Windows 2003 Server and SQL Server 2005 all the way. That's what you need to dump the mainframes.
As for the idea that you just NEED a mainframe for some tasks, that's FUD spread by those who sell mainframes. The best way to ensure your own survival in the business world, is to make the competition seem like the "kiddie" choice. That's how Microsoft beat Apple to a bloody pulp in the early days.
You might want to come out of your ivory mainframe tower and notice that all those "Mainframe only" tasks are being nicely handled in many places with cheaper server farms.
Hell, mainframes make a nice, fat, fragile, single point of failure. That's a step backward in infrastructure design if you ask me.
Scrap it then. Toss the antiquated, out of date hardware and replace it with something for which there's still active development communities. Upgrade the interfaces while you're at it, so the systems can be used without a four week training class.
I can't be the only person out there to be able to count the number of programs they actually watch on American TV on the fingers of one hand
Let's see...
I watch Mythbusters, Good Eats and Iron Chef. (American or Original Flavor)
I'll watch one of those "True Crime" shows on Discovery, TLC or whatever channel it is if I happen to be channel surfing. I'll count those as one show, given the fact that I can't tell them apart and rarely watch them anyway. I'll watch "Animal Cops" in the same way, cuz my wife and I are suckers for animals.
I gave up on Law and Order. Good show, but nothing new has been on the cable rerun rotation in ages.
Where's that leave me?
That gets me to Five or Six, depending on how you count Iron Chef.
So if you count Iron Chef as one chow, I can count the shows I watch on TV on one hand.
Oh, wait! AMERICAN Shows. Iron Chef Original Recipe wouldn't count anyway! Duh!
Eh. I'm sure a server with a few gigs of RAM can emulate a 1987 mainframe without too much trouble.
Just write an emulator. They you can reuse all of that ancient Cobol code without any trouble. How long do you really think it will take to write a decent emulator for out of date hardware, especially if a few companies get together to share the cost.
After years of being told about the mainframe dying off, it looks like it's actually about to happen.
Only it won't be though the hardware itself being decommissioned, but though a lack of people to maintain it.
I don't see this as a problem. Today's servers can easily stand up to the data demands of what used to require a mainframe. This is just a motivation for companies to invest in modern hardware and operating systems.
So the mainframe is dying? So what. Let it.
That's what happens with evolution. The obsolete die off.
Movies, I just wait for the DVD on netflix, or in the case of an import not on netflix, borrow it from a friend who collects that stuff like mad. (I have a few)
Music? Well, if all goes well, I'll have a gift certificate for iTunes, but other than that I listen mainly to the CDs I already have or podcasts playing "Podsafe" music.
Ages ago, when I was at Financial Campus, the Network admin had an MP3 server that was constantly downloading music. I ended up hearing some new music that way and buying the CDs.
I don't really have the time, energy or resources to mess with things like lawsuits, so unless a band makes their music legally available in a way that is convenient for me, I'll never end up buying one of their CDs.
The last CDs I bought were of performers I either heard on Podcasts, were distributing their music legally, heard through iRate or saw at a house concert.
I don't listen to the radio, because most of it is crap, and I'm not going to bother with satellite radio. I already have broadband, an audible.com subscription and netflix. If you can't be bothered to make your media available through those channels, you'd better be selling a book, or you won't get any of my discretionary spending.
Which reminds me, I need to get around to ordering that Platypus Rex CD.
Actually, I'm a troll too. I just have the guts and skill to do it from an actual login. You're not even a real troll, just a coward, hiding behind anonymity like a scared little school boy tugging at his mother's apron strings. You are, amusingly enough, beneath trolls!
I find your crowing about being a troll to be all the more amusing, because you're the one who was engaging a real, accomplished troll, and were too ignorant to see it!
It's somewhat disturbing how obsessive you're getting over this. Have you ever thought of seeking therapy? You clearly have boundary and coping issues.
As for spelling, Fitzgerald couldn't spell worth a damn. He literally misspelled a good third of the words he wrote. Besides, you're confusing typos and spelling errors. I'm not really concerned by the fact that I'm a terrible typist.
You however, need to do something about your marked obsessive tendencies, and your inability to distinguish degrees. Sending a single e-mail that ends up being forwarded all over creation is hardly Spamming, but the fact that your mind can't distinguish between the two indicates some significant mental deficiencies.
Why would I bother to spell check a post to an AC? If I'm talking to someone who is too stupid to figure out how to register, I'm not bothering to check for typos. It's amusing to bounce fodder off your high school brain to see what kind of nonsense you come up with, but you're not worth any more trouble than that.
Ironic, isn't it? PayPal has been seizing account balances left and right under false pretenses, and they have the audacity to slander a company that hadn't actually done anything "evil" yet.
Most of those are just valley girl speak, and none of them are ones I've heard with the frequency of "I'll be in my bunk," which seems to be gunning for the new "All your base are belong to us" title.
Actually, I can't remember ever hearing any of the other phrases outside of a Buffy episode or a valley girl impression.
I wasn't trying to imply that no one who saw "40 year old virgin" would be interested in the Firefly movie. I was trying to make a point about the "People into sci-fi never get any action" stereotype the grandparent post was referencing.
By the way, what did you think of the flick? If it;s any good, I might recommend it to one of the 30 year old virgins I know.
Apparently the Buffy fans out where you are are very different form the ones I know. Of the two I was thinking of when I wrote the quote, one is 140 soaking wet, and the other is closer to 120.
The morbidly obese women I know never seem to have a problem getting a boyfriend / girlfriend. I find it ironic that a morbidly obese woman is more likely to be comfortable with her figure than an allegedly "thin" woman. That personal comfort becomes confidence, which makes love making a far more pleasurable experience.
I don't know about that. This may just be in the Boson area, but most the people I saw at the preview screening are part of the Poly Boston crowd. I have a suspicion that the only virgins in the audience were under the age of 18.
Hell, most the Buffy / Angel fans I know who are actual virgins are fan girls, saving themselves for a romantic ideal that only ever existed on TV and in legends of King Arthur's court. Firefly seems to have attracted a far more sexually active crowd.
Video tombstones become par for the course at some point in Josh's vision of the future.
It was kinda weird seeing [SPOILER DELETED]'s moving mug looking out from a stone slab after seeing the character's [SPOILER DELETED] death at the hands of [SPOILER DELETED].
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Ahh, it's my stalker, bravely posting as an AC.
You see, he's alone and has never known a woman, so he's intensely jealous of anyone who is in a relationship.
He suspects he may be impotent, but he's never worked up the courage to test the theory.
Lubricate everything properly and chafing won't be an issue.
Of course, lots of foreplay works even better than some KY, but you probably don't need much foreplay for your girlfriend. (NSFW)
If they're so spiffy, why are mainframes having so much trouble getting people to learn how to service them?
Who said anything about doing it in UNIX????????
Windows 2003 Server and SQL Server 2005 all the way. That's what you need to dump the mainframes.
As for the idea that you just NEED a mainframe for some tasks, that's FUD spread by those who sell mainframes. The best way to ensure your own survival in the business world, is to make the competition seem like the "kiddie" choice. That's how Microsoft beat Apple to a bloody pulp in the early days.
You might want to come out of your ivory mainframe tower and notice that all those "Mainframe only" tasks are being nicely handled in many places with cheaper server farms.
Hell, mainframes make a nice, fat, fragile, single point of failure. That's a step backward in infrastructure design if you ask me.
All good points.
Scrap it then. Toss the antiquated, out of date hardware and replace it with something for which there's still active development communities. Upgrade the interfaces while you're at it, so the systems can be used without a four week training class.
I can't be the only person out there to be able to count the number of programs they actually watch on American TV on the fingers of one hand
Let's see...
I watch Mythbusters, Good Eats and Iron Chef. (American or Original Flavor)
I'll watch one of those "True Crime" shows on Discovery, TLC or whatever channel it is if I happen to be channel surfing. I'll count those as one show, given the fact that I can't tell them apart and rarely watch them anyway. I'll watch "Animal Cops" in the same way, cuz my wife and I are suckers for animals.
I gave up on Law and Order. Good show, but nothing new has been on the cable rerun rotation in ages.
Where's that leave me?
That gets me to Five or Six, depending on how you count Iron Chef.
So if you count Iron Chef as one chow, I can count the shows I watch on TV on one hand.
Oh, wait! AMERICAN Shows. Iron Chef Original Recipe wouldn't count anyway! Duh!
Eh. I'm sure a server with a few gigs of RAM can emulate a 1987 mainframe without too much trouble.
Just write an emulator. They you can reuse all of that ancient Cobol code without any trouble. How long do you really think it will take to write a decent emulator for out of date hardware, especially if a few companies get together to share the cost.
I hold the patent.
The bastards who use this, including those damn reporters, owe me a royalty!
I'm off to call the lawyers.
After years of being told about the mainframe dying off, it looks like it's actually about to happen.
Only it won't be though the hardware itself being decommissioned, but though a lack of people to maintain it.
I don't see this as a problem. Today's servers can easily stand up to the data demands of what used to require a mainframe. This is just a motivation for companies to invest in modern hardware and operating systems.
So the mainframe is dying? So what. Let it.
That's what happens with evolution. The obsolete die off.
Movies, I just wait for the DVD on netflix, or in the case of an import not on netflix, borrow it from a friend who collects that stuff like mad. (I have a few)
Music? Well, if all goes well, I'll have a gift certificate for iTunes, but other than that I listen mainly to the CDs I already have or podcasts playing "Podsafe" music.
Ages ago, when I was at Financial Campus, the Network admin had an MP3 server that was constantly downloading music. I ended up hearing some new music that way and buying the CDs.
I don't really have the time, energy or resources to mess with things like lawsuits, so unless a band makes their music legally available in a way that is convenient for me, I'll never end up buying one of their CDs.
The last CDs I bought were of performers I either heard on Podcasts, were distributing their music legally, heard through iRate or saw at a house concert.
I don't listen to the radio, because most of it is crap, and I'm not going to bother with satellite radio. I already have broadband, an audible.com subscription and netflix. If you can't be bothered to make your media available through those channels, you'd better be selling a book, or you won't get any of my discretionary spending.
Which reminds me, I need to get around to ordering that Platypus Rex CD.
Actually, I'm a troll too. I just have the guts and skill to do it from an actual login. You're not even a real troll, just a coward, hiding behind anonymity like a scared little school boy tugging at his mother's apron strings. You are, amusingly enough, beneath trolls!
I find your crowing about being a troll to be all the more amusing, because you're the one who was engaging a real, accomplished troll, and were too ignorant to see it!
The Clue Train is moving through town. Once it passes, things will be back to normal.
It's somewhat disturbing how obsessive you're getting over this. Have you ever thought of seeking therapy? You clearly have boundary and coping issues.
As for spelling, Fitzgerald couldn't spell worth a damn. He literally misspelled a good third of the words he wrote. Besides, you're confusing typos and spelling errors. I'm not really concerned by the fact that I'm a terrible typist.
You however, need to do something about your marked obsessive tendencies, and your inability to distinguish degrees. Sending a single e-mail that ends up being forwarded all over creation is hardly Spamming, but the fact that your mind can't distinguish between the two indicates some significant mental deficiencies.
Why would I bother to spell check a post to an AC? If I'm talking to someone who is too stupid to figure out how to register, I'm not bothering to check for typos. It's amusing to bounce fodder off your high school brain to see what kind of nonsense you come up with, but you're not worth any more trouble than that.
For some reason, I don't beleive you.
So in 5 years, we'll see a headline about how evil craigslist is...
Ironic, isn't it? PayPal has been seizing account balances left and right under false pretenses, and they have the audacity to slander a company that hadn't actually done anything "evil" yet.
A book.
It's from a book, not a movie.
Any movies that used it got it from the book.
Can you guess which book?
Here's a hint, it involved a Mars with a native, sentient population.
And Bradbury didn't write it.
Most of those are just valley girl speak, and none of them are ones I've heard with the frequency of "I'll be in my bunk," which seems to be gunning for the new "All your base are belong to us" title.
Actually, I can't remember ever hearing any of the other phrases outside of a Buffy episode or a valley girl impression.
Depressing in a way.
An interesting theory. I'll file it under "Entirely possible" until such time as I see someone else post pictures of the same airplane graveyard.
The random nature of the find makes your theory all the more plausible, as does the apparent lack of a follow up photo shoot.
This could be a very subtle case of viral marketing.
I wasn't trying to imply that no one who saw "40 year old virgin" would be interested in the Firefly movie. I was trying to make a point about the "People into sci-fi never get any action" stereotype the grandparent post was referencing.
By the way, what did you think of the flick? If it;s any good, I might recommend it to one of the 30 year old virgins I know.
Apparently the Buffy fans out where you are are very different form the ones I know. Of the two I was thinking of when I wrote the quote, one is 140 soaking wet, and the other is closer to 120.
The morbidly obese women I know never seem to have a problem getting a boyfriend / girlfriend. I find it ironic that a morbidly obese woman is more likely to be comfortable with her figure than an allegedly "thin" woman. That personal comfort becomes confidence, which makes love making a far more pleasurable experience.
How come no catch phrases as prevalent at that one came out of Buffy?
Star Trek: "Beam me up Scotty"
Star Wars: "Use the Force Luke"
Firefly: "I'll be in my bunk" (Wanking implied)
I think Josh should try to get a different catch phrase permanently attached to his work...
These guys know their market
I don't know about that. This may just be in the Boson area, but most the people I saw at the preview screening are part of the Poly Boston crowd. I have a suspicion that the only virgins in the audience were under the age of 18.
Hell, most the Buffy / Angel fans I know who are actual virgins are fan girls, saving themselves for a romantic ideal that only ever existed on TV and in legends of King Arthur's court. Firefly seems to have attracted a far more sexually active crowd.
Video tombstones become par for the course at some point in Josh's vision of the future.
It was kinda weird seeing [SPOILER DELETED]'s moving mug looking out from a stone slab after seeing the character's [SPOILER DELETED] death at the hands of [SPOILER DELETED].