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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.

Some details about the track: more ... (cg) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF) Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs

As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.

Non-Warranty Repairs

All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).

Non-Repairable Items

Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.

Other Factors

During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...

Genesi Gesture

As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.

DCE and Genesi

Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!

Preliminary Conclusion

Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.

Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu

Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi (snx)

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20.Oct.2003 GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.

Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)

Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.

One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.

When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.

At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.

Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.

Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.

At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.

Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.

Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.

Final preparations	Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back)
Preparations	Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2	KDE booth
Debian booth	User testing Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider	Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer	Student testing Image_Installer
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2

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