The whole thing started in 1996 when Yannik Majoris and some others people had the idea of producing an NT-like OS. At that time, the FreeWin95 project had created a lot of interest, but the development of the project was slow. In January 1998, they decided that the project should either take the serious way or die. In February 1998, the project was renamed "ReactOS". Since then the project has never stopped to improve and gain in popularity.

A ReactOS natively supports long and unicode filenames. it is up to the file system driver how it deals with it. The FAT-driver delivered with ReactOS supports VFAT (=long names on FAT).

The goal of the FreeDOS Project is to create a free implementation of MS-DOS. DOS is a popular system, and there is plenty of hardware out there that supports DOS. The FreeDOS Project was founded in 1994 by Jim Hall. FreeDOS is not a derivation of MS-DOS - we are not using or referring to any Microsoft code. We are instead using the description of the MS-DOS program as given in publications (such as the user manual) to create a program of our own that follows that spec.

A''' A real filesystem driver is a heavy weight. Loading it just for it to see that there is no partition it could mount is a waste of time. For this reason Dave Cutler invented the so called recognizer driver. They are more or less an integral part of the driver architecture. This driver gets loaded and searches partitions for filesystems its companion IFS is capable of reading. If it finds such a partition it loads its companion IFS to mount it.

On a FAT32 File System to avoid fragmentation of directories without ever having to defrag the drive, no directory should hold more than 128 (8 sectors * 16 entries per sector) files / dirs. If the entries are long file name entries, it falls to 64 entries at the maximum.

Make a different folder for every user. Place Aston.exe, A-master.exe, printmon.exe, starter.dll, hook.dll, *.rc files there. When switching to Explorer make sure that you've marked in the check-box Restore system colors, cursors, icons, etc in Shell Swapper (Start>Shell Swapper). In case the problem remains, go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>Mouse>Printers and set the needful cursor scheme in the Scheme field.

NTFS offers a smaller cluster size (0.5) compared to FAT32 (4). This means more space for you. NTFS also allows compression and additional security features. Many people recommend formatting to a NTFS partition rather than converting the drive for speed reasons. You can go to this Microsoft article for more information, which lists only the pros . Some cons I've heard: Virtually no recovery tools for a faulty NTFS volume. If you backup this isn't a big deal.

There is a 4GB file size limit for transferring files onto your iRiver because of the FAT32 format of the iRiver disk. While this is not an issue for songs or videos converted for playing on the iRiver, if you also use it as a portable hard drive then you may hit this limit when trying to store high quality video files or VMware or Virtual PC files. Just thought I'd post this to help others as I hit this problem last week and it took me a few hours to find this answer on the net.

You may also consider joining the FreeDOS mailing list. Or, you can post a message to comp.os.msdos.programmer or comp.os.msdos.misc (whichever seems more appropriate) and ask your questions there. A lot of people in these groups are pretty knowledgeable about FreeDOS. A number of FreeDOS mailing list members are also part of c.o.m.m and c.o.m.p.

Actually, Caldera has re-named OpenDOS to DR-DOS, because their DOS was neither really open nor free.

A K12mobile will provide you with a letter to distribute to parents encouraging them to participate in this piece of your school's emergency plan. As you communicate the importance of this initiative to all parents, those who do not have cell phones can designate a friend or relative's cell phone as the emergency text messaging contact.

Like all curriculum changes, there are new things to get use to. But overall feedback from Pilot teachers is that they have found Twenty First Century Science enjoyable to teach. The Teacher and Technician material, and the iPack CD ROMs, offer great support with lesson plans and integrated ICT. The iPack CD ROMs include PowerPoint presentations, animations, and audio and video clips. See What the Pilot schools say for more Pilot teacher feedback.

If you use a Unix-based operating system, this concept will be familiar; if not, it may require some explanation. NetBeans uses virtual files to refer to the users files on disk, and to refer to its own configuration files. If you used the NetBeans IDE 3.6 or earlier, you may remember that the way you constructed your classpath used to be by "mounting" filesystems - folders on your disk. A FileSystem is a hierarchical tree of folders and files.

I think I found also a workaround to the zoom-bug I wrote before, still checking...will let let you know soon. SWFObject should already take care of the ‘click to activate’ issue. If you are still seeing it, there maybe be other things getting in the way. I’m not sure about the specific IE7 problems, but I have an older post that talks about the issues in XP and IE6 here: What if I want to include the progress loding bar, so users know it is loading.

In October 1994, Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard released into the public domain the RPC implementation used by DCE. This code includes the IDL compiler and the RPC runtime. It does not include any of the other services: DTS, CDS, Security, DFS. In fact, it is not a sufficient base for a client machine, as it does not include the CDS, DTS, and security clerk processes that are normally required. Be warned that building anything from this release is not a simple matter.

A#1.3: The currently released version is v2.0.4. The version currently under development is v2.0.6. v2.0.5 never had a general release, and is not available. For those programmers using ORCA/C v2.1.x, there was a update made available (for both GNO v2.0.4 and GNO v2.0.6 users) on 22 Dec 97. It consists of updated headers, libraries, and manual pages. It is available at the following site: ftp://ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2/gs.specific/gno/base206

A#4.4: The best way to find out what programs are available for GNO, including version numbers, authors, and other information is to use the describe(1) database. The program, database, and maintenance utilities are available at the usual ftp sites. Soenke Behrens <sbehrens@bigfoot.com> also maintains an online describe database. This tends to be the most up-to-date version, and is available at http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/describe.htm

A. BWC will implement MIRA on July 1, 2002, for private employers and Jan. 1, 2003, for public employer taxing districts. Private employers can get a preview of the new MIRA reserves for their claims in the Claim Costs service offering. For more information, call BWC's actuarial department at (614) 752-8318.

A Your school will encourage parents to participate in this piece of your school's emergency plan. As you communicate the importance of this initiative to all parents, those who do not have cell phones can designate a friend or relative's cell phone as the emergency text messaging contact.

A Usually from 2 to 4 weeks. However, a longer time is preferable in order to plan your event as well as possible.

A Your computer system is configured to try to play QuickTime files in Windows Media Player instead of in QuickTime. Windows Media Player will be unable to play QuickTime movies found on the IJustWantToSleep® Web site. Reinstall QuickTime; we recommend downloading a fresh copy of the current version using the links above.

A#2.1: GNO contains components that originate with a variety of flavors of UNIX. These include 4.3BSD, XINU, and SYSV. It is mostly BSD. As of GNO v2.0.6, GNO has become closer to 4.4BSD. Work is in progress to make it as compliant as possible to POSIX 1003.1 and POSIX 1003.2.

Can I have one libferris application which has mounted an XML file instantly see changes made to the XML document by another libferris application? (libferris 1.1.82+)

You can step into other filesystems from the root:// filesystem. The paths and URLs become a little strange when you do this because the filesystems you are stepping into expect to be top level schemes. For example the file:// URL handler expects something at path /var to be able to be lstat()ed which is not the case using its root:// path of root://file/var. This restriction means that root level URLs are not usable as round trip URLs.

File system within a TrueCrypt volume may become corrupted in the same way as any normal unencrypted file system. When that happens, you can use filesystem repair tools supplied with your operating system to fix it. In Windows, it is the 'chkdsk' tool. TrueCrypt provides an easy way to use this tool on a TrueCrypt volume: First, make a backup copy of the TrueCrypt volume (because the 'chkdsk' tool might damage the filesystem even more) and then mount it.