Re: Java SDK for SuSE 11 on System z

2014-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
Debian however have got openjdk-8 built and running for s390x, and that is the open source openjdk, not the Oracle one. So if Debian can do it, SUSE should be able to. David On Saturday 27 September 2014 23:54:19 you wrote: > >>> On 9/28/2014 at 01:43 AM, Cameron Seay wrote: > > Hello again. >

Re: different take on Java 6 question

2008-11-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 21 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > found the IBM link for jdk downloads - now a different question. > > Will the 31-bit jdk work - and work well - in a 64-bit linux environment. > We run the 32-bit java on 64-bit AIX without any difficulty since quite a > few of our apps refuse

Re: OORexx

2005-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 19:10, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Tom Shilson wrote: > > Does anyone want to try this out? Let me know. > > Builds fine on Debian Sarge (about rc2 vintage, not updated recently) > on S/390. > > Adam > > --

Re: Acrobat Reader for s390

2004-09-23 Thread David Goodenough
I do not think there is anything in htdig that requires Acrobat reader, yes you need a PDF viewer, but GhostView or Xpdf will do the job quite happily, and are sure to be available (or at least portable) as they are open source where acrobat is not. David Carolus Walraven

Re: Performance Monitoring for Linux

2004-06-17 Thread David Goodenough
Have you tried OpenNMS? (opennms.org). David Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bal.com> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: Performance Monitoring for Linux

Re: Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread David Goodenough
Try Debian. It takes a rather different approach, you only download the bits you need as you install them rather than downloading everything and then using what you need to install. Its a bit harder to install, but once installed its much easier to maintain although it you are not familiar with L

Re: Root passwd

2004-06-03 Thread David Goodenough
icons. One more hurdle for the intruder to surmount! David Goodenough cc: Sent by: Linux onSubject: Re: Root passwd 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root passwd

2004-06-03 Thread David Goodenough
0 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 06/03/2004 05:06 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port David Goodenough wrote: >You can also use sudo, and that g

Re: Root passwd

2004-06-03 Thread David Goodenough
You can also use sudo, and that gives two things. Firstly very few people actually need to know the root password, and secondly it logs everything that is done using sudo and by whom, giving you an audit trait. Authentication is done with their own passwords and the /etc/sudoers file which says w

Re: RMFPMS

2004-04-12 Thread David Goodenough
No, /proc is actually direct access to the kernel modules, it is not buffered in memory. There are read and write routines which get called when needed in each bit of the kernel that provides /proc data. David Tom Shilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: Redhat Version 3

2004-02-29 Thread David Goodenough
Yes, just burn them to CD. But remember that this is an image of the whole CD, not a file to be copied to a CD. There will be an option somewhere on your CD burning software that does this. David Crispin Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PR

Re: DCSS permission question

2004-02-17 Thread David Goodenough
That sounds like Lydia Pinckum's (renamed as Lilly the Pink by the Beetles) original vegitable elixir, which contained a secret incredient which I recently heard was 22% neat alchohol. The 22% was reduced by the US government to 13% around the time of prohibition. David Boy

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread David Goodenough
Certainly for the i386 it can, whether this has ever been ported to other platforms I have no idea. I have to say that because it is not in the regular kernel I have never used it, but this is what it is supposed to do. I suppose that the reason that it has not made it into the regular kernel is t

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread David Goodenough
With the bad-ram patches (which I think only work on ix86 but might now work on other architectures), yes it can. This patch (which has been around for a while but I do not think ever made it into the formal kernel) allows bits of real memory to be ignored and never used, rather in the same was as

Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-13 Thread David Goodenough
The iNotes client really is not up to it. I suppose the real test as to its adequacy, and as to whether Lotus themselves thought it adequate, would be to propose the abandoning of the Windows Notes client in favour of the iNotes client. It is possible that the 6.5 client runs, but the installer d

Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-12 Thread David Goodenough
I have been running Notes under Wine (albeit Notes 5, 6 seems to have some problems still) since well before 9/11, and this note was written in exactly that way. David Lionel Dyck cc: Sent by: Linux Subject:

Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-12 Thread David Goodenough
And if they could convince Lotus (or whatever they are called today) of the merits. Interestingly there is talk in the future gazing about Domino and Notes that a new client which is based on Eclipse, and therefore presumably written in Java, and therefore relatively platform independant. David

Re: GateD for Linux/390 SuSE 7?

2003-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
You might try Zebra or its replacement Quagga. This implements just about all the routing protocols, and it can be configured to handle as many or as few as you want. David David Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notes server finally available on Linux for 390!

2003-10-01 Thread David Goodenough
to Linux on 390 Port OK, I was trying it with wine200309something and Notes 5.0.8. Thanks. On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:22, David Goodenough wrote: > There are problems with some of the versions of the installer. Get the > latest Wine you can find, and the oldest No

Re: Notes server finally available on Linux for 390!

2003-10-01 Thread David Goodenough
There are problems with some of the versions of the installer. Get the latest Wine you can find, and the oldest Notes 5. Install it, and then upgrade it. David Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com>

Re: Notes server finally available on Linux for 390!

2003-10-01 Thread David Goodenough
Well this is being written using Notes 5 under Wine (I have been using it since one month before 9/11) on a Linux only machine. Now that inside IBM Notes under Wine is being used internally, it would be really useful if the developers of the Notes Client could test their product under Wine, and su

Re: 1.4 JDK and C++

2003-09-29 Thread David Goodenough
It may not be quite as quick (due to lack of a JIT), but have you thought of using GCJ. Especially if you compile the code to binary rather than byte code the difference should not be too noticable. But of course GCJ (and the classpath library it uses) is not quite feature complete, but its not b

Re: MySql

2003-08-22 Thread David Goodenough
If this is a "heavy" database application you would be much better off with PostgreSQL. There are many things that you will have come to rely on in DB2 that I am told by DB techies do not exist in MySql. I have heard MySql described as the Access (DB bit, not the forms and views bit) of the Linux

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-14 Thread David Goodenough
Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 05/08/2003 09:05 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:27:51AM

Re: IBM's Power5+ to hit 3GHz

2003-08-14 Thread David Goodenough
This assumes that all the Power PC chips will have the same microcode. I would suspect that the three different lines will maintain their own microcode, and thus their own instruction set. It will just be the core silicon that is common. David "Fargusson.Alan"

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-05 Thread David Goodenough
ditto Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] omine.net> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux on 390 Port

Re: os390 Linux GnuPGP

2003-08-02 Thread David Goodenough
All that UK/EU law requires is that the data is properly controlled, no-where does that require PGP. Provided the mechanism is secure any will do, so if they are saying that PGP is required by law they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes and you should call their bluff. David

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-28 Thread David Goodenough
You may be interested to know that there is currently a debate on exactly this subject raging on the Debian Developer list. It does however seem to have come to a conclusion after a week or so. David "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMA

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2003-07-01 Thread David Goodenough
You also need motif or a clone, lesstif will do. David Rob Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ovs.com> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: on 390 Port

Re: Changing runlevels etc

2003-06-27 Thread David Goodenough
Try Cygwin, which runs on Windows and provides all the normal *nix utilities. There is a setup guide to be found at http://dga.co.uk/howto. Cygwin includes a complete ssh suite, including scp and sftp. David Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: Native Linux

2003-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
an Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jay Maynard > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Native Linux > >

Re: Native Linux

2003-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
Now you are talking. My earliest experience of IBM was on a 360/67 at Durham University (it was shared with Newcastle) and they ran MTS (Michigan Terminal System). Most of the terminals were golfball typewriters, although there were a few 2260s around. The machine had 2MB RAM and an 11MB fixed h

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-19 Thread David Goodenough
Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] DU> 19/06/2003 15:01 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David Goodenough wrote: > Well the rpm command would install any rpm files

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-19 Thread David Goodenough
Please respond > > to Linux on 390 > > Port > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Ok, but what I really haven't caught on to yet, is apt-get available for > >Suse Linux or is the utilities

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-19 Thread David Goodenough
is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable >things...better? > >BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient >for me to get a wack at it. > >Tom Duerbusch >THD Consulting > >David Goodenough wrote: > > >Your understanding of apt-

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-19 Thread David Goodenough
get available for Suse Linux or is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable things...better? BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient for me to get a wack at it. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David Goodenough wrote: >Your understanding of apt-get is not

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-18 Thread David Goodenough
Your understanding of apt-get is not quite right. The Debian equivalent of rpm is dpkg, both deal with the installation, upgrade and removal of packages. The equivalent of Yast in the Debian world is either dselect or tasksel, or if you are using KDE then kpackage can front either rpm or dpkg. a

Re: Linux390 + VM + Tape 3490

2003-06-13 Thread David Goodenough
ease respond to Linux on 390 Port On Friday, 06/13/2003 at 02:28 CET, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds a lot like the kind of processing that hotplug should do? > > David In 2.5/2.6, things will change because of the ge

Re: Linux390 + VM + Tape 3490

2003-06-13 Thread David Goodenough
This sounds a lot like the kind of processing that hotplug should do? David Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] s.ibm.com> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: Re: Linux3

Re: Linux-hosted turnkey (Re: Turnkey?)

2003-04-01 Thread David Goodenough
2. There is a command you can issue (I forget what it is but google is your friend) that will take a Knoppix system booted from the CD and install it on your hard drive. David John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tomcat RPMs for S390

2003-03-13 Thread David Goodenough
That module is only needed if you want to run with Apache. If you want to run Tomcat standalone, which is perfectly possible, then it is 100% pure Java. David John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fe.co

Re: PCL printing

2003-03-12 Thread David Goodenough
The Linux "print spool language" is Postscript, and then this is converted to whatever printer language is needed for the particular printer by the spooling system. But you do not need to know that, as the Java printing code will do it all for you. Just follow the normal Java java.awt.PrintJob me

Re: Tomcat RPMs for S390

2003-03-12 Thread David Goodenough
Although Tomcat can be run with Apache, it does not require it. It can be run entirely standalone. David "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com> cc: Sent by: Linux

Re: AW: Java on zLinux for batch processing

2003-03-11 Thread David Goodenough
Of course if you use gcj, the java front for gcc, you can compile your Java code into real binary executables, not byte code. The code emiters and the like are shared with the C or C++ bits of gcc, so essentially it is the same as running C/C++. Obviously there are differences in the libraries, b

Re: Tomcat RPMs for S390

2003-03-11 Thread David Goodenough
As it is pure Java, the binary RPM (or Deb or whatever) should install on any architecture including S390. David Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.gwu.edu> cc: Sent by:

Re: SCO FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM

2003-03-08 Thread David Goodenough
Or the fact that IBM have been designing and writing software for rather large S390 (and their predecessors) multi-processor systems (as is shown by this mailing list) for a long time. David Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-07 Thread David Goodenough
The arguement that few virus writers have access to a 390 to build their code does not of course quite wash in the Linux world, as gcc is a cross compiler. Actually lots of Linux worms and trojans already get compiled on the target machine so that they link to the correct levels of libraries. That

Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?

2003-02-06 Thread David Goodenough
Knoppix. Its Debian based, and is a very good demonstrator of whether all the hardware in a box is usable by Linux. Unless told otherwise it does not write to any disk, but you can install it to disk it you want. It is perhaps the fullest function recovery CD there is. It includes not only basi

Re: SSL on Standalone Tomcat 4.1.18

2003-01-08 Thread David Goodenough
I think you will have real problems with this. I have just hit the same problem on an Intel platform, but the problem is global. Tomcat looks to be runnable on both 1.3 and 1.4 Java, and looks (wrongly) for a class called com.sun.net.SSLContext. In 1.3 you had no choice, and that is what JSSE pr

Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-06 Thread David Goodenough
The real answer to this is yes, the Debian mailing lists which operate 24x7, and are always manned by knowledgable people, but that is not a management friendly answer. I think however the question you are asking is does any company offer 24x7 support, and in terms of a big name I think the only o

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space.

2002-12-01 Thread David Goodenough
Maybe they do not want anyone to develop programs for z/OS and z/VM, but only for Linux. This pricing policy would then be a subtle way of warning off rogue developers from using the wrong platform. Personally I am all for a Linux only future for the zSeries. David Herber

Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390

2002-10-30 Thread David Goodenough
or use Debian and run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade every day. On stable all you will get is security updates. If you want to review the fixes before installing them use --download-only on the upgrade and then you can install them at your leasure and have them downloaded ready for you every morn

Re: General LINUX Question

2002-09-08 Thread David Goodenough
Well the Debian build of OpenOffice certainly uses gcc 3.2 unlike almost everything else Debian which has not yet made the transition (its coming soon we are told) on the i386 architecture. Other architectures have apparently already made the transition. David "Post, Mark

Re: VM for Intel?

2002-02-19 Thread David Goodenough
But VMware and z/VM are entirely separate. They both do much the same thing, in fact one could almost say that z/VM and its ancestors inspired VMware, but VMware is not produced by IBM, rather - as the item says, by VMware Inc. "Post, Mark K"

Re: Messages Manual

2002-02-04 Thread David Goodenough
their MAN updates into the central MAN respository? Garry -----Original Message- From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Messages Manual I am not sure it is that is not warranted, rather that the code comes

Re: Messages Manual

2002-02-04 Thread David Goodenough
I am not sure it is that is not warranted, rather that the code comes from such disparate places that it would be logistically very difficult to collate and maintain. At least with a single vendor changes are managed, and so documentation updates are controllable. This does make it a bad thing t

Re: IBM announces LINUX-only 1 to 4 engine zSeries

2002-01-29 Thread David Goodenough
5)865-5940 > -- > From: David Goodenough > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IBM announces LINUX-only 1 to 4 engine zSeries > > Worse than VM/IS and the 9370, a little

Re: IBM announces LINUX-only 1 to 4 engine zSeries

2002-01-28 Thread David Goodenough
Worse than VM/IS and the 9370, a little before that there was the 4331 with SSX, a packaged version of DOS/VSE. That also made similar claims about a secretary being able to install it, and so we put it to the test. Having read the manual we knew that it would format any drives it found, so we p

Re: Current Linux/390 Distributions Aren't Cheap

2002-01-23 Thread David Goodenough
Please respond to Linux on 390 Port I'm not very familiar with Debian at all, but I was under the impression that this is what "alien" is for on that platform. Am I wrong? Mark Post -----Original Message- From: David Goodenough [mailt

Re: Linux/390 application development

2002-01-12 Thread David Goodenough
You should probably look at Eclipse, which runs very nicely on Linux. It is fully open source and available from www.eclipse.org. It is the basis for all the IBM WebSphere Studio series of development tools. Add to this CDT, the C/C++ plugin for Eclipse (which is written in and primarily a