Re: [ros-dev] The situation with version 0.4.14

2021-02-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Colin Finck: > This is not the kind of participation that has any place on the mailing list > of an open-source project. > Unsubscribed and blocked that person. > Colin > Am 09.02.2021 um 17:26 schrieb Dick: > > Hi, > > as a potential user this project makes me extremely tired.

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Usually when we talk about ReactOS 0.5, we implicitly think that it will > enter beta state there. > So unless you consider this to not completely hold anymore, we can look at > what remains to be done/fixed (importantly) so that we may qualify as going > into beta state. > (And yes, USB and

Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub

2018-06-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo: > May this affect ReactOS? > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/ I just found this new article on heise online about a new possible alternative to Github:

Re: [ros-dev] Ros-dev Digest, Vol 165, Issue 3, how to (un)subscribe

2018-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
from John Duncan: > [-- Attachment #1 --] > [-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 29K --] > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="7e8dc8056b8cbce5" > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >

Re: [ros-dev] R: [ros-diffs] 01/01: [WINLOGON] Clean up part 2 - Replace the UNICODE_STRING usMessage by a PWSTR pszMessage. - Use the "%02d:%02d:%02d" time format and get rid of the safe string print

2018-04-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Maya Posch: > One thing weighs in favour of using C++ over C and that is the increased type > checking with the former, whereas the latter is decidedly weakly-typed. > That said, C is hardly the maintenance and programming nightmare that it is > made out to be by many. Proper design and

[ros-dev] Re: once agaon about ReactOS trademark infringement by Facebook

2017-09-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Alexander Rechitskiy : > Hi! Please, read this! > https://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=16671 > -- Best regards, Alexander Rechitskiy I copied and pasted your link with the mouse and got Board index Change font size Information The requested topic does not exist.

[ros-dev] Re: Git Migration Newsletter

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Colin Finck: > Let me give a public update about our Git Migration Decisions after the last > meeting: > * The migration of our SVN repository "reactos" is going to happen in > September/October. > * https://github.com/reactos/reactos will become our master repository as we > want

Re: [ros-dev] Vgal USB patches

2017-04-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
least) blocked by CORE-10456.BR,Peter On Apr 6, 2017, at 04:01, Thomas Mueller mailto:mueller6...@twc.com;>mueller6...@twc.com wrote: from Robert Naumann: Codereview is already ongoing. If everything goes well, USB will become great again soon. Does this mean it will be possible to build Rea

Re: [ros-dev] Vgal USB patches

2017-04-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Robert Naumann: > Codereview is already ongoing. If everything goes well, USB will become > great again soon. Does this mean it will be possible to build ReactOS and install to a USB stick so as to be bootable? Tom ___ Ros-dev mailing list

Re: [ros-dev] New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Victor thought also about adding registry hive healing. > Hermès. > -Message d'origine- > De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] De la part de Colin Finck > Envoyé : dimanche 12 mars 2017 17:27 > À : 'ReactOS Development List' > Objet : [ros-dev] New ideas added to GSoC

Re: [ros-dev] UEFI Bootmgr vs. FreeLdr

2017-02-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Seeing the recent UEFI Bootmgr work in trunk, I was wondering about its > design. > Will that be a UEFI-only boot loader or eventually replace/merge with > FreeLdr to provide a common boot loader for BIOS and UEFI systems? > Will it simply follow all design principles of the NT6+ boot loader or

Re: [ros-dev] FOSDEM 2017 - It's happening!

2017-01-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Am 26.01.2017 um 11:57 schrieb Alexander Rechitskiy: > > Was the idea to sertup USB-flash drive giveaway with ReactOS on FOSDEM > > buried? > I already wanted to buy USBs for FOSDEM 2015, but you need to order > custom ones (with printed ReactOS logo) around 3 weeks in advance. We >

Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support

2016-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
On which version of MS-Windows ReactOS should try to emulate or be compatible with, being compatible with a version from 2003 is not good enough. There is the matter not only of applications but device drivers. Manufacturer-supplied device drivers for Windows should be usable in ReactOS as

Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support

2016-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Alexander Rechitskiy: > href="https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=12011#p84556;>https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=12011#p84556 > -- I browsed that URL, can understand their point about ReactOS being too unstable to support. Jesse Smith of Distrowatch (distrowatch.com)

Re: [ros-dev] Setup on an extended partition

2015-04-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Minas Abrahamyan: This misfunctionality has 2 pieces: Reactos unable to start kernel from extended partition, and the installer inability to handle extended partitions 1 MS NT+ supports installing onto the extended partition for ages, including, yes, Windows 7 So this is requirement

Re: [ros-dev] Installing ReactOS to a folder

2014-12-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is there a build command to install ReactOS to a folder. Something equivalent to make install of good old RBuild days? I used to install ReactOS on real hardware this way, because it allowed me to have more control over the install process (aka control it completely). Thanks, João

[ros-dev] Partition size and FAT32 cluster size?

2014-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the biggest partition size compatible with 4096-byte (4 KB) cluster size, cluster size being the minimum amount of space taken by a file however small? I googled some years ago and found it to be about 8 GB, however now I wonder if that was wrong, and I can accommodate a bigger

Re: [ros-dev] Partition size and FAT32 cluster size?

2014-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 07-12-2014 10:07, Thomas Mueller wrote: What is the biggest partition size compatible with 4096-byte (4 KB) cluster size, cluster size being the minimum amount of space taken by a file however small? I googled some years ago and found it to be about 8 GB, however now I wonder

Re: [ros-dev] great chance

2014-12-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hey guys, I previously talked to daniel and colin about this thing and colin told me to write a mail to this list. I read about a big chance for the preject to show a presentation at the CeBIT, the biggest german IT convention. Sadly, I only have links to german websites but maybe you are

Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
My idea was to build and use the ROSBE on FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux to build the trunk, then install to a USB stick formatted FAT32. Question is whether that could boot. In theory, it could. In practice, I'm not that sure, you're really dependent on USB. And I'm not sure it's in a that

Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

2014-11-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Dear Thomas, This source of such article is a post from reboot.pro (http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/) where I report this progress and ask for help. On ReactOS website, you don't have such strong report, but the piece of information exists, spread in

Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

2014-11-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Dear Thomas, I really would like something readable and writable, like USB stick, as opposed to live CD. There's no easy way to do so. Even if you'd copy contents of the LiveCD to an USB drive, it wouldn't be writable, the CDFS driver we use is also read-only. Pierre Schweitzer

[ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I saw an article on heise online (German-language website) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/ on ReactOS liest NTFS http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/ReactOS-liest-NTFS-2442615.html Date is 05.11.2014, meaning just yesterday. I subsequently looked on reactos.org and couldn't find any

Re: [ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

2014-03-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David Quintana (gigaherz) gigah...@gmail.com: I guess I'll use Plain text mode, just for you ;P (Being in 2014, it's a wonder anyone still uses an email client that doesn't decode HTML by default, and requires you to look at the plain text as an attachment, but I'm open-minded) I don't

Re: [ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David Quintana (gigaherz) gigah...@gmail.com: [-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 5.8K --] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1135f7ac55c1ca04f557713d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 First of all, I'm not an expert when it comes to what ReactOS

Re: [ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David Quintana (gigaherz) gigah...@gmail.com: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 9.5K --] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1137e986d9c67404f56eb6c5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 This is the Gmail web client, I have

[ros-dev] Resuscitating MSVC 2008 builds (at least) for testing purposes only :P

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Hermès BÉLUSCA: Because I was recently shocked (if I may say :D) that, for building a 2003-class operating system, we need 2010+ tools, I was wondering whether it was still possible to build ReactOS with MSVC 2008 and 2005. I\222ve created a task for that in Jira:

[ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

2014-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to build and install ReactOS from source but may be strapped for where to install it. I have USB sticks, 3 TB SATA hard drives, and 3 TB USB 3.0 hard drive. Hard drives are GPT-partitioned, which ReactOS apparently doesn't support. I have some old IDE hard drives which I access

Re: [ros-dev] Changes on FishEye

2014-02-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi all, I've added the project-tools and web repositories to FishEye today, so you can browse through their changes as well now. My ultimate plan is to remove CORE, ROSAPPS and ROSTESTS too and replace all of them by the already existing reactos repository. This resembles our SVN

Re: [ros-dev] Building and installing ReactOS on newer computer

2013-10-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
I downloaded and burned the installation CD image for 0.3.15, but it failed to boot. Can you also have a look at the nightly builds (http://www.reactos.org/getbuilds ) to see whether they can boot or not ? Hermès. I tried and got: General Error SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Too many connections

Re: [ros-dev] Building and installing ReactOS on newer computer

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
[-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 3.0K --] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c3c7dccc447f04e913cb34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You can find ready-to-use builds of recent SVN revisions at: https://www.reactos.org/getbuilds If you don't

[ros-dev] Building and installing ReactOS on newer computer

2013-10-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
How can I build and install ReactOS on a new computer? Can I install to a USB stick or to a 1.2 GB IDE hard drive in a USB 2.0 hard-drive enclosure? Main hard drive is Western Digital Green 3 TB, GPT-partitioned. I would have to build from FreeBSD or less likely NetBSD or Linux. I downloaded