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Messages - sdennis

#16
Mail-News / Weasel and spam filters
2008.09.11, 04:32:21
Hi, everyone.

I'm wanting to set up a POP3/SMTP server setup for my own domain (nsbbs.info).  Luckily for me, I have the domain hosted at a good place to where I have complete and total control over it and I've shopped around for other places that offer POP/SMTP access for free, but there's a lot of bandwidth restriction.  I'm wanting to use this to move BBS packets via email and for a few email addresses of my own.  I've looked at Weasel and I've used older versions of Weasel before, but now I'm concerned about spam filters.

To be quite honest, I'm rather lost when it comes to this.  I've no knowledge (well, very, very limited) of this and how it would work.  I'm looking for some advice on what I should use, how to do it, et al.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean
#17
Quote from: Andi on 2008.09.09, 16:48:34
Thanks for the links. Found such things at amazon.de too. Have to take a better look on that...

No problem and let me know how it goes; I'm rather curious to see how it works.  I'll hopefully be getting one in the next few months to try out for myself here.

Later,
Sean
#18
Applications / Re: My modified FM/2 3.13
2008.09.09, 04:33:20
Quote from: David Graser on 2008.09.08, 22:12:25
Here's is something you may not have known.  Right click on a blank space on the toolbar and a list of all the toolbars comes up for selection.  Just about every part of FM/2 does something.  Just start clicking on things and see.   A good place to start is all the info boxes at the top and bottom of the containers.

I actually discovered that by accident.  I'm tweaking all of the archiver settings for what I need.  I wound up having to spend most of my day doing things I didn't want, but I just installed eCS 1.2MR and your version of FM/2 is next on my list.  ;D

Later,
Sean

P.S. Maybe a little "optimization FAQ" is in order?
#19
Applications / Re: My modified FM/2 3.13
2008.09.08, 21:28:30
Quote from: David Graser on 2008.09.08, 02:28:30
If anyone would like to try my modified FM/2 3.13, go to the following link.  Some icons, bmps, and toolbars have been changed or modified.

I downloaded it and it's now parked on the Warpcenter in my System folder.  I used FM/2 a /long/ time ago and it seems that you've fixed something that annoyed me that never worked right for me-all of the "tooltips" work on the buttons.  Thanks for a great job and I like the animation in the help screen also.  For some reason the copyright symbol in my "about" box looks like a high-ASCII character...probably something I messed up.

--Sean
#20
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.09.08, 16:50:53
You can even go to Walmart or something of the like and find a bunch back in the computer section. I've been tempted to buy one before but without any need, I just use the VOIP phones we use for our hose phones.

That's one of the places that I found those cheap Skype phones.  Here's a URL to the quick search I did on their website:

http://tinyurl.com/5mcqo8

That's for the US Walmart site; the cheapest they have right now looks to be $32.88 (the one I could use; they have one for the Sony PSP which is cheaper).

Later,
Sean
#21
Quote from: Andi on 2008.09.08, 12:57:55
Hardware phone which works with skype? I've nerver seen such a thing.

Google is your friend.

A search for "skype hardware phone" (without the quotes) turned this up:

Results 1 - 10 of about 379,000 for skype hardware phone. (0.56 seconds)

So there's a few out there, methinks. :)

Here is the link to the phone I am getting myself:
http://accessories.skype.com/store/skype/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.106215900

$99 isn't too bad of a price (well, for me).  I know I can get them for as little as $25 locally if I look around and of course, it all depends on what kind of features, et al. you want.

I'm not sure where in the world you're at, but if you look in the Skype Store, they'll probably have something there for you.  You can probably find it cheaper if you look around, of course, but this is a starting point.

I hope this helps some.

Later,
Sean
#22
Applications / Re: Up-to-date applications
2008.09.08, 00:24:45
Thanks to everyone who's posted and given me and my friend something to chew on.  About the "bias", he said that he needs it to be able to handle current file formats, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, et al.  He's read this, as have I, and I've downloaded StarOffice 5.1a for me.  I'll give it a whirl and see how it works for what little I need as my friend has a much higher demand for using an office application.  Me, well, it's the occasional Excel spreadsheet mainly from work.  I do have to deal with Visio files on occasion, but that's something I can deal with at work.  If I /really/ need Visio, I'll install Virtual PC and W2K on my machine to do the dirty work.

Something I didn't mention that going through my "collection", I've discovered that I not only have LSS, I've also Describe, WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.0 (OS/2 native even!), Ami Pro and a few other office-related programs.  So I guess I've got a choice for that now to start peeking through.

I'm going to go set up SO5.1a and give it a spin...I might recommend he just use that or LSS.

On a slightly different topic (but related), anyone know of a good FTP client?  I personally deal with that a lot.  I've tried a few clients already but have had problems connecting to various servers that I use, including my own.

Thanks for all of your opinions, ideas and thoughts to chew on.

Later,
Sean

P.S. I only received an email notice for the reply from saborion2, so that's why I popped in at the right time to read this. :)
#23
Quote from: Andi on 2008.08.21, 13:55:02
Is there a similar software than skype which let you talk over IP between eCS an Win systems?

Basically I would need only a voice connection between two dedicated systems over the internet. One running Win, the other eCS. No need for dial in services to others. Of course, skype similar services would be convenient. But at first I have 2 dedicated systems and the eCS system even do have a static IP.

Would a hardware phone be an option for you?  I've used them (getting one soon for my own use at home) and they are, IMNSHO, much better than the software and I get better quality out of the hardware-based phones.

Later,
Sean
#24
Applications / Up-to-date applications
2008.09.07, 12:10:31
Hi, everyone.

A friend of mine and I have been talking about eCS and he seems interested in it, but he brought up a list of programs that he uses under XP that he needs working programs for if he was to use eCS.  Skype was a stickler, but I told him to forget using the software and just get a Skype hardware phone-less demanding on the computer and easier to use.

I told him about Thunderbird and Firefox for email and web browsing.  Told him about ProNews/2 for newsgroups and even SIM for IM (I used it for quite some time without any problems).

Now the stickler is the "office" application.  I've got StarOffice 5.1a here but I don't think that's really an option any more since I don't think you can register it.  I've got Lotus Smartsuite (a later edition, forget which one it is off the top of my head), but I can't think of anything else save for Serenity System's $49 OO option, which it seems is out of the question right now for him.

I've been thinking going back to either OS/2 or eCS m'self since I've had Windows 2000 go berserk on me twice in one month, resulting in two total reinstalls.  So the office question is pertinent for me too.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, they'd be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean

P.S. For some reason, the "email replies" option on this forum is not working for me, so I might not get back to this for a few days.  Having oral surgery on Tuesday, so it'll be a "lay on the couch drugged up and sleeping" kinda day.  ;)
#25
Quote from: warpcafe on 2008.08.14, 15:18:27
In the first case Andy is right and the window is in fact open but simply outside the (now) 640x480 area (displayed in no-mans land). Then, Alt-F7 ("move window" hotkey) will make you be able to try to move the window back into the visible area.

For this to work, the window must have the focus of course first: Simply launch the window list, change to the entry for the invisible window and then use Alt-F7... and then try to use the cursor keys to move the window upwards left...

DING!  We have a winner! :)

What had happened is that not only was the window minimized, it was hiding behind my virtual desktop switcher (I use PMVDesk).  That little thing popped right up when I did what you suggested!

Thanks to you and everyone else who helped...wow, such a simple, elegant solution...that should've been right in front of my face.

--Sean
#26
Hi, everyone.

I hope this is the appropriate place to post this...anyhow, I'm having a strange problem with OS/2 and I'm not quite sure how to fix this.  Let me explain (and this is a little long-winded): I'm running Warp 4.52 (MCP2) on a Compaq Deskpro EN (P3/533, 640MB RAM) for my BBS.  The built-in video adapter is a ATI 3D Rage Pro with 8MB RAM.  I've been using this machine for nearly a year now with no problems.  However, recently, I bought a 19" monitor (a Gateway EV910).  I've made no other hardware changes to the board since I first bought it a year ago.

After installing the monitor on the machine, changing the resolution to 1280x1024@65K, all was well.  But, two days ago, I'd made some changes to CONFIG.SYS and had to reboot.  After rebooting, the system changed the resolution to 1280x1024i (interlaced), which with my crappy eyesight, I can't see very well.  I went back to change the resolution and then the oddest thing happened: when I selected the System module to change the resolution, the system acted like it was opening the module, but the System module was hiding in the background!

No matter what little tricks I did to coax it up to the foreground worked.  In fact, until I added SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY, upon reboot, the System module would load and then lock the machine completely to where C-A-D wouldn't work (I have CADH installed).  Well, after a little more poking around, I decided to switch from the stock ATI driver to SNAP (SNAP/se 7.0 comes with Warp 4.52).

Same problem.  So, I switched it back to VGA from the Alt-F1 prompt, rebooted and the System module is STILL hiding!  I've never had this problem before and it's really frustrating.  Thankfully, the BBS and the BBS mail system are working perfectly in the background, but it's awful hard to do anything at 640x480...

So as the computer sits right now, I have the SNAP drivers installed at 640x480,  unable to get the resolution any higher as the System module is hiding in the background.  It shows up in the window list, in TOP and even if I CTRL-right click the Warpcenter window list button...but nothing seems to bring it to the front.

The only way I know of to fix this (after searching Google for a bit) is to reinstall OS/2.  I /really, really/ don't want to do that as I have things set just as I want them and the system is purring right along as it sits.

Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks,
Sean
#27
Quote from: sdennis on 2008.07.24, 01:15:24
Quote from: RobertM on 2007.07.05, 02:01:55
  • Search for LMANNOUNCE (it will bring up multiple results - the one you are interested in is LMANNOUNCE with a value of 0 or 0x00000000

I inquired about this some time ago in these forums and Ben Dragon gave me the same answer (it's here on the old forums under "Networking").

Here's the URL to the original message:

http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=59&TID=787&SID=

--Sean
#28
Quote from: RobertM on 2007.07.05, 02:01:55
  • Search for LMANNOUNCE (it will bring up multiple results - the one you are interested in is LMANNOUNCE with a value of 0 or 0x00000000

I inquired about this some time ago in these forums and Ben Dragon gave me the same answer (it's here on the old forums under "Networking").  I've actually heard of this trick being done back in '97 when I first started working on OS/2.  IIRC, every version of Windows since Win98 has had to have this registry key changed in order to get Windows to "see" OS/2 shares, despite what Microsoft has insisted on.  Some OS/2 conspiracy theorists even have said MS did it to deliberately muck with us OS/2 users, heh.

I can say from experience that this works very well, especially under XP SP3, which for me has been a real PITA to work with Warp 4.52 (MCP2).

Just my two cents' worth,
Sean
#29
Quote from: abwillis on 2008.07.21, 01:50:05
I am replying from a T42 running eCS1.2.  The wireless adapter works via genmac (wired works fine with native driver or genmac).  Sound can use a driver that can be downloaded from IBM or using Uniaud.  Using SNAP for the video.  PCMCIA works as does USB.
Andy

That's great...so just sounds like I need to install GENMAC for the wireless and UNIAUD for the sound...not a problem there.

Thanks again,
Sean
#30
Setup & Installation / Re: CLI text editor
2008.07.20, 11:50:27
Quote from: Ben on 2008.05.26, 18:27:16
The SemWare Editor Junior/2 (TSE Jr/2) - version 4.0, is by far and away the best CLI editor for OS/2.

Okay, now where can I get it and can I get it registered? <G>

--Sean