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Utilities / Who said OS/2 app development was dead? Introducing: LorgLuath!
« Last post by RTAN on Today at 09:20:50 pm »
Who said OS/2 app development was dead? Introducing: LorgLuath!

I have a local copy of the IBM FTP server on my NAS in case it ever goes offline, along with a whole load of other Retro-related files and folders. I got kinda tired trying to use Windows Explorer to find them by filename, and I've never really found the built-in Windows Indexing service to be that great so... I wrote my own!

And then I thought "why don't I use that idea as the basis for my first ever OS/2 app as well?" Well here it is, proudly brought to you by the magic of IBM CSet++ and tested right from OS/2 2.0 (seriously) all the way up to ArcaOS 5.1.2.

So what is LorgLuath? The phrase lorg luath is Scottish Gaelic for "find fast", as in "find it quickly, rather than waiting an eon for 'dir/s' to slowly trawl each disk".

LorgLuath creates a binary index of all files and folders on any drives attached to the system - so that's obviously Drive-C, plus also any mapped network drives you may have. Then, whenever you want to find either a filename or a folder name you simply type:

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ll ibm
And it will show you all filenames containing that search phrase, highlighted in red. Simple as that!

There are other options, including searching for folder names rather than file names, changing the highlight colour, and you can run a periodic update which simply updates the binary index with any changes. Full details are in the README.TXT that accompanies ll.exe and an appropriate INSTALL.CMD file in the zip download which you can get from https://www.lorgluath.com.

Feedback is welcome, but please be kind - this is my first ever OS/2 program. My background (at least so far as app development goes) is VB.NET with a little Python and a little C++. So it was quite a learning curve.

At the moment you must manually update the binary index whenever you want to do so by running
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ll /update but in a future version I'm hoping to build the OS/2-equivalent of a Windows Service to do this periodically automatically (I haven't even looked-up what those are called yet).

Did I think to see whether Hobbes already contained something similar before I wrote this? Of course not! What would be the fun in that? I wanted to write something myself and it seemed an ideal first OS/2 program.

Happy LorgLuath'ing!
https://www.lorgluath.com

Richard.
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Virtualization / Re: Virtualbox Question
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on Today at 08:44:53 pm »
Hello David

What is your host screen resolution? I have my host on 1920x1080 and I set ArcaOS guest with the same one.

But I like to use ArcaOS Guest on full screen using the "Host Key" (in my case is the "right Ctrl") and the "F" key. With that I toggle between windowed and full screen mode.

Regards
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Applications / Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Last post by MPJ on Today at 08:34:12 pm »
You have to downgrade the libxml2 package to version 2.9.10-3 via ANPM.
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Applications / Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Last post by Dave Yeo on Today at 04:43:13 pm »
Up-date libc and/or make sure there is not another on LIBPATH or otherwise being loaded.
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Applications / OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Last post by Adrian on Today at 09:09:12 am »
Hi,

I've got a problem with Apache OpenOffice since the upgrade to ArcaOS 5.1.2
OpenOffice won't start, that means for every module.

The popuplog.os2 says:

------------------------------------------------------------

03-23-2026  20:47:57  SYS2070  PID 0074  TID 0001  Slot 0092
C:\PROGRAMS\APACHEOPENOFFICE\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
XML22->LIBCN0.2026
182
------------------------------------------------------------

Any idea how to solve this?

Grts,
Adrian
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Virtualization / Re: Virtualbox Question
« Last post by Dave Yeo on Today at 05:17:52 am »
IIRC, you have to use the command prompt, something like “VBoxManage setextradata “[VM name]” CustomVideoMode1 1920x1080x32” and then start the virtual machine and use the screen object to change to that resolution.
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Just to let you know. These days we also had been hit by some DDoS  attacks.
We are also checking what else can we do.

Well, the issue that we have had has been ddos for quite a while and ongoing for several month back and forth and just recently we've been dealing with a lot of SYN flooding and as well recently with massive amount of HTTP flooding as well once we cut of the SYN flooding. So having 2k - 5k users online on the forum was really to slow the server and then dump in loads of SYN ack requests... does the trick.

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netstat -s | grep -i syn
    202740 SYN cookies sent
    433510 SYN cookies received
    262994 invalid SYN cookies received
    228178 resets received for embryonic SYN_RECV sockets
    53117722 SYNs to LISTEN sockets dropped
    TCPSYNChallenge: 172
    TCPSynRetrans: 3398945
    TCPACKSkippedSynRecv: 4699
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by Rich Walsh on Today at 12:23:23 am »
To me, this is the result of being stuck in the 90's.

Way back when you could set up a home-brew server and provide acceptable service to all your users on dial-up. But *25* years later home-brew usually means lousy transfer rates and unreliable service. For a fraction of the cost Nathan was paying, he could have used a hosting service and eliminated these problems. For example, the company I use (hostway.com) offers Linux hosting with unlimited storage, unmetered bandwidth, an SSL certificate, and more for $35/mo. At that price, who needs this rinky-dink stuff?
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I'm using SM 2.42.9, which is at the same level as FF45
In that case, I prefer to not update the script yet.

Martin, another issue is that smf 2.0.19 also have issues with newer version of php 8.x so sooner or later we need to bite the bullet and we're currently on 8.4 so it's just matter of time before smf 2.0.19 breaks totally.
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Long story short is that the old server is currently being phased out and it's been running 24/7 since 2012 and it's time to retire it and it's starting to show significant signs of hardware issues. Also, the OS is steady patchworks over the years as well and isn't helping. We've moved the forum into it's on sub-domain running currently in it's own vps annd later on this week we'll be moving both the full main site including the wiki and as well os2games site.
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