I ran into this same thing, and like you, pulled my hair out.
I think it has to do with SP 2 not being installed. Most OEM copies that come with machines now have SP2. The Windows Update stuff installs just fine. My legitimate copy of XP is older and is not SP2. I get the error until I either install SP2 or do the security settings workaround like you did. What really stinks is that I don't think you can just download SP2 anymore. You get redirected to Windows/Microsoft Update.
You'd think that this stuff would be QA'd for non-patched systems since that's the point of it all..
I've worked with the Cisco system, and I know that it has call detail capability. It does run Windows 2000. However, it was pretty reliable. I've talked to others running the NBX, and they swear by it.
That all being said, don't rule out the standard telephony players. Although their systems aren't VOIP based, many of them have hooks for VOIP and network management. Many are still hurting after the telecom boom went bust, so you could probably get a decent deal.
If your machines have been banished to the basement, its only fair that the cats be banished FROM the basement. That should help the cat hair problem. (BTW, the fact that your stuff must be put in the dungeon doesn't seem quite fair to me, but I don't know the situation...)
I run a small HEPA filtering unit in my office, which helps with the dust. I don't have cats, so I don't have that problem.
You might also check out an Ionic Breeze from the Sharper Image. Supposedly it is supposed to pull stuff out of the air fairly well. However, I've also read concerns about the ozone that is produced by them.
1. Remember that your little ones are little only once. That program or script your banging out, as important as it is to you, can wait. The time you spend with your kids is worth so much more.
2. As a parent, you won't be perfect. In fact the perfect parent doesn't exist. Just follow your heart and do what you think is best for your family, and you'll do fine.
Congrats! Get ready, your life is about to change...
It includes MVS 3.8J, the last version of MVS that could be freely distributed, and a copy of Hercules, the 390 emulator for Intel boxes. Hercules can run under Linux or Windows.
The junior college that attended (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M) did a lot of mainframe stuff as well, although it was on VSE. Unfortunately, since I didn't use what I learned much, I forgot most of it. We didn't get very indepth anyway.
I could kick myself now for selling back my textbooks. I did find my assembler book though. I didn't sell it because they quit teaching the class and weren't buying back the books.
No, try something more like mainframes running VM with multiple Linux parititions running.
This is how IBM has planned on selling more mainframes. You never hear of new shops going straight to OS/390 or z/OS. It doesn't happen. IBM recognizes that Linux is the future.
Imagine being able to pitch Linux on rock solid zSeries mainframe hardware that can run the equivalent of a couple of hundred Linux servers on one system.
In fact, IBM has a development mainframe with Linux VMs available to certain partners. You sign up online via the web, and after you submit, a job is submitted that creates your Linux VM. You're ready to go within a few minutes.
I've spent the last two years trying to get up to speed on OS/390, and I'm still very green.
It is a different world altogether.
Take a look at Unix, DOS, and Windows. Many of the concepts are similar. You have files, directories, fairly straight forward users and groups, etc. Even MacOS is similar in some ways, like having a directory hiearchy, files, and so on.
In the mainframe world (btw, an AS/400 is midrange, not a mainframe), its a whole different ballgame. The concept of a filesystem is not the same. You have PDSs (partitioned datasets), libraries (similar), and sequential datasets. PDSs are entities that contain members (like files). PDSs can not have PDSs in them, so there isn't a hierarchy.
OS/390 and z/OS do have OpenEdition, which is the Unix part of the operating system. It uses HFS (hierarchical file system), which is more like the standard Unix file/directory system.
Things are put into motion by submitting jobs. These jobs are written in JCL (job control language). The jobs are submitted to JES2 or JES3 (Job Entry System), which is the subsystem responsible for job control.
On top of all of that, there are several other subsystems. You'll usually see security handled by IBM's RACF, CA's ACF2, or CA's TopSecret. Then there are other subsystems such as CICS, CA-IDMS, or IMS that have their own programs running within them. Then add products like MQSeries, DB2, Websphere, etc.
You very rarely, if ever, run into someone who handles all of these components. Almost all shops have separate teams. Maybe a security team that handles RACF or ACF2, a CICS team, DB2 team, and so on.
I've found the most difficult barrier to learning the mainframe to be the lack of comprehendible documentation and tutorials available on the web. I find myself always having to query others who have years of experience already under their belts, or having to dig deep within IBM's documentation sites, usually into several books at once.
If you do this, you had better have other fans to evacuate the hot air from your case. By yanking the fans out of your PS, you are reducing your case's airflow.
If you have to add fans to compensate for removing the power supply's fans, what's the point?
and I have been fairly happy with it. The belt clip grabs tightly, and I've never had it fly off my waist.
However, there are a few things about it that I don't care for.
1. It takes some practice to get used to using the buttons while using the case. The Pause/Play, FF, RWD, Stop, and Select buttons are combined onto one "disc". Its very easy to accidentally pause the unit instead of FF'ing to the next song. 2. The included software stinks. I use the Windows Media Player add-on instead. I don't care for it much either, but I've grown accustomed to it. 3. I used to use it with the "rioutil" program on the Linux side of my laptop (dual boot), but it was unreliable. Half of the time the transfer would abort. The software may have improved, but I haven't tried it again for several months.
One advantage of using Media Player is that you can have it convert all of the MP3s to WMP on the fly while uploading to the player. 64k WMP files sound very good compared to 64k MP3s. 64k WMP may not impress audiophiles, but I find it more than adequate for jogging or working out.
My wife is a movie junkie, and so far she really likes NetFlix.
The really nice thing about them is that instead of standing around in a rental store trying to decide what to rent, you can sit at your PC and make your list. She already has a 22-item list, so she'll be busy watching movies for awhile.
Also, if you are bad about forgetting to return rentals on time, you won't get tagged for late fees. I turned in a movie to Blockbuster about 20 minutes late due to a snow storm, and they wouldn't wave the late fee. Ever since, I've rented from someone else if I had a choice.
NetFlix aparently have several shipping centers around the U.S. I initially signed up for their 10-day trial to see how long it would take for DVDs to get to us. Our DVD's come out of Houston, and take about 2 days.
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I live in Norman as well (although I went to OSU, sorry).
Are there any Unix-type users groups around the Norman area? With the University being in town, I imagine that there would be enough interest in one if one doesn't already exist.
Is it just me, or has the general mentality of saving bandwidth almost gone away?
Even putting p2p, audio, and video aside, index pages on websites themselves are now huge and bloated, some sporting full blown uneccessary flash animations.
I remember a few years ago when everyone was very careful about wasting Internet bandwidth. Maybe suffering the speed of a dialup connect kept it in the front of users minds (at least technical ones). I remember Slashdot threads where the mindset was to treat bandwidth as a limited resource.
Just this weekend I put up a Squid proxy so that my machines wouldn't redundantly use bandwidth fetching something that had already came into my network.
This is what some of the instant messengers now do. Its not uncommon to get several porn spam messages via ICQ if you accept messages from people not in your list.
If the RIAA succeeds in shutting down Internet broadcasting by charging outrageous licensing fees, we will at least have plenty of spam to take its place.
At a past job, half of my users had Armada M700's, and the other half had assorted Dells.
NONE of the Armada's had structural problems. All of the Dell's at least had loose screen hinges, if not worse problems.
The technical staff chose their own equipment, and supported themselves, so I didn't really care what they got. As for everyone else, I pushed for the Armada's so that my life would be easier.
Our local Compaq reseller/service center rocked, and would even sometimes bring replacement parts to me the day after I called and asked for them (for things they had to order). In contrast, I once had a problem with Dell support because I installed Windows 2000 on a machine that originally had Windows 98. It was a hardware problem (bad keyboard), but they still were hesitant about helping me.
The thing that cracks me up, is that they obviously had researchers go ask people for their passwords, and they gave them to them!
I used to have an app on my PalmPilot that would generate random passwords and store them using IDEA. I was responsible for changing the root passwords at the ISP I worked at, and everyone hated it when I made them change.
Yes, VoiceStream is GSM, but the problem with them is that their coverage area stinks. To use analog, you have to use an analog sleve with the Nokias to use other carriers (and then you have to hope that they have a roaming agreement).
The features are great, but without coverage, they are useless. Having AT&T deploy GSM would be great. Then I could roam on their network if needed.
this particular phone isn't available yet. The VIP 30 is their flagship phone, and its pretty much as basic looking phone. This is technology that Cisco aquired when they bought Selsius. I'm in the process of deploying Cisco's IP phone systems in two cities now. Eventually we will link them both together and have toll-bypass via our Internet connection. They are pretty cool, but it is not a total PBX killer just yet. There are a few more features needed, but they are probably not far away. As for latency, I haven't noticed any, and the sound quality is as good as regular phone systems. We have had some issues with drop-outs of very quiet calls, but I'm pretty sure its just something we need to tweak on our h323 gateway. For more info on the core server that runs all this, see http://www.selsius.com/univ ercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/7830.htm
I have to wonder if this is a person who is scared to death of this happening, and applied for the patent to attempt to prevent it in the future.
It reminds me of a stupid rumor going around a couple of years ago about someone going into a Wal-Mart, telling the cashier to scan their hand, and then telling them that they are part of a test of this method of payment. Of course it was a bunch of crap. I wonder if this person thinks that they are going to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
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At work we've had people destroy fiber thinking they were stealing copper. The aftermath is much more expensive than repairing copper.
I ran into this same thing, and like you, pulled my hair out.
I think it has to do with SP 2 not being installed. Most OEM copies that come with machines now have SP2. The Windows Update stuff installs just fine. My legitimate copy of XP is older and is not SP2. I get the error until I either install SP2 or do the security settings workaround like you did. What really stinks is that I don't think you can just download SP2 anymore. You get redirected to Windows/Microsoft Update.
You'd think that this stuff would be QA'd for non-patched systems since that's the point of it all..
Also go check out the Cisco CallManager, and the 3Com NBX.
I've worked with the Cisco system, and I know that it has call detail capability. It does run Windows 2000. However, it was pretty reliable. I've talked to others running the NBX, and they swear by it.
That all being said, don't rule out the standard telephony players. Although their systems aren't VOIP based, many of them have hooks for VOIP and network management. Many are still hurting after the telecom boom went bust, so you could probably get a decent deal.
If your machines have been banished to the basement, its only fair that the cats be banished FROM the basement. That should help the cat hair problem. (BTW, the fact that your stuff must be put in the dungeon doesn't seem quite fair to me, but I don't know the situation...)
I run a small HEPA filtering unit in my office, which helps with the dust. I don't have cats, so I don't have that problem.
You might also check out an Ionic Breeze from the Sharper Image. Supposedly it is supposed to pull stuff out of the air fairly well. However, I've also read concerns about the ozone that is produced by them.
Here's my short addition:
1. Remember that your little ones are little only once. That program or script your banging out, as important as it is to you, can wait. The time you spend with your kids is worth so much more.
2. As a parent, you won't be perfect. In fact the perfect parent doesn't exist. Just follow your heart and do what you think is best for your family, and you'll do fine.
Congrats! Get ready, your life is about to change...
You would probably be suprised at how well it runs. Its an old MVS version, so it won't be too demanding anyway.
I don't know where you could find an old 360 or 370. They are so big and bulky that most places didn't want them sitting around.
Here you go:
Turnkey MVS System
It includes MVS 3.8J, the last version of MVS that could be freely distributed, and a copy of Hercules, the 390 emulator for Intel boxes. Hercules can run under Linux or Windows.
The junior college that attended (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M) did a lot of mainframe stuff as well, although it was on VSE. Unfortunately, since I didn't use what I learned much, I forgot most of it. We didn't get very indepth anyway.
I could kick myself now for selling back my textbooks. I did find my assembler book though. I didn't sell it because they quit teaching the class and weren't buying back the books.
No, try something more like mainframes running VM with multiple Linux parititions running.
This is how IBM has planned on selling more mainframes. You never hear of new shops going straight to OS/390 or z/OS. It doesn't happen. IBM recognizes that Linux is the future.
Imagine being able to pitch Linux on rock solid zSeries mainframe hardware that can run the equivalent of a couple of hundred Linux servers on one system.
In fact, IBM has a development mainframe with Linux VMs available to certain partners. You sign up online via the web, and after you submit, a job is submitted that creates your Linux VM. You're ready to go within a few minutes.
I've spent the last two years trying to get up to speed on OS/390, and I'm still very green.
It is a different world altogether.
Take a look at Unix, DOS, and Windows. Many of the concepts are similar. You have files, directories, fairly straight forward users and groups, etc. Even MacOS is similar in some ways, like having a directory hiearchy, files, and so on.
In the mainframe world (btw, an AS/400 is midrange, not a mainframe), its a whole different ballgame. The concept of a filesystem is not the same. You have PDSs (partitioned datasets), libraries (similar), and sequential datasets. PDSs are entities that contain members (like files). PDSs can not have PDSs in them, so there isn't a hierarchy.
OS/390 and z/OS do have OpenEdition, which is the Unix part of the operating system. It uses HFS (hierarchical file system), which is more like the standard Unix file/directory system.
Things are put into motion by submitting jobs. These jobs are written in JCL (job control language). The jobs are submitted to JES2 or JES3 (Job Entry System), which is the subsystem responsible for job control.
On top of all of that, there are several other subsystems. You'll usually see security handled by IBM's RACF, CA's ACF2, or CA's TopSecret. Then there are other subsystems such as CICS, CA-IDMS, or IMS that have their own programs running within them. Then add products like MQSeries, DB2, Websphere, etc.
You very rarely, if ever, run into someone who handles all of these components. Almost all shops have separate teams. Maybe a security team that handles RACF or ACF2, a CICS team, DB2 team, and so on.
I've found the most difficult barrier to learning the mainframe to be the lack of comprehendible documentation and tutorials available on the web. I find myself always having to query others who have years of experience already under their belts, or having to dig deep within IBM's documentation sites, usually into several books at once.
If you do this, you had better have other fans to evacuate the hot air from your case. By yanking the fans out of your PS, you are reducing your case's airflow.
If you have to add fans to compensate for removing the power supply's fans, what's the point?
and I have been fairly happy with it. The belt clip grabs tightly, and I've never had it fly off my waist.
However, there are a few things about it that I don't care for.
1. It takes some practice to get used to using the buttons while using the case. The Pause/Play, FF, RWD, Stop, and Select buttons are combined onto one "disc". Its very easy to accidentally pause the unit instead of FF'ing to the next song.
2. The included software stinks. I use the Windows Media Player add-on instead. I don't care for it much either, but I've grown accustomed to it.
3. I used to use it with the "rioutil" program on the Linux side of my laptop (dual boot), but it was unreliable. Half of the time the transfer would abort. The software may have improved, but I haven't tried it again for several months.
One advantage of using Media Player is that you can have it convert all of the MP3s to WMP on the fly while uploading to the player. 64k WMP files sound very good compared to 64k MP3s. 64k WMP may not impress audiophiles, but I find it more than adequate for jogging or working out.
I live in Norman, Oklahoma.
My wife is a movie junkie, and so far she really likes NetFlix.
The really nice thing about them is that instead of standing around in a rental store trying to decide what to rent, you can sit at your PC and make your list. She already has a 22-item list, so she'll be busy watching movies for awhile.
Also, if you are bad about forgetting to return rentals on time, you won't get tagged for late fees. I turned in a movie to Blockbuster about 20 minutes late due to a snow storm, and they wouldn't wave the late fee. Ever since, I've rented from someone else if I had a choice.
NetFlix aparently have several shipping centers around the U.S. I initially signed up for their 10-day trial to see how long it would take for DVDs to get to us. Our DVD's come out of Houston, and take about 2 days.
I live in Norman as well (although I went to OSU, sorry).
Are there any Unix-type users groups around the Norman area? With the University being in town, I imagine that there would be enough interest in one if one doesn't already exist.
Is it just me, or has the general mentality of saving bandwidth almost gone away?
Even putting p2p, audio, and video aside, index pages on websites themselves are now huge and bloated, some sporting full blown uneccessary flash animations.
I remember a few years ago when everyone was very careful about wasting Internet bandwidth. Maybe suffering the speed of a dialup connect kept it in the front of users minds (at least technical ones). I remember Slashdot threads where the mindset was to treat bandwidth as a limited resource.
Just this weekend I put up a Squid proxy so that my machines wouldn't redundantly use bandwidth fetching something that had already came into my network.
This is what some of the instant messengers now do. Its not uncommon to get several porn spam messages via ICQ if you accept messages from people not in your list.
If the RIAA succeeds in shutting down Internet broadcasting by charging outrageous licensing fees, we will at least have plenty of spam to take its place.
Spamradio
At a past job, half of my users had Armada M700's, and the other half had assorted Dells.
NONE of the Armada's had structural problems. All of the Dell's at least had loose screen hinges, if not worse problems.
The technical staff chose their own equipment, and supported themselves, so I didn't really care what they got. As for everyone else, I pushed for the Armada's so that my life would be easier.
Our local Compaq reseller/service center rocked, and would even sometimes bring replacement parts to me the day after I called and asked for them (for things they had to order). In contrast, I once had a problem with Dell support because I installed Windows 2000 on a machine that originally had Windows 98. It was a hardware problem (bad keyboard), but they still were hesitant about helping me.
Did anyone notice that he mentions that he received a "forwarded" email?
The thing that cracks me up, is that they obviously had researchers go ask people for their passwords, and they gave them to them!
I used to have an app on my PalmPilot that would generate random passwords and store them using IDEA. I was responsible for changing the root passwords at the ISP I worked at, and everyone hated it when I made them change.
A Forth compiler for the Palm platform already exists and has for some time now. Its called Quartus Forth.
Yes, VoiceStream is GSM, but the problem with them is that their coverage area stinks. To use analog, you have to use an analog sleve with the Nokias to use other carriers (and then you have to hope that they have a roaming agreement).
The features are great, but without coverage, they are useless. Having AT&T deploy GSM would be great. Then I could roam on their network if needed.
this particular phone isn't available yet. The VIP 30 is their flagship phone, and its pretty much as basic looking phone. This is technology that Cisco aquired when they bought Selsius. I'm in the process of deploying Cisco's IP phone systems in two cities now. Eventually we will link them both together and have toll-bypass via our Internet connection. They are pretty cool, but it is not a total PBX killer just yet. There are a few more features needed, but they are probably not far away. As for latency, I haven't noticed any, and the sound quality is as good as regular phone systems. We have had some issues with drop-outs of very quiet calls, but I'm pretty sure its just something we need to tweak on our h323 gateway. For more info on the core server that runs all this, see http://www.selsius.com/univ ercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/7830.htm
I have to wonder if this is a person who is scared to death of this happening, and applied for the patent to attempt to prevent it in the future.
It reminds me of a stupid rumor going around a couple of years ago about someone going into a Wal-Mart, telling the cashier to scan their hand, and then telling them that they are part of a test of this method of payment. Of course it was a bunch of crap. I wonder if this person thinks that they are going to prevent this sort of thing from happening.