From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:00:53 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1588 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 07 January 2008 Number 1588 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug : Dennis Nolan 2 Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc : Robert Traynor (BobT)" 3 Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug : John Angelico" 4 Re: Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc : John Angelico" 5 Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug : Ian Manners" 6 Re: Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc : Ian Manners" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:07:21 +1000 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug John Are you sure that it wasn't a Java desktop applet??? Regards Dennis John Angelico wrote: > Hi all! > > Got talking nostalgia with sons tonight, and recalled a fun old OS/2 2.x > desktop app called Coffee Mug. > > All it did was sit in the corner of the desktop steaming hot when first > started, then gradually cooled. > > It was a humorous way to build up a mental image of "the desktop metaphor" > :-) > > If you opened a window or folder over the top of it though you knocked the > mug and spilled the coffee. :-( > > A quick search of os2site and hobbes failed to find it. > > Anybody know where it might be found please? > > > Best regards > John Angelico > OS/2 SIG > os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or > talldad at kepl dot com dot au > ___________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:50:57 +1100 From: "Robert Traynor (BobT)" Subject: Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc Hi John and ALL, Question, are we having an OS/2 SIG at Chadstone meeting this month.? And another item, we have been given a big box of Os/2 books on networking and other topics. Almost too heavy to lift. If we are having a meeting this month I can bring it along. Free to good home. Don't ask me to list the titles, I don't have time. Regards to all and Happy New Year, Robert Traynor (BobT). 7 January 2008 6:50 VISTA: V=VIRUS / I=INTRUDERS / S=SPYWARE / T=TROJANS / A= ADWARE ,-._|\ Robert Traynor (BobT) / Oz \ email rtraynor.removeme at removeme.optusnet dot com dot au \_,--.x/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:41:20 +1100 (AEDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:07:21 +1000, Dennis Nolan wrote: >John >Are you sure that it wasn't a Java desktop applet??? Definitely a v2 thing, Dennis. That puts it before Java was invented, I would estimate. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:39:06 +1100 (AEDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:50:57 +1100, Robert Traynor (BobT) wrote: >Hi John and ALL, > >Question, are we having an OS/2 SIG at Chadstone meeting this month.? > AFAIK yes. >And another item, we have been given a big box of Os/2 books on >networking and other topics. Almost too heavy to lift. If we are having >a meeting this month I can bring it along. Free to good home. > >Don't ask me to list the titles, I don't have time. Good-oh. I would like to rummage in there for stuff on networking OS/2 with a Win2K domain. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:34:27 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Nostalgia time - Coffee Mug Modern software still amazes me, the original email of this one was refused by 4 different servers as being a virus, return message suggested I clean my system on 1 of them, as if a virus/worm would really (in this day) sent out an infected email with the real senders actuall email address. On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:41:20 +1100 (AEDT), John Angelico wrote: >On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:07:21 +1000, Dennis Nolan wrote: > >>John >>Are you sure that it wasn't a Java desktop applet??? > >Definitely a v2 thing, Dennis. > >That puts it before Java was invented, I would estimate. > > >Best regards >John Angelico >OS/2 SIG >os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or >talldad at kepl dot com dot au >___________________ > > > Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:36:30 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Query Os/2 SIG MelbPc Hi Bob/John, >>And another item, we have been given a big box of Os/2 books on >>networking and other topics. Almost too heavy to lift. If we are having >>a meeting this month I can bring it along. Free to good home. >Good-oh. I would like to rummage in there for stuff on networking OS/2 with >a Win2K domain. Anything left over that no one else wants, happy to add to the collection here. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------