Seeing that Walmart pushed Lindows into the "mainstream" they should just buy it and relabel it either Walmart/OS or W/OS. If not what about LinBash? Lindows was a lame name to begin with anyway.
Infoworld
did some benchmarks on the new 2.6 Kernel on the Xeon, Itanium2 and Opteron.
It is a very interresting read. And a good one to pass on to the not-so-technically inclined. The reviewer had some problems with the new kernel but after posting to the LKML Linus and some other maintainers fixed the problems. (like to see Bill do this). Some of the performance improvements boggles the mind!
The AMD Opteron kicked same serious butt in these benchmarks.
Very good instant if you like instant coffee.
Not local to the USA(its South African coffee)but you can buy it from these sites:
http://hh154.hiphip.com/Merchant/index.htm
http://www.southafricans.com/html/cape_foods.html
Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red - handed sending messages.
Sending messages of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!
I always said he'd come to no good,
In the end, Your Honour.
If they'd let me have my way,
I could have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied.
The bleeding hands and artists,
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today.
Crazy.
PC's in the attic, I am crazy.
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy.
PC's in the attic, he is crazy.
You little shit, you're in it now.
I hope they throw away the key.
You should've talked to me more often than you did.
But no! You had to go your own way.
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm, Your Honour,
Him and me alone.
Baaaaaabe!
Come to Mother, baby.
Let me hold you in my arms.
M'Lord, I never meant for him to get in any trouble.
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, Your Honour, let me take him home.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, I am crazy.
Messages in windows.
There must have been a door there in the firewall.
For when I came in.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, he is crazy.
The evidence before the court is incontravertible.
There's no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging I have never heard before,
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite principle and teacher,
Fills me with the urge to deficate!
No, Judge, the jury!
Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers.
Tear down the wall!
I don't think so. It is a common mistake to associate Mainframe with COBOL and say "boring". That is an ignorant association. Like Windows users saying Linux is for just for geeks. We use the following languages on our mainframes: COBOL(duh), C, C++, PERL, JAVA, Assembler, REXX and CLIST. There's more. We run Transaction servers, WebServers and application servers. All on a good'oll mainframe. Doing about 45Million business transactions a day.
Big Bill: Hey kid wake up... Big Bill: No..no..no you dont need you're glasses. Just listen to me Little Bill: OK. Big Bill: Comes 1990, go to Helsinki, find a guy named Linus Torvolds. Little Bill: Line Who? Big Bill: Listen kid trust me NO questions, just find This Linus guy, and give him all the software Little Bill: Soft what? Big Bill: Better find your glasses and take notes kid. Now wright this down! Go find this Linus Torvolds guy in Helsinki and give him all the software he needs and even don't need. Buy him a huge computer and pay his college fees. And give him a job after you fired Steve Ballmer. OK? Got that? And trust me DO IT!!
I like the 9700. But my current system is too old for the 9700 AIW.
I don't have the patience to build a system myself. I've looked at
Falcon NW - Way too much $$.
Same with AlienWare too expensive.
Any recommendations from/. on where to buy a nice new system with some lights and stuff will be appreciated. (My old system is a white box, and my workhorse laptop is black. I would like some colour this time around.)
My theory on this is that some dinosaurs fart'et to give them extra downforce for running uphill.
Any scientist's to prove my theory wrong? or confirm? Please contact me I have done extinsive research on this.
It can also be good to your health. Do searches on emails and IM aliases too. It saved a friend of mine from making a serious mistake with a girl. Turns out she had a particularly nasty STD and belonged to a couple of support groups on yahoo and other places. That in itself was not a problem but she did not tell him and he put himself at risk in the process. Good thing he Google'd her before the 3rd date.
Nope I do not see the need for a "filesystem" on the mainframe. Pre-allocation of files and datasets makes storage management easy and cost effective, and it plays nice with the IO system.
Rexx can still do anything you can do with your scripting language.
There is a good couple of reasons why I want my programs to run in their own address spaces and not in TSO.
And I mentioned the connection to other platforms because you complained about the lack of "connections to the world" now you complain about the ability to connect to the world. What is it?
I run 2000, XP and Rhat6.2 at home.(my linux box without gui). *nix like MVS is server platforms, they suck bigtime as desktops.
I was a SCO/HP-UX admin for 4+ years many moons ago.
P.S. Stating facts is not arrogant and the maiframe's still without worms and virusses, and hackers and DoS attacks.
1."any possible JCL errors, retry, and finally...."
Now if you knew what you were doing then you can do all that without errors. Or with ISPF.
2."Lets see from ISPF you could do lets say
10-20-100 different tasks"
As many as I like as a matter of fact, but then on the mainframe I do not need ~7000 jobs to do my job.
4) Name one thing I cannot do with REXX or CLIST.
Again you HAVE to know what you're doing.
5)We connect to databases on Unix/NT servers without a hitch. Connecting to webservers is easy. Even connecting to the mainframe with a webrowser is as easy as typing in a URL. Java, HTML? the mainframe do it all, and faster too.
And NO worms, NO virusses and NO hackers.
Nice huh?
This troll need no answering but I cannot resist pointing out the obvious....
1.Tree filesystem - why the catalog is fast, reliable and recoverable. Just because you have a hard time understanding IDCAMS does not make the file system bad.
2. fast interaction shell - ISPF is plenty fast, faster than my windows gui.
3. TCP/IP able kernel(and not TCPIP started task - TCPIP is a service used by many subsystems, and in the subsystems the TCPIP function is a kernel level(CICS TCPIPdomain) and it works as fine as any other TCPIP installation on other platforms.
4. scripts - REXX, CLIST and now even PERL,
5. clean integration between the various components - Cross memory services, very, very, very fast and easy to use.
one more thing, I will not trust my banking on you're cheap linux box. I have my own thank you and still, I bank at the bank with the BigBlue Badass Mainframe.
The new zServer is no larger than a fridge, cost effective do not need half a floor. That must be a very old mainframe, or maybe there is a lot of EMC ar shark disk units in the roomm
400+ users across 2 offices? WTF. Let me give you an example of a real IT shop. 4000 IT staff. 14 LPARS. There is no way possible to count the concurrent user on our systems. One CICS on one LPAR handles 500 concurrent users. (we have 120 production regions). One region handles 2 million + transaction a day on average. Then on the same LPAR (same mainframe partition if you did not read the article) we have an IMS region running 1200+ concurrent user, handling 4 million transactions a day. All this with subsecond response to the user. Then still on the same LPAR, 8 more CICS regions, one more IMS, MQSeries, batch reports (bank account statements etc.) running. TSO with about 40 users logged in. TCPIP with FTP jobs running. And then all the systems and monitoring related software. If this ran on any other platform the staff to handle this workload would go well into the hundreds. The mainframe staff handling OS/390, CICS, IMS, DASD, RACF, System software and Databases (DB2 and IMSdb) a staggering 35. Customers? 85 large customer (banks etc.) 140 smaller (manufacturing etc.) Unscheduled downtime? Only on the webservers, routers and file and network servers.
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WINE whiner!
So you are iHappy.
Seeing that Walmart pushed Lindows into the "mainstream" they should just buy it and relabel it either Walmart/OS or W/OS.
If not what about LinBash?
Lindows was a lame name to begin with anyway.
It is a very interresting read. And a good one to pass on to the not-so-technically inclined. The reviewer had some problems with the new kernel but after posting to the LKML Linus and some other maintainers fixed the problems. (like to see Bill do this). Some of the performance improvements boggles the mind!
The AMD Opteron kicked same serious butt in these benchmarks.
Where can I get Cafe Colon in the US? Specially the sugar roasted beans.
Very good instant if you like instant coffee. Not local to the USA(its South African coffee)but you can buy it from these sites: http://hh154.hiphip.com/Merchant/index.htm http://www.southafricans.com/html/cape_foods.html
what happened to Adam Ant?
Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red - handed sending messages.
Sending messages of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!
I always said he'd come to no good,
In the end, Your Honour.
If they'd let me have my way,
I could have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied.
The bleeding hands and artists,
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today.
Crazy.
PC's in the attic, I am crazy.
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy.
PC's in the attic, he is crazy.
You little shit, you're in it now.
I hope they throw away the key.
You should've talked to me more often than you did.
But no! You had to go your own way.
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm, Your Honour,
Him and me alone.
Baaaaaabe!
Come to Mother, baby.
Let me hold you in my arms.
M'Lord, I never meant for him to get in any trouble.
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, Your Honour, let me take him home.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, I am crazy.
Messages in windows.
There must have been a door there in the firewall. For when I came in.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, he is crazy.
The evidence before the court is incontravertible.
There's no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging I have never heard before,
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite principle and teacher,
Fills me with the urge to deficate!
No, Judge, the jury!
Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers.
Tear down the wall!
if it was your ass being extorted for $2.5mil that you would be begging your friendly neighbourhood FBI agent to help find the perp.
Hands down the funniest post on /. ever.
OS/2 suffered the same fate against Windows.
Invest in a wireless lan setup.
Ducktape all pc buttons and switches.
Minimise crawl space behind desk.
Get drool proof keyboard.
Mount all phones at least 4 feet high on wall.
Install toilet seat lock.
Try and hide all and any wires.
Get a remote controle for baby, and hide yours.
There is a lot more but you have to find out some stuff by yourself buddy otherwise where is the fun eh?
I don't think so. It is a common mistake to associate Mainframe with COBOL and say "boring". That is an ignorant association. Like Windows users saying Linux is for just for geeks. We use the following languages on our mainframes: COBOL(duh), C, C++, PERL, JAVA, Assembler, REXX and CLIST. There's more. We run Transaction servers, WebServers and application servers. All on a good'oll mainframe. Doing about 45Million business transactions a day.
BMC have a good few Linux server mananagement stuff. BMC Patrol is one of them.
And so do Candle: Omegamon XE for Linux
Big Bill: Hey kid wake up...
Big Bill: No..no..no you dont need you're glasses. Just listen to me
Little Bill: OK.
Big Bill: Comes 1990, go to Helsinki, find a guy named Linus Torvolds.
Little Bill: Line Who?
Big Bill: Listen kid trust me NO questions, just find This Linus guy, and give him all the software
Little Bill: Soft what?
Big Bill: Better find your glasses and take notes kid. Now wright this down!
Go find this Linus Torvolds guy in Helsinki and give him all the software he needs and even don't need.
Buy him a huge computer and pay his college fees. And give him a job after you fired Steve Ballmer. OK? Got that?
And trust me DO IT!!
I like what I see on the ABS pc website.
Any recommendations from /. on where to buy a nice new system with some lights and stuff will be appreciated. (My old system is a white box, and my workhorse laptop is black. I would like some colour this time around.)
My theory on this is that some dinosaurs fart'et to give them extra downforce for running uphill. Any scientist's to prove my theory wrong? or confirm? Please contact me I have done extinsive research on this.
It can also be good to your health. Do searches on emails and IM aliases too. It saved a friend of mine from making a serious mistake with a girl. Turns out she had a particularly nasty STD and belonged to a couple of support groups on yahoo and other places. That in itself was not a problem but she did not tell him and he put himself at risk in the process. Good thing he Google'd her before the 3rd date.
Are fsckn daft? South-Africa?
You can do java/C/C++ on the mainframe. Run webservers on OS/390 or on Linux on the mainframe.
Nope I do not see the need for a "filesystem" on the mainframe. Pre-allocation of files and datasets makes storage management easy and cost effective, and it plays nice with the IO system. Rexx can still do anything you can do with your scripting language. There is a good couple of reasons why I want my programs to run in their own address spaces and not in TSO. And I mentioned the connection to other platforms because you complained about the lack of "connections to the world" now you complain about the ability to connect to the world. What is it? I run 2000, XP and Rhat6.2 at home.(my linux box without gui). *nix like MVS is server platforms, they suck bigtime as desktops. I was a SCO/HP-UX admin for 4+ years many moons ago. P.S. Stating facts is not arrogant and the maiframe's still without worms and virusses, and hackers and DoS attacks.
1."any possible JCL errors, retry, and finally ...."
Now if you knew what you were doing then you can do all that without errors. Or with ISPF.
2."Lets see from ISPF you could do lets say
10-20-100 different tasks"
As many as I like as a matter of fact, but then on the mainframe I do not need ~7000 jobs to do my job.
4) Name one thing I cannot do with REXX or CLIST.
Again you HAVE to know what you're doing.
5)We connect to databases on Unix/NT servers without a hitch. Connecting to webservers is easy. Even connecting to the mainframe with a webrowser is as easy as typing in a URL. Java, HTML? the mainframe do it all, and faster too.
And NO worms, NO virusses and NO hackers.
Nice huh?
This troll need no answering but I cannot resist pointing out the obvious.... 1.Tree filesystem - why the catalog is fast, reliable and recoverable. Just because you have a hard time understanding IDCAMS does not make the file system bad. 2. fast interaction shell - ISPF is plenty fast, faster than my windows gui. 3. TCP/IP able kernel(and not TCPIP started task - TCPIP is a service used by many subsystems, and in the subsystems the TCPIP function is a kernel level(CICS TCPIPdomain) and it works as fine as any other TCPIP installation on other platforms. 4. scripts - REXX, CLIST and now even PERL, 5. clean integration between the various components - Cross memory services, very, very, very fast and easy to use. one more thing, I will not trust my banking on you're cheap linux box. I have my own thank you and still, I bank at the bank with the BigBlue Badass Mainframe.
The new zServer is no larger than a fridge, cost effective do not need half a floor. That must be a very old mainframe, or maybe there is a lot of EMC ar shark disk units in the roomm
400+ users across 2 offices? WTF. Let me give you an example of a real IT shop. 4000 IT staff. 14 LPARS. There is no way possible to count the concurrent user on our systems. One CICS on one LPAR handles 500 concurrent users. (we have 120 production regions). One region handles 2 million + transaction a day on average. Then on the same LPAR (same mainframe partition if you did not read the article) we have an IMS region running 1200+ concurrent user, handling 4 million transactions a day. All this with subsecond response to the user. Then still on the same LPAR, 8 more CICS regions, one more IMS, MQSeries, batch reports (bank account statements etc.) running. TSO with about 40 users logged in. TCPIP with FTP jobs running. And then all the systems and monitoring related software. If this ran on any other platform the staff to handle this workload would go well into the hundreds. The mainframe staff handling OS/390, CICS, IMS, DASD, RACF, System software and Databases (DB2 and IMSdb) a staggering 35.
Customers? 85 large customer (banks etc.) 140 smaller (manufacturing etc.)
Unscheduled downtime? Only on the webservers, routers and file and network servers.
Not too bad I would say.