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iSeries, AS400, IBM i, Programming, RPG
Upgrade RPG3 before its too late Many IBM Power i machines have been running steadily for years without business interruption. The hardware is incredibly resilient but development environments are in need of upgrading. The nature of the machine means applications written ten to twenty years ago are still running strong, so the need for change …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
The IBM System i has a strong following, in part because companies have not generally been required to upgrade hardware or software on an arbitrary schedule. This means that many business are running legacy computer applications (for legacy read ‘old fashioned’) that have typically been running on green-on-black terminals for many years – “if it …
That will teach me. I just downloaded a seemingly harmless program called ‘Photo to Cartoon’ because i wanted to play around with some cartoon style avatars. Silly me. 🙁 Downloaded it and ran the install and it simply locked solid… *but* I noticed that my HDD activity light was going mental! Hmmm thought I… this …
Communications Security Question: I have IS staff in a number of remote sites that I would like to setup so that they can vary on and off their local devices. I thought that I would give them the rights to vary controllers and devices but not lines, tape drives or consoles. The easiest and fastest …
Are you annoyed that gmail only lets you setup a very dull email signature? I personally think that flat format text signatures are long-winded and just fill emails with thousands of words of *cough* crap. I especially hate people who waste hundreds of bytes of storage with instructions “not to print this email because it …
When I was younger I swore it would never happen to me… but it has… Policemen are looking younger, kids have no respect for their elders, pubs play music too loud, I wake up early on the weekends, I find myself choosing shoes based on comfort rather than style and I am turning into my Dad.
*sigh*
Wait though, in an effort to reclaim my lost youth, I stumbled across this excellent web-based version of the classic 90’s game DOOM. This DOS shoot em up that started the whole Quake, Halo genre can be played online in a neat Flash format game at http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/doom In all its VGA beauty:
Ahhh, the joys of all those lost lunch hours in the office, running around a blocky-graphiced maze shooting monsters and looking for the BFG. In the days when I remember extolling this game as the absolute leading edge graphics for my wonderful little laptop… A months wages for a black and white 9inch DSTN screen, a 386-25Mhz processor with a whopping 4mb of ram. Great fun…
...New IBM i Tricks for an old AS400 Dog – Webservices Only ten years late, I’m finally getting involved with some Web Services from the AS400 (sorry IBM i – *cough*). Fantastically exciting stuff after my time in the AS400/Web Wilderness and not getting my hands really deep into any techie goo. Streaming data from …
Touchgraph is a very neat little Java Application that lets you link data in a graphical way and explore and drill down into the data. TouchGraph’s powerful visualization solutions let you discover relationships between people, organizations and ideas. It’s a million times more interesting than a spreadsheet and luckily there is a very cool Facebook …
Gmail Signatures with Images So, this week I’ve been playing with my email signature. Over the years my email sig has changed with the fashion of the moment. From simple “Cheers, Nick” to gloriously wordy tomes containing “please dont print this it kills the trees and trees make air which we breathe so if it …
A few years ago, I found this great article that answered all my questions regarding how to send emails (in this case various CSV spreadsheets) from the AS400 and iSeries machines. I was just discussing it so even though this is 20 years old, why not stuff it in a blog entry: Send E-Mail Messages …
I’m very excited about the RPG World conference in a few weeks… RPG World at Monte Carlo Resort & Casino (in Vegas) – May 6 to 9, 2009 I’m booked and absolutely cant wait to get there…. This conference, event, lesson, course (whatever your want to call it) already looks to be covering every aspect …
So, having recently gone through my seemingly annual exercise of backup, format, install, restore of my laptop, I was prompted to actually sit down and sort out my various backups, network drives and data stored randomly on various desktop and laptop systems. It’s [shock horror] actually all kind of neat and tidy now… all documents, …