Drivers update

2003-01-21 01:54:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.com, Bob St.John]

IBM has posted update notices for the following drivers on the IBM web site.

There drivers are now available through IBM's Software Choice and the Driver portion of the eComStation web site. However, please note that despite the update notice and date change, some file sizes have not change.

• USB Basic Device Support Package (OHCI/UHCI/EHCI). File name: usbehci.exe
• Updated Intel PRO/1000 Copper Gigabit Ethernet 82544EI, file name ibmgc.exe
• Updated Intel PRO/1000 Fiber Gigabit Ethernet 82542, file name ibmge.exe Marked on the IBM web site as updated on January 14, but the file size (44,171) has not changed.
• CDROM Drives, Universal Serial Bus (USB)CD-ROM Support Package, file name: usbstor.exe Marked on the IBM web site as updated on January 16, but the file size (63,144) has not changed.

Distributed computing and GIMPS project

2003-01-15 15:02:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Max Alekseyev talks about Mercenne numbers and software which allows search them (russian text). Join this search project and earn 5K$.

January 2003 VOICE Newsletter

2003-01-04 08:53:20 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Mark and Christian]

The January 2003 issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online. Happy New Year to everyone, and yet another great year of OS/2 and eComStation news, features, tips and editorials.

In the latest issue you can find:

• No surprise: Retail versions of OS/2 withdrawn from marketing. - by Mark Dodel
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 5 - by Thomas Klein
• TCPA and Palladium -- another step towards immaturity or a step towards emancipation? - by Eric Baerwaldt
• The Thinkpad T30 - by Timothy Sipples
• BackAgain/2000 Server Edition version 3.0 - A Review, Part 5 - by Walter Metcalf
• And of course letters, addenda, tips and a compilation of news of the previous month!

STI Applause twain Scanner drivers released

2002-12-29 05:11:38 -- e-co [ecomstation.com, Roderick Klein (Mensys)]

The Applause scanner drivers have been released for eComStation. You can download them by logging in and selecting "latest downloads".

The package for Epson scanners will follow shortly. Download of the file is about 2 megabyte.

Supported SCSI scanners from H.P.:

• IIc (1750A)
• IIp (1790A)
• IIcx (2500A)
• 3c/4c/6100C (2520A)
• 3p (2570A)
• 4p (1130A)
• 5p (5110A), 5100C (5190A), 4100C (6290A)
• 6200C (6270A)
• 5200C (7190A)
• 6300C (7670A)

The model names between ( ) are model numbers mostly used in Europe.

Supported Fujitsu SCSI Scanners:

• SCANPARTNER_JR // bw/gray sheet feed only
• SCANPARTNER_10C // bw/gray feed/fb
• SCANPARTNER_10 // 3 pass color (300dpi, not on sheet feed)
• SCANPARTNER_15C // med speed
• M600C // med speed
• M3091 // med speed bw/gray/color duplex adf
• M3093 // 1 pass color (600dpi) simplex
• M3096 // 1 pass color (300dpi) duplexed
• M3097 // 1 pass color (300dpi)
• M3099
• M4097 // 1 pass bw/gray (300dpi) duplexed adf + flat bed
• M3093D // 1 pass bw/gray (300dpi) duplexed adf + flat bed
• M3092 // 1 pass bw/gray (300dpi) duplexed adf + flat bed

Mesa 3D v5 for PM

2002-12-22 08:15:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Evgen]

Evgeny Kotsuba have ported famous OpenGL library and continues its adoptation. As I know, he is going to use this technology in his business related to construction of small objects using laser and in FreePM project (replacement of OS/2 PM).

He published some examples examples. Hmm, where is the run-time?!

'OS/2 Withdrawl'

2002-12-18 02:25:20 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some days ago IBM published 'Withdrawl of Selected partnumbers'. Sorry, but we ignored this topic because this plans was known some years ago and only old products was withdrew.

p.s. Instead of negative results, this news caused additional advertisement of eComStation - new OEM version of IBM OS/2 Warp.

Letter for Santa Claus

2002-12-10 15:37:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Short overview of 'Merge an envelope' function in Lotus Smart Suite/2 (russian text).

Information about software

2002-12-02 00:26:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.Ru holds APeCS database with info about fresh eComStation software. You can add info to the database by yourself.

P.S. Before adding a new program to base, please check if it is already posted. This can be done by searching base. This will help us to make list of programs actual. Thanks for your effort. :)

PMView - 10 years in the market

2002-11-02 15:23:55 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Peter]

"To celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of PMView for OS/2, BMT Micro is running a very special limited-time discount offer for all versions of PMView starting November 1, 2002. Go to BMT Micro or PMView homepage to get PMView for only 50% of the normal price."

ThirdEye

2002-10-11 14:14:36 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Contact us if you own a USB MSD digital camera. What is the model and what directory it creates on memory stick to keep photos?

P-CAD and MathCAD in OS/2

2002-10-08 03:07:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is an overview about P-CAD and Math-CAD capacity for work in OS/2 environment (russian text). We are interested to know if Lotus Domino server/Win32 works under OS/2 using Odin.

Competitions "eCS/Rus 2002"

2002-10-03 17:45:55 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Small competitions with useful and unuseful prizes.

To stimulate activity of our users we run this group of competitions (sorry, russian page only). General goal of this project is adding "details" to eCS/Rus product and its improvement.

Localization of your software

2002-10-03 16:54:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, banshee]

Russian users can help you translate product to russian language. For example, a spanish developer requested localization of WarpExpander application.

This expands quantity of your users and reduces number of stolen english copies. :)

F/X introduced support of MS CBCP

2002-09-25 22:19:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Rostislav]

Rostislav contacted the company and here is a hot message: Software of F/X company will support MS CBCP protocol (Microsoft Callback Control Protocol). Its development is completed.

Music processing

2002-09-16 15:09:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff

Another successful example of OS/2 usage - System of digital restoration and phonogram remastering "Kanon" (russian text).

We continue filling of section

New site related to RDBMS

2002-09-14 15:26:51 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, David Del Col]

I am pleased to announce the "Relational Database Management Systems for OS/2 and eComstation" site.

Covering topics from MySQL/2, Postgres SQL for OS/2, DBExpert, Tools and Online Tutorials and References with more to come.