Sorry that the gaps between Podcasts seems to be getting longer, but I had to release a Podcast to let you know that eComStation v 2.1 was released this week, to coincide with WarpStock Europe in the Netherlands.

Also covered this time a little on FF.TB & SM and more on ODIN and its increasing importance.

Until next time -

Cheers/eCS2.1  Ed.

Just a short podcast this time. Hope you are all well and still using eComStation!

Cheers/eCS2.0GA  Ed

The latest beta versions of Firefox and Seamonkey are now able to print directly to printers using either native or eCups drivers.

Some of the multimedia applications have had minor upgrades.

The latest technology preview of Flash 10 still does not work correctly, at least not on my AMD SMP system.

All the best for the festive season - stay safe - keep using eComStation or OS/2!

Win32 application support using a built in virtualisation engine (possibly the QT4 version of Virtualbox/2),

a new up to date Java version

a version of Flash 10 that works with the GA rather that claiming the code is not registered (this is a bug added in the GA code that was not in the RTM code).

While on the subject of Web Video, I point out one video site (http://www.dailymotion.com), that is beta testing an option to switch the video it streams to you from Flash to HTML5. Given Apple’s refusal to support Flash on their mobile devices, I think we will start to see more sites switching to or giving the option of, video in HTML5 format - which has to be good news for eCS and OS/2 as we already have HTML5 support built into both the Firefox and SeaMonkey browsers.

By the way, don’t think we have had a recording fault, the bad audio is caused by a bout of Flu I am suffering, not faulty hardware or software.

Please don’t forget the Warpstock event 6th. - 8th. August 2010!

Flash 10, Genmac and missing eCenter widgets issues

New Java version being produced

Call for sponsorship for a new version of VirtualBox

Ogg Theora videos available of WarpStock Europe and request for presenters for WarpStock North America - This time at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 6th. - 8th.

eComStation 2.0 GA in “media pack” option form

Items covered in this podcast:

1. eComStation 2.0GA released at Warpstock Europe in Trier, Germany.  -  The questions around licensing clarified.

2. Netcomm t1 mobile 3G router review.

3. The future of computing? Ed’s thoughts around the impact of the iPAD and other forthcoming “slate” products and how it affects eComStation.

eComstation 2.0 running on an iPOD? Not quite, but not far off - listen to the podcast for an explanation.

eComStation Vodcast - Promotional video for WSe 2010 in Trier (May 14-16) from Sigurd

Podcast 15 contains the following points

1. eCS 2.0GA to be released at Warpstock Europe 2010

2. Promo video on OS/2 eCS Warpstock on podcast site

3. Netcomm t1 mobile 3G plus WiFi-N router

4. using an iPOD touch or iPAD as a remote client to Cloud based eComStation 2.0

5. Thunderbrowse plugin for Thunderbird

To see the video referred to in this audio podcast please go to http://ecomstationaustralia.podbean.com ** Note no WWW ** and your browser must support HTML5 Ogg Theora Video such as Firefox v3.5 or greater.

eComStation Vodcast test - video from WSe 2009 in Stralsund

To see the video referred to in this audio podcast please go to http://ecomstationaustralia.podbean.com and your browser must support HTML5 Ogg Theora Video such as Firefox v3.5 or greater.

Testing eCS 2.0 RTM code with VMWare (the company and the program).

New multimedia program versions - SMPlayer/MPlayer and VLC.

It just worked! AVLABS AVL680HD USB Digital TV tuner and EmperRoar software.

New versions of Firefox - 3.59 & 3.62.

230 subscribers! Video Podcast planned using HTML5 & Ogg Theora.

Hi and thanks to those who have posted encouraging comments. I have to admit, I am not as diligent with regularity of updates as I would like. When I started this podcast, I had great plans as one does and many of them are still what I want to do, it’s a matter of having the time to do it.

I want to get away from my simple commenting on current status of eComStation software and enjoyed my first interview with Joachim of Mensys while I was at Warpstock Europe last year.

From day one I had planned to have the ability to include multiple people in the podcast discussing relevant points, however the technology to do that using phone lines and mixers is “clunky” to say the least and while I have all the components I have been unable to get it sorted so that audio levels are the same, there’s limited interference type noise etc. etc. I have now found a website that may be able to give me what I want and the key point is that they have a web (flash) based voice client, so hopefully I’ll be able to set this all up to work using eComStation systems and not have to revert to using Windows. Given that the greatest problem we have on eComStation and OS/2 is that many applications are not available to us, I always seek to find a way to execute an action using an application that is available on eCS / OS/2 or using an external hardware device. This podcast is being recorded using a simple digital voice recorder. I load the WAV file into my eCS system and then run Audacity under ODIN to convert it to an MP3 and then upload it to podbean via Firefox.

I also have ideas in the video area - not using flash as I did to webcast last years Warpstock Europe but rather to use an external digital video camera and then convert its file into OGG-Theora format and load it to a website either for download or display through HTML5 code using Firefox which from version 3.5 onwards (including the eCS version) can play such videos.

As I said lots to do, but limited time to do it. it’s great to get comments back on my podcasts - you can either post these as some have at www.podbean.com/ecomstationaustralia or send me an e-mail to podcasts at durrant dot ws.

Possible community teleconference or multi-way Podcast using java based VOIP type client at www.talkshoe.com

New versions of Firefox (3.56) and Thunderbird (3.0) but problems with TRAP0008.

Ramblings on new technology, where it is going and how smart devices such as phones and Apple tablets are likely to take over from PCs at least for the general public.

See http://www.warpstock.eu for details.

Use of VPN over 3G cellular network with HotSpotVPN ( http://www.hotspotvpn.com )

Update on eCS 2.0 release work.

Virtualisation

GenMAC

and eCUPS

Items this time:

Status of eComStation 2.0 Silver Release (RC7) testing.

Overview of Cloud Computing and eCS compatibility.

Headline:

eComStation version 2.0 Silver released to test group - release to subscribers to follow:

Mensys and Serenity systems have just release the Silver code (RTM code) of eCS 2.0 GA with several added features and most outstanding bugs fixed. I have it running under VMWare ESXi v4 and will be installing to a new ASUS EeePC 900HA Netbook.