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Security 3258
the really old, ancient "new" thing that has been bubbling off and on in the press for at least the past year (much more recently), is virtualization as security ... stuff...
Security 3259
ref: one of the ancillary issues in havesting-skimming-evesdropping of static data shared secrets or any kind of static data shared secrets are the security breaches and data breaches by insiders...
Security 3260
ref: trivial case of skimming, harvesting, evesdropping standard business process data for "replay attacks" ... being able to use the information...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3261
We are always glad to help. Currently I am struggling with security people in the bank I use; the reliable little outfit with two stellar programmers got bought; and full Dilberbreastis has set in. Their...
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Upcoming Events 3263
ODYSSEYS IN TECHNOLOGY The Computer History Museum Speaker Series Sponsored by Sun Labs presents: A Conversation with Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham and John Gage Join wiki...
IBM 3380 and 3880 maintenance docs needed
Phil Payne bus&tag supposedly max'ed at aggregate channel cable distance of 200ft and 1.5mbytes-sec ... although i seem to remember actual devices like 2305 had more like 80ft cable distance. there was end...
Big update Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 is less than a month away
Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 -- Saturday, May 13 -- Wall Township, N.J. *** April 17, 2005 -- Wall Township, N.J. -- The Vintage Computer Festival is coming! For those who fondly remember the...
TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs 3266
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. somewhat idle observation about memory contention ... but the 360-65 and 360-67 were essentially the same...
TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs 3267
Speaking in terms of Mainframes, What is "TRUE UTC" mean? 1. What does this mean??? I am still lost like...
TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs 3268
Joel C. Ewing 360 clock was full word at location 80 in storage. low-end 360s tic'ed about at approx. 3mills...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3269
What I did is certainly newer than pre-70's machines, but about 20 years ago, after spending a long time on a crushing project, I decided...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3270
Cross posting to comp.arch.embedded - somebody may find this useful there.) (Sorry! 1st reply went to "com.arch...") Don Taylor Congratulations! Sounds like a good idea. A variation that is perfectly suited...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3271
in part: The KA10, of course, had a clbuttic DEC switches and lights front panel that - considerably later - inspired the look of the PDP-15 front panel. One of the later...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3272
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Brian Inglis Do you want to have a useful system, or do you want a plaything? Do you want...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3273
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Paul Rubin I agree with the above observations, including that there are much better tools today for single step, examine-deposit, etc. The KL and KS...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3274
When I was working at IBM (TCS group, in Cambridge, MA, in the same building as Lynn Wheeler...
Bring back Blinkenlights!!! 3275
Here's a GIF mock-up of the Blinkenlights on the front panel of a GEC 4080 minicomputer (rather small...
Looking for Adventure & Fantasy Programming Books
I was hoping some remember the old BASIC programming books that showed how to write your...
Reloading windows on dual boot system 3277
ffOn 22 Apr 2006 13:27:32 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, "Vype" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What OS and-or program will not "recognize" either drive, and what messages do they produce that tells you this? Why are you...
Reloading windows on dual boot system 3278
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:00:06 -0400, Donald Tees I did a bit of practicing at installing Linux on several machines, once used an imitation of Parbreastion Magic to parbreastion the drive...
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WHERE Computer History Museum Hahn Auditorium 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 Directions...
The Chant of the Trolloc Hordes 3280
I don't know about the size of the emulator, but a barely usable Linux system can be squeezed surprisingly tight. A few years ago we developed a combined fileserver...
The Chant of the Trolloc Hordes 3281
On 27 Apr 2006 04:48:10 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, "Tim Shoppa" Oracle has a DB object called a sequence designed to generate just such monotonically...
Mainframe vs. xSeries 3282
it use to be that homework sounding questions were clustered in sept-oct timeframe with the new croup of freshman attempint to...
Mainframe vs. xSeries 3283
Yes. This is another bad side effect of ATT not being in the OS biz. When you pick and choose your customers to the point of...
Mainframe vs. xSeries 3284
misc. historical references of breastan & cambridge univ. it was a 370-165 installed in 1971 (pre 370 virtual memory). following has early 70s time-line (at...
Mainframe vs. xSeries 3285
part of the issue in timesharing was that there was a much greater need to separate system command&control from system use. the desktop systems were able to greatly simplify because that separation...
what was the very first Linux distro 3286
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:01:33 -0000 ^^^^^^ Those would be the old style CDs in rigid plastic cases a bit...
what was the very first Linux distro 3287
I first installed Linux at around kernel 0.12; back then there were no distributions as such (in fact, there weren't even basics like login) and you built your system...
what was the very first Linux distro 3288
The replacement is visible in my message headers, but for the benefit of those who don't want to...
A very basic question
Anne & Lynn Wheeler ref: for a little more drift ... when the US hone datacenters were consolidated...
Need Help defining an AS400 with an IP address to the mainframe
APPN and SNA were totally different stuff. SNA has been a communication infrastructure ... that was driven by sscp-ncp (pu5...
Binder REP Cards Was: What's the linkage editor really wants 3291
Chris Mason the original "loader" that the science center used for CMS ... Cambridge Monitor System ... was from...
Binder REP Cards Was: What's the linkage editor really wants 3292
Chris Mason my first studen programming job was to reimplement 1401 MPIO program on had hardware 1401 emulation mode and the original MPIO program could have...
Binder REP Cards Was: What's the linkage editor really wants 3293
Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: I feel your pain. I could never understand how anyone could make an buttembler...
Binder REP Cards Was: What's the linkage editor really wants 3294
Whatever it was, it wasn't important. My buttembler did everything I needed in a production environment. I wrote a successor when I moved to an OS-3 environment; the macro processor was a...
Binder REP Cards
Brian Inglis I used the buttembler for the Honeywell H200 ("Easycoder", as opposed to IBM 1401 "Autocoder"), on a machine with 16k and 4 tape drives - no disk...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting
I rescued this mystery book from the library: rest's Bright Dart, V.C.Clinton-Baddeley; 1967 Great Britain; 1979 US. The following note...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3297
On Sat, 29 Apr 06 11:43:09 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, ... And no human corrections were necessary? OCR machines of...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3298
The *n*x world has built empires on top of diff. Almost all source control depend on diff-style listings to step up (and down) between versions. On a different track, I have...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3299
Part of our paper source library was the filcoms. That was another thing that got dropped in the process at the end. There were many a bug found just by reading a filcom and...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3300
25k?... Yerroow!. Old friend of mine died about 8 years ago, lived like a hermit, left loads of dosh. The Lawyers divided up the dosh...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3301
It may have been $20K..I don't remember now. The rate is based on a percentage of...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3302
People infer things from what you *do* talk about, which based on my impressions and recollections include the following...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3303
I understand that and I try to difuse the readers' misunderstandings by making statements that I'm not talking about politics...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3304
Right. So far. Thanks for the nitpik. :-) It clarifies. I don't know how put all the histories into a hundred ASCII characters without over-simplifying...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3305
Right. That's what I meant. Is there a difference between nobility and royalty? You European dudes have confusing ways w.r.t. names. We...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3306
Definitely. Our Hollywood view of royalty are people who do no work ever. But get to order everybody...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3307
I heard of the story of the Russian emigres who had done well in the West since the revolution, and decided to take back over the...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3308
I don't think so. I think a lot of our subliminal notions about how royalties work...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3309
There is a huge difference between incumbent royalty and nobility. Nobility are just "alpha dudes" that has gotten their offspring settled in a...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3310
Right. I got that so far. But I thought all nobility could become the throne if enough people died. Have...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3311
In the case of the Windsors, you are quite wrong. Succession to the thrones of the UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, etc, is...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3312
Good grief, indeed. Have you the slightest idea of what century that formula was created in?1 Or of how much of Britain's "unwritten consbreastution" had been committed to paper...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3313
Depending on the specifics, there may or may not be difference. Any number of monarchs have sided with the commoners against the nobility, despite being nominally of the nobility themselves. This seems to be...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3314
Back to that original buttertion; yes; the Romans had a strong military and commercial focus. The basis for learning was not a priority. The Chinese has had almost five millennia with...