Are you a latecomer to the Internet? Have you only recently upgraded from a green-screen 5250 terminal? Is the Internet a little intimidating to you? Don’t worry, you can become a Master of the Internet!

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HOUSTON, TX – Scientists rejoiced on Friday after learning NASA’s Phoenix Lander photographed what appeared to be evidence of life on Mars. At first inspection of the photo there seemed to be nothing remarkable about it. However, when magnified several times, it became clear there was something more than just rocks and sand on the

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🙂 Smile (-: User is left handed. %-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight. :*) User is drunk. [:] User is a robot. 😎 User is wearing sunglasses. B:-) Sunglasses on head. ::-) User wears normal glasses. B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses. 8:-) User is a little girl. :-)-8

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A new aid to rapid, almost magical, learning has made its appearance. Indications are such that, if it catches on, all the electronic gadgets will be so much junk. The new device is known as Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge. The developers usually call it by its initials, BOOK(tm). Many advantages are claimed over the old-style

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Rochester, MN – As you know, IBM is a politically correct and an environmentally conscious company. Because of the success of the new System i and i on Power systems there has been a growing surplus of the old model AS/400s. With the concerns of overburdened landfills and in this age of recycling and protecting

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Last week Sun Microsystems filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Island of Java* over the use of Sun’s Java* trademark. Responding to criticism that the island has been called Java* for centuries, Sun lawyer Frank Cheatham said “Yeah, and in all that time they never filed for a trademark. They deserve to lose the

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This week I have been mainly using ERPAL. If you have no point of reference with ‘The Fast Show’ then just ignore this and read on… So, I’ve been playing with Drupal and the wonderful ERPAL Project Management module this week – I found an annoying problem where I thought I was caught between a

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Sometimes you want to read a file but a field on that file is giving you problems because the name conflicts with something that already exists in your program. There are a few scenarios for this head scratching problem, but luckily it also has several solutions. So lets look at some basic problems: I am

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Just what is JBA SYSTEM21 anyway? The JBA ERP system is a 30 year old Enterprise Resource Planning system running on IBMi operating system (an on the earlier i5/OS and OS400 versions). I can sense your eyebrow raising when you read “30 years”, but think of it as a system that has evolved for thirty

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IBM i (iSeries/as400) Turnover Consultant – will change-manage for food “will change-manage for food” – is that a verb? Me. Considering my next exciting freelance project In this crazy world of IT acronyms and Dilbert cubicle terminology the art of Software Change Management and Program Deployment is one of the few terms that means exactly

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TURNOVER V100 – PWM Quick Reference How to get to PWM Option 20 on Work with Tasks, F20 on Work with Projects or STRPWM command Development steps(Presented in the order they are usually done)F6 Add items to listPress F6 to add itemor Press F20 to go to PDMIn PDM use AI1 to add items to

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Twenty years ago these are the kind of things you had to know to work on the old AS400 systems. I found these on an old dusty corner of my homeserver. Enjoy the trip down memory lane or to use old RPG lingo AS400NERD CABEQ ‘1’  START MISCELLANEOUS How do you combine two record formats

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