you have obviously never used an AS400. They rock the house as the OneTrueDatabaseServer. Even oracle isnt on par to running an AS400.
If you wanna ditch something, Id go culling in the midrange, so you have something lowend (sqlite), something midrange (firebird or postgress) and something on the topend (os400+db2)...
the difference is, rather than have your story in phrack when it appeared every now and then, everyone just blogs or posts thier article on the web and see it NOW rather than later...
the sorcerers released the classic definitive text mode demo with pc speaker support... hmm i cant find it anymore! doh! this thing is old, and cool...
spellunking... well its more caveclan style.. damn i miss the caveclan outings from australia.. london lacks an organised caveclan... (caveclan info here
but does it cover infocoms famous zmachine VM, which runs on more hardware than any other virtual machine ever... (considering it can run under java as well.. a vm runnnig a vm!)..
or magnetic scrolls 68k VM, that that even ran on the c64 with its mighty 8bit chip, was emulating the 16/32bit 68K!
aaah long live interactive fiction and virtual machines.
the aussie non coin money i still like! plastic so you can leave it in your pocket when your jeans go in the wash. nice holograms (keeps the simple minded amused). doesnt tear as easy. nice and bright and colourful...
apparently we were the first country to use polymer notes...
it will be interestnig to see what comes of this, since the main draw for me of the Forgotten Realms as a player setting was that it has a huuuuge backstory, each town and character has a history, everything is present and it all felt cohesive.
dragonlance didnt have that 'cohesiveness' that the Realms had with history, geography, and politics, etc.
So I'm eager to see what people come up with, and truth be told, I'm expecting very very little!
we need a Feng Shui crpg, something with depth, using the fallout2 engine, multithreaded quests and hong kong action....
you want an SSO. I'm looking into this for my work. I want to be able to use our NT logon password for all things, so when it changes in on place, its changed for all. that covers logging into our AS400's, NT boxes, and our apps. Most people skip over the apps and just do central box logging, which is only 3/10'ths the problem.
eg: one of our apps requires this; log onto box (nt/unix whatever) -> log into application -> app logs into db server (as400/db2) -> app also logs into 2nd db server (essbase).
there is 4 passwords righ there!
making inhouse apps support LDAP is easy, making 3rd party apps support it is hard. lucky our tivoli servers, essbase, as400's, nt boxes can all support ldap.
I suggest you do a lot of research befor jumping into any one solution.
(and dont buy into passport as an SSO option! licensing is $$$$ for passport.)
FYI, in Win2k you can ditch ACPI support without reinstalling by changing the Computer->ACPI PC driver to Standard PC. Windows will grab the other kernel from the CD and make you reboot and re-detect hardware.
wrong! win2k has a different HAL with an ACPI kernel to one without! you cant just 'change' modes.
You cannot change between Standard and ACPI HALs because of the different way an ACPI and a non-ACPI BIOS enumerate hardware. The copy of the hardware tree, which is kept in the registry, is stored differently for each type of HAL. If you change the HAL without running Setup again, Windows may not be able to find hardware components needed to start the computer.
its easy to see why there will be no consolidated cvs tree for linux. that would make it too bsdish in developmental terms. shock horror gasp! we cant go against the gnu dogma! having subsystem maintainers (aka 'core') commit patches, well we cant move from a 'bazaar' to a 'cathedral' can we? that'd be sleeping with the enemy.
i alwayst felt that 6 and beyond were dreadfull. there are lots of fans of wiz gold, etc but post maelstrom + werdna, etc, they totally lost the plot.
4+5 imo are the best of the trilogy and i especially liked playing Werdna and starting at the bottom of the tower.
the wiz series was also the first to my knowledge to award your characters for winning the game, and taking that into the next game, so when you won you got a chevron. quite cool.
the best bit was that from 1 to 3 required you to have played and passed characters along, so you could only play wiz3 by playing wiz2 and wiz1!! (although it limited market share i guess)..
nice to see an old school title come back. pity it has no old school charm.
Yahoo Serious makes another movie about a dotcom startup named a company called Yahoo, the movie is so bad, and generates so much negative publicity that the Real Yahoo!(tm) goes under (classic case of personal vs corporate confusion).
Seriously (no pun intended), this has been talked about and been on the books for ages... he was never a tall poppy, or we would have carved him up ages ago.
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ummm. me? we have ermmm... 6 odd big buggers, and loads of smaller e series + rs6000 jobs. (not forgetting the 150odd tiny as400's) only prob is they are in constant use over the weekends...
they might try and replace AIX with Linux... But I can't see db2 and os400 on our as400's getting replaced... I know turbolinux and (some other vendor?) produce AS400 distributions... but we dont use the as400's for email+http... so its linux on our boxes is worthless.
tho we did upgrade the as400's httpd process to run apache now (its always good to stay uptodate with IBMs PTF's)
- I don't have an enormous pipe to download applications. I can only get 28.8 where I live
- When people say 'RTFM' I actually have something to refer to
- It's too time consuming to look up all kinds of documentation online. I know it exists, but downloading it, finding what I want, printing it, etc is annoying. I don't have another box to use while setting up BSD.
- It essentially centralises everything, and I can even learn things without my box at hand because I can just sit down with the book
well, this is one thing i loved that is part of both Linux and FreeBSD, all the docs. FreeBSD with its manual and docs, Linux with its HowTo's, etc.
both when installed, have swaths of documentation.
dont have another box for printing? screen/alt-f2 etc. docs in one console, doing it in another..
wow.. everyone is talking about second reality... hell. why in my day when i moved from c64/amiga to pc and started demo stuff, DCE were yet to release their dragnet demo. i remmeber sorcerors did an ASCII mode demo with pc speaker music. S!P hadnt done copper yet. Ultraforce handnt done vectorballs. i remember coldcuts. hgmm about 88/89 or so.. wow its going back.... bbs swapping demos.. no imphobia diskmag yet (iirc...).. the eddie demo... no cronologia (wow that blew me away! and the huge intro 60mionute scroller....)
I didnt think much of the melbourne house stuff (and I lived in melbourne for the past 25 years of my 26 year life).
hobbit was good for the time, as was KQ1. each had their own strengths.
i dont think the melbourne house parse was up to scratch in comparison to level9/MS/Infocom standard.
Depending on the side of the pond you lived on, life consisted of Magnetic Scrolls and Level 9. Personally, I favoured the mag scrolls games over the infocom stuff. Fish, Guild Of Thieves, Pawn etc were fantastic. Infocom were good too, but I found some kind of charm in the magnetic scrolls stuff I didnt really find in the Infocom stuff (specifcally the later games, the early stuff I enjoyed muchly!)...
Level 9 were also kickass.. Ingrid, Worm in Paradise, etc.
it will be interesting to see if intel implement any of the design ideas + ip from the aquisition of Compaq/DEC's alpha architecture.
ideas from the EV bus protocol to scaling. My guess is since processor design has such a long term for each cpu, that future designs are fairly well hard coded, intel couldnt just drop in any compaq IP 'just like that'.
so now intel have alpha technology and arm technology.. imagine the combination of the two! what a hybrid processor that would be.
aaah for those that dream anyway...
i would be interested to read a form of comparision to sun's usIII on a technical design level.
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this sounds like the stuff XDI.org do. with i-names and so on...
you would do away with DB2?? ouch!
you have obviously never used an AS400. They rock the house as the OneTrueDatabaseServer. Even oracle isnt on par to running an AS400.
If you wanna ditch something, Id go culling in the midrange, so you have something lowend (sqlite), something midrange (firebird or postgress) and something on the topend (os400+db2)...
thin the ranks a little....
the difference is, rather than have your story in phrack when it appeared every now and then, everyone just blogs or posts thier article on the web and see it NOW rather than later...
sol.. ltns.. mm i have been away from irc too long. i bet nothing has changed on #coders in 5+ years...
the sorcerers released the classic definitive text mode demo with pc speaker support... hmm i cant find it anymore! doh! this thing is old, and cool...
spellunking... well its more caveclan style.. damn i miss the caveclan outings from australia.. london lacks an organised caveclan... (caveclan info here
but does it cover infocoms famous zmachine VM, which runs on more hardware than any other virtual machine ever... (considering it can run under java as well.. a vm runnnig a vm!)..
or magnetic scrolls 68k VM, that that even ran on the c64 with its mighty 8bit chip, was emulating the 16/32bit 68K!
aaah long live interactive fiction and virtual machines.
apparently we were the first country to use polymer notes...
two good links are here and here
and this shows all our polymer notes
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it will be interestnig to see what comes of this, since the main draw for me of the Forgotten Realms as a player setting was that it has a huuuuge backstory, each town and character has a history, everything is present and it all felt cohesive.
dragonlance didnt have that 'cohesiveness' that the Realms had with history, geography, and politics, etc.
So I'm eager to see what people come up with, and truth be told, I'm expecting very very little!
we need a Feng Shui crpg, something with depth, using the fallout2 engine, multithreaded quests and hong kong action....
FreeBSD-current and afaik, NetBSD-current are using gcc 3.1.
hmm bollocks. I work in the data warehouse of HMV UK (where HMV started), and I can tell you its not the first entry in the master catalogue!
not sure where indiatimes got their info from...
you want an SSO. I'm looking into this for my work. I want to be able to use our NT logon password for all things, so when it changes in on place, its changed for all. that covers logging into our AS400's, NT boxes, and our apps. Most people skip over the apps and just do central box logging, which is only 3/10'ths the problem.
eg: one of our apps requires this;
log onto box (nt/unix whatever) -> log into application -> app logs into db server (as400/db2) -> app also logs into 2nd db server (essbase).
there is 4 passwords righ there!
making inhouse apps support LDAP is easy, making 3rd party apps support it is hard. lucky our tivoli servers, essbase, as400's, nt boxes can all support ldap.
I suggest you do a lot of research befor jumping into any one solution.
(and dont buy into passport as an SSO option! licensing is $$$$ for passport.)
wrong! win2k has a different HAL with an ACPI kernel to one without! you cant just 'change' modes.
see here
You cannot change between Standard and ACPI HALs because of the different way an ACPI and a non-ACPI BIOS enumerate hardware. The copy of the hardware tree, which is kept in the registry, is stored differently for each type of HAL. If you change the HAL without running Setup again, Windows may not be able to find hardware components needed to start the computer.
when i say megatokyo, i think of Bubblegum Crisis, the original 80's cyberpunk anime series with babes in hardsuits.
I dont think of the web comic.
(even tho my mega-tokyo.com has nothing much to do with BGC....)
its easy to see why there will be no consolidated cvs tree for linux. that would make it too bsdish in developmental terms. shock horror gasp! we cant go against the gnu dogma! having subsystem maintainers (aka 'core') commit patches, well we cant move from a 'bazaar' to a 'cathedral' can we? that'd be sleeping with the enemy.
i alwayst felt that 6 and beyond were dreadfull. there are lots of fans of wiz gold, etc but post maelstrom + werdna, etc, they totally lost the plot.
4+5 imo are the best of the trilogy and i especially liked playing Werdna and starting at the bottom of the tower.
the wiz series was also the first to my knowledge to award your characters for winning the game, and taking that into the next game, so when you won you got a chevron. quite cool.
the best bit was that from 1 to 3 required you to have played and passed characters along, so you could only play wiz3 by playing wiz2 and wiz1!! (although it limited market share i guess)..
nice to see an old school title come back. pity it has no old school charm.
i myself am in the datawarehouse of a large international company, our DWH is run off IBM as400's with DB2 + essbase/hyperion.
there are several factors why there will be no change in this.
IBM offers complete intergrated solutions (HW+SW) that you dont get with opensource solutions.
the opensource rdbms cant compete with the likes of DB2 and Oracle in terms of scalability and features.
3rd party integration. (Esssbase/Hyperion) database cube solutions dont exist for linux/freebsd. (man 3d cube db's are funky)
stable cross platform ODBC drivers, (winnt drivers for ASP, JODBC java+websphere, AS400 + RS6000 drivers)
support. (who gives 24/7 support on postgress, and send out tech support guys giving consultations, will come on site on a sunday at 4am?)
what OpenSource rdbms provide true mutli language support (we have records in cryllic, japanese, american, german, etc)?
high availablity (i dont know the current state of HA functionality in the linux kernel)
Linux on the AS400 is not seen as providing anywhere need the requirements at present, and its opensource database solutions are same.
(and i dont even think there is any cube database products in the opensource area... ???)
Seriously (no pun intended), this has been talked about and been on the books for ages... he was never a tall poppy, or we would have carved him up ages ago.
ummm. me? we have ermmm... 6 odd big buggers, and loads of smaller e series + rs6000 jobs. (not forgetting the 150odd tiny as400's) only prob is they are in constant use over the weekends...
they might try and replace AIX with Linux... But I can't see db2 and os400 on our as400's getting replaced... I know turbolinux and (some other vendor?) produce AS400 distributions... but we dont use the as400's for email+http... so its linux on our boxes is worthless.
tho we did upgrade the as400's httpd process to run apache now (its always good to stay uptodate with IBMs PTF's)
- It's too time consuming to look up all kinds of documentation online. I know it exists, but downloading it, finding what I want, printing it, etc is annoying. I don't have another box to use while setting up BSD.
- It essentially centralises everything, and I can even learn things without my box at hand because I can just sit down with the book
well, this is one thing i loved that is part of both Linux and FreeBSD, all the docs. FreeBSD with its manual and docs, Linux with its HowTo's, etc.
both when installed, have swaths of documentation.
dont have another box for printing? screen/alt-f2 etc. docs in one console, doing it in another..
"loading and decrunching..."
second reality... that was a different era...
I didnt think much of the melbourne house stuff (and I lived in melbourne for the past 25 years of my 26 year life). hobbit was good for the time, as was KQ1. each had their own strengths. i dont think the melbourne house parse was up to scratch in comparison to level9/MS/Infocom standard.
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Depending on the side of the pond you lived on, life consisted of Magnetic Scrolls and Level 9. Personally, I favoured the mag scrolls games over the infocom stuff. Fish, Guild Of Thieves, Pawn etc were fantastic. Infocom were good too, but I found some kind of charm in the magnetic scrolls stuff I didnt really find in the Infocom stuff (specifcally the later games, the early stuff I enjoyed muchly!)... Level 9 were also kickass.. Ingrid, Worm in Paradise, etc.
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ideas from the EV bus protocol to scaling. My guess is since processor design has such a long term for each cpu, that future designs are fairly well hard coded, intel couldnt just drop in any compaq IP 'just like that'.
so now intel have alpha technology and arm technology.. imagine the combination of the two! what a hybrid processor that would be.
aaah for those that dream anyway...
i would be interested to read a form of comparision to sun's usIII on a technical design level.
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where do you store 6tb? with SANS a roomfull of ibm AS/400's. (and as400's ROCK ARSE!). win2k + sequel server? pfft bwahaha.
no. the as/400 doesnt have a 'filesystem' its just a giant DB2 sql server, nice n fast. no 'win2k' overhead.
its amazing just what you can 'mine' from a datawarehouse thats backed by years and years of data... truly amazing.
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