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IBM already has tons of projects to which it contributes to. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/openso urce/projects.jsp Thats why we like IBM this year/month/week/day. That said I'm not blaming Sun either.

You must have been out of the IT world for quite a while. IBM sells:
- intel servers (running linux or windows)
- AMD opteron servers (SUSE has an AMD64 port)
- power processor boxes (running AIX and linux)

A press release from 2000: SuSE delivers Enterprise Linux for IBM RS/6000

you do not distribute additional software intended to supersede any component(s) of the Redistributables

IBM was big on VX-REXX (from Watcom, I think) for a while, and I guess that's how they did the GUI.

Incidentally, there's also a mod_rexx for Apache, from IBM.

--cp

You can get the latest version of REXX, Object REXX, for FREE, for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 (which comes with "classic" REXX, which you can update to Object REXX).

There's also NetREXX, which compiles to Java bytecode.

For open source fans, there's Regina Rexx, available for almost all platforms. Debian users can "apt-get install regina-rexx".

cheers.

Tried submitting this a couple of times since yesterday but the submission system seems to have picked up a few bugs of its own where it says "Thanks for the submission" but nothing shows up in the queue. Here are the details...

Yahoo, Hotmail Users Vulnerable to XSS PC Attack

Both Yahoo Web e-mail and Microsoft Hotmail are vulnerable to an Internet Explorer cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that lets malicious users run local code, according to Israel's GreyMagic security consultants (proof of concept). Possible consequences range from theft of login and password to a remote takeover of the compromised machine. Reports indicate that Microsoft has patched the hole but Yahoo has yet to solve the problem. The vulnerability presumably affects Windows PC-based versions of Internet Explorer only. Some people might want to read this developerWorks article on how to prevent cross-site scripting and protect oneself, mentioned last month on Slashdot. More coverage at InternetNews and The Register.

Robert C (Uncle Bob) Martin and others (even the RUP people - nowadays part of IBM, Rational - themselves) have argued that XP can be seen as a (lightweight) subset of RUP.

Martin wrote about XP vs RUP in 1998 (gg PDF-as-HTML). Martin calls/~ed it "dX" ("dX: A minimal RUP process"). Gary Pollice, former Rational 'Evangelist', have also explored RUP and XP common ground (gg PDF-as-HTML). Google for more.

..some some 'Security through Obscurity'?

When was the last time an OS/2 WARP Server was rooted? When was the last time OS/2 had a virus?

Then again, when was the last time OS/2 WARP Server was available for purchase?

Damn. If only I still had a copy...

Thanks to the wonderful people at IBM:

http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BO OKS/dmse1a05/CCONTENTS

Try to search the ibm site for bookmanager and rexx. You'll find plenty of material.

Thanks to the wonderful people at IBM:

http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BO OKS/dmse1a05/CCONTENTS

Try to search the ibm site for bookmanager and rexx. You'll find plenty of material.

Wrong link, by you are right: here and here.

Wrong link, by you are right: here and here.

with no info anywhere about what Rexx is.

You might have looked in the wrong places.

Why not try The REXX Home Page at IBM?

Or the Rexx Language Association home page?

Wow. This article brings back some fond memories.

You know you're a geek when the mention of a language from your past fills you with warm fuzzies.

Back in the old days (for me), when I was unable to get Unix for my PC, I went out and spent cash money on PC-DOS from IBM, just so I could get Rexx. The coolest part was that command.com had been tweaked by IBM such that the any .bat file that started with a Rexx comment would be interpreted by Rexx when invoked (instead of the grungy batch language everyone else had).

It was pure heaven to have a real language to script with under DOS.

Ironically, my company is slowly being encouraged by some of our potential customers to be more big-iron friendly. They want our new-fangled Java stuff, but the more we play nice near mainframes, the more pilot projects we win. I'm now able to use my mad COBOL and Rexx skillz for real.

Who knew?

Actually, Object REXX is available for Linux no-charge (as is) here. I've been using it with MySQL to kludge up a home inventory, as well as a few data extraction scripts for a project at school. While I'm planning learning a more conventional scripting language for Linux, I still haven't found any that match the power of the PARSE... But I digress.

NetRexx is just your normal Rexx, but it compiles into Java byte code:

No need to make jokes here, they already have an official mascot in the links above. Did you look at it? It's much more scary than the one you posted!

They already proposed one.

Also, I used to have a keyboard with one nipple...

They already proposed one.

Also, I used to have a keyboard with one nipple...

From Opera's press release and IBM's writeup, it looks like web pages have to be specially encoded with new X+V markups to enable this. My guess is that you have to tie each link to a specific voice command and an instructive icon (or soundbite) is displayed (played) with the link.

So more likely (and if the page is designed well), you'll see/hear stuff like "say 'specs'" to view the specs, say 'contacts' to view our contact information, ..."

I'm a big fan of IBM's trackpoint technology, it blows away a trackpad, although I still perfer an oversized trackball. Integrating something like a trackpoint into a controller would make jumping a cursor across the screen possible.

The IBM ThinkPad (StinkPad) is the bomb. You do get a little bit more performance/$ with Dell, but the IBM is much better made and will last forever, especially if you're on the road all the time. I put 200,000 air miles on mine last year with plenty of knocks and it looks like new.

The IBM ThinkPad (StinkPad) is the bomb. You do get a little bit more performance/$ with Dell, but the IBM is much better made and will last forever, especially if you're on the road all the time. I put 200,000 air miles on mine last year with plenty of knocks and it looks like new.

Yes there are success stories, you may have heard of a small search engine called Google, though admittedly they are a company built on Linux, not one switching over. For a list of other success stories see IBM's website and yes it is true that some of these companies have only switched a portion of their computers to Linux, but I think you'll find that when any switch is being made it gets done a few computers at a time, I know of companies that do this even when upgrading their chosen OS ie. MS 2000 to MS XP.

When it comes to switching OS's two basic rules apply:

1. The switch will go much smoother if the technical knowledge base already exists in your company.

2. The larger number people the switch affects the larger the problem of switching. I think the latter in particular applies to the case of the German government, though their IT guys may be well have experience with Linux, it may not be on the scale that they are working on now, and when you add in the training that need to be done to get the large number of users up and running on Linux it starts to become clear that there will be extra unforeseen expenses and delays.

The company I work for just switched a large number of people over from using IBM's OS2 to using Mac OSX an OS know for being relativity user friendly and we have had many unforeseen setbacks, so this is not just a Linux thing, it can happen with Windows, Unix, BSD, even Mac.

Change may be a good thing in the long term but it can have severe short term effects and the challenge is to not let the short term disrupt business for longer than is necessary.

This is the problem with Windows. There's hardly any command line mail clients. Pine used to be one, but now it's switched to a standard GUI-like app which won't run in the cmd.exe window. The only choices I can think of currently is to use Mutt, or curses-Pine through Cygwin. I've also found an IBM lotus client, but it requires registration. With all the email viruses on Windows, one would think that someone would create a nice, native text client.

One thought is that I can see uses for this shape/size of device. I can see it as useful for the video display function for different stuff and as just a good shape for getting a device on your wrist (better than the other tries anyway). And, if you want it more descrete, wear it screen-down like some wear watches anyway...

The other is a gripe. If someone wants a display, why not make it a remote one for something with more power and keep it the size of a watch? make the watch a time-piece AND be able to use it for messages, alarms, etc. from a PDA or something else via bluetooth or maybe even PAN?

I have to disagree here. Especially in storage (look at IceCube as an example), there's all sorts of good things going on, and that have gone on in the past (like magnetic disks).

First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it.

Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website

Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on EFNet, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is EFNet, and you can connect to irc.secsup.org or irc.isprime.com as one of the EFNet servers.
If you do not have an IRC client handy, you are free to use the GNAA Java IRC client by clicking here.

About Lunix
Lunix is an operating system. An operating system

sure you can have both.

Kickstart is cool, but not quite as powerfull as AIX/NIM or even Microsoft/RIS.

Yes, it would be good if large companies like:
IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun, etc would become interested in open source wouldnt it?

First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it.

Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website

Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on EFNet, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is EFNet, and you can connect to irc.secsup.org or irc.isprime.com as one of the EFNet servers.
If you do not have an IRC client handy, you are free to use the GNAA Java IRC client by clicking here.

About Lunix
Lunix is an operating system. An operating system

• Grace Hopper : Girl Genius of Vassar
• Lt. Hopper of the U.S. Navy
• Grace Hopper and the Mystery of the Hollerith Code
• Grace Hopper Tames the MARK I
• Grace Hopper Defeats the NAZIs
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• And remember, (+1, Funnay) does nothing for karma!

Sun have a chance !

a Sun Virtual Machine ( SVM ) that has libs for java and can be targeted well by other langs

start with the JVM fix the Java memory model
(JSR 133, which has been active for nearly three years see article on fixing it and links at bottom located at )

let ADA and fortran target it well
(i.e. think about take floating point IEEE754 seriously but get it out there and tune later)

really not that hard look at Programming Languages for the Java Virtual Machine

Start with something you know well and adapt it

if it was refered to the ITU I bet they would love it and make it a standard !

regards

John Jones

Lots of other comments, as well as the story, have pointed to a number of good tutorials and introductions. I'd like to recommend also the one I wrote for IBM developerWorks. I believe my tutorial is a bit better for real beginners to FP than are most of the others out there.

Anyway, you can find it at IBM dW(free registration required) or at my own Gnosis Software site.

Of course you shouldn't read that unless you also read the the rebuttal - apparently a lot of what is in Ross Andersons FAQ is flat out lies.

IBM has had thinkpads containing TCPA chips for years! On top of that, they provide a Linux driver for it on their website!

Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.

First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")

Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.

Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !

Please learn a bit more, then get back to me ;)

Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.

First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")

Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.

Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !

Please learn a bit more, then get back to me ;)

Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.

First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")

Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.

Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !

Please learn a bit more, then get back to me ;)

> how much does thatn X40 cost? $1500? i think not.

Starting from 1499, at the moment on sale from IBM for 1424.

Download Oracle or DB2 today.

This is really helpful if you want to play around or learn them, but you need to have a pretty big machine to put them on. Figure on 1GB RAM, 2GB swap and at least 20GB disk, just to play around with ONE of them. Then add in the size of the data you'll be working with...

IBM - look at everything done at the Almaden labs and just general research
JPL - technically not a gov't organization
Intel - Itanium
AMD - x86-64

There are plenty of examples where companies have and still are doing this. You don't hear about it because it hasn't made any money yet. You can however read about most of it if you know where to look. Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, HP/Compaq are some of the largest research funders in the world. You don't have to look very far to find the money being spent in research which might or might not make money in the long run.

IBM - look at everything done at the Almaden labs and just general research
JPL - technically not a gov't organization
Intel - Itanium
AMD - x86-64

There are plenty of examples where companies have and still are doing this. You don't hear about it because it hasn't made any money yet. You can however read about most of it if you know where to look. Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, HP/Compaq are some of the largest research funders in the world. You don't have to look very far to find the money being spent in research which might or might not make money in the long run.

First of all, this is exactly what IBM is doing , targeting the high end of the spectrum. Particularly Linux on Mainframes and what not. There is a huge market in the corporate world for high end Linux computing, in part replacing Unix mainframes.

But also there are several vendors of High end Linux Workstations. Folks like ASL, PogoLinux, Micronux and the list goes on. Here the market niche is scientific/tech workstations, and yes, they are typically high end.

The market that is still not ripe for High end Linux workstations is the power gamer home PC, and this is the one probably holding WalMart, HP and others back on high end Linux PCs

Somehow Transmeta will always have a warm place in my heart.

And Intel will always have a warm place in my lap.

Seriously, though.... The new IBM X40 is only 2.7 lbs with approximately the same battery life. The Transmeta only looks good until one realizes that it has a tiny 10" monitor.

Also here's a good article on SWT and GCJ.

Surprise, Microsoft releases .Net for Unix, and the entire effort is null and void. Your pride and joy is now a footnote, and a deprecated one at that.

The news site interviewed the guy running the fake and asked him why he was doing it. Shimanto.com wasn't making him any money. Rather he was paying a fair bit for the hosting fees. Plus it could get him in a bunch of trouble.

He was just doing it for fun...

Apparently, the guy has a history of doing the same thing, as well as domain name squatting, things like that.

Right now the Yahoo fake is gone, but it's now ripping off IBM's news site.

The more modern definition of "sim" that you seem to be using typically doesn't include anything of any redeming educational value. Most of the rules of the world are so simplified that behaviour within the sim is borderline random or very easy to effect by doing something seriously unrealistic. You'd get about as much educational value out of Monopoly as you would out of Railroad Tycoon. You could try looking at word and puzzle games. There's a "Wheel of Fortune game for the Mac, but I would imagine that a room full of kids would go through the library of puzzles pretty quickly.

My final suggestion might be a little out of your scope: Robocode or Corewars -- Kids develop their own little programs that battle it out in a virtual arena. The second is a little more abstract than the first. At the very least it will teach them how to program.