Re: z/Linux Oracle question

2011-05-25 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I'm just wondering about quantities of disk space that concern people. Is 30GB noticeable - or in the noise? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: recieving the following from a linux install on z

2011-04-11 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Mark writes: ... And if they're running Windows (as I would guess most may be), then wouldn't using X or VNC would be equally difficult or easy? Not at all. It's much easier to run vncviewer on Windows than it is to try and get X running. On Windows PuTTY is easy and does ssh, and

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John McKown writes: ... I mainly script in UNIX using Perl due to familiarity. And because I love regular expressions. ... Regular expressions are a very powerful tool - and well integrated into Perl - but there is a learning curve. I learned a lot about them from Unix and Perl books - but

Re: M$oft patents sudo

2009-11-12 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Scott writes: I've got 2+2=4 locked in myself :-) Isn't that this a specific case, and your patent really is of + ? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Linux article

2009-10-06 Thread Henry E Schaffer
David writes: ... 1) They're counting only RHEL and SLES. Doesn't count Ubuntu, which seems to power most of the netbooks ... FWIW, I recently bought an ASUS eee PC900 and it runs Debian. I think they've sold a lot of netbooks. -- --henry schaffer

Re: PuTTY replacement KiTTY

2009-05-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
David Andrews writes: On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:37 -0400, Lionel B Dyck wrote: PuTTY fork called KiTTY that was just recently updated. It has all the PuTTY features (since it is a fork from it) and more: ... plus a nasty limitation. From their website: KiTTY is only designed for

Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful?

2009-03-23 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Dodds, Jim wrote: ... So now we are planning on spending close to $200,000 on Dell hardware and Microsoft server software. ... Has any looked at reliability? Some hardware/sofware combinations are boringly reliable, some not so. Does anyone care? --henry schaffer

Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful?

2009-03-23 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Erik writes: ... Right now Microsoft has a choice. Rework M$ Office such that it will happily and effectively inter-operate with other office productivity suites, or stop selling M$ Office in Europe. Difficult decision, since an inter-operable M$ Office is an M$ Office your company can

Re: SFTP versus FTP

2008-07-09 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Tomasz writes: I have a file on Unix server. When I transfer that file from Unix to Linux using FTP - I'm getting file with the same size. When I use SFTP, I'm getting file smaller by 79 bytes. The file has 79 lines. That file is then FTP from Linux to z/OS - using FTP batch job on z/OS

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-21 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Lea writes: Inefficiency? Aren't all interpretive languages inefficient by definition versus compiled languages? Maybe, it depends. Many interpreted languages call well coded / compiled routines, so the majority of the execution time very well may be in the routines. (Think APL. :-) It

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-20 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John writes: David Andrews wrote: According to TIOBE (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html) Ruby is the 10th most popular programming language today. And rising, 9th today. Java is #1 and COBOL is #15. Check it out and see where your

Re: IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation

2007-09-19 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Kevin R writes: Sounds like too little, too late to me. The release of Symphony may be much less significant that IBM's involvement in OpenOffice.org I often use Star / Open Office and its an excellent set of productivity tools. In my experience its main downside is that sometimes it has

Re: Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell

2007-08-12 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Dave writes: From the IBM-MAIN list: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technology/11novell.html?ref=business In the 102-page ruling, the judge, Dale A. Kimball, also said Novell could force SCO to abandon its claims against I.B.M. Perhaps the best place to read all the details is at

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-09 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John Summerfield writes: ... btw, not every implementation if vi is equal, vile is well-named, nvi is ok, vigor is an enhanced nvi, but my favourite is vim, because there's a GUI version of it (and a build for Windows). I agree about vim - it's what vi should have been :-) (and probably

Re: Linux and Railroad Diagrams

2007-01-31 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I'm not sure I know what is a railroad diagram and don't have the Pascal book handy (hey, I don't learn every new language which comes along. :-) Are there links to URLs which show/explain these things? -- --henry schaffer

Re: use sed or awk or ?

2006-10-25 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John writes: I want to find the first comment line that begins with a target string in column 1 (#target) and replace only that first target line with another string. There are multiple lines that begin with #target. I've struck out with sed (not that I know sed). Any quick hints on a sed

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John Summerfied writes: ... I have not heard of any failed Intel or AMD CPUs in a very long time. Accompanying system components such as RAM, disks, NICs, yes, but not the CPU itself. The systems I use are built to be cheap; one can have greater reliability for a greater price. I imagine that

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Fargusson.Alan wrote: The quoted documentation corresponds to my understanding to the -o option. As I stated in my question: vim -o file1 file2 should open two windows, one with file1 and the other with file2. It doesn't do that on the Intel Linux

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
On my Sun/Solaris I'm running VIM version 6.3 and it handles (as I wrote earlier) both vim -o test1 test2 and vim -o3 properly. My Intel/Linux runs version 6.3.71 (from the Fedora distribution) and does exactly the same thing. (vim -h only says 6.3) --henry schaffer