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MSR Development Returns to SCOUG.
OS/2 whiz and backup guru Gene Akins, of MSR Development, has agreed to an encore presentation to the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG). One of our most popular speakers, and from the company with one of the most popular backup solutions, BackMaster, Gene will be our presenter at our August 16 meeting (this coming Saturday at 9:00 AM PDT).
Since their last presentation (August 1996), MSR has released a new version of BackMaster and has also released a new Win-OS/2 application called ScreenSavr Master. Gene will show us these (and possibly a surprise or two), but he'll only be getting started. He will give SCOUG users the benefit of his tricks of the trade and tell us "How to get support when you *really* need it and can't". Gene will also share MSR's vision of cross-platform support to promote OS/2, and let us know why he's so excited about IBM's progress with OS/2. This should prove to be both an informative and entertaining presentation, and will be well worth your time.
Meanwhile, you can visit MSR Development's Web site at http://www.msrdev.com.
We'll have time for questions and answers after the presentation, and this is the time to ask for help with OS/2-related issues that are perplexing you. We'll no doubt have a raffle too. Time for a short break, and then we're on to the SIGs:
General Interest Group - will have an interesting and cool topic that will tickle your enthusiasm for OS/2.
Networking SIG - will look at REXX utilities to help manage the LAN Server domain.
Programming SIG - will be doing a post-mortem on the new raffle program and providing enhancements/changes based on suggestions made at our Open House last month. The program source and executables can be downloaded from the programming SIG file download area on the SCOUG web site (http://www.scoug.com).
Let's see, there's also the usual get-together for lunch at the local Sizzler afterwards of all those that want to eat but also don't want to stop talking about OS/2. There's also the Internet SIG on the evening of Monday, Aug. 25 for those interested in the Web.
When, where, and how to get there: SCOUG will be meeting on Saturday, August 16, at 9:00 AM (PDT) at the IBM offices located in Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Bl., Costa Mesa, CA, on the 2nd floor. From I-405, exit onto Bristol northbound (one exit NW of the I-405/Hwy 55 interchange). Turn right on Anton Blvd (the first signal after you cross over I-405). Go east 2 signals and turn right (you will see a TGI Fridays' on your right). Park in the open-air lot to your left. Plaza Tower is on a diagonal from the open-air parking lot.
Further information (including driving directions) can be found on the SCOUG web page at http://www.scoug.com. The driving directions also include a map that you can print off if the need arises. We hope to see you there!
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Natural MicroSystems' NaturalRecognition 2.0.
Natural MicroSystems, the technology leader in Open Telecommunications, today announced the availability of NaturalRecognition 2.0, the highest density speech recognition platform available for Windows NT, Unixware and OS/2. NaturalRecognition supports 16 channels of speech recognition in a single PC slot that also provides fax and call processing capabilities. The combination allows developers to reduce their costs by building more fully integrated and feature-rich applications in a more cost-effective system.
The NaturalRecognition platform consists of NaturalRecognition software, an Alliance Generation DSP resource board, a Diva II daughtercard and Natural MicroSystems CT Access development environment. NaturalRecognition software leverages industry-leading speech recognition technology from Voice Control Systems (VCS) to provide speaker-independent and speaker-dependent speech recognition capabilities.
NaturalRecognition is fully integrated with CT Access, Natural MicroSystems open and extensible development environment for creating mixed-media functions. By providing a single, integrated API for managing the interaction between speech recognition and other mixed media applications such as fax and text-to-speech, CT Access shields the developer from the underlying technology. CT Access makes it easier for developers to quickly bring to market robust, high-value telephony systems such as interactive voice response systems, speech recognition-enabled call centers, voice mail systems, voice dialers and virtual personal assistants.
Natural MicroSystems' Diva family of Digital Signal Processor (DSPs) daughtercards handle all of the compute-intensive functions and support 16 channels of continuous recognition on a single board. This frees virtually all PC CPU cycles for the application itself. The combination of the Alliance Generation board and the Diva daughtercard permits functions like echo cancellation to be performed on the AG board where it is more efficient and more effective than any other speech recognition implementation.
Provides Speaker-Independent and Speaker-Dependent Recognition capabilities. NaturalRecognition's speaker-independent continuous recognizer supports the telephone input of digits and yes/no spoken in a continuous natural manner, by any caller, without artificial beep prompting or pauses between words. Continuous recognition excels in applications requiring users to speak digits, such as automated banking applications where users are required to verbally input account information.
The speaker-dependent recognizer supports telephone input of a variety of command words and phrases for call control, voice activated dialing, IVR and other applications. It enables the creation of custom user-defined vocabularies, such as personal directories, where users can add, review or remove entries on-the-fly. For example, a user could program a doctor's telephone number in the personal directory, and without touching the telephone keypad could speak the word "doctor" and have the telephone number dialed automatically.
Natural Recognition 2.0 is available now with more than 30 international vocabularies and support for Windows NT, UnixWare, and OS/2 operating systems. It is priced at $995 for the SDK and $500 for port licenses.
More information is available at http://www.nmss.com.
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Stealth Communications FREE SMTP/POP mail accounts.
Stealth Communications Inc. is proud to announce an open beta of an upcoming SMTP/POP Server software For OS/2. The beta will consist of three Phases.
Phase 1) POP/SMTP. Accounts Via the Web. All you do is signup and get a free POP/SMTP account. You can use any existing POP3 Compliant e-mail program, like PmMail, Netscape, Eudora.
Phase 2) Web Interface. You will now have access to your email via a web browser aswell!
Phase 3) The commercial Version will be available for people to beta Test on there own Lans.
Currently we are Working on Phase 2 and Phase 3! after the final product is available you will still have your free email account at Stealthmail.
Pricing has not been discussed on the Final Commercial Server software and is expected to be completed in September.
StealthMail Server was written from the ground up to take advantage of OS/2's Superb multitasking capabilites. Designed with Speed, Low Overhead, Stability, and Expandability in mind.
Come signup for your free POP/SMTP email account at http://www.stealthmail.com
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Eduardo Fernandez is pleased to annouce the general availability of TCP PortScan for Java. This port scanner is written in pure Java and is faster than most native port scanners. It requires JDK 1.1 for any OS and has been developed and thoroughly tested using OS/2's 1.1.1 JDK from IBM.
It is current on hobbes.nmsu.edu in /pub/incoming as psjava10.zip but will probably move to /pub/java/util once scanned. TCP PortScan for Java's homepage is http://www.gdn.net/~beer/portscan.html
Thank you,
Eduardo Fernandez
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