Warpstock 2003 General Announcement

2003-05-16 19:10:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Robert Kuropkat]

The Warpstock Board of Directors is very pleased to announce that Warpstock 2003, the seventh edition of the annual Warpstock event, will be held near San Francisco, California, October 18th and 19th, 2003 at the Doubletree Hotel, San Francisco Airport.

The Doubletree Hotel features 389 richly appointed guest rooms, including 10 luxurious suites. New Concierge Rooms feature Herman Miller office chairs and a printer/fax/scanner/copier combination unit. We have arranged a special show room rate of $85 per night Single/Double that will be available for up to 3 days before and 3 days after Warpstock (based on availability). We will have more information about the San Francisco area on the web site soon.

The final contract and arrangements are still pending. When that is finalized we will follow with specific room reservation instructions.

Registration amounts have been set and are as follows:

• Registration: $119
• Early Registration: $99
• At the Door: $140
• One Day: $90
• Vendor: $400

And introducing a new way to contribute to the ongoing wonder that is Warpstock: Supporting Memberships for $48. Supporting Memberships are common with Science Fiction conventions and are essentially a way for members to help support the costs of putting on the convention even if that person will not be able to attend. Supporting Members will be entitled to the same registration package as all other attendees. If it later appears the Supporting Member can in fact attend, the membership can be upgraded from "supporting" to "attending" for the difference in cost.

Further details on the event, including presentations and events will follow soon. If you are interested in giving a presentation at Warpstock 2003, please contact our speaker coordinator, Robert Kuropkat with a synopsis of your presentation and any requirements. If you have suggestions for presentations, send them as well and we will try to find someone knowledgeable on the subject who is interested.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web site

Walk by Internet

2003-05-15 21:29:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

There are some "new" sites in the Internet:

• Wireless networking (WiFi)
• Learning Pascal (russian) and alternative work place shell (a-la KDE);
• Information about OS/2 and eComStation for novice users (Belgium);
• Information about compatible PCI sound cards (detailed tables);
• Homepage of some LAN utilities and info about IRC-network eCSNet (russian);

The 3rd OS2 World Award Nomination

2003-05-09 12:25:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com]

What everybody has been waiting for has now been launched; the nomination process for the 3rd OS2 World.Com Award.

This years categories are following:

• Best Unix Port of the Year
• Best Commercial Software of the Year
• Best Java Application of the Year
• Best Site of the Year
• Best Supporting Company of the Year
• Best Individual Software of the Year
• Honor Award for Individuals

The nomination form can be found here. The nomination process will be open until Sunday the 25 of May.

The OS2 World.Com Award Event, was founded to advance the developent and use of eCS and OS2; foster cooperation among creative developers and users; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical research and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common forum and meeting ground.

May 2003 VOICE Newsletter

2003-05-04 16:34:33 -- Victoria Noven [VOICENWS]

The May 2003 issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online.

In the latest issue you can find:

• The Future of the VOICE Newsletter -- by Mark Dodel
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 8 -- by Thomas Klein
• Installing a hybrid WIN32S 1.25/1.30 extension in WinOS/2 on OS/2 Warp 4 -- by Jeffrey Race
• Virtual PC - Now We Can Have It All! -- by Mark Szkolnicki
• OS/2 and Mainframes: The Linux Answer? -- by Timothy Sipples
• Not Bad For an Old Elephant. -- by Don Eitner
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

Access to HTTP by password, with control of traffic

2003-04-23 13:05:06 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

In this article Vladimir Solovyov describes original method of HTTP access granting (russian text). He uses freeware software and usual computer.

eCS 1.1 at MelbPC OS/2 SIG Meeting 22nd April

2003-04-21 19:16:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, John Angelico]

Here is a quotation from Australian OS/2 list.

Announcing next week's meeting of the Melbourne SIG to be held at Melbourne PC Rooms, 27 Wells St, Sth Melbourne, Commencing 6:30pm

The Night of Nights!!

News & Views - latest items of interest which will be a mere curtain raiser to the new eCS v1.1

Demonstration of some significant OS/2 software: eCS 1.1; This must be currently the most significant piece of software on the planet - who would dare miss this??

• Mark Rogers will install our official MelbPC registered copy of eCS 1.1
• Mark will talk us through the new features as they emerge on the screen
• Mark will also distribute CDs of the upgrade to those present who have ordered

Tech-Talk: Bootable JFS by Ian Manners. Don't know what this means? Come along and find out! You do know? Then come and see latest developments on this topic from one of the world-wide team of beta-testers

Free Java - continuous downloads available from the kitchenette!

The Warped perspective, April 2003

2003-04-21 13:02:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/]

Some weeks ago Tom Nadeau have published the next essay. In this month he talks about "When is cheaper not really cheaper?". He shows underwater stones hidden in "cheap software" concept and the role of dummy here plays Microsoft.

April 2003 OS/2 eZine

2003-04-17 20:08:07 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

In this issue:

From The Editor -- Robert Basler

Reviews

• eComStation 1.1 - Gold Baby! -- Robert Basler takes a test drive.
• Memsize -- Deane Yamane looks at a utility that displays useful system information.
• KVEC -- John Bijnens reviews a utility for converting bitmaps into vector images.

Articles

• Beginners Guide to Creating PDF's -- Isaac Leung tells us how.
• Application Servers for eComstation and OS/2 -- David A. Del Col looks at some of the choices.
• OS/2 Tricks -- Isaac Leung offers a long list of things you probably didn't know OS/2 could do.
• OS/2 is Boring Part 9 -- Bas Heijermans looks at a solution for keeping time.

The Art Department -- Cool desktops for you.

Annual report

2003-04-15 03:57:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]

eCo Software summed up its activity during the previous year. Tax return was succesfully filed, first license payments was made to Serenity Systems. All this allows finish preparation stage and start scaling of e-business.

Reservation of communication channel

2003-04-15 03:42:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.spb.ru]

Roman Popov shows methods of reservation on example of two networks linked by allocated channel. Both networks contain servers which must echange data (different organizations own this networks). The requirement: in case of damage restore connection by dial-up and break this temporal connection after damage removal.

Top 11 ways the world would be different

2003-04-08 21:30:42 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, martini]

This list contains top 11 ways the world would be different if OS/2 had won the desktop war in 90th. (From: Jim Arnold as posted on the OS/2 User mail list, Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim)

Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California

2003-04-08 12:28:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

The Warpstock Inc. board of directors is very pleased to announce that Warpstock 2003 will be held this year in the beautiful state of California. The BayWarp OS/2 User group has assembled an excellent package. There are still a few details to be determined, but so far I can tell you the date for the event will be the weekend of October 18-19, 2003.

Hopefully by the end of this week the actual hosting facility will be announced. All three under consideration are in the general San Francisco/San Jose area and are convenient to either San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland airports. No prices are as yet available, but it appears that room rates will be more favourable then last years event in Austin, Texas.

The BayWarp event team is still looking for a publicity coordinator. This position can be handled by someone not local to the SF area. This person will be responsible for drafting/sending announcements to keep the OS/2-eCS community informed of the Warpstock event news. If you want to help, please contact Warpstock 2003 Event Chair - Samuel Little

VOICE Newsletter available

2003-04-03 19:12:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Christian Hennecke]

The April issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online.

• Let's chat! -- by Mark Dodel
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 7 -- by Thomas Klein
• The IBM Thinkpad A30p - eCS power on the Road -- by Mark Szkolnicki
• Nice-OS/2 Enhancer v 5.0 -- by Sergey Posokhov
• An Adventure with LVM, a Multi-boot System, and Cloning the Operating Partitions -- by Peter Hinckley
• Installing XFree86/OS2 4.3.0 -- by Christian Hennecke
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

Happy birthday

2003-03-30 15:35:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We celebrate the birthday of OS2.Spb.Ru (5 years) and OS2World.com (3 years).

The forum of OS2.Spb.Ru is in full swing, while the site itself became the arena of battle between Alex-G (who buries OS/2) and OS/2 users (who send new reports about OS/2 compatible hardware).

The mission of OS2World.com deffers:

"Launched in March 2000 by Kim Haverblad, the site is now the best source for news about OS/2 & eCS. As an international collaborative community the site also gives the OS/2 & eCS community a common platform to interact with each other.

The OS2World.com original mission was to provide free web hosting for OS/2 related pages. Now it has growed and adecuated daily updated News, Webmail, Users Forums and a Link system. All this without charging the users for this services.

As of March 2003, OS2 World has achieved over 2 million page impressions and attracts an audience of more than 20.000 unique visitors per month. Having grown from humble origins into a powerful resource for OS/2 & eCS, it is now one of the major OS/2 & eCS sites available."

We had set up a topic on the forum about the OS2World.com birthday, you can add your comments there.

WarpDoctor Mtg

2003-03-30 15:35:42 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, W F Metcalf]

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). Visit this page for timezone help.

Many of supporters of Webbnet have been working hard and long, and have rebuilt the network. To find the current list of Webbnet servers you, go to this server.

#warpdoctor can be found on any of these servers.

You can use any of those server addresses to initialize your IRC client, or alternatively, click on the link at the bottom of the page, and load a Java IRC applet. I have tried this applet, and it is remarkably quick, and simple to use.

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions.

Please read the agenda at so you will be ready for the meeting.

The March 2002 OS/2 eZine is out

2003-03-17 02:27:52 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2ezine.com]

In this issue:

From The Editor -- Robert Basler talks about coming eComStation 1.1 release.

Editorial

• The Life of Virtual PC for OS/2 - Brilliant but Short? -- Douglas Clark speculates on the future.

Reviews

• Electronic Teller -- John Bijnens reviews this financial package.
• DrawIt 3.5 -- Isaac Leung explores a comprehensive vector drawing tool.

Articles

• Rexx: The King is Alive and Well -- Douglas Clark offers an overview of this powerful programming tool.
• OS/2 is Boring Part 8 -- Bas Heijermans talks about firewalls, NFS and more.
• Does OS/2 have to be Ugly? -- Isaac Leung tells us how he made his desktop look the way it does.

The Art Department

• Cool desktops for you.

Forums

• Ask John & Rob -- John Bijnens and Robert Basler answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
• March Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.