Warpstock, Inc.

Topic Description
Mozilla is a lot more then just a Browser. Lots and lots of extensions and options provided for the ultimate internet application are waiting to be used and tested. This presentation will show you how to get the best out of the beast, what extensions are available and how one can install them.
For the experienced crowd, a short visit to the power off XUL, the Mozilla GUI language, will show how even you can create your own exentions and thus add the feature you've always been waiting for.
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Arne Blankerts

OPS-02 : Odin

Topic Description
Odin is essentially a subsystem that allows win32 programs to run in OS/2. Windows programs can be easy to obtain but OS/2 programs are much more difficult to get, Odin is a way to make some of this available to the OS/2 user. Odin is similar to emx in this regard with the exception that emx requires *nix programs to be recompiled using emx, Odin does not require that programs be recompiled. Odin can also be used to port applications in the same way as emx is used.
This presentation is to show the potential of Odin, how it can be employed, how to set it up and how to install applications and some of the limitations. There will be some discussion on ways to help with the Odin effort and how to ask for assistance. We will also discuss Odinized applications such as Opera, the Innotek applications and win32prn. Part of the presentation will include tips on how to deal with Registry settings and odin.ini settings. We will also look at some of the apps that work (such as RealPlayer) and ones that don't. This analysis may give you a good feeling whether an app is likely to work or not with ODIN.
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Andy Willis Influenced by his dad, Andy started with PCs and the TRS-80 at age 10. At that time there wasn't much in the way of games so he began playing with BASIC and learned his way around computers. After taking a college Fortran Class in '90 or '91, he bought a Microsoft Fortan compiler, and was curious about the included OS/2 libraries, but had no idea what OS/2 was. A year or two later he bought a new pc that had win 3.11 on it and quickly disliked windows. His instructor also disliked windows and mentioned OS/2. From a CDW magazine he ordered and installed 2.11, and later 3.0 and 4.0. In 1998 he worked at a OS/2 helpdesk. He is a contributor to VOICE tips and Odin newsgroup (compiling and uploading Odin), also a minor contributor to Mozilla and has written an installer for GCC 3.2.1 (found on Hobbes).

OPS-03 : The open source PostgreSQL database

Topic Description

Introduction to PostgreSQL the database. It's history and philosophy, how it got to where it is, and where it is currently going.
Theory of Operation.
PostgreSQL features, such as user defined functions, triggers, rules, domains, etc.
PostgreSQL mis-features, the parts of PostgreSQL that tend to cause beginners the most problems (vacuuming, no predicate locking, etc.)
Options for using PostgreSQL with OS/2.
Status of the OS/2 port and the PostgreSQL main branch
Comparison of PostgreSQL to other databases.
PostgreSQL support options.

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Scott Marlowe Scott has been programming computers since 1980 when his father bought him a Vic-20. His first serious progamming was done while in the Air Force at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver in 1985 when he wrote the classbook program that would eventually be used throughout the Air Training Command to maintain all the grades of all the students in every course. At the time of his leaving in 1992 the program was still widely in use.
In 1995 he returned to the work force as a system administrator, but within a few years grew bored and returned to his first love, programming. He built the corporate intranet server of a large information company with PostgreSQL as the backbone of that system, and became active on the postgresql mailing lists as an administrator and user.