I've stopped in the middle of IPLs when feeding in cards. And in batch jobs. The old mainframe CPU just waits on input. *You* might have refed the whole thing in, but I suspect you didn't comprehend what was occurring. Don't get me started on hard wired mainframe boards and rewiring those. Now get off my lawn kid;)
"the COBOL pack" must have been some shop name, COBOL is a language. Card readers did not time out. Why not just re-punch the card. The data should have been printed at the top of the card.
Also, DITTO could fix alot of those problems on IBM mainframes with a tape to tape copy. Oddly enough, from a hacker point of view, DITTO bypassed any security I ever found on an IBM mainframe. Great for looking at SYS1 datasets...wtf? RACF passwords in plaintext?;)
Ummm.. nope. Hercules initial release was 1999 (according to wiki although I was relying on memory in my first post). z/OS came out in 2001. It may now use Z architecture, but not originally.
An AS/400 isn't a mainframe. It's based on a System/38, a mini-computer, iirc (I've used both but not recently). Anyways, the Hercules emulator is based on MVS, which was originally open source from IBM. MVS begat z/OS which is the current IBM mainframe OS (we also run Linux LPARs using virtualization and specialized processors). And no, x86 doesn't have the IO capability to compete with mainframe hardware. The most Hercules could do is try and convinve mainframe customers to run their software, rather than something like z/OS. And I don't see that being done say by a bank or credit card company, for instance.
My favorite story was watching delivery guys unload a truck with fragile IBM equipment equipped with wheels (disk drives back in the day). Their ramp was set against the bottom of the curb. They'd shove it out of the truck down the ramp, it'd hit the bottom of the curb, bounce, and then get lifted onto the sidewalk if it hadn't made it on its own. The IBM guy watching was almost in tears, but it wasn't his responsibility until it got into the building.
You need to read how the mod system works. As far as I know, noone is ever prevented from posting anything* (well, possibly copywrited Scientology docs aside). You get modded up or down, causing your comment not to be seen or not seen with default viewing settings, depending how random moderators view your posts. You might want to start here: http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm510 (*there are a couple other minor reasons such as malformed HTML etc. that may cause it not to appear)
I read the NY Times article last night at work, and did a bit of looking around at metafilter, reditt, and other sites. It was going to show up on slashdot eventually, and thought about the comments to follow. I'd group them as: 1. Google is teh evil for it's algorithms 2. Let's harass this asshat 3. The BBB/police/FBI/NY AG is inept How about we go in another direction in the comments? (I will admit some amusement at what he will go through now that he's come to wide attention). What should we do?
Still might not work. Just sprinkle explosives/gunpowder/whatever on the sidewalks and parking lots around the airport. As people track it in, there'd be so many false positives, the dogs would alert on everyone.
Ron Judd asked a good question: News stories about the Hanford creature said "Washington state Health Department workers with the Office of Radiation Protection have been searching for contaminated rabbit droppings." Exactly how short of a straw does one have to draw to get that assignment?
If 33 quit at once, either they are really really pissed off, or they have new jobs lined up. My guess is that in a few days a FOSS company or someone will announce their hiring.
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I've stopped in the middle of IPLs when feeding in cards. And in batch jobs. The old mainframe CPU just waits on input. *You* might have refed the whole thing in, but I suspect you didn't comprehend what was occurring. Don't get me started on hard wired mainframe boards and rewiring those. Now get off my lawn kid ;)
"the COBOL pack" must have been some shop name, COBOL is a language. Card readers did not time out. Why not just re-punch the card. The data should have been printed at the top of the card.
Also, DITTO could fix alot of those problems on IBM mainframes with a tape to tape copy. Oddly enough, from a hacker point of view, DITTO bypassed any security I ever found on an IBM mainframe. Great for looking at SYS1 datasets...wtf? RACF passwords in plaintext? ;)
Will it have a flying spaghetti monster themed restaurant?
That would force the Borings to use JG Wentworth!
That was the main purpose back then. To run MVS on a PC. http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/ for example.
I'd have an even lower number, but when slashdot first started requiring signing on, there were privacy issues raised.
I know of a great tool to help convert your DATACOM databases to DB2. It's called 2BDB2 at http://www.isi.com.au/2bdb2.html
You lose reliability and speed of IO amongst other things. Start at about page 11 of http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246366.pdf
Ummm.. nope. Hercules initial release was 1999 (according to wiki although I was relying on memory in my first post). z/OS came out in 2001. It may now use Z architecture, but not originally.
An AS/400 isn't a mainframe. It's based on a System/38, a mini-computer, iirc (I've used both but not recently). Anyways, the Hercules emulator is based on MVS, which was originally open source from IBM. MVS begat z/OS which is the current IBM mainframe OS (we also run Linux LPARs using virtualization and specialized processors). And no, x86 doesn't have the IO capability to compete with mainframe hardware. The most Hercules could do is try and convinve mainframe customers to run their software, rather than something like z/OS. And I don't see that being done say by a bank or credit card company, for instance.
I never had that problem. It's pronounced phonetically "John" btw ;)
My favorite story was watching delivery guys unload a truck with fragile IBM equipment equipped with wheels (disk drives back in the day). Their ramp was set against the bottom of the curb. They'd shove it out of the truck down the ramp, it'd hit the bottom of the curb, bounce, and then get lifted onto the sidewalk if it hadn't made it on its own. The IBM guy watching was almost in tears, but it wasn't his responsibility until it got into the building.
Thanks. I didn't know that. My karma has always been excellent.
You need to read how the mod system works. As far as I know, noone is ever prevented from posting anything* (well, possibly copywrited Scientology docs aside). You get modded up or down, causing your comment not to be seen or not seen with default viewing settings, depending how random moderators view your posts. You might want to start here:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm510
(*there are a couple other minor reasons such as malformed HTML etc. that may cause it not to appear)
You didn't give it enough time:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34364802
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34364792
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34365434
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34364720
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34364794
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34366990
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886536&cid=34365822
Of course, Alan Ralsky was the classic case for slashdot.
I read the NY Times article last night at work, and did a bit of looking around at metafilter, reditt, and other sites. It was going to show up on slashdot eventually, and thought about the comments to follow. I'd group them as:
1. Google is teh evil for it's algorithms
2. Let's harass this asshat
3. The BBB/police/FBI/NY AG is inept
How about we go in another direction in the comments? (I will admit some amusement at what he will go through now that he's come to wide attention).
What should we do?
Still might not work. Just sprinkle explosives/gunpowder/whatever on the sidewalks and parking lots around the airport. As people track it in, there'd be so many false positives, the dogs would alert on everyone.
It has improved immensely since the 60s. Back then the smog was more like fog, with temps in the 90s.
Acceleration is not velocity, Physics 101.
Ron Judd asked a good question: News stories about the Hanford creature said "Washington state Health Department workers with the Office of Radiation Protection have been searching for contaminated rabbit droppings." Exactly how short of a straw does one have to draw to get that assignment?
If 33 quit at once, either they are really really pissed off, or they have new jobs lined up. My guess is that in a few days a FOSS company or someone will announce their hiring.
Not quite right. http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr67.htm says 8,553 sworn officers.
Travel to Canada by train/car, fly from there.
Pics or it didn't happen ;)