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I think you've hit the nail on the head - the problem is the main PSU, which is a bit leaky.

The answer seems to be to have a small transformerless PSU (first google hit: http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/joecolquitt/txless. html) to power the 'standby mode'. It needs to be capable of provising enough power to switch in the main PSU and read the remote control. It doesn't sound so difficult to do, but would cost a few extra pence (cents), so it won't happen without some legislation.

There are only 3 or 4 real BSD girls in that collection. One's the famous BSD chick that the other guy linked to (but you've been over that...), two are booth babes (although maybe they actually use BSD too, who knows...), and the one at the bottom kind of looks to have had her horns and tail photoshopped on :/

Of course, the only real Linux chick that comes to mind is Brandy.

Keyra is rumoured to be a *NIX sysadmin but I imagine that's more wishful thinking than anything.

(Disclaimer: I have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and GNU/Linux boxes at home so [threw out Plan9 though]...I'm just a freak.)

Probably shouldn't feed, but here's one:

Brandy's forum account and homepage: She was one of the forum administrators, but I'm not sure if that's still the case...

Here you go :-)

I have a rebuttal, and shes twice as fine as your little devil.
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/gentoo/photos/

brandy and gentoo p0wns you.

Look harder.

You can use a standard telnet to connect, although it loses a lot of the 5250 functionality.

There is an open source 5250 telnet client

X3270 is a telnet client for mainframes but some people use it for AS/400

Try some of the java telnet packages. Search on www.google.com for +java +telnet +5250.

As a last resort Wine might be able to run your current software, but I doubt it.

Of course, it would be cool to port the AS/400 apps to Linux :-)

Check it out http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/asciimat ion/

Here in New Zealand, it isn't a government agency, but our main telecommunications provider, Telecom, that has decided all people using dialup ISPs though a local telephone number have to pay a per-minute charge, unless they use a specific range of telephone numbers. The charge is 2 cents per minute, after the first 10 hours in each month. Up until now, all local calls from residential telephones in this country have been free.

The reason, according to Telecom, is that it will allow them to "manage internet traffic on the [telephone] network more efficiently", though a number of people believe that this will allow Telecom to degrade the quality of the connections people get to their ISPs.

Telecom's points out that calls to the new phone numbers will be able to be routed automatically so that they are able to balance the load between telephone exchanges, and to "pioritise voice calls in times of network overload or emergency". I'm fairly sure that a number of existing residential telephone exchanges don't support this feature.

Telecom's reason for deciding to apply a charge is that it will "encourage" customers to change to the new phone numbers.

Telecom also provides an ISP service of their own. It is interesting to see that the telephone number used by the Telecom ISP (starting with 0863...), is different to that of other ISPs (0867...). Another ISP points out that that this may potentially allow Telecom to re-route competing ISP's phone calls through different pipes, so it can be degraded as Telecom wishes while its own customers' traffic is managed differently.

However, Telecom has guaranteed that there won't be any disparity in the connection quality for the two sets of telephone numbers. There is a clause to this effect in the agreement (DOC file) that is signed between Telecom and the ISPs.

The other main telecommunications provider in this country, Clear, also provide an ISP service and are going to provide rebate to their customers who get charged this 2 cent/minute charge. Other smaller ISPs are essentially being forced to comply against their will.

This move by Telecom also raises a number of questions:

- What is their stance on modem to modem calls made between friends? Will Telecom apply the charge for these calls? If so, does that mean that they monitor all calls for modem traffic?

- How do that know that a local number you're dialling is or isn't an ISP? I assume that an ISP will be given away by the fact that they have potentially 1000 lines for a given telephone number.

In summary, Telecom has provided a new range of numbers for ISPs to use, and will charge people if they don't use them. Some think that this is the thin end of the wedge for charging for local calls, and will allow Telecom to provide a substandard service for other calls to other ISPs. Other people claim that the change will enable Telecom to provide a better service, due to them being able to manage the calls more efficiently.