What video driver do you use?

2011-02-01 14:16:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New poll on ecomstation.ru site: What video driver do you use?

Look at your computers with eComStation. Please calculate how many computers have Panorama VESA videodriver?

X% = (Computers_with_Panorama_VESA * 100) / Total_computers_with_eCS

• 0%-20% - SNAP everywhere
• 20%-40%
• 40%-60% - half of computers have Panorama VESA
• 60%-80% - Panorama VESA everywhere
• 80%-100% - Panorama VESA only

(Don't forget input anti-spam 6-digits CODE: below the list of answers on the page of voting)

eComStation an on-line services

2011-01-30 14:12:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The site eComStation and online services was updated.

Topic 1: "My operating system: eComStation, web-browser: Firefox. Which bank do you recommend? I am going manage my account via web-browser. In other words, Which internet bank do you recommend for eComStation user"

Let's fill this table:

%Date% -- %Name of bank, country, city% -- can you view the account balance and messages? -- can you sign the documents? -- more notes? -- %User%

Topic 2:

Do you use social networks? Do you have troubles with the site if using eComStation? (System requirements of the social network site)

Topic 3:

Please recommend more online services (Google maps, ..)

Plug-ins for NetDrive

2011-01-26 21:00:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

NetDrive is an univeral filesystem for eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp.

We have collected all plug-ins on new web-site "Plugins for NetDrive". You can download the plug-ins and read reviews there.

Major part of plugins are free, NetDrive is a shareware product.

How to support our site? Send us more screen-shots of the plugins and links to unknown reviews.

eComStation: orange hare is free now

2011-01-23 22:49:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) Firefox 4 works not stable, it's necessary make improvements in ACPI sub-system. Step 1: Please post confirmation that you have random crashes of Firefox.

2) Guest book of ru2.halfos.ru (os2.spb.ru) site is full of new "guests" - jump to os2.spb.ru

3) Please help us collect current links to news sites relates to eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp? Collection of links

4) The discussion continues: a) are you going use RPM installer in eComStation? b) is it necessary migrate eComStation CD1 to RPM? os2world.com forums. Current state: WarpIn - general installer of applications, The plan "migrate" eCS CD1 to WarpIn was not implemented.

5) Join testing of new USB stack (the 3-rd attempt to replace Exigen Latvia drivers) download from hobbes

6) 2010 is over, we must select "the best application of the year", Nominate perspective applications to e-ball Awards 2010.

7) eComStation.RU site is collecting information bit by bit. Please help us remember which libraries and technologies to mention in eComStation 2.0 specification?

P.S. I found orange hare in the forest today, it is free now!

Opinion exchange: Apps for 99 cents

2011-01-17 19:35:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The topic of cheap applications is discussed during many years. Several years ago we offered to the developers release more cheap apps (Warpstock Europe conference, ESWay presentations).

Look at the sellings of software for smartphones - you can buy apps for 99 cents.. 1 usd .. 3 usd. The companies don't sell photoshop for 100$, they are selling graphics utility with 3 functions (crop + resize + filter) for 2$. The users are happy to buy cheap utility. The developer is happy too: he is selling 1000x times more copies of utility.

For eComStation: It's very difficult sell shareware applications on eCS market by "Windows prices". let's discuss which programs can be valued as 2$ .. 5$.

Week of laser printers

2011-01-17 13:55:28 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The week is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible laser printers (cheap). Our database contains 281 records only... Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the web-form.

Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of unsupported devices.

What is the driver? Is it Postscript printer?

Warpstock Europe 2011 conference

2011-01-17 01:22:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

WSE2011 conference is planned to the beginning of May, place: Haarlem (The Netherlands). Let's wait for official announcement. www.warpstock.eu

What do you expect from Warpstock Europe 2011? Read reports from previous conferences. How many visitors do you expect? 50 people - not enough, 250 - normal. What people are going to discuss?

Are you going participate in the conference? Send us your name and topic of presentation via web-form, we are going draw "nice" banners.

WarpIn TOTAL - more than 8 programs re-packed

2011-01-16 16:54:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Short instruction how to create .wpi packages: Creation of distribution package for WarpIn installer (RUS)

This programs were repacked to WarpIn:

• Odin
• SketchIT (DrawIt) -- hobbes
• IBM Games (Chess, Klondike, Mahjongg) -- eCo Market
• Virtual Box 1.6.1 -- http://andreas-ludwig.info
• AMR codec (support of *.amr files) -- APeCS
• Moreover, eToolkit (= ECSTK = eCo Software toolkit) -- DevCon

It's necessary pack more programs to WarpIn:

• Fonts (Droid, WarpSans TTF, ..)
• Graphics editors (Queency, ..)
• Codecs (audio, bitmap, ..)
• Internet applications

eCS 2.0: Do you have problems with Network, Audio or USB?

2011-01-15 23:33:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Do you have problems with Network (slow, no connection, ..), Audio (hangs, clicks, ..), USB (attached devices are not visible, slow work, etc)?
Do you use ACPI.PSD driver (check: bootable volume -> config.sys -> psd=acpi.psd)? Start reanimation of eCS PC from this article: Configuring ACPI driver for eComStation 2.0 (links to databases, how to resolve IRQ conflicts)

More frequently asked question and answers - eCSFAQ

Support of *.amr audio files in eComStation

2011-01-15 20:33:54 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software released AMR codec for eComStation (I/O Proc). AMR - Audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. Read more: wikipedia, File format: *.amr

Your mobile phone, communicator and voice recorder are using .amr files. You can listen this audio-recordings from Desktop clicking the files.

System requirements: eComStation 2.0 or later

WarpIn package is distributed via eCo Market.

eComStation - ice rains

2011-01-14 01:19:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Misc news about eComStation from Internet:

1) How do you initialize Audio on startup? Share the script with other users

2) "I wanna make something useful for the community of OS/2 / eCS users". Some opportunities:

• You can write reviews of applications and make screenshots
• eCo Labs -> REXX scripts
• eCo Labs -> Scout tasks
• eCo Labs -> write specific articles
• Support eCo Market
• Share your experience of eComStation usage with other users
• Write a short section for LiveBook (How to use eCS for novice users).

3) New page related to eComStation and Security

4) none

5) Online generator of DB schemes dbdsgnr. Python + google app engine. Login with Google account. You draw the scheme, the service generates code. MySQL, is supported, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MSSql, Oracle are planned.

6) David T. Johnson reminds: I tested the firefox 12/4/2010 build that R. Walsh uploaded to netlabs and the HTML5 WebM video actually works on Youtube with the firefox v4b8 build...which I have not seen previously. It has to be a video that youtube has converted to WebM (most are not...yet) but, if it is, you will see the player controls in the window with a little tag 'HTML5 WebM' at the bottom. The video quality is very good 360p which is much better than the old flash 7 plugin could offer on OS/2. You might have read that Google (the owner of youtube) and Microsoft are locked in battle over the HTML5 video standard. Microsoft is supporting H.264 while Google is supporting WebM which is completely open source and without any IP restrictions. Microsoft has put H.264 support into Internet Explorer 9.

here's the link to the OS/2 firefox build

You can join the HTML5 video trial here and then click on the 'join the HTML5 Trial' link at the bottom of the page. Have fun...

7) Opinion exchange: the users are interested to know, does Samba client work for you? Connect to remote eComStation PC, russian version. What happens when you edit a file? Is it damaged after save?

eCo Market: Week of (game) emulators

2011-01-10 21:27:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Market is an initiative of eCo Software: "The users need tools, they want to see the list of available applications not tales about powerful operating systems. That's why we are working on the GUI catalogue aimed to deliver software to users fast."

Let's collect emulators and virtual machines in the catalogue. Currently we have 2 programs only: Commodore64 emulator and VirtualBox 1.6.1 (packed to warpin).

Message for developers: if you update warpin-package of your program then follow the recommendation: Version - it's a datestamp: YYYY\MM\DD, Example: PACKAGEID="eCo Software\Runtime\Base\2008\03\02" (so we can automate control of application packages).

How to support the project? Some proposals

P.S. Yes, we are working on new GUI.

eCo Market - translate to your language

2011-01-06 16:49:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Market is aimed to support novice eCS users (or users tired to search for programs again). Homepage of eCo Market, the database contains:

• 87 applications in eCo Market
• 1172 programs in APeCS on-line database

How to assist to the project?

Support the project

• Idea 1: translate resources to your language (more users can use eCo Market in your country)
• Idea 2: translate *short* descriptions of applications to your language (novice users find needed program)
• Idea 3: suggest us which program add to the catalogue

For users:

• Yes, eCo Market contains many WarpIn packages.

For developers:

• We know how difficult for you to distribute your program. Join the pipeline of software distribution today!
• Tell us, does eCo Market increase sellings of your eComStation software? Do you get more feedback from the users?

eComStation - The day gets longer

2011-01-02 15:35:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) eComStation users buy Lenovo Thinkpad T400, T500, W500, etc Hardware database, Post new reports.

2) Paul Smedley's bug-tracker - here

3) The share of eComStation, OS/2 on the market. Level of sellings - History of eComStation

4) Article: eComStation 2.0 - Programmazione.it (thx os2world.com) Massimo S. sent me this eComStation article in Italian. It is about eComStation 2.0 release on the Programmazione Magazinne. Dated from 2010-05-26. You can check the article in Italian or you can use google translate to see it in English.

5) Security and eComStation - let's collect more information, You can send links to utilities and articles - we are going publish all information on new site.

6) hidden

7) Warpstock Europe 2011 conference is planned to the beginning of May, Haarlem (Netherlands). Please wait for official announcement. btw, What is the topic of your report?

eComStation: results of 2010

2010-12-31 21:24:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) We are collecting the results on the site of eCS history: eComStation History (russian text)

2) os2world.com editor has other list: eComStation - OS/2 and the past 2010

3) What we can do? Let's select the best program of 2010, which application do you nominate to e-ball Awards 2010?

ODF format is accepted as national standard in Russia

2010-12-25 23:52:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=29105]

The format is accepted as standard in Russia (source, russian language). The document is equalt to international standard accepted 4 years ago: ISO/IEC 26300:2006.