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From: "Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [os2genau] DIVE problems fixed!!

Hi All,

My DIVE problem was fixed when I decided to install a sound card.  That's right... a sound card, a SB16 PnP 
to be exact.  A quick selective install and  reboot later... success!

Cheers
Gavin

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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 16:38:00 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Reply to Vaughn Bender Re: [WarpBrowsr] Been quiet lately. What's  up?

I think you all may be missing one very important point with your
critism of Software Choice here.

As long as customers are paying for Software Choice (or Lotus
Passport for E-Biz Server) IBM is "duty bound" to continue 
developing (not just maintaining) OS/2.

Look at it from their side - there are a lot of people within IBM
who simply look at profit (as in any business that's around for
more than a few months). If there's a product that no longer
gives income but costs money to develop and support, it makes
good business sense to drop it.

The - "you pay for the support you want" approach is actually
a very good one. Everyone has had more support / improvements/
additions in OS/2 through the free fixpacks than they ever payed
for in the initial purchase. 

Microsoft are going this way too with Office XP - you subscribe to
it, you don't fully own the product, as such if it doesn't perform,
simply do not renew your subscription and the product will stop
working.  It's akin to an ASP or Time-sharing-Bureau type approach.

I wonder how many people on this list ACTUALLY bought the copy of
OS/2 Warp that they are using in the first place ??

Like I said, I see the input of money into IBM to get aditional features
to be common sense and an advantage to the OS/2 community as a
whole.

As eComstation uses Convienience Pack Software Choice components
I would expect some of this money to be being payed back to IBM,
to fund continued development as well.

Cheers/2

Ed Durrant
Sydney Australia

  

"Lynn H. Maxson" wrote:
> 
> Simon Lewis writes:
> 
> "As someone who paid his $200 for 2 years of "Software Choice",
IBM mails you some CD's stacked with software, and 
gives you an ID to go to a web site that lists what's available 
for download. ..."
 
   etc. etc.

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From: "Stan Pallis" <spallisatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] Lost desktop after a trap e
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:58:07 +1000

The saga continues, it seems I may have a corrupt ini file, basically a trap
e occured why playing a .wav file on my viaudio ac97 on board soundcard.
After the reboot has some errors on som.log in my smartsuie directory caused
by the chkdsk, but all I got was a black screen with the pointer, remmed out
a lot of stuff just to get a basic system going, restoring desktop no go.
Everything is still there any way I can get my desktop back without
re-installing.

tia

Stan Pallis

