As a New Zealander who has had friends work on this three films in Wellington, New Zealand and seen the impact it has had on this country, congradulations to Peter and the whole team.
This was a huge production that involved something like 30,000 people of New Zealand in the production.
Australia may have the rugby world cup, but we are Lord of the Oscars.
Immigration NZ lists a lot of IT jobs as being "Priority Occupations". These make it pretty easy to come into the country and work.
There are heaps of really good recruitment companies that help with a lot of this sort of stuff if people want to come on over. Here is the directory listing of recruiters in nz Google NZ Recruiters
Come to New Zealand instead.
We are close to Australia and share a lot in common. But we have an Anti-Nuclear policy that prohibits US naval vessels from entering our economic zone with confirming they do not cary nuclear weapons or propulsion. As the US will never release this info, then can never come visit.
Without changing our anti-nuclear policy a FreeTrade agreement is pretty much impossible for New Zealand.
When I started programming as a job I was trained as a IBM s370 mainframe assembler programmer. I did it for a little over 2 years before I was asked to apply for a COBOL job at another company by my old team leader.
Being quite young at the time I just did what was asked and went along to the interview. They asked me how well I knew COBOL and I said I didn't. My old team leader said "He's an assembler programer, he will pick up COBOL is a couple weeks". And I ended up getting the job.
When I started the job I didn't even get any COBOL training, but I IBM CDROM on COBOL and access to the bunch of programs I had to work on. Given a few weeks I didn't have any problems.
A few years later I was getting sick of the mainframe and wanted to get into client server or PC related stuff. So my team leader gives me the job of re-developing the IVR (Interactive Voice Responce) system that was used for our banks Telephone banking system. Again I was given a couple manuals, access to the system and told I have 2-3 months to redevelop the system to intergrate into the new backend. And I did it.
Soon I got sick of working in a corporate environment. So I threw in my job and started doing web work. I've programmed in Miva Script, PHP, Python, Perl and javascript on various projects. I've never had a lesson in any of the languages. I just searched the web for a manual and started coding or hacking away at code I could find that did simular stuff.
My point is that I honestly believe without my assembler traning and experince I doubt I could be as felexable a programmer today as I am.
If SCO wins I expect all Linux users will just switch over to one of the BSD os's. I personally use FreeBSD and I know that SCO has nothing on us, as I think ATT has a go years ago and they settled out of court and sealed the case.
Anyway, the point I wish to make is Microsoft will not win if SCO does. BSD's will take over the place of linux. Because of the sytle of the liscence it is even possibly to branch from FreeBSD and release all changes under GPL. (Remeber to keep all the BSD liscence notices though;)
I used to do a bit of COBOL, but also have cut my teath with a few years experience with S370 Assembler. I could probably earn good money with that too. But I'm not sure i WANT to!!!
I have also never been to france but I think they are not to be trusted.
The French government are international Terriorists. This has been proven in court.
Early 1985. The Rainbow Warrior had never looked better. She had a fresh coat of paint, a new radio and radar, and a complete engine overhaul. The crew remarked on how well she sailed. She was in Auckland, preparing to visit Moruroa Atoll for a major campaign against French nuclear testing. But the trip was never to happen.
At the time, the Greenpeace office in Auckland was receiving help from a French volunteer known as Frederique Bonlieu. But Bonlieu was in fact Christine Cabon, a French secret service agent. In the office, she folded letters, sealed envelopes and sorted address labels. In secret, she monitored communication from the Rainbow Warrior, collected maps and investigated underwater equipment. Her mission was to lay the groundwork for French saboteurs. They were coming to sink the Rainbow Warrior.
Around 8.30pm, July 10, Jean-Michel Bartelo put on his scuba gear and slipped beneath the water, heading for the Rainbow Warrior. He tied 2 packets of plastic-wrapped explosives to the ship, one by the propeller, the other to the outer wall of the engine room. Many of the crew had left the ship to go for a drink but several remained, relaxing in the mess.
The first bomb exploded at 11.38pm, lifting those in the mess off their seats. Edward Achterberg rushed into the engine room to find a hole the size of a car, water pouring in. Everyone was ordered off the ship but some went back to grab possessions. Fernando Pereira, the ship's photographer, was one of them, perhaps going after his precious cameras. There was a second explosion and, caught in a rush of water, Pereira drowned.
The crew were in shock. They gave statements to the New Zealand police, who reacted swiftly to the first act of terrorism on their soil. Piecing together statements from members of the public, they were soon questioning a French couple, agents Prieur and Mafart of the French secret service.
Initially, the French government denied all knowledge but, after an international outcry and pressure from the French media, there was an enquiry. Soon French Prime Minister Fabius appeared on television to tell a shocked world, "Agents of the DGSE [secret service] sank this boat. They acted on orders."
Six weeks later in New Zealand, the preliminary hearing in the trial of agents Prieur and Mafart began in Auckland. It was expected to last for weeks but a deal was struck before the agents entered the courtroom. In just 34 minutes, they pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and willful damage, attracting sentences of 10 years and 7 years to be served concurrently.
DO NOT TRUST THE FRENCH
I just got an email from X10 asking if they can advertise on one of my sites.
Even though they are still trading what are your changes of getting any money out of them?
I'm not a big spender like Mr $100 but sure I'm in for $25 if someone can arrange where to pay it.
Hey I'm in New Zealand, the other side of the world and I find all this disgusting.
RIAA is a joke.
FreeBSD is dead, long live FreeBSD!!!!
I've been using FreeBSD as my desktop for the last few years. It hasn't always been easy but it has been enjoyable. Since I started as a FreeBSD user the system has just got better and better.
Big thanks to everybody involved in making this milestone possible.
Here's looking forwards to the 10,000th port!!1
I learnt to programm on a ZX81 before upgrading to the magical 48K Spectrum. Then some asshole down the road got all fancy with his commodore 64. Tried to tell me that 64K was better than 48K. Me and my floppy rubber keys knew better.
"Legacy" is an unducumented Banking system called CIF that I used to work on in New Zealand. The main module CF03 comprised of over 300,000 lines of statically linked assembler code.
It was written in 60's or 70's originally and as it was going to be replaced in the 80's/early 90's by a new system called IBIS all documentation was stopped to keep the cost down. When IBIS flopped and the banks where still running the old Assembler code in the very late 90's they had a wee small Y2K issue to deal with.
I've changed my skillset heaps From a s370 Assembler Programmer to CICS Cobol to IBM Direct Talk 2 (with a bit of CC2 for fun) to HTML, Javascript, Miva Script To PHP, Python
I couldn't believe it when I got my first PC at work. I'd had about 4-5 years of poxy green screen text terminals before I was important enough to get my own PC.
This story reminded me of my old days as a S370 Assembler programmer at Databank in New Zealand.
We had a nightly update banking system in assembler that would process all the deposits, withdrawls, interest, fees etc in 12 minutes from start to finish and contained over 300,000 lines of assembler. One module CF03AG had been hacked so much for so many years that it had run out of base registers for accessability,a dn we had to hack addressability somehow. The system was at one time use by the 4 main trading banks here in New Zealand, ANZ, BNZ, National Bank and Westpac.
National Bank decided to leave and used computer system from Systematics in Little Rock. This NEW system was mainly COBOL. From 12 minutes from start to finish their new system took 4-6 hours to do the same job.
It was great to learn progamming with Assembler on the mainframe. Today I can pick up any system in any language and can start working in it with pretty much no problems.
I did use to have the odd "SOC7" nightmare when I mixed my packed decimals with my... shit can't remember any more.
BXLE I think was my fav instruction
Operation Project X is a project to run linux on the x-box. But to run the client to crack the code you have to be running windows!!! Where the hell is my linux hack the evil empire client??
Google has 7 data centers each with a copy of it's index and these are "usually" mapped to www.google.com. But google also has versions located at www2.google.com and www3.google.com.
During the monthly update there can be different version of the index on each of the 3 versions. A website www.google-dance-tool.1hut.com provides results for a search done on all 3 of googles index.
To check to see if the google dance is happening the most common technique is to check the "back links" for mayor sites like Yahoo by typing "link:www.yahoo.com" into the search box. this will list all the sites with links to "www.yahoo.com".
The Google Dance Tool site mentioned checks google every 5 minutes to see if the dance is on. Once it is started it sends out an automated email to subscribers (like me) so I can visit the site and see what the search positions for the next month on google will be using their google dance tool search.
Back in the old days of copy protection on the 'ol Apple][e they used a simular system.
Basicaly they used a non-standard disk format to create something like a 13th track on the disk which was ignored by 99% of disk copy programs. They then placed the VTOC in the 13th track and updated the DOS sector on the disk to point to the VTOC in the non-standard location.
To make legal backup copies of these disks you just needed a simple sector editor. you loaded the VTOC into memory and wrote it back to the correct place on the disk where it should be and then hex edited the location of the VTOC back to the standard address. Then all you had to do was write you new version back to a new disk.
I can't see why you couldn't use a simular system here. Move the data you want to a writeable/readable location on the disk and hex edit the executable to read the data from the new location rather than the original one.
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The Ney York times just called Peter Jackson an Australian!!!! What Morons!! Ny Times
We ALL know Peter is a New Zealander (like me)
As a New Zealander who has had friends work on this three films in Wellington, New Zealand and seen the impact it has had on this country, congradulations to Peter and the whole team.
This was a huge production that involved something like 30,000 people of New Zealand in the production.
Australia may have the rugby world cup, but we are Lord of the Oscars.
Hey SEO is not that bad is it? At least I'm not a "opt-in" email marketer!!!
I want to burn in the Sun (or at least the egomaniacal part of me.)
According to my ex-wife I'm gonna burn in hell when I die.
Immigration NZ lists a lot of IT jobs as being "Priority Occupations". These make it pretty easy to come into the country and work.
There are heaps of really good recruitment companies that help with a lot of this sort of stuff if people want to come on over. Here is the directory listing of recruiters in nz Google NZ Recruiters
Come to New Zealand instead. We are close to Australia and share a lot in common. But we have an Anti-Nuclear policy that prohibits US naval vessels from entering our economic zone with confirming they do not cary nuclear weapons or propulsion. As the US will never release this info, then can never come visit. Without changing our anti-nuclear policy a FreeTrade agreement is pretty much impossible for New Zealand.
Assembler is good to know how to program in.
When I started programming as a job I was trained as a IBM s370 mainframe assembler programmer. I did it for a little over 2 years before I was asked to apply for a COBOL job at another company by my old team leader.
Being quite young at the time I just did what was asked and went along to the interview. They asked me how well I knew COBOL and I said I didn't. My old team leader said "He's an assembler programer, he will pick up COBOL is a couple weeks". And I ended up getting the job.
When I started the job I didn't even get any COBOL training, but I IBM CDROM on COBOL and access to the bunch of programs I had to work on. Given a few weeks I didn't have any problems.
A few years later I was getting sick of the mainframe and wanted to get into client server or PC related stuff. So my team leader gives me the job of re-developing the IVR (Interactive Voice Responce) system that was used for our banks Telephone banking system. Again I was given a couple manuals, access to the system and told I have 2-3 months to redevelop the system to intergrate into the new backend. And I did it.
Soon I got sick of working in a corporate environment. So I threw in my job and started doing web work. I've programmed in Miva Script, PHP, Python, Perl and javascript on various projects. I've never had a lesson in any of the languages. I just searched the web for a manual and started coding or hacking away at code I could find that did simular stuff.
My point is that I honestly believe without my assembler traning and experince I doubt I could be as felexable a programmer today as I am.
If SCO wins I expect all Linux users will just switch over to one of the BSD os's. I personally use FreeBSD and I know that SCO has nothing on us, as I think ATT has a go years ago and they settled out of court and sealed the case. Anyway, the point I wish to make is Microsoft will not win if SCO does. BSD's will take over the place of linux. Because of the sytle of the liscence it is even possibly to branch from FreeBSD and release all changes under GPL. (Remeber to keep all the BSD liscence notices though ;)
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=4447 Try this for a brief description ;)
I used to do a bit of COBOL, but also have cut my teath with a few years experience with S370 Assembler. I could probably earn good money with that too. But I'm not sure i WANT to!!!
I have also never been to france but I think they are not to be trusted. The French government are international Terriorists. This has been proven in court. Early 1985. The Rainbow Warrior had never looked better. She had a fresh coat of paint, a new radio and radar, and a complete engine overhaul. The crew remarked on how well she sailed. She was in Auckland, preparing to visit Moruroa Atoll for a major campaign against French nuclear testing. But the trip was never to happen. At the time, the Greenpeace office in Auckland was receiving help from a French volunteer known as Frederique Bonlieu. But Bonlieu was in fact Christine Cabon, a French secret service agent. In the office, she folded letters, sealed envelopes and sorted address labels. In secret, she monitored communication from the Rainbow Warrior, collected maps and investigated underwater equipment. Her mission was to lay the groundwork for French saboteurs. They were coming to sink the Rainbow Warrior. Around 8.30pm, July 10, Jean-Michel Bartelo put on his scuba gear and slipped beneath the water, heading for the Rainbow Warrior. He tied 2 packets of plastic-wrapped explosives to the ship, one by the propeller, the other to the outer wall of the engine room. Many of the crew had left the ship to go for a drink but several remained, relaxing in the mess. The first bomb exploded at 11.38pm, lifting those in the mess off their seats. Edward Achterberg rushed into the engine room to find a hole the size of a car, water pouring in. Everyone was ordered off the ship but some went back to grab possessions. Fernando Pereira, the ship's photographer, was one of them, perhaps going after his precious cameras. There was a second explosion and, caught in a rush of water, Pereira drowned. The crew were in shock. They gave statements to the New Zealand police, who reacted swiftly to the first act of terrorism on their soil. Piecing together statements from members of the public, they were soon questioning a French couple, agents Prieur and Mafart of the French secret service. Initially, the French government denied all knowledge but, after an international outcry and pressure from the French media, there was an enquiry. Soon French Prime Minister Fabius appeared on television to tell a shocked world, "Agents of the DGSE [secret service] sank this boat. They acted on orders." Six weeks later in New Zealand, the preliminary hearing in the trial of agents Prieur and Mafart began in Auckland. It was expected to last for weeks but a deal was struck before the agents entered the courtroom. In just 34 minutes, they pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and willful damage, attracting sentences of 10 years and 7 years to be served concurrently. DO NOT TRUST THE FRENCH
I just got an email from X10 asking if they can advertise on one of my sites. Even though they are still trading what are your changes of getting any money out of them?
The easiest way with one hand is
- thumb on alt
- index finger folded over with your fingernail on ctl
- middle finger can now tab away on the del key.
It's one of those outside the box solutions.
No where is it written that you have to have your fingers straight when you do ctl-alt-del.
I'm not a big spender like Mr $100 but sure I'm in for $25 if someone can arrange where to pay it. Hey I'm in New Zealand, the other side of the world and I find all this disgusting. RIAA is a joke.
FreeBSD is dead, long live FreeBSD!!!! I've been using FreeBSD as my desktop for the last few years. It hasn't always been easy but it has been enjoyable. Since I started as a FreeBSD user the system has just got better and better. Big thanks to everybody involved in making this milestone possible. Here's looking forwards to the 10,000th port!!1
What no ZX81 or ZX Spectrum.
I learnt to programm on a ZX81 before upgrading to the magical 48K Spectrum. Then some asshole down the road got all fancy with his commodore 64. Tried to tell me that 64K was better than 48K. Me and my floppy rubber keys knew better.
tar -c -v -f -z wedonotneed.tar.gz /no/pesky/winzip
"Legacy" is an unducumented Banking system called CIF that I used to work on in New Zealand. The main module CF03 comprised of over 300,000 lines of statically linked assembler code.
It was written in 60's or 70's originally and as it was going to be replaced in the 80's/early 90's by a new system called IBIS all documentation was stopped to keep the cost down. When IBIS flopped and the banks where still running the old Assembler code in the very late 90's they had a wee small Y2K issue to deal with.
THIS IS LEGACY CODE
I've changed my skillset heaps
From a s370 Assembler Programmer
to CICS Cobol
to IBM Direct Talk 2 (with a bit of CC2 for fun)
to HTML, Javascript, Miva Script
To PHP, Python
I couldn't believe it when I got my first PC at work. I'd had about 4-5 years of poxy green screen text terminals before I was important enough to get my own PC.
This story reminded me of my old days as a S370 Assembler programmer at Databank in New Zealand. We had a nightly update banking system in assembler that would process all the deposits, withdrawls, interest, fees etc in 12 minutes from start to finish and contained over 300,000 lines of assembler. One module CF03AG had been hacked so much for so many years that it had run out of base registers for accessability,a dn we had to hack addressability somehow. The system was at one time use by the 4 main trading banks here in New Zealand, ANZ, BNZ, National Bank and Westpac. National Bank decided to leave and used computer system from Systematics in Little Rock. This NEW system was mainly COBOL. From 12 minutes from start to finish their new system took 4-6 hours to do the same job. It was great to learn progamming with Assembler on the mainframe. Today I can pick up any system in any language and can start working in it with pretty much no problems. I did use to have the odd "SOC7" nightmare when I mixed my packed decimals with my ... shit can't remember any more.
BXLE I think was my fav instruction
Happy birthday Richard
Operation Project X is a project to run linux on the x-box. But to run the client to crack the code you have to be running windows!!! Where the hell is my linux hack the evil empire client??
Google Dance Tool is also available a www.google-dance-tool.1hut.com
This site checks every 5 minutes for the google dance and has a alert mailing list for subscribers to get notified as soon as the google dance starts.
Results can also vary due to the Google Dance.
Google has 7 data centers each with a copy of it's index and these are "usually" mapped to www.google.com. But google also has versions located at www2.google.com and www3.google.com.
During the monthly update there can be different version of the index on each of the 3 versions. A website www.google-dance-tool.1hut.com provides results for a search done on all 3 of googles index.
To check to see if the google dance is happening the most common technique is to check the "back links" for mayor sites like Yahoo by typing "link:www.yahoo.com" into the search box. this will list all the sites with links to "www.yahoo.com".
The Google Dance Tool site mentioned checks google every 5 minutes to see if the dance is on. Once it is started it sends out an automated email to subscribers (like me) so I can visit the site and see what the search positions for the next month on google will be using their google dance tool search.
Back in the old days of copy protection on the 'ol Apple][e they used a simular system.
Basicaly they used a non-standard disk format to create something like a 13th track on the disk which was ignored by 99% of disk copy programs. They then placed the VTOC in the 13th track and updated the DOS sector on the disk to point to the VTOC in the non-standard location.
To make legal backup copies of these disks you just needed a simple sector editor. you loaded the VTOC into memory and wrote it back to the correct place on the disk where it should be and then hex edited the location of the VTOC back to the standard address. Then all you had to do was write you new version back to a new disk.
I can't see why you couldn't use a simular system here. Move the data you want to a writeable/readable location on the disk and hex edit the executable to read the data from the new location rather than the original one.