of its peripheral
support and
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This appears to be interesting. It is a new OS. It will have a Linux
personality capability. It is open sourced.
http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/
The last time I heard personality in this context was with Workplace OS. That
supposedly
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US URL is http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annredon=104-346
You are never going to see that level of certification for VMware.
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Huh?
Is this the REXX we all know and love.
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This is interesting. I got an IBM announcement today with a headline of
the airline
seat power
cord. Mistake - the airlines won't let me use it. They insist on their cords for
insurance
and safety reasons.)
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evening blew
our
doors off and we had to go to 3x normal capacity - there'll be a bill from IBM for
$60,000 but
we did $4,000,000 extra business.
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in a primary
data centre in Munich, linked to a fourth backup zSeries, also attached to
two ESS800 storage servers and one VTS with 3494 3490-B18 Tape Libraries
in a secondary data centre. Brought disaster recovery policies from three
different service providers back in house (English version)
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functionality.
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Was I asleep at the keyboard again?
304127 Linux Scholar Challenge 2004
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(Which we in the UK - I was born and grew up in the town - correctly pronounce as
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the company has ever done, even including AD/Cycle.
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? Someone tole me once that it was what computers were
designed
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linking to my old one once a month and always find two or three. Of those, two
will be
old sites that Google hasn't found before and one, sometimes two, will be a completely
new
link.
And getting the DMOZ editor to delete your entry .. I could write a book.
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It's absolutely freakin' wonderful, isn't it?
Each post has specific instructions on how to unsubscribe hung on the bottom. How do
these
people ever get employment?
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One wonders who (besides Peter Ward) actually *needs* S/360 parts any more.
I'm afraid to think...the FCC? NRC? NORAD?
Peter's house is fun. It's right on the bank of the Huron - pretty wierd to have a
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walk past a bank of 3480s on your way back to your room.
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. My buddy and I have a three-pallet rule... ;)
When IBM went out of the typewriter business, they sold their UK stock off for peanuts
to
anyone carrying a valid university student's ID card - one machine per person.
I thought it an excellent gesture.
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to be replaced within the
French
government. Dutreil said that he expects many of them to move to open source. At stake
is
b ,300m worth of business.
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and run post-processing steps to get the
same
code we'd had before in the blick of an eye.
It was a bank, BTW.
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I must say I don't entirely understand it yet.
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about IBM confidential information on my web site, they refused
point
blank to say exactly what.
Maybe I should post the emails.
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shy of $15k. Negotiate your heart out!
They have a new site license arrangement, too.
The motto is - always ask.
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laptop. All these files are indexed using dtSearch - it's a tremendous
knowledge base.
I don't know why IBM contines to maintain Bookmangler. PDF is outstripping it in
functionality so fast.
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they want
to go -
it's a real trouser-filler first time out.
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It depends now on the size of the machine and whether zAAPs would be financially
justifiable.
There is no simple answer.
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that z/OS maintains a separate
dispatcher
queue for the zAAP(s) and the JDK marks its workload as eligible.
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what you paid for it.
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But you had to be a Magic Roundabout fan ..
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- Ermintrude was a cow.
The other reference is to a ring of traffic islands arranged at the apexes of a
hexagon - the
whole thing represents one huge traffic island, but you can choose which way round to
go.
Specially designed for American tourists.
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ran off the same underlying platform...
Rumour has it that the next zSeries mainframe will be the last true one. After that
it's
common technology.
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/notes/implement-1-discussion.html
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But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See http://google.fergusons.dk/
I ran this again this morning looking for the z890. The centre display was different
from the
others, listing a USA Today story in addition to what the others had.
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on the desktop. I must admit to being as guilty as
most, but I
have to be able to read both Microsoft and Lotus formatted documents.
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focus of a startup.
But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See http://google.fergusons.dk/
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this world of ours is too small to object to polite announcements by
people
who - at the end of the day - serve our common purpose.
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It might work for Linux, but not for any of IBM's proprietary operating systems:
But the 2066-0E1 and 0A1 are too powerful for thousands of IBM's mainframe users -
even a
secondhand Multiprise 3000 H30 is too large for most. In the 1970s and 1980s when
licence
charges were 'per system' and not
, but it will work with an IBM system. So you
wind up
with the customer's lawyers - did the customer actually buy a system (processor and
DASD) or
did he buy a processor and some DASD?
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to what I'm hearing about IBM's plans.
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think that
GUIs
were invented by the Windows developers.
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spam I get on most of my email IDs it's
almost a
pleasure to see something relevant to the industry once in a while.
One post hardly turns the list into a continuous commercial.
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The computers replace 30 computer servers from Sun Microsystems
Inc.and Fujitsu Siemens that run versions of the popular Unix
operating system that Linux is based upon, IBM spokeswoman
Sandra Dressel said.
I only just noticed this. Linux based upon UNIX? Unfortunate thing to say.
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He he.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/03/court_that_will_hear_sco_v_autozone_lawsuit_itself_runs_linux.html
Paragraph 3 is fun.
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I hope this doesn't upset anybody.
Nah. But it might be an idea to try the Flex-ES mailing list at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU -
the IBM
PWD systems that Fundamental's business partners sell are built on Red Hat and IBM
ThinkPads.
Tommy Valerio has built dozens if not hundreds of them.
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pedant
Also, check out http://linuxvm.org/ for _additional_ useful links.
/pedant
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That sounds like Lydia Pinckum's (renamed as Lilly the Pink by the Beetles)
The Scaffold.
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the penalties are for non-compliance with Novell's
demand. They might include invalidation of the asset transfer.
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hurdle for me - I'm not and never have been a PayPal member. The
attached
application (obviously deleted) is a 13KB .PIF file which neither Norton nor AVG
picked up on
its way through.
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?
Of course, getting there is only a fraction of the problem. Understanding what you
find when
you get there ...
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that several IBM executives later took care to make the point that POWER,
in this
context, is not necessarily synonymous with pSeries.
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impact as an egregious compiler bug.
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is not a technique they're either familiar with or can finance in their current
business
model.
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wind up talking to someone who's been fed such a
preconception about you, and when you then hit them with an unassailable point the
effect is
devastating.
Go for it.
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designed to locate
the root
cause of the problem and confirm the scientists' hunch. They will try to run a
health check
on the memory on Tuesday and try to delete some of the problem files on Wednesday.
THEY'RE SENDING IT A FILE-SCRUBBING VIRUS
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knowledge about the extent
and nature
of this hazard.
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computing
great in the first place.)
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to stop
developing
nations choosing cheaper open source operating systems such as Linux.
This operating system will happily run on hardware that will support Windows 98 but
not more
resource hungry versions of the Microsoft operating system.
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customers is to give them an option that will not disrupt their IT infrastructures. We
intend
to provide them with choices to help them run Linux in a legal and fully-paid for way.
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they're in it?
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. I withdrew and wrote a formal letter stating
that
the procurement process was obviously pre-destined to favour one supplier. They
started the
process again, and we declared that we should not benefit from our position - so we
refused to
bid. A third supplier won.
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Hi People
Is anyone aware of rebuttals to the doco on
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/default.asp ?
Are two FICON channels really enough for this kind of workload? I know the nominal
throughput
is OK, but what about overheads?
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A bit off the wall, but there we go - Linux gets everywhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3340057.stm
Good new year, everyone.
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under heavy channel load I'm sure I
used to
miss ticks.
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PoP saying the results of
two
processors trying to update the same storage at the same time would always be
unpredictable.
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on it.
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wonders what IBM's reaction will be. If only we had
a VM version for these small boxes :-)
I'm not sure whether IBM owns enough IP from its VM and PR/SM efforts to build its own
VM for
Intel. Or whether it would be worth it.
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of cycle times for
the
last twenty or so mainframes announced including Amdahl and Hitachi products - I've
never felt
it worthwhile to publish them because they don't really add a great deal to our
knowledge and
they distract from the real factors.
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loop and a modern Intel processor will clean the clock of
even a
z990. No contest.
Start some serious task/address space switching and watch the ratios change - z990, at
less
than half the clock rate, will just leave Intel's best in the dust.
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As you said, a meaningless question. I don't know if IBM even publishes this
information. However, just for fun, Phil Payne's site
(http://www.isham-research.com/mips_z800.html) rates a 2066-001 at 192 MIPS.
I like the just for fun.
The disclaimer on that page still applies.
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%. The relative performance of these systems changed with CPU load - the
Amdahl
machine got faster the more it was loaded.
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Sometimes I wonder what some of the people contributing
to this list take...
Gin.
Where could I get some??
In Germany, every Tankstelle.
is it cheap?
Yes.
how long do the effects last??
As long as you keep taking it plus about six hours.
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to provide service documentation using alternative
nomenclature for these hydraulic devices.
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Now they are going to change the name of Sacramento to Sacrapeopleto.
Almost funny.
When AOL started up in the UK, their dirty word filter made it impossible to
register an
account from Scunthorpe.
I don't know if anyone from Cockermouth ever tried.
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subject: The bleedin' obvious?
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People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable software business,
and has
gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on the board?
Sybil Fawlty, more like.
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called Thus plc - the change of name causing me to remark that a company
that
wants to be a major player on the Internet has successfully chosen a name that makes it
invisible to most search engines.
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to
achieve the best return. Probably to Novell. Perhaps even before the action starts.
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clients.
SPLAT!!!
Even the barrister prosecuting was stunned, and leaned over to say: Is he right?
He was. Beware Hizzonour.
An out-of-court settlement followed within the hour.
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from pretty highly specialised stuff, free
software is
inevitable.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/11/17/rtr1149851.html
And, depending on your command of Spanish:
http://www.evaluamos.com/Publicaciones.aspx?ID=1682
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in Arizona.
We now see telephone calls regularly routed to call centres in India.
So it doesn't matter where a data centre is situated, and I think in many cases we
just don't
know.
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. Only a relatively tiny (although to date pervasively active)
proportion of
those people have any allegiance to the US Constitution or legal framework.
This thing is off and running. Genies and bottles. And any action taken in US courts
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The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust
and export control laws, states SCO in documents filed with the U.S.
District Court for Utah.
Some of us don't give a hair from a rat's behind about the US Constitution.
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YES, ABSOLUTELY! (TCO used to be called economy of
scale ).
TCO includes quite a bit more than that - investment lifetime (amortisation period)
for one.
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Happy 4th of July.
A magnificent occasion.
A bunch of honest English entrepreneurs and settlers finally broke away from a German
king. I
raise a glass to it every year.
Unfortunately - we've still got the sods. Any advice on how to get rid of them would
be
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with
IBM's 'somewhat later' SMS.
z/OS is still not there, even now. But who could take an operating system called
GEORGE
(GEneral ORGanisation Environment) seriously, when IBM was already delivering a tenth
of the
functiuonality at twice the price?
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I'm doing an article on the history of virtualization. I've picked up a
number of pieces off the internet. Anyone have any favorite sources on the
emergence of virtualization in computing?
http://hoc.co.umist.ac.uk/storylines/compdev/commercialisation/atlas.html
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http://www.itworld.com/Man/2685/031006sgisco/
I can't see anything on SGI's site, though.
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as a 2540 attached through a 2821. You
can read
the buffer multiple times.
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The card has columns 1-5 ruled off for Statement Number, with a C
above column 1 For Comment. Then col 6 is Continuation. Cols 7-72 are
for the statement, and 73-80 for Identification.
[sigh]
Oh for non-proportional fonts again.
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Yes, the author engages in a series of logical fallacies in order to
come to the desired conclusion, from what I can tell.
SCO seems determined to stay in the buggy whip business.
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have, because the idle cycles were
deleted from an instruction that was waiting for the E-unit anyway.
General rule of benchmarking - silly little kernels ALWAYS give erroneous results.
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option.
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An interesting analysis:
http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html
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