Week of i3/i5/i7 barebones, notebooks and servers

2011-12-25 15:06:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The next week is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible barebones, notebooks and servers based on Intel Core i3/i5/i7. Our database contains 372 records about notebooks and servers, 286 records about motherboards. Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the web-form.

ACPI.PSD version and switches? Which version of ACPI.PSD doesn't work on this motherboard?

Which applications/drivers are not ready for this family of CPUs?

PDF printer for eComStation

2011-12-24 20:11:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Market changed eComStation significantly:

• it's easy to find popular apps now
• more applications are re-packed to WarpIn format
• it's easy to equip newly installed system with must-have apps

New useful packages:

• PDF Printer -- get PDF documents from any application with print support
• cd2mp3 -- Grab tracks from Audio CD to MP3 files
• [your suggestion?]

eComStation, december results

2011-12-24 13:54:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Mensys company published the results of december, eComStation Newsletter.

In short:

• Release of Firefox 8.0.1, Seamonkey 2.5 and Thunderbird 8.0.
• eComStation twitter
• global changes in Odin
• Flash plugin
• Samba update
• Work on OpenOffice.org 3.4.0
• ACPI driver release is coming
• Recommendations to use PM Backup Suite
• Merry Christmas and a happy 2012!!

DFSee 11 - formatted drive

2011-12-24 12:36:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Shop]

DFSee 11 is able to recover data from formatted JFS drive (after FAST format). Check Whatsnew document.

e-ball Awards 2011 competition

2011-12-22 00:35:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Do we manufacture something useful or consume (im)ported software only?

Here is the list of nominated applications:

• sorted listed
• unsorted list

What is e-ball Awards? Competition of drivers and applications. Best applications.. best drivers.. It is sometimes equivalent to 'most surprising', 'most subversive', 'most promising', 'most unnerving', 'most opportune', 'most happening'.

Post your nominations via web-form. We accept nominations before the end of december.

Backup utilities + Orange hard drive

2011-12-21 13:33:01 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software offers profitable offering for local users: PM Backup Suite + Orange external USB hard drive.

The utilities for everyweek backup: PM Backup Suite:

Publish a review at ecomstation.ru

2011-12-20 01:09:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Shop]

What is an article or review? The author is sharing the knowledge with hundreds of other users.

No articles - no knowledge exchange and the users become dumb.

Topics for discussion:

• reviews of popular software
• suggestions how to improve the OS
• description of new technology ported to eCS

eComStation: the past, today and tomorrow

2011-12-10 20:42:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

History of OS/2 Warp for PowerPC

See also:

• (RUS) History of eComStation
• (RUS) History: David Barnes and IBM OS/2

What is the value of eComStation Subscription in 2011

eComStation 3.0 wishlist

See also:

• What is the roadmap of Mensys? Post your questions
• Plans of developers

What is the value of eComStation Subscription in 2011

2011-12-10 19:49:47 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

answering to comments in Subscription to active users

[**] - not available for user, internal testing

A) One of significant updates in 2011 - release of new eComStation 2.1

What updates were released in 2011?

• B) ACPI driver was improved. New stage of development was started in the beginning of the summer. The previous stable version was released in the end of 2008. New version of ACPI driver was improved in 3 monthes! It follows the standard now. Changes are significant: all main problems are eradicated: it boots on all computers, doesn't require command line switches. The support of embedded-controller is fixed [**]
• C) USB drivers - are updated during 2011. USB 1.1, USB 2.0. Download.
• D) SNAP unviersal video driver is re-compiled: IDs of supported adapters are added. [**]

This open-source projects get support from eComStation (Software Subscription budget)

• E) Firefox web-browser - 4.0 .. 8.0 versions were released
• F) XWorkPlace - Split-view view is debugged in new version [**]
• G) Ethernet-drivers were released: Realtek, Intel, ..
• H) Java VM virtual machine to run industrial software
• I) The debugging of Flash 10, Odin continues

What is the conclusion? When the users are investing more into eCS subscription - more drivers are released.

eComStation - snowing news

2011-12-10 18:34:47 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) The competition e-ball Wards 2011 continues, What applications do you nominate?

2) VMware Documentation for eComStation 2.x eComStation 2.x documentation covers information on how to install the operating system in a virtual machine. For additional information about the operating system, refer to the instructions included in the installation media. http://partnerweb.vmware.com

3) Meeting of users in California, december 6. www.baywarp.org Hot topics were discussed:

• Warpstock 2011 review
• eCS 2.1 tips and tricks
• OS/2 Question & Answer

4) The history of eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp was updated, the history is changed again:

• 1994 - some words about Stacker
• 1994 - added photo of Warp 3 developers
• 2003 - reference to the article related to Win32prn in The Register
• More reviews related to OS/2 2.x, eComStation preview, eComStation 1.0 were found

5) History: David Barnes and IBM OS/2 (russian text)

6) Samba server and Samba client are updated (Homepage). You need Samba client to connect to Windows network and access files placed on Windows / Linux PC. Mesh of files.. look at word "Server" and "Client" on the left. date of files: November-December 2011.

7) eCo Software is searching for sponsors and investors, List of offerings

Christmas discounts..

2011-12-09 16:44:01 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The season of discounts for eComStation is going to the end.

• discounts if you buy DVD/CD Toys + PM Backup Suite
• NDCrypt plugin + NetDrive

read more

What do we recommend for users

• DFSee (you can buy version 11 today)
• Moneydance (Java) -- This is a Java personal finance application, announcement homepage 1 homepage 2
• WDDBaseViewer = EUR 5,00 homepage -- Wolfgang Draxlers DBase Viewer is a program to show the content of DBase III and DBase IV database files.
• What is CSSDIR?!

The 3-rd generation of eComStation

2011-12-09 16:28:17 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

What do you expect from the 3-rd generation of eComStation? Post your suggestions via web-form

Norwegian and Spanish LIP

2011-12-08 21:19:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

(LIP - Language Interface package)

Norwegian and Spanish Language Interface Packages are updated. Apply the package and make a screenshot!

LIP homepage.

Available packages: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian and Swedish.

For translators: (RUS) how to translate eCS / IBM / OS/2 applications?

For developers: Please use LANGE library to simplify the translation of your program to other languages: LANGE homepage

Eugene Gorbunoff talks about eComStation

2011-12-05 00:13:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Short interviews

• What is eComStation?,
• What is eComStation? near future

You can quote part of the text at other site and add link to full text.

More interesting interviews with eCS / OS/2 developers - Community site

Week of Thinkpad Notebooks

2011-12-03 23:43:36 -- eCo Shop

Please share the results of notebooks testing:

• What models of thinkpad are supported?
• How to update BIOS to run other WiFi adapter?
• How to run SATA controller in AHCI mode?

Drawing new icons for eComStation

2011-12-03 22:06:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

To update external view of eComStation it's necessary draw many new icons. Table: System icons

The draw one icon the designers should spend (construction, discussion and drawing) 50 .. 100 hours (during 3 monthes). Table: Icons for eCo Market. It's clear that several designers should work on eComStation artwork..

Past:

Current:

For example, it's necessary update Lotus SmartSuite icons: old IBM icons.

Francisco Garcia (Venezuela) offers own design: Lotus SmartSuite: Francisco Garcia