Ros-general October 2006

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ReactOS case study
by Roman Hoegg 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hello everybody! My name is Roman Högg (RomanH) and I have occasionally posted to this mailing list and the web site forum in the past for a variety of reasons. (offering/asking for help, submitting the Swiss German keyboard layout, etc.) I now contact you for something completely different. Together with the Helsinki School of Economics, Luleå University of Technology, Nokia and IBM Business Services, our institute ( http://www.mcm.unisg.ch ) is conducting a study called "Collabora-tion4Innovation (C4I)". The study is funded by the European Commission and is examining the im-pact of diversity within teams on factors such as innovation, creativity and productivity. By diversity we mean things like cultural diversity, different skills, different educational backgrounds, etc. In the first phase of the project we are currently conducting a number of case studies from a variety of areas. The goal is to find the "state of the art" and later define areas in which further research is needed (e.g. organisational aspects such as process design, improving collaboration technologies, etc.) Since ReactOS is - as far as I can see - developed by a pretty diverse set of people (developers from different countries, probably with different skills and non-developers/users/testers that try to improve the software in whatever way they can) I wanted to ask whether it would be possible to conduct a "Reac-tOS Case Study". I think it would be nice to not only have companies in the case studies. If you agree to this idea, I would like to conduct interviews with 2-3 persons of you (in English or German, most likely via phone). Each interview would last between 45 minutes and 1,5h maximum. (or I could send the questionnaire/interview guide in advance and we would only discuss the more open questions over the phone). After the interviews I would condense everything into a 3-4 page description of the project and the aspect of diversity. You would then get that text and could tell me whether you agree with it or whether I would have to change things. Nothing will be published without your consent! Unfortunately I can't offer you any money for the collaboration, but I think the study will give the project some additional promotion and, if you want to, you may of course use my text for documenta-tion purposes. Please let me know what you think and thank you very much!!! kind regards Roman ------------------------------------------ Roman Högg Research Assistant =mcm institute for Media and Communications Management University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 St. Gallen Phone +41 (0)71 224 34 39 Mobile +41 (0)79 418 59 13 e-mail roman.hoegg(a)unisg.ch http://www.mcm.unisg.ch http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Personen/Roman_Hoegg

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we are back online
by Magnus Olsen 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hi everyone have notice ReactOS website, svn, mailing list, went down. The svn and web server was never down the problem was the DNS server whent down by hardware failour and it took time getting it back online again. Longer that we did expect.

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ReactOS problems
by Escorter 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi everybody! I have some problems with ReactOS. Today, I've tried to install the latest stable release ("0.2.x") to my old DOS gaming computer. The computer booted the installer, I set the preferences of the system, I formatted the hard disk, the file copying was successfull. At the end of the installation, the installer ordered me to remove all media, so I removed the install CD. The last screen said that the installer is checking the files on the hard disk, and when it's done, the system will reboot automatically. But something is wrong: the progress indicator at the bottom of the screen said: "Flushing cache", and my machine locked up completely. After I did a hard reset, the bootloader said: "Disk error". I've tried to reinstall ReactOS about 3 times, but the installer always locked up at the last screen. The system is: CPU: Pentium II (with MMX), 300 MHz RAM: 64 Mb Graphics card: S3 Trio64 Hard disk: Quantum Fireball, 540 Mb Later, I've created a ReactOS LiveCD. It boots up corretly, but the system is weird: when I drag an icon in the explorer, then I release the mouse button, I get a completely empty Blue Screen of Death. I've also tried to set the video preferences, so I've opened up the controll panel, then opened up the screen preferences. But when I clicked in the last tab, the system closed the window. When I open an explorer window, the content of the window is messed up. But when I drag the window to a different location, the content is displayed correctly. What can I do now? Best regards, Escorter ____________________________________________________________________ FotoMarket - digitális fotókidolgozás már 25 Ft-tól. http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,99786,162268/click.prm

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Ros-general October 2006