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Wow, ok I was wondering the same thing as I'm having a brutally difficult time navigating this evening. I don't understand why people would target a forum like this, but perhaps they are just targeting the web host server/hosting service in general.
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Hi all, when I visit this forum using any smartphone, the text is very small and doesn't appear to render in a responsive layout for easier reading on smaller screens. This is the same for both Firefox and DuckDuckGo browsers on Android. The desktop and non desktop view using Firefox looks the same.

Yes, I know that I can zoom in but that isn't always ideal.

Are there any plans to update the forum software, or at least to install a responsive and mobile friendly theme which users can switch to? Or is such a theme installed and perhaps I don't know where to change it?

I included a screenshot of what the site looks like on my phone. On a 24 inch monitor it looks fine, but on my phone I need to get my magnifying glass out in addition to my reading glasses!

Thanks for any help.
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Utilities / Re: SYSLOGD - stopped working...SYSxxxx, but why?
« Last post by Steven Levine on March 16, 2026, 08:59:22 pm »
The SYS1808 is cmd.exe's way of telling you to go look for a popuplog entry.

The 0005 is the low order 16-bits of the c0000005 exception code.  The truncation is probably a side effect of the fact that cmd.exe is antique 16-bit code.

There are several easy ways to look at the code at the CS:EIP=005b:00023cd2 exception address. I used ida to do a quick disassembly.  The benefit is that I got symbolic names for many of the called functions. Another option is crank up the OpenWatcom debugger and view the code near the exception address.  Set a breakpoint at the call instruction and run the code.

Steven

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Internet / Re: Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by JTA on March 16, 2026, 04:07:23 pm »
David, while you work out all the security & such mentioned above, perhaps just populate Winflector with open-source/free items to start, like:

- LibreOffice
- Notepad++
- browsers of course ...

Or, let us know how to "request" other apps ...

That's enough to show the utility of your offering to other users, which is what I would want to demonstrate.
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Internet / Re: Launching hosted browser service with sound, copy/paste, and printing!
« Last post by JTA on March 16, 2026, 03:53:53 pm »
Syncpedia.com kept giving "malformed response" (could be related to your previous post), but paypal worked ...
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Excellent work, David ...

Just to help out your campaign, you can sign me up for 1 seat ... it'll give us a chance to test out all the "sign-up" processes. Plus, I get to be "customer number 1" of thousands or millions!

Nothing breaks things faster than throwing a user at it ...
Thanks, I would appreciate having supporter #!!
You can sign up here:
https://www.syncpedia.com/winflector/112-reserve-your-seat-for-os-2-winflector-hosting.html
or just paypal superservice@syncpedia.com.

It's not winflector anymore. I'll have to update the cart but have to go to bed now(up too late).
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Internet / Re: Launching hosted browser service with sound, copy/paste, and printing!
« Last post by JTA on March 16, 2026, 02:34:50 pm »
Excellent work, David ...

Just to help out your campaign, you can sign me up for 1 seat ... it'll give us a chance to test out all the "sign-up" processes. Plus, I get to be "customer number 1" of thousands or millions!

Nothing breaks things faster than throwing a user at it ...
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Utilities / Re: SYSLOGD - stopped working...SYSxxxx, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on March 16, 2026, 01:57:45 pm »
Hello Steven!

...If appears you did something to your services file so that it no longer contains a valid syslog entry...

BINGO...I did replace the regular SERVICES file with a Wireshark supplied one because that one was showing a much larger list of services and otherwise the format appeared to be the same, short of a comment '#' character denoting comments.

Specifically:

1) SUPPLIED
Code: [Select]
# To Boost the performace of Dynamic IP Servers ,We moved the DHCP/BINL
# Ports to the top of the File./*IC41013:--[Kishore Kumar Pillai] */
# Port Assignments:
#
# Keyword       Decimal    Description                     References
# -------       -------    -----------                     ----------
                  0/tcp    #Reserved
                  0/udp    #Reserved
#                          #Jon Postel <postel@isi.edu>
tcpmux            1/tcp    #TCP Port Service Multiplexer
tcpmux            1/udp    #TCP Port Service Multiplexer
#                          #Mark Lottor <MKL@nisc.sri.com>
compressnet       2/tcp    #Management Utility
compressnet       2/udp    #Management Utility
...
syslog            514/udp #
...

2) WIRESHARK
Code: [Select]
# This is a local copy of the IANA port-numbers file.
#
# Wireshark uses it to resolve port numbers into human readable
# service names, e.g. TCP port 80 -> http.
#
# It is subject to copyright and being used with IANA's permission:
# http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200708/msg00160.html
#

tcpmux              1/tcp # TCP Port Service Multiplexer [Mark_Lottor] [Mark_Lot
tcpmux              1/udp # TCP Port Service Multiplexer [Mark_Lottor] [Mark_Lot
compressnet         2/tcp # Management Utility
compressnet         2/udp # Management Utility
...
syslog          514/udp    #
...

...FWIW, Mike built his syslogd with Watcom and provided full source code.  You might want to consider modifying the code so that that it does not trap when GETSERVBYNAME returns NULL...

Indeed, I started to look at the code to understand where the SYS1808 with the "The software diagnostic
code (exception code) is  0005." is coming from. As best as I could tell the 'startup()' section in syslogd.c does this:

Code: [Select]
...
// ***** IPC Thread - setup and start *****
   //
   // Function to setup and start ICP thread.  Create SEM1/SEM2,
   // start thread, and wait for thread to set SEM1 signaling thread
   // running. SEM1 reset on exit/return
   if (DosCreateEventSem(IPCSEM1, &hevIPCSEM1, DC_SEM_SHARED, FALSE))
   {
      handleinternalmsg(STARTERROR_4, LOG_ERR);
      return(STARTERROR_5);
   }

   if (DosCreateEventSem(IPCSEM2, &hevIPCSEM2, DC_SEM_SHARED, FALSE))
   {
      handleinternalmsg(STARTERROR_5, LOG_ERR);
      return(STARTERROR_5);
   }
...

...but what I couldn't figure out is whether that "...exception code is  0005..." was in fact the result of STARTERROR_5 being posted.

So at the risk of this being a much bigger follow-up question: how exactly did you get from that SYS1808 to 'something is off with your SERVICES file'???

Seriously...I have no real OS/2 programming experience, but I've looked at various code snippets multiple times and have done some small stuff. However, trying to figure out how to DEBUG issues is an entirely different ballgame.
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Just tested all functions in linux with both firefox and chrome (html5) and they worked perfectly. So i'll let you know after i've confirmed it works in arcaos.
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