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“I have so much in common with people of faith. We only disagree on the existence of 1 out of 3000 gods. They’re nearly as atheist as I am “ Ricky Gervais We are all born atheist. We are all taught the religious belief system of our parents or family members. If you are born …
Boris the Landrover has broken down one final time. This mornings refusal to start (again!!!) was the (yet another!!!) final straw! NOTE ADDED MAY 2014: A few people have asked me how I get him to start each time. It’s simple, but very annoying, embarrassing and just plain irritating. Simply pop the bonnet (American translation …
This morning I was hammering at my keyboard while listening to a weekly podcast from BBC Three Counties radio (my old local radio station back in Blighty). The show finished before I could get my cunning IBM i Journal Trigger process working, so I decided to take a coffee break and download a fresh podcast …
Ever since the IBM i system was a young lad, its been able to happily talk to just about any other operating system out there – Windows, Linux, Apple, AIX and so many more. However, one of the things that has remained the same through the evolution of system (from AS400 years, thru iSeries years …
News of the moment is the deadly sounding HEARTBLEED SECURITY FLAW The flaw, dubbed “Heartbleed”, could reveal anything which is currently being processed by a web server – including our sensitive secure information being used inside the site. Heartbleed’s technical name is ‘the CVE-2014-0160 exploit’ which exposes vulnerabilities in the popular OpenSSL server software potentially …
I’m tweaking a customers website today and spending time tidying up some small issues. One of these issues was to display map widgets, more than one, multiple google maps widget for each of the companies three offices. This would have been super easy using a CMS like Drupal but this is to be added to …
I wrote a data encryption routine a few years ago. In my ongoing mission to refactor my old utilities, I was looking at it this weekend thinking about ways to improve it: The basic premise behind my routine is to read a row of information from a file, perform encryption of said data based on …
You must have been sleeping under a rock for the last ten years. It’s a comedy that is at times moving, often funny and nearly always darkly disturbing. It makes me LOL with a big ELL Oh ELL. Critically acclaimed… a cult following, the bizarre BBC television series The League of Gentlemen is to sitcoms …
Telly: The Worst Week of My Life Only one week to go before the marriage of Howard and Mel which quickly escalates into the week from Hell. The series follows the bumbling Howard as he lurches from one appallingly embarrassing disaster to the next in the week leading up to his wedding. A fairly typical …
I found this by accident and it’s yet another Telly series which reminds by just how funny and irreverent English TV can be. Plebs is based in Rome at the time of the Roman British invasion – an easy play on the Latin word ‘plebeians’ — and if you don’t know what that word means …
I always wanted a TR6 or even its pointy cheese wedge cousin the TR7… but this blog isnt about that. It’s about the much more geekish IBM i Technology Release for IBM i operating system: Steve Will, IBM i Chief Architect, talks about some of the highlights of #IBMi TR6 and TR7 that were delivered in 2013: …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
Since the introduction of the latest Service Pack for IBM i V7 — cunningly entitled ‘Technology Release 7.1 — RPG programmers can now finally eschew the old fixed column coding and roam around a modern free format language. RPG is free. Finally. Lovely jubbly. Long overdue and in the words of Jon Paris (RPG Guru …
