Not really. Most IBM mainframes are IPL'd once every few months at the outside. I have our mahines IPL'd every Sunday, it's the cleanest way to implement changes the sysprogs have made to core components like JES, VTAM and so forth.
If nothing else, it frees up locked address spaces and make initiators available again...
Surely the thimble would help you avoid little pricks (or larger ones, if that was your preference)?
Distributed Proofreading has a "high score" table.
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How long before someone writes a script to hit "Save and get another Page" and they shoot to the top of the ladder claiming to have proofread 13,450,213 pages per day...
Sounds like you need to clear off for a few weeks, take in some sun, drink some wine, eat some good food and don't go anywhere near a keyboard.
It works for me as an mainframe contractor - take some time out, recharge your batteries keep doing it until you're bored. Then come back to the keyboard...
Name me one bank running their systems on a cluster of PC's!
I'm an MVS contractor, makeing a nice living from working on these "neolithic dinosaurs". Last year I worked for HSBC - the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp. They are known as Midland over here in the UK. I know what banks run their stuff on, and it sure as hell isn't a Beowolf Cluster!
No flames intended but you're talking a whole crock of shit here!
Here in the UK, the Income Support system is ran on a group of around 17 ICL VME machines (at least they were about 4 years aog). These were quad machines and some were being upgraded to be 6 node SX models. They have some serious grunt.
The lasers printer which we spooled the covering leters on moved 6,000 feet of paper per minute. Ok, print quality was not the best you've ever seen, but it was still laser-quality output.
Do not underestimate just how much processing power a single node, 10 year old mainframe has....
I had some blocks take 2.5 days on this 350 PII. Then again, I had a few go through in about 6 hours. Depends on which stubs you were given to check.....
I don't believe it! A company announces and demo's a fairly major step forward in chip technology - running a really powerful processor as speeds of over 1 Mhz without any fancy cooling systems, and you want to know how fast it'll play a game?
As mentioned before, the processor is becoming less of a factor in the Quake arena. The bottleneck is memory access times, bus speeds, graphics cards, drive speed, etc. etc.
Banging one of these things in, rather than say a 700 Mhz Athlon isn't going to make much of a difference to your gameplay....
For people in the UK, have a look at www.internethypergate.com. They claim to be putting a system up in the next few months, but it all looks a bit ropey to me. Plus, as people have pointed out, the latency would be high.
The other drawback is they want you to use their "credit card" for online purchases, and I suspect are going to bombard you with ads on a regular basis.... they claim to be doing this for free and will even provide the necessary hardawre for Windows boxen....
Re:I wonder if @home paid them off....
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Admittedly, that would be nice!
Consider though, that any clueless user can get access to a fast connection (except in the UK of course!), connect up and put their machine online. They are never aware that they are wide open and all sorts of stuff is being routed via their machine onto the net. They have no idea of firewalling, logging, checking their port configs for holes, etc. No-one ever tells them until it's all too late.
When you want to drive a car, you have to take an exam. You are questioned on your knowledge and you ability to control the vehicle. You are asked about the law and how it relates to your vehicle. You are show the right way to do things and then, once you've satisfied the examiners you are responsible, you are allowed free reign.
I'd like to see a cut-down version for newbies. You get an account, and go on Learner plates for a trial period, and only after passing through this period without major mishap, are you allowed off onto the net by yourself.
I can't see any way in which is could feasibly be enforced or how it would pan out in practise (I'm sure "Freedom of Speech" nuts would have a field day if anyone ever tried to put this into practise) but it might cut down on the number of new-users providing free injection points for spam.....
Back to the EMP stuff...does anyone have some nice information about project HAARP and similiar "experiments" all around the world? I heard somewhere that US military already developed their small EMP "bomb" for knocking out "e-criminals".
Yes I do, but not with me at the moment - I've been readig a book called Major Impact (or something similar) all about asteroid impacts and PHA's (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids). Project HAARP gets several pages devoted to it. I'll see if I can dig the info out from home and follow-up in here....
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That 64 you have there runs a 6502 chip, not a Z80. Z80's were used in the Sinclair machines (ZX80, ZX81 and Spectrum).
Not really. Most IBM mainframes are IPL'd once every few months at the outside. I have our mahines IPL'd every Sunday, it's the cleanest way to implement changes the sysprogs have made to core components like JES, VTAM and so forth.
If nothing else, it frees up locked address spaces and make initiators available again...
Surely the thimble would help you avoid little pricks (or larger ones, if that was your preference)?
How long before someone writes a script to hit "Save and get another Page" and they shoot to the top of the ladder claiming to have proofread 13,450,213 pages per day...
Interesting to see from the graph on Peak Flops against Year that this machine will be the first box to "get above the line" since the mid sixties.
/L to the /P model predicted. Wonder what that have up their sleeves?
The Stretch and the CDC 6600 made it above the line, and pretty much nothing else since then has.
There's also a big jump from the
It may be interesting to comapre the discussion taking place here with this thread:9
http://slashdot.org/article.plsid=99/09/01/154825
Turnpike. Windows only though, AFAIK.
s ht ml
http://www.demon.net/products/turnpike/upgrade.
Sounds like you need to clear off for a few weeks, take in some sun, drink some wine, eat some good food and don't go anywhere near a keyboard.
It works for me as an mainframe contractor - take some time out, recharge your batteries keep doing it until you're bored. Then come back to the keyboard...
Tripwire does this for me every night.
Name me one bank running their systems on a cluster of PC's!
I'm an MVS contractor, makeing a nice living from working on these "neolithic dinosaurs". Last year I worked for HSBC - the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp. They are known as Midland over here in the UK. I know what banks run their stuff on, and it sure as hell isn't a Beowolf Cluster!
No flames intended but you're talking a whole crock of shit here!
Here in the UK, the Income Support system is ran on a group of around 17 ICL VME machines (at least they were about 4 years aog). These were quad machines and some were being upgraded to be 6 node SX models. They have some serious grunt.
The lasers printer which we spooled the covering leters on moved 6,000 feet of paper per minute. Ok, print quality was not the best you've ever seen, but it was still laser-quality output.
Do not underestimate just how much processing power a single node, 10 year old mainframe has....
I had some blocks take 2.5 days on this 350 PII. Then again, I had a few go through in about 6 hours. Depends on which stubs you were given to check.....
As mentioned before, the processor is becoming less of a factor in the Quake arena. The bottleneck is memory access times, bus speeds, graphics cards, drive speed, etc. etc.
Banging one of these things in, rather than say a 700 Mhz Athlon isn't going to make much of a difference to your gameplay....
For people in the UK, have a look at www.internethypergate.com. They claim to be putting a system up in the next few months, but it all looks a bit ropey to me. Plus, as people have pointed out, the latency would be high.
The other drawback is they want you to use their "credit card" for online purchases, and I suspect are going to bombard you with ads on a regular basis.... they claim to be doing this for free and will even provide the necessary hardawre for Windows boxen....
Admittedly, that would be nice!
Consider though, that any clueless user can get access to a fast connection (except in the UK of course!), connect up and put their machine online. They are never aware that they are wide open and all sorts of stuff is being routed via their machine onto the net. They have no idea of firewalling, logging, checking their port configs for holes, etc. No-one ever tells them until it's all too late.
When you want to drive a car, you have to take an exam. You are questioned on your knowledge and you ability to control the vehicle. You are asked about the law and how it relates to your vehicle. You are show the right way to do things and then, once you've satisfied the examiners you are responsible, you are allowed free reign.
I'd like to see a cut-down version for newbies. You get an account, and go on Learner plates for a trial period, and only after passing through this period without major mishap, are you allowed off onto the net by yourself.
I can't see any way in which is could feasibly be enforced or how it would pan out in practise (I'm sure "Freedom of Speech" nuts would have a field day if anyone ever tried to put this into practise) but it might cut down on the number of new-users providing free injection points for spam.....
Not a particularly pleasant attitude you have there....
... and do you still enjoy 'slashdot'ing. Think things will change in the near future, now you guys appear to 'have it made'?
Yes I do, but not with me at the moment - I've been readig a book called Major Impact (or something similar) all about asteroid impacts and PHA's (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids). Project HAARP gets several pages devoted to it. I'll see if I can dig the info out from home and follow-up in here....
- put them in the freezer and remove the little light bulb.
- Padlock the door.
- Swallow the key.
Your data wil be safe.