OT: Sysadmin catches 419 scammer
A hart-warming story... http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-April/013049.html -- jcf -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: CMS REXX Wait
On 2/27/2004 9:48 AM Adam Thornton wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:02, Monteleone wrote: Hello, I would like to wait for a specified time in a rexx cms script, should I have to write a program to do that, or is there a standard CP ou CMS function to do that ? WAKEUP has been standard since VM/ESA 2.4, I think. WAKEUP, little SuSe, WAKEUP! (Sorry, couldn't resist...) -- jcf
Re: Just stirring the pot
On 2/19/2004 2:25 PM Adam Thornton wrote: snip There's no way in Rexx to get a list of all the key names in the key/value pairs that make up a stem. I find that a huge problem in terms of conceptualizing problems the intuitive way for me. I've resorted to using a second compound variable to keep track of the of the first compound variable [warning: following code is off the top of my head]... MainStem. = '00'x /* default value for unused keys */ TailStem. = '' TailStem.0 = 0 x = 'Something to put in stem variable' y = 'key of Something' /* to add/update a key-value pair */ if MainStem.y = '00'x then do /* add new key? */ i = TailStem.0 + 1 TailStem.i = y TailStem.0 = i end MainStem.y = x /* extract key-value pairs */ for i = 1 to TailStem.0 y = TailStem.i say y '=' MainStem.y next i I agree that access to tail values would be a dandy addition to the language, either as a function or using some other syntax. I know some folks have written assembler functions to extract compound symbol's tails. -- jcf ~ zjcf at Dawn and John dot net Always ready to talk Rexx.
Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - VSAM tangent
On 2/18/2004 1:03 PM Jim Sibley wrote: snip When os/370 came out, it introduced a fixed block file system (VSAM) now standardized at 4K blocks, eerily similar to the block size of a page in memory and the page size on disk. Also introduced were fixed block devices that would handle both VSAM and paging nicely. snip2eof I wouldn't say that VSAM is standardized at 4K blocks. In general: A Control Interval can be any size from 512 to 8192 bytes in increments of 512 bytes, and from 8 KB to 32 KB in increments of 2 KB. The underlying physical record size is chosen by VSAM, and depends on device geometry. The physical record size is equal to or less than the CI size, and divides into CI size with no remainder. -- jcf
Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - still not recommde d?
On 2/18/2004 1:45 PM Richard Troth wrote: Good summary and analogy, Jim. Digging to the underlying *reason*, I believe that the MVS mindset is that what's physically on disk must match the logical odd or variable sizes (80 bytes and such). In the MVS world the concept of disk and the concept of filesystem are blurred. Along come new software systems like Linux. Voi-la! there is a new market for whatever a channel-attched disk is. Now there is a screaming case for FBA DASD. If this is true, then why doesn't some enterprizing vendor sell disk that emulates FBA devices, to be used by Linux, VSE and VM? And this ignores the old step children (VSE and VM) who would have benefitted from FBA decades ago. VSE and VM *did* (and as far as I know, still can) benefit from FBA. -- jcf
Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - VSAM tangent
On 2/18/2004 5:26 PM Jim Sibley wrote: John wrote: I wouldn't say that VSAM is standardized at 4K blocks. In general: A Control Interval can be any size from 512 to 8192 bytes in increments of 512 bytes, and from 8 KB to 32 KB in increments of 2 KB. The underlying physical record size is chosen by VSAM, and depends on device geometry. The physical record size is equal to or less than the CI size, and divides into CI size with no remainder. For quite some time, VSAM has been using the media manager as its device driver. The standard block on disk is 4K and all I/O's are 4K, even though the CI may change in size. Unless you have something older than a 3380 or an very old MVS, a track dump would show that the actual blocks on disk are 4K. sigh Media Manager? Sounds like there's a thing or two about z/OS I don't know. I've not seen reference to it in manuals (DFSMS: Using Data Sets, for example). Does VSAM know that all I/O's are 4K, or is the Media Manager a whole 'nother layer? Oh, nevermind... no need to educate me about this, especially on this fine list. I don't currently do mainframes for a living, and z/Linux really has nothing to do with z/OS's Media Manager (as far as I know). Also, if you looked at PDSE data sets and QSAM extended data sets, the blocksize on disk will be 4K! MVS has for some time been moving towards a fixed 4K block. The problem is the data in the field has to catch up. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries -- jcf
Re: Open Source thieves stealing my American code - SCO boss
Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: http://www.theregister.com/content/4/35042.html SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride has attempted to nudge the Homeland Security Advisory alert back up towards Red, by accusing foreign interests of undermining US national security in a draft letter to Congressmen. This is truly scary. McBride is now sending letters to a group of folks who just might believe his incoherent claims. -- jcf
Re: Apocalypse Now....
- Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Apocalypse Now Microsoft suspended as vendor by Israel JERUSALEM - The Israeli government has suspended acquisitions of computer +software from Microsoft, citing price issues and the company's refusal to sell +individual programs from its standard software package. http://www.iht.com/articles/123353.htm Even if you only have one reason for a decision, it's good to have another one just in case anyone asks... The move with Microsoft was a purely economic decision, the Finance Ministry spokeswoman said. ... The spokeswoman said encouraging the development of open-source technology had also played a role in its decision. I don't know why I'm being so picky this morning... especially when it's about a country moving from MS to open-source. -jcf
Re: master-slave terminology
John, OK, now we're getting somewhere. How can any organization sensitive to diversity issues, such as Los Angeles County, do business with Microsoft? At msdn.microsoft.com, a search for slave shows the use of the term to be not only tolerated and propagated (in discussions of hardware configurations), but also actively embraced by Microsoft itself in products such as Exchange Server and System Management Server. (They have a File Transfer Slave! I picture a group of [insert ethnic group here - most have been enslaved at one time or another] loading boxes and boxes of 80 column card decks onto a boat, beaten and whipped if they drop them and upset their delicate sequence...) Linux to the rescue! Since Open Source software such as Linux can be modified by users, there would be no problem. Any organization can simply scan/replace all source, changing master to management, and slave to staff. (Note: this allows retention of M/S designations wherever they may occur.) The true pity in all this is the money that will be spent pursuing this crock of sh!t. I hope that the originator and any supporters of this complaint are equally offended by any equipment bearing a label that says dummy. -jcf - Original Message - From: John Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: Re: master-slave terminology http://shopping.msn.com == Master Slave Network ?? - Slave trading ??
Re: Perpetuating Myths about the zSeries
- Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Perpetuating Myths about the zSeries On Windows this results in the famous general protection fault, on Unix it results in the famous segmentation fault, and on z/OS it is the famous SOC4. I wonder if there isn't a better way to deal with this problem then just aborting the program. Users find this problem really annoying. This is programmer error -- the hardware is doing exactly what it should do, methinks. Correcting the developers usually helps, although that's much harder. I've yet to find a programming language or toolset that doesn't do exactly what the programmer tells it to do, even if it's stupid...8-) So... you haven't used VBScript? Perhaps it barely qualifies as a programming language, but just today I wrote a script to delete a file, then create a new one with the same name. The new one has the same DateCreated as the file that was deleted. Unless you wait long enough between delete and create... then you get the current date/time. Working as designed, says Microsoft. :-/ -- jcf
Re: MSNBC: New Report Cites Benefits of Consolidating SAP on Linux an d the IBM Mainframe
- Original Message - From: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: Re: MSNBC: New Report Cites Benefits of Consolidating SAP on Linux an d the IBM Mainframe On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, John Ford wrote: The analysis, commissioned by IBM from The Sageza Group,... Not to be negative, but what would you expect the report to say? Are IT exec's going to give this report more weight than, say, a report commissioned by Microsoft? I would, wouldn't you? Yup, as would any rational being. But I'm talking about the majority of IT exec's. After all, IBM has bee known to promote other suppliers' software over its own, but as far as Microsoft is concerned, there is no other software to speak of:-) This is an advantage of a vendor that sells both hardware and software. It cuts down on the there's only one product that counts rhetoric. -jcf -- Lawyers: the 99% that are jerks spoil it for the rest of them.
Ratio of new bugs per fix
Quote from a NG post by a Microsoft techie, explaining why a certain bug will not be fixed in their .NET IDE: Many people don't know this, but the software industry has studied bugs and fixing bugs and has determined that (on average) every three lines of code modified to fix a bug introduces a new bug. Does the Open Source community have any similar study/statistic? Just curious. -jcf
Re: MSNBC: New Report Cites Benefits of Consolidating SAP on Linux an d the IBM Mainframe
The analysis, commissioned by IBM from The Sageza Group,... Not to be negative, but what would you expect the report to say? Are IT exec's going to give this report more weight than, say, a report commissioned by Microsoft? -jcf - Original Message - From: Dunbar, Maggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:35 PM Subject: MSNBC: New Report Cites Benefits of Consolidating SAP on Linux an d the IBM Mainframe ARMONK, NY, Aug. 21 - A new report from a leading technology analyst finds that enterprises can significantly improve system performance and reliability by moving their SAP applications to Linux on the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe... http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusCom/iwire08-21-112002.asp?sym=IBM I'd be interested in the comments of those who are better versed on the issues in this area than I am. -Maggie Maggie Dunbar Senior Tech Support Analyst MAINVIEW for Performance Assurance Suite BMC Software 880 Winter St Waltham, MA 02451
Re: DISA recommends compliance with Linux standard
- Original Message - From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:18 AM On Wednesday, 08/06/2003 at 10:38 EST, John Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM also is seeking Common Criteria certification for its z/VM visualization technology, ... Boy, those VM developers at IBM sure come up with sophisticated new features! ;-) It's really cool stuff. Special external visual cortex stimulation devices (EVCSDs, aka goggles) and over-the-ear auditory tranceivers (headphones) with Bluetooth connections to the Open Visualization Adapter. Though it you can get a TRON-like view of the [Master] Control Program and your guest LANs! Totally awesome!! ;-) It would sure help the intellectually challenged folks who have trouble visualizing several hundred penguins scampering about in one z/BIG box. -- jcf
Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert
Here, here! It's about time the virus writers got off their cans and automated their crap. It's bad enough they attack poor unsuspecting Windoze users - it just adds insult to injury to require the user to open an attachment or click on a link to get the dang virus going! This will save users a lot of aggravation and embarrassment. No more, Hello, helpdesk? I think I just kicked off another email virus -- sorry! - Original Message - From: Jere Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:36 PM Subject: Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert I'm confused... people are acting like this is a problem. Sounds more like one possible solution to me! Maybe not the best, but a start! Makes me want to go find a bunch of Windows boxes. -Jere On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:18:40PM -0500, Ryan Ware wrote: I'm desperately searching for a patch for my Amiga. -Original Message- From: paultz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert Naturally, this only effects Windows operating systems! Linux and MAC are not effected. Whew! You had me worried there for a bit I thought this had to do with an OS I actually use ;-) Paul ---end quoted text---
Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size
- Original Message - From: Jim Sibley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size Typical first reaction - its the paging subsystem and its not tuned correctly. I think in your first post, where you mentioned working set size, most of us began thinking paging. Later, touch a byte in each page furthers this assumption. You're talking memory cache misses, we're thinking page faults. snip My question still is, do other platforms (hardware) see this degradation. I have run this on my 300PL and you see two legs in the curve - when the hardware cache miss begins and when the real memory is exhausted and paging starts. I trust that the curve is more dramatic when paging starts! -jcf
Re: big and little endian
...and they didn't get sued for a billion dollars for stealing intellectual property? Everybody knows that a handful of misguided mavericks can't create anything that sophisticated outside a corporate setting (just ask SCO). -- jcf - Original Message - From: Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:30 PM Subject: Re: big and little endian Yea, they were really unhappy that the 8085 didn't have any of there ideas incorporated into it, so they started Zilog and built the Z80. snip2eof
Re: Porting Problems
- Original Message - From: Yogish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: Re: Porting Problems Hi Is there any other alternative to modifying or rewriting the compiler file. I would rather be able to use some tool and make the binaries work. The compiler file for mumps is a huge file. Regards Yogish Maybe rewrite the application in another language? There might be tools to help convert Mumps to a more common language. -- jcf
Re: DISA recommends compliance with Linux standard
- Original Message - From: paultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:12 AM http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/23035-1.html IBM also is seeking Common Criteria certification for its z/VM visualization technology, ... Boy, those VM developers at IBM sure come up with sophisticated new features! ;-) -- jcf
Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...
- Original Message - From: Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: An update to the little script I post the other day... Now that you mention it, I worked with an IBM assembler on a System3 that had a similar limit. This was due to the fact that the mnemonics were in a fixed position on the card, I think in position 10, which left 8 characters for the definition of symbols. I would bet that there was something similar on the System360 assembler. I think the System7 had a similar limit as well, for the same reason. System/7 !?!?!?! I haven't heard mention of that in decades. Is there a Linux port for it? I would guess that snip2eof -- jcf
Re: Open Source Community doubts SCO's claims
db, Unrelated to phonetically-induced upgrades, this just popped into my silly head... David Boies' pick-up line: Hey, babe... want some litigation for free? David Boyes' pick-up line: Hey, babe... want a copy of Linux for free? I'd say your vocation puts you at a disadvantage! -jcf - Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Open Source Community doubts SCO's claims Sigh. There goes my free business class upgrades8-( -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ferguson, Neale Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Source Community doubts SCO's claims Interesting times for SCO's lawyer though: Lawyer Boies Faces Ethics Charges http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17302-2003Jul19.html
Re: eBay Now Powered By IBM
...and which Big Blue hardware? - Original Message - From: Coffin Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: eBay Now Powered By IBM Hi Rich, But the BIG question is which OS are they running on Big Blue hardware? :) Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-3123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: eBay Now Powered By IBM From the announcements page: Other improvements include customized Register and Sign In links based on a member's status, as well as easier access to tools such as My eBay, Community, and Help. Next to the header on the U.S. site, we have displayed a logo for IBM, who powers the eBay system. In the future, the logo will link to more information regarding their technology services. On Monday 21 July 2003 01:45 pm, you wrote: I don't know if you've noticed, but eBay is now evidently running on Big Blue hardware. Does anybody know if they are runing Linux/390? That would be a major feather in somebody's cap! :) http://www.ebay.com/ Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-3123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI rsmrcina at wi.rr.com rsmrcina at dsgroup.com Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org
Re: Webinar announcement
- Original Message - From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:33 AM Subject: Re: Webinar announcement On Iau, 2003-07-17 at 13:17, Nick Laflamme wrote: THis will confuse most people outside the US. Please, times and dates in UTC, or for the older, GMT. You don't give your fellow non-Americans nearly enough credit. Giving UTC or the offset as well is good practice. Like writing dates in a non ambiguous format so the US doesnt turn up on the wrong day ;) Oh, just use TOD format and annoy everyone equally.
Re: SCO - more water torture
- Original Message - From: Lionel Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: SCO - more water torture Another good article on SCO's water torture of the Linux community http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_27/b3840089.htm The date on that article is July 7, 2003. Did I have a[nother] five day black-out? Or is the SCO fiasco now in a time warp? If so, this SCO stuff is causing major problems! -jcf AichTeeTeePeeColonSlashSlashDubbaDubbaDubbaDotChezFordDotCom
Re: Background on SCO
Perhaps it's from the military slang for infantry (i.e. the grunts who do the dirty work). Based on the sound made when a tank runs over infantry. :( -jcf - Original Message - From: Joe Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Background on SCO These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention. We're crunchies now? Hmmm. I wonder where that came from. On Thursday 19 June 2003 09:46, you wrote: An interesting background to the SCO suit. http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html?partner=yahoor eferrer= Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM:lbdyck
Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check
- Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check What means frell? Same as most unrecognized words starting with f. Verify this and other groovy slang via http://www.urbandictionary.com. Sadly, urbandictionary's definition of groovy hardly does justice to the concept. -jcf
Re: Gartner hedges on Linux
[Gartner] also suggested that companies should perform due diligence on Linux-i.e., inspect the source code and attempt to verify its integrity-and consult with their legal departments before deployment. Verify its integrity? IANAL, but this sounds like before using Linux, I should compare the Linux source code with Unix source code, to make sure there's no match. But, how am I supposed to get the Unix source code? I must not understand attempt to verify its integrity. -jcf - Original Message - From: Lionel Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: Gartner hedges on Linux http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=566 Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM:lbdyck
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- Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:57 PM On a -0A1, the general purpose CP is crippled or slowed down. If you can afford an IFL, then the IFL runs at full speed even on a crippled z/800. Are you running a z/OS or z/OS.e workload at all? If not, then I would suggest that you should have gotten a -0LF which is Linux only. Of course, I don't know the cost of a -0A1 vs. a -0LF, so I may be off-base. Your original email seemed to imply that this machine was Linux only, but I may be misunderstanding. From his first original post: i am using suse sles8 31 bit for s/390 on a z/800 0a1 running vm 4.3 with 2 vse's and 6 linux instances -jcf Minor celebration at http://www.ChezFord.com
Re: CIO network article
I don't quite get the statement, IBM says it does not support its larger z900 series mainframes ... using only Linux, ... What does he mean by support? -jcf - Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: CIO network article http://cin.earthweb.com/trends/article.php/2171451
Re: CIO network article
Yup. But you can run Linux on that standard processor. The author's target audience will (maybe? probably? certainly?) assume that he means that Linux can't run all by itself on a z900. No big deal. Just normal press stuff at which to poke fun. -jcf - Original Message - From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Re: CIO network article You cannot buy an IFL-only z900. There will be at least one standard processor in the box. Mark Post -Original Message- From: John Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CIO network article I don't quite get the statement, IBM says it does not support its larger z900 series mainframes ... using only Linux, ... What does he mean by support? -jcf - Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: CIO network article http://cin.earthweb.com/trends/article.php/2171451
Re: CIO network article
- Original Message - From: Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: CIO network article Yup. But you can run Linux on that standard processor. The author's target audience will (maybe? probably? certainly?) assume that he means that Linux can't run all by itself on a z900. No big deal. Just normal press stuff at which to poke fun. I think it's a pretty tiny nit to pick at. The key messages link Linux with the mainframe, leave the impression that it's a thoroughly practical thing to do, and the article closes with IBM's unique selling proposition for the mainframe - that it doesn't break. I've worked with journalists for over twenty years - http://homepages.tesco.net/~Phil.Payne/index.html - and I've been amazed on many occasions at how close they can get to the nub of the issue very quickly. Before you castigate the reporter for a tiny oversight, remember that every article they write goes through sub-editors who know NOTHING about ANYTHING. I have seen reporters in tears - I have had reporters call me in advance of publication to apologise for the galley proof distortions of their stories that they've just been presented with. Ya, sometimes I nit-pick just because it's there. So, perhaps I should heed this admonishment?: To speak down of others is a dishonest and indirect way of praising oneself; let us be above such transparent egotisms. ...and save my nit-picking for code reviews, where it might actually benefit. -jcf
Re: Peter Huesken is afwezig.
- Original Message - From: Ross Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Peter Huesken is afwezig. At 19:45 03/30/2003 -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: Actually partner, I don't I find them to be a waste of my time, and of network bandwidth. Me neither - I collect them for posterity! Check out the gallery at http://www.geocities.com/rosspatterson/OutOfTheOffice.html! Ross Patterson Hmmm... looks like nice fodder for the spam address harvesters. -jcf
Whither Tuxedo.org?
I didn't grep WTHOT. So, I hit Favorites, and bop to http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/. But... I don't go to tuxedo.org. I end up at some other.org. Tried it many times, got to many different .orgs, but a few of them multiple times. Mostly realted to Linux or Open Source. Weird. Some DNS server bunged up? Tuxedo.org bunged up? I've rebooted my Win2k, still no joy (related to Tuxedo, that is). nslookup says Tuxedo.org is 66.92.236.83. Using http://66.92.236.83 gives the same results... so it ain't DNS.(?) [Ya, I know... WTHOT = Way The Heck Off Topic] -jcf HomeSweetHome href=http://www.ChezFord.com/
Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question
-Original Message-
Behalf Of Richard Troth
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:49 PM
Dave Jones of Sine Nomine has written an EXEC that will do
just what you want, in the guest's CMS startup phase:
http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/SWAPGEN.EXEC
Mr. Nit Picky sez that Jones' EXEC does exactly the right thing.
snip
-- RMT
I humbly offer a minor code simplification/performance tweek to
SWAPGEN.EXEC. rambleIt doesn't change the outcome one speck, and thus
probably isn't worth changing since it isn't an exec that's called a
zillion times a day. But it's all I've got to offer tonight - please
forgive if this is impertinent. In more frequently used code and/or
longer strings, this change would be more worthy of consideration.
Somewhat more consequential than my LCD-on-a-toaster idea./ramble
swap_blk = ''
do i = 1 to 1027
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(0)
end
can be replaced with...
swap_blk = left('',1027,'00'x) /* pad--1027 */
and similarily:
do i = 1033 to 4086
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(0)
end
can be replaced with...
swap_blk = left(swap_blk,4086,'00'x) /* pad--4086 */
And at this time of night, I haven't much self control, so I can't help
but offer...
swap_blk = ''
do i = 1 to 1027
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(0)
end
pages = trunc((blks * 512)/4096) - 1
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(1)
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(pages,4)
do i = 1033 to 4086
swap_blk = swap_blk || d2c(0)
end
swap_blk = swap_blk || sig
could be reduced (at great risk of obfuscation) to...
swap_blk = left(right('01'x || d2c(trunc((blks * 512)/4096) -
1,4),,
1032,'00'x),,
4086,'00'x) || sig
/* geez I hope I coded that right! */
-jcf
Code tweeked while-u-wait.
No charge for Rexx.
Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download
Perhaps NOW my family's Homestead Configuration Manager will allow me to install my old 486 with Linux in the kitchen. Perhaps. Anybody got an old Tenet terminal so I can put the CPU in the basement? Counter space is precious. Maybe an LCD screen on the side of the toaster, and keyboard in a drawer? - Original Message - From: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, David Boyes wrote: Since I got about 50 requests for the recipie macros, I've put them up for download at http://www.sinenomine.net/fun. The package is a single tar file with the macros, some scripts to process the recipies into nicely formatted pages and/or print full books with indexes, and the original 100 or so recipies that make up volume 1 of the Usenet Cookbook. Prereqs are a working nroff/troff installation and some knowledge of how scripting works. (BTW, if you plan to use these on Linux, check your distribution for a2ps and ps2pdf. These two utilities are very useful for producing printed output from these macros. ) I'll be adding additional recipies to this area later. Enjoy. At last!! The promise we could use our computers to track our recipes is realised! -- Cheers John. Join the Linux Support by Small Businesses list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
Re: They wouldn't do this unless they had to
Competition from Linux? Is SeattlePi a legitimate news source? Sounds like one of those fake-news sites. They had me believing it until... It's really about being fair to customers, Microsoft's Sitner said. Huh? I can't quite get my mind around that sentence. ;-) Microsoft ... working ... to develop software and server computers that can let a network automatically make adjustments for spikes in demand. The network would be able to shift more servers, processors and storage to an area that's overloaded and remove the additional resources when they aren't needed What a novel idea! -jcf -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: They wouldn't do this unless they had to http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/112430_msftserver14.shtml Microsoft made the changes amid competition from the lower-priced Linux operating system and database programs from IBM and Oracle Corp. In August, Microsoft switched to a new sales plan that raised prices for many clients, causing some to consider rivals such as Linux. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
Re: SCO FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCO FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM I just checked, and SCOX has a market value of $28.9M. At this price it would be reasonable for IBM to buy SCO and avoid litigation. I have to wonder if that is what SCO has in mind. Hmmm... what other corporation in our little community has lots of cash, buys up competitors like candy, has a lawyer or two on their staff, and would love to have a sharp stick to poke at both IBM and Linux? Oh, and they also could use a decent operating system in their product line. Winix? [Just noticed: Outlook's spellchecker suggests Wine in place of Winix.] -jcf I post, therefore I spam. www.ChezFord.com
Re: Microsoft Buys Connectix
Rambling to the choir: Imagine that I'm an IT manager planning a large server farm - hundreds of web, file, print, database, and application servers. Hoping for a cost savings by implementing many virtual servers per real server, I look at two alternatives. So, let's see... Should I go with a hardware platform from a company that for the last 40 years has been focused on large reliable systems supporting thousands of concurrent tasks, plus a machine virtualizer that's been around for 30 years, coupled with a lean, secure open source operating system designed to support multiple users and functions on any platform I choose... Or should I go with a hardware platform born and raised to serve one user who doesn't mind the occasional three-finger-salute when an undeterminable error grinds it to a halt, plus a machine virtualizer that is real handy for desktop testing, coupled with a server version of a bloated, wobbly proprietary operating system that has a hard time juggling a dozen mostly idle applications for a single user that doesn't mind clicking Disable Macros or Save it to disk to avoid worms viruses? (OK, the last bit will be overcome by Palladium. Ya, right!) __ It's going to take a long time for the Intel/Connectix/Windows combination to allow much scaling. IBM/VM/Linux had a bit of a scaling problem that was quickly overcome with the timer patch will Windows have similar issues? Intel certainly has some engineering to do (will the upcoming 1-4MB cache be enough?) to support the massive context-switching required by Machine Virtualization (that z/900 does so well), and _that_ will take a bit longer than the timer patch. It obviously will require the customer to replace hardware. I'm sure it will be sold as an amazing advance in CPU design. Will Intel/Connectix/Windows scalability be able to catch up to IBM/Linux before losing too much of its server market share? The more Microsoft touts server consolidation, the more folks will want it... so more folks will notice IBM/Linux as an alternative. -jcf Speaking only for (and mostly to) myself. - Original Message - From: Ledbetter, Scott E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: Microsoft Buys Connectix I think Microsoft is seeing VM/Linux as an opportunity/threat. I guess this explains why Connectix has refused to return my phone calls about their Virtual Server product. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=40038 Scott Ledbetter StorageTek
Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat
Phil, I went to the article referred to at the start of this thread (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.asp), and can't find your quote. Is it from something the article links to? -jcf - Original Message - From: Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat The most oft-cited reason given by larger companies with 2,000+ employees for not installing Linux is that the proprietary nature of the software their companies depends upon precludes them from open-source development. I don't understand the foregoing. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat
Maybe they think that if they use open source software as part of their proprietary software that they would have to make their software open. AFAIK, it doesn't matter unless you distribute your software with the OSS stuff embedded (and thus no longer open). If I'm wrong... straighten me out... -jcf - Original Message - From: Rick Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat The most oft-cited reason given by larger companies with 2,000+ employees for not installing Linux is that the proprietary nature of the software their companies depends upon precludes them from open-source development. I don't understand the foregoing. I don't either. -- RMT
Linux-390 List Archives
I've been asked to ask a question about volume backups for disaster recovery. Being a good list member, I want to RTFA before posting the question. I've done a search of the archives at Marist, but the response time is painfully slow. Is there a better way to access the Linux-390 list archives? Thanks, -jcf
Re: Linux-390 List Archives
Mark, Hmm. Always glad to induce projects upon other folks. Let us know when it's online. ;-) Noticing that the timestamp on your post is earlier than my question's post, I'm guessing that you already finished this project before breakfast? -jcf - Original Message - From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Linux-390 List Archives John, What I do is send a get linux-vm 0212 command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every month (changing the file name, of course) and pull down the entire archive. I have a complete set starting from 9812. I grep through them to find what I'm looking for. Very fast, and well worth the 54MB of disk space. Hmm. Now that I think about it, maybe it would be a nice thing to do for people to hang a zipped copy of all that off linuxvm.org, and keep it updated on a monthly basis. Hmm. Mark Post -Original Message- From: John Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux-390 List Archives I've been asked to ask a question about volume backups for disaster recovery. Being a good list member, I want to RTFA before posting the question. I've done a search of the archives at Marist, but the response time is painfully slow. Is there a better way to access the Linux-390 list archives? Thanks, -jcf
Re: Linux time/date getting skewed
Does the timer patch rely on the CPU timer as an accurate timekeeper? It can slow down due to cycle stealing by I/O activity. But, I'm thinking that no matter how Linux wakes up, it would HAVE to use STCKE to have any hope of keeping accurate time (without NTP). In effect, STCKE would replace NTP's function. -jcf - Original Message - From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Linux time/date getting skewed I'll assume you're not running NTP for the obvious reason that it negates the timer patch benefit, but we've seen some relationship to frequency of disk I/O and network I/O to how bad the timekeeping becomes. I haven't been able to pin it down either.
Moving Linux Volumes
I've been asked to ask: - I have a Linux Lpar using 3 volumes and we are moving to a new physical disk unit. How do I copy the 3 volumes to the new devices?? Other LPAR's are OS/390. No VM. - -jcf
Tux.txt (eServer Magazine, turn left)
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Re: CPU Arch Security [was: Re: Probably the first published shell code]
It doesn't matter where the instruction resides - the key in the current PSW determines stomping rights. -jcf - Original Message - From: Ward, Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: Re: CPU Arch Security [was: Re: Probably the first published shell code] snip if the storage key where the insturction is executed from doesn't match the storage key of the target of the instruction, you get a protection exception raised and, generally, your program terminated.
Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390
Ron, I admire efforts to reduce wasted bandwidth, but I think you trimmed a bit too much from the post to which you're referring. Unrelated to that... I tried to get to the phrack site, and got our THE SITE YOU HAVE TRIED TO ACCESS IS RESTRICTED BY company name SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. from our corporate firewall. g I guess I'll have to check it out when I get home. -jcf - Original Message - From: Ronald Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390 good point
Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390
This is the first time my innocent eyes have been tempted to look in this direction... I find it amusing that the technique requires masking x'00' and x'0A' - I'd think that no matter what platform, you'd have this problem when cramming binary stuff down the system's throat. Mission Impossible theme playing softly in the background I suppose to these folks, it's just another hoop to gleefully jump through to get the job done. sigh All that wasted energy and talent. -jcf [Thanks, MKP, for sending me this fine publication from which our corporate firewall protects me. Of course, this made me waste valuable company time perusing it. You just indirectly contributed to the rising cost of healthcare.]
Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390
Regarding credit for reducing healthcare costs... I'd gladly give you credit, but first, we'd have to USE such a system for at least one mission-critical application. In the words of our computer systems steering committee regarding Linux, Additional operating systems would not only further dilute our current capabilities, but would also require an investment that would prove to be cost prohibitive, exceeding possible benefits to the business. They prefer the reliability, flexibility, manageability and low low TCO of Microsoft products, from server to desktop. So rather than spend my time writing Perl scripts on Apache servers, it's VBScript and Outlook Forms on Exchange servers for me! There... I admitted it. :-( -jcf - Original Message - From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:22 PM Subject: Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390 Ah, but it's not binary stuff, which is why the masking is necessary. x'00' = end of string and x'0a' = line feed, so ASCII bash scripts that are going to be executed can't have them embedded directly. As far as being an indirect cause of rising healthcare costs, do I also get the credit for reducing them when one of your systems is _not_ cracked? :)
Re: Free Software - triggers junk?
! in the subject field is one indicator of likely spam. We just have to not let ourselves get too excited about things. -jcf Webmaster of my domain http://www.chezford.com - Original Message - From: Henry Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: Free Software - triggers junk? Hello from Gregg C Levine That's screwy. Mark, that decidedly important post of yours was flagged as junk mail by Outlook when it landed here. ... I'm wondering if the phrase Free Software does it. - Hence this reply is a test of my guess. --henry schaffer P.S. If you are interested in this topic, our resource page may be helpful, it is at: http://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/
Re: One Page Linux Manual
Duplex, man - DUPLEX! -jcf - Original Message - From: Ledbetter, Scott E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: Re: One Page Linux Manual The error I noticed was that it is a TWO Page Linux Manual, not a One Page Linux Manual. Scott Ledbetter StorageTek -Original Message- From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 31, 2002 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One Page Linux Manual What was the error so I don't fall into it? thx Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM:lbdyck Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/31/2002 07:53:28 AM: Lionel, I took a quick look at it. In general it looks fine, but I found at least one error in it that makes me leery of recommending it to people with little experience without looking at it a lot more closely. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: One Page Linux Manual I just stumbled across this and thought I'd share it. http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~squadron/ Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM:lbdyck
Re: Another consolidation
--- David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:48:11 -0400 From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another consolidation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gee, guess the trade press will believe me next time...8-) db, Ya. Right. They'll see the light now. You must have had some good sh!t in that bong... ;-) -jcf insert witty tag line here Do you Yahoo!? I don't anymore. Well, not much.
Re: strange emails
Chris, So... I should stop trying to figure out the Top-Level Domain for WWW.NMJKPOIUYTREWQ ? -jcf --- Chris Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for the bizarre emails coming from this address. My 5 year old son thought that he would be like daddy. chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/
