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30.07.2001
Support Warpstock Europe 2001! (from Luc Van Bogaert)
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference is organized by a group of dedicated, hard working people, but the event would not even exist without the help and support of many others, including you. If you want to help become Warpstock Europe 2001 a big success, there are many ways of doing it.
One way of supporting Warpstock Europe 2001 is to become a sponsor for the conference and make a donation to help with the organization of the event. Another way to show your support, which is totally free, is by placing the Warpstock Europe 2001 logo on your web site to make visitors of your site aware of the event.
If you would like to spread the news about Warpstock Europe 2001 by placing a logo and link on your own web site, please go to http://warpstock.os2.org/en/supporters/ for detailed instructions. In return you will be listed as a supporter on that page.
For more information about sponsorship or to find out how you can help the Event Team, please contact info.warpstock2001@os2ug.be.
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the 'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is available at the Warpstock Europe web site

-> URL: http://warpstock.os2.org/
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27.07.2001
Warpstock shirts and mugs (from Joerg Skottke)
Are you looking for more OS/2 merchandise? Perhaps your wardrobe selection is looking somewhat stale, or maybe you need something new to hold your beverages? Either way, Warpstock 2001 has what you need.
The Warpstock teams are pleased to announce that Warpstock 2001 shirts and coffee mugs are now available for pre-order. The black shirts are available in six sizes for $30 (US$), and the coffee mugs are $12.50. You can either pick up your purchases at WS 2001, or they can be shipped to you for $5 S/H each.
More information, including pictures and ordering instructions, are available at http://www.warpstock.org/merchandise.html. Payments can be made online using the convenient PayPal system. The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.

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23.07.2001
Job opportunity: OS/2 Network Consultant (from Eric Faulhaber)
Golden Code Development Corporation (Atlanta, GA, USA) is seeking qualified applicants for its OS/2 Network Consultant and its OS/2 Developer positions. Extensive technical experience with OS/2 is
required.

-> URL: http://www.goldencode.com/employment.html.
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20.07.2001
Port suggestion: Everybuddy (from Martin ITurbide)
Everybuddy is an OpenSource Instant Messaging Client. It currently is available for Linux only.
As of right now, Everybuddy has support for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! and Jabber chat programs. It also has file transfer between other Everybuddy users, and planned support for file transfer to other users.
This would be a good project for anyone that is planning to develop/port something for OS/2.

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13.07.2001
Invocation: Delete old and wrong OS/2 stuff! (from Joerg Sievers)
As a news collector for OS2.org I see much web pages in the Internet and I am searching sometims with new tricks may be to find a real good OS/2 page or software we haven't found in the last years.
But it would be really great if wrong old stuff would be archieved or deleted that a new user (for example) won't find old, outdated stuff about OS/2 instead he should find actual news, software, vendors, resellers and projects to see that OS/2 is living!
Look into your link collections, information's and 'recent news' sections from 198x, 199x and 2000 and store only useful stuff on your pages!
If you find those unuseful information on other webpages write the webmaster a small, friendly mail to delete the stuff.
Yours
Jogi

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12.07.2001
WebSphere EMERGENCY: Application Server Could Stop on July 19, 2001 (from Timothy Sipples)
IBM is trying to alert its customers to a potential problem which could affect WebSphere Application Server. To the best of my knowledge, this alert also applies to users of WebSphere Application Server for OS/2 Warp (available through IBM Software Choice).
If you are using the DummyKey Ring provided by IBM with WebSphere, and you have enabled security, you run the risk of stopping WebSphere on July 19, 2001. Read on for more information on how to deal with this potential problem.
If you are not using the IBM-provided DummyKey Ring and/or do not have security enabled, or if you are using WebSphere Application Server for OS/390, please disregard this notice.
THE PROBLEM: The IBM-provided DummyKey Ring in certain releases of WebSphere Application Server has a certificate expiration date of July 19, 2001. WebSphere Application Server releases prior to 3.5.3 or 3.02.4 on all platforms except OS/390 are likely affected. All communications to/from the server will halt when the certificate expires, if security has been enabled. If multiple servers are tied together for communications, all servers must have the same level of unexpired certificates in order to continue functioning.
IDENTIFICATION: The Dummy KeyRing sample certificate expiration on July 19, 2001, will affect you only if ALL of the following conditions are true:
  1. Running WebSphere Application Server Version 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2.1, 3.0.2.2, 3.0.2.3, 3.5, 3.5.1, or 3.5.2.
    • Verify by looking in the ...\properties\com\ibm\websphere directory. Look inside the product.properties (3.0.x) or product.xml (3.5.x) file.
    • eFix PQ47370 is NOT applied.
    • Verify by looking in the ...\bin\admin.config file. PQ47370 is not applied if there is no reference to a PQ47370.jar file. (PQ47370 contains an updated sample certificate.)
  2. The DummyKeyring sample certificate is being used (rather than using your own secure keyring).
    • Verify by looking in the ...\properties\sas.server.props file. This IBM-provided sample certificate is not being used if there's no reference to the DummyKeyring.
RESOLUTION: Create your own dummy keyring, as explained in the WebSphere InfoCenter in Section 5.5.6.1.5: "Example: Generating and Using Test Certificates."
Other temporary resolutions are possible by installing IBM's updated sample keyring (which has an expiration date of January 19, 2004). For more information on IBM WebSphere Application Server support, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/support.html
NOTE: The sample Dummy Keyring is provided in all WebSphere Application Server releases as a convenience only, for setting up SSL communications on an initial, temporary basis. As documented, use of this sample keyring could compromise security and is not recommended for other than test, development, or internal usage.
IBM encourages customers running WebSphere Application Server for OS/2 Warp to participate in online forums to exchange information on this and other technical support issues. Please feel free to report your experiences with this information to other users in the appropriate newsgroups.

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ThirdEye team searching for testers (from Eugene Gorbunoff)
ThirdEye team invites owners of Kodak Digita digital cameras (DC290,..), Canon PowerShot, Samsung Digimax, Fuji MX to testing of new version of ThirdEye. New version is available for testers only. Our e-mail: project_thirdeye@os2.ru

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11.07.2001
Cryptographic Coprocessor (from M. Dodel)
IBM offers a very special product for supporting high-capacity web servers called the IBM 4758 Cryptographic Coprocessor. This PCI adapter works with a variety of operating systems, including eComStation and OS/2 Warp. The IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is supported on these operating systems, providing a wide variety of encryption-related programming services.
Using this adapter, you can dramatically increase the throughput of SSL-based secure transactions for banking, e-commerce, and other tasks. Support software is available to access the cryptographic services on this adapter (and offload encryption calculations from the main processor). For example, it would be interesting to add support for this coprocessor to Apache running on eComStation or OS/2 Warp.
For more information, please visit:Sample source code can be found here:Here's a quick summary of the services provided by the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA):
  • DES (with Model 002/023 triple-DES data confidentiality)
  • DES message authentication and RSA digital signatures
  • SHA-1, MD5, and with Model 002/023 RIPEMD160, and MDC-2 and MDC-4 hashing DES and RSA key management, RSA keys to 2048 bit-length
  • SET Secure Electronic Transaction services
  • Key diversification for smart card applications
  • Finance-industry PIN processing and related services
  • Custom extensions using the UDX toolkit
Timothy F. Sipples
IBM WebSphere & Business Connect Software (Chicago, IL) and IBM Consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Wash., DC)

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Cryptographic Coprocessor (from M. Dodel)
IBM offers a very special product for supporting high-capacity web servers called the IBM 4758 Cryptographic Coprocessor. This PCI adapter works with a variety of operating systems, including eComStation and OS/2 Warp. The IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is supported on these operating systems, providing a wide variety of encryption-related programming services.
Using this adapter, you can dramatically increase the throughput of SSL-based secure transactions for banking, e-commerce, and other tasks. Support software is available to access the cryptographic services on this adapter (and offload encryption calculations from the main processor). For example, it would be interesting to add support for this coprocessor to Apache running on eComStation or OS/2 Warp.
For more information, please visit:Sample source code can be found here:Here's a quick summary of the services provided by the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA):
  • DES (with Model 002/023 triple-DES data confidentiality)
  • DES message authentication and RSA digital signatures
  • SHA-1, MD5, and with Model 002/023 RIPEMD160, and MDC-2 and MDC-4 hashing DES and RSA key management, RSA keys to 2048 bit-length
  • SET Secure Electronic Transaction services
  • Key diversification for smart card applications
  • Finance-industry PIN processing and related services
  • Custom extensions using the UDX toolkit
Timothy F. Sipples
IBM WebSphere & Business Connect Software (Chicago, IL) and IBM Consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Wash., DC)

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09.07.2001
Paper on TCP/IP 4.1+ packet filter (from KOVACS Istvan)
I'd like to let you know that I've put the preliminary version of my paper on the TCP/IP 4.1+ packet filter on-line. I hope you'll find it useful.

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06.07.2001
Warpstock Europe 2001 comes to Belgium! (from Luc Van Bogaert)
The Warpstock Europe Event Team is pleased to announce that Europe's annual OS/2 and eComStation conference is coming back for the third time, this time crossing the border to Belgium. Warpstock Europe 2001 will be held at the 'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek, Belgium on November 2-4, 2001.
OS/2 and eComStation users from all over Europe -- or anywhere else for that matter, are invited to come to Belgium this year to attend Warpstock Europe 2001. Even though the organization of the event is still in it's early stages, the Event Team already has many ideas on what to offer during this three day OS/2-fest. Plan on coming if you want to attend high-quality lectures about a variety of OS/2 and eComStation related subjects. You'll talk to software developers, meet the people behind Netlabs and Odin, discover the new and exciting eComStation, learn about new products, buy them or try them out at the Exhibit Hall, and finally expect to have a smashing time at the Warpstock Europe Social Night Event. "The third edition of Warpstock Europe is an important milestone in the event's short history, and everything will be in place to make it a big success", says John Bijnens, the Event Team's coordinator.
Located in the heart of Western Europe, Belgium is at a convenient traveling distance for people coming from Holland, Germany and France. Attendees flying in from other countries will arrive at Brussels International Airport, which is only 80 km away from where the event will be held. To accommodate attendees from outside of Europe, the Event Team is planning special arrangements for transportation from the airport to the event site.
Diepenbeek, Belgium and neighboring city Hasselt are perfectly suited to host the Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference. Attendees will feel comfortable and at ease in Hasselt, which is a very safe and exceptionally clean mid-sized city with excellent shopping facilities, and is conveniently located only a one hour driving away from major Belgian cities, including Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven.
Place for all the action at Warpstock Europe 2001 will be the 'KH Limburg' College. Members of the Event Team have already concluded a first inspection of the site with nothing but positive results. "This site has everything this conference needs to succeed", says Technical Coordinator Johan Driesmans, and "we would like to thank the College Board of Directors for their support and for making this site available to us." Large conference rooms will be available for presentation sessions and hands-on workshops. The spacious exhibition hall provides enough room for Warpstock Europe vendors, and it can be closed off before and after event hours. There will be an "Internet cafe" offering free Internet access to attendees, a restaurant, a separate press room, guarded parking space for hundreds of cars, etc.
Behind the organization of Warpstock Europe 2001 is an international group of OS/2-users. "It's good to see that so many people are still out there, willing to fight for an event like this", says OS2.org web master Andreas Linde. And Exhibitor Coordinator Luc Van Bogaert says : "No way we could make a successful event without the help and support from our friends at Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V.; they're the ones who've made the first two editions become reality and we're fortunate to have them around, helping out with this year's edition".
For all questions about Warpstock Europe 2001, contact the Event Team Coordinator John Bijnens at info.warpstock2001@os2ug.be. Other team members are Frans Morre, Andreas Linde, Johan Driesmans, Luc Van Bogaert, Luc Coenegracht, John Roosen, Alain Rykaert, Serge Sterck, Marcel Van Baelen, Alex Wyckmans, Christian Langanke, Bart Van Leeuwen and numerous others willing to help out during the event. For more information about Warpstock Europe 2001, go to http://warpstock.os2.org.

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04.07.2001
DVD-ROM with OS/2 support (from Thomas Frey)
Look at Liteonit, there you can find CD- & DVD-ROMs with OS/2 support.

-> URL: http://www.liteonit.com.tw/Eproduct/Eproduct.htm
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03.07.2001
TCP/IP for DOS interface (from Martin Kiewitz)
I never found any documentation about the interface used by IBM TCP/IP for DOS (virtual exists under OS/2 MDOS). Last week I finally discovered the basics, then more. Today I can say that I can do about 95% with the interface directly via assembly. Not using the Developer Toolkit. This has the advantage of programming the interface under assembly or other languages than MS C. If anyone is interested or wants to write some documentation for the public, please contact me. I will explain and help you with it. A shim to make Arachne/DOS working under OS/2 would be possible, too. (!) But currently I dont have time. My current TCP/IP interface driver uses just 2k (!).

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02.07.2001
CooLFM needs your help (from Eugene Gorbunoff)
CooLFM is able to control FM-tuners integrated on BrookTree TV-tuners (WinTV Hauppage, AverTVPhone, etc). But author can't solve problem of card initialization. If you know how to program BT8xx cards and know how to initialize such cards, contact author, please! (e-mail: eg@os2.ru).

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JSyncmanager now 'ManplatoSync for Java' (from Karlheinz Schmidthaus)
The name of the "JSyncmanager" was changed to "ManplatoSync for Java".
The following mailing list has now been changed:
ManplatoSync for Java Development Discussion List

-> URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/manplatosync4java
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