e-ball Awards 2011

2011-09-19 02:15:36 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You have some time to release the best application / utility for eComStation!

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

Post your nominations via web-form. Let's join e-ball Awards 2011 with 2010, we accept nominations before the end of november.

eComStation news: green trees

2011-08-31 00:49:54 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) Activity in the forums (RUS): PM123 + WPS

2) Meeting in California: august 23: eCS 2.1 tips and tricks, Warpstock 2011 conference next October. (Place: Fresh Choice, 248 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035-8026), BayWarp group

2) Updated photos of ATMs with IBM OS/2 Warp

3) AHCI driver will be updated and uploaded to BETAZONE as separate package

Wallpapers for eCo Books (Thinkpads): package 1, package 2

5) Discussion of RPM installer: os2world.com forum

eComStation: Summer is over

2011-08-13 21:12:54 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) The next week is dedicated to print-servers. You can find some reports in Printers section

2) eComStation includes the technologies of many companies and corporations, help us collect the list

3) The roadmap of SNAP development should be published on the site: http://svn.ecomstation.nl/snap

4) IBM continues the celebration: IBM CEO: How to live to be 100

5) One more article related to IBM: A World Without the IBM PC

6) Vadim Oxyd Priluzkiy presented osFree at Chaos Constructions 2011 festival Chaos Constructions 2011

Books about OS/2 and eComStation

2011-08-03 03:58:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.RU site is collecting links to books related to IBM OS/2 Warp, eComStation and REXX.

Listings of OS/2 books

What books do you recommend? Send us more links and photos

eComStation Girls

2011-08-02 18:03:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation girls page

We are interested publish more photos. Requirements: eComStation (OS/2 user) with eCS artefact. Or the user with bicycle.

eComStation heat

2011-07-15 02:36:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some news from Internet:

1) What applications do you accumulate at Piano Launchpad? Here is the problem: the WPS is a large launchpad: the user put apps to the desktop or folders of the 1-st level. Nevertheless, the launchpad which is able to popup from the border is needed too. What applications do you put to launchpad? File Commander, Main printer, anymore?

2) (RUS) Short review about OS/2: OS/2: view from the future

3) We have published russian translation of eCS 2.1 manual (Chapter 1)

4) It's impossible find video clips / photos with notebook running eComStation or IBM OS/2 Warp.

eComStation.TV is collecting the links to such clips on special page: eComStation Hardware

It would be nice to demonstrate clips with Thinkpad T40, T60, T500, ..

5) (RUS) One more article related to IBM and 100 years here mentions OS/2.

eComStation: Question - answer

2011-07-05 21:36:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCSFAQ - Frequently asked questions and answers about eComStation (eCo Software).

Random questions:

• What to do if eComStation doesn't boot anymore? visit eCSFAQ, "System repair" section
• What is the market share of eComStation? Some facts
• What maximal widescreen mode is supported by Panorama VESA? Answer: 1680x1050
• Does eComStation support 3G modems? Listings
• What is the future of eComStation? Visit Warpstock USA 2011 conference to get the answer.

Mix of eComStation news

2011-07-04 12:50:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) new page: Advantages of eComStation

2) (RUS) Something about OS/2

3) Seems that Moscow and St.Petersburg got DVB-T standard. We are searching for users which tested Emperoar TV in this cities?

4) (RUS) Review of file shells, mentions OS/2 several times: http://nnm.ru/blogs/voyager2/spasitelnye_obolochki/

5) New Java 6 for eComStation is released, there is a discussion on osnews.com: Java 6 (OpenJDK) Released for OS/2, eComStation

6) OS/2 people - send us more names of active users and developers. (this page can be moved to ecomstation.tv site)

Warpstock 2011 Early registration ends soon

2011-07-03 16:01:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [os2voice]

What do Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - Santa Cruz, California, USA - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA - Denver, Colorado, USA - San Francisco, California, USA - Austin, Texas, USA - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Chicago, Illinois, USA - Diamond Bar, California, USA have in common?

All have been the locations for past Warpstock Events.

This year Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA joins this list as the site of Warpstock 2011.

Have you registered for Warpstock 2011 yet?

As we move into July, your time to take advantage of the 10% discount on registration fees gets shorter. This discount on registrations ends on July 15th.

You can register for Warpstock 2011 at:

http://www.warpstock.org/staticpages/index.php?page=ws2011_registration

Warpstock 2011 is being held October 14 to 16, 2011 at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA, 27713-5221. For more information on the location go to: http://www.warpstock.org/staticpages/index.php?page=ws2011_location

Many of the session have now been arranged. To see a list of the sessions already arranged go to: http://www.warpstock.org/staticpages/index.php?page=ws2011_sessions

Warpstock, Corp., is a Virginia corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2--eComStation users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web site: http://www.warpstock.org

IBM Centennial

2011-06-16 14:00:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [habr]

IBM is marking the 100-year anniversary of its founding on June 16, 1911, with a year-long global initiative. The company will reexamine the history of technology innovation and predict where the world will be in the next 100 years. IBM will use this milestone to engage with business leaders, academia, clients, and local communities in the 170 countries the company does business.

• short russian,
• IBM Centennial,
• ibm100 web-site

Warpstock Europe 2011 - the flag of the conference, the speakers

2011-06-14 03:04:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Warpstock Europe 2011 is not finished: (it would be nice to..) the visitors should publish reviews / reports about the conference, upload the files with presentations and (maybe) extend the presentations and publish as articles.

One more video from Warpstock Europe 2011: Warpstock Europe 2011: Final day - (eComStation Flag, Certificates of Merrit).

See also:

• Interviews with other developers and fans of eComStation
• Clips about eComStation

DevCon newsletter #1: questions

2011-06-04 18:35:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

DevCon site: Some questions to the developers:

1) Does the library work for you? exceptq

2) How to determine the list of hard drives? Especially if using SCSI drivers, or AHCI?

3) New developers of REXX-programs are interested to know: how to compare 2 text files? and determine differencies? (answer: diff utility). REXX homepage

This site is distributed among several sites. We are going collect links to answers and discussions here

eComStation mix: reviews

2011-06-04 01:35:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

A) Internet service for eComStation users:

• Mobile codes. Barcodes. Create your own code

B) Esther Schindler is monitoring Warpstock news: twitter.com

C) Michael Molthagen about eCS 2.1 (german) ecomstation 2.1 fuer neueinsteiger

D) One more article "EFI to replace BIOS": www.heise.de

E) Ed Durrant published new podcasts (click Download)

• eComStationAustralia Podcast # 21 - New NIC drivers
• eComStationAustralia Podcast # 22 - eCS 2.1 released!

F) Martin Iturbide is collecting the list of Java-apps, tested with new Java 1.6

eComStation Artefacts (2011/06)

2011-06-01 00:38:38 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Fresh collection of eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp artefacts.

New clip from eComStation.TV demonstrates new and old eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp artefacts.

eComStation Artefacts (2011/06)

See also:

• eComStation Artefacts (2011/05)
• eComStation Artefacts (2011/03)
• eComStation Attributes
• Gallery of eComStation boxes / CDs / merchandise - photos, pictures (2008-2010)

Indelible Blue, Mensys BV OS/2 catalogues from 90-th

2011-05-26 16:28:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Wow, look at the photos of old OS/2 software catalogues, http://forum.ecomstation.ru/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9519 (5 Mb)

As you can see there was a thousand of shareware/commercial products for IBM OS/2 Warp.

History of eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp - http://ecomstation.ru/history (russian language)

Mix: Summer news about eComStation

2011-05-24 18:14:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some news from Internet:

1) Article: Accessing OS/2 Stacker Compressed Diskettes - Tony Pearson has written an article on the IBM developerworks site about "Accessing OS/2 Stacker Compressed Diskettes " (April-25) as part of his posts on "Inside System Storage" blog. source: http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20785/2/ (http://tinyurl.com/az990tony)

 
2) The developers are discussing:

• Problems in PM, how to overcome: forum.ecomstation.ru
• OpenGL -- forum.ecomstation.ru

 
3) You can watch youtube movies using Firefox 4: Join HTML5 testing

 
4) Article: Gebruikers kunnen OS/2 niet begraven Gebruikers kunnen OS/2 niet begraven

 
5) 1991's PC technology was unbelievable, ZDNet's 20th anniversary: Thinking about the computer industry from a 20-year perspective makes my head hurt, a lot.

 
6) eComStation 2.1 announcement at osnews.com -- http://www.osnews.com/story/24770/eComStation_2_1_Released