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16 January 2002

Robert Basler is the president of Aurora Systems, Inc. and a dedicated OS/2 user since he tired of rebooting Windows 3.1 twenty times a day.

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From The Editor

Cinema/2 Update

A few months back we reviewed Cinema/2, a really cool TV viewing application. I am very pleased that Carsten Tenbrink has released an updated version that supports newer SDD drivers in fullscreen mode and adds a number of new features.

Bad Windows 2000

If you use Windows 2000, watch out for its suspend to disk feature. I discovered this month that it does not flush its disk cache before it shuts down, so if you do work on a drive that Windows 2000 can see using another operating system while Windows 2000 is suspended, you have a pretty good chance of having whatever changes you made simply disappear the next time Windows 2000 flushes its cache. That's what happened to a day's worth of my work. I am not impressed.

Interesting Website of the Month

If you haven't already discovered it, the OS/2 Warp News and Rumours page is a great resource which is updated every week or so. Go give it a read.

This Issue

This issue, Robert Basler looks at the Logitech Cordless Optical mouse and AMouse 2.0 Beta and the challenging task of moving OS/2 to a new drive, Dan Eicher introduces us to Citrix Metaframe, James Cannon looks at removeable hard disks and the EMX runtime, plus he donates a couple of nice desktop backgrounds, Andrei Porodko gives us an introduction to security on OS/2, Douglas Clark is back with an editorial wondering if IBM does really have a clue, has a look at KVM switches and Virtual PC, and brings in the next installment of his series on ODBC.

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