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From: "Robert Traynor  (BobT)" <rtraynoratoptushome dot com dot au>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:41:10 +1000
Subject: [os2genau] Humorix joke linux site.

http://i-want-a-website dot com/about-linux/

 Update: Windows XP Is Good For The Economy 
 Fake News written by James Baughn on August 21, 2001
 from the that-headline-got-your-attention dept.

 Last week, the Blartner Group reported that the release of
 Windows XP could spell disaster for the world economy.
 After receiving a large "stipend" from Microsoft, the Blartner
 Group has retracted that report and issued a replacement
 study entitled "The release of Windows XP will create
 thousands of new jobs". 

 This new study argues that future Microsoft products will
 spur new job openings throughout the world, including
 everything from "License Managers" to "Server Babysitters"
 to "Bluescreen Boys". 

 "People have always worried that computers would take
 over and eliminate jobs," said a reformed Ted Blartner.
 "Yeah, right. Thanks to Microsoft, new career opportunities
 are becoming reality every day." 

 Blartner predicts that major companies will need to hire
 full-time "License Managers" to keep track of every
 Windows license and Certificate of Authenticity the company
 has ever acquired. 

 Blartner argues, "Microsoft's piracy police will start making
 surprise inspections at large companies to check for
 compliance. To prepare for these 'compliance visits' will
 require thousands of man-hours of filling out and organizing
 paperwork." 

 He added, "...Microsoft will probably start requiring
 companies to submit retinal scans, social-security numbers,
 and home addresses of each and every employee who has
 ever touched a Windows box. This information, of course,
 will be used by the Microsoft piracy police to make a
 surprise inspection of the employee's home to verify that
 they haven't smuggled out any Microsoft CDs over the
 weekend 'for testing purposes'." 

 "All of this will be spelled out in the End-User License
 Agreements for Windows XP and other Microsoft
 innovations," he pointed out. "But who wants to read a 523
 page document written in Flyspeck-3?" 

 Meanwhile, companies who install Windows on the back-end
 will need to hire "Server Babysitters" (also known as
 MCSEs). These people hover around Windows servers and
 reboot them at the first sign of trouble (i.e., every other
 hour). 

 Server Babysitters have cell phones, beepers, laptops with
 Internet access, satellite phones, CB radios,
 two-cans-tied-to-a-string, telegraphs, and other forms of
 communication so that other employees can contact them
 whenever a Microsoft product crashes for the millionth time. 

 "Microsoft products are just like little kids," said another
 Blartner Group researcher. "They require constant
 monitoring and attention. A cranky kid might destroy the
 boss's favorite Ming vase... but a cranky Windows server
 might destroy the boss's PowerPoint presentation he's
 supposed to give in 3.2 minutes to a bunch of venture
 capitalists wanting to invest billions. A baby requires new
 diapers to be installed all of the time... but a Windows box
 requires new security patches to be installed all of the time.
 The similarities are striking." 

 He added, "...And just as immature kids need babysitters,
 immature operating systems need babysitters. That provides
 job opportunities for thousands of computer science
 graduates who got pushed through college even though they
 can't tell a C program from a DOS batch file. Thank you,
 Microsoft!" 

 According to the revised Blartner Group study, the release
 of Windows XP will create at least 5,000 new jobs through
 the tech sector. 

 We here at Humorix would tend to agree... somewhat. We
 also expect the impending release of Windows XP to
 produce 5,000 new jobs. But they will be filled by Linux
 system administrators hired by companies desperately
 trying to flee the sinking ship known as Microsoft. 

 Or something like that. 







   ,-._|\       Robert Traynor        (BobT)
 /  Oz  \      email            rtraynoratnetstra dot com dot au
 \_,--.x/ 


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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 14:42:40 +0830
From: Leigh Bunting <vh_gdnatinternode.on dot net>
Subject: [os2genau] OS/2 and GPS software

Hi all,

As usual, there is no software available in the way of native-OS/2 stuff
for GPS's.

But there is still some DOS and win16 applications. The software can
upload and download data from GPS units via serial port cables to the
special connectors on the GPS unit, in my case a Garmin GPII+.

Initially, the DOS and win16 apps wouldn't run either. Eventually, I
found that they didn't like SIO in there but would run on the standard
com.sys. I was using SIO because on previous hardware setups my internal
modem wouldn't run with com.sys. However, my current hardware appears to
accept com.sys and lets the same internal modem chug along happily
without SIO. So Ray's program has got the flick.

This was with Warp4/FP10. I upgraded to FP15 and the GPS software fell
over whenever it tried to look at the GPS through the com port.

Tried the software on my testbox and found it works happily with DOS,
OS/2 2.1, Warp 3, Warp4 out-the-box, Warp 4FP10 and 12 but fell over
with FP14. Didn't try FP13. Backed out of FP14 to FP12 and it works
again.

Before I go back to FP10 on my main box, does anyone have the slightest
idea why this is so.

The message I get is this:

SYS1798: Your application tried to access communications port COM[ASCII
code 176 which won't reproduce here] that is in use by another
application. [bulldust!] Press one of the following: ....

Thanks,
Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
Find out more about Col. Light Gdns. here -
http://www.chariot dot net dot au/~pknight/clghs/


