should be changed to a contest to find the most efficient way to do the job. I wrote such a job finisher years ago, and it is used by myself and others to check Project Gutenberg texts.
>Mainframe guys see more of their hardware carted away every year.
Horseshit. IBM is selling it like it was going otu of style, and if someone is carting it away then they must be carting it here.
Mainframe jobs have plenty of advancement, in fact better than the web jobs in places like around here.
Oh, and we don't do any perl in the entire shop, yet the company is looking at grossing $1 Billion this year.
See, we have a product, and we use computers to SUPPORT that product. Unlike so many web jobs that have no product.
But you keep laughing, I'm coming up on my 5th year here, where I'll get that extra week of vacation. Where my health care is paid for. Where the company supplies me with broadband at home to support the systems at work.
Oh, and we never laid off anyone during the whole downturn. Show me a web company that can say that.
And during the dot com boom, one year I did make about $125K. On the mainframe. Too bad for you web guys isn't it?
>The were mainframe people, and mainframes were drying up, at the time, and they knew nothing about microcomputers. They had been doing the same thing for years, and they didn't know what to do. They looked like a deer in headlights.
And now they are in demand and making more than the micro people. Enough people retired that the demand is there, because the schools aren't training them anymore.
As for VB6, well there are some good things for it. I don't care if MS EOLs it, just make sure that the programs still run under the new OS. I've still got some programs that haven't been ported to VB from CB yet. The code is still running 12 years later. Some day I might get around to converting it.
Honeywell was also a computer manufacturer for many years, but almost nobody remembers that. And some of GCOS (The Honeywell OS) has come down to Linux too, thru the intermediate steps of UNIX (I'm talking interface, not stolen code here folks, don't jump on me all at once.)
My taxes are easy enough that it is fun, because it is once a year. Yours aren't too bad, so sorry.
Next year might take a little longer, because I am retiring 2 computers this year, and that means getting all the paperwork in order when I give them to charity. (Public schools). And my sales tax on the new car will be deductible. Otherwise, business as usual.
Why should I pay someone to fill out 3 pages of forms, which are mostly zeroes anyway? Takes me about 2 hours to do it once, check and then copy it to the second copy very legibly.
Then mail it in, and save the $35 electronic filing fee.
Acrobat reader can read e-books, but why not read FREE classics?
As for reference material, I have error codes and messages (both volumes) and dive computer manual on mine.
Diary is a good thought for those that like diaries. I personally don't
On passwords, no. For one that would be a security violation around here. Plus we have unified password control. 1 password for all your accounts across machines. I've seen plenty of programs that offer that service, but they don't seem to get it.
1. Games 2. Acrobat reader (many books from www.gutenberg.org and then acrobat them) FREE Plus some manuals for work in IT, error code manuals and the like 3. Dive log program 4. Tide tool 5. planetarium program 6. Blood meter software (medical insurance paid for my PDA) / Blood meter module 7. GPS / GPS module
Like insulin when it first appeared, it was cow and sheep insulin. It wasn't until years later that Humulin was developed (synthetic human insulin to you layman).
This is the first step and assuming it works as well as it appears from this write up, then wholesale cloning of the pancreas tissue will follow.
And for those that think this has no bearing on type II diabetis, you are shortshighted, at best, and wrong at worst. ANY time you cure a related desease, some of it becomes a significant gain to all the other related deseases.
I'm happy even if it only cures Type I. Even though I am a type II, my brother is a type I and it wll probably help him. It's too late for my Mom.
Well, if LGF can bring down Dan Rather, then...
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After all, the blogosphere had more journelistic integrity that Dan Rather, so either the Blogs are Journelism, or Dan Rather isn't. Tough call.
Intertec Compustars running twin z-80 processors. What I didn't like about CP/M was that none of the compilers created fully operational programs, you always ahd to load runtime modules.
After 1981, I never went back to CP/M ever. By 1983 I had my own machine with PC-DOS.
Oh, and as I've heard it, UNIX stole from Multics via GCOS. (And took only the bad parts of GCOS).
I can see is in CASE tools. I already was forced up to 2GB of RAM and that won't be enough for very much longer.
If I had to model the Peoplesoft tools, well 4GB won't do that either.
You guys just aren't thiking, you have half the id
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Go to EBAY and get a handspring or other PDA for next to nothing that accepts some form of extra storage like SD memory or compact flash cards and uses regular batteries, not rechargables.
I've got a Visor Platinum with a Kopsis compact flash card reader right here. A cheap 128MB compact flash will hold over 200 books.
Use Adobe's FREE Acrobat reader for Palm to port the files to the Handspring, and the copy of Acrobat you need to set up the files doesn't have to make the trip.
If your friend runs out of books, set up just another compact flash card and send that.
Don't forget to add AAA batteries to the care package.
If you want to use UNIX in a production environment, then you need the equivalent of Generation Data Groups ala MVS. This simplifies production support and tape handling no end.
And this is missing in ALL flavors of Unix and in Linux too.
These guys are blaming Bush for things he has no control over. They want to cut waste out of the budget, but fail to admit that he has no facility to do so.
>it's the system adminstrators that seem somehow lacking this key data in some cases.
It isn't just the MCSE or other such training. There are just way too many people out there who have no business being computer professionals. They haven't got a clue that they are not capable of doign the job.
The battered woman's shelter was an actual example given by a class I took about ANI while an employee of AT&T. Why they do it that way instead of another was not explained.
>Make it illegal for phone companies to not provide true caller id... not this sh*t they pass off as the same.
There are some places where giving out the caller id can cause harm to the people on the other end. Take people calling from battered woman's shelters. How about people calling their family from witness protection programs?
Now, a telemarketer doesn't rise to that level, but there are some places that have a legitamate use for caller id blocking.
I had such a device for a while. I recieved a threat and added this device to my unlisted number. (Oh, and an unlisted number reduces ALL telemarketing calls to ZERO, even political ones.)
I also got unlisted in the online phone number listings as well. Though with some of them it took some vigalance for a while to make sure I WAS unlisted.
You guys are all supposed to be technoligists here and you are overlooking the obvious!
If you are worried about what the electronic voting machine is recording in memory because it is a closed system, WHAT IS TO PREVENT THE MACHINE FROM RECORDING A VOTE ONE WAY AND PRINTING THE OTHER?
is that it is TOO broad. I used it several years ago. (and no, I wasn't one of those sueing because I wear glasses. My case is almost word for word the same as the example they use to explain the law).
The problem is that too many people are trying to use it for things it was never intended for. This website thing is an example. It is wasting the courts time when they could be working on cases that MATTER.
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should be changed to a contest to find the most efficient way to do the job. I wrote such a job finisher years ago, and it is used by myself and others to check Project Gutenberg texts.
And my method is capable of learning.
>Of course IBM is still selling big iron, but I just don't see a whole lot of of new storage units going to ISAM blocks, know what I mean?
You mean VSAM, but in a different contex, yes it is growing in leap sand bounds, since VSAM is part of the underpinnigns of DB2.
No RPG here, but plenty of COBOL AND JCL makes the world go round.
Different strokes, but those of us old mainframe dinosaurs are doing well.
>Mainframe guys see more of their hardware carted away every year.
Horseshit. IBM is selling it like it was going otu of style, and if someone is carting it away then they must be carting it here.
Mainframe jobs have plenty of advancement, in fact better than the web jobs in places like around here.
Oh, and we don't do any perl in the entire shop, yet the company is looking at grossing $1 Billion this year.
See, we have a product, and we use computers to SUPPORT that product. Unlike so many web jobs that have no product.
But you keep laughing, I'm coming up on my 5th year here, where I'll get that extra week of vacation. Where my health care is paid for. Where the company supplies me with broadband at home to support the systems at work.
Oh, and we never laid off anyone during the whole downturn. Show me a web company that can say that.
And during the dot com boom, one year I did make about $125K. On the mainframe. Too bad for you web guys isn't it?
He who laughs last laughs best.
Kids coming into mainframe at entry level are making 40K,
And today it's the web developers that are homeless.
>The were mainframe people, and mainframes were drying up, at the time, and they knew nothing about microcomputers. They had been doing the same thing for years, and they didn't know what to do. They looked like a deer in headlights.
And now they are in demand and making more than the micro people. Enough people retired that the demand is there, because the schools aren't training them anymore.
As for VB6, well there are some good things for it. I don't care if MS EOLs it, just make sure that the programs still run under the new OS. I've still got some programs that haven't been ported to VB from CB yet. The code is still running 12 years later. Some day I might get around to converting it.
Honeywell was also a computer manufacturer for many years, but almost nobody remembers that. And some of GCOS (The Honeywell OS) has come down to Linux too, thru the intermediate steps of UNIX (I'm talking interface, not stolen code here folks, don't jump on me all at once.)
See other article where France declared P2P legal.
You paying for the air fare for me to come do it?
My taxes are easy enough that it is fun, because it is once a year. Yours aren't too bad, so sorry.
Next year might take a little longer, because I am retiring 2 computers this year, and that means getting all the paperwork in order when I give them to charity. (Public schools). And my sales tax on the new car will be deductible. Otherwise, business as usual.
Why should I pay someone to fill out 3 pages of forms, which are mostly zeroes anyway? Takes me about 2 hours to do it once, check and then copy it to the second copy very legibly.
Then mail it in, and save the $35 electronic filing fee.
Total cost? $.35 and I have some fun doing it.
Acrobat reader can read e-books, but why not read FREE classics?
As for reference material, I have error codes and messages (both volumes) and dive computer manual on mine.
Diary is a good thought for those that like diaries. I personally don't
On passwords, no. For one that would be a security violation around here. Plus we have unified password control. 1 password for all your accounts across machines. I've seen plenty of programs that offer that service, but they don't seem to get it.
1. Games
2. Acrobat reader (many books from www.gutenberg.org and then acrobat them) FREE Plus some manuals for work in IT, error code manuals and the like
3. Dive log program
4. Tide tool
5. planetarium program
6. Blood meter software (medical insurance paid for my PDA) / Blood meter module
7. GPS / GPS module
That sould get you started.
This is being tried today.
Like insulin when it first appeared, it was cow and sheep insulin. It wasn't until years later that Humulin was developed (synthetic human insulin to you layman).
This is the first step and assuming it works as well as it appears from this write up, then wholesale cloning of the pancreas tissue will follow.
And for those that think this has no bearing on type II diabetis, you are shortshighted, at best, and wrong at worst. ANY time you cure a related desease, some of it becomes a significant gain to all the other related deseases.
I'm happy even if it only cures Type I. Even though I am a type II, my brother is a type I and it wll probably help him. It's too late for my Mom.
After all, the blogosphere had more journelistic integrity that Dan Rather, so either the Blogs are Journelism, or Dan Rather isn't. Tough call.
Intertec Compustars running twin z-80 processors. What I didn't like about CP/M was that none of the compilers created fully operational programs, you always ahd to load runtime modules.
After 1981, I never went back to CP/M ever. By 1983 I had my own machine with PC-DOS.
Oh, and as I've heard it, UNIX stole from Multics via GCOS. (And took only the bad parts of GCOS).
I can see is in CASE tools. I already was forced up to 2GB of RAM and that won't be enough for very much longer.
If I had to model the Peoplesoft tools, well 4GB won't do that either.
Go to EBAY and get a handspring or other PDA for next to nothing that accepts some form of extra storage like SD memory or compact flash cards and uses regular batteries, not rechargables.
I've got a Visor Platinum with a Kopsis compact flash card reader right here. A cheap 128MB compact flash will hold over 200 books.
Use Adobe's FREE Acrobat reader for Palm to port the files to the Handspring, and the copy of Acrobat you need to set up the files doesn't have to make the trip.
If your friend runs out of books, set up just another compact flash card and send that.
Don't forget to add AAA batteries to the care package.
If you want to use UNIX in a production environment, then you need the equivalent of Generation Data Groups ala MVS. This simplifies production support and tape handling no end.
And this is missing in ALL flavors of Unix and in Linux too.
Oh, and decent production control software too.
Come on this has been true fro over 20 years in PC games.
These guys are blaming Bush for things he has no control over. They want to cut waste out of the budget, but fail to admit that he has no facility to do so.
They fail the partisan test.
>it's the system adminstrators that seem somehow lacking this key data in some cases.
It isn't just the MCSE or other such training. There are just way too many people out there who have no business being computer professionals. They haven't got a clue that they are not capable of doign the job.
The battered woman's shelter was an actual example given by a class I took about ANI while an employee of AT&T. Why they do it that way instead of another was not explained.
>Make it illegal for phone companies to not provide true caller id... not this sh*t they pass off as the same.
There are some places where giving out the caller id can cause harm to the people on the other end. Take people calling from battered woman's shelters. How about people calling their family from witness protection programs?
Now, a telemarketer doesn't rise to that level, but there are some places that have a legitamate use for caller id blocking.
I had such a device for a while. I recieved a threat and added this device to my unlisted number. (Oh, and an unlisted number reduces ALL telemarketing calls to ZERO, even political ones.)
I also got unlisted in the online phone number listings as well. Though with some of them it took some vigalance for a while to make sure I WAS unlisted.
And when is someone ever going to use the paper ballot? Never - that's when.
The paper ballot is supposed to be the record int he case of a "recount". But if someone wanted to cheat, then the vote would never be close.
You guys are all supposed to be technoligists here and you are overlooking the obvious!
If you are worried about what the electronic voting machine is recording in memory because it is a closed system, WHAT IS TO PREVENT THE MACHINE FROM RECORDING A VOTE ONE WAY AND PRINTING THE OTHER?
Sheesh!
is that it is TOO broad. I used it several years ago. (and no, I wasn't one of those sueing because I wear glasses. My case is almost word for word the same as the example they use to explain the law).
The problem is that too many people are trying to use it for things it was never intended for. This website thing is an example. It is wasting the courts time when they could be working on cases that MATTER.