From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:04:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 742 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 07 December 2003 Number 742 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Thunderbird : David Forrester" 2 Re: OS/2 CP owners : Stan Pallis" 3 Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device : Stan Pallis" 4 Re: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device : Ed Durrant 5 Re: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device : Stan Pallis" 6 Re: OS/2 CP owners : Voytek Eymont 7 Re: OS/2 CP owners : Paul Smedley" 8 Re: OS/2 CP owners : Voytek Eymont **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:53:58 +1100 From: "David Forrester" Subject: Re: Thunderbird On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:21:25 +1100, Dennis Nolan wrote: > >As for the dictionary, it has the standard US_ENG installed. If there is >an Australian one I would be most interested in installing it. Mozilla and Thunderbird can use the same dictionaries as OpenOffice. has them packaged ready to install. >It's a pity that you can't use the Aus dictionary in Lotus Smart Suite. >Seems stupid for every app to have it's own dictionary. Mozilla and OpenOffice use something called MySpell, which I assume is an open-source spelling checker. Unfortunately, they probably use separate copies of the dictionaries. Other than within the various office suites, OS/2 has the only "works-everywhere" spelling checker that I've heard. I think it's name is SpellGuard, but, I've never used it. It probably doesn't work with Mozilla, as it doesn't use standard OS/2 controls. -- David Forrester davidfor at internode.on dot net http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:54:10 +1100 From: "Stan Pallis" Subject: Re: OS/2 CP owners > -----Original Message----- > From: Voytek Eymont [mailto:voytek at sbt dot net dot au] > Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2003 11:03 PM > To: os2genau at os2 dot org dot au > Subject: Re: OS/2 CP owners > > > ** Reply to note from "Stan Pallis" > Sat, 6 Dec 2003 10:58:08 +1100 > > > My machine at work a p4 2.4 runs a like a dog with win2k server > and xp pro, > > but my machine at home runs xp pro great with an anthlon xp 1800 cpu, > > believe it or not I do get better performance in xp pro that > ecs 1.1 but it > > as what;s his name told Maxwell Smart: > > 'I find it hard to believe' > 'I don;t think so' > 'no' > > > Stan, > > I'm happy to put up my OS/2 P2-300 versus a windoze machine any speed. > scanning, cd burning, downloading, defragging, faxing, whatever. > I'm glad it works for you well. I was doing the same with an old amd k62-500 with 120MB available running win2k, Linux and Warp 4 it doesn't prove anything, I can be productive using Linux, OS/2, Win2K/XP (not NT4) and Mac OS X > > > I use nero burning rom to burn cd's in the background while > working and I > > haven't had failed burn in 18 months. > > Nero ???.... > oh, yes, I did use it once, yes, I have wonderfull memories of Nero: > > to UPDGRADE from version 5.1111 to version 5.1112 it takes a 39MB > download, > yes, wonderfull technology. > > and, then, I learned, that even after a 39MB download, Nero no > can mount CDR > for writing files, if you want to mount a disk to write files, it > will only > do so to a CDRW media, *not* CDR media > > yes, I was really thrilled at the time, after downloading 39MB. > > if I can not mount CDR media to write a file, 39MB of crap, as far as I am > concerned. > You could have saved yourself downloading 39MB if you had read up on the product and you would have discovered that incd wants cdrw media if you to use the file system as your method of writing cd's. > RSJ that takes about 2MB can do that. RSJ is a good product, I don't think anyone is disputing that > > what's so good about Nero obviously escapes me > Voytek your agrument was about not being able to make cd's, Quote: I have other users with W2K on 2GH, and, 'performance' plainly sucks: open 'my docs' whilst burning a CD, presto, you've just made a perfect coaster End Quote your generalization has no basis of fact. Stan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:58:50 +1100 From: "Stan Pallis" Subject: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device Hi, I have a spare 40GB Drive that I've put in one of those USB 2.0/Firewire makes a nice portable storage device was wondering if it was possible of installing/booting os/2 off it. Stan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:59:31 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device I would suspect, ONLY if the motherboard supports booting from an USB device - most don't. Cheers/2 Ed. Stan Pallis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a spare 40GB Drive that I've put in one of those USB 2.0/Firewire > makes a nice portable storage device was wondering if it was possible of > installing/booting os/2 off it. > > Stan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:18:56 +1100 From: "Stan Pallis" Subject: Re: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device > From: Ed Durrant [mailto:edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au] > Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2003 7:00 PM > To: os2genau at os2 dot org dot au > Subject: Re: Installing/ Booting OS/2 from a USB device > > > I would suspect, ONLY if the motherboard supports booting from an > USB device - most > don't. > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > Ed, My gigabyte board supports usb boot devices fdd, cdrom, and hdd, I'll try installing it tonight. Cheers Stan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:05:47 From: Voytek Eymont Subject: Re: OS/2 CP owners ** Reply to note from "Stan Pallis" Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:54:10 +1100 > I'm glad it works for you well. I was doing the same with an old amd > k62-500 with 120MB available running win2k, Linux and Warp 4 it doesn't > prove anything, I can be productive using Linux, OS/2, Win2K/XP (not NT4) > and Mac OS X I'll raise you with all of above, plus Win98, Mac OS9 and Abacus (for when the power goes down) > Voytek your agrument was about not being able to make cd's, > > Quote: > I have other users with W2K on 2GH, and, 'performance' plainly sucks: > open 'my docs' whilst burning a CD, presto, you've just made a perfect > coaster > End Quote > > your generalization has no basis of fact. my argument was that a high end windoze machine with a lot of RAM still has trouble doing anything else whilst making a CD, as it was, it was W2k with Roxio. my argument was that a low powered hardware running OS/2 will outperform latest high end hardware running windoze. still, after all these years > > > but my machine at home runs xp pro great with an anthlon xp 1800 cpu, > > > believe it or not I do get better performance in xp pro that > > ecs 1.1 but it better performance for loading MS Office ? yes, that I'll believe better performance in general use ? I really don't think so, Stan. but, if does what you want, just use it, I would, if it did what I need. just don't kid yourself it provides better performabnce, that's all Voytek Eymont ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 21:43:49 +1050 (CDT) From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: Re: OS/2 CP owners On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:05:47, Voytek Eymont wrote: >my argument was that a high end windoze machine with a lot of RAM still has >trouble doing anything else whilst making a CD, > >as it was, it was W2k with Roxio. I'll concur with this - Adaptec Easy CD Creator on Win2k SP3 on a P4-1.8Ghz & 384mb RAM at work is real sluggish when writing CDs - pretty quick on everything else - but terrible when burning.. Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:31:30 From: Voytek Eymont Subject: Re: OS/2 CP owners ** Reply to note from Voytek Eymont Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:05:47 > my argument was that a high end windoze machine with a lot of RAM still has > trouble doing anything else whilst making a CD, or, more to the point: that a high end windoze machine with a lot of RAM still can not multitask, . but, of course, that is going to be overcome real soon now, with the new 'hypertreading ' hardware just a CD writer manufacturers had to make burn-proof writers to cope with windoze inability to burn cds Voytek Eymont ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------