fuel.

I am totally sick of the eco friendly adverts and green initiatives.  There is nothing any more "green" about any of it.  The only people who think ethanol is our future are companies which produce ethanol.  The only people who think electric cars are our future are electric companies.  And I've gone on about hybrids impact on our environment before.

Out.

After reading several press articles and watching the news a few hours ago (the Russians saying that their oil production has peaked, crack down on the hoarding of grains in Turkey, food riots in Haiti a few days ago; and, with the hurricane season just a few weeks away...) you can bet there is no way dude that your words will be taken to the bank; at least, not by this soul. This economic situation (food, oil... ) is not an America only thing; it is worldwide. And, the "Brazilians" (apart from beating us at soccer) had it right the first time. 8) 8) 8)


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Off Topic discussions / Re: My Smart Fortwo Pure
« on: 2008.04.22, 17:00:07 »
Other then understanding the principals involved no. 

Rob, OT as hell, forgive me, but are you in any way familiar with biochar and wood gassification? I am doing some research work on that now and I have had less than stellar success with my modest 23oz Aluminum can oven.

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Applications / Re: Ecomstation 64 Bit Kernel
« on: 2008.04.22, 16:58:29 »
Robert, you left out the fact that most of PMShell wasn't even written by IBM.  It was a project at a university (the exact one eludes me at the moment) and also contains code which is copywritten by our friends over at Apple.

I wish we could just ask for the code minus the contributed code in all places, however as this has been pointed out this is very hard to decipher.  The code has been changed many times probably since the original contributions, not to mention the time and money it would take for IBM to run it all through their legal departments.  I wish there was an easy way to make this happen, but I simply do not see it.

As for my wish lists, I would like to see MMOS2 released in source.  (even without the codecs) so that it could be extended, fixed and modernized (it is one of the best multimedia subsystems in any OS but a few small bugs (and large amounts of outdated 16bit code) hinder it.

How about a full open sourcing of GRADD.  Now that snap is going to be opened up (hopefully with the OS/2 codebase) we could benefit greatly by having the source to gradd.  We are going to be handicapped later on if we proceed with snap (which I think is our best option) if there is no way to fix bugs in gradd.  As most of us who were testers for snap can recall, there were quite a few fixes required to make snap stable.  As this is a component completely developed in house it shouldn't be impossible.

Now, making a business case for this is hard, IBM isn't going to be interested into a royalty payment off every copy of eCS which is sold, nor do I believe that Serenity could take a hit to their bottom line to pay substantially.

Another way of looking at this is to see what changes in components we require and working on our own replacements for it.  This would require a coordination which has not been seen before in OS/2.  This would mean all the people who are making various applications and drivers would need to work together.  Instead of having a video driver being written by one person, and a sound driver coming from someone else, we need to get these people working together.  MMOS2 wouldn't be that hard to tackle.  Nor would an up to date lan manager.  Alot of new operating systems have these components and in their first betas.  Samba is a good way to go, but we need a GUI configuration for it (like lan manager), and we need both server and client services to be available in this gui.  Perhaps the truth of it is we really need to make a subproject off of samba which is OS/2 specific.

There has been alot of talk about using cups to replace our printing system, however it hasn't actually happened.  I understand there is alot of work involved in this, but I believe if we pooled our resources this could get completed.

 

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Setup & Installation / Re: DVDDAO and eCS
« on: 2008.04.22, 06:21:56 »
When I was reffering to "filters" I mean to use the correct version of the daniatapi with the correct version of dani's drivers (the newer drivers do not work with the older filter..  (that would be the driver with the .flt extension)..

Raising the priority of dvddao makes a HUGE ability to successfully burn discs.  I myself have had disks fail during the opening of the toc if the priority is too low. 

Hey, I am not going to say dvddao is the best written piece of software out there, I have burnt plenty of coasters with it, the only reason I continue with it is that I can burn dvdvideo discs which work in every player I have put them in, even my pioneer P7500DVDII (in car dvd player) which is known to completely not read copied discs.

Hello Robert,

>1) Make sure you are using the newest version of DANI's IDE drivers (assuming they are supported on your system)

  This is only thing I wasn't check yet. 

>2) Make sure you are using the newest filters to go along with them.

  Which filters ? Aspirout ? Where to find newest ?

>3) You can try upping the priority of dvddao (command line option).
>4) Try loading dvddao from a fullscreen session and see if that helps.

  No way, i've now understand that I failed using aspirout and aspinkk (can not find address with n,n,n), and with OS2CDROM.DMD (using driveletter) result in most cases with burning DVD without even 1 Kb of data acctualy written on media (toc pass ok.).

  As on the other side cdrecord burn without single problems, I've not so interested to try much more with DVDDAO because I've got an unussable media every time I've tried. :)  Only, to try again with never Danis, it may really help.

          I've just noticed that I have in my config.sys
DANIATAP.FLT
and not DANIATAP.ADD as it say in aspinkk.sys readme file.
  Should I replace FLT with ADD, or just add ADD?  My old Warp4 was working with FLT  without ADD, but maybe eCS needs like it is written in readme ?

  Also, here is little helper script for burning, in case anyone want to try.

http://cyber.manic.googlepages.com/napalm2


Thanks.

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Off Topic discussions / Re: My Smart Fortwo Pure
« on: 2008.04.22, 06:12:54 »
Ethanol requires radical redesign in order to be feasible.   Per gallon ethanol has a much lower btu output which translates into less power, which means larger fuel pumps, larger injectors, lower fuel mileage and larger fuel tanks. 

Ethanol also is expensive to produce and since ethanol cannot be feasibly used to power tanker trucks or tractors then the production of ethanol is going to be dependent on another fuel.

I am totally sick of the eco friendly adverts and green initiatives.  There is nothing any more "green" about any of it.  The only people who think ethanol is our future are companies which produce ethanol.  The only people who think electric cars are our future are electric companies.  And I've gone on about hybrids impact on our environment before. 

Out.

http://home.comcast.net/~tomleem/mysmartfortwopure.html The Smart Fortwo might be more common in Europe but it is new to the USA. I had reserved one in July 2007. It arrived here at http://www.smartcenteredison.com four weeks ago. I bought it two weeks ago. It is really neat.  ;D   8)  http://www.smartusa.com

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The Smart Fortwo might be more common in Europe but it is new to the USA.
So, what about South America -
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Takutu Bridge likely to be opened by July

http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=1867


Brazil and Guyana, here we come on OS/2 HIGHWAY 2008  ;D - so, please have those "ETHANOL" filling stations ready!   8)

The "beat" goes on "BigWarpGuy"  ;D  8) ;D


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Applications / Re: My eCS 2.0 hopes...
« on: 2008.04.22, 06:06:35 »
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Limping? Definitely. They're 30 BILLION dollars lower in cash on hand from a few years ago. They are suffering MAJOR losses in EVERY SINGLE division other than Office/Word and Windows. They are sure to start mounting losses in the Windows division with their current and future plans (scrapping Vista for Windows 7 in such a short time frame before their 6 year financial and programming investment on Vista has been paid off). And their Office/Word division is showing lower profits with the increased proliferation of Open Office...

...so, me personally, I would call any company that blows through 30 Billion Dollars in 3 years (and burning through more daily) a company developing a rather pronounced limp.

...but that's just my opinion... yours apparently differs.  ;)

Agreed with this statement to a very high degree; and, all the more reasons why the OS/2 Source-Codes will have to be locked away from the OS/2 World Foundation et al in those "underground bunkers".   ;D 8) ;D


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Applications / Re: Ecomstation 64 Bit Kernel
« on: 2008.04.22, 06:03:42 »
This is starting to hurt my head, as most threads involving saborion2 do. 

Sab.  I can say this.  If you have a proposed project and are looking for developers you are going about it all wrong.  If you can make a business case that is one thing, though let me say this you are not going to see a substantial return on investment in OS/2.  OS/2 is my platform of choice but I am under no delusion that it is not for everyone.

I actually can not figure out what this entire thread is even about.  There will not be a 64bit OS/2.  The only company who could legally supply that to us is IBM and it is clear they are not going to do that, beyond that it isn't even clear if they COULD supply a 64 bit version of OS/2 with support for both 32bit and 16bit legacy which would be required (since alot of device drivers are still 16bit).

RobertM, I think we should just stop paying attention to all of this.  Would like any information you could provide on your GPS solution for OS/2 since I am working on several different carputers which I would love to be able to say can do GPS.. (lol, i've even tinkered with voicetype to get syncish functions)

Quite a lot can also be said about:-

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http://www.aibuiltpc.com/Websites.html


Not really a very navigable site.  ???

Really? In what way? Besides the fact it is a website (and not a parked domain)...
  • It has descriptions of each site we have worked on
  • It has at least TWO links to each site (the image, and the site name)
  • It has a menu bar at the top that returns you to our other current business area that we are actively advertising for
  • Each page has info about how to contact us

  • And finally, it's not just a parked domain

I don't see the relationship. Is it finished? No. Is it functional in every business aspect that we wish to advertise on the Internet? Yes. Does it have information about our services (repair or websites) with valid links to each? Yes.

I am curious though why you are pointing that out (or what relationship it has to my questions) and why you have still avoided the questions...

This is perplexing me more and more...

Thanks,
Robert


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General Discussion / Re: Downgrade from Vista to XP?
« on: 2008.04.02, 06:01:54 »
Linux is actually a free clone of unix and early versions didn't share anything in common with any unix derivative except for the GNU tools.

OS/2 was murdered off because in IBM's culture the product had no purpose.  IBM was the mainframe, the mainframe was IBM.  Even the RS/6000 workstations were ugly ducklings to the server guys.  Then comes along IBM Personal Systems.. and this product which actually could do most if not all of what the servers could do (even if not at the same scale).  There was little if any markup in the personal sector.  Even at 200 dollars a pop OS/2 could not cover it's own cost of development and support.  IBM never sold computers to John Doe Everyman.. unless of course that was John Doe Everyman CEO.  They couldn't see that licensing and volume would be the way of the PC.  They were used to selling one system with everything needed to run it for 200,000 and then billing hourly for support.   No one can fault IBM for wanting out of the pool after they dangled their toes in it. 

It is hard to effectively market a product when your sales people don't even believe in it, and when the company footing the bill doesn't even know why they are doing it.  I am sure there were some people within the structure of IBM which recognized the potential in the PC.  Especially when coupled with a system which was as power as OS/2.  (the proof is that even though OS/2 has changed very little since the early days of development it is still in use today.  I can sit someone down in front of my PC at home running eCS and they think I'm running XP with a custom theme).  The problem was, IBM mainframe division was the cash cow, and what they wanted they got.  What they wanted was nothing which could compete with their domination of the server market, especially not something which was significantly less expensive and even worse, made by IBM. =)

IBM's Linux effort is more of a slight against Microsoft then anything to do with AIX.  IBM still maintains AIX.  Linux was a way to support Windows network architecture on their VM platforms without the overhead (expense and processing power) of Windows.  It also was in a way IBM saying, "you may have won, but watch your back" =)

:-D Yeah, I'm a moron. I admit, I assumed AIX was based off Linux (derivative of UNIX), I had no idea it was a derivative of UNIX itself. Whooops. Hubris is a bitch, innit? Oh well, my point about getting enhancements they can use in AIX from the linux community stands. They dont have to pay those people! That saves them a ton of money, does it not? If OS/2 could have been like that, they would have had no reason to murder it off, as it would not have become such a financial burden. Or thats how I see it, I dont really know what went on there :\ Just they buggered us and I'm pissed.

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General Discussion / Re: Downgrade from Vista to XP?
« on: 2008.04.02, 05:33:06 »
Sajin.. I think you got your timelines a bit off.. AIX is in fact an older product then Linux. 

Right, but the whole point is, Linux as an OS existed before IBM did research to develop AIX, and due to the open nature of Linux, advancements in the main linux body is also easily incorporated into AIX, even if IBM didnt develop those enhancements.

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Heh.. I understand Paul =)  I have a HDA onboard and may try it out.  Maybe even take a look at the CVS and see if I can help, I have been coding alot for work and maybe can give it a little time. 

You do great work =) 

Hiya Robert,

Is the April fools joke that it doesn't support sblive, which is probably one of the most commonly used soundcards with eCS machines simply because it had the best drivers. =) 

Maybe I'll give this one a go with my onboard audio.  I had stopped a few months ago because of the quality of MP3 playback, however I no longer play music from my computer now that I have my Pioneer amplifier hooked up to my network so it can play music off my computer, and I have a second zone hooked up in my office.

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/17790/2/
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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 01 April 2008


Hi All,[br. .. .

Well the major aim of these releases is HDA.  With more recent ALSA versions, the sblive loads firmware from the local drive and sends it to the sound card - I had troubles getting this code to compile with Watcom.  At some stage, I'll look at it again.



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Article Discussions / Uniaud32 v1.9.2 (April Fools release)
« on: 2008.04.01, 21:37:03 »
Is the April fools joke that it doesn't support sblive, which is probably one of the most commonly used soundcards with eCS machines simply because it had the best drivers. =) 

Maybe I'll give this one a go with my onboard audio.  I had stopped a few months ago because of the quality of MP3 playback, however I no longer play music from my computer now that I have my Pioneer amplifier hooked up to my network so it can play music off my computer, and I have a second zone hooked up in my office.

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/17790/2/
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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 01 April 2008


Hi All,[br. .. .

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