New Hardware...
I've upgraded my hardware. Now I'm using a K6-233Mhz, with 96Mb of RAM. This is very good... ...not! The machine is wonderful, but the new MainBoard was a problem. I don't really know what happened with my hard drive (6.4Gb), but everything I could notice was that the new "on-board" IDE messed my entire Hard Disk! I had to perform a Low-Level Format so I can access it again... And you all can imagine... I lost 6.4Gb of data! I have some of it backed up somewhere, but about 95% was totally lost! And 15-20% of the data were "new" OS/2 programs (I was developing something)... And, of course, I lost several documents. I almost forgot OS/2 CONNECT, but since I just installed OS/2 again, I opened the "DOIP", open WebExplorer, downloaded my page and now I'm editing it using the OS/2 System Editor. Well, the lesson that I learned was: If you change anything (e.g., a little jumper on the scanner card), ALWAYS make backups of your programs!
Now I have a lot of problems, because I have to download every single program again (at least, those that are not on a CD).
News About OS/2 Brasil
I'm starting a new page, here. Its a page that has one single focus: IBM. This page, called Institute of Black Magic (I.B.M.) will present a lot of facts on IBM history, and show CLEARLY all the mistakes that Big Blue made since its foundation. I will need your help, and I hope you all help me!
With this page we can form a new type of syndicate: a Coputer Users Syndicate, fighting against those enterprises that send the user to hell to win some more money.
The first one will be against IBM. They cannot leave us alone on the Micro$oft hands!
OS/2 News in a month...
OS/2 News now has a little difference: All the month will be displayed on the same page. This spend some more time on loading, but make the "news view" and the updates more easy.
Hope everyone likes it.
Brazilian News About OS/2
No news comes officilly from IBM. This sounds very strange, mainly when Austin is ALSO quiet. Something big is coming, and I don't really know if OS/2 is involved, but it will be BIG! (-:
In terms of OS/2 updates, only the Netscape Communicator, in Brazilian Portuguese, has been released. By the way, great job from IBM! The Communicator Beta is almost perfect, with some problems on Image Loading, lost data and the leak of WPS Drag'n'Drop. Also I missed Java support, that doesn't work at all. At least, this version doesn't hangs the system anymore!
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![]() | Daniel Jorge Caetano is a student of Civil Engeneering at the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). He has nine years of extensive experience in the use of OS/2. He is member of the Student's Association on the University, and writes the "computers" section of the Association Publication. Daniel has solid knowledge in C programming and lots of knowledge on "the way that the operating systems works." He was a member of the "former" Sao Paulo OS/2 User Group, Brazil. He supported OS/2, for a period of time, on STI BBS, the 2nd largest BBS/Internet Provider in Brazil, and actually is "reformulating" the OS/2 Section on that BBS and creating an FTP on that provider, as well as doing an Internet Access Kit for OS/2 to be included on the CD distributed for the provider's users. |