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#31
Multimedia / Re: "favicon.ico" creation
2011.04.20, 16:55:31
Hi ben,

other than that... there are some favicon editors online:

and of course, there are Java flavors of them (not sure about the JRE version required though - the one below appears to work with 1.4):

HTH, Thomas
#32
Multimedia / Re: "favicon.ico" creation
2011.04.20, 13:54:02
Hi,

FWIW... back when I did some more website stuff I used to use "MicroAngelo" (win-based freeware IIRC).
I checked tons of tools back then and this was creating impressive scale-downs even from larger originals.

IBManners: Sorry for the watoday and spamcop examples, but these are not on-the-fly "scaled-down" representations of larger pictures.
A standard scale-down would result in a smaller representation of the SAME picture while in your examples, the small pics are whole different from the large pics (i.e. they show a different graphic). with these ICO files instead, the browser picks the 16x16 image from the list of formats contained in the ico file.  (Sorry if that is what you said and I simply got you wrong...)

A lot of people tend to forget that "ico" is not a graphics file format - it's a "container" format to put it that way.
It can contain multiple images which differ by size, resolution and also actual picture. An application using the ICO can decide which one to pick, depending on size and color-depth. This is also true for OS/2's WPS:
Watch for programs that have an icon on the desktop and what is displayed in their titlebars when they're run. Both pictures are contained in the same .ico file.

Basically, my experience is:
You can do a whole lot of good stuff with only 16x16 pixels. But not, if you also only have 16 colors. ;)
Make sure you've got 256 colors (at least) at hand, otherwise you'll not be able to create anything close to pretty.

Hope this helps, cheers,
Thomas
#33
Hi,

sorry but I have to admit that I share Dougs viewpoint.
I remember that with each install of eCS and even Windows, one of the first things I do is rearranging the folders - be it on the desktop or the start menu or even the "programs" folder on the disk. And I am sure that you will never be able to find a basline that suits everyone.
Same is true for desktop backgrounds, window styles, ... you name it.
It is one of the essential features of a desktop (even OS) that you can give it a personal touch to suit your personal needs.

That said, the thing that really annoys me is the fact that there is no "single point of control" in eCS that works throughout all install methods regarding where to put executables, data when being asked to choose an installation folder. I would like to see WarpIn (or even the OS below it) being able to resolve my preferred locations and offer them transparently. Example:

I prefer to install applications into "\apps" on my boot drive.
Each application will have its own subfolder.
Sometimes I even group them on a higher level like \apps\sys\ghostscript, \apps\tools\fc2, \apps\net\jftp, etc.
However that structure is not a 1:1 view on my desktop where I want to have things sorted completely differently, e.g. "FC/2" will have a desktop icon, ghostscript will not appear anywhere, and jftp might be the "internet" folder of the desktop.

So what I would like to have when installing an application is:
- it asks me where to install executables and should search for my env. setting "progdir" or whatever and offer the tree from there, including the possibility to create  a new (sub)folder in an existing folder
- it asks me where to put icons and offers me the tree starting on [desktop] including the possibility to create a new (sub)folder
- it asks me where to put DLLS and offers the places from LIBPATH (or: in the applications executable dir)
- if required/possible: it asks me where to put application DATA (same folder as app or somewhere else -> tree... etc., perhaps pasring the "dpath" env. var) this would be the case for "my documents"-alike

Of course, the whole process can be using intelligent "defaults" which I (as the end-user) can configure separately, globally:
A tool that I can use to specifiy, for example:
"When an installer wants to put DLLs on your machine, the default to be offered in the selection is:"
- Application directory
- \ecs\dll
- (select dir from libpath)
and so on...

Note that this is the default OFFERED in the later install, not a default setting that is APPLIED IMMEDIATELY.
Of course users should be able to select a hassle-free "don't make me think"-approach that asks NO questions and leaves a WORKING setup.
But again, the decision to use the easy or advanced way should be left to the end-user.

Oh, thinking about it - why not have a "test-drive" preset:
Users can select "test-drive" and the installer will be 100% quiet, installs the application and launches it, so the user can check the application and if he decides to keep it, the installer asks where to "finally" out the stuff and rearranges the paths/folders accordingly. So the user can have a quick look at an application without having to think about all the path/folder stuff before he is even sure if he actually will keep the software at all.

Just my 2ct. ;)
Thomas
#34
Ivan,

what is the exact steps to prevent it from putting something in the MBR?
Is that something I have to do manually when fiddeling with partitions?

And - is it best to first install eCS or rather Linux?

Cheers,
Thomas
#35
Hi Ivan,

thanks for the note. I'll give it a try with Suse. Any special requirements as to which version is suited "best"?
Otherwise I'll just take the lastest one... I don't mind the flavor of Linux to use. It only must install simple and flawlessly along eCS.

Cheers,
Thomas
#36
Hi all,

okay. Sigh.
http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2914

Known defect of LVM. No fix available it seems.

Thanks anyway for reading my above lament, ;)
Thomas
#37
Gents,

I'm trying to get eCS 2.0GA and Ubuntu 10.01 installed on a Thinkpad T32 in a dual-boot fashion.
While I am experienced in dual-boot setups for the last decades when it comes to Microsoft, I am new to the same regarding Linux.

My expectation was that it could not be harder than getting a Redmond-OS to run in dual-boot.
Man, have I got news for you... ;)

Symptom:
If I install Ubuntu first, eCS seems unable to find/create a startable partition as long as I don't "kill" the Ubuntu partitions.
If I install eCS first, installing Ubuntu will turn the eCS partition unusable and not accessible to get reactivated by LVM.

It looks like the Linuxcrap kills vital information on other partitions... seems to be parted/gparted/grub whatever they call it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459

Question:
Has someone got Ubuntu (10.01) and eCS 2.0 (GA/RC, whatever) running in dual-boot, both natively? (VBox doesn't count)
if so - what is the recipe to follow? I won't mind using DFSee if that helps fixing the problem.

BTW:
My Ubuntu install is running from a bootable USB thumb drive (live install) so I could be able to use tools contained in a running Ubuntu if that helps... also, the target is to use AirBoot, not the IBM Bootmanager.

TIA, Cheers,
Thomas
#38
Eugene,

what is your intention here?
This is "OS/2 World" - not "eComStation world".
You have to accept that many people stick with OS/2 - which is to some point also because eComStation progress has suffered some huge "pitfalls" which are mainly related to your way of doing project suboptimal management while on the other side producing nothing more than a lot of "hot air". In other words: Talk is cheap. Results count. You failed more than once on both ways.

I will say it politely (but I know you will NEVER understand):
Sometimes less is more.
Sometimes not saying anything says more than a thousand words.
And saves me from typing such a bullshit once again. Heck, you again managed to make me go crazy...

There are 3 ways for you to react to Sigurds post:
- nothing (that would have been nice!)
- say "Congrats - can you share your experience? (-> very constructive, positive, collaborative way)
- write a whole sermon of dipshit (worst case. but astonishingly that's what you did...)

Why can't you just leave people in peace, return to your desk,...
...and get your damn job done?

But I offer a resolution:
Should we compare the number of visitors of your (2, 3, 4 ?) sessions at Warpstock Europe versus the number of visitors of Sigurds (1) presentation? Think about that before you mess around here.

And did you want to show-off with that crap on "SVN"?
Why the heck should Sigurd put the stuff on a SVN? It is all documented in his post - standard stuff. No need for SVN.
I remember the last time I "updated" ACPI. There were lots of OUTDATED BACKLEVEL parts in it. And YOU dare talking about SVN?
Heck, you can't even pack the right files in a ZIP!!
Why didn't you ask Sigurd for his Hudson CI setup while we're at it? JFC.

Finally, looking at the time it took you to "flame" around here... it could have been invested much better:
I am still waiting for your session descriptions for WSE2011. See my email.

Cheers,
Thomas
#39
Hi Fr4nk,

as far as I know, the only actual problem with preformatted FAT32 MSDs is that there is a LVM "signature" missing. Dunno if that is flag/table or whatever something in the boot sector... I could be wrong but IIRC that is the only problem/cause for eCS not being able to immediately use a FAT32 partition on them.
( I guess that is also what others wanted you to use DFSee for. Not sure though. )

And if that is the case, I wish there was a simple one-click tool that simply creates the LVM signature on an "uknown" device and basta.


Cheers,
Thomas
#40
Hi,

without knowing too much about it... and with ignoring the fact that I have my own problems regarding USB thumb drives I suspect that...:

Quote from: Fr4nk on 2011.03.21, 14:21:22
I had to prepare (LVM setup and re-format) all my USB sticks to make them work. Is this LVM related? Or is it Fat 32 related?

...it is LVM related.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume the same approach you use for thumb drives applies to the SD card too.
Did you try to LVM the SD card and put a FAT32 partition on it to see if that does the trick?
Perhaps it's also an internal catch with removable USB storage devices larger than xxx GB which the other OS overcome by a dirty hack?

Sorry I have no real idea... just guessing... hope it helps somehow anyway.
Cheers,
Thomas
#41
Open Bounties / Re: VLC player Port
2011.03.02, 19:19:29
Martin,

a long, long time ago I sponsored 50 Euro for the "Porting TrueCrypt" bounty.
That bounty is sooo dead ever since it started... can I ask that you transfer the money to THIS bounty here?

I woould really like to show some appreciation towards Ko Myung-Hun for is work.

Thanks,
Thomas
#42
Hola Francesc,

I have not experienced something like this.
Regarding the "install" via FTP - did you only FTP the Thunderbird etc. applications or did you also install eCS this way??

If it is only the application, then I don't think it is a problem, because the "real" install is nothing but extracting files too.
Regarding the differences between native eCS and a virtualized one from the viewpoint of an application, the following pitfalls come to mind:
- path or libpath not correct
- virtual memory limitation (by VBox)
- some addon, plugin, extension in Thunderbird?
- "mis-" configuration of TB that doesn't work inside VBox (e.g. sound but no sound driver...)
- missing runtime or helper DLL in the virtual eCS

I guess really the best way to solve it is to FTP the installer/archive for all the programs and then install from inside teh VBox eCS guest.
Oh, you don't have an "popuplog" by any chance?

HTH, Cheers,
Thomas
#43
Hi,

I think we have to differ here.
There are groups whare you can join and develop. Basically, everything that runs a CVS or SVN invites people to participate.
But many people can't - because they don't have the skills for either the programming language used or the specific object model required.
And this is the point: Are we talking about programming classes?

I could offer to do this for REXX and OS/2 as long as it is "application programming".
I cannot do tricks around the WPS for instance (yet) but perhaps someone who can is interested to pick up later when my "basics" course is done.
(If there is a basics course of course).

I think we need to see what people are interested in.
Is it "C" that you want? Then
- decide for a freely available compiler (and/or IDE along with it) or simply decide what it will be
- decide for a project/topic
- go search an experienced devloper who offers to give the course

I guess the idea itself is not bad at all, it only needs some more tangible details around it.

Cheers,
Thomas
#44
Hi xChris,

I can assure you that there was no intentional work carried out on your forum account!
We are experiencing a lot of attempts by spambots to exploit flaws in the Joomla/SMF-bridge (the forum integration component). In order to fix these vulnerabilities, the more savvy admins (I'm a n00b in that regard) are trying to shut down specific parts of the system that deal with authorization checks. I can't tell if/how that impacted your account because it *should* only affect new users signing up.
Of course, before going live with the changes, we did some tests to see if/how existing and new users will be impacted by the changes to the authorization and -sigh, sorry- everthing looked OK.

We apologize for any inconveniende and will further investigate what happened.
Let me assure you again that there was no intention behind this, we're really sorry!

FYI - in case you got locked out from the forum drop us an email at siteadmin /at\ os2world /dot\ com

Cheers,
Thomas
#45
Quote from: BigWarpGuy on 2011.02.22, 22:27:39
If it can run Win 7 or Ubuntu, why not eCS(?).  8)

Is that a serious question? There are hundreds of machines aorund the globe that run Ubuntu and Win7 but will never be able to run eCS in such a way that all hardware features are supported. This includes in particular WiFi and xATA but extends to things like graphics and (wired) networking chipsets... not to mention the ever-failing ACPI with its dependencies to basically every hardware.

My conclusion is:
Grab the list of the chips that were soldered into/onto the Xtreamer (if you're lucky) and then check if all that stuff is known (proven) to be working with a specific RC/GA of eCS. And then -if it appears to work- hold your breath and say a prayer that the manufacturer didn't change the internal chips for saving 0.001 cent per board built ...without telling anyone. As usual.

Cheers,
Thomas