I've been able to do this also, and have had similar experiences. The way I figured out my REAL username is this: turn on the autodial feature in Windows and then start Netscape. The autodialer will prompt you for your password (which is the same as you enter in their funky-ass Java dialer) and your real userid will be right there. It's most likely in the form v25305gj13b5t@microportal.com (that's just an example, not my real ID:)
BUT...
Lately (last 2-3 days) it's been impossible to connect to Worldspy in Linux. I put ppp in debug and watched/var/log/messages...It makes the connection OK but then I see a problem:
Unknown protocol received: 0x0c29
It then terminates my connection. Has anybody else run across this? Seems to coincide with the release of Worldspy's 2.0 dialer....
IBM already has a product that does this, or something very like this. It's called LoadLeveler and it runs on AIX (duh), HP-UX, Solaris, and IRIX. Special account is taken for an RS/6000 SP. (you know, like Deep Blue?) It's reasonably mature, too, with the latest version being 3.0, I think. Obviously it isn't as inherently keen as, say, an open-source product with an industry-standard API for everyone's favorite penguin-mascotted (can I verb 'mascot?' why not) or lil'-devil-mascotted OS.
Unfortunately AFAIK it only supports parallel-type ops of the divide-and-conquer variety described here on the SP, not on the other supported machines. And you also have to write the app to their API, which is anything but industry-standard.
(Disclaimer: I consult to IBM - in SP support, no less - but I'm not trying to plug their stuff. Just pointing out that this isn't really a new idea per se.)
This is fantastic news. I worked with Tivoli 3.2 at my previous job and was really wowed by the neat stuff they have. Of course, the first question I asked of the sales-support guy was, "Does it run on Linux?" A lot of the features and optional packages are done (often done better) in other products, but having them all use the TMF framework is incredibly handy at times, and reduces headaches.
However, I'd like to point out that not ALL Tivoli installations require a gateway server; only those that deal with so-called "endpoints" in the Tivoli Lite Client Framework (LCF). The LCF was introduced in an earlier version of TME 10 (the old name for Tivoli Enterprise) and was designed originally to make Win9x machines work better with Tivoli and to allow for a smaller Tivoli footprint on end-user workstations. My understanding is that LCF is gradually becoming the preferred method of connecting Tivoli clients, but servers (both Un*x and NT) work better with the old "managed node" scheme, which doesn't require a gateway.
So if you're not using Tivoli to manage end-user PCs, a gateway is not really required.
IBM does a brisk business in PowerPC boxes...most of the new RS/6000 models introduced in the last 2 or 3 years has been PowerPC-based. It appears they're phasing out their POWER series RISC chips in favor of the PowerPC in most applications.
Deep Blue can even take a PowerPC upgrade now...look out Kasparov!:)
Admittedly these aren't exactly CONSUMER boxes (the ones I worked with on my last job were about $11,000 a pop), but they are an example of somebody besides Apple shipping PowerPC systems.
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I've been able to do this also, and have had similar experiences. The way I figured out my REAL username is this: turn on the autodial feature in Windows and then start Netscape. The autodialer will prompt you for your password (which is the same as you enter in their funky-ass Java dialer) and your real userid will be right there. It's most likely in the form v25305gj13b5t@microportal.com (that's just an example, not my real ID :)
/var/log/messages...It makes the connection OK but then I see a problem:
BUT...
Lately (last 2-3 days) it's been impossible to connect to Worldspy in Linux. I put ppp in debug and watched
Unknown protocol received: 0x0c29
It then terminates my connection. Has anybody else run across this? Seems to coincide with the release of Worldspy's 2.0 dialer....
IBM already has a product that does this, or something very like this. It's called LoadLeveler and it runs on AIX (duh), HP-UX, Solaris, and IRIX. Special account is taken for an RS/6000 SP. (you know, like Deep Blue?) It's reasonably mature, too, with the latest version being 3.0, I think. Obviously it isn't as inherently keen as, say, an open-source product with an industry-standard API for everyone's favorite penguin-mascotted (can I verb 'mascot?' why not) or lil'-devil-mascotted OS.
Unfortunately AFAIK it only supports parallel-type ops of the divide-and-conquer variety described here on the SP, not on the other supported machines. And you also have to write the app to their API, which is anything but industry-standard.
(Disclaimer: I consult to IBM - in SP support, no less - but I'm not trying to plug their stuff. Just pointing out that this isn't really a new idea per se.)
This is fantastic news. I worked with Tivoli 3.2 at my previous job and was really wowed by the neat stuff they have. Of course, the first question I asked of the sales-support guy was, "Does it run on Linux?" A lot of the features and optional packages are done (often done better) in other products, but having them all use the TMF framework is incredibly handy at times, and reduces headaches.
:)
However, I'd like to point out that not ALL Tivoli installations require a gateway server; only those that deal with so-called "endpoints" in the Tivoli Lite Client Framework (LCF). The LCF was introduced in an earlier version of TME 10 (the old name for Tivoli Enterprise) and was designed originally to make Win9x machines work better with Tivoli and to allow for a smaller Tivoli footprint on end-user workstations. My understanding is that LCF is gradually becoming the preferred method of connecting Tivoli clients, but servers (both Un*x and NT) work better with the old "managed node" scheme, which doesn't require a gateway.
So if you're not using Tivoli to manage end-user PCs, a gateway is not really required.
Just a minor point of correction
IBM does a brisk business in PowerPC boxes...most of the new RS/6000 models introduced in the last 2 or 3 years has been PowerPC-based. It appears they're phasing out their POWER series RISC chips in favor of the PowerPC in most applications.
:)
Deep Blue can even take a PowerPC upgrade now...look out Kasparov!
Admittedly these aren't exactly CONSUMER boxes (the ones I worked with on my last job were about $11,000 a pop), but they are an example of somebody besides Apple shipping PowerPC systems.