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User:Antiguru

2010-07-22T21:28:51Z

Antiguru: update ;-)

I'm Moritz Hoffmann, visit http://wiki.antiguru.de/ for some more information about me! My mail address is moritz'at'antiguru'dot'de!
Born in '86, currently studying computer science in Zurich.

UsingWikipediafs

2006-07-19T18:53:38Z

Antiguru:

== How to use wikipediafs together with netlabs wiki ==
This article describes how it is possible to use wikipediafs to edit
content on the [http://wiki.netlabs.org/ Netlabs wiki].

=== Installing wikipediafs ===
Wikipediafs is a userspace filesystem that uses the fuse module available in
Linux to mount the wiki. Thus you need to have this module installed on your
system. The following command tells you if it is installed:

lsmod | grep fuse

On my system I got the following result:

TP42:/mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org# lsmod | grep fuse
fuse 36108 2

On top of that python and python-fuse are needed. If you are using Debian you
can install all packages necessary with apt-get.
Otherwise you can grab wikipediafs from its
[http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ homepage].

Now you need to create a directory where the wikis will be mounted to:

mkdir /mnt/wiki
This will create the directory wiki in mount directory.

=== Configuring wikipediafs ===
On the first run wikipediafs will copy its configuration file to the user's
home directory. As the access to the fuse commands is only permitted for
superusers start wikipediafs as root. Note that the last parameter has
to be the point where the wikipediafs should mount.

TP42:~/.wikipediafs# mount.wikipediafs /mnt/wiki/

In case everything worked no messages are printed. Otherwise there are a lot
of error messages printed, indicating what the problem was.

Now you have to unmount the directory again.

umount /mnt/wiki

The next step is to update the config.xml in the .wikipediafs directory
of root's home.

Add a section that looks like the following:
<site>
<dirname>wiki.netlabs.org</dirname>
<host>wiki.netlabs.org</host>
<basename>/index.php</basename>
<username>Username</username>
<password>secret</password>
</site>

My config.xml looks as follows:

<wfs-config>
<general>

<article-cache-time>300</article-cache-time>
</general>
<sites>
<site>
<dirname>wiki.netlabs.org</dirname>
<host>wiki.netlabs.org</host>
<basename>/index.php</basename>
<username>Username</username>
<password>secret</password>
</site>
</sites>
</wfs-config>

If the username and password tags are left out it is only possible to download
content, but not to submit content.

=== Using wikipediafs===
First it is needed to mount the wiki again.
mount.wikipediafs /mnt/wiki
Now there will be a directory /mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org/. It will be empty as
there is no directory listing.

Note: You have to switch off the option 'Show preview on first edit' in
preferences>Editing. Otherwise submitting content will not work.

==== Editing files ====
The file has to exist on the server. To edit a page called 'Ideas' the file has
to be loaded from the server first. Use cat for instance to do that:
TP42:/mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org# cat Ideas
This is the content of the page called Ideas... [..]

The directory should contain a file named Ideas by now. It can by edited with
any text editor. When the file is saved it is posted to the server.

==== Creating and Copying files ====
To add an entry to the wiki create a local file with the wiki syntax.
After that just use the cp command for instance:

TP42:/mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org# cp /home/moritz/UsingWikipediafs .

This will upload the file /home/moritz/UsingWikipediafs to the root directory
the wiki.

UsingWikipediafs

2006-07-19T18:48:09Z

Antiguru:

== How to use wikipediafs togehter with netlabs wiki ==
This article describes how it is possible to use wikipediafs to edit
content on the [http://wiki.netlabs.org/ Netlabs wiki].

=== Installing wikipediafs ===
Wikipediafs is a userspace filesystem that uses the fuse module available in
Linux to mount the wiki. Thus you need to have this module installed on your
system. The following command tells you if it is installed:

lsmod | grep fuse

On my system I got the following result:

TP42:/mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org# lsmod | grep fuse
fuse 36108 2

On top of that python and python-fuse are needed. If you are using Debian you
can install all packages necessary with apt-get.

Now you need to create a directory where the wikis will be mounted to:

mkdir /mnt/wiki
This will create the directory wiki in mount directory.

=== Configuring wikipediafs ===
On the first run wikipediafs will copy its configuration file to the user's
home directory. As the access to the fuse commands is only permitted for
superusers start wikipediafs as root. Note that the last parameter has
to be the point where the wikipediafs should mount.

TP42:~/.wikipediafs# mount.wikipediafs /mnt/wiki/

In case everything worked no messages are printed. Otherwise there are a lot
of error messages printed, indicating what the problem was.

Now you have to unmount the directory again.

umount /mnt/wiki

The next step is to update the config.xml in the .wikipediafs directory
of root's home.

Add a section that looks like the following:
<site>
<dirname>wiki.netlabs.org</dirname>
<host>wiki.netlabs.org</host>
<basename>/index.php</basename>
<username>Username</username>
<password>secret</password>
</site>

My config.xml looks as follows:

<wfs-config>
<general>

<article-cache-time>300</article-cache-time>
</general>
<sites>
<site>
<dirname>wiki.netlabs.org</dirname>
<host>wiki.netlabs.org</host>
<basename>/index.php</basename>
<username>Username</username>
<password>secret</password>
</site>
</sites>
</wfs-config>

=== Using wikipediafs===
First it is needed to mount the wiki again.
mount.wikipediafs /mnt/wiki
Now there will be a directory /mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org/. It will be empty as
there is no directory listing.

==== Editing files ====
The file has to exist on the server. To edit a page called 'Ideas' the file has
to be loaded from the server first. Use cat for instance to do that:
TP42:/mnt/wiki/wiki.netlabs.org# cat Ideas
This is the content of the page called Ideas... [..]

The directory should contain a file named Ideas by now. It can by edited with
any text editor. When the file is saved it is posted to the server.

==== Copying files ====

User:Antiguru

2006-07-19T18:19:33Z

Antiguru:

I'm Moritz Hoffmann, visit http://antiguru.de/ for some more information about me! My mail address is moritz'at'antiguru'dot'de!
Born in '86, currently studying applied computer science in Stuttgart.

Netlabs News

2006-07-19T08:04:33Z

Antiguru: Changed irc link to point to netlabs.org

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects. 

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: [[Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter]]
===19. July - 25. July===
* Lucide Beta 2
** need more info
* GBM Plug-In for Lucide Version 1.00 Beta 2
** Beta 2 of the GBM Plug-In for Lucide was released
** Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2plugins_lu100_moz100_bin
** Homepage: http://heikon.home.tlink.de

=== Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing ===
This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis.
Sources for news are various. We know the following:
* [irc://irc.netlabs.org/#netlabs #netlabs] channel, just connect and see what comes by
* http://news.netlabs.org/
* various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts.
The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org
It uses the following IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and then copy the new news into it, to make life easy :-)
The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view mode.
Check the text a second time, and align it a bit.
Address it with BCC to the following addresses:
* martin at os2world dot com
* stevew at hartnell dot cc dot ca dot us
* submit at os2voice dot org
* webmaster at ecomstation dot com
* webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
* ktk at netlabs dot org
* j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
* os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.

NikiWiki:Site support

2006-07-16T19:49:03Z

Antiguru:

=== Supporting Netlabs.org ===
You can support Netlabs.org in many ways and we are thankful about any help we can get. There are many different things that need to be done. Existing projects need to be enhanced, new ones need to be initiated. These projects include many tasks. If a project is related to writing an application not only the coding is needed but other things, like guaranteing the support. All the projects need to be administrated as well, which can be very time-consuming. As only a (nearly) flawless operation assure the success of a project and therewith Netlabs.org, we are reliant on the support of individuals.

Netlabs.org is a non-commercial and non-profit organisation itself. During the last years the contribution helped us kicking off projects with more and more success. Whithout the motivation of all supporters Netlabs.org wouldn't be what it is now: one of the most active developer networks not only related to OS/2 and eComStation. At first we mainly addressed an user group that was clearly OS/2-oriented but now this potential is used to created projects that are platform-independend and pick up new and innovating ideas.

=== Sponsoring ===
Go to [http://about.netlabs.org/?detailcontentregions_id=3 sponsoring Netlabs.org] to find out more about why it is important to sponsor us!

NikiWiki:Site support

2006-07-16T19:45:39Z

Antiguru: Support information added, link to sponsoring on the 'old' netlabs page

You can support Netlabs.org in many ways and we are thankful about any help we can get. There are many different things that need to be done. Existing projects need to be enhanced, new ones need to be initiated. These projects include many tasks. If a project is related to writing an application not only the coding is needed but other things, like guaranteing the support. All the projects need to be administrated as well, which can be very time-consuming. As only a (nearly) flawless operation assure the success of a project and therewith Netlabs.org, we are reliant on the support of individuals.

Netlabs.org is a non-commercial and non-profit organisation itself. During the last years the contribution helped us kicking off projects with more and more success. Whithout the motivation of all supporters Netlabs.org wouldn't be what it is now: one of the most active developer networks not only related to OS/2 and eComStation. At first we mainly addressed an user group that was clearly OS/2-oriented but now this potential is used to created projects that are platform-independend and pick up new and innovating ideas.

Go to [http://about.netlabs.org/?detailcontentregions_id=3 sponsoring Netlabs.org] to find out more about why it is important to sponsor us!

Current events

2006-07-16T19:05:33Z

Antiguru: Little layout change, added warpstock europe '06

{| style="border-spacing:5px;"
|- style="background-color:#EEE;"
! ''Name'' !! ''Date'' !! ''Event'' !! ''Location''
|- colspan="3"
|'''Upcoming Events'''
|-
|[http://www.warpstock.net/wse2006/ Warpstock Europe 2006] || 17 November - 19 November 2006 || Warpstock Europe 2006 || Cologne, Germany
|-
|[http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock 2006] ||12 October - 15 October 2006     || Warpstock 2006 || Windsor, Ontario, Canada
|-
|'''Past events'''
|-
|[[Developers_Workshop_2006]] ||08 April - 09 April 2006 || OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006     || Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
|-
|[http://warpstock.net/WSE2005/index.html Warpstock Europe 2005] ||18 November - 20 November 2005     || Warpstock Europe 2005 || Dresden, Germany
|-
|[http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock 2005] ||6 October - 9 October 2005     || Warpstock 2005 || Hershey, Pennsylvania, United Staates of America
|-
|[[Czech_Warpstock_2005]] ||17 July - 19 July 2005 || Czech Warpstock 2005 || Liberec, Czech Republic
|-
|[[Developers_Workshop_2005]] ||09 July - 10 July 2005 || OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2005 || Dresden, Germany

|}

Netlabs News

2006-04-17T15:41:14Z

Antiguru: /* Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing */ Link to the irc channel added

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects. 

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: [[Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter]]
===17. - 23. April===

===10. - 16. April===
* Odin
** New odin release.
** Check changelog for updates.
** See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/
* Cairo Stuff
** The presentation on Cairo from the Developers Workshop 2006 is available now
** Some Cairo examples are also available
** Presentation: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/ProgrammingCairo-dws06.pdf
** Cairo Examples: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.0.4-os2-dev.zip
* Everblue Update
** A current build of Everblue is available for people to play with
** This is intended for developers, not for normal end users
** Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/eb20060414.zip

=== Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing ===
This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis.
Sources for news are various. We know the following:
* [irc://irc.ecomstation.com/#netlabs #netlabs] channel, just connect and see what comes by
* http://news.netlabs.org/
* various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts.
The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org
It uses the folling IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and copy the new news in it, to make life easy :-)
The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view mode.
Check the text a second time, and align it a bit.
Address it with BCC to the following addresses:
* martin at os2world dot com
* stevew at hartnell dot cc dot ca dot us
* submit at os2voice dot org
* webmaster at ecomstation dot com
* webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
* ktk at netlabs dot org
* j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
* os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.

Developers Workshop 2006

2006-04-17T15:39:08Z

Antiguru: /* Gallery */ Added links to the gallaries of Jan van Wijk and Warp5

[[Image:Dws06.png|right|frame|The workshop logo was created by [http://sampo.ru/~bigvic/ WiZard] ]]

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

===News Items===
{|
|13. April 2006 || Streams and presentations are online! Get them at the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/ ftp server] 
|-
|7. April 2006 || Added the Live Streaming information & the news that lunch is sponsored by SSI! 
|-
|3. April 2006 || Added the [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html schedule], also the address (see Location). BTW we have some non-EU compliant power plugs, see [http://www.powercords.co.uk/standard.htm#SWITZERLAND here] 
|-
|21. March 2006 || Added information about lunch & some more details about the program 
|-
|23. February 2006 || Added registration information & first overview of the topics 
|-
|21. January 2006 || Added hotels and some information about Biel/Bienne. 
|-
|2. January 2006 || Initial website online.
|}

===Registration===
The registration is open at [http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/ Mensys] now, we provide the following tickets:

* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free

You can register at http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/

===Workshop Program===
One of the main topics we will talk about is [[Voyager]], beside this we will for sure talk about current projects, like Genmac, ACPI, Everblue and so on. There will be quite some time for discussions, in a workshop form, also known as sitting around computers and hacking some code :)

We will provide enough space, wired or wireless network connection and a lot of bandwith.

====Live Stream of Presentations====
We will stream the presentations via an ogg stream! You can listen to that stream on eCS as well:

* The straight forward method is to use the ''Audio-Stream'' object class in eCS 1.2, it's in the ''Multimedia Templates'' subfolders of the ''Templates'' folder. Simply drag the object to your desktop and add the URL <tt>http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> to it. To start playing simply doubleclick on it.
* If that doesn't work you either don't have Ogg Codecs installed or you have an old version of them. In this case the simplest solution is to get the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/mmedia/oggvorbis-1.1.0-os2.zip Ogg Vorbis] package of [http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/ Brian Havard] and use ogg123 to play it: <tt>ogg123 http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> (in a commandline window).
* Note that Z! doesn't want to play Ogg streams for some reason on my system, maybe it works on yours.
* [http://r6.ca/MMAudioPak/stream.html Russell O’Connor] has some details as well about streaming on OS/2.
* There is also a playlist available [http://borg.bfh.ch:8000 here].

The first presentation starts at 10:15 Swiss time which is 8:15 GMT. If you need to know your local timezone you can check that here:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml

Note that during the breaks we will most probably play some music so you will hear anything anyway :) Note that there is quite some noise on the stream, I think that's the line in of the laptop used for digitising, we will hopefully clean that a bit for the ogg downloads after the workshop.

The webcam can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06/ here]. It will automatically reload the picture so don't click reload please, that just kills the webserver :)

You can also ask questions live during the presentations if you join the netlabs.org IRC channel #netlabs on eCS Network, see the following URL for a list of servers:

http://www.ecomstation.com/chat.phtml

We will most probably have a user called <tt>dws06</tt> or something where you can ask your questions.

The details about the ogg stream will be announced as soon as it is working ;)

To get ogg streaming on OS/2 and eCS check the page from , if we are lucky we will also get an ogg dll which works with Z! the current one does not support ogg streaming yet.

====Schedule====

The following presentations will take place:

'''Start''': We start with the Developers Workshop at 9:45 (Registration). The full shedule can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html here].

* Cairo
**General overview of Cairo, its structure and its API.
**Showing the Cairo API in live through a lot of examples.
* IOProc replacement
**Introduction to a new modular playback engine concept.
**Showing what's ready, what's to be done, what are the ideas.
**Discussing future possibilities (recording, transcoding...).
*The Voyager Object Model (was SOMH):
**Why not using C++, Objective C, ...
**Implementation details
**Compatibility with SOM/DSOM
**Desktop
**Using the object model for more
* Everblue
**Importance and Significance of Everblue (with and without Voyager)
**Current State and Problems
**Compiling and Running
**Demo of Working Applications
* Voyager - A coder overview about the project
** OpenGL as backend for Voyager - current options and problems
** Voyager components - where can you contribute
** OS/2 & PM compatibility - some crazy ideas worth discussing
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* How to organize netlabs.org Software Projects
* Translating Software

Each presentation is done once, there are no sessions in parallel.

====Lunch====
We will provide lunch at the workshop, like this we can talk together during that time as well and we don't spend too much money for something to eat :-) The lunch will be prepared by two professional cooks.

To be able to calculate how many people will attend it's important that you register yourself for the workshop! Please do this as soon as possible so we can plan correctly.

Speakers should register as "Students" so they don't have to pay but are counted as well for lunch.

'''News''': Lunch is sponsored by Serenity Systems, thanks a lot to Bob St. John for the kind sponsoring!

===Workshop Location===
Beside famous watch companies like Rolex, Omega and Swatch the city of Biel in Switzerland is the home of one more cool company: netlabs.org! This means that the Developers Workshop 2006 will take place in the city where netlabs.org was founded in 1997. I'm proud to do the hosting at the [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/ Berne University of Applied Sciences], the place where I did my studies and where I work now as a system administrator and teacher.

Biel is a small but cute city close to Bern, the capitol city. It's the boarder to the French speaking part of Switzerland so people in Biel speak German and French, at least most of them :-)
If you have some more spare time I recommend you to do a walk in the beautiful surroundings of Biel, for example the Jura mountains or around the lake. There is plenty to discover and with a bit of luck we will have a nice spring time in april.

Links:
* [http://www.drei-seen-land.ch Drei-Seen-Land] - a nice page with a lot of information about our region.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne] at Wikipedia.org. Available in many languages.
* [http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/Altstadt-Biel-Bienne Old town of Biel] - some pics from the old town in my gallery

Hope to see you there!

Adrian Gschwend 
founder of netlabs.org

====Getting to Biel/Bienne====
Biel is the gate to the French speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

'''By train:''' 
There are night trains to Basel, called [http://www.citynightline.ch CityNightLine], this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of [http://www.sbb.ch/ SBB], the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add ''Airport'' in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

'''By plane:''' 
There is no large airport close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of these airports if you want to get to Biel:

* Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
* Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
* Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
* Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

The local airline in Switzerland is [http://www.swiss.ch Swiss], which offers quite good trips from bigger cities.

'''By car:''' 
The address is Quellgasse 21, 2502 Biel, Switzerland. There are paring places in front of the building, ask at the registering desk about how to open the locks for the parking places. You can get a map [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/index.php?id=1740 here], it's number 2 on the map.

====Accomodation====
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:

* [http://www.lagolodge.ch/ Lago Lodge] - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
* [http://www.continental-bienne.ch Hotel Continental] - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy, so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
* [http://www.metropol-biel.ch Hotel Metropol] - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
* [http://www.lindenegg.ch/ Villa Lindenegg] - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
* [http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/mer/6166/fiche_hotel.shtml Mercure Plaza] - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
* [http://www.hotelelite.ch Hotel Elite] - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org 
Update: I made some pictures about the location: http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Gallery===
There are some pictures online, check http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

Some of the workshop's participants published pictures of the event on their homepages.
{|
|Jan van Wijk
|http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/mg2/
|-
|Warp5
|http://warp5.dyndns.org/DeW2006/index.html
|}

===Contact===
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: 
DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org 
Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

Main Page

2006-04-12T11:21:52Z

Antiguru: /* Shop */ Added the watch

__NOTOC__

Welcome to the Wiki at netlabs.org. You will find a lot of interesting information about OS/2 and [http://www.ecomstation.com eCS] on this page. 
If you are interested in joining the '''community mailinglist''' please have a look [[Mailinglists | here]]!

'''QUICKNEWS''': We prevent registering new users from now on till we fixed the spamming-problems on the Wiki, sorry! If you want to have a user send an email to ktk [at] netlabs.org and we will do one. Will be fixed ASAP.

== Roadmap ==
Where are we now and where could we go. Open for discussions.

*[[Ideas]] - This is so far a random collection of ideas and stuff we have in our heads and which probably is worth creating a project for.
** [[Ideas#New_PM_Controls|New PM Controls]]

* [[Community]] - Discussions about the netlabs.org community, website, and so on. Complain here :)

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File:Netlabs watch.png

2006-04-12T11:17:08Z

Antiguru: A scaled version of netlabs watch's picture that can be found in the netlabs shop.

A scaled version of netlabs watch's picture that can be found in the netlabs shop.

User:Antiguru

2006-04-11T20:14:44Z

Antiguru:

I'm Moritz Hoffmann, visit http://antiguru.de/ for some more information about me!
Born in '86, currently studying applied computer science in Stuttgart.

IRC server settings

2006-04-11T19:57:18Z

Antiguru: Chatzilla mentioned

Some of our developers are often online in IRC, which is a good old chat system. If you want to join you simply have to join our channel, point your IRC-Client to the following settings:

* Server: irc.netlabs.org, irc.aroa.ch and all other servers of [http://www.ecomstation.com/community.phtml?url=content/ircnetwork.html eCS net]
* Port: 6667
* Channel: #netlabs

We recommend to use the [http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla] IRC-Client [http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/ Chatzilla] or [http://www.bitchx.org BitchX for OS/2]. The best IRC client for OS/2 is probably [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=openchat OpenChat] but unfortunately it's no longer maintained and you cannot register it anymore.

Vladest

2006-04-11T19:50:13Z

Antiguru: /* = */

Since February 2004 netlabs.org is hiring vladest as full time developer. Vladest is the main guy behind [http://warpvision.netlabs.org Warpvision] (GUI Version) and the open sourced version of [http://uniaud.netlabs.org Innotek UNIAUD].

For sure this costs money, so far it is basicaly my personal money which goes to Vladest. There are some usergroups who promised me sponsoring and I also get some money from individuals. This page here is mainly thought for people who are curious what happens with their money and for sure it should also attract you and other people & usergroups to [http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS support netlabs.org] <- yes this link takes you to the Mensys page where you can buy sponsoring units :-)

As usual I will keep no money for myself, I have a good salary and I do not want to make profit out of netlabs.org. All money we get is invested into our open source projects and our hired developers, from time to time also into hardware for the servers.

Thanks

Adrian Gschwend 
Founder of netlabs.org

==ToDo's for Vladest==
===General===
* Updated source in SVN
* Document work progress
* Keep the website up to date (Webcam & TV Support is not mentioned at the moment), add news on a regular base
* Post new releases of both UNIAUD & WVGUI to the mailinglists
* Bugs in Bugtracker (Ktk has to do them first :)

===WVGUI===
====High priority====
# Finish Video out plugins
# Finish Recording of TV picture to disk
# Full embedded plugin support for Mozilla Firefox (including streaming), like [http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ mplayer-plugin]
# DVD Menu support
# Enhanced Webcam integration (GUI, dialogs...)

====Low priority/ongoing====
# Bug fixing etc.
# Always fresh libavcodec.

===UNIAUD===
====High priority====
# Add bldlevel information to UNIAUD
# Improve boot time message processing / documentation methode add version / bldlevel info to frist line of alsahlp$. Add all of the boot messages, not just log/trace info.
# Documantion - readme How to install, to debug, get support and report bugs cumulative change log? ( e.g. document the methode "copy alsahlp$ uniaud.log" )
# debug level 1 and 2 bug / problem reports
# Creating PM aggressive mixer
# Adding new sound API (alsa-lib like) based only on 32 bit driver. So software which uses this API won't require PM/MMOS2. Alsa-lib like interface will simplify porting audio applications from Linux. This basically means that we have to port [http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ JACK]

====Low priority/ongoing====
# Adding multichannel support
# Adding software mixing of PCM streams (will be available only for own API)
# Multicards support
# Standalone AC3->PCM decoding project with SPDIF IN support (i.e. software AC3 decoder)

==Work History==

===Week 14/04: 29. March 2004 - 2. April 2004===
Uniaud:
Uniaud API separated to standalone DLL (UNIAUD.DLL)
Added multicard support to API
Almost finished mixer API in UNIAUD.DLL.
Now, mixer api supports mixer callbacks for easy creating of an aggessive mixer
As usual - latest fixes/changes in core code from ALSA project
WVGUI:
Written first plugins API draft. It requires some more work and polishing. Any ideas are welcome
A lot of fixes/bugfixes etc.

=== - 11. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Uniaud API almost finished
Added multicard support. (Only different card at this time. Same cards support will be added later)
Added workaround for EARLYMEMINIT
A lot of fixes from ALSA team
Added SB Live 2003 support
WVGUI:
Basically a lot of fixes.
New subtitles look&feel (thanks to KO Myung-Hun )

=== - 20. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Multichannel support for UNIAUD API (SB Live tested and works)
Latest fixes from ALSA team
WVGUI:
General Plugins API
Started work on Audio Out plugins (DART & UNIAUD plugins)

=== - 22. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Cards with same PCI ID now supported
Latest fixes from ALSA team

=== - 31. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Added ALC850 codec
Fixed shared access to uniaud via MMOS2
WVGUI:
Added DART Audio Out plugin

=== - 05. June 2004===
WVGUI:
Added UNIAUD Audio Out plugin. Now multichannel works on SB Live and other cards

=== - 05. July 2004===
WVGUI:
Added DUMP Audio Out plugin. It is not requires sound card and produces pure PCM stream, usually coming right to sound card
Added AC3 demuxer
Fixed strange behavior of some DVD disks (unsynced and clicking/cracking sound)
A lot of other fixes
Uniaud:
Yamaha multichannel support (up to 4 channels)
Audigy2 side channels (i.e. 7.1 support)
A lot of fixes from ALSA team

=== -19. July 2004===
WVGUI:
R&D to adding cache level to dvdcss.dll. This will allow startup DVD disks fery fast
UNIAUD:
Ohh. 3rd wave of fullsourcetree alsa updates finished. Hope it is last (takes too much time :( ). Some PM bugs fixed

=== -1. August 2004===
WVGUI:
Cache in dvdcss.dll almost works
Improved DVD error recovery (bad blocks etc). Now it skip some sectors right after bad sector. recovering is very fast now and doesnt freezes wvgui
Fixed bug in Uniaud plugin. Coused sound skipping on rates != 48000Hz on some adapters
Added DTS support
UNIAUD:
Latest updates from ALSA

=== -11. August 2004===
WVGUI:
Added changing of fullscreen coordinates
Started working on SNAP TVOut/Zoom support
UNIAUD:
Latest updates from ALSA

=== -18. August 2004===
WVGUI:
R&D of USB/FireWire video in.
Reasearch for new project for video editing
UNIAUD:
Started R&D of resampling for 48000-only cards

=== -1. September 2004===
WVGUI:
Some post drop fixes
UNIAUD:
Resampling almost works.

=== -20. September 2004===
WVGUI:
Added TV OUT plugin for Scitech SNAP
Started work on ATI Radeons TVOUT plugin (should works better than SNAP)
Added native ULTImotion support (macaw.avi now works!!!)
Size of audio portions for playing now vary from sample rate. Better sync on low bitrate sounds
UNIAUD:
Fixed resampling. Looks like it works better, then DART's one

=== -16. October 2004===
WVGUI:
Fixed DVD LPCM 16 bit sound
Fixed VCD tracks detection and SVCD disks detection/playing
Fixed abnormal playing stops when playing streams with AC3 sound (VOBs, DVDs etc)
UNIAUD:
Fixed resampling.
Started R&D for mixing sound for 1 stream cards

=== -12. December 2004===
UNIAUD
Reworking resampling
Added support for 8bit samples when resampling
Added FM801 cards
Added ATI IXP cards

=== -2. January 2005===
UNIAUD:
AudigyLS support added
Small old typo in Audigy part. Caused Mono output on FRONT

WVGUI:
Subtitles durations and sync fixes
8 bit sound fixes
TV Cards support. Based on Doctor's TVSHOW library.
WVGUI_DVD_LOG environment variable. Use it to geberate more complex dvd cache logs to stdout
SSaver support ON/OFF when playing
A lot of Mozilla plugin fixes
Mozilla plugin search video2.exe in user profile ini.
Just add key:"WarpVision", string value "exePath"
full path and file name of video2.exe
Added Indeo5 support via ODIN

=== -31. January 2005===
UNIAUD:
Intel HDA support added
WVGUI:
Added WMV3 (aka WMV9) support (via ODIN)
Added TV Tuner settings and a lot of other things
DVD cache reworked again
Added setwvgui.cmd for adding location of wvgui to os2.ini
Fixed wrong colors in MJPEG, MOV (RLE & rpza) etc codecs
Added snapshot to TV tuner

=== -21. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixed pops and clicks in Creative Labs cards
Fixed suspend/resume om Maestro2 cards
Other minor fixes from ALSA tree
WVGUI:
Fixed DART playing/pause issues
Created capture library for Phillips-based WebCams.
Starting integrating above library to WVGUI
Starting creating video writing feature from different sources (TV/WebCams/An media file)
Added support of addition keys on Logitech keyboards (Media/Paly&Pause/Mute/Volume)
Fixed UNIAUD plugin. Now left front channel is mute/unmute too.
Added volume changing for all 6 channels in UNIAUD plugin via volume slider

=== -27. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added support for following cards:
Audigy2 ZS 7.1 Model:SB0350
Audigy2 6.1 Model:SB0240
Audigy2 Platinum Model:SB msb0240230009266
Audigy4 Pro Model:SB0380 M1SB0380472001901E
(they are 32bit only, so no big deal for DART)
Dell Creative Labs SB0200 model
WVGUI:
Fixed libavformat support
Added latest patches to libavformat

=== -28. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added support for Audigy 1 ES [SB0160]

=== -14. April 2005===
UNIAUD:
Extend UNIAUD API with new functions for more precise audio setup
Fixed multichannel on CMedia via UNIAUD API
Fixed mono->stereo resampling detection in UNIAUD API
WVGUI:
UNIPLUG: Meet latest changes in UNIAUD API
Fixed libavformat support
Speedup DVD startup

=== -14. April 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added AD1981/AD1983 codecs support to HDA drivers
WVGUI:
Fixed blocky video on XVID files

=== -17. April 2005===
WVGUI:
New postprocessing added. Now works as filtes chain
Matroshka support added

=== -17. April 2005===
WVGUI:
Indeo2 codec added
TV IN pause added

=== -05. May 2005===
WVGUI:
WMV3/9 now works with DIVE and support OSD/subtitles, snapshots etc
UNIAUD:
Force to close PCM stream in UNIAUD16 to allow UNAUD API to work on cards with only one PCM stream

=== -02. August 2005===
WVGUI:
Visited Germany. Nice trip :)
Moved to GCC335rc1
Fixed crash when webcamera is not attached
Fixed crash adding to playlist
A lot of small fixes
UNIAUD:
Reworked previouse bug. Need to find better solution
Fixed ICH5/6/7 chipsets initing
Hundreds of ALSA fixes

=== -23. September 2005===
WVGUI:
Reworked demuxers again. Preparing to new demuxing schemes (demuxer/stream plugins)
Fixes some networks issues
Added selection of prefer audio codec for DVDs
Added experimental code for avoid stop playing due broken frames
Added recording code (not turned on yet)
Experimental fixes for sync
UNIAUD:
Tons of fixes from ALSA (ohh :( )
Moved to OW1.4
Some multichannel fixes in UNIAUD API

=== -01. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Redesigned TVSHOW lib for hardware scaling support (needed for recording)

=== -03. October 2005===
WVGUI:
TVIN scaled to 352x288. Reduces cpu load at least twice. No need of deinterlaicer. Ready for recording
Fixed MOV with MP4A audio codecs (was jerky sound/sync)
Fixed handling of large files (>2Gb)
Fixed DVD non playable audio streams

=== -05. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed crash after stops TVIN when no uniaud installed
Fixed wrong play time for DVD
Rollback sync fixes
Fixed desync/sound loss after pause
Fixed seek while pause

=== -09. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed ULTIMotion colors

=== -12. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Turned on recording (w/o sound for a while)
UNIAUD:
Add DXS for Clevo D470
Fixed suspend/resume for es1938 (ess solo1)
Fixed volume control on Acer Aspire 3003LCi laptop

=== -13. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed few seconds pause when stopping tvin or closing while tvin works

=== -20. October 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fix maestro3 hang after cold boot
Reduce interrupt latency in VIA chipsets

=== -26. October 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixed sample rate selecting on chips which support > 48KHz in UNIAUD API
WVGUI:
Fixed non starting second copy
Added native QDM2 audio codec support (uses in QT)
Fixed lost subtitles and subtitles parts (by KO Myung-Hun)

=== -18. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added power management support into CMedia
Started implements new whole-tree-next-stupid-fix from that crazy alsa guys :)
WVGUI:
Fixed CDDA

=== -19. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added multichannel for NFORCE & Intel chipsets in UNIAUD API

=== -29. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Continue tree update
Posted sources to netlabs svn
WVGUI:
Added WAVE audio output plugin.
Creating working prototype for SNAP overlay
Starting moving video output to plugins platform
Posted sources to netlabs svn

=== -11. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Finished tree update (at last..sigh). Now it even compiles
Added some code for support irq > 15
Updated sources to netlabs svn

=== -18. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixes for intel chipsets power managament from ALSA tree
Fixes for Yamaha chipsets power managament from ALSA tree
Updated sources to netlabs svn
WVGUI:
Finished plugin for SNAP Overlay
Added support for loading Video Output plugins
Started implementing video out plugings
Fixed WO support

=== -25. December 2005===
WVGUI:
Added H.263 video codec (known in mobile phones video recording as 3gp)
Added AMR audio support (not finished yet)

=== -27. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added signature to UNIAUD for BLDLEVEL utility
WVGUI:
Added native COOK codec instead of WIN32

=== -17. January 2006===
UNIAUD:
Updated intel/via/maestro/ensoniq for power management support
HDA audio now works (UNIAUD API mode)
Added Rudi's code regarding irq's > 15 support
Fixed above for multicards support
WVGUI:
Rework for VideoOut plugins support going on
Fixed HDV (MPEG TS) support

=== -17. February 2006===
UNIAUD:
Released 1.1.4RC1
Fixed Trap8 on Intel and Nvidia boards
WVGUI:
Released 1.0RC1
Released 1.0RC2
Added DIVE support to Mozilla plugin
Fixed Mozilla freezes when Mozilla plugin installed

=== -24. March 2006===
UNIAUD:
Created Multichannel test application for PM
Fixed multichannel issues in UNIAUD API. Now nforce/ich/cmedia/sblive cards correctly output 6ch data to corresponent speakers

WVGUI:
Released 1.0RC3
Added WO video out plugin
Fixed a lot issues (see full list in ticket system)
Fixed 6ch AC3 decoding and remaping channels to Dolby standard

Vladest

2006-04-11T19:49:54Z

Antiguru: /* = */

Since February 2004 netlabs.org is hiring vladest as full time developer. Vladest is the main guy behind [http://warpvision.netlabs.org Warpvision] (GUI Version) and the open sourced version of [http://uniaud.netlabs.org Innotek UNIAUD].

For sure this costs money, so far it is basicaly my personal money which goes to Vladest. There are some usergroups who promised me sponsoring and I also get some money from individuals. This page here is mainly thought for people who are curious what happens with their money and for sure it should also attract you and other people & usergroups to [http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS support netlabs.org] <- yes this link takes you to the Mensys page where you can buy sponsoring units :-)

As usual I will keep no money for myself, I have a good salary and I do not want to make profit out of netlabs.org. All money we get is invested into our open source projects and our hired developers, from time to time also into hardware for the servers.

Thanks

Adrian Gschwend 
Founder of netlabs.org

==ToDo's for Vladest==
===General===
* Updated source in SVN
* Document work progress
* Keep the website up to date (Webcam & TV Support is not mentioned at the moment), add news on a regular base
* Post new releases of both UNIAUD & WVGUI to the mailinglists
* Bugs in Bugtracker (Ktk has to do them first :)

===WVGUI===
====High priority====
# Finish Video out plugins
# Finish Recording of TV picture to disk
# Full embedded plugin support for Mozilla Firefox (including streaming), like [http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ mplayer-plugin]
# DVD Menu support
# Enhanced Webcam integration (GUI, dialogs...)

====Low priority/ongoing====
# Bug fixing etc.
# Always fresh libavcodec.

===UNIAUD===
====High priority====
# Add bldlevel information to UNIAUD
# Improve boot time message processing / documentation methode add version / bldlevel info to frist line of alsahlp$. Add all of the boot messages, not just log/trace info.
# Documantion - readme How to install, to debug, get support and report bugs cumulative change log? ( e.g. document the methode "copy alsahlp$ uniaud.log" )
# debug level 1 and 2 bug / problem reports
# Creating PM aggressive mixer
# Adding new sound API (alsa-lib like) based only on 32 bit driver. So software which uses this API won't require PM/MMOS2. Alsa-lib like interface will simplify porting audio applications from Linux. This basically means that we have to port [http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ JACK]

====Low priority/ongoing====
# Adding multichannel support
# Adding software mixing of PCM streams (will be available only for own API)
# Multicards support
# Standalone AC3->PCM decoding project with SPDIF IN support (i.e. software AC3 decoder)

==Work History==

===Week 14/04: 29. March 2004 - 2. April 2004===
Uniaud:
Uniaud API separated to standalone DLL (UNIAUD.DLL)
Added multicard support to API
Almost finished mixer API in UNIAUD.DLL.
Now, mixer api supports mixer callbacks for easy creating of an aggessive mixer
As usual - latest fixes/changes in core code from ALSA project
WVGUI:
Written first plugins API draft. It requires some more work and polishing. Any ideas are welcome
A lot of fixes/bugfixes etc.

=== - 11. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Uniaud API almost finished
Added multicard support. (Only different card at this time. Same cards support will be added later)
Added workaround for EARLYMEMINIT
A lot of fixes from ALSA team
Added SB Live 2003 support
WVGUI:
Basically a lot of fixes.
New subtitles look&feel (thanks to KO Myung-Hun )

=== - 20. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Multichannel support for UNIAUD API (SB Live tested and works)
Latest fixes from ALSA team
WVGUI:
General Plugins API
Started work on Audio Out plugins (DART & UNIAUD plugins)

=== - 22. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Cards with same PCI ID now supported
Latest fixes from ALSA team

=== - 31. May 2004===
Uniaud:
Added ALC850 codec
Fixed shared access to uniaud via MMOS2
WVGUI:
Added DART Audio Out plugin

=== - 05. June 2004===
WVGUI:
Added UNIAUD Audio Out plugin. Now multichannel works on SB Live and other cards

=== - 05. July 2004===
WVGUI:
Added DUMP Audio Out plugin. It is not requires sound card and produces pure PCM stream, usually coming right to sound card
Added AC3 demuxer
Fixed strange behavior of some DVD disks (unsynced and clicking/cracking sound)
A lot of other fixes
Uniaud:
Yamaha multichannel support (up to 4 channels)
Audigy2 side channels (i.e. 7.1 support)
A lot of fixes from ALSA team

=== -19. July 2004===
WVGUI:
R&D to adding cache level to dvdcss.dll. This will allow startup DVD disks fery fast
UNIAUD:
Ohh. 3rd wave of fullsourcetree alsa updates finished. Hope it is last (takes too much time :( ). Some PM bugs fixed

=== -1. August 2004===
WVGUI:
Cache in dvdcss.dll almost works
Improved DVD error recovery (bad blocks etc). Now it skip some sectors right after bad sector. recovering is very fast now and doesnt freezes wvgui
Fixed bug in Uniaud plugin. Coused sound skipping on rates != 48000Hz on some adapters
Added DTS support
UNIAUD:
Latest updates from ALSA

=== -11. August 2004===
WVGUI:
Added changing of fullscreen coordinates
Started working on SNAP TVOut/Zoom support
UNIAUD:
Latest updates from ALSA

=== -18. August 2004===
WVGUI:
R&D of USB/FireWire video in.
Reasearch for new project for video editing
UNIAUD:
Started R&D of resampling for 48000-only cards

=== -1. September 2004===
WVGUI:
Some post drop fixes
UNIAUD:
Resampling almost works.

=== -20. September 2004===
WVGUI:
Added TV OUT plugin for Scitech SNAP
Started work on ATI Radeons TVOUT plugin (should works better than SNAP)
Added native ULTImotion support (macaw.avi now works!!!)
Size of audio portions for playing now vary from sample rate. Better sync on low bitrate sounds
UNIAUD:
Fixed resampling. Looks like it works better, then DART's one

=== -16. October 2004===
WVGUI:
Fixed DVD LPCM 16 bit sound
Fixed VCD tracks detection and SVCD disks detection/playing
Fixed abnormal playing stops when playing streams with AC3 sound (VOBs, DVDs etc)
UNIAUD:
Fixed resampling.
Started R&D for mixing sound for 1 stream cards

=== -12. December 2004===
UNIAUD
Reworking resampling
Added support for 8bit samples when resampling
Added FM801 cards
Added ATI IXP cards

=== -2. January 2005===
UNIAUD:
AudigyLS support added
Small old typo in Audigy part. Caused Mono output on FRONT

WVGUI:
Subtitles durations and sync fixes
8 bit sound fixes
TV Cards support. Based on Doctor's TVSHOW library.
WVGUI_DVD_LOG environment variable. Use it to geberate more complex dvd cache logs to stdout
SSaver support ON/OFF when playing
A lot of Mozilla plugin fixes
Mozilla plugin search video2.exe in user profile ini.
Just add key:"WarpVision", string value "exePath"
full path and file name of video2.exe
Added Indeo5 support via ODIN

=== -31. January 2005===
UNIAUD:
Intel HDA support added
WVGUI:
Added WMV3 (aka WMV9) support (via ODIN)
Added TV Tuner settings and a lot of other things
DVD cache reworked again
Added setwvgui.cmd for adding location of wvgui to os2.ini
Fixed wrong colors in MJPEG, MOV (RLE & rpza) etc codecs
Added snapshot to TV tuner

=== -21. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixed pops and clicks in Creative Labs cards
Fixed suspend/resume om Maestro2 cards
Other minor fixes from ALSA tree
WVGUI:
Fixed DART playing/pause issues
Created capture library for Phillips-based WebCams.
Starting integrating above library to WVGUI
Starting creating video writing feature from different sources (TV/WebCams/An media file)
Added support of addition keys on Logitech keyboards (Media/Paly&Pause/Mute/Volume)
Fixed UNIAUD plugin. Now left front channel is mute/unmute too.
Added volume changing for all 6 channels in UNIAUD plugin via volume slider

=== -27. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added support for following cards:
Audigy2 ZS 7.1 Model:SB0350
Audigy2 6.1 Model:SB0240
Audigy2 Platinum Model:SB msb0240230009266
Audigy4 Pro Model:SB0380 M1SB0380472001901E
(they are 32bit only, so no big deal for DART)
Dell Creative Labs SB0200 model
WVGUI:
Fixed libavformat support
Added latest patches to libavformat

=== -28. March 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added support for Audigy 1 ES [SB0160]

=== -14. April 2005===
UNIAUD:
Extend UNIAUD API with new functions for more precise audio setup
Fixed multichannel on CMedia via UNIAUD API
Fixed mono->stereo resampling detection in UNIAUD API
WVGUI:
UNIPLUG: Meet latest changes in UNIAUD API
Fixed libavformat support
Speedup DVD startup

=== -14. April 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added AD1981/AD1983 codecs support to HDA drivers
WVGUI:
Fixed blocky video on XVID files

=== -17. April 2005===
WVGUI:
New postprocessing added. Now works as filtes chain
Matroshka support added

=== -17. April 2005===
WVGUI:
Indeo2 codec added
TV IN pause added

=== -05. May 2005===
WVGUI:
WMV3/9 now works with DIVE and support OSD/subtitles, snapshots etc
UNIAUD:
Force to close PCM stream in UNIAUD16 to allow UNAUD API to work on cards with only one PCM stream

=== -02. August 2005===
WVGUI:
Visited Germany. Nice trip :)
Moved to GCC335rc1
Fixed crash when webcamera is not attached
Fixed crash adding to playlist
A lot of small fixes
UNIAUD:
Reworked previouse bug. Need to find better solution
Fixed ICH5/6/7 chipsets initing
Hundreds of ALSA fixes

=== -23. September 2005===
WVGUI:
Reworked demuxers again. Preparing to new demuxing schemes (demuxer/stream plugins)
Fixes some networks issues
Added selection of prefer audio codec for DVDs
Added experimental code for avoid stop playing due broken frames
Added recording code (not turned on yet)
Experimental fixes for sync
UNIAUD:
Tons of fixes from ALSA (ohh :( )
Moved to OW1.4
Some multichannel fixes in UNIAUD API

=== -01. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Redesigned TVSHOW lib for hardware scaling support (needed for recording)

=== -03. October 2005===
WVGUI:
TVIN scaled to 352x288. Reduces cpu load at least twice. No need of deinterlaicer. Ready for recording
Fixed MOV with MP4A audio codecs (was jerky sound/sync)
Fixed handling of large files (>2Gb)
Fixed DVD non playable audio streams

=== -05. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed crash after stops TVIN when no uniaud installed
Fixed wrong play time for DVD
Rollback sync fixes
Fixed desync/sound loss after pause
Fixed seek while pause

=== -09. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed ULTIMotion colors

=== -12. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Turned on recording (w/o sound for a while)
UNIAUD:
Add DXS for Clevo D470
Fixed suspend/resume for es1938 (ess solo1)
Fixed volume control on Acer Aspire 3003LCi laptop

=== -13. October 2005===
WVGUI:
Fixed few seconds pause when stopping tvin or closing while tvin works

=== -20. October 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fix maestro3 hang after cold boot
Reduce interrupt latency in VIA chipsets

=== -26. October 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixed sample rate selecting on chips which support > 48KHz in UNIAUD API
WVGUI:
Fixed non starting second copy
Added native QDM2 audio codec support (uses in QT)
Fixed lost subtitles and subtitles parts (by KO Myung-Hun)

=== -18. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added power management support into CMedia
Started implements new whole-tree-next-stupid-fix from that crazy alsa guys :)
WVGUI:
Fixed CDDA

=== -19. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added multichannel for NFORCE & Intel chipsets in UNIAUD API

=== -29. November 2005===
UNIAUD:
Continue tree update
Posted sources to netlabs svn
WVGUI:
Added WAVE audio output plugin.
Creating working prototype for SNAP overlay
Starting moving video output to plugins platform
Posted sources to netlabs svn

=== -11. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Finished tree update (at last..sigh). Now it even compiles
Added some code for support irq > 15
Updated sources to netlabs svn

=== -18. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Fixes for intel chipsets power managament from ALSA tree
Fixes for Yamaha chipsets power managament from ALSA tree
Updated sources to netlabs svn
WVGUI:
Finished plugin for SNAP Overlay
Added support for loading Video Output plugins
Started implementing video out plugings
Fixed WO support

=== -25. December 2005===
WVGUI:
Added H.263 video codec (known in mobile phones video recording as 3gp)
Added AMR audio support (not finished yet)

=== -27. December 2005===
UNIAUD:
Added signature to UNIAUD for BLDLEVEL utility
WVGUI:
Added native COOK codec instead of WIN32

=== -17. January 2006===
UNIAUD:
Updated intel/via/maestro/ensoniq for power management support
HDA audio now works (UNIAUD API mode)
Added Rudi's code regarding irq's > 15 support
Fixed above for multicards support
WVGUI:
Rework for VideoOut plugins support going on
Fixed HDV (MPEG TS) support

=== -17. February 2006===
UNIAUD:
Released 1.1.4RC1
Fixed Trap8 on Intel and Nvidia boards
WVGUI:
Released 1.0RC1
Released 1.0RC2
Added DIVE support to Mozilla plugin
Fixed Mozilla freezes when Mozilla plugin installed

=== -24. March 2006
UNIAUD:
Created Multichannel test application for PM
Fixed multichannel issues in UNIAUD API. Now nforce/ich/cmedia/sblive cards correctly output 6ch data to corresponent speakers

WVGUI:
Released 1.0RC3
Added WO video out plugin
Fixed a lot issues (see full list in ticket system)
Fixed 6ch AC3 decoding and remaping channels to Dolby standard

User:Antiguru

2006-04-11T19:47:00Z

Antiguru:

I'm Moritz Hoffmann, visit http://antiguru.de/ for some more information about me!

Developers Workshop 2006

2006-04-11T19:40:21Z

Antiguru: /* Workshop Program */

[[Image:Dws06.png|right|frame|The workshop logo was created by [http://sampo.ru/~bigvic/ WiZard] ]]

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

===News Items===
{|
|7. April 2006 || Added the Live Streaming information & the news that lunch is sponsored by SSI! 
|-
|3. April 2006 || Added the [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html schedule], also the address (see Location). BTW we have some non-EU compliant power plugs, see [http://www.powercords.co.uk/standard.htm#SWITZERLAND here] 
|-
|21. March 2006 || Added information about lunch & some more details about the program 
|-
|23. February 2006 || Added registration information & first overview of the topics 
|-
|21. January 2006 || Added hotels and some information about Biel/Bienne. 
|-
|2. January 2006 || Initial website online.
|}

===Registration===
The registration is open at [http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/ Mensys] now, we provide the following tickets:

* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free

You can register at http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/

===Workshop Program===
One of the main topics we will talk about is [[Voyager]], beside this we will for sure talk about current projects, like Genmac, ACPI, Everblue and so on. There will be quite some time for discussions, in a workshop form, also known as sitting around computers and hacking some code :)

We will provide enough space, wired or wireless network connection and a lot of bandwith.

====Live Stream of Presentations====
We will stream the presentations via an ogg stream! You can listen to that stream on eCS as well:

* The straight forward method is to use the ''Audio-Stream'' object class in eCS 1.2, it's in the ''Multimedia Templates'' subfolders of the ''Templates'' folder. Simply drag the object to your desktop and add the URL <tt>http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> to it. To start playing simply doubleclick on it.
* If that doesn't work you either don't have Ogg Codecs installed or you have an old version of them. In this case the simplest solution is to get the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/mmedia/oggvorbis-1.1.0-os2.zip Ogg Vorbis] package of [http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/ Brian Havard] and use ogg123 to play it: <tt>ogg123 http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> (in a commandline window).
* Note that Z! doesn't want to play Ogg streams for some reason on my system, maybe it works on yours.
* [http://r6.ca/MMAudioPak/stream.html Russell O’Connor] has some details as well about streaming on OS/2.
* There is also a playlist available [http://borg.bfh.ch:8000 here].

The first presentation starts at 10:15 Swiss time which is 8:15 GMT. If you need to know your local timezone you can check that here:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml

Note that during the breaks we will most probably play some music so you will hear anything anyway :) Note that there is quite some noise on the stream, I think that's the line in of the laptop used for digitising, we will hopefully clean that a bit for the ogg downloads after the workshop.

The webcam can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06/ here]. It will automatically reload the picture so don't click reload please, that just kills the webserver :)

You can also ask questions live during the presentations if you join the netlabs.org IRC channel #netlabs on eCS Network, see the following URL for a list of servers:

http://www.ecomstation.com/chat.phtml

We will most probably have a user called <tt>dws06</tt> or something where you can ask your questions.

The details about the ogg stream will be announced as soon as it is working ;)

To get ogg streaming on OS/2 and eCS check the page from , if we are lucky we will also get an ogg dll which works with Z! the current one does not support ogg streaming yet.

====Schedule====

The following presentations will take place:

'''Start''': We start with the Developers Workshop at 9:45 (Registration). The full shedule can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html here].

* Cairo
**General overview of Cairo, its structure and its API.
**Showing the Cairo API in live through a lot of examples.
* IOProc replacement
**Introduction to a new modular playback engine concept.
**Showing what's ready, what's to be done, what are the ideas.
**Discussing future possibilities (recording, transcoding...).
*The Voyager Object Model (was SOMH):
**Why not using C++, Objective C, ...
**Implementation details
**Compatibility with SOM/DSOM
**Desktop
**Using the object model for more
* Everblue
**Importance and Significance of Everblue (with and without Voyager)
**Current State and Problems
**Compiling and Running
**Demo of Working Applications
* Voyager - A coder overview about the project
** OpenGL as backend for Voyager - current options and problems
** Voyager components - where can you contribute
** OS/2 & PM compatibility - some crazy ideas worth discussing
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* How to organize netlabs.org Software Projects
* Translating Software

Each presentation is done once, there are no sessions in parallel.

====Lunch====
We will provide lunch at the workshop, like this we can talk together during that time as well and we don't spend too much money for something to eat :-) The lunch will be prepared by two professional cooks.

To be able to calculate how many people will attend it's important that you register yourself for the workshop! Please do this as soon as possible so we can plan correctly.

Speakers should register as "Students" so they don't have to pay but are counted as well for lunch.

'''News''': Lunch is sponsored by Serenity Systems, thanks a lot to Bob St. John for the kind sponsoring!

===Workshop Location===
Beside famous watch companies like Rolex, Omega and Swatch the city of Biel in Switzerland is the home of one more cool company: netlabs.org! This means that the Developers Workshop 2006 will take place in the city where netlabs.org was founded in 1997. I'm proud to do the hosting at the [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/ Berne University of Applied Sciences], the place where I did my studies and where I work now as a system administrator and teacher.

Biel is a small but cute city close to Bern, the capitol city. It's the boarder to the French speaking part of Switzerland so people in Biel speak German and French, at least most of them :-)
If you have some more spare time I recommend you to do a walk in the beautiful surroundings of Biel, for example the Jura mountains or around the lake. There is plenty to discover and with a bit of luck we will have a nice spring time in april.

Links:
* [http://www.drei-seen-land.ch Drei-Seen-Land] - a nice page with a lot of information about our region.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne] at Wikipedia.org. Available in many languages.
* [http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/Altstadt-Biel-Bienne Old town of Biel] - some pics from the old town in my gallery

Hope to see you there!

Adrian Gschwend 
founder of netlabs.org

====Getting to Biel/Bienne====
Biel is the gate to the French speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

'''By train:''' 
There are night trains to Basel, called [http://www.citynightline.ch CityNightLine], this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of [http://www.sbb.ch/ SBB], the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add ''Airport'' in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

'''By plane:''' 
There is no large airport close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of these airports if you want to get to Biel:

* Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
* Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
* Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
* Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

The local airline in Switzerland is [http://www.swiss.ch Swiss], which offers quite good trips from bigger cities.

'''By car:''' 
The address is Quellgasse 21, 2502 Biel, Switzerland. There are paring places in front of the building, ask at the registering desk about how to open the locks for the parking places. You can get a map [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/index.php?id=1740 here], it's number 2 on the map.

====Accomodation====
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:

* [http://www.lagolodge.ch/ Lago Lodge] - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
* [http://www.continental-bienne.ch Hotel Continental] - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy, so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
* [http://www.metropol-biel.ch Hotel Metropol] - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
* [http://www.lindenegg.ch/ Villa Lindenegg] - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
* [http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/mer/6166/fiche_hotel.shtml Mercure Plaza] - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
* [http://www.hotelelite.ch Hotel Elite] - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org 
Update: I made some pictures about the location: http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Gallery===
There are some pictures online, check http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Contact===
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: 
DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org 
Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

Developers Workshop 2006

2006-04-11T19:39:39Z

Antiguru: /* Workshop Program */

[[Image:Dws06.png|right|frame|The workshop logo was created by [http://sampo.ru/~bigvic/ WiZard] ]]

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

===News Items===
{|
|7. April 2006 || Added the Live Streaming information & the news that lunch is sponsored by SSI! 
|-
|3. April 2006 || Added the [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html schedule], also the address (see Location). BTW we have some non-EU compliant power plugs, see [http://www.powercords.co.uk/standard.htm#SWITZERLAND here] 
|-
|21. March 2006 || Added information about lunch & some more details about the program 
|-
|23. February 2006 || Added registration information & first overview of the topics 
|-
|21. January 2006 || Added hotels and some information about Biel/Bienne. 
|-
|2. January 2006 || Initial website online.
|}

===Registration===
The registration is open at [http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/ Mensys] now, we provide the following tickets:

* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free

You can register at http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/

===Workshop Program===
There is no schedule yet but one of the main topics we will talk about is [[Voyager]], beside this we will for sure talk about current projects, like Genmac, ACPI, Everblue and so on. There will be quite some time for discussions, in a workshop form, also known as sitting around computers and hacking some code :)

We will provide enough space, wired or wireless network connection and a lot of bandwith.

====Live Stream of Presentations====
We will stream the presentations via an ogg stream! You can listen to that stream on eCS as well:

* The straight forward method is to use the ''Audio-Stream'' object class in eCS 1.2, it's in the ''Multimedia Templates'' subfolders of the ''Templates'' folder. Simply drag the object to your desktop and add the URL <tt>http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> to it. To start playing simply doubleclick on it.
* If that doesn't work you either don't have Ogg Codecs installed or you have an old version of them. In this case the simplest solution is to get the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/mmedia/oggvorbis-1.1.0-os2.zip Ogg Vorbis] package of [http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/ Brian Havard] and use ogg123 to play it: <tt>ogg123 http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> (in a commandline window).
* Note that Z! doesn't want to play Ogg streams for some reason on my system, maybe it works on yours.
* [http://r6.ca/MMAudioPak/stream.html Russell O’Connor] has some details as well about streaming on OS/2.
* There is also a playlist available [http://borg.bfh.ch:8000 here].

The first presentation starts at 10:15 Swiss time which is 8:15 GMT. If you need to know your local timezone you can check that here:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml

Note that during the breaks we will most probably play some music so you will hear anything anyway :) Note that there is quite some noise on the stream, I think that's the line in of the laptop used for digitising, we will hopefully clean that a bit for the ogg downloads after the workshop.

The webcam can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06/ here]. It will automatically reload the picture so don't click reload please, that just kills the webserver :)

You can also ask questions live during the presentations if you join the netlabs.org IRC channel #netlabs on eCS Network, see the following URL for a list of servers:

http://www.ecomstation.com/chat.phtml

We will most probably have a user called <tt>dws06</tt> or something where you can ask your questions.

The details about the ogg stream will be announced as soon as it is working ;)

To get ogg streaming on OS/2 and eCS check the page from , if we are lucky we will also get an ogg dll which works with Z! the current one does not support ogg streaming yet.

====Schedule====

The following presentations will take place:

'''Start''': We start with the Developers Workshop at 9:45 (Registration). The full shedule can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html here].

* Cairo
**General overview of Cairo, its structure and its API.
**Showing the Cairo API in live through a lot of examples.
* IOProc replacement
**Introduction to a new modular playback engine concept.
**Showing what's ready, what's to be done, what are the ideas.
**Discussing future possibilities (recording, transcoding...).
*The Voyager Object Model (was SOMH):
**Why not using C++, Objective C, ...
**Implementation details
**Compatibility with SOM/DSOM
**Desktop
**Using the object model for more
* Everblue
**Importance and Significance of Everblue (with and without Voyager)
**Current State and Problems
**Compiling and Running
**Demo of Working Applications
* Voyager - A coder overview about the project
** OpenGL as backend for Voyager - current options and problems
** Voyager components - where can you contribute
** OS/2 & PM compatibility - some crazy ideas worth discussing
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* How to organize netlabs.org Software Projects
* Translating Software

Each presentation is done once, there are no sessions in parallel.

====Lunch====
We will provide lunch at the workshop, like this we can talk together during that time as well and we don't spend too much money for something to eat :-) The lunch will be prepared by two professional cooks.

To be able to calculate how many people will attend it's important that you register yourself for the workshop! Please do this as soon as possible so we can plan correctly.

Speakers should register as "Students" so they don't have to pay but are counted as well for lunch.

'''News''': Lunch is sponsored by Serenity Systems, thanks a lot to Bob St. John for the kind sponsoring!

===Workshop Location===
Beside famous watch companies like Rolex, Omega and Swatch the city of Biel in Switzerland is the home of one more cool company: netlabs.org! This means that the Developers Workshop 2006 will take place in the city where netlabs.org was founded in 1997. I'm proud to do the hosting at the [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/ Berne University of Applied Sciences], the place where I did my studies and where I work now as a system administrator and teacher.

Biel is a small but cute city close to Bern, the capitol city. It's the boarder to the French speaking part of Switzerland so people in Biel speak German and French, at least most of them :-)
If you have some more spare time I recommend you to do a walk in the beautiful surroundings of Biel, for example the Jura mountains or around the lake. There is plenty to discover and with a bit of luck we will have a nice spring time in april.

Links:
* [http://www.drei-seen-land.ch Drei-Seen-Land] - a nice page with a lot of information about our region.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne] at Wikipedia.org. Available in many languages.
* [http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/Altstadt-Biel-Bienne Old town of Biel] - some pics from the old town in my gallery

Hope to see you there!

Adrian Gschwend 
founder of netlabs.org

====Getting to Biel/Bienne====
Biel is the gate to the French speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

'''By train:''' 
There are night trains to Basel, called [http://www.citynightline.ch CityNightLine], this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of [http://www.sbb.ch/ SBB], the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add ''Airport'' in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

'''By plane:''' 
There is no large airport close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of these airports if you want to get to Biel:

* Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
* Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
* Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
* Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

The local airline in Switzerland is [http://www.swiss.ch Swiss], which offers quite good trips from bigger cities.

'''By car:''' 
The address is Quellgasse 21, 2502 Biel, Switzerland. There are paring places in front of the building, ask at the registering desk about how to open the locks for the parking places. You can get a map [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/index.php?id=1740 here], it's number 2 on the map.

====Accomodation====
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:

* [http://www.lagolodge.ch/ Lago Lodge] - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
* [http://www.continental-bienne.ch Hotel Continental] - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy, so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
* [http://www.metropol-biel.ch Hotel Metropol] - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
* [http://www.lindenegg.ch/ Villa Lindenegg] - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
* [http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/mer/6166/fiche_hotel.shtml Mercure Plaza] - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
* [http://www.hotelelite.ch Hotel Elite] - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org 
Update: I made some pictures about the location: http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Gallery===
There are some pictures online, check http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Contact===
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: 
DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org 
Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

Developers Workshop 2006

2006-04-11T19:38:49Z

Antiguru: /* News Items */

[[Image:Dws06.png|right|frame|The workshop logo was created by [http://sampo.ru/~bigvic/ WiZard] ]]

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

===News Items===
{|
|7. April 2006 || Added the Live Streaming information & the news that lunch is sponsored by SSI! 
|-
|3. April 2006 || Added the [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html schedule], also the address (see Location). BTW we have some non-EU compliant power plugs, see [http://www.powercords.co.uk/standard.htm#SWITZERLAND here] 
|-
|21. March 2006 || Added information about lunch & some more details about the program 
|-
|23. February 2006 || Added registration information & first overview of the topics 
|-
|21. January 2006 || Added hotels and some information about Biel/Bienne. 
|-
|2. January 2006 || Initial website online.
|}

===Registration===
The registration is open at [http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/ Mensys] now, we provide the following tickets:

* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free

You can register at http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/

===Workshop Program===
There is no shedule yet but one of the main topics we will talk about is [[Voyager]], beside this we will for sure talk about current projects, like Genmac, ACPI, Everblue and so on. There will be quite some time for discussions, in a workshop form, also known as sitting around computers and hacking some code :)

We will provide enough space, wired or wireless network connection and a lot of bandwith.

====Live Stream of Presentations====
We will stream the presentations via an ogg stream! You can listen to that stream on eCS as well:

* The straight forward method is to use the ''Audio-Stream'' object class in eCS 1.2, it's in the ''Multimedia Templates'' subfolders of the ''Templates'' folder. Simply drag the object to your desktop and add the URL <tt>http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> to it. To start playing simply doubleclick on it.
* If that doesn't work you either don't have Ogg Codecs installed or you have an old version of them. In this case the simplest solution is to get the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/mmedia/oggvorbis-1.1.0-os2.zip Ogg Vorbis] package of [http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/ Brian Havard] and use ogg123 to play it: <tt>ogg123 http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> (in a commandline window).
* Note that Z! doesn't want to play Ogg streams for some reason on my system, maybe it works on yours.
* [http://r6.ca/MMAudioPak/stream.html Russell O’Connor] has some details as well about streaming on OS/2.
* There is also a playlist available [http://borg.bfh.ch:8000 here].

The first presentation starts at 10:15 Swiss time which is 8:15 GMT. If you need to know your local timezone you can check that here:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml

Note that during the breaks we will most probably play some music so you will hear anything anyway :) Note that there is quite some noise on the stream, I think that's the line in of the laptop used for digitising, we will hopefully clean that a bit for the ogg downloads after the workshop.

The webcam can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06/ here]. It will automatically reload the picture so don't click reload please, that just kills the webserver :)

You can also ask questions live during the presentations if you join the netlabs.org IRC channel #netlabs on eCS Network, see the following URL for a list of servers:

http://www.ecomstation.com/chat.phtml

We will most probably have a user called <tt>dws06</tt> or something where you can ask your questions.

The details about the ogg stream will be announced as soon as it is working ;)

To get ogg streaming on OS/2 and eCS check the page from , if we are lucky we will also get an ogg dll which works with Z! the current one does not support ogg streaming yet.

====Schedule====

The following presentations will take place:

'''Start''': We start with the Developers Workshop at 9:45 (Registration). The full shedule can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html here].

* Cairo
**General overview of Cairo, its structure and its API.
**Showing the Cairo API in live through a lot of examples.
* IOProc replacement
**Introduction to a new modular playback engine concept.
**Showing what's ready, what's to be done, what are the ideas.
**Discussing future possibilities (recording, transcoding...).
*The Voyager Object Model (was SOMH):
**Why not using C++, Objective C, ...
**Implementation details
**Compatibility with SOM/DSOM
**Desktop
**Using the object model for more
* Everblue
**Importance and Significance of Everblue (with and without Voyager)
**Current State and Problems
**Compiling and Running
**Demo of Working Applications
* Voyager - A coder overview about the project
** OpenGL as backend for Voyager - current options and problems
** Voyager components - where can you contribute
** OS/2 & PM compatibility - some crazy ideas worth discussing
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* How to organize netlabs.org Software Projects
* Translating Software

Each presentation is done once, there are no sessions in parallel.

====Lunch====
We will provide lunch at the workshop, like this we can talk together during that time as well and we don't spend too much money for something to eat :-) The lunch will be prepared by two professional cooks.

To be able to calculate how many people will attend it's important that you register yourself for the workshop! Please do this as soon as possible so we can plan correctly.

Speakers should register as "Students" so they don't have to pay but are counted as well for lunch.

'''News''': Lunch is sponsored by Serenity Systems, thanks a lot to Bob St. John for the kind sponsoring!

===Workshop Location===
Beside famous watch companies like Rolex, Omega and Swatch the city of Biel in Switzerland is the home of one more cool company: netlabs.org! This means that the Developers Workshop 2006 will take place in the city where netlabs.org was founded in 1997. I'm proud to do the hosting at the [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/ Berne University of Applied Sciences], the place where I did my studies and where I work now as a system administrator and teacher.

Biel is a small but cute city close to Bern, the capitol city. It's the boarder to the French speaking part of Switzerland so people in Biel speak German and French, at least most of them :-)
If you have some more spare time I recommend you to do a walk in the beautiful surroundings of Biel, for example the Jura mountains or around the lake. There is plenty to discover and with a bit of luck we will have a nice spring time in april.

Links:
* [http://www.drei-seen-land.ch Drei-Seen-Land] - a nice page with a lot of information about our region.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne] at Wikipedia.org. Available in many languages.
* [http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/Altstadt-Biel-Bienne Old town of Biel] - some pics from the old town in my gallery

Hope to see you there!

Adrian Gschwend 
founder of netlabs.org

====Getting to Biel/Bienne====
Biel is the gate to the French speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

'''By train:''' 
There are night trains to Basel, called [http://www.citynightline.ch CityNightLine], this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of [http://www.sbb.ch/ SBB], the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add ''Airport'' in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

'''By plane:''' 
There is no large airport close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of these airports if you want to get to Biel:

* Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
* Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
* Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
* Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

The local airline in Switzerland is [http://www.swiss.ch Swiss], which offers quite good trips from bigger cities.

'''By car:''' 
The address is Quellgasse 21, 2502 Biel, Switzerland. There are paring places in front of the building, ask at the registering desk about how to open the locks for the parking places. You can get a map [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/index.php?id=1740 here], it's number 2 on the map.

====Accomodation====
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:

* [http://www.lagolodge.ch/ Lago Lodge] - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
* [http://www.continental-bienne.ch Hotel Continental] - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy, so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
* [http://www.metropol-biel.ch Hotel Metropol] - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
* [http://www.lindenegg.ch/ Villa Lindenegg] - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
* [http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/mer/6166/fiche_hotel.shtml Mercure Plaza] - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
* [http://www.hotelelite.ch Hotel Elite] - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org 
Update: I made some pictures about the location: http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Gallery===
There are some pictures online, check http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Contact===
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: 
DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org 
Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

Developers Workshop 2006

2006-04-11T19:32:46Z

Antiguru: /* News Items */

[[Image:Dws06.png|right|frame|The workshop logo was created by [http://sampo.ru/~bigvic/ WiZard] ]]

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

===News Items===
7. April 2006    Added the Live Streaming information & the news that lunch is sponsored by SSI! 
3. April 2006    Added the [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html schedule], also the address (see Location). BTW we have some non-EU compliant power plugs, see [http://www.powercords.co.uk/standard.htm#SWITZERLAND here] 
21. March 2006    Added information about lunch & some more details about the program 
23. February 2006    Added registration information & first overview of the topics 
21. January 2006    Added hotels and some information about Biel/Bienne. 
2. January 2006     Initial website online.

===Registration===
The registration is open at [http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/ Mensys] now, we provide the following tickets:

* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free

You can register at http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2006/

===Workshop Program===
There is no shedule yet but one of the main topics we will talk about is [[Voyager]], beside this we will for sure talk about current projects, like Genmac, ACPI, Everblue and so on. There will be quite some time for discussions, in a workshop form, also known as sitting around computers and hacking some code :)

We will provide enough space, wired or wireless network connection and a lot of bandwith.

====Live Stream of Presentations====
We will stream the presentations via an ogg stream! You can listen to that stream on eCS as well:

* The straight forward method is to use the ''Audio-Stream'' object class in eCS 1.2, it's in the ''Multimedia Templates'' subfolders of the ''Templates'' folder. Simply drag the object to your desktop and add the URL <tt>http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> to it. To start playing simply doubleclick on it.
* If that doesn't work you either don't have Ogg Codecs installed or you have an old version of them. In this case the simplest solution is to get the [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/mmedia/oggvorbis-1.1.0-os2.zip Ogg Vorbis] package of [http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/ Brian Havard] and use ogg123 to play it: <tt>ogg123 http://borg.bfh.ch:8000/stream.ogg</tt> (in a commandline window).
* Note that Z! doesn't want to play Ogg streams for some reason on my system, maybe it works on yours.
* [http://r6.ca/MMAudioPak/stream.html Russell O’Connor] has some details as well about streaming on OS/2.
* There is also a playlist available [http://borg.bfh.ch:8000 here].

The first presentation starts at 10:15 Swiss time which is 8:15 GMT. If you need to know your local timezone you can check that here:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml

Note that during the breaks we will most probably play some music so you will hear anything anyway :) Note that there is quite some noise on the stream, I think that's the line in of the laptop used for digitising, we will hopefully clean that a bit for the ogg downloads after the workshop.

The webcam can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06/ here]. It will automatically reload the picture so don't click reload please, that just kills the webserver :)

You can also ask questions live during the presentations if you join the netlabs.org IRC channel #netlabs on eCS Network, see the following URL for a list of servers:

http://www.ecomstation.com/chat.phtml

We will most probably have a user called <tt>dws06</tt> or something where you can ask your questions.

The details about the ogg stream will be announced as soon as it is working ;)

To get ogg streaming on OS/2 and eCS check the page from , if we are lucky we will also get an ogg dll which works with Z! the current one does not support ogg streaming yet.

====Schedule====

The following presentations will take place:

'''Start''': We start with the Developers Workshop at 9:45 (Registration). The full shedule can be found [http://www.netlabs.org/dws06.html here].

* Cairo
**General overview of Cairo, its structure and its API.
**Showing the Cairo API in live through a lot of examples.
* IOProc replacement
**Introduction to a new modular playback engine concept.
**Showing what's ready, what's to be done, what are the ideas.
**Discussing future possibilities (recording, transcoding...).
*The Voyager Object Model (was SOMH):
**Why not using C++, Objective C, ...
**Implementation details
**Compatibility with SOM/DSOM
**Desktop
**Using the object model for more
* Everblue
**Importance and Significance of Everblue (with and without Voyager)
**Current State and Problems
**Compiling and Running
**Demo of Working Applications
* Voyager - A coder overview about the project
** OpenGL as backend for Voyager - current options and problems
** Voyager components - where can you contribute
** OS/2 & PM compatibility - some crazy ideas worth discussing
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* How to organize netlabs.org Software Projects
* Translating Software

Each presentation is done once, there are no sessions in parallel.

====Lunch====
We will provide lunch at the workshop, like this we can talk together during that time as well and we don't spend too much money for something to eat :-) The lunch will be prepared by two professional cooks.

To be able to calculate how many people will attend it's important that you register yourself for the workshop! Please do this as soon as possible so we can plan correctly.

Speakers should register as "Students" so they don't have to pay but are counted as well for lunch.

'''News''': Lunch is sponsored by Serenity Systems, thanks a lot to Bob St. John for the kind sponsoring!

===Workshop Location===
Beside famous watch companies like Rolex, Omega and Swatch the city of Biel in Switzerland is the home of one more cool company: netlabs.org! This means that the Developers Workshop 2006 will take place in the city where netlabs.org was founded in 1997. I'm proud to do the hosting at the [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/ Berne University of Applied Sciences], the place where I did my studies and where I work now as a system administrator and teacher.

Biel is a small but cute city close to Bern, the capitol city. It's the boarder to the French speaking part of Switzerland so people in Biel speak German and French, at least most of them :-)
If you have some more spare time I recommend you to do a walk in the beautiful surroundings of Biel, for example the Jura mountains or around the lake. There is plenty to discover and with a bit of luck we will have a nice spring time in april.

Links:
* [http://www.drei-seen-land.ch Drei-Seen-Land] - a nice page with a lot of information about our region.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne] at Wikipedia.org. Available in many languages.
* [http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/Altstadt-Biel-Bienne Old town of Biel] - some pics from the old town in my gallery

Hope to see you there!

Adrian Gschwend 
founder of netlabs.org

====Getting to Biel/Bienne====
Biel is the gate to the French speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

'''By train:''' 
There are night trains to Basel, called [http://www.citynightline.ch CityNightLine], this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of [http://www.sbb.ch/ SBB], the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add ''Airport'' in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

'''By plane:''' 
There is no large airport close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of these airports if you want to get to Biel:

* Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
* Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
* Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
* Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

The local airline in Switzerland is [http://www.swiss.ch Swiss], which offers quite good trips from bigger cities.

'''By car:''' 
The address is Quellgasse 21, 2502 Biel, Switzerland. There are paring places in front of the building, ask at the registering desk about how to open the locks for the parking places. You can get a map [http://www.hti.bfh.ch/index.php?id=1740 here], it's number 2 on the map.

====Accomodation====
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:

* [http://www.lagolodge.ch/ Lago Lodge] - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
* [http://www.continental-bienne.ch Hotel Continental] - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy, so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
* [http://www.metropol-biel.ch Hotel Metropol] - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
* [http://www.lindenegg.ch/ Villa Lindenegg] - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
* [http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/mer/6166/fiche_hotel.shtml Mercure Plaza] - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
* [http://www.hotelelite.ch Hotel Elite] - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org 
Update: I made some pictures about the location: http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Gallery===
There are some pictures online, check http://ktk.netlabs.org/gallery/HTIBiel

===Contact===
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: 
DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org 
Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.