What’s new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in favour of GNOME. I was a little nervous about what i was going to see when I upgraded my trusty old Thinkpad W700 from Ubuntu 17 to Ubuntu 18. But, surprise surprise, the desktop looks

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I’ve been playing with my home Wifi this week, trying to resurrect my old SCALEO Home Server which has been in deep coma since a brown out a few months ago. But I digress… So, I’ve installed a new router (Linksys WRT03200ACM) which gets mixed reviews but it looks so bloody Funky I just couldn’t

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RPG INDICATORS are switches Just like car indicators (or ‘blinkers’ as my American cousins call them) they can be switched *ON or *OFF in a program to indicate the state of a certain piece of logic. In the IBM RPG language, it used to logically flick the switch of a numeric indicator 01-99 to “indicate”

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HOW TO UPLOAD SAVF to IBM i Systems If you don’t use FTP anymore (or if FTP has been blocked by your network team) the easiest technique is to upload your SAVF to your IBM i’s Integrated File System and then copy it direct into a *SAVF — using IBM I Access Client Solutions. Launch

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