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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.1.1 has been released and now it is available in German, Spanish, and Russian National Language Versions (NLVs). Many of it's components had been updated too.
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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.1.0 is an OEM distribution of IBM's discontinued OS/2 Warp operating system. This new version of ArcaOS offers UEFI compatibility allowing it to run in modern x86 hardware and also includes the ability to install to GPT-based disk layouts.
The OS/2 community has been called upon to report supported hardware, open source any OS/2 software, make public as much OS/2 documentation as possible and post the important platform links. OS2World insists that open source has helped OS/2 in the past years and it is time to look under the hood to try to clone internal components like Control Program, Presentation Manager, SOM and Workplace Shell.
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martiniturbide writes:
The OS/2 community is getting close to obtain a modern browser on their platform.
"BitWise Works GmbH and the Dutch OS/2 Voice foundation started work on Otter Browser in 2017, as it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep an updated version of Firefox available on OS/2 and ArcaOS. Firefox 49 ESR from 2016 is the latest version available, because that’s around the time Mozilla started rewriting significant parts of Firefox with Rust code, and there’s no Rust compiler for OS/2. Since then, the main focus has been porting Qt 5.0 to OS/2, which includes the QtWebEngine (based on Chromium). This effort also has the side effect of making more cross-platform ports possible in the future."
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martiniturbide writes:
Belkin announced the end-of-life for its Wemo NetCam on April 28th, 2020.
On May 29 2020 the Wemo NetCam cloud based cameras will not only became “useless beige bricks”, switching off the service in the middle of the global lockdown it is just very inconvenient.
“Given the quarantine conditions in many countries that forbid travel to second homes, the switching off of the iSecurity+ video platform gives those property owners a difficult choice to make. Either leaving their property with no security system and zero surveillance capability, or breaking the quarantine orders in order to install new equipment.”
Soon Belkin Wemo NetCam will became more tech junk contamination.... maybe some hackers can save the world.
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martiniturbide writes:
WordLogic (patent troll) claims it has the rights of the concept of predictive text writing and went after the Wikimedia foundation. WordLogic offered a "discounted, lump sum fee of $30,000 in exchange for a paid-up one-time license", an easy win they thought, but Wikimedia fought back. "Wikimedia notes that (1) WordLogic's patents are invalid due to prior art, (2) that they are invalid for not covering patentable subject matter, and (3) that anyway, it doesn't even infringe on the patents if they were valid. " Now we are waiting to see what will happen, will the patent troll desist? will it push forward?
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martiniturbide writes:
This is an interesting article about IBM's OS/2 Warp being used on the NYC subway.
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martiniturbide writes:
OS2World, a community known as the online reunion place of IBM's OS/2 Warp users, is merging with the Flat Earth Society. The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of it. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.0 is an OEM distribution of the discontinued IBM’s OS/2 Warp operating system. ArcaOS offers a new set of drivers for ACPI, Network, USB, Video and Mouse to run OS/2 in newer hardware. It also includes a new OS installer and open source software like, Samba, Libc libraries, SDL, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice between others. It is available in two editions, Personal ($129 with an introductory price of $99 for the first 90 days) with six months subscription and Commercial ($239) with one year subscription.
The OS/2 community has been called to report supported hardware, open source any OS/2 software, to make public as much as OS/2 documentation as possible and posted the important platform links. OS2World insists that open source has helped OS/2 in the past years and it is time to look under the hood to try to clone internal components like Control Program, Presentation Manager, SOM and Workplace Shell.
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martiniturbide writes:
For those who lived the console emulator and retrogaming boom on the late 90’s there is this interesting article about the story of Nesticle posted at Motherboard. Nesticle was Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console emulator that had a huge success in the early internet and helped to start the emulation scene. The author of the story, Ernie Smith, also posted an extra sencond part of the story with more interesting tips.
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martiniturbide writes:
The new OS/2 distribution previously codenamed Blue Lion will be called "ArcaOS". James Sanders from TechRepublic posted and interview with Lewis Rosenthal about Blue Lion that will be released on the 4Q of 2016 and also found out that final release will be called ArcaOS 5. The article discuss the features of ArcaOS like USB bootable installer, USB (1.1 and 2) , ACPI, AHCI, and network card drivers, new OS installer, etc. It will be sold in two editions: ArcaOS Commercial Edition and ArcaOS Personal Edition.
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martiniturbide writes:
To promote some new computer coding books for kids, Uborne Children's Books has put online 15 of his children books from the 80's to learn how to code games. The books are available for free in PDF format and has samples to create your game for Commodore 64, VIC 20, Apple, TRS 80, Spectrum and other. Maybe you read some of them like "Machine Code for Beginners" or "Write your own Adventure Program for MicroComputers". Other publisher should also start to make their 80's and 90's computer books available for free?
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martiniturbide writes:
The Internet Archive, the online non-profit library that stores almost everything that is digital, the same that hosts a lot of classic games , hosts a massive collection of MAME ROMs and runs the WayBackMachine to preserve the internet web pages.... Is now running an old fashion 24hours fund raising telethon from Saturday 19, 12:00 PM to Sunday 20, 12:00 PM (PST). This live event is being hosted by Michelle Krasowski and Jason Scott (the guy from Textfiles.com that Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs) with the suppor of several guests. You can visit the telethon live video and donate to support this library.
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martiniturbide writes:
Did you ever dreamed of a Museum where you can take your kid and show him/her what you used to play when young? Yes? No? Who cares? Today I found out that this museum exists and it is called “The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE)” at Oakland, California. This is non-profit videogame museum that preserves old games, has playable exhibitions, give free classes to learn to code using Scratch and host several kinds of gaming events. This museum has over 5,000 games and over 100 consoles and computers and hosted free classes for more than 400 students. Now they are launching a Kickstarter campaign because they need a bigger space.
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martiniturbide writes:
Remember Jason Scott of Textfiles.com that wanted your AOL & Shovelware CDs early this year. Right now at this moment is he trying to save the manuals of a huge storage room that was going to be dumped. It is a big storage room and some of these manuals date back to the thirties. On Monday a team of volunteers helped him to pack some manuals to save them. Today he needs more volunteers at "2002 Bethel Road, Finksburg, MD, USA" to try to save them all. He is also accepting Paypal donations for the package material, transportation and storage room payment. You can also check his progress on his twitter account.
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martiniturbide writes:
Reuters is reporting that "The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers used to launch attacks." and states that "The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team said in an advisory released on Monday that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer could lead to "the complete compromise" of an affected system."
S.H.I.E.L.D. did not release any statement yet.
