The 3rd Annual OS2 World Awards Event

2003-03-10 15:06:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [OS2 World forum, kimh]

It's soon time to kick off the 3rd annual OS2 World award event, but before doing so we would like to figure out if there should be some updates regarding the Nomination Categories. Should we remove or change any of the current categories or even add a new one ?

Here is the list of categories from last event:

• Best Supporting OS/2 Company
• Best Commercial Software of the Year
• Best Individual Software of the Year
• Honor Award for Individuals
• Best OS/2 Site of the Year

Post your opinions so we can start the nominations for the 3rd event as soon as possible. The Award Section will also be updated with the latest news.

Why OS/2 is suxx

2003-03-09 00:46:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.spb.ru]

Alexey Gankov (Alex-G) begins publishing of articles with explanation why he is abandoning OS/2. The first story is called Seasonal burial of OS/2 (russian text). The next story should describe eComStation in negative form.

Additional links:

• Similar story from MuSt_DiE

March 2003 VOICE Newsletter

2003-03-02 19:00:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

Fresh issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online.

In this issue you can find:

• The best OS/2 ever - Coffee's ready! -- by Christian Hennecke
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 6 -- by Thomas Klein
• PCI sound cards for OS/2 and eComStation -- by Robert Fuchs
• Video-DVDs and eCS / MCP -- by Philhard Ackermann
• USB CompactFlash readers under OS/2 -- by Mark Dodel
• The Redmond Borg keep assimilating! -- by Thomas Klein
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

The February 2003 OS/2 eZine is out

2003-02-17 20:43:06 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Paul V. Gladneff]

Read OS/2 eZine on-line.

In this issue:

From The Editor

• Robert Basler

Reviews

• LPEX - The 'Other' Programmer's Editor -- Douglas Clark looks at EPM's successor.
• Netlabs EPM Distribution - NED -- Douglas Clark - everything an EPM user could want in one place.

Articles

• OS/2 is Boring Part 7 -- Bas Heijermans tells us how to set up OS/2 DHCP and DNS-caching.

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.
• February Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

Take this quiz to find out which OS most matches your personality

2003-02-17 01:00:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

Take this quiz to find out which OS most matches your personality. You need to answer all the questions to get an accurate result.

OS/2 in Japan

2003-02-05 12:40:11 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, Masahiro "Sassy" Sakai]

At Jan.26,2003, Japanese web portal in Tokyo is up and running, offering news, articles, and much more OS/2 related info, in the Japanese language.

February VOICE Newsletter

2003-02-02 02:34:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Mark Dodel]

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

In the latest issue you can find:

• The best OS/2 ever - a personal view - by Manfred Agne
• Quick and Dirty Firewall - by Doug Bissett
• Medion Multimedia Entertainment Notebook Titanium M1 - by Mark Dodel
• Mikes' Notebook - NFS, TCP/IP, OS/2, and linux - cross platform with a vengence. - by Michael W. Cocke
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

Your story about local user-group

2003-02-01 19:57:52 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We have to fortify positions of eCS in different regions of the world, so we coolect stories about user groups. Contact us, if you are going to write such story about yourself and your os/2-friends.

Additional references:

• How to write an article (russian text)
• Omsk user group, Russia (russian text)

WarpDoctor Mtg

2003-02-01 17:02:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, W F Metcalf]

There is a WarpDoctor chat meeting this Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 3:00 ET (20:00 GMT). Visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

Please connect to any of the following servers (all using Port 6667):

• 207.168.37.132 (California)
• homeos2.homelinux.org: (Florida)
• plazenby.homeip.net (British Columbia, Canada)
• 216.174.132.66 (Manitoba, Canada)

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

January 2003 OS/2eZine

2003-01-18 19:17:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

Read the magazine online.

IN THIS ISSUE:

From The Editor

• Robert Basler

Editorial

• Settling for OS/2? -- Isaac Leung wonders if he would choose OS/2 today.

Reviews

• Fx Firewall, InCharge! and ManPlatoSync -- Douglas Clark offers a trio of reviews.

Articles

• Autonumbering with WordPro -- Isaac Leung offers some WordPro help.
• REXX for beginners -- Luc Van Bogaert offers a beginners guide to extending the WorkPlace Shell.
• A Mozilla Mission -- James Cannon installs Mozilla on Warp 3.
• OS/2 is Boring Part 6 -- Bas Heijermans tries OS/2 under Virtual PC.

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.
• January Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

Status change and new goals

2003-01-03 19:59:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.Ru changes its status (the site acquires official status of eComStation/Rus support) and declares new goals of work.

Warpstock Europe 2002 statistics & T-shirt

2002-12-17 21:47:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Gerrit Schoenmaker]

Now we've read various articles about the Warpstock event in Arnhem, the Netherlands, there's only one final conclusion to draw: the event was successful.

According to the opinion of some guys from Netlabs (e.g. Bart van Leeuwen and Adrian Gschwend), this year's Warpstock Europe gave a tremendous push forward to the open source development of OS/2 software.

Besides that, as a Warpstock Europe visitor you might become curious about some figures of the event. Well, here you go:

• The total amount of visitors was 248
• An average of 163 attendees each day
• Up to 19 nationalities
• Almost 450 lunches have been served
• About 40 attendees stayed overnight at the hostel for 2 or more nights.
• 18 speakers
• About 16 people were involved at the organization
• There were 3 captains on the ship, Bart van Leeuwen, Gerrit Schoenmaker & Christian Langanke
• Warpstock Europe was sponsored by the huge Dutch computerorganization HCC with 3000 Euro
• 4 commercial exhibitors were present
• The total cost of this Warpstock was as little as 6500 Euro

If you see all this, you should like to have a reminder on Warpstock Europe in the Netherlands. So, the organization team has decided that its possible for you to buy that famous Warpstock T-shirt as yet until the end of january 2003 for the special price of 25 Euro all in. If you want to do so, please send an email with the SHIRT SIZE and your POSTADDRESS to g.s.schoenmaker@kader.hobby.nl with the subject entitled: WSE2002 T-shirt. You will get a mail in return with the bankaccount where you can transfer the money to. The shirt will be sent to you as soon as the payment has arrived!

add-on from Eugene Gorbunoff: You can read my report from Warpstock using on-line translator: Warpstock 2002 - here is our bridge.

Christmas OS/2 eZine is Out

2002-12-17 21:22:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Robert Basler]

Now available in on-line!

From The Editor

• Robert Basler wishes Season's Greetings to one and all!

Editorial

OS/2's Future -- Bas Heijermans ponders OS/2's 64-bit future.

Articles

• OS/2 eZine Gift Guide -- Robert Basler offers some gift suggestions for the OS/2 fan in your family.
• Virtual PC for OS/2 -- David Hart offers a user's perspective.
• OS/2 is Boring Part 5 -- Bas Heijermans - Speedsurfing with your own proxy.
• WarpDoctor Rexx Plug-in -- Douglas Clark finishes his tutorial on writing Netscape plugins.

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.
• December Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

User group in Omsk

2002-12-05 20:19:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

To fortify positions of OS/2 in countries of exUSSR, we start publication of information about user groups in every city.

The first story is about OS/2 users in Omsk (Russia). Cool story.. (russian text only)

We are going to send some CDs and Warpstock bootable CD to this group as reward!

New articles

2002-12-04 00:02:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [os2.spb.ru]

There are some publictions on OS2.Spb.Ru

Creation of bootable OS/2 Repair CD-Disk, Story about reserve backup system, Control of Weasel users through web-interface. (russian texts only)

December 2002 VOICE Newsletter

2002-12-01 23:12:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, editor@os2voice.org]

The December 2002 issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online.

In the latest issue you can find:

• Impressions from and thoughts about Warpstock Europe 2002 -- by Christian Hennecke
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 4 -- by Thomas Klein
• DragText 3.7 - What is it and what can it do? -- by A. Doug Bisset and Christian Hennecke
• Warpstock Europe 2002 -- by Menno Willemse
• Multizilla, More then just a tab browser addon.-- by Mark Dodel
• Warpstock 2002 Review -- The Innovation Continues -- by Tom Nadeau
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!