News from eCoSoft February 12, 2006 by Eugene Gorbunoff No signigicant releases or updates on this week. 1. Updated drivers * Release of USB Serial Converter Driver for Belkin F5U103 USB serial adapter -- http://betazone.ecomstation.nl (login via www.eComStation.com site) 2. Research * UPTime Test driver, can be used for changing of milliseconds counter in global information segment structure (gis). a) This counter is wrapping every 49 days; b) It is available via DosQuerySysInfo(QSV_MS_COUNT... c) go.exe shows it as uptime. We are researching the behaviour of applications after wrap of this milliseconds counter (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=uptt.zip&stype=all&sort=type&dir=%2F) 3. Updated software * Personal Cards Manager, internal beta released -- http://ecomstation.ru/pcm * Dutch, taiwan version of JUne is released -- http://ecomstation.ru/june * A customer reported about succesful launch of T&V HappyPlayer with Hauppauge WinTV (Tuner: Temic 4009FR5, Decoder: BT878) -- http://ecomstation.ru/happyplayer * Update of PM Downloader, v0.9.5 (popular network retriever) -- http://eros2.by.ru/pmdownloader_en.shtml 4. eCo Software support service * Gathering information about ThinkPad notebooks; Distributing ACPI test utility to query ACPI data on computers without ACPI driver loaded -- http://ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1267 5. eCo Design (design studio) * Release of 23 advertisement banners (dimension: 140x140) for www.ecomstation.ru interior pages 6. Toolkits * ACPI Toolkit updated -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=down * Lange v1.1, multi-language support library -- internal beta released