It is available on several sites for download as pdf, maybe not supposed to be.
IBM are generally very open with their manuals, e.g. go to this link for the z/OS v1.12 infomation center http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp and the first link on the front page is a PDF of the current version of PoP
I get the impression IBM isn't very bothered about old or current manuals being scattered around various web sites.
hell, humans have problem recognising my handwriting
I can't read *my own* handwriting the next day. I have to print stuff in block capitals to be sure I'll understand it. And I was taught 'proper' handwriting the 'traditional' way...
OK, I haven't actually got a hardware 3278 (anymore); it's the default emulation mode in most of the different emulators I run to access about 25 different z/OS customer LPARs.
I am think that information want to be free, not encumber by encryption. Encryption should be ban for good of all mankind so that all good idea are free, open and available to everyone.
Assuming you're serious, the usual response follows: Please post your credit/debit card details, your bank account details, your full name, address, date of birth and mother's maiden name. Plus all your email ids, logon ids and passwords for all websites that you use.
Someone will put this 'freed information' to good use for you.
Many companies are switching back to IE 7 and IE 8 from Firefox for good reason.
Switching back to *IE7* 'for good reason'? IE7 is virtually unusable on many important websites (e.g large parts of IBM's multi-website complex). IE7 is our company 'standard browser' at present but I use Firefox (V6) to actually get my work done. Some fairly normal web pages which take a few seconds to load with Firefox take 10-15 *minutes* with IE7; some of them just never finish loading. My experience of IE7 is even worse than IE6. (And yes, these extreme figures may or may not relate to our company setup and our proxies - but Firefox isn't affected.)
For long term survival, school children will need to learn in school that to build a workable mini-ecosystem capable to support a small colony on, say, the moon, is a very difficult and expensive problem.
Actually, building a 'space habitat' would be a brilliant school project for nearly all students, so many different skills are involved that lots of children of different abilities and interests could work together and each stretch themselves and enjoy it in different ways. However, it would be quite expensive to do properly (i.e. in a way where the habitat could actually be used for a reasonable period of time).
If you stick with a LTS version, you're going to miss out on all of that. Firefox has already stopped support for the 3.x browsers, but if your distro is a year or so old, that's what it has, and you can't change it without having to add some different repositories (which kinda defeats the point if you're after stability).
I reckon I get 98% of the stability benefits by running LTS plus latest Firefox. Running the latest Firefox doesn't seem to negatively affect the stability of the OS and other programs in any way, and Firefox 6 doesn't seem significantly less stable *on my setup* than 3.6.
An optimistic view is that at some point (say 30-40 years time) nearly everyone will have dubious pics etc. on facebook, (or its rivals and successors) from some stage of their life (posted by 'friends' etc. if not themselves), so employers will have to accept that they can no longer screen people out by this method or find that they can recruit only from about 10% of the population...
Simple example: I have a partition where I keep all my music files. Typical modern Linux: Create partition (or format entire drive) with label=music Partition automounts as/media/music (always) (or *if* I want to I can make it appear as/music or whatever)
Windows: Partition appears as (e.g) F: drive , G: drive H: drive, whatever depending on what else you have connected. May subsequently wander between drive letters.
Even MS knows that drive letters suck; that's why they've been deprecated in recent versions (i.e. they still exist but you're discouraged from using them; in Vista and W7 they can be hidden and your C: and D: drives for example may appear just as 'system' and 'data').
Also, certainly in Windows XP, drive letters don't even work properly - eg you can get 'collisions' between network drive mappings and usb sticks making the network drive inaccessable - I've experienced this personally (as have many others).
I'm frankly amazed, reading this thread, at the outcry against government oversight and regulation - almost enough to make me think that Slashdot is some sort of libertarian paradise, where regulation is bad, and laissez-faire / caveat emptor policies are the way things should be.
You shouldn't be amazed in this case. There is a *lot* of anger in the US about the much higher cost of prescription meds compared to other countries, and people are venting this anger in this thread. And yes, I agree that on the facts in this case the anger is misdirected, i.e. this case is *not* about preventing US customers from buying certified genuine meds from respectable Canadian pharmacies - but because it's in a related area, that anger is bound to spill out.
Apple was justified in not responding. A member of Parliament has no standing to ask such a question with the expectation of receiving an answer.
Maybe no specific *legal* standing but in many countries it's seen as a legitimate role for elected representatives to ask any such questions which are of concern to their constituents, and generally companies recognize that they do have an (unwritten) obligation to make a response, and that failing to respond at all will be seen as a slap in the face to a large number of their customers and potential customers, particularly those represented by the MP in question.
Also, any MP with a popular cause such as this** may be able to drum up enough support for an official enquiry, or even get some sort of an 'anti-gouging' clause added to a relevant bill. Snubbing one MP may be seen as a collective snub to other MPs.
Summary: A company refusing to reply in such as case is a very unwise move. Almost any bullshit excuse, (the more complex and hard to rebut, the better), is preferable to no reply at all.
**Looking at the comments from Australians against the relevant article shows this cause is probably *very* popular.
I think you're assuming this refers just to current or recently sold hardware.
When you take into account all the older hardware which will never get a driver for Vista or Win 7, there are a huge number of devices unsupported by those Windows releases which work in Linux.
Example: Vista did not support my Canon scanner, which was only about 5 years old when Vista was released. Linux still supports it now it is 10 years old and will probably support it until it finally breaks.
If you buy all new hardware every few years, and are happy to trash perfectly working but now unsupported peripherals, you'll probably get better support from windows. If, like me, you want to use hardware until it breaks, Linux means you can often do this, while still running an up to date OS.
Needy people are served far better by church and community charities than by government.
In other words, the needy should rely on a lottery - is there some charity in your area which has a few dollars to spare and classes you as a 'worthy recipient'? No? Tough luck.
I wouldn't defend the 'four times as much' claim. This graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%25_GDP.png fits with other figures I've seen - healthcare in the USA costs about 2x the UK, and the UK has effectively 100% cover instead of the partial US cover (figures vary by different definitions). Allowing for the coverage difference, a 'three times as much' claim might be defensible.
I also cannot think of a single example, national defense and courts not withstanding, where the government can do a better job than private industry. In fact, I challenge you to find me a single example..
The NHS provides a reasonable level of healthcare to the *entire* population at a cost per head of about 60% of the US system. I realize you will not accept this because of your ideology, but it commands a *very* high level of support from the UK population which is why right-wing parties who wish to get elected in this country *have* to pledge to defend the NHS (at least the basic principle - free to all at the point of use, paid for from general taxation). In many countries in Europe even with most of them having right-wing governments, healthcare *is* regarded as a basic government service as important as the police or the army.
I assert that in the UK, the government does a better job of healthcare than the private sector would. I can't prove it of course (as the alternative is obviously untried in the UK in modern times) and you will no doubt rubbish it. But a large enough majority of the UK population agree with me to ensure its future indefinitely, including many of those who wholeheartedly supported the privatization of nearly every previously state owned industry in the 80's/90's.
If you hate government so much, move to Somalia. Seriously.
Shame this is modded troll. There are quite a lot of posters here of a 'libertarian' nature who express the opinion that 'all tax is theft' or at least would like to reduce taxes to the point where governments would be unable to be effective in any sense - and the logical conclusion of going down that road is something quite like Somalia. To summarize: All Governments suck to some extent; having no government generally sucks even more.
If you are presented with a choice of two desktops (as you are, if you have installed 11.04), and you can't manage to choose the one that you like that even comes pre-installed for your convenience,
11.04 support runs out 12.10 10.04 support runs out 13.04 11.10 apparently will not support the classic gnome desktop at all So sticking with or going back to 10.04 rather than using the classic option on 11.04 *does* make sense if you want to stick with classic - it gives you an extra 6 months support.
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It is available on several sites for download as pdf, maybe not supposed to be.
IBM are generally very open with their manuals, e.g. go to this link for the z/OS v1.12 infomation center
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp
and the first link on the front page is a PDF of the current version of PoP
I get the impression IBM isn't very bothered about old or current manuals being scattered around various web sites.
hell, humans have problem recognising my handwriting
I can't read *my own* handwriting the next day. I have to print stuff in block capitals to be sure I'll understand it. And I was taught 'proper' handwriting the 'traditional' way...
Real men use VT52s
REAL men use 3278 model 2's.
OK, I haven't actually got a hardware 3278 (anymore); it's the default emulation mode in most of the different emulators I run to access about 25 different z/OS customer LPARs.
(Here in the UK, pennies are only legal tender for debts up to 25p, which seems somewhat more sensible.)
20p actually; see:
http://www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx
I am think that information want to be free, not encumber by encryption. Encryption should be ban for good of all mankind so that all good idea are free, open and available to everyone.
Assuming you're serious, the usual response follows:
Please post your credit/debit card details, your bank account details, your full name, address, date of birth and mother's maiden name. Plus all your email ids, logon ids and passwords for all websites that you use.
Someone will put this 'freed information' to good use for you.
Of course, my father used to tell me that in HIS day, grocery stores would actually deliver to your house.
Tesco delivered 2 weeks of groceries etc. to my house this morning.
Many companies are switching back to IE 7 and IE 8 from Firefox for good reason.
Switching back to *IE7* 'for good reason'?
IE7 is virtually unusable on many important websites (e.g large parts of IBM's multi-website complex). IE7 is our company 'standard browser' at present but I use Firefox (V6) to actually get my work done.
Some fairly normal web pages which take a few seconds to load with Firefox take 10-15 *minutes* with IE7; some of them just never finish loading.
My experience of IE7 is even worse than IE6.
(And yes, these extreme figures may or may not relate to our company setup and our proxies - but Firefox isn't affected.)
For long term survival, school children will need to learn in school that to build a workable mini-ecosystem capable to support a small colony on, say, the moon, is a very difficult and expensive problem.
Actually, building a 'space habitat' would be a brilliant school project for nearly all students, so many different skills are involved that lots of children of different abilities and interests could work together and each stretch themselves and enjoy it in different ways.
However, it would be quite expensive to do properly (i.e. in a way where the habitat could actually be used for a reasonable period of time).
If you stick with a LTS version, you're going to miss out on all of that. Firefox has already stopped support for the 3.x browsers, but if your distro is a year or so old, that's what it has, and you can't change it without having to add some different repositories (which kinda defeats the point if you're after stability).
I reckon I get 98% of the stability benefits by running LTS plus latest Firefox. Running the latest Firefox doesn't seem to negatively affect the stability of the OS and other programs in any way, and Firefox 6 doesn't seem significantly less stable *on my setup* than 3.6.
An optimistic view is that at some point (say 30-40 years time) nearly everyone will have dubious pics etc. on facebook, (or its rivals and successors) from some stage of their life (posted by 'friends' etc. if not themselves), so employers will have to accept that they can no longer screen people out by this method or find that they can recruit only from about 10% of the population...
With Linux you are required to upgrade AT LEAST once every 3 years.
Not if you run Centos etc.
7 years' support, same as RHEL.
So what? What is so wrong with drive letters?
Simple example: I have a partition where I keep all my music files. /media/music (always) /music or whatever)
Typical modern Linux: Create partition (or format entire drive) with label=music
Partition automounts as
(or *if* I want to I can make it appear as
Windows: Partition appears as (e.g) F: drive , G: drive H: drive, whatever depending on what else you have connected. May subsequently wander between drive letters.
Even MS knows that drive letters suck; that's why they've been deprecated in recent versions (i.e. they still exist but you're discouraged from using them; in Vista and W7 they can be hidden and your C: and D: drives for example may appear just as 'system' and 'data').
Also, certainly in Windows XP, drive letters don't even work properly - eg you can get 'collisions' between network drive mappings and usb sticks making the network drive inaccessable - I've experienced this personally (as have many others).
I could go on...
I'm frankly amazed, reading this thread, at the outcry against government oversight and regulation - almost enough to make me think that Slashdot is some sort of libertarian paradise, where regulation is bad, and laissez-faire / caveat emptor policies are the way things should be.
You shouldn't be amazed in this case. There is a *lot* of anger in the US about the much higher cost of prescription meds compared to other countries, and people are venting this anger in this thread.
And yes, I agree that on the facts in this case the anger is misdirected, i.e. this case is *not* about preventing US customers from buying certified genuine meds from respectable Canadian pharmacies - but because it's in a related area, that anger is bound to spill out.
According to Wiki, the Chunnel is ~53 miles,
Don't know where got that from. It's 31 miles (50km) long, 23 miles (38km) of it undersea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel
These figures cross-check with my UK Rail Atlas.
Apple was justified in not responding. A member of Parliament has no standing to ask such a question with the expectation of receiving an answer.
Maybe no specific *legal* standing but in many countries it's seen as a legitimate role for elected representatives to ask any such questions which are of concern to their constituents, and generally companies recognize that they do have an (unwritten) obligation to make a response, and that failing to respond at all will be seen as a slap in the face to a large number of their customers and potential customers, particularly those represented by the MP in question.
Also, any MP with a popular cause such as this** may be able to drum up enough support for an official enquiry, or even get some sort of an 'anti-gouging' clause added to a relevant bill. Snubbing one MP may be seen as a collective snub to other MPs.
Summary: A company refusing to reply in such as case is a very unwise move. Almost any bullshit excuse, (the more complex and hard to rebut, the better), is preferable to no reply at all.
**Looking at the comments from Australians against the relevant article shows this cause is probably *very* popular.
...(and the fact that they taste fucking disgusting in a pie)...
Unless it's one of my mum's sausage meat, egg and tomato pies...
I think you're assuming this refers just to current or recently sold hardware.
When you take into account all the older hardware which will never get a driver for Vista or Win 7, there are a huge number of devices unsupported by those Windows releases which work in Linux.
Example: Vista did not support my Canon scanner, which was only about 5 years old when Vista was released. Linux still supports it now it is 10 years old and will probably support it until it finally breaks.
If you buy all new hardware every few years, and are happy to trash perfectly working but now unsupported peripherals, you'll probably get better support from windows. If, like me, you want to use hardware until it breaks, Linux means you can often do this, while still running an up to date OS.
Needy people are served far better by church and community charities than by government.
In other words, the needy should rely on a lottery - is there some charity in your area which has a few dollars to spare and classes you as a 'worthy recipient'? No? Tough luck.
I wouldn't defend the 'four times as much' claim.
This graph:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%25_GDP.png
fits with other figures I've seen - healthcare in the USA costs about 2x the UK, and the UK has effectively 100% cover instead of the partial US cover (figures vary by different definitions). Allowing for the coverage difference, a 'three times as much' claim might be defensible.
Although it's a fairly crude measure, UK life expectancy is higher than the US, so we're not necessarily getting a much lower quality system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
I feel I get pretty excellent value for money for my approx GBP2500 p.a. (roughly GBP200/$300 per month).
I also cannot think of a single example, national defense and courts not withstanding, where the government can do a better job than private industry. In fact, I challenge you to find me a single example..
The NHS provides a reasonable level of healthcare to the *entire* population at a cost per head of about 60% of the US system.
I realize you will not accept this because of your ideology, but it commands a *very* high level of support from the UK population which is why right-wing parties who wish to get elected in this country *have* to pledge to defend the NHS (at least the basic principle - free to all at the point of use, paid for from general taxation).
In many countries in Europe even with most of them having right-wing governments, healthcare *is* regarded as a basic government service as important as the police or the army.
I assert that in the UK, the government does a better job of healthcare than the private sector would. I can't prove it of course (as the alternative is obviously untried in the UK in modern times) and you will no doubt rubbish it. But a large enough majority of the UK population agree with me to ensure its future indefinitely, including many of those who wholeheartedly supported the privatization of nearly every previously state owned industry in the 80's/90's.
Damn near crapped myself...
If you hate government so much, move to Somalia. Seriously.
Shame this is modded troll. There are quite a lot of posters here of a 'libertarian' nature who express the opinion that 'all tax is theft' or at least would like to reduce taxes to the point where governments would be unable to be effective in any sense - and the logical conclusion of going down that road is something quite like Somalia.
To summarize: All Governments suck to some extent; having no government generally sucks even more.
If you are presented with a choice of two desktops (as you are, if you have installed 11.04), and you can't manage to choose the one that you like that even comes pre-installed for your convenience,
11.04 support runs out 12.10
10.04 support runs out 13.04
11.10 apparently will not support the classic gnome desktop at all
So sticking with or going back to 10.04 rather than using the classic option on 11.04 *does* make sense if you want to stick with classic - it gives you an extra 6 months support.
and the brakes are operated by sphincter clench.
Sounds good to me. I always clench my sphincter automatically if I'm about to run into something.
You do remember that driving is a privilege, not a right?
You mean the government *claims* it is a privilege, not a right. In order to control you.