Re: Today's funny....

Dave, Thanks! That helps the day get off to a good start! --henry On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:17 AM Dave Jones wrote: > Because in these times we all need a good laugh. > > Four engineers get into a car. The car won't start. > The mechanical engineer says: "It's a broken starter" > The

Re: Redbooks Rumor

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:39 AM Dave Jones wrote: > If true, that would be one of the stupidest things IBM has ever done, > Hmmm - this could be the start of a new thread. :-) --henry P.S. Some may remember the years pre-Gerstner. imho. > DJ > > --- > BEST REGARDS > > DAVE JONES >

Re: No Linux here

On gmail read on a Mac/Safari the picture came through. --henry On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:05 PM Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On 2021-04-26, at 09:35:26, Phil Smith III wrote: > > > > Oops, forgot the list doesn't do images. See > > > > https://i.imgur.com/QwXcPDr.jpeg > > > Interesting. Your

Re: Open Source, drug dealers, and time travel

That was a fun read, and I loved being reminded of Alan Sokal's famous hoax paper - which was published in a journal housed one town over from me. This was part of the post-modernist movement and the Duke English Dept, and Stanley Fish were deeply caught up in this movement - which Sokal didn't

Re: So quiet...

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:34 AM Rick Troth wrote: > ... > Some of us remember BITNET RELAY. > Huh! Isn't usenet filling our needs? Do we really need this newfangled thing? > ... > --henry -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: CLEFOS-vi/vim setting

When vim first came out I was reluctant to move from vi. But when I discovered the almost-perfect compatibility and my favorite new feature - almost-infinite undo-redo, I was convinced. IMHO vim is what Bill Joy would have written if computers back then had the available memory needed. --henry

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

On my x86 box running RHEL > ls /proc/sysinfo ls: cannot access /proc/sysinfo: No such file or directory --henry schaffer On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > Is /proc/sysinfo a zLinux thing only? > > I got on

Re: SLES 12 upgrade fails

This happens consistently for my mail system - her posts are put in the spam folder with this explanation: This message has a from address in wellsfargo.com but has failed wellsfargo.com's required tests for authentication. --henry schaffer On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:29 AM, Mike Walter

Re: Spectre and Meltdown stupid question...

t it being only via cache - then nothing is new that I can see regarding memory management. I'd appreciate feedback. --henry schaffer On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Carey Tyler Schug <sqrfolk...@comcast.net> wrote: > another stupid question. > > This is ONLY for Linux on z, cor

Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb

amp; Bradstreet... closed up, it reminded me of the #1 Broadway Local. It > was intended to replace a whole lot of DataProducts printers (that used > drums for the characters). > > -soup > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Henry Schaffer <h...@ncsu.edu> wrote: &g

Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb

And, of course, you must remember programming the printout so the line printer played music! --henry On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:17 PM, John Campbell wrote: > The terminfo "database", these days, is some kind of binary... and, from > the source file(s), there is a program to

Re: Query for Destination z article: mistakes -- teachable/learnable moments

I've heard, "Experience is what keeps you from making mistakes. How do you get experience? By making mistakes!" The closest quote I can find right now is “Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain --henry schaffer On Wed, Ju

Re: Leap second

Also see: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/ --henry schaffer On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 5/14/2015 at 06:24 PM, J O Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: Someone here has asked about our preparedness for the upcoming Leap

Re: Anyone has experience on selling zLinux at fixed price?

restraining resource abusers. --henry schaffer On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Agblad Tore tore.agb...@volvo.com wrote: Thank's, that sounds like a good idea. Yes we have such tools, that is no problem. BR /Tore Tore Agblad zOpen Teamleader

Re: Golden anniversary

that! --henry schaffer guess there aren't too many technologies that can claim that. Here are a couple of Web articles: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/06/ibm-mainframes-mark-50th-anniversary/7364535/ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26886579 Also, there's a Web event

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

from under $500 in parts from Newegg - whoops - that requires a few more skills) could give a fantastic cost/benefit ratio from that piece of the puzzle, David and others are rightly looking at the entire puzzle in a real context. --henry schaffer

Re: Lenovo buys x series

Does the low end server category include the Flex/Blade Center? --henry schaffer On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.comwrote: from IBM for $2.3 billion. - Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544

Re: Maximizing (IBM) shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America

that share-holders-- especially the institutional variety-- can force the mighty to the floor... From my point of view, neither the customers nor the share-holders were being well served. ... --henry schaffer

Re: Sad new from Raleigh

And the circumstances were tragic - hit and run driver who had lost his drivers license. http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2013/07/10/3020241/durham-mourns-cyclist-killed-in.html --henry schaffer On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: Red Hat employee Seth Vidal, 36

Re: Excel replacement for linux on z

that it is not a problem and how to do it! :-) --henry schaffer On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Herczeg, Zoltan zol...@krasdalefoods.com wrote: Our operators run many excel vb macros for production on a windows pc. I wanted to move this workload to a virtual linux machine on our ifl. Does anyone have

Re: Speed of BASH script vs. Python vs. Perl vs. compiled

into them - and would be glad to share it - let me know if you would like me to e-mail you a copy. (It's long enough that I'd rather not send it to the list.) --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: xcat?

Many VCL installations (vcl.apache.org) use xCAT for their bare metal loads. --henry schaffer On Saturday, September 1, 2012, Thang Pham thang.p...@us.ibm.com wrote: The main xCAT site is at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Main_Page . There are two tarballs

Re: Fwd: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American

? I doubt that I would review a paper for a journal if it meant having to spend a year, or even a month, writing/debugging/testing my own version. Obviously the formulas used should be disclosed for peer review. Yes. --henry schaffer

Fwd: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American

, but is it feasible? I doubt that I would review a paper for a journal if it meant having to spend a year, or even a month, writing/debugging/testing my own version. Obviously the formulas used should be disclosed for peer review. Yes. --henry schaffer

Re: Fwd: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:23:51 -0400 Henry Schaffer h...@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: :On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com : wrote: . : To me it is quite logical

Re: SAS

quantities of data. That merges with the data manipulation comment above. --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Please don't reply and change the subject

by Subject: --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Please don't reply and change the subject

it be that some mailers work differently? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu

Re: Scientific Linux

the mainframe does when including this in the mix and train students on these aspects of a mainframe environment. --henry schaffer On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, John Campbell soup...@gmail.com wrote: Cameron Seay wrote: What would I have to do to get a distro to run on z/VM?  I want to run

Re: Porting old application- numeric keypad

the two directories differ, and not say anything about the contents of files with the same name in both directories I think I've seen references to a script which will go through the steps described above for dircmp -d --henry schaffer

Re: OT: TCU in Fort Worth

by table lookup - and it stored the tables in RAM - so you had to load the tables each time it was turned on. One could load octal tables and then it did octal arithmetic! --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: excellent explanation of cloud computing....

(in those days that equalled 110bps) as it sent 10cps and a character was one start bit, 8 bits for the character - even parity, and 2 stop bits. Mine was used as a terminal to a 360. --henry schaffer P.S. There was one which sent Baudot - and needed shift up/down codes for the full character set

Re: Adding users to RedHat 5.4

it. Yes! That gets rid of the bulk of stupid errors which happen when a person forgets they have superuser authority. (Not all, but most - and I'm speaking from sorry experience.) --henry schaffer P.S. And if one has a *lot* of work to do - and typing sudo over and over gets annoying

Re: Poor man's top

systems don't have less) and then the rest is presentation - and thewatch is to repeat it. --henry schaffer -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Free Oracle

might want to try out the technology. I've searched the OTN and Oracle sites for this - with no success. If anyone finds it, please post the URL. -- --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IP Networks survive disasters?

includes getting the department and responsible person recorded, and also we register the MAC address. This *policy* is extra work, but we find that it avoids a *lot* of problems. For wireless devices, no registration is required, but authentication at connection time is required. -- --henry

Re: PHP-based Content Management Programs Under Threat

these security lapses any more because they don't happen much because people know how to avoid them? --henry schaffer Because it's easy and fashionable. Good old Perl has no luster now that PHP is here. A lot of the Linux magazines tout PHP with MySQL close to the second coming. It's 42. On 7/5/05

Re: Pro-SCO hits a new low

if it is (forgive me) a bit of a cat fight. Even if that is true, and there is no evidence that it is, that doesn't excuse what MOG did. --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Document management software

, then accessing them via the web might be reasonable. --henry schaffer ... -- 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

electrical power - Was: Re: Debian touts dropping full dev for certain archit ectures (incl. S/390)

with motors. (It is my impression that switching power supplies are extremely tolerant of variations in input voltage.) I've been involved in situations where equipment which was specified for 220-240V required a boost transformer to run properly. --henry schaffer ... P.S. the nominal single

Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux

, and he is still using the IBM product - but that is now called APL2 and is still actively supported IBM software. He's very happy with it. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/ -- --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390

Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux

time since I last used PL/I, but I don't remember anything about its arithmetic which would give this result. IIRC it basically used the underlying 360/370 hardware for arithmetic. Could you say more about this intriguing error? --henry schaffer P.S. I didn't care for PL/I because of its

Re: Baystar and SCO apparently make peace

by paying $13m (33-65%) plus some shares. -- --henry schaffer -- 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

Re: BEWARE: virus masquerading as fm: marist with WORM_BAGLE.GEN-1 in MSG.zip attachment.

has some strangeness such as wrong fonts/sizes, and rarely won't work. I've never tried with Lotus, as I never get them. --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: German Finance Ministry Division Chooses Linux

derived from, I'd feel differently. Or does based upon mean something different on opposite sides of the pond? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Just stirring the pot

suspect that one can get even more with APL ! My own vote is that Perl's capabilities and power are more important than its rough edges. (As another ol' mainframe guy of ... years - the jobs I had to do in SNOBOL4 or SPITBOL on the mainframe go much better today in Perl on any platform.) --henry

PLEASE don't discuss McD/coffee! Was: Re: SCO sues Novell

should be compensated for corporate carelessness, indifference and wrongdoing. This doesn't yield anything whatsoever of value - and the two sides just flail away. I suggest (beg/plead/...) that this be dropped on this list! --henry schaffer

Red Hat Open Source Assurance

is available for all customers having a valid registered subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or related solutions. ... --henry schaffer P.S. See: http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2004/press_OS_assurance.html Note that SCO is *not* mentioned! :-)

more on Red Hat protection

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nf/20040120/bs_nf/23025 --henry schaffer

Re: Anyone Nagios? (GPL discussion)

/ Particularly relevant is the Licenses section. -- --henry schaffer

Re: At last some real achiever being recognized by the monarch

. It is really ironical that instead of getting recognized and thanked for doing something he could do - he is ridiculed for not doing something he couldn't do. (And I think he is responsible for a lot of this.) --henry schaffer P.S. Yes, I wuz there.

Re: OT: Re: Political Correctness goes mad in L.A. County (USA)

. --henry schaffer

Re: Replacing Win NT machines

David Boyes writes: ... Use of Kerberos and OpenAFS is another. North Carolina State University uses Kerberos 5 and AFS to achieve this. This is the Athena model. It works very well. --henry schaffer

SCO gives Linux users more time on license fee charges

Watch out for the wrap: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,86164,00.html?nas=AM-86164 --henry schaffer

Re: OT: Intel gets virtualization clue?

- pages about 5x7) by Hope Seagrave (Seagrove?) and others from the Cambridge, MA center which might help. --henry schaffer

Re: Notes server finally available on Linux for 390!

not be be adopted! IMHO IBM showed how don't support leads to decreased use wrt OS/2. -- --henry schaffer

[OT] FORTRAN card format

. The manual says the same thing, in more words, and also describes the continuation card format. -- --henry schaffer

Re: Ratio of new bugs per fix

language, since most anything can be computed in 9 lines or less? -- --henry schaffer

Re: Benchmarks for Linux on zSeries, Solaris ...?

does a bunch of matrix multiplications - and which has data in them so the compiler can't reduce (optimize out) the computation. Also the different sizes used may show if system limitations are reached. I've run it on a variety of Linux and Solaris systems. -- --henry schaffer #include stdio.h

Re: IBM claims SCO conspiring with Microsoft over Linux

- but there still is a difference. --henry schaffer

Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...

to go in col. 1, but I don't remember if anything else could go there.) --henry schaffer

Re: list admin: we're being tracked

: San Francisco StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94110 TechHandle: ZH17-ARIN OrgTechHandle: ZH17-ARIN OrgTechName: Hurricane Electric OrgTechPhone: +1-510-580-4100 OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --henry schaffer

Re: Contrarian article

Alan writes: ... Note that SCO has stated that Solaris is clean. How can they possibly know? Or do they have access to the Solaris source? --henry schaffer

Re: Ellison: StarOffice almost usable

. I've used Calc for some simple work, but much less than Writer. I've had no trouble at all with it - and it has opened/saved the .xls files I've used. --henry schaffer

Re: not-LOL (was Re: LOL)

anything to Linux (AFAIK) and so this suit provides no basis for thinking that Linux will go away. But I'm sure that someone will use it for that purpose. -- --henry schaffer

not-LOL (was Re: LOL)

that the lead attorney for SCO (David Boies) has a rather formidable reputation. I wouldn't underestimate him. --henry schaffer

Re: IBM stops Linux Itanium effort

The article is negative about the iTanium, but my colleagues in high performance computing tell me that this is a *very* capable cpu which is going head to head with the Power4. --henry schaffer

Re: test

My replies don't seem to be getting to the list. IIRC, there is a listserv setting which determines whether or not your own messages get sent to you. -- --henry schaffer

XSL - was Re: Network Trace

Does any one know about xsl As in XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language used with XML (Exensible Markup Language?) If so, see any good XML reference. -- --henry schaffer

Re: Z80 cpus and CP/M PL/I

Alan writes: That was back when even a personal computer hurt when you dropped it on your foot 8) Remember, Never trust a computer you can lift.? -- --henry schaffer

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

Re: Upcoming Linux Roadshow Schedule 7/10 to 8/8

and then uploads to the web server - Microsoft software typically keeps and uses the local file name. (It certainly is efficient.) So when the user tries to give the URL, the local file name often gets inserted. My solution is to ask the person for the URL. --henry schaffer

Re: Invalid request received from yout

subscribe linux-390 Bob Tegethoff - at Pepco Perhaps this must be a valid e-mail address (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order for the listserv software to recognize this line as a command? --henry schaffer

Red Hat and business

a financial upside because of the deal, said Brent Williams, an analyst for McDonald Investments in New York, who rates Red Hat stock hold. ... -- --henry schaffer

Re: LinuxWorld Article series

... This is nothing really new. Sharing a VM system with early releases of MVS was unpleasant. I hear that it's no problem with the two in different LPARs, and that running MVS as a guest under VM works well with a surprisingly small performance hit (in the 2-3% ballpark.) -- --henry

Re: Missing redbook chapter found!

as it exists. --henry schaffer P.S. For anyone is still awake - you may want to do more reading in IP law, and here's a good resource page: http://www.ga.unc.edu/~hes/intel-prop.html

Re: Mailing List Software

Our mailing list specialist tells me that Majordomo2 is greatly changed and improved, and should be discounted because of lacks in the old majordomo. -- --henry schaffer

FUN: linux movies from ibm (fwd)

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned here. --henry schaffer Check them out: Penquinstein!!! Free the code!!! http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/index.html?c=eservern=linuxfun_callout_servershomet=advertise# or a shorter link if that one wrapped: http://makeashorterlink.com

Re: LCS drivers for 2.4.9 ?

depend on OSA cards for 390 data communications. --henry schaffer Mark Post -Original Message- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LCS drivers for 2.4.9 ? Remember, the ONLY Linux kernel OCO code IBM supplies