Virtual Box is actually the last OS/2 program that Innotek wrote, they just reversed the usual method and wrote a program to run OS/2 instead of a program that runs under OS/2. Virtual Box runs on OS/2 but the QT interface is a bit flaky so have to use the SDL interface.
As the sibling poster mentions there is Odin. As for GCC, it was first ported to OS/2 in about 1990 along with the EMX libc. IBM paid for a fork of EMX (removed all GPL parts and replaced with BSD and LGPL) for Mozilla and that is what we now have. GCC is at version 3.3.5, KLIBC allows most programs to be built with little effort. Unluckily our X server hasn't been updated since the X.org fork and now Firefox is rejecting some of our patches as they are workarounds for our old GCC. Now the thing we most need os an updated GCC. Without an up to date browser OS/2 will finally die.
Unluckily IBM doesn't have any interest in open sourcing OS/2. Our JFS is a closed source fork. When IBM open sourced Object Rexx all the OS/2 parts were removed and so on.
I think the particularly telling piece of information is that if you want a plan where they do limit your charges and notify you when you reach thresholds.... you have to pay extra. They're called prepaid plans, and there are no surprises (well, within limits), but for common use cases, it's guaranteed you'll pay 2-4 times the amount a customer on a given rate plan will.
I'm in Canada which is similar to the States except probably worst. On prepaid it is actually cheaper then contract until you are using over about 150 minutes a month. For people like me who use closer to 30 minutes most months prepaid is much cheaper. Most months I pay about $11.50 including taxes. My phone cost me about $50. The cheapest contracts seem to be about $45 dollars a month total payed (advertised at $25 or so dollars a month) with a free phone
As the sibling AC says, for light use prepaid is much cheaper. I'm also in Canada using Fido. I pay $10 a month and use about 30 minutes a month. Wife phoning to tell me to pick up some eggs or my phoning someone to say I'll be late. If I pay $20 a month I get about 100 minutes with call display, voice mail and call forwarding which is tons for the odd time I do use the phone more frequently. I just replaced my phone with a not bad Nokia for $50 bucks which will work out to about a dollar a month if the phone lasts for 5 years, which my last phone did. Also my time rolls forward if not used unlike prepaid.
Then the question becomes did the planet cool as much with the increased levels of CO2 as it would of without? Unluckily it is hard to say but if CO2 is causing global warming and the Sun goes through a period of decreased activity of course over the short term the planet will not warm up as much and may actually cool down.
DOT-3 brake fluid makes good paint remover so if you accidentally pour it over someones car... Also if you kept driving a vehicle that was eating a quart of brake fluid a month you're very lucky to be alive and not in jail for criminal negligence causing death.
So aircraft flying into some of the tallest buildings on Earth, and one flying to the largest office building on Earth and leaving 3,000 dead is an "idea"? No, that is a tacit act of war.
War is between nations, this was a majorly bad criminal act perpetuated by some people with an agenda.
Saying one can not fight "terrorism", in this case the fight is against Islamic-fascism, is like going back to 1942 and saying there can not be a war against fascism because that is like having a war against the dark.
The United Nations did have a war against an idea, from 1941-'45, and following that war, there wasn't much Imperial Fascism left in the world was there? National Socialism pretty much went away as did Japanese Imperialism. The Ba'athist parties are about all thats left of that classical Socialist-Fascism, and theres only one state left with that form of ruling government, Syria.
The United Nations didn't even exist until after the war. It was not a war against an idea. The war was started by Germany invading a sovereign country (Poland) and a good chunk of the world said no and declared war on Germany. Btw this was in 1939. The USA only declared war on Germany because Germany declared war on the USA. Read that again, America went to war because another country formally declared war on it. If the war was against an idea then Spain would of been invaded as they were also fascist yet Franco ruled till his death. And the fascists were about as much about socialism as N. Korea is about democracy. Just because they have the word in their name means nothing.
I misremembered the quote, it was "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" and it is questionable whether Jackson actually said it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia Really it comes down to popularity. If the Supreme Court makes a very unpopular decision it is easy for the President to disobey and the army will go along with the President.
Wasn't it President Jackson who when the supreme court ruled against him his answer was "and who's army" when it came to obeying the court ruling. (IIRC he never did obey)
It's been a long time, but the last time I tried to install a Windows (win95) upgrade it happily installed and didn't even want me to enter a product activation code. Of course this was due to having a competitors OS on the computer (OS/2) and the end of the install was a message about how it detected OS/2 and I it was deactivated and I could never use it again (or something to that affect). Didn't matter that I might of had some very important data on the drive, Windows had made sure I could never use it. Of course 2 minutes in fdisk fixed things but it was moves like this that showed how MS viewed it's users.
Funny enough the first accident to happen to Apollo 13 was caused by excessive pogo oscillations, just like these shock absorbers are trying to prevent. Of course when the oxygen tank blew everyone forgot about the premature second stage centre engine shutdown, which was a relatively minor malfunction.
Things like this are old hat to me. I run OS/2 and one of the reasons OS/2 failed was due to MS paid astroturfers posting in various forums about how much better Windows was then OS/2. The saddest part was that even when the astroturfers were outed most people only remembered the negative posts, not that they were part of a propaganda campaign and should of been taken with a large grain of salt. Had the same problem with magazines. Some database would be reviewed and you would get reviews like, We couldn't get SMP working on OS/2, so even with one CPU it was faster then NT with 2 CPU's we fail OS/2 due to only using one CPU. People, especially the pointed headed CEO's would only remember the words fail. It is the same with net neutrality, even with lots of evidence of astroturfing, people will only remember that the corn growers association came out against net neutrality. The corn growers association must be neutral right:)
Sometime back around here the Heroin suddenly went way up in quality to pretty well pure. For a while there were quite a few OD deaths. Another problem with black market drugs, you never really know what you're getting.
Shouldn't that be all planes in the USA grounded? I know that Canada didn't ground its planes and I don't think Mexico did either. At that even in the US some planes were flying, military and Saudi at least
But some of the claims are specific and possibly novel. Claim 6: "the non-file system objects include printer objects representing printers." Mac OS from the time of the patent did not have drag-and-drop for printer configuration; instead, it used a desk accessory called the Chooser.
OS/2 ver 2 had printer objects that worked this way in '91 or '92. ver 1.1 introduced what would become the Windows 3.x FileManager in '87 or '88.
The Windows FileManager goes quite a bit further back then Win 3.11. I first saw it in Win 3.0 and it existed in OS/2 ver 1.1 (which IIRC was '87 or'88) where MS copied it from. (not too bad as they wrote the OS/2 ver1.x FileManager) Of course this patent isn't just about file systems but also displaying other objects eg the control panel. OS/2 v2 did this in '91 or so.
Here in Vancouver, BC the problems include Reservoirs that are filled mostly with snow-melt, can run out in a dry summer. Especially in those years when we don't get much snow. Population growth in the area is outstripping the water supply and water distribution network. Everyone waters their garden and water pressure drops.
As a Canadian citizen (I have the papers to prove it) our Queen is Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada. As a British subject (I have the papers to prove it) our Queen is Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of England. She also happens to be the Queen of quite a few other places as well.
IIRC the Saturn 1B was basically the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Saturn V. It was used to launch Apollo 7 and 9. Skylab 2,3 and 4 and the Apollo Soyuz mission.
Which is fine as long as you keep in mind what is behind the paper. I've seen to many people who don't think about what is behind the paper (and the stopping power of paper) and really they should have their weapons shoved up their ass sideways.
Where do you live where there are a 100 landlords? Around here you're lucky to find one landlord and if you need a place to rent then you put up with whatever he/she demands.
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Virtual Box is actually the last OS/2 program that Innotek wrote, they just reversed the usual method and wrote a program to run OS/2 instead of a program that runs under OS/2.
Virtual Box runs on OS/2 but the QT interface is a bit flaky so have to use the SDL interface.
As the sibling poster mentions there is Odin.
As for GCC, it was first ported to OS/2 in about 1990 along with the EMX libc. IBM paid for a fork of EMX (removed all GPL parts and replaced with BSD and LGPL) for Mozilla and that is what we now have. GCC is at version 3.3.5, KLIBC allows most programs to be built with little effort.
Unluckily our X server hasn't been updated since the X.org fork and now Firefox is rejecting some of our patches as they are workarounds for our old GCC.
Now the thing we most need os an updated GCC. Without an up to date browser OS/2 will finally die.
Unluckily IBM doesn't have any interest in open sourcing OS/2. Our JFS is a closed source fork. When IBM open sourced Object Rexx all the OS/2 parts were removed and so on.
The Fanboys long ago migrated to Linux. We used to have more then our share of Twitters turning people off.
I think the particularly telling piece of information is that if you want a plan where they do limit your charges and notify you when you reach thresholds.... you have to pay extra. They're called prepaid plans, and there are no surprises (well, within limits), but for common use cases, it's guaranteed you'll pay 2-4 times the amount a customer on a given rate plan will.
I'm in Canada which is similar to the States except probably worst. On prepaid it is actually cheaper then contract until you are using over about 150 minutes a month. For people like me who use closer to 30 minutes most months prepaid is much cheaper. Most months I pay about $11.50 including taxes. My phone cost me about $50.
The cheapest contracts seem to be about $45 dollars a month total payed (advertised at $25 or so dollars a month) with a free phone
As the sibling AC says, for light use prepaid is much cheaper. I'm also in Canada using Fido. I pay $10 a month and use about 30 minutes a month. Wife phoning to tell me to pick up some eggs or my phoning someone to say I'll be late.
If I pay $20 a month I get about 100 minutes with call display, voice mail and call forwarding which is tons for the odd time I do use the phone more frequently.
I just replaced my phone with a not bad Nokia for $50 bucks which will work out to about a dollar a month if the phone lasts for 5 years, which my last phone did.
Also my time rolls forward if not used unlike prepaid.
Then the question becomes did the planet cool as much with the increased levels of CO2 as it would of without?
Unluckily it is hard to say but if CO2 is causing global warming and the Sun goes through a period of decreased activity of course over the short term the planet will not warm up as much and may actually cool down.
DOT-3 brake fluid makes good paint remover so if you accidentally pour it over someones car...
Also if you kept driving a vehicle that was eating a quart of brake fluid a month you're very lucky to be alive and not in jail for criminal negligence causing death.
The US is not fighting a war?
So aircraft flying into some of the tallest buildings on Earth, and one flying to the largest office building on Earth and leaving 3,000 dead is an "idea"? No, that is a tacit act of war.
War is between nations, this was a majorly bad criminal act perpetuated by some people with an agenda.
Saying one can not fight "terrorism", in this case the fight is against Islamic-fascism, is like going back to 1942 and saying there can not be a war against fascism because that is like having a war against the dark.
The United Nations did have a war against an idea, from 1941-'45, and following that war, there wasn't much Imperial Fascism left in the world was there? National Socialism pretty much went away as did Japanese Imperialism. The Ba'athist parties are about all thats left of that classical Socialist-Fascism, and theres only one state left with that form of ruling government, Syria.
The United Nations didn't even exist until after the war. It was not a war against an idea. The war was started by Germany invading a sovereign country (Poland) and a good chunk of the world said no and declared war on Germany. Btw this was in 1939. The USA only declared war on Germany because Germany declared war on the USA. Read that again, America went to war because another country formally declared war on it. If the war was against an idea then Spain would of been invaded as they were also fascist yet Franco ruled till his death.
And the fascists were about as much about socialism as N. Korea is about democracy. Just because they have the word in their name means nothing.
I misremembered the quote, it was "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" and it is questionable whether Jackson actually said it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
Really it comes down to popularity. If the Supreme Court makes a very unpopular decision it is easy for the President to disobey and the army will go along with the President.
Wasn't it President Jackson who when the supreme court ruled against him his answer was "and who's army" when it came to obeying the court ruling. (IIRC he never did obey)
It's been a long time, but the last time I tried to install a Windows (win95) upgrade it happily installed and didn't even want me to enter a product activation code.
Of course this was due to having a competitors OS on the computer (OS/2) and the end of the install was a message about how it detected OS/2 and I it was deactivated and I could never use it again (or something to that affect). Didn't matter that I might of had some very important data on the drive, Windows had made sure I could never use it.
Of course 2 minutes in fdisk fixed things but it was moves like this that showed how MS viewed it's users.
Free health care systems? Nothing in life is free. Ask the Canadians about how much time they spend waiting for said "free" health care,
That's true, sometimes I have to wait for over 30 minutes to see the Doctor here in Canada.
Funny enough the first accident to happen to Apollo 13 was caused by excessive pogo oscillations, just like these shock absorbers are trying to prevent.
Of course when the oxygen tank blew everyone forgot about the premature second stage centre engine shutdown, which was a relatively minor malfunction.
Wasn't the Gemini capsule designed later then the Apollo capsule? Just ended up being used first.
Things like this are old hat to me. I run OS/2 and one of the reasons OS/2 failed was due to MS paid astroturfers posting in various forums about how much better Windows was then OS/2. :)
The saddest part was that even when the astroturfers were outed most people only remembered the negative posts, not that they were part of a propaganda campaign and should of been taken with a large grain of salt.
Had the same problem with magazines. Some database would be reviewed and you would get reviews like,
We couldn't get SMP working on OS/2, so even with one CPU it was faster then NT with 2 CPU's we fail OS/2 due to only using one CPU. People, especially the pointed headed CEO's would only remember the words fail. It is the same with net neutrality, even with lots of evidence of astroturfing, people will only remember that the corn growers association came out against net neutrality. The corn growers association must be neutral right
Sometime back around here the Heroin suddenly went way up in quality to pretty well pure. For a while there were quite a few OD deaths.
Another problem with black market drugs, you never really know what you're getting.
Shouldn't that be all planes in the USA grounded? I know that Canada didn't ground its planes and I don't think Mexico did either.
At that even in the US some planes were flying, military and Saudi at least
But some of the claims are specific and possibly novel. Claim 6: "the non-file system objects include printer objects representing printers." Mac OS from the time of the patent did not have drag-and-drop for printer configuration; instead, it used a desk accessory called the Chooser.
OS/2 ver 2 had printer objects that worked this way in '91 or '92. ver 1.1 introduced what would become the Windows 3.x FileManager in '87 or '88.
The Windows FileManager goes quite a bit further back then Win 3.11. I first saw it in Win 3.0 and it existed in OS/2 ver 1.1 (which IIRC was '87 or'88) where MS copied it from. (not too bad as they wrote the OS/2 ver1.x FileManager)
Of course this patent isn't just about file systems but also displaying other objects eg the control panel. OS/2 v2 did this in '91 or so.
Here in Vancouver, BC the problems include
Reservoirs that are filled mostly with snow-melt, can run out in a dry summer. Especially in those years when we don't get much snow.
Population growth in the area is outstripping the water supply and water distribution network. Everyone waters their garden and water pressure drops.
As a Canadian citizen (I have the papers to prove it) our Queen is Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada.
As a British subject (I have the papers to prove it) our Queen is Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of England.
She also happens to be the Queen of quite a few other places as well.
IIRC the Saturn 1B was basically the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Saturn V.
It was used to launch Apollo 7 and 9. Skylab 2,3 and 4 and the Apollo Soyuz mission.
I shoot paper, not people.
Which is fine as long as you keep in mind what is behind the paper.
I've seen to many people who don't think about what is behind the paper (and the stopping power of paper) and really they should have their weapons shoved up their ass sideways.
Where do you live where there are a 100 landlords? Around here you're lucky to find one landlord and if you need a place to rent then you put up with whatever he/she demands.