Received: from darkside. (darkside. [210.8.201.180]) by mail. (Weasel v1.20) for ; 03 Sep 2001 01:00:00 From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:00:00 +1000 (EDT) Priority: Normal X-Mailer: CASMailer 1.0 for OS/2 Warp PPC 1.05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 155 Message-ID: <200109030100.000029G6atmail.> Reply-To: Date:- 03 September 2001 Please reply to ianatos2site dot com to post to the list. A small problem with the list Digest Mode software replacing email address. 1================================================ From: "Robert Traynor (BobT)" Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:41:10 +1000 Subject: [os2genau] Humorix joke linux site. http://i-want-a-website dot com/about-linux/ Update: Windows XP Is Good For The Economy Fake News written by James Baughn on August 21, 2001 from the that-headline-got-your-attention dept. Last week, the Blartner Group reported that the release of Windows XP could spell disaster for the world economy. After receiving a large "stipend" from Microsoft, the Blartner Group has retracted that report and issued a replacement study entitled "The release of Windows XP will create thousands of new jobs". This new study argues that future Microsoft products will spur new job openings throughout the world, including everything from "License Managers" to "Server Babysitters" to "Bluescreen Boys". "People have always worried that computers would take over and eliminate jobs," said a reformed Ted Blartner. "Yeah, right. Thanks to Microsoft, new career opportunities are becoming reality every day." Blartner predicts that major companies will need to hire full-time "License Managers" to keep track of every Windows license and Certificate of Authenticity the company has ever acquired. Blartner argues, "Microsoft's piracy police will start making surprise inspections at large companies to check for compliance. To prepare for these 'compliance visits' will require thousands of man-hours of filling out and organizing paperwork." He added, "...Microsoft will probably start requiring companies to submit retinal scans, social-security numbers, and home addresses of each and every employee who has ever touched a Windows box. This information, of course, will be used by the Microsoft piracy police to make a surprise inspection of the employee's home to verify that they haven't smuggled out any Microsoft CDs over the weekend 'for testing purposes'." "All of this will be spelled out in the End-User License Agreements for Windows XP and other Microsoft innovations," he pointed out. "But who wants to read a 523 page document written in Flyspeck-3?" Meanwhile, companies who install Windows on the back-end will need to hire "Server Babysitters" (also known as MCSEs). These people hover around Windows servers and reboot them at the first sign of trouble (i.e., every other hour). Server Babysitters have cell phones, beepers, laptops with Internet access, satellite phones, CB radios, two-cans-tied-to-a-string, telegraphs, and other forms of communication so that other employees can contact them whenever a Microsoft product crashes for the millionth time. "Microsoft products are just like little kids," said another Blartner Group researcher. "They require constant monitoring and attention. A cranky kid might destroy the boss's favorite Ming vase... but a cranky Windows server might destroy the boss's PowerPoint presentation he's supposed to give in 3.2 minutes to a bunch of venture capitalists wanting to invest billions. A baby requires new diapers to be installed all of the time... but a Windows box requires new security patches to be installed all of the time. The similarities are striking." He added, "...And just as immature kids need babysitters, immature operating systems need babysitters. That provides job opportunities for thousands of computer science graduates who got pushed through college even though they can't tell a C program from a DOS batch file. Thank you, Microsoft!" According to the revised Blartner Group study, the release of Windows XP will create at least 5,000 new jobs through the tech sector. We here at Humorix would tend to agree... somewhat. We also expect the impending release of Windows XP to produce 5,000 new jobs. But they will be filled by Linux system administrators hired by companies desperately trying to flee the sinking ship known as Microsoft. Or something like that. ,-._|\ Robert Traynor (BobT) / Oz \ email rtraynoratnetstra dot com dot au \_,--.x/ 2============================================== Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 14:42:40 +0830 From: Leigh Bunting Subject: [os2genau] OS/2 and GPS software Hi all, As usual, there is no software available in the way of native-OS/2 stuff for GPS's. But there is still some DOS and win16 applications. The software can upload and download data from GPS units via serial port cables to the special connectors on the GPS unit, in my case a Garmin GPII+. Initially, the DOS and win16 apps wouldn't run either. Eventually, I found that they didn't like SIO in there but would run on the standard com.sys. I was using SIO because on previous hardware setups my internal modem wouldn't run with com.sys. However, my current hardware appears to accept com.sys and lets the same internal modem chug along happily without SIO. So Ray's program has got the flick. This was with Warp4/FP10. I upgraded to FP15 and the GPS software fell over whenever it tried to look at the GPS through the com port. Tried the software on my testbox and found it works happily with DOS, OS/2 2.1, Warp 3, Warp4 out-the-box, Warp 4FP10 and 12 but fell over with FP14. Didn't try FP13. Backed out of FP14 to FP12 and it works again. Before I go back to FP10 on my main box, does anyone have the slightest idea why this is so. The message I get is this: SYS1798: Your application tried to access communications port COM[ASCII code 176 which won't reproduce here] that is in use by another application. [bulldust!] Press one of the following: .... Thanks, Leigh Bunting Colonel Light Gardens South Australia Find out more about Col. Light Gdns. here - http://www.chariot dot net dot au/~pknight/clghs/