I was just thinking about Microsoft and Java as I read Chris' Rant this month. Microsoft has some great marketing tactics for future programmers at my university and probably other universities as well. They sponsered a giant pizza party and had a drawing for a free copy of J++. They advertised it with brochures and flyers around the campus. Last year, they offered the same type of party for a free copy of Visual Basic and Visual C++. All of these are brand new versions. Also, as an incentive for sales people at the university bookstore, they had a drawing for Visual C++ among the sales personnel in the computer department of the bookstore. Microsoft makes smart marketing moves. Unlike IBM which (a few years ago) gave away free CD-ROM copies of OS/2 for Windows which didn't even install! Oh Well!
Great article about setting up a socks server.
Another "how to" I would like to see is setting OS/2 up as a PPP and/or SLIP server. (Sort of like what an ISP would use.)
I would like to be able to dial into my office's network, and this seems like an easy way to do it.
Take care in upgrading Pentium 60/66 to the newer clock doubled chips. These older ones were 5v while the newer CPU's are all 3.3 or so voltages. Many times an upgrade from the older Pentiums will require a board upgrade for this reason. Besides, a new Pentium board with Trident III PCI chipsets is only around $160 Canadian. This alone can be worth while. P.S. Don't forget to mention ATI video cards. The Mach64 line is a solid contender with DRAM and VRAM versions and speeds to compare with Matrox. Drivers are sometimes buggy, but ATI is reasonably quick to fix these.
Shouldn't your list [of good video cards for OS/2] include ATI? My Mach64 card installed & works without a hitch (unlike the SoundBlaster I'm currently struggling with).
It's a really cool thing to get in a plug for B5, man, but I hate to tell you this: They haven't used Amigas at all since the first season. Foundation Imaging switched over to a Pentium farm with DEC Alpha servers for high end rendering shortly after the first season. They use the Toaster still, but it's the PC variation. Now that Foundation has moved over to Paramount Pictures, Netter Digital has taken over B5 with even MORE in the Pentium farm.
I wasn't aware of this until now. Sorry for the error (seems this is my month for apologizing) and I'll check my facts more closely in the future.
Thanks for your review. I too find the Creative Labs CD Player aesthetically pleasing however it has one bug that prevents me from using it. Try to listen to a CD who's tracks run one into the other. Side one of Abbey Road is such a record if memory serves me correctly. This CD player will momentarily stop and start as the track changes. I have many CD's whose songs flow one into the next and an audible "silence" is heard between tracks. I've emailed Creative about this but get no response... surprise surprise. It's a shame, I like that CD player.
Regarding the query about using a CHAP connection to an ISP using various flavours of Warp (posted in December issue of Answers from e-Zine), also bear in mind that the dialup communication modules (slippm.exe, ppp.exe and slattach.exe, amongst others) which are packaged with Warp 3.0 and Warp Connect 3.0 don't support the CHAP and PAP authentication protocols. The user needs to obtain an update (I don't remember where I got my updated files from, but I do have them on a floppy and I can mail them), or the user may be able to steal the necessary files from the Warp 4 package.
I was just at the Corel website after reading the info on the JavaSuite pre-beta. I was thinking as the page loaded, "wow...this is great." As I read the sidebar which stipulated the requirements for participation I had the same sick feeling I have had before. Once more, dignity and respect are not given to OS/2 users by an ISV -- shock and surprise right?
In the announcement they stipulate Win 95 and NT (a given), Unix (understandable), Mac PPC (I think there are more of us than them) or Linux with Java add-ons. How could they be so ignorant? On all of those systems, Java is an add-on enabled by a browser. Only on WARP could they see how their apps run in an intergrated environment, but noooooooooo... once again Corel makes me happy that they are going downhill towards probable bankruptcy.
It amazes me how the industry has decided that no matter what, they will not give this system any share of development. Regardless of IBM's actions, this is unwarranted. The system has a loyal user base that will buy software. To make matters worse, they ignore IBM's commitment to the product and absolute interest in Java as a cross-platform strategy.
I am disgusted and wrote a sharp note to the manager of the beta program letting him know just how disappointed I am by this nonsense. I would have appreciated if OS/2 E-zine had included in its review of this beta that we, the OS/2 users who have Java capability, are as per usual, not welcome.
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