Incorrect. I do the same thing because I don't want to be penalized while passing slower traffic. When we get past I move over to the right. Why should I have to brake, to maintain a reasonable space between me and the car in front? If someone decides to not wait their turn, I end up having to slow down to leave enough room in front of me for the jerk. Driving 30 miles on the interstate to work everyday and I see all sorts of bad driving. I do 65 in the slow lane and only get in the left lane to speed up and pass slower traffic.
People have mentioned aboout being irritated by people who speed up when you are passing them. The flip side is all the idiots who *slow down* when passing other vehicles, especially semis. That's just as irritating.
And don't get me started on the idiots in the winter time who don't slow up in a heavy snowstorm. I enjoy seeing cars off the interstate every couple miles because it usually doesn't involve injuries and the state patrol automatically gives them a ticket for going too fast for conditions, on top of their tow truck bill and increased insurance rates.
I had a similar problem during escrow. I usually sign my name FirstIntial Lastname. And for that huge pile of papers I had to remember how to sign my name FirstName MiddleInitial LastName. I resorted to scribbling illegibly half way through the process. An I was the guy getting A's in handwriting back in the early 60s. Like other things, if we don't exercise a skill, we lose it.
easier to remember my gmail signon/pass. I have 30 or so I have to remember for work/personal. And it's only a second in gmail to do a search on *.jpg. I appreciate the thought though.
"I'd rather have a tech that tells me the repair will take 3 hours and does it than a tech who can do the same job in 5 minutes, but still tells me it's worth 3 hours of his time."
The manager of a manufacturing plant who, unable to solve a mechanical breakdown, sent for the retired engineer who had installed the machinery. Following a brief inspection, the engineer took a hammer and hit a pipe which did the trick. The next day the engineer submitted a bill for $1,000 to a horrified manager. Above the protests at the charge for a solitary hammer-blow the retired engineer explained, "only $1.00 of it is for hitting the pipe. The other $999 is for knowing where to hit it."
I archive my digital photos by emailing them to a gmail account. Google gets to pay for the storage. And if Google were to disappear, they are still in my sent folder, on different email providers.
My wife found out what keeps our cats off the counter and tables. A swat with a newspaper (not rolled up). It's more the sound that gets them running. Once we'd done this for awhile, whenever there is behaviour I want stopped, I just have to reach for the nearest paper and make some sound from it.
So why wasn't Hawaii used? It's the furthest southern state and there's lots of water before reaching California. I know why the Johnson Space Center came about...LBJ.
z-series is an IBM "Big Blue Box". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z (black in color the ones I've used). And it can run Linux. Not sure if there is a port of AIX since I've only used that on RS6000s. Not sure why you got modded up.
That and you can get custom chipsets to optimize such things as Linux and DB2 performance. That can be turned on in the time it takes to make a phone call and provide a PO number:)
CICS (Customer Information Control System) is not a tool. It's more of a crude database/data entry thing. TSO is cool if you like scripting...called CLists and I think REXX might be able to be done in it.
There realt isn't a reason to "restart" an IBM mainframe. LPARS are IPL'd every few months if there is a major PTF or such going in. But that only happens a few times a year (depending on your use of the system). I've got 30+ years in on them and their reliabilty is incredivle In the past 7 years we've had 2 unscheduled IPLs that I can remember. Here is our next upgrade, scheduled to be put in in 2 weeks: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20080226_annc.html That would be the first time our mainframe has been completely shut down in years. The disk drives need to be recabled for the upgrade. And for those who want a car analogy, I don't have one. But I view the mainframe as a 747, *NIX as fighter jets, and Windows servers as prop planes. They all fly, but all have different purposes.
from Consumerist: You have to wonder if before going to sleep last night, pitchman Billy Mays thought of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon, and said to himself one last time, "but wait, there's more!"
"He experimented for years with various ways to use feathers and eventually wondered if they might store hydrogen."
Now did the professor just wake one one day and say "Aha! I know how to solve the energy crisis! Chicken feathers!"? It seems to be very original thinking.
Mainframes can run webservers and Linux (and specialized chips to speed Linux up) for instance. Someone needs a new LINUX server set up? Get it in minutes. The advantage they have over PC based servers is massive IO capability and uptime. And if you're using databases this is a killer speed advantage in the server world. My mainframe hasn't been shutdown in years. And as far as the OS goes, it was open source years ago, but I don't think z/OS is now. Besides, if it just works, why would any company change?
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Incorrect. I do the same thing because I don't want to be penalized while passing slower traffic. When we get past I move over to the right. Why should I have to brake, to maintain a reasonable space between me and the car in front? If someone decides to not wait their turn, I end up having to slow down to leave enough room in front of me for the jerk. Driving 30 miles on the interstate to work everyday and I see all sorts of bad driving. I do 65 in the slow lane and only get in the left lane to speed up and pass slower traffic.
People have mentioned aboout being irritated by people who speed up when you are passing them. The flip side is all the idiots who *slow down* when passing other vehicles, especially semis. That's just as irritating.
And don't get me started on the idiots in the winter time who don't slow up in a heavy snowstorm. I enjoy seeing cars off the interstate every couple miles because it usually doesn't involve injuries and the state patrol automatically gives them a ticket for going too fast for conditions, on top of their tow truck bill and increased insurance rates.
I had a similar problem during escrow. I usually sign my name FirstIntial Lastname. And for that huge pile of papers I had to remember how to sign my name FirstName MiddleInitial LastName. I resorted to scribbling illegibly half way through the process. An I was the guy getting A's in handwriting back in the early 60s. Like other things, if we don't exercise a skill, we lose it.
easier to remember my gmail signon/pass. I have 30 or so I have to remember for work/personal. And it's only a second in gmail to do a search on *.jpg. I appreciate the thought though.
"I'd rather have a tech that tells me the repair will take 3 hours and does it than a tech who can do the same job in 5 minutes, but still tells me it's worth 3 hours of his time."
The manager of a manufacturing plant who, unable to solve a mechanical breakdown, sent for the retired engineer who had installed the machinery. Following a brief inspection, the engineer took a hammer and hit a pipe which did the trick. The next day the engineer submitted a bill for $1,000 to a horrified manager. Above the protests at the charge for a solitary hammer-blow the retired engineer explained, "only $1.00 of it is for hitting the pipe. The other $999 is for knowing where to hit it."
I archive my digital photos by emailing them to a gmail account. Google gets to pay for the storage. And if Google were to disappear, they are still in my sent folder, on different email providers.
This is how a snow fence works. It doesn't stop the snow from piling up, it re-directs the wind blowing the snow.
Maybe he wanted to know what a prune tasted like.
My wife found out what keeps our cats off the counter and tables. A swat with a newspaper (not rolled up). It's more the sound that gets them running. Once we'd done this for awhile, whenever there is behaviour I want stopped, I just have to reach for the nearest paper and make some sound from it.
Not to mention expensive routers (with physical access).
So why wasn't Hawaii used? It's the furthest southern state and there's lots of water before reaching California. I know why the Johnson Space Center came about...LBJ.
I'd mod you up, since I have mod points. But I've been too busy yelling "Get off my lawn!" :)
z-series is an IBM "Big Blue Box". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z (black in color the ones I've used). And it can run Linux. Not sure if there is a port of AIX since I've only used that on RS6000s. Not sure why you got modded up.
That and you can get custom chipsets to optimize such things as Linux and DB2 performance. That can be turned on in the time it takes to make a phone call and provide a PO number :)
CICS (Customer Information Control System) is not a tool. It's more of a crude database/data entry thing. TSO is cool if you like scripting...called CLists and I think REXX might be able to be done in it.
There realt isn't a reason to "restart" an IBM mainframe. LPARS are IPL'd every few months if there is a major PTF or such going in. But that only happens a few times a year (depending on your use of the system). I've got 30+ years in on them and their reliabilty is incredivle In the past 7 years we've had 2 unscheduled IPLs that I can remember. Here is our next upgrade, scheduled to be put in in 2 weeks: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20080226_annc.html
That would be the first time our mainframe has been completely shut down in years. The disk drives need to be recabled for the upgrade. And for those who want a car analogy, I don't have one. But I view the mainframe as a 747, *NIX as fighter jets, and Windows servers as prop planes. They all fly, but all have different purposes.
from Consumerist:
You have to wonder if before going to sleep last night, pitchman Billy Mays thought of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon, and said to himself one last time, "but wait, there's more!"
"He experimented for years with various ways to use feathers and eventually wondered if they might store hydrogen."
Now did the professor just wake one one day and say "Aha! I know how to solve the energy crisis! Chicken feathers!"? It seems to be very original thinking.
just an fyi, RACF is beatable, same as any other security. DITTO for instance bypassed RACF last I checked.
Mainframes can run webservers and Linux (and specialized chips to speed Linux up) for instance. Someone needs a new LINUX server set up? Get it in minutes. The advantage they have over PC based servers is massive IO capability and uptime. And if you're using databases this is a killer speed advantage in the server world. My mainframe hasn't been shutdown in years. And as far as the OS goes, it was open source years ago, but I don't think z/OS is now. Besides, if it just works, why would any company change?
switch to classic view in prefs.
and this comment is why it's a relevant topic.
$10,000 is the limit for declaring currency at the border. Other than that, there isn't any limit to carrying cash (from a legal but not practical point ov view). http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/389587.html
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was sent on Thursday, for example. But it's all over the world. Good luck.
hrm..something weird with /.
anyways. hopefully this comment will go to your email. If you're the guy with a wife who is a COBOL programmer, have her join linkedin and join mainframe experts network. lots of jobs around the world. Mostly USA and India and Europe.
Please STOP putting stuff in CAPS. It's almost as ANNOYING as all CAPS and is usually used by wingnuts of various persuasions. Thanks