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Updated ALVM for eComStation

2006-08-02 15:46:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

ALVM is a replacement of IBM Logical Volume Manager.

Download ALVM. This is an experimental build, use it at your own risk.

Whatsnew (version 0.9):

  • Edit/show partition names: fixed some bugs, added new function which was missing
  • can work with disks after running of Windows XP installer even

Post questions and bug-reports to the ALVM forum.


Press release about TWAIN USB scanner support on eComStation/OS/2

2006-06-24 19:41:31 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Roderick Klein]

Solution Technologies, Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Mensys B.V. , Haarlem, The Netherlands;
Paul Smedley, Greenwith, South Australia

Solution Technology, Mensys B.V. and Paul Smedley have come to an agreement to work together to provide a solution for legacy OS/2/eComStation applications that use a TWAIN interface to control a flatbed scanner.

TWAIN provides a standard interface that applications can use to control a scanner. All scanners currently supported on the OS/2/eComStation platform that have a driver with a TWAIN interface are legacy scanners with a SCSI interface. The result is that applications that ship with a TWAIN interface are not very useful anymore because modern scanners are not supported.

Solution Technologies has provided the source code of its OS/2 TWAIN DDK so an interface can be built between SANE and TWAIN.

The result will be that applications that access a flatbed scanner via a TWAIN interface will be able to utilize USB scanners with the aid of the open source scanner driver SANE Kent Swan from Solution Technology: "This agreement enables Solution Technology to keep supporting its corporate OS/2/eComStation customers with up to date scanner support. The OS/2 kernel provides very good multi tasking and stability, the reason why some our customers prefer to run our scanner solutions on OS/2/eComStation. In conjunction with this agreement and the development Serenity Systems is doing for the eComStation we can provide our customers with a solution to keep their critical business processes going."

Paul Smedley from Australia and other developers have over the years been maintaining a port of the open source scanner driver SANE on the OS/2/eComStation platform.

When a beta release is ready for release of the TWAIN<->SANE interface it will be included with all SANE builds for OS/2. Custom applications and well known eComStation/OS/2 applications like PMVIEW, Embelish, Star Office for OS/2 etc will be able to use SANE supported USB scanners.

Future versions of eComStation will ship with this package and also the TAME software (a program to use in conjunction with SANE).

For corporate customers requiring support for their applications, please contact Solution Technology.


Which USB devices are supported in eCS?

2006-06-20 18:10:36 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Monitor for APC Back-UPS CS/ES (USB) is updated (APCUSBM004b1.RAR, USBECD.SYS)

Please, download test utility if you have USB keyboard with multimedia keys and run some tests to collect codes.

You can find more links to USB control applications at the homepage of USB Tools

If you have found new working USB devices, please post reports to the database of supported hardware. Add to your report:

  • reference to auxiliary USB driver
  • reference to homepage of developer

Lucide beta 1 available for eComStation customers

2006-06-08 13:51:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Serenity Systems International]

Serenity Systems International and netlabs.org today released the first beta version of Lucide, a document viewer for eComStation designed as an replacement for Acrobat Reader.

One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated in the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop and printing and which makes as easy as possible to work with PDF and other files on eComStation.

Lucide provides a SOM based plugin API, this makes it possible to support much more than just PDF documents, the current release also supports DjVu documents and JPEG files. More formats can easily be added by 3rd party programmers.

While the core of Lucide is currently not released as open source software, all plugins are available in sourcecode to encourage programmers to add support for more file types.

All registered eComStation customers can download Lucide Beta 1 from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at www.ecomstation.com

If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system

If you want to provide some more plugins for Lucide you will find the sample source code on this page as well. The package also contains all GPLed parts of the source code.

Support is available on the Lucide mailinglist, you will find details about that on the page mentioned above.

Screenshot of Lucide beta 1 for eComStation:


OpenOffice.org 2.0 first screenshots released

2006-06-01 13:04:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Serenity Systems International]

As part of the "Support Agreement for OpenOffice.org" Serenity Systems International is committed to deliver a natively running version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 on OS/2 and eComStation.

After a long period of developing, debugging, enhancing etc. the first results are available, the application now compiles and starts. Of course there is a long way to go, even to have a first user-testable beta release available, but as a teaser we released some screenshots here (click the OpenOffice.org 2.0 splashscreen to access the screenshot gallery)

We'll keep you informed on the progress and of course notify you as soon as a public beta release is available!

Quick access to screenshots: (pic03, pic04, pic05, pic08, pic10, pic12, pic15, pic16, pic17)


The first review of PMView on russian language

2006-05-12 15:10:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Yuri Prokushev talks about possibilities of PMView pictures viewer.

Readers can send us addons for this review and share the experience and hints.


USB Tools page is updated

2006-05-10 13:44:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The list of applications to control USB devices was updated.

The next task is check that current version of USBCALLS has working REXX-interface.


eCo Software newsletter, week 18

2006-05-09 03:01:17 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]

The april was dedicated to debugging of existing software and preparation of new products.

Software updates:

  • Updated software:
    • Personal cards manager, several internal betas
    • Sequence of eSchemes updates for eComStation 2.0 beta 2 (improving reliability, NLS support); Now separating modules to accelerate debugging;
    • MMImage Pack (dosenz of image I/O procs), internal beta
    • T&V HappyPlayer, fixes for fullscreen TV support
    • LAN Tools, internal beta
    • ACPI temperature monitor, we should remake it in form of eCenter widget
  • Updated drivers:
  • Updated toolkits and libraries:
    • ACPI toolkit - new examples which allow you catch ACPI events (requires ACPI.PSD 2.7)
    • ECOMEDIA library, internal beta-version; collection of high-level functions which simplify usage of multimedia I/O procedures for reading and writing of image files.
  • Collaboration with other developers and companies:
    • Dmitry Frolov (aka froloff) answered to our questions and described how to use USBCALLS library and control USB toys (russian text)
    • the next version of eComStation/Rus will include Doodle screensaver and improved installation of eWorkPlace.


Miscellaneous news:

  • eCo Software strategy
  • Participation in Developers Workshop 2006 -- eCo Software developers prepared and presented three reports:
    • Library for easy multilanguage support (we compared existing meanings and suggested methods how to improve things)
    • How to join eComStation development (You can join ACPI and Power management projects, we need better support of USB devices, pay attention to FM-tuners if going to create multimedia software, let's create syncronization modules of mobile devices with the database of Personal Cards Manager)
    • Using eComStation infrastructure for development of new applications (We must create more WPS applications; We must use MMOS2 I/O procedures to shorten the life cycle of multimedia software development)
    • WiZard constructed logo for Developers Workshop 2006
    • Presentations are published at netlabs.org ftp
  • Financial 2005 year is completed
    • the previous financial year is finished. Taxes was paid in all countries where our developers are working.
    • eCo Software is planning continue investments into futher development of existing drivers and applications (auxiliary applications may be create if needed)
    • We should pay special attention to work of our support service and delivery service.
  • How to help to eCo Software:
    • translate eSchemes to your language
    • if you are a registered customer of SciTech SNAP, request the company support ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 adapter. Else we have troubles with notebooks used in power management project.

Beta version of MySQL v5.0.19 now available

2006-04-19 17:28:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Paul Smedley]

I've uploaded a test version of MySQL v5.0.19 to ports page.

Release Notes:

  • no DLL is currently provided - so all client utilities are much larger executables than those found in Yuri's MySQL v4.1.7
  • no libs\*, include\* are provided to reduce the package size - these are available on request
  • built with libc06 CSD1 so libc061.dll is required
  • this has currently had very limited testing - but it is running now on my server and being used successfully with my build of PHP 4.4.2
  • All bug reports should be submitted via the bug tracker

Users of MySQL v4.1.7 can simply copy their data directory from the mysql41\data directory to mysql5\data and restart with the new mysqld.exe and it should work fine.

A *big* thanks to Yuri Dario who provided his patches for MySQL 4.1.7 which were the basis for this updated port. You can checkout (and support) Yuri's efforts via his website at http://www.os2power.com/yuri

Cheers,

Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
19th April, 2006

ASSP spam filter

2006-04-15 11:00:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Vladimir Solovyov]

New article about Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (russian language). Use it to filter e-mail on your SMTP servers and protect against spam attacks.


eCo Software newsletter, week 11

2006-03-17 20:00:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]

The last week was dedicated to maintenance of drivers and preparation for spring marathon.

  • Updated drivers:
  • Updated software:
  • eCo Software support service -- The database of supported hardware contains almost 800 reports
  • Toolkits -- Lange multilanguage library internal release
  • eCo Software student program
    The strategy of eCo Software states that to survive, eComStation should attract students and sci-tech-lab engineers.
    gDiagramm 0.06 - utility for fast graphs plotting to png or jpg files (gDlib is ported to VAC; gDiagramm is an original tool based on gDlib)
  • Collaboration with other developers
    • Updated WarpOverlay! (by LightElf). The video-overlay stretches T&V HappyPlayer picture to fullscreen
    • Release of russian PMView 3.24 (advanced image viewer and converter)
    • The sNOa Matrix module is distributed as part of Doodle screensaver now (Doodle significantly improved it)

PMView Pro v3.24

2006-02-25 01:54:47 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

View the List of new features and bug fixes.

IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you will need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail that was sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost this information, please contact sales@blueprintsoftwareworks.com.

Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at homepage. Registered users, please note that the trial versions CANNOT be registered. If you have purchased PMView Pro, please follow the download instructions in the e-mail sent by BMT Micro.


NetDrive for OS/2 3.0.3

2006-02-24 21:52:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

Blueprint Software Works has updated NetDrive for OS/2, a virtual file system, that allows seamless access to FTP, NFS, VFAT and other resources.

The new version 3.0.3 includes updated FTP plugin and a new utility, that allows one to view FTP messages and the FTP server replies.

The FTP plugin new features are:

  • file name translation between local system codepage and the codepage which is used by the remote server.
  • ASCII transfer mode for specified file types (html, htm, txt).

Please download and install the new version if you are using NetDrive for OS/2 3.x.

Read the Full announcement


Update of Lotus SmartSuite office suite

2006-02-22 00:25:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.com]

IBM has quietly placed an update for 1.7.3 in the SmartSuite fixes FTP directory.


Poll: Are You using a TV-card with OS/2?

2006-02-17 15:13:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com]

Quick question this time; Are You using a TV-card with OS/2?

Also if you have suggestion on what we should follow up this poll with, please then make suggestion using the poll script.


eCo Software newsletter, week #6

2006-02-13 02:14:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

No signigicant releases or updates on this week.

  • 1. Updated drivers
  • 2. Research
    • UPTime Test driver, can be used for changing of milliseconds counter in global information segment structure (gis). a) This counter is wrapping every 49 days; b) It is available via DosQuerySysInfo(QSV_MS_COUNT... c) go.exe shows it as uptime. We are researching the behaviour of applications after wrap of this milliseconds counter -- http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
  • 3. Updated software
  • 4. eCo Software support service
  • 5. eCo Design (design studio)
    • Release of 23 advertisement banners (dimension: 140x140) for www.ecomstation.ru interior pages
  • 6. Toolkits

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