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Bailey, my mischievous English Spring Spaniel, died on October 10th 2010 while spending a weekend with the Grinch (aka the ex-wife). Young and active… sadly she was found drowned next to an outdoor pond. Conspiracy theories are running wild 🙁 She was only four years old. It’s heart breaking… I got Bailey back in 2007 …
WARNING – NON-TECHNICAL BLOG ALERT! WOOP WOOP! Before leaving the old country (UK) a few years back I was the proud owner of the ultimate road going work horse… a Landrover Defender 110. It was an early 1994 model with a 2.5 Liter Turbo Diesel engine and a hand painted exterior I used it for …
Now you can get a single-board nuclear reactor that supplies stand-by power for the IBM System i for 12 years! The QBX-1 nuclear reactor card provides back-up power for up to 12 years. When the card senses a power failure, explosive charges (bolts) eject moderator and control rods from the reactor interior, within 20 micronanopicoseconds, …
I’ve spent this week implementing a Cheque (yes — that is the correct and very English way of spelling ‘check’) scanning solution for a client. The basic idea is — company receives lots of money payments by cheque, these are scanned, sorted and deposited direct into the companies bank account and the deposit information is …
Declare the default value for IBM-i Table Data The DFT Keyword is used to specify the default value of a field in the Physical File. The format of the keyword is: DFT(‘value’ | numeric-value | X’hexadecimal-value’ | *NULL) Without this keyword, character and hexadecimal fields are set to blanks as default and numeric fields are …
Those KEYWORD CLOUDS that you see on some websites are cool aren’t they!?! They’re also very simple to use in Drupal… but as I discovered… not so simple to setup. Or at least to find out how to setup anyway. So, for my failing memory and for anyone else out there that this may assist …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
This morning I got question from an old RPG3 chum of mine: I know a couple of questions they will ask me, what are the different parms used on sub-procedures like *OMIT/*Nopass. Didn’t we use those any way? I thought we were writing programs that did or did not necessarily get parms depending what called …
A few years ago I setup the website for Bullworker UK who were distributing this excellent exercise device called – The Bullworker. It’s a stretchy muscle builder and really does work (honestly!). They sold a few different exercise devices all designed using the principles of ‘isometric exercise’: Bullworker, Steelbow and a German product called the …
So, I’ve recently been getting a lot of junk voicemails and in an effort to inconvenience these callers as much as it inconveniences me. It’s time for a long winded and time consuming voice mail greeting. I extended the BEEEP at the end so that it keep on going for the full two minutes before …
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I was just in a demonstration of a file transfer application called AXWAY Tumbleweed which someone compared to both FTPS and SFTP. Which made me scratch my head as I knew they were both very different things and only one of them was actually ‘Secure FTP’. So, as much as a memory jogger for me …
I’ve been fascinated by the Rubiks cube since it defeated me, repeatedly, during my youth. Like most young men growing up in the late seventies and early eighties, the Rubiks Cube was this mystical, magical, plasticy and utterly bloody confusing thing that defied logic. In the days before the internet, a handfull of kids would …
