Yes, they're very slow to respond to changing business and economic circumstances, leading to questionable business decisions such as licencing instead of buying DOS from Bill Gates.
What they do really well is: R&D, and build reliable minicomputers and mainframes. They've also relatively recently started responding better to the real world, e.g. adopting, promoting, and supporting Linux as a platform. I'd like to see the POWER9 systems placed on an economically competitive scale with Intel servers, but that's not their thing.
My point stands - there are no other vendors to choose from.
How many vendors of Z-series or compatible mainframes are there? How many have been and gone? Who's still around, charging up the wazoo for maintenance and strangely enough, providing that support?
If it was easier and cheaper to move to a bunker of intel servers, don't you think they'd have done it by now?
All of that. And RPG stands for Report Program Generator. It's a language originally written to process in batch-mode. It's even got a built-in cycle, you don't have to tell it to READ a file, that's what it'll do when you give it a file name. Of course there are specific read functions (and derivatives), but it gives you an idea of its design. It's damn fast, too.
Now, getting it to process things interactively, like a terminal screen, that's a bit clumsy, and another language would be preferable.
I'm curious about COBOL. I was an RPGII/III/400 programmer on AS400s, and IBM was pretty responsive about modernising RPG over that period in the 80s and 90s (and since).
Hit up Task Scheduler - you can turn off the uploads, although you can't really stop the collection.
As a matter of interest, where does windows store the telemetry data while it awaits upload? Perhaps the data storage can be nuked periodically, before it attempts to upload.
You can pre-empt windows doing anything internet-related by not giving it an internet connection until you've set everything the way you want it - at least, whatever Windows will allow you to do.
On most retail machines, Windows will install and configure itself on first power up. It'll search for network connections as part of that, but it will get to a usable state without. Don't plug in an ethernet cable, and don't give it access to any wi-fi (turn it off in the BIOS or use the hard switch/keyboard combo if you have open SSIDs in range).
Don't give it any network access until you've done what you can to restrict it.
Don't forget "updateorchestrator.exe" and
"windows10updaterapp.exe" (or whatever they're called this week).
What burns me up is that the windows 10 update/feature upgrade process is allowed to spawn so many tcp connections to download files that it will saturate a domestic internet connection. The resource monitor shows you exactly how many tcp connections, ports in use, remote IP, etc. So I've tried setting maxnumtcpconnections to 10 in the registry - that key actually disappeared after it was ignored and the 1803 feature update completed.
Then there's powershell and NetQosPolicy - tried limiting http/80 and https/443 traffic - ignored. Tried limiting "windows10updaterapp.exe" - also ignored.
I've got 16 Lenovo laptops (Celerons!!!! with W10 Home!!!!!!) in a small school to maintain until the board can afford to upgrade to i5 models with W10 Pro, and a Windows server running WSUS. I'm going to screw Windows 10 down so tight it'll need CPR. Until then I use a powershell script to remove the bloat and control as much of the update process as I can.
That's exactly what I do. Scan the ToC, jump to chapters of interest, read the introduction and how-to, read the rest of the chapter if it looks interesting or if I need a particular function, then on to the next chapter of interest.
The last manual I read - actually read - more than 50% was WordPerfect 5.1. Between that, and the little keyboard cheat sheets, I was a WordPerfect guru. That was one powerful program, and I'm sorry it's gone out of use. I still fire it up in DosBox once in a while for the nostalgia.
I have a fond memory of the absolute completeness of IBM systems documentation, AKA "sequoias". Boxes and boxes of ring-binders full of everything you ever could or ever want to know about your system. Not that I read all of it, of course, just the ones that related to my job.
Content owners like large media companies are still desperately clinging to the past.
Google and other online gatekeepers hold sway over large percentages of the audience.
I eagerly await a final smackdown for Murdoch & friends, when the reality of distributed information finally hits home. Hits home to them of course, the rest of us already know.
Google and others have no obligation to list anything. If they decide that it costs too much to link items to media websites, well... tough. The other media companies will gladly waive costs if it means their content gets listed at the top of page 1 while Murdoch & co are relegated to page 2 or 3.
The general approach is that once you have put your idea in material form, you automatically have copyright over "that particular expression" of that idea. No problem there. Creators deserve a chance to exploit their creations.
The stupidity of current practice as lobbied for by large conglomerates however.........
Exactly. Google et al response will be "we'll pay you for links to your content, here's an invoice for putting your website on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or nth page of search results"
Because that capsule has been formulated FOR SALE. It doesn't really have your best interests at heart. Nor does it take your gut microbiome into account. It's important to recognise that no-one's microbiome can be treated by a generic cocktail of bacteria - we're all different. What's good for you might be ineffective for me. If even 1% of the bacteria in kimchi make it to my intestine, they will, given otherwise favourable conditions, flourish, grow, and reproduce. If they were harmful, I'd be very sick right now.
People have been eating fermented foods for millenia. Beer is one such. Sauerkraut/kimchi is another. Yoghurt is another. It's not crazy, it's the accumulation of millenia of discoveries that certain treatments can prolong the effective life of foods. Yoghurt extends the life of milk. Sauerkraut prolongs the life of cabbage. Before industrial food production, you had to do everything you possibly could to eke out the nutrition sources available to you. The fact that some of these preservation methods produced delicious food is a plus. I'm sure there have been many disastrous experiments with other foods, i.e. they didn't pass the "delicious" or "otherwise useful" test - see potatoes/vodka, and barley/beer.
Also, sauerkraut and other fermented cabbages are a historic winter food - the fermentation preserves (or doesn't destroy) the vitamins, particularly vitamin C, which can be in short supply during winter. Yes, not these days, but humans found out that fermented cabbage was a healthy thing to eat because it was a source of vitamin C when it was otherwise difficult to get.
You're only partially correct in saying "you don't know what bacteria you have" because each batch of kimchi will be slightly different, but then, you don't know what bacteria you're eating, do you? Unless everything you eat has been pasteurised, you're getting a batch of bacteria every time you swallow, and even then, there's bacteria on your hands. Better not eat that sandwich without a handy autoclave first, and 2 pairs of gloves.
Oh yes? Do you have special knowledge of fluid dynamics? Something about waves of rolling flesh, perhaps? Brownian motion when you slap the buttocks of an overweight customer?
If I was assessing CVs for a tech job, I'd pay closer attention to those with their own domains. I might even visit that domain and run a quick WHOIS across it.
AOL/Hotmail/gmail? not so much. It's not a deal-breaker, but I'd pay less attention to those.
I'm glad that works for you, but did your Dr say anything about maybe spending 10 minutes in the sunlight (go for a walk), or dietary options (milk in your coffee, cheese and crackers after dinner instead of dessert), or something along those lines?
If it works for you, that's great. I just hate the idea of getting my nutrients from pills instead of diet. That doesn't work for everyone, of course.
"Compensating for low vitamin D levels with sun exposure is asking for skin cancer."
No, it bloody isn't. You don't need to sit in the sun for hours, 10-15 minutes per day is sufficient (with modifiers for extreme tropical and frigid climate zones - extreme northern and southern dwellers definitely need supplements during the dark).
And it isn't even whole-body exposure. If you wear a short-sleeved shirt for work, and you walk in the open air to get your lunch, you'll get enough.
I have pale skin, and I live in the melanoma capitol of the world (Queensland, Australia), and my own GP just tells me to follow the guidelines from the Cancer Council:
In Queensland where UV levels are high all year round, most people receive adequate sun exposure to produce vitamin D through their daily incidental activities. These activities include hanging out the washing, checking the letterbox or walking to and from your car. "
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Not always:
https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~ibc...
Jeez, I'm gonna have to start browsing at +2, if posts like this keep getting +1.
Hint: follow the money. It's *always* about the money.
Is that what they use? "Annual human sacrifice" AKA maintenance contract.
IME AS/400s sit in the corner working and getting dustier and dustier until management decide to stop paying annual maintenance.
"Geez, why are we paying this much every year? Damn things never go down, we can skip it this year"
And BINGO! HDD failure - which,as an ad-hoc service call, will cost ~{annual maintenance$$$} to fix.
Yes, they're very slow to respond to changing business and economic circumstances, leading to questionable business decisions such as licencing instead of buying DOS from Bill Gates.
What they do really well is: R&D, and build reliable minicomputers and mainframes. They've also relatively recently started responding better to the real world, e.g. adopting, promoting, and supporting Linux as a platform. I'd like to see the POWER9 systems placed on an economically competitive scale with Intel servers, but that's not their thing.
My point stands - there are no other vendors to choose from.
Bolock
Now you're talking.
How many vendors of Z-series or compatible mainframes are there? How many have been and gone? Who's still around, charging up the wazoo for maintenance and strangely enough, providing that support?
If it was easier and cheaper to move to a bunker of intel servers, don't you think they'd have done it by now?
All of that. And RPG stands for Report Program Generator. It's a language originally written to process in batch-mode. It's even got a built-in cycle, you don't have to tell it to READ a file, that's what it'll do when you give it a file name. Of course there are specific read functions (and derivatives), but it gives you an idea of its design. It's damn fast, too.
Now, getting it to process things interactively, like a terminal screen, that's a bit clumsy, and another language would be preferable.
I'm curious about COBOL. I was an RPGII/III/400 programmer on AS400s, and IBM was pretty responsive about modernising RPG over that period in the 80s and 90s (and since).
What's been done to modernise COBOL ?
Hit up Task Scheduler - you can turn off the uploads, although you can't really stop the collection.
As a matter of interest, where does windows store the telemetry data while it awaits upload? Perhaps the data storage can be nuked periodically, before it attempts to upload.
You can pre-empt windows doing anything internet-related by not giving it an internet connection until you've set everything the way you want it - at least, whatever Windows will allow you to do.
On most retail machines, Windows will install and configure itself on first power up. It'll search for network connections as part of that, but it will get to a usable state without. Don't plug in an ethernet cable, and don't give it access to any wi-fi (turn it off in the BIOS or use the hard switch/keyboard combo if you have open SSIDs in range).
Don't give it any network access until you've done what you can to restrict it.
Don't forget "updateorchestrator.exe" and
"windows10updaterapp.exe" (or whatever they're called this week).
What burns me up is that the windows 10 update/feature upgrade process is allowed to spawn so many tcp connections to download files that it will saturate a domestic internet connection. The resource monitor shows you exactly how many tcp connections, ports in use, remote IP, etc. So I've tried setting maxnumtcpconnections to 10 in the registry - that key actually disappeared after it was ignored and the 1803 feature update completed.
Then there's powershell and NetQosPolicy - tried limiting http/80 and https/443 traffic - ignored. Tried limiting "windows10updaterapp.exe" - also ignored.
I've got 16 Lenovo laptops (Celerons!!!! with W10 Home!!!!!!) in a small school to maintain until the board can afford to upgrade to i5 models with W10 Pro, and a Windows server running WSUS. I'm going to screw Windows 10 down so tight it'll need CPR. Until then I use a powershell script to remove the bloat and control as much of the update process as I can.
is Sievers still banned?
That's exactly what I do. Scan the ToC, jump to chapters of interest, read the introduction and how-to, read the rest of the chapter if it looks interesting or if I need a particular function, then on to the next chapter of interest.
The last manual I read - actually read - more than 50% was WordPerfect 5.1. Between that, and the little keyboard cheat sheets, I was a WordPerfect guru. That was one powerful program, and I'm sorry it's gone out of use. I still fire it up in DosBox once in a while for the nostalgia.
I have a fond memory of the absolute completeness of IBM systems documentation, AKA "sequoias". Boxes and boxes of ring-binders full of everything you ever could or ever want to know about your system. Not that I read all of it, of course, just the ones that related to my job.
The content owners, or the content indexers?
Content owners like large media companies are still desperately clinging to the past.
Google and other online gatekeepers hold sway over large percentages of the audience.
I eagerly await a final smackdown for Murdoch & friends, when the reality of distributed information finally hits home. Hits home to them of course, the rest of us already know.
Google and others have no obligation to list anything. If they decide that it costs too much to link items to media websites, well... tough. The other media companies will gladly waive costs if it means their content gets listed at the top of page 1 while Murdoch & co are relegated to page 2 or 3.
The general approach is that once you have put your idea in material form, you automatically have copyright over "that particular expression" of that idea. No problem there. Creators deserve a chance to exploit their creations.
The stupidity of current practice as lobbied for by large conglomerates however.........
Exactly. Google et al response will be "we'll pay you for links to your content, here's an invoice for putting your website on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or nth page of search results"
Because that capsule has been formulated FOR SALE. It doesn't really have your best interests at heart. Nor does it take your gut microbiome into account. It's important to recognise that no-one's microbiome can be treated by a generic cocktail of bacteria - we're all different. What's good for you might be ineffective for me. If even 1% of the bacteria in kimchi make it to my intestine, they will, given otherwise favourable conditions, flourish, grow, and reproduce. If they were harmful, I'd be very sick right now.
People have been eating fermented foods for millenia. Beer is one such. Sauerkraut/kimchi is another. Yoghurt is another. It's not crazy, it's the accumulation of millenia of discoveries that certain treatments can prolong the effective life of foods. Yoghurt extends the life of milk. Sauerkraut prolongs the life of cabbage. Before industrial food production, you had to do everything you possibly could to eke out the nutrition sources available to you. The fact that some of these preservation methods produced delicious food is a plus. I'm sure there have been many disastrous experiments with other foods, i.e. they didn't pass the "delicious" or "otherwise useful" test - see potatoes/vodka, and barley/beer.
Also, sauerkraut and other fermented cabbages are a historic winter food - the fermentation preserves (or doesn't destroy) the vitamins, particularly vitamin C, which can be in short supply during winter. Yes, not these days, but humans found out that fermented cabbage was a healthy thing to eat because it was a source of vitamin C when it was otherwise difficult to get.
You're only partially correct in saying "you don't know what bacteria you have" because each batch of kimchi will be slightly different, but then, you don't know what bacteria you're eating, do you? Unless everything you eat has been pasteurised, you're getting a batch of bacteria every time you swallow, and even then, there's bacteria on your hands. Better not eat that sandwich without a handy autoclave first, and 2 pairs of gloves.
Oh yes? Do you have special knowledge of fluid dynamics? Something about waves of rolling flesh, perhaps? Brownian motion when you slap the buttocks of an overweight customer?
No? Then fuck off.
I guess fitting baffles or compartments to bulk carriers costs more than the insurance when a ship goes down.
But not social media. He should fear the wrath of anyone who's ever had to use or support his software.
Win 7 and CS6 still meet my needs. When they stop meeting my needs, I'll consider options.
When this computer dies, I'll probably continue to run Win7+CS6 in a VM.
If I was assessing CVs for a tech job, I'd pay closer attention to those with their own domains. I might even visit that domain and run a quick WHOIS across it.
AOL/Hotmail/gmail? not so much. It's not a deal-breaker, but I'd pay less attention to those.
I'd love to evaluate one of those Talos II workstations, just to see what kind of workload could make it top out.
4K special effects rendering? VMs by the dozen?
I'm glad that works for you, but did your Dr say anything about maybe spending 10 minutes in the sunlight (go for a walk), or dietary options (milk in your coffee, cheese and crackers after dinner instead of dessert), or something along those lines?
If it works for you, that's great. I just hate the idea of getting my nutrients from pills instead of diet. That doesn't work for everyone, of course.
"Compensating for low vitamin D levels with sun exposure is asking for skin cancer."
No, it bloody isn't. You don't need to sit in the sun for hours, 10-15 minutes per day is sufficient (with modifiers for extreme tropical and frigid climate zones - extreme northern and southern dwellers definitely need supplements during the dark).
And it isn't even whole-body exposure. If you wear a short-sleeved shirt for work, and you walk in the open air to get your lunch, you'll get enough.
I have pale skin, and I live in the melanoma capitol of the world (Queensland, Australia), and my own GP just tells me to follow the guidelines from the Cancer Council:
https://cancerqld.org.au/cance...
"Vitamin D â" how much sun is enough
In Queensland where UV levels are high all year round, most people receive adequate sun exposure to produce vitamin D through their daily incidental activities. These activities include hanging out the washing, checking the letterbox or walking to and from your car. "