[Discussion] eCS and other woes

[Don Burch]

While I have not experienced all of these problems, I tend to agree with 
you Brian. You would think that all of this technology would have 
overcome some of these minor annoyances.

Take *&^%$ Universal out of USB. That title is the biggest crock of crap 
since IBM capitulated to Windows 95......

MP3 and OS/2-ECS. There is another interesting concept. How long has 
that file format been around? How long has it not been a part of 
OS/2-ECS limited base multimedia capabilities? About the same length of 
time!

I have a Sony proprietary driver camera. I bought a 6 in one reader so I 
could do pictures. It is &^%$%#$SB, so isn't recognized is ECS 1.2.

I built a portable drive - &^%$#SB. I have about 60GB of mp3's on it. 
ECS1.2 sees the drive, can' t touch the data.

I have a memory stick. &^%$#SB of course. Same story as yours.

The sad part is, all of this &^%$#SB stuff, and the MP3 files work just 
fine in my WinXP computer. Worked fine in my Win 2000 setup also.

My Describe still works. I have it installed in a separate partition and 
have never had any problems accessing it from various system drives.

ECS1.2 like to take a little nap once in awhile. Just a couple of 
minutes every hour, then it is back. I may have something hooped in my 
install. I'll strip it all down one day and start over. I like to do 
that every 12-18 months just to clean all of the dust out of the corners.

I don't spend as much time computing, or as much money as I use to. I 
buy good wine, fine hardwoods and router bits. I don't mix wine and 
router bits though :-)

The nice part of ECS is you don't have to deal with some of the 
absolutely amazing crap that can get installed on your computer without 
your knowledge. It is a bloody war out there. And these Win machines are 
running a significant part of the world.

Enough. I'm looking for some nice 8/4 white oak. :-)

Brian Grawburg wrote:
> I'm just about ready to throw in the towel on OS/2!
> I installed eCS on my Thinkpad T20 and it has been a mess. I did keep my original version of Warp 4 however so I can return to it.
> 
> With eCS:
> 1. DeScribe won't work.
> 2. On many occassions the system freezes and I have to shut it down to restart. I froze trying to send this message!
> 3. I installed it specifically so I could use my USB memory stick...it won't work.  And I do have the 1.2R version, I went out to their Web site and downloaded the USB updates.
> 4. I hate to think that I will have to install Win98 in order to use my MP3 player and memory stick!
> 5. Since I have many important documents and databases in Lotus SmartSuite I can't switch to Linux.
> 
> I am not a happy camper today.
> 
> 
> Brian Grawburg
> 
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