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In recent years HP settled a lawsuit against it. The class action lawsuit claimed it was a design defect that caused 5, 6, and 1100 series printers to suffer from paper-feed problems. I could've sworn your 4 series was included, but I was wrong.

And you obviously don't know how to use google. The HP LaserJet 1100 has a well known, well documented paper feed issue.

HP was taken to task for it in early to mid 2001, and were forced to offer a free repair kit (which you could order off their web site). The last time I ordered a kit from them was around 2002, so I'm not sure if they still offer them now. Might be worth looking into, though.

No more PA-Risc.
No more Alpha.
No more Itanium Workstations
No more open source (except for lip service)
No more Bluestone software (based on open source.
No more HPUX.
No altavista when they bought CPQ.
No more Vision
No more Hewlett Packard name
No more Walter Hewlett or Packard involved.

Seems to me that last one triggered when it all started falling apart.

Hewlett and Packard built one of the greatest companies in the history of Silicon Valley; and Carly managed to tank the thing in a couple years trying to pretend she can be a Michael Dell commodity-vendor.

I wish they'd just change the name to Carly&Co to stop trashing the inintials of two of the greatest heros of silicon valley.

If you want to save the thing, people should really bring back Walter Hewlett to the board and make him Chairman. At least he understood what his father's company stood for.

No more PA-Risc.
No more Alpha.
No more Itanium Workstations
No more open source (except for lip service)
No more Bluestone software (based on open source.
No more HPUX.
No altavista when they bought CPQ.
No more Vision NO more Hewlett Packard name
No more Hewlett or Packard involved.

Seems to me that last one triggered when it all started falling apart.

Hewlett and Packard built one of the greatest companies in the history of Silicon Valley; and Carly managed to tank the thing in a couple years trying to pretend she can be a Michael Dell commodity-vendor.

I wish they'd just change the name to Carly&co to stop trashing the inintials of two of the greatest hheros of silicon valley.

Others have said it better than me. See Still Relevant and There's Gold in Them Thar COBOL Skills . For some "true facts" on COBOL, see What Professionals think of the Future of COBOL? .

One of the middleware products CA has in its catalogue is "Intelligent Warehouse". IW was originally created by HP for internal use, then it was marketed by Platinum which was acquired by CA. CA supported IW (version 3.4.5) until May 2003, but some companies are still using it despite not having support. It is an excellent product, so I would like to ask Mr. Greenblatt to consider open sourcing this program too.

I heard that HP was officially suppoting Gnome (the link is 4 yrs old, and I haven't heard anything different. Please correct me if I'm wrong). So much for that! SuSE's support of Gnome is spotty at best. In fact, in the default install of 9.1 Personal (ISO download version) Gnome isnt installed at all. That's really too bad. I saw the screenshots from the previous slashdot article, Gnome 2.8 is looking pretty damn good!

Keys are stored in smart cards. Reading backup tapes requires a Cyberntics drive and the correct key. Obviously you need to manage this very well to avoid being SOL during an actual recovery situation.

Of course, consider how vulnerable your backup media really is. I don't need to hack your network, just show up in an Iron Mountain uniform with forged ID maybe 30 minutes before the real Iron Mountain guy shows up. I then drive off with ALL you data.

How about this image, from the same article. Note how green, which is SUSE Linux, is winning :)

Needless to say, context is everything.

How about this image, from the same article. Note how green, which is SUSE Linux, is winning :)

Needless to say, context is everything.

This was a major reason that 2.5 is, put simply, needed by any and all serious Lunix users.

Based on this image (0202_lab_xp_4.gif), one can see that large volumes of asynchronous I/O is, as the author puts it, the "Achilles' Hell" of Linux.

The Linux kernel itself in all versions 2.5 serializes disk Input/Output with a single spinlock.

(The yellow is the Windows XP box; the green line is the data for the SuSE Linux pee sea)

Would someone please give the community some insights on how this worked on the HP 3000 or Hp MPE. My understanding is that everything in that operating system was a transaction. When powering on, the system would roll back to the last commited transaction and just start right back where it left off.

With this system, the process would just start from where it left off.

A description is in this paper MPE/iX Transaction Manager

Teamwork is a Structured Analysis/Design (or, more generally, a CASE) tool released by Cadre Technologies many many years ago. I'm not sure exactly when, though this link is from a 1987 conference and mentions Cadre and Teamwork.

I'm not certain what it was like back then, but the version that I worked with in the mid 90's had an Xwindows front end, which communicated with a mid-tier broker, which in turn stored its information in a database on the main server. Which sounds like exactly what you're asking about.

Cadre eventually merged with Bachman to become Cayenne Software, which was bought by Sterling Software, which itself was recently bought by Computer Associates. I'm willing to bet that there's at least someone still around there who would know for sure.