pmvnc

I had a little spare time and, lucky me; I get an email about patches to PMVNC. Eugene ported this years ago and all I did was add a couple fixes – I hate the POS. But Dmitry sent the patches, so I’ll pull it up and see what is what. Hell, maybe I should put the fixes in that GG has been pissing about for a year…

> 1. After an upgrade to the SMP computer I have many problems with the image of the remote desktop. As I understand, this is thread related problem. Two PMVNC thread try to access to the hpsBitmap simultaneously. I have serialized access via mutex in rect32.c, rect4.c and rect8.c modules. Now all works well.

I never saw this on my SMP systems but sounds good.

> 2. During testing, if I have used "Tiny Color" and "Gray Scale" modes, I have received SYS3175 crash in PMMERGE.DLL. I have replaced in rect4.c:
pbmiBitmap = malloc(16 + sizeof(RGB2) * 16) ;
to
pbmiBitmap = malloc(16 + sizeof(RGB2) * 256) ;
And now this works well also.

Never did this either… again sounds good.

> 3. Missed comma after ID_PMVNC in IDD_ABOUT resource template.

Hmmm…. Ok. I guess I should fix and try to use wrc rather than rc just to find if it works.

Multiboot PC for FreeDOS, Linux and eComStation

We at ERACC installed FreeDOS and eComStation for the end-user. We offered to install the Linux as well but the end-user wanted to install the openSuSE 10.3 Linux himself. There is space set aside on the 147GB SCSI hard drive for him to install a /boot near the start of the drive and the rest of openSuSE 10.3 after the eComStation partitions.

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More stuff...

I uploaded a fixed and working version of rexxutil.dll to hobbes.

Here's a free svn hosting site with trac, it looks like they give you 500 megs free:
http://www.assembla.com

First looks...

A real good first look at Virtual Box on eCS-OS/2, Openoffice WPS integration, and SFTP plugin for NetDrive/2 by Andreas Ludwig (link).

Misc. Crap

Recovering from a damn mess trying ACPI 2.21 on the laptop...

Funny - from OS/2 World or old page

Paul's page has a new look

kLIBC version 0.6.2 and GCC 3.3.5 CSD2 released

Perl revisited ...

Ok, there were some problems with the perl build, but Paul has a new build that uses Knut's pathrewrite package and it seems to work well. The dirty details here.

Quick Perl install and setup

Finally had the need to use Perl standalone so I setup Paul Smedley's GCC port. Then I set up a script to just initialize the perl stuff:

Note:
I unzip'd the archive to my D drive and I have sh.exe (ash.exe renamed to sh.exe) in d:\moztools.

----- perlenv.cmd -----
set PATH=%PATH%;d:\perl\bin;
set BEGINLIBPATH=d:\perl\bin
set PERLIB_PREFIX=u:/perl/lib;d:/perl/lib
set PERL_SH_DIR=d:/moztools

Now to test it.....

Catch Up

SciTech is out of business which is not good, but I did get ECS 2.0 Beta 2 installed on my SMP system with working ACPI.

Finally remembered to upload PMVNC 1.03 to hobbes.

ECS 2.0 Desktop Pics:

With Pixel32 open -
The best for last, Seamonkey and Open Office 2 Beta2:

SketchIt (DrawIt)

Got gbmdlg.dll hooked in to the bitmap import menu.

Someone requested that I add an automatic rotate option to syslogd.

So what does the eComstation desktop look like? Here is mine: