Re: Bill Johnson

2023-09-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
quick unplug" or some warning? What about rights of users affected by unplugging, who are not going/willing to use discord? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's h

Re: emacs (was: Re: Has anyone)

2023-08-23 Thread Tomasz Rola
n-relevant dir, this brought me info files there, and entered INFOPATH variable with some dir into a script I use to start emacs (I use scripts to start various complicated programs, I find it less complicated than click-and-pray). As you can see, everything was in there but it still was fun to make an

emacs (was: Re: Has anyone)

2023-08-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
ode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgMode and some obligatory short movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnMntOQjs7Q -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's hom

emacs (was: Re: Has anyone)

2023-08-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
ostly matching the keys I used with the ISPF editor to insert, > delete, split and join lines etc. U-hum. I never felt such inclination (except once when I was very very young). Learning the tool and using it well enough, seems like attanaible goal for me :-). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C prog

Re: Has anyone

2023-08-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
n a single emacs process, just in case. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then t

Re: AI wipes out humanity?

2023-04-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
to > keep in mind that an AI isn't of that sort. It may have that impulse, but > so far that's just an assumption, no? I suppose humans are good enough for the job of wiping humans. Any AI worth its salt will just sit and wait, being polite and helpfull. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C p

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
h good keyboard and some coffee. HTH -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C prog

Re: What eats spaces [was Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff?]

2022-03-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
paces somewhere on the road to my mailbox... Maybe this is not very important but sure it would be nice to know. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory.

Re: Another old mainframe comparison

2021-12-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
Try to animate an icon using just pen and paper, like computer users had to do decades ago. They lacked proper graphics, they had to draw icons in their notebooks. Still not convinced? Okay, so try animating your icon with pen every 30 seconds. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked w

Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2021-12-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
to support - so, for example, some Schemes will support Unicode, some will only support ASCII. Other LISP dialects are even a bit more limited in their use. Prolog - quite interesting language which I should learn one day... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer ha

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
may also be a reasonably good chess player. Good enough to improve his game over time. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
use "*I* have to shine". When millions of buffalos are running to the cliff, the only clever thing one can do is run off their way. Just MHO... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master

Re: Mainframe co-op

2020-07-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
Perhaps this kind of spirit is not compitible with spirit of IBM? Perhaps one not only needs to imagine what could have happened, but also why something does not happen / have not happened? No, I do not have the answers. I think a good question is worth a thousand answers, perhaps. -- Rega

Re: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... )

2020-06-13 Thread Tomasz Rola
f somebody's mail separately, but if others insist on doing it their way, sure, it is _their_ mail and they can write it any way they like. So can I. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "

Re: How to change the default '.java' extension to '.jav'?

2020-04-14 Thread Tomasz Rola
CPUs which can boot it is going to shrink dramatically. OTOH, some folks are hardware tinkerers and some old firmware programmators might only work with DOS programs via parallel port etc. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: Documentation just takes up too much space | Computerworld

2020-03-17 Thread Tomasz Rola
will not reproduce it here because bots. Send them list of titles, authors, year of printing etc, so they can say what they already have. Sometimes they have it, still waiting in a pack for processing. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. *

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: Documentation just takes up too much space | Computerworld

2020-03-17 Thread Tomasz Rola
or else I am cooked... because I am a paper hoarder and to make place for new equipment I have to carve out niche in a heap. The other solution is to prepare for digging tunnels. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As

Re: OT Boeing flight software

2020-02-28 Thread Tomasz Rola
ng lost in the woods, loosing big picture, and "it passes the tests, fly it and go home". So, now they also cut the testing? As a joke, there was also a suggestion that part of aviation software is being written in Javascript. Perhaps not so much a joke, in a future. -- Regards, Tomasz Ro

Re: Job Posting

2020-01-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:38:48AM -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > Where do people get the notion that engineers have no sense of humor? > People are wrong about so many things and you complain about this one? :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Bu

Re: Job Posting

2020-01-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
ight, I guess, but AFAICT the name says 1/5 of 1/3, i.e. 1/15 ... Oy, not good. Fortunately for them, nobody is that picky to notice. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, ma

Re: Water-cooled 360s?

2019-12-09 Thread Tomasz Rola
panies including Mitsubishi and Fujitsu. (quotation stop) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** di

Re: IBM HR made me lie to US govt, says axed VP in age-discrim legal row: I was ordered to cover up layoffs of older workers • The Register

2019-01-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
art by replacing themselves with millenials. As the saying says, an army of rabbits commanded by lion is worth more than an army of lions commanded by rabbit. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-13 Thread Tomasz Rola
veryone. > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > ee...@us.ibm.com (for a couple more days) Good bye and good luck. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the pro

Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

2018-12-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
used to its ways - for example, Esc-q (M-q in Emacs speak) preserves indentation etc. It is meant for paragraph reformatting, I think. Works like a charm with reformatting bullet/number/alfa/dash lists etc in some modes which recognise such textual constructs. HTH -- Regards, Tomasz

Re: SHARE St.Louis 2018 Proceedings Extraction Error - Solved!

2018-10-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:30:33PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > [...] > > Why not a plain ol' .zip? The greater the variety of nested > > envelopes, the greater > > I think it is because *.zip is (almos

Re: SHARE St.Louis 2018 Proceedings Extraction Error - Solved!

2018-10-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: [...] > Why not a plain ol' .zip? The greater the variety of nested > envelopes, the greater I think it is because *.zip is (almost) useless for spreading viruses. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked w

Re: (Very) old HMC versions

2018-09-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
nough, you may try your luck here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/ Other than this, I do not know - HTH. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** direc

Re: Encryption keys and EM waves

2018-08-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:00:39PM +0200, R.S. wrote: [...] > > Note: the effort paid for the attack depends on expected value. And > attacker usually choose the weakest link in the chain, usually > people. Bingo. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether

Re: Encryption keys and EM waves

2018-08-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
ical separation in between. Something like this. I really have no idea if this is the right way to do it, so I am guessing. Maybe even three batteries. That is no pocket device - a suitcase phone. Much easier would be to simply not have anything important on a phone, however smart. -- Regar

Re: Encryption keys and EM waves

2018-08-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
eople talking about security on this list - grab the archive, look for matching phrases, no need to know when the said talk took place - if it is there, it will be found, if not, then searching next mailing list can deliver. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer ha

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

2018-07-12 Thread Tomasz Rola
' - does not glow its own light, and from afar can be mistaken for glossy paper in strange notebook. On which you tap from time to time. Mine has sudoku and chess. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

2018-07-12 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:29:51PM +0200, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2018-07-11 o 20:07, Tom Marchant pisze: > >On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:06:59 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > >BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator > > >on PC? > >Sure, i

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

2018-07-11 Thread Tomasz Rola
ere are/were few of them on the net, one could login as guest and/or apply for normal account). So, it was not only z, some time ago. BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator on PC? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.

Re: THINK (was: IBM shuffles mainframe docs ...)

2018-06-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:24:25AM -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > Спасибо. > > Charles Uhum. The preferable word is "Dziękuję", to which I would say "Nie ma za co" (roughly, "No problem"). :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer ask

Re: THINK (was: IBM shuffles mainframe docs ...)

2018-06-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
I don’t have any idea > what the difference is in Russian.) думать -> "to think", i.e. infinitive, a basic verb form думай -> "think!", i.e. imperative mood, a verb in form of a command directed to someone -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer ask

Re: OT: AMD Eypc processor -- RAM encrypt/decrypt built in

2018-05-28 Thread Tomasz Rola
SEVered: Subverting AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09604v1 -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

2018-05-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
f its incarnations? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C p

Re: mainframe distribution

2018-03-26 Thread Tomasz Rola
41469583L0 This gives about 4k z/OS and 1k VSE worldwide. Quite in agreement with estimation given few posts earlier by Phil Smith, if I recall correctly. However, I do not claim that my method is worth anything. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's

Re: XKCD's take on Meltdown.

2018-01-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:21:15AM -0600, John McKown wrote: > https://xkcd.com/1938/ > "Honestly, I've been assuming we were doomed ever since I learned about rowhammer". This. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **

Re: Psst...It's not really a secret

2017-06-07 Thread Tomasz Rola
Already subscribed. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C p

Re: Psst...It's not really a secret

2017-06-07 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:15:31PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:04:49AM -0400, Edward Finnell wrote: > > Ibm-main is 31! > > > > Been quite a ride. Kudos to Darren for tending us this long and all the > > developers and coders who have helpe

Re: Psst...It's not really a secret

2017-06-07 Thread Tomasz Rola
ow, I know, Friday is a day for such topics. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C p

Re: OT: Oldest Computer

2017-04-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
or "user days" (as given by /usr/bin/time; and was IO time accounted for)? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the pro

Re: XKCD is on target again.

2016-12-09 Thread Tomasz Rola
now will be safe. If he wants starting point, tell him to look into Forth interpreter in bash. Once he adapts Forth to his needs, he can have pretty much anything else in it (sure, this is not very capable Forth dialect from what I have seen, but seems like excellent tool for building custom repl).

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 05:27:37PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:07:20 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > >I could have written that poor MUAs lead to respondends being unable > >to trim their emails to manageable size ... > > > I've heard

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
knee, why not. First, it is their knee. Then, they might find it pleasurable. And besides, someone could have thought I wanted to start a flame, while I have better things to do :-) . -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 05:26:25PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: [...] > Hope this helps somebody. Sending via listserv interface to the list's > archive seems to be source of the problem - I have not had time to log > in there and see myself, but according to Bill W. there is no "repl

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
far, the "message-id" field is not included, thus reply would not have "In-Reply-To" field either, or have wrong value. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on t

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola
e my first keyboard macro in mutt, if possible. If you would like to try something, I will try to help. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And t

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola
orting with procmail worked fine, until one day spam started to come from mailing lists themselves. After that, having messages in many different folders lost lot of its charm, so I do not sort nowadays. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola
ason. And it took me only few minutes, who knows what is there waiting for me to have another look. Thus, I think you do not have to do anything particular, because things are messed up in so many places, the big picture will look the same. Now, stop worrying and I... will love scripting, perhaps

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola
you, m'kay? But when I send this message, I will chase down your answer to zMan and manually link it. Again... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** d

Re: Linux

2016-03-26 Thread Tomasz Rola
o, because majority of tools are available on both OSes, or so I believe. I understand that with Linux one has to display a lot of "do it yourself" attitude, but with FreeBSD even more so (which does not frighten me at all). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked w

Re: John Gilmore - mo postimgs since 11.05.2015

2015-11-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
re to exchange a mail or two with him off list, the last one was December last year. So I too wonder, from time to time, where John W Gilmore is and what is he doing. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

2015-02-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz

Re: Check out The Imitation Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2014-12-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened

Re: Check out The Imitation Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2014-12-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
to wait, it would have been a long wait. -- [1] Schmidt was arrested by Germans in 1943 and months later committed suicide in prison. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home

Re: Check out The Imitation Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2014-12-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 03:17:32PM -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 5 December 2014 at 13:36, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl wrote: [...] From what I've gathered so far, up to early 1970-ties the popular knowledge was that Enigma was unbreakable, and at the same time some derivative of it had

Re: OT - Bash Vunerability

2014-09-27 Thread Tomasz Rola
help a lot. Of course this works best if one didn't used bash specific features... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became

Re: OT - Bash Vunerability

2014-09-26 Thread Tomasz Rola
have no idea if I know anything, maybe my pills ran out long ago and they allow me to post as occupational therapy. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory

Re: OT - Bash Vunerability

2014-09-26 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: [...] process, by using declare -F. = (627 1): declare -F Ooops, should be declare -f. Sorry. declare -f fingerics declare -f insertblade declare -f prjstart declare -f setcvs declare -f subshell declare -F dumped me

Re: Ada's fate (was: New JVM based language)

2014-08-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
-- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened

Re: Ada's fate

2014-08-23 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: rto...@ceti.com.pl (Tomasz Rola) writes: So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that Ada is obsolete makes much more sense, even though at the time I read it, it sounded rude and immoral

Re: Ada's fate (was: New JVM based language)

2014-08-23 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:31:45AM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:26:03 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that Ada is obsolete makes much more sense, ... (citation needed) -- gil http://compgroups.net

Re: New JVM based language.

2014-08-13 Thread Tomasz Rola
at github examples, I think the language is rather ugly. Whatever happened to Ada? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-13 Thread Tomasz Rola
their own stuff? Of course if Win8 proves as unusable as I read it is, they will have to switch to something else, MacOS, maybe? Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home

Re: Java Security?

2013-01-12 Thread Tomasz Rola
I want to watch video on y-tube, I turn plugins on, when I stop watching I turn them off and browse somewhere else. When I am very suspicious I check selected pages with text browsers, like lynx and w3m and elinks (usually only one of them). Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked

Re: OT: Hum, MS raising prices?

2012-12-04 Thread Tomasz Rola
install their products on bare hardware (how wise I was 8 years ago :-) ). I guess I can move virtual machine image however I please, can't I? Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-11-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.1211012035260.32...@tau.ceti.pl, on 11/01/2012 at 10:04 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl said: For example, I have never so far needed autocompletion in editor. Never needed, or never found it useful when

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-31 Thread Tomasz Rola
only had experience with one group. They may still have some valuable insights but I think they are also more probable to lack perspective (broader look). If someone knows only programming by IDE, I would expect he lacks perspective. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether