Received: from darkside. (darkside. [210.8.201.180]) by mail. (Weasel v1.20) for ; 25 Sep 2001 01:00:00 From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 25 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. 169 Message-ID: <200109250100.000029G6atmail.> Reply-To: Date:- 25 September 2001 Please reply to ianatos2site dot com to post to the list. The posting problem will be looked at, and corrected this weekend, this only affects people on the digest list. 1================================================ From: "John Angelico" Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:44:53 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [os2genau] Australian Personal Computer On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:35:09 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote: >Simon, I can only agree. I have also written many times - even offering >to supply them with articles if they found it hard to get information. To all list-readers: is it time to tell them that our persistence has been rewarded with a kick in the teeth? I would be prepared to write a letter on behalf of the Melb SIG. Ed, Leigh B, and/or others in positions of accountability for SIGs around the place: should we each send them something on behalf of our organisations? Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au -------------------------------------------- PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... To reformat a CD-ROM, use steel wool & elbow grease. 2============================================== From: "Ian Manners" Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:42:44 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [os2genau] Australian Personal Computer Hi John, and everyone else on this thread >>Simon, I can only agree. I have also written many times - even offering >>to supply them with articles if they found it hard to get information. I did the same about 2-3 years ago, I also offered both the guy looking after the OS/2 part, and the magazine, to organise software collections for them, no answers. I dont have time to write articles but I'm still happy to provide software, as well as check with the software authors that its ok to include that software. The OS/2 Warp 4 cover disk (with RH etc) was great, I believe there was a story behind that but I'm still not sure about it. If anyone does write to them, let me know if you get an answer, as I would be willing to do a monthly software collection for them, not just including the latest files but files that also are in keeping with that months theme. Cheers Ian B Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ [I am not stupid, I am not expendable and I am not going] 3============================================== Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:22:08 +1000 From: "Mike O'Connor" Subject: Re: [os2genau_digest] No. 161 - item 2 - W2K switch off Hi all, Ed, could you elaborate on the "switch off the power" - presumably not the mains 240V "switch off", or are you referring to the fact that W2K doesn't then come up at next boot and say that the machine wasn't shutdown properly, instead quietly doing its "healthy" check on all partitions? Are you using one of those Internet-enabled-keyboards with buttons for sleep/poweroff etc? [RMB on power object and select "power off" works o.k. here in Warp4 (FP12) and in eCS using the eCSStylerLite "System shutdown" also does a shutdown+power off as long as APM1.1 available.] regards - Mike Ed Durrant wrote: A computer should by now be as simple to operate as a washing machine or an electric oven. You should be able to turn it on and use it and then simply turn it off when you're finished. Give Windows 2000 a point here, if you switch off the power, it automatically jumps in and does a proper shutdown but we shouldn't NEED a PROPER SHUTDOWN if the device was simpler in the first place !