Back From The Dead
Well time for another exciting tech tip as we stumble along the shadow of the valley of dead computers. I know that most people will say OS/2 what is that, but this week is detailing the OS/2 trick to revival. I recently encountered this beast while working on a voicemail system that was about 16 years old. It was a good voicemail system and didn't need anything fancy so OS/2 fit the bill at the time. The first word of advice I would have is to make sure you have plenty of medicine by your working space of choice as OS/2 is not around for obvious reasons which you will later discover and need this for. The biggest problem I found with the operating system was it is not very "user frinedly ". I say this because a couple of things I did while restoring expected you to just except the factor that it happened just like magic. I like the simplistic "I completed" message and see why it helps to enforce our users into thinking everythings okay. Try not getting one wit...