Sadly though I suspect what you're wanting is linux for the older IMPI AS/400s (the ones in the ugly white boxes)... umm, I just don't see that ever happening, for a number of political and technical reasons. But you never know, I'm not a decision maker around here, just a bit flipper... ask your sales folks, tell 'em you want to buy the support... if enough people do then they'll start asking development for it... that's how a lot of stuff around here starts.:)
I'll answer the first half by saying there really isn't a large team physically (I'm only talking about in development, marketing and support are different) anywhere, instead there are a LOT of small issolated pockets. The IBM LTC headed by Dan Frye is forming a virtual team from a lot of those pockets.
The second one I won't touch; except to say that Notes under wine is bearable.
the problem is not scripts that start with #!/bin/bash, the problem is scripts that start with #!/bin/sh but depend on bashisms that aren't part of the standard sh. I can't count how many of these types of things I've encountered compiling stuff on AIX.
Another tip: Rather than a intake in the front and an exhaust in the back, try a single, large, low RPM fan -cut in the top of the case- blowing out. Heat rises, and this works well from what a friend of mine has reported.
Yeah, it works well, but I found it wasn't worth the trouble after a while... in order for that to work really well you need a good supply of air comming in as close to the bottom a possible. The problem I found doing this was that you ended up with a LOT of dust in the system very quickly, more than usually anyway.
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I remember that episode... didn't it also have something to do with cummulative effect? where a lot of high warp travel along a certain coridor or shippign lane would destablize it, but a singe high warp kick accross the middle of no where wasn't such a big deal untill it started to add up... the whole thing reminded me of the arguments about speed boats in sensitive wetlands, then of course I saw one of the trek writters at a greenpeace rally protesting a power boat race on some lake somewhere because clear across the (very large) lake there was a wetlands.
you think it'll take us seven whole seasons before making comments like "selectively enjoyed"? yeah, right. If the trek writters (idea clump? lol!) continue to poor out the inconsistent drivvel that has littered DS9, voyager, EFC and Andromeda then I doubt we'll have to wait that long.
Anyway, nice to see Chris' writing style hasn't changed from the old usenet days, although that wasn't quite enough spolierspace. (not that this was much of a spoiler.;)
They are everywhere in north america, you just have to know where to look (truckstops) along major throughways. In several parts of the country (farming areas) diesel is available at many normal gas stations. My father is a truck driver, truckers can run from Alaska to the panama canal, LA to Hudson bay... all on diesel, granted they have 100+ gallon fuel tanks, but that's usually because they don't want to stop as often, and because a rig uses a hell of a lot more "go juice" than a car does. (fully loaded up Baker Grade in the California desert headed to Las Vegas we figured something like 5 miles per gallon as I recall....)
Even if it is available though, it's not the right solution for a lot of us... diesel sucks in stop and go city driving for example, CNG (compressed matural gas) combined with regenerative breaking absolutely rules in that regard (think city busses, this is perfect for them). And the soot it produces (while cleaner than gasoline exhaust) is not exactly healthy, but unlike gasoline's by products soot can be dealt with efficiently in the car, either by traditional filters, or by washable static grids. Personally, I'll take hydrogen fuel cells and efficient electric motors my self, possibly with solar panels to supliment them, if I were still living in Arizona, not sure I want them up here in Minnesota.:(
I'm not sure if this is ironic any more or just a sign of the fickle nature of slashdot.
The IBM Common Public License is a derivative of the IBM Public License (IANAL summary: removed reference to IBM Corp. as originators of licensed material.)
The IBM Public License is a derivative of the Jikes Compiler License. (IANAL summary: remove reference to Jikes as the licensed material.)
The Jikes Compiler License when it came out was lauded by slashdot and the open source community in general. The major driving force behind it (Dave Shields from TJWatson research center) was rewarded with overnight celebrity for the countless hours he spent with the legal department trying to explain reality to them.
Now the legal department steals a move from us engineers by using the "generalize and reuse" pattern and they get mocked and rideculed on the front page?
In these three licenses (they're all the same really, even Jikes doesn't use the Jikes Compiler License anymore) we have an Open Source license backed by the largest company in the industry, one that a number of other companies have already asked to "borrow"... it ONLY MAKES SENSE that these companies should get together and come up with one common license.
That "free ride" as you called it involved having every aspect of his body poked, proded, sampled, tested and measured for weeks before, every minute of, and weeks after the trip. All in the name of science to answer questions like what does zero-g do to the geriatric. Have you ever seen how bone density tests are done? would you like to have one every week? how about daily while bouncing around in freefall? It's not clear to me why Glenn's efforts for the betterment of mankind need to be belittled.
if I were you, I'd sell *before* his speech. You might not make as much as some enterprising student that shows up to sell rotten tomatos at the door, but at least you won't loose as much as Bill will before they come to their senses.
Very true... you always have, and rather then rejoin redhat-devel to throw this at y'all I'll append it here while I'm thinking of it.
MD5Sums. They need to be readily available from redhat.com even when the ftp servers are swamped. I've downloaded (or are in the process of anyway) isos to update my wolverine installation, from a couple mirrors that while fast and local, I'm not sure I want to trust 100%. I should be able to grab MD5 checksums, at least for the isos, directly from a redhat.com address at all times.
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You missed Daniella. Note that many of the records have master@earthdig-t-2000.com and the typically Hollywood phone number of 555-1234... good indication of something fishy.
Overall it's some good design work, much better than a lot of the other webverts. Speaking of which, has anyone managed to crack dunotech's employee access page yet? or do y'all suppose they'll make us wait till the movie is out? Trying to wget the page the form posts to results in a 302.
Great, another pathetic settlement out of iomega. Erilly similar to the one for Ditto tape drive fiasco; which was even worse if memory serves... just cash back on media. Now when are they going to fess up that the Jaz drives are even bigger piles of shit than the Zip and Ditto combined? In the time my warrenty (twice extended by Iomega) lasted Mine was replaced three times and "fixed" twice. All five times I paid shipping to them and was without my drive for a week to a month, and that was only after numerous long distance calls and a lot of bitching and complaining. Total data loss somewhere in the range of 12 Gig. Oh well... cheap CDRW pretty much spells the death knell for iomega, good ridence.
granted that by the time most of these people really got going Sierra was a creative void of burecracy, but still! Ken and (more importantly) Roberta Williams clearly belong in that list. How many of you remember frogger on the C64? *That* was a Sierra title! It was my second Sierra On-Line product, as I recall... right after home word. Yes, HOME WORD! That little word processor got me through ELEMENTARY SCHOOL for crying out loud!
Their offices were also pretty cool, especially the Oakhurst offices (or was it Coarsegold? the first one... definently... the second looked like a left over warehouse... I don't care if all the developers had offices with doors and real walls... it was still a warehouse.)
Roberta, if you're out there (and I don't doubt you are) WE MISS YOU! COME BACK!!
you've never used a true IBM os have you? OS/2, OS/400, and AIX all support as many (if not more) languages and locales as Windows, and HAVE for a lot longer than windows.
Remember that the "I" in IBM stands for International. One thing you learn VERY quickly at IBM is how to NLS enable your code... nothing is hardcoded in any language unless it is no meant for the user to see (assertions for example) and those all have language independent identifiers (mix of ascii letters and numbers).
There's a point in the development cycle at IBM where you have to have all translated messages put in place, because the resource file will be sent to translation centers all over the world to encode to the local language... having to change a message after that date involves begging pleading and a chunk of budget.
There's an entire test phase (TVT - Translation Verification Test) where they bring in people who speak the langauge natively and walk through EVERY interaction the user can have and validate that the messages are all properly translated, and used. (a buddy of mine got a severity 1 defect raised against him because after translation the highlighted shortcut letters on his menu spelled out a profanity after translation, his response: find a different translation, or move the shortcut characters.)
I sat here trying to think of some examples for a while, but I can't. I went and looked at some of the code I have on my systems... it isn't.
I sometimes think this is one of the failings of a lot of open source projects... without a good solid core group of people leading the charge you tend to end up with hack atop hack atop hack and various different coding styles and no coherent design. An example of that kind of code is SourceForge.
Now I can think of at least three examples of the opposite... unfortunately they're all proprietary code bases so I can't share them.
In many of the larger projects though you can ocasionally find bits and pieces of pure poetry in code. There's an example in the Linux kernel, I forget exactly where - maybe in the vmm, where someone took the time to fully digest a rather hairy function and they totally rewrote it without changing the inputs, output, or side-effects in a small clean block of code. These are the folks that turely deserve this shirt.
We need a new website, one that can showcase really good code... make it known as the art form it is. codepoet.com and codepoet.org are both already taken by indivuals... perhaps codepoetry.net? make it required reading by cs students, just like trips to art museums are required of art students, and theatre and literature majors are required to study the great works of their fields. Maybe they can sell T-shirts and posters with elegant code on them, and books full of gracefull algorythms.
BellSouth's abuse@ reputation is terible... so yes, the hackers/spammers/etc like to buy their bandwidth there... the rest of the BellSouth user base is "guilty by association".
The bad news is that the @home NOC's mail is filtered, if it doesn't come from a very select list of people (their own L3 tech support, select NOCs that they have peering agreements with, etc) it is bit bucketed automatically. Here's the fast path route: call your local @home offering cable company, get in touch with *their* support group and make a friend, they in turn have a friend in the L3 support staff in @home, who can finally get the message to the NOC. Sad but true, you've got to follow the chain of command... but with any luck you can avoid the idiots that can't even spell IP let alone grok a routing table.
and how pray tell do you know where in the code to look when it drops core without having debug symbols in the binary? Maybe in the trivial little applications you've written it's been obvious, but try that with (for example) Mozilla. Core faults from stripped binaries are a waste of time.
this actually can be taken a step farther... with only one copy located under their control the companies become more lax about their initial releases due to the mentality that "we can always update it latter" and the quality suffers. Fact checking will be done after the fact, fixes wont be regression checked for new vulnerabilites untill they've already been installed by most people, and of course they won't issue this as a new relase, so people will think "I've already got the fix for that problem" when in reality they need the fix for the fix.
This is parallel to the quality of software in the "internet age" where the easy of shipping a fixpack or service release has greatly lowered the quality of "dot oh" or "point zero" releases. I know at least one company that has at least one, sometimes two fix releases in the pipeline at all times; usually there is a service pack ready for the web before the cds for initial release have made it to the customers.
a jointpressrelease which says "[IBM and MRAM partner Infineon Technologies AG] believe MRAM products could be available commercially as soon as 2004."
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Ryan, Linux on the iSeries is alive and well. See http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/. If you have supported hardware you can even install a beta from one of our partners tonight! http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/iSe ries.html
... umm, I just don't see that ever happening, for a number of political and technical reasons. But you never know, I'm not a decision maker around here, just a bit flipper... ask your sales folks, tell 'em you want to buy the support... if enough people do then they'll start asking development for it... that's how a lot of stuff around here starts. :)
Sadly though I suspect what you're wanting is linux for the older IMPI AS/400s (the ones in the ugly white boxes)
I'll answer the first half by saying there really isn't a large team physically (I'm only talking about in development, marketing and support are different) anywhere, instead there are a LOT of small issolated pockets. The IBM LTC headed by Dan Frye is forming a virtual team from a lot of those pockets.
The second one I won't touch; except to say that Notes under wine is bearable.
the problem is not scripts that start with #!/bin/bash, the problem is scripts that start with #!/bin/sh but depend on bashisms that aren't part of the standard sh. I can't count how many of these types of things I've encountered compiling stuff on AIX.
Yeah, it works well, but I found it wasn't worth the trouble after a while... in order for that to work really well you need a good supply of air comming in as close to the bottom a possible. The problem I found doing this was that you ended up with a LOT of dust in the system very quickly, more than usually anyway.
I remember that episode... didn't it also have something to do with cummulative effect? where a lot of high warp travel along a certain coridor or shippign lane would destablize it, but a singe high warp kick accross the middle of no where wasn't such a big deal untill it started to add up... the whole thing reminded me of the arguments about speed boats in sensitive wetlands, then of course I saw one of the trek writters at a greenpeace rally protesting a power boat race on some lake somewhere because clear across the (very large) lake there was a wetlands.
you think it'll take us seven whole seasons before making comments like "selectively enjoyed"? yeah, right. If the trek writters (idea clump? lol!) continue to poor out the inconsistent drivvel that has littered DS9, voyager, EFC and Andromeda then I doubt we'll have to wait that long.
;)
Anyway, nice to see Chris' writing style hasn't changed from the old usenet days, although that wasn't quite enough spolierspace. (not that this was much of a spoiler.
They are everywhere in north america, you just have to know where to look (truckstops) along major throughways. In several parts of the country (farming areas) diesel is available at many normal gas stations. My father is a truck driver, truckers can run from Alaska to the panama canal, LA to Hudson bay... all on diesel, granted they have 100+ gallon fuel tanks, but that's usually because they don't want to stop as often, and because a rig uses a hell of a lot more "go juice" than a car does. (fully loaded up Baker Grade in the California desert headed to Las Vegas we figured something like 5 miles per gallon as I recall....)
:(
Even if it is available though, it's not the right solution for a lot of us... diesel sucks in stop and go city driving for example, CNG (compressed matural gas) combined with regenerative breaking absolutely rules in that regard (think city busses, this is perfect for them). And the soot it produces (while cleaner than gasoline exhaust) is not exactly healthy, but unlike gasoline's by products soot can be dealt with efficiently in the car, either by traditional filters, or by washable static grids. Personally, I'll take hydrogen fuel cells and efficient electric motors my self, possibly with solar panels to supliment them, if I were still living in Arizona, not sure I want them up here in Minnesota.
I'm not sure if this is ironic any more or just a sign of the fickle nature of slashdot.
The IBM Common Public License is a derivative of the IBM Public License (IANAL summary: removed reference to IBM Corp. as originators of licensed material.)
The IBM Public License is a derivative of the Jikes Compiler License. (IANAL summary: remove reference to Jikes as the licensed material.)
The Jikes Compiler License when it came out was lauded by slashdot and the open source community in general. The major driving force behind it (Dave Shields from TJWatson research center) was rewarded with overnight celebrity for the countless hours he spent with the legal department trying to explain reality to them.
Now the legal department steals a move from us engineers by using the "generalize and reuse" pattern and they get mocked and rideculed on the front page?
In these three licenses (they're all the same really, even Jikes doesn't use the Jikes Compiler License anymore) we have an Open Source license backed by the largest company in the industry, one that a number of other companies have already asked to "borrow"... it ONLY MAKES SENSE that these companies should get together and come up with one common license.
That "free ride" as you called it involved having every aspect of his body poked, proded, sampled, tested and measured for weeks before, every minute of, and weeks after the trip. All in the name of science to answer questions like what does zero-g do to the geriatric. Have you ever seen how bone density tests are done? would you like to have one every week? how about daily while bouncing around in freefall? It's not clear to me why Glenn's efforts for the betterment of mankind need to be belittled.
if I were you, I'd sell *before* his speech. You might not make as much as some enterprising student that shows up to sell rotten tomatos at the door, but at least you won't loose as much as Bill will before they come to their senses.
Very true... you always have, and rather then rejoin redhat-devel to throw this at y'all I'll append it here while I'm thinking of it.
MD5Sums. They need to be readily available from redhat.com even when the ftp servers are swamped. I've downloaded (or are in the process of anyway) isos to update my wolverine installation, from a couple mirrors that while fast and local, I'm not sure I want to trust 100%. I should be able to grab MD5 checksums, at least for the isos, directly from a redhat.com address at all times.
You missed Daniella. Note that many of the records have master@earthdig-t-2000.com and the typically Hollywood phone number of 555-1234... good indication of something fishy.
Overall it's some good design work, much better than a lot of the other webverts. Speaking of which, has anyone managed to crack dunotech's employee access page yet? or do y'all suppose they'll make us wait till the movie is out? Trying to wget the page the form posts to results in a 302.
Great, another pathetic settlement out of iomega. Erilly similar to the one for Ditto tape drive fiasco; which was even worse if memory serves... just cash back on media. Now when are they going to fess up that the Jaz drives are even bigger piles of shit than the Zip and Ditto combined? In the time my warrenty (twice extended by Iomega) lasted Mine was replaced three times and "fixed" twice. All five times I paid shipping to them and was without my drive for a week to a month, and that was only after numerous long distance calls and a lot of bitching and complaining. Total data loss somewhere in the range of 12 Gig. Oh well... cheap CDRW pretty much spells the death knell for iomega, good ridence.
LOL... this is the BEST bit of this whole sorry april fools crap.
Proud of my 8xxx uid, and not bothering to hide it, although I'm not so sure they're really sequential.
granted that by the time most of these people really got going Sierra was a creative void of burecracy, but still! Ken and (more importantly) Roberta Williams clearly belong in that list. How many of you remember frogger on the C64? *That* was a Sierra title! It was my second Sierra On-Line product, as I recall... right after home word. Yes, HOME WORD! That little word processor got me through ELEMENTARY SCHOOL for crying out loud!
Their offices were also pretty cool, especially the Oakhurst offices (or was it Coarsegold? the first one... definently... the second looked like a left over warehouse... I don't care if all the developers had offices with doors and real walls... it was still a warehouse.)
Roberta, if you're out there (and I don't doubt you are) WE MISS YOU! COME BACK!!
Did anyone get that Ghost in the Shell 2 site mirrored before it went down hard?
you've never used a true IBM os have you? OS/2, OS/400, and AIX all support as many (if not more) languages and locales as Windows, and HAVE for a lot longer than windows.
Remember that the "I" in IBM stands for International. One thing you learn VERY quickly at IBM is how to NLS enable your code... nothing is hardcoded in any language unless it is no meant for the user to see (assertions for example) and those all have language independent identifiers (mix of ascii letters and numbers).
There's a point in the development cycle at IBM where you have to have all translated messages put in place, because the resource file will be sent to translation centers all over the world to encode to the local language... having to change a message after that date involves begging pleading and a chunk of budget.
There's an entire test phase (TVT - Translation Verification Test) where they bring in people who speak the langauge natively and walk through EVERY interaction the user can have and validate that the messages are all properly translated, and used. (a buddy of mine got a severity 1 defect raised against him because after translation the highlighted shortcut letters on his menu spelled out a profanity after translation, his response: find a different translation, or move the shortcut characters.)
I sat here trying to think of some examples for a while, but I can't. I went and looked at some of the code I have on my systems... it isn't.
I sometimes think this is one of the failings of a lot of open source projects... without a good solid core group of people leading the charge you tend to end up with hack atop hack atop hack and various different coding styles and no coherent design. An example of that kind of code is SourceForge.
Now I can think of at least three examples of the opposite... unfortunately they're all proprietary code bases so I can't share them.
In many of the larger projects though you can ocasionally find bits and pieces of pure poetry in code. There's an example in the Linux kernel, I forget exactly where - maybe in the vmm, where someone took the time to fully digest a rather hairy function and they totally rewrote it without changing the inputs, output, or side-effects in a small clean block of code. These are the folks that turely deserve this shirt.
We need a new website, one that can showcase really good code... make it known as the art form it is. codepoet.com and codepoet.org are both already taken by indivuals... perhaps codepoetry.net? make it required reading by cs students, just like trips to art museums are required of art students, and theatre and literature majors are required to study the great works of their fields. Maybe they can sell T-shirts and posters with elegant code on them, and books full of gracefull algorythms.
For irony the site can also link to the obfuscated perl contest.
there's a better answer out on the net....
BellSouth's abuse@ reputation is terible... so yes, the hackers/spammers/etc like to buy their bandwidth there... the rest of the BellSouth user base is "guilty by association".
The bad news is that the @home NOC's mail is filtered, if it doesn't come from a very select list of people (their own L3 tech support, select NOCs that they have peering agreements with, etc) it is bit bucketed automatically. Here's the fast path route: call your local @home offering cable company, get in touch with *their* support group and make a friend, they in turn have a friend in the L3 support staff in @home, who can finally get the message to the NOC. Sad but true, you've got to follow the chain of command... but with any luck you can avoid the idiots that can't even spell IP let alone grok a routing table.
and how pray tell do you know where in the code to look when it drops core without having debug symbols in the binary? Maybe in the trivial little applications you've written it's been obvious, but try that with (for example) Mozilla. Core faults from stripped binaries are a waste of time.
this actually can be taken a step farther... with only one copy located under their control the companies become more lax about their initial releases due to the mentality that "we can always update it latter" and the quality suffers. Fact checking will be done after the fact, fixes wont be regression checked for new vulnerabilites untill they've already been installed by most people, and of course they won't issue this as a new relase, so people will think "I've already got the fix for that problem" when in reality they need the fix for the fix.
This is parallel to the quality of software in the "internet age" where the easy of shipping a fixpack or service release has greatly lowered the quality of "dot oh" or "point zero" releases. I know at least one company that has at least one, sometimes two fix releases in the pipeline at all times; usually there is a service pack ready for the web before the cds for initial release have made it to the customers.
a jointpress release which says "[IBM and MRAM partner Infineon Technologies AG] believe MRAM products could be available commercially as soon as 2004."
having been shot specifically for the scifi channel, they knew from the get go that it would be shown letterboxed... no pan & scan involved.