Yeah, (and the "t" word does do my heart good) but we don't have to IML a controller once-a-week, or less, anymore in order to keep the darn thing functioning, so I guess that's a good thing.
Thin client? VMWare? Too many areas where so-called "new technologies" have taken the landscape by storm. As always, Marketing rules; and it has been painfully clear that those that have labored, created, and invented in the past are left to obscurity until some historian with a brain in their head writes an article to the contrary. To the historians (with a brain in there head)! ;-) Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Portable? XMIT Manager > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:39:42 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: > > >USB stick based solutions are a good thing for the weary warrior just > trying to do a job in spite of the 'services' of the PC folks. However, > such solutions have been drawing attention from both the auditors and > miscreants as an attack vector. > > > Sic transit PuTTY? XMing? Knoppix? et. al. > > Doesn't the same apply to optical disks? > > Perhaps every programmer should be given a thin client with > no floppy, optical, nor USB. > > Hmmm. My thin client has 4 USB ports. > > "thin client"? I remember when they were called "terminals". > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
