It was nice to be using VMS again after so many months of withdrawal. :-)
I downloaded gawk V3.1.7 from ftp.gnu.org and hope I have a chance soon to start looking at getting it going on VMS.
Monday, August 24, 2009
DS10 booted again, after a LONG break...
This evening I finally found a chance to boot my DS10 for a brief spell while my son Tyen is napping.
It was nice to be using VMS again after so many months of withdrawal. :-)
I downloaded gawk V3.1.7 from ftp.gnu.org and hope I have a chance soon to start looking at getting it going on VMS.
It was nice to be using VMS again after so many months of withdrawal. :-)
I downloaded gawk V3.1.7 from ftp.gnu.org and hope I have a chance soon to start looking at getting it going on VMS.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Free Mac software!
No, this has nothing detectable to do with VMS, but it does have something to do with a chance to win some free software for your Mac. (You don't have a Mac yet? Well, run right out and buy one! You'll be glad you made the switch from Weendoze. But hang on to your VMS system if you have one.) And I'm all in favor of free software.
AppStorm is giving away two free copies of Tweetie and one of DevonThink Pro at the end of this one week long contest, which began on April 29 (2009).
For your chance to win, just click here, or go to http://mac.appstorm.net/general/competitions/the-big-giveaway-tweetie-devonthink-pro/
AppStorm is giving away two free copies of Tweetie and one of DevonThink Pro at the end of this one week long contest, which began on April 29 (2009).
For your chance to win, just click here, or go to http://mac.appstorm.net/general/competitions/the-big-giveaway-tweetie-devonthink-pro/
Friday, January 2, 2009
Resolution for 2009--
Find more time for VMS at home!
Now that I'm not using it at work, it's all gradually fading into the background of my long term memory. It's difficult to make time, though, with a busy family life and two hours commuting every day (round trip).
I'm still very interested in looking at gawk and xmlgawk on VMS. On the gawk page at savannah.gnu.org I noticed recently that the vms subtree has had some changes for gawk v3.1.6, obsoleting some of the work I'd done on my own over the last several years. I haven't looked yet to see if xmlgawk has taken up any of these.
Update: Jan 12, 2009
Got VMS83A_UPDATE08 installed; downloaded a few ECOs that weren't included in 08, as well as TCP/IP ECO, hope to install the remainder soon.
Now that I'm not using it at work, it's all gradually fading into the background of my long term memory. It's difficult to make time, though, with a busy family life and two hours commuting every day (round trip).
I'm still very interested in looking at gawk and xmlgawk on VMS. On the gawk page at savannah.gnu.org I noticed recently that the vms subtree has had some changes for gawk v3.1.6, obsoleting some of the work I'd done on my own over the last several years. I haven't looked yet to see if xmlgawk has taken up any of these.
Update: Jan 12, 2009
Got VMS83A_UPDATE08 installed; downloaded a few ECOs that weren't included in 08, as well as TCP/IP ECO, hope to install the remainder soon.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
A small plug for VMS as a network operating system
A user of Yahoo!® Answers asked the question,
Seeing the opportunity to put in a small plug for Our Favorite Operating System™, yours truly posted a description of VMS as a network OS and was rewarded with 10 points for having my answer chosen as the best. [It's true there wasn't much competition…]
Click here to go to Yahoo!® Answers and see the question and both of the answers that were submitted.
I wasn't sure initially that I was answering the question that was intended, as the wording was a little vague. How is one supposed to take the word type? As in, What type of food do you like best? Or perhaps more colloquially, as indicating the actual name of something. In which case the question could have been worded more clearly as, What are the names of the four network operating systems that are available in the market? But I guess the 10 points proves I was aiming in the right direction, even though I only supplied the name of one O.S.
(Come to think of it, the last few times I've visited the two local markets there weren't any operating system on sale at all. And neither Giant nor Safeway would give me a rain check!)
What are the 4 types of network operating systems that available [sic] in the market?
Seeing the opportunity to put in a small plug for Our Favorite Operating System™, yours truly posted a description of VMS as a network OS and was rewarded with 10 points for having my answer chosen as the best. [It's true there wasn't much competition…]
Click here to go to Yahoo!® Answers and see the question and both of the answers that were submitted.
I wasn't sure initially that I was answering the question that was intended, as the wording was a little vague. How is one supposed to take the word type? As in, What type of food do you like best? Or perhaps more colloquially, as indicating the actual name of something. In which case the question could have been worded more clearly as, What are the names of the four network operating systems that are available in the market? But I guess the 10 points proves I was aiming in the right direction, even though I only supplied the name of one O.S.
(Come to think of it, the last few times I've visited the two local markets there weren't any operating system on sale at all. And neither Giant nor Safeway would give me a rain check!)
Friday, October 31, 2008
A sad day...
It's a sad day when Alcatel Lucent pulls pioneering Bell Labs out of fundamental physics research. This after a stellar history including six Nobel Prizes, inventions like the laser and transistor, and much more.
I don't know if this means that Bell Labs is totally or even mostly kaput, however.
I don't know if this means that Bell Labs is totally or even mostly kaput, however.
Monday, October 13, 2008
OpenVMS Saves the World!
Well, not really--I chose the title to catch some attention.
But the story does involve OpenVMS and a kind of object that could destroy the world, and it did seem like a nice follow on title to my earlier post, The end of the world as we know it, coming soon to an LHC near you.
Courtesy of an article on openvms.org here is a story about the Minor Planet Center, where an Alpha VMScluster running OpenVMS V8.3. The Tamkin Foundation Computing Network is used to track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs ). A large enough NEO on a collision course with Mother Earth would certainly wreck things up pretty well. So it's conceivable that OpenVMS could help save the world, if we could only find a way to deflect whatever world-smashing object this system was tracking.
According to openvms.org's article this cluster has an uptime of almost three years, which but for lengthy power outages in 2005 would be even longer.
But the story does involve OpenVMS and a kind of object that could destroy the world, and it did seem like a nice follow on title to my earlier post, The end of the world as we know it, coming soon to an LHC near you.Courtesy of an article on openvms.org here is a story about the Minor Planet Center, where an Alpha VMScluster running OpenVMS V8.3. The Tamkin Foundation Computing Network is used to track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs ). A large enough NEO on a collision course with Mother Earth would certainly wreck things up pretty well. So it's conceivable that OpenVMS could help save the world, if we could only find a way to deflect whatever world-smashing object this system was tracking.
According to openvms.org's article this cluster has an uptime of almost three years, which but for lengthy power outages in 2005 would be even longer.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
A small contribution to Wikipedia
Today I edited the Wikipedia article about the HP Superdome. I added good old OpenVMS to the list of supported operating systems, with citations from a relevant HP press release and from the OpenVMS V8.2-1 Release Notes.
(Lest the above links should break after this is published, the press release is archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5bGrC0lBy and the Release Notes at http://www.webcitation.org/5bGqrvpsD, courtesy of WebCite®.)
(Lest the above links should break after this is published, the press release is archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5bGrC0lBy and the Release Notes at http://www.webcitation.org/5bGqrvpsD, courtesy of WebCite®.)
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