FW: Good article on how the nether world is attacking Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Beinert, William
cross-post

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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Good article on how the nether world is attacking Linux


http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/

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Re: Sysadmin catches 419 scammer

2004-04-06 Thread Beinert, William
A shame the police were so restrained when subduing him

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
John Ford
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: Sysadmin catches 419 scammer


A hart-warming story...

http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-April/013049.html
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Re: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Beinert, William
Also look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ 

I'm also contemplating getting a Linux laptop...going to develop some free sw as I 
travel around in my retirement freedom.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
McKown, John
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: Laptop running Linux?


I hope this doesn't upset anybody. But I am considering getting a Laptop. Of
course, I am only interested in one running Linux/Intel. But most vendors
are suggesting Windows XP. I've only found a couple of Linux laptop
vendors (ASA Computers and EmperorLinux). And their prices are in the
premium range. It almost looks like it would be less expensive to buy a
normal laptop and just install Linux myself.

Any suggestions? It might be nice to keep the list clean by replying
directly to me at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks.


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Re: PayPal Scam

2004-02-09 Thread Beinert, William
This kind of 'phishing' is quite common, and is used with addesses harvested in any 
way the spammer can get them. I get over 100 spams, including phishes, at an e-mail 
address I have never ever used in any public context. Citibank, e-bay and PayPal have 
had to send out announcements to their clients, reminding them that ANY unsolicited 
mail asking for personal information is evil.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
James Melin
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PayPal Scam


Well then, is the address being mined from the online archive, or are these
addresses being mined from actual e-mails in some poor bastards personal
machine? Until I started being active on the rexx forum, mvs-oe forum and
this forum I didn't get much spam. Now I get a couple dozen per day. That
in an of itself, does not prove anything. I've written to hundreds of
people at dozens of vendors for a variety of reasons over the last 10
years.  Could have started from any one of them.




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Yup - I've been around online since 19xx (YERY early contributor to Usenet)
and I realise
fully that reponding to a mailing list about a virus is of itself
contrbuting to the problem.
But this one's nasty.

The only place the source of this address COULD have been is the Linux
mailing list - so it's
possibly pervasive here.  It's well constructed, too:

Headers first:

Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivery-date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 03:32:28 +0100
Received: from [211.230.41.194] (helo=localhost)
 by mxng08.kundenserver.de with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1)
 id 1Aq1Ci-r7-00
 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 03:31:35 +0100
From: PayPal.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Priority: 1 (High)
Subject: IMPORTANT   fvohykwe
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--3016BE7E000547C
X-RBL-Warning: (dialup.bl.kundenserver.de) This mail has been received from
a dialup host.
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 03:31:35 +0100

A quite well forged envelope. with only my German ISP warning me that it's
from a dial-up
host.

Body next:

Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next
five business days.
To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing
us with your
personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have
to run the
attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the
instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next
five business days
and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.


fvofykwy

Fails at the first hurdle for me - I'm not and never have been a PayPal
member.  The attached
application (obviously deleted) is a 13KB .PIF file which neither Norton
nor AVG picked up on
its way through.

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Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-28 Thread Beinert, William
Every coffee maker I have ever seen pours water near the boiling point over the 
grounds.
The temperature of the warmers is what affects how hot it is when it is poured into 
the cup. And I suspect people getting coffee to go find value in hotter initial 
temperatures, since the coffee will still be hot when they get to wherever they are 
going to drink it.

Bill


With the intent of beating the equine directly into the ground, I find that
I must add that McDonalds uses excessively high temperatures to brew it's
coffee. Higher temperatures = more cups per pound of coffee, so there is a
definite financial incentive to raise the water temperature well beyond
that of the typical consumer coffee maker. Add this fact to the number of
ignored consumer complaints about the   aforementioned high temperature and
you begin to see a picture of corporate neglect. Almost all coffee drinkers
have spilled coffee on themselves at one time or another, but how many of
us have sustained third degree burns as a result?


Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-26 Thread Beinert, William
And it's McDonald's fault she's stupid enough to put hot coffee in her crotch...
maybe all that junk food lowered her IQ, and she should sue for that too...


-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Chris Cox
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCO sues Novell


Phil Payne wrote:
I for one hope they get what they really deserve and it to be a corner
movement to nail anyone else that tries this again..and maybe bleed over to
other dumb case like suing MacDonald's for hot coffee ..


 I can't get the following URL not to fold - I'm afraid you'll have to rebuild it.  
 From the
 Association of Trial Lawyers of America web site:

 http://www.atlanet.org/ConsumerMediaResources/Tier3/press_room/FACTS/frivolous/McdonaldsCoffee
 case.aspx
...


Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-21 Thread Beinert, William
I wouldn't give those lawyers any credit for getting MS a free pass. MS lost the case 
on the facts, and their lawyers let them make fools of themselves - remember the 
rigged demo, and Gates' statement the he  didn't mark a message 'high importance' - 
the computer did.
The decision was overturned on a 'procedural' error because Judge Jackson made public 
remarks about the case, and the appeal judge wasn't interested in any facts, just in 
letting MS off the hook. 

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Chris Cox
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCO sues Novell


Ryan Ware wrote:
..

 No, they have some of the best and some of the richest.  I too think that
 SCO may have an ace yet.


So... the best lawyers are the ones that
let Microsoft get away with a simple
hand slap for being a monopoly??  I don't
think they have a clue.  Just look at the
stupid remarks that SCO keeps on making.
Any reasonable lawyer would have gagged
Darl by now nope... I don't believe
any part of that except the richest
part.


Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-20 Thread Beinert, William
People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable software business, and 
has gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on the board?

Bill

-Original Message-
From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gartner on SCO


http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=118545


Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-17 Thread Beinert, William
I exported my largest 123 for OS/2 spreadsheet as an XLS format, for import into OO.
Some of it survived. The charts did not

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM


 I agree, but there is SmartSuite with, AFAIK, IBM has no intention
 of porting to Linux. I don't know how many users there are outside
 IBM, but I'd guess the market for SS on Linux is pretty miniscule
 now. Back in the late 90s I might have bought it (but then, given
 how well it ran on OS/2 maybe not), but now OOo does what I need,
 and it's cheaper even than the OEM version of SS for Windows I have.

John:

The preferred solution for SmartSuite is to provide import/export
filters for SS filetypes (.prz, .lwp, .wks, etc.) for OpenOffice. This
is being worked on in IBM (and no, I don't know when these will be
available). I would rather use an office suite which is actively being
developed (i.e. OpenOffice) than one (i.e. SmartSuite) which is not.

Jim


Re: [OT] US constitution (was RE: SCO Attacks Open Source License )

2003-11-05 Thread Beinert, William
Stop this aspect of it...
And f*rt as you leave the room



-Original Message-
From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] US constitution (was RE: SCO Attacks Open Source
License )


 you conveniently left out what i was responding to.  He said there are many
 people in the _US_ that don't give a rats ass.

 i couldn't care less what 1.2 billion in china think. and i'm sure they feel
 the same way.

And the 1.5 billion Muslims the USA is currently pissing off something rotten.

I take Neale's point that this discussion doesn't really belong here, and so I'll stop 
this
aspect of it.  But there is great relevance in the fact that there are over 6 billion 
people
on the planet who are qualified - by virtue of them being Homo Sapiens - to take part 
in Open
Source efforts.  Only a relatively tiny (although to date pervasively active) 
proportion of
those people have any allegiance to the US Constitution or legal framework.

This thing is off and running.  Genies and bottles.  And any action taken in US courts 
by
anyone is just noise.

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  http://www.isham-research.com
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Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Adopting a US style Constitution would be a start... but then you'd have start looking 
up the back end of a rodent...

Bill Beinert
Systems Programming
Con Edison


When they took the fourth amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs!
When they took the sixth amendment,
   I was quiet because, I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't own a gun!
Now they've taken the first amendment,
   and I can say (or do) nothing about it.
The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
MODWN DAbE



-Original Message-
From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License


 Happy 4th of July.

A magnificent occasion.

A bunch of honest English entrepreneurs and settlers finally broke away from a German 
king.  I
raise a glass to it every year.

Unfortunately - we've still got the sods.  Any advice on how to get rid of them would 
be
appreciated.

--
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  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803


Re: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Think Novell has learned that buying companies isn't enough? That you actually have to 
integrate and enhance them. Novell has blown more opportunities than (insert 
disgusting metaphor here).

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE


See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003110401526NWBZSS;


Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Unfortunately, that opinion is shared by many US citizens

-Original Message-
From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License


  The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust
 and export control laws, states SCO in documents filed with the U.S.
 District Court for Utah.

Some of us don't give a hair from a rat's behind about the US Constitution.

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  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803


Re: SCO CEO's letter to Open Source Community

2003-09-09 Thread Beinert, William
In my opinion, McBride (lowlife, sniveling dog that he is) nevertheless makes a valid 
point: that if Open Source does not have a mechanism in place to prevent a repetition 
of the SGI developer's violation of IP, then large enterprises will not take the risk 
of using it.
Why use an OS if it allows people like SCO to crawl out from under a rock with a 
multimillion dollar lawsuit in hand?

Bill Beinert
Systems Programming
Con Edison
(212) 460-4853

When they took the fourth amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs!
When they took the sixth amendment,
   I was quiet because, I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't own a gun!
Now they've taken the first amendment,
   and I can say (or do) nothing about it.
The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
MODWN DAbE


Re: Showdown looms for SCO-IBM?

2003-06-13 Thread Beinert, William
Total value of the company is $129 Million - up from $40M before the suit.
After they lose the case, it will be a penny stock, and we can buy it and GPL all of 
its IP.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Showdown looms for SCO-IBM?


The stock symbol is SCOX (I thought it was SCO at first).  The current
price quote is $10.80 per share - and I still think a lottery ticket is a
better investment.


Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead
Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
25 N. Via Monte Ave
Walnut Creek, Ca 94598

Phone:   (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332)
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Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address)
AIM:lbdyck


Re: The meddling continues:

2003-06-10 Thread Beinert, William
I read in another post that MS does not plan to continue GeCad's current offerings.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Joe Poole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The meddling continues:


GeCad software made a name for itself by developing the first anti-virus 
software to run on zLinux, and guess who just bought the technology?

http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/shownews.php?i=153

I wonder how long it will take before the Linux offerings are withdrawn?


Re: 1000th z800 Sold

2003-03-07 Thread Beinert, William
I didn't think you could get a linux only z800. I thought you had to have at least 
one zOS enabled engine.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 1000th z800 Sold


See:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/news/pressreleases/2003/z_linux
_grid_03-06-03.html?ca=zseriesme=Wmet=from_zvm

Armonk, N.Y. and Gainesville, Fla., March 6, 2003 - IBM announced today
that
the University of Florida has selected the Linux-only IBM eServer zSeries
800
as the heart of the university's Advanced Computing and Information Systems
(ACIS) laboratory at the school's Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering in Gainesville, Florida.
snip


Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-06 Thread Beinert, William
This is most excellent! 

I am installing Redhat, and the image files are different..
Should I replace 
SYS1.LINUX.TAPEIPL.IKR and SYS1.LINUX.INITRD 
with tapeinrd.img  tapekrnl.img?

And will the boot process be expecting to read the parmfile in ASCII?

Thanks

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?


Post, Mark K wrote:

 wrote a document on how to write the 3 starter files to disk so that you can
 IPL without using a tape, though.  Take a look at
 http://linuxvm.org/Info/l390link.html

and see if you can find the one that points to
   http://www.rvdheij.com/linuxipl.html


Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-06 Thread Beinert, William
RedHat provide 2 sets of images, one for tape, one for DASD...
07/29/2002  02:57p   4,779,688 initrd.img
07/29/2002  01:28p   2,639,360 kernel.img

07/29/2002  02:59p   4,713,676 tapeinrd.img
07/29/2002  01:32p   2,631,168 tapekrnl.img

I just want to confirm that the tape images are the ones I want to use...

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?


Change the names to match what ever you called the files.  The parmfile can
be in ASCII or EBCDIC.  (At least that _used_ to be true.)

Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?


This is most excellent!

I am installing Redhat, and the image files are different..
Should I replace
SYS1.LINUX.TAPEIPL.IKR and SYS1.LINUX.INITRD
with tapeinrd.img  tapekrnl.img?

And will the boot process be expecting to read the parmfile in ASCII?

Thanks

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?


Post, Mark K wrote:

 wrote a document on how to write the 3 starter files to disk so that you
can
 IPL without using a tape, though.  Take a look at
 http://linuxvm.org/Info/l390link.html

and see if you can find the one that points to
   http://www.rvdheij.com/linuxipl.html


Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-04 Thread Beinert, William
After downloading Redhat 7.2 onto my workstation and reading the doc, I decided to to 
an FTP install.
At the HMC, I discover it is on an isolated network segment, and cannot (and will 
never) see my PC.

Plan B: install from CD-ROM. But the doc refers to a Load from CDROM or Server icon 
on the HMC - and there is no such thing.

Plan C: ? tape?

Any other alternatives?

TIA

Bill Beinert
Systems Programming
Con Edison
(212) 460-4853

When they took the fourth amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs!
When they took the sixth amendment,
   I was quiet because, I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't own a gun!
Now they've taken the first amendment,
   and I can say (or do) nothing about it.
The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
MODWN DAbE


Re: Microsoft proud of XP compatibility

2003-02-25 Thread Beinert, William
I think I live on a different planet than these people.
I have programs I wrote on OS/2 1.2 that still run on Warp4.
I have programs 30 years old that still run on OS/390 2.10

And it's not just MS.
I installed a genealogy app last fall on RH Linux 7.2.
I upgraded to RH 8.0 a month ago. And the app stopped working. With my alien mindset, 
it took me a day to figure out what broke...

This is progress?

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Microsoft proud of XP compatibility


Only 5% of applications will see problems:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-985820.html

(About the same number that needed modifiying for Year 2000.)

--
  Phil Payne
  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803
  +49 173 6242039


Re: so correct me if I am wrong

2003-02-21 Thread Beinert, William
The question is Is $45K less than what I would have to spend on an alternative 
architecture?
How many Wintel or Sun boxes is that?

You get a lot for free with Linux, but it still might not be enough to run production 
workloads.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Eric Bielefeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: so correct me if I am wrong


I've been debating with myself whether I want to get a package, or download a package. 
 This and other comments lead me to believe I'm better off staying away from SuSE.  I 
had a discussion with my boss a few days ago about the cost of Linux.  If you get VM, 
which I can see a real value in, that's $45K.  Then, if you pay 10K or so for support 
every year, the free Linux isn't so cheap.  Granted, that's a lot less than we spend 
for z/OS and all its related products, but for free software, there is still a 
substantial cost..

Is it easy to get RedHat support without buying support?  

Eric Bielefeld
Sr. MVS Systems Programmer
PH Mining Equipment
Milwaukee, WI
414-671-7849
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? - thanks

2003-02-06 Thread Beinert, William
Thanks. Knoppix is what I was looking for.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Rod Furey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?


CD based

SuSE Live Eval - as mentioned in Michael's post
DemoLinux - www.demolinux.org
Knoppix - www.knoppix.org

There are various projects around the net that are working on this sort of
thing as well. There are others that you can boot off floppies but these
tend to be fairly small systems that are designed for rescue acts.

A word of experience: I use a copy of the SuSE Eval CD when I'm fixing
other people's PC problems. I got it off the front of Linux Format, one of
the UK mags (which I read, I'm in no other way associated with them). It's
a 7.1 release and unfortunately it doesn't pick up everything on all
hardware. I've got a friend who's got a PackardBell laptop on it's side
model and the mouse isn't picked up. Curiously enough, the Mandrake 7
release will find it if it's installed. Sometimes it won't pick up modems
or sound cards either.

Before the SuSE people jump on me I'd like to point out:

1 - I offer this as a reminder that some kit just isn't recognised

2 - I know it's old

3 - I'm on a dialup line so I'm not about to spend 24 hours downloading
any newer version

4 - I use SuSE as my primary Linux install on 2 boxes at home (the other
boxes being iMacs which are running OS 9 and/or OS X) as it was the
only distro at the time that would correctly configure my X
installation (and a good job it did of it too)

Rod



OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?

2003-02-05 Thread Beinert, William
There was discussion (I think on this list) of a CDROM that allowed someone to boot 
and run Linux from a CDROM without installing Linux.
I didn't pay much attention at the time, but now I think I know someone who could 
benefit from this.

Can anyone refresh my memory?

thanks

Bill Beinert
Systems Programming
Con Edison
(212) 460-4853

When they took the fourth amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs!
When they took the sixth amendment,
   I was quiet because, I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
   I was quiet because I didn't own a gun!
Now they've taken the first amendment,
   and I can say (or do) nothing about it.
The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
MODWN DAbE



Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Beinert, William
7.2 is at 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Alex Leyva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?


Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31
bits, im downloading it from:
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/s390x/, in the 7.2 directory i
only found s390, and looking at the mirror list
(http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html) i see that the directory is
/8.0/en/os/s390/, so, s390 is 31 bits and s390x is 64 bits?, 7.1 is the
latest release for 64 bits and 8.0 for 31 bits?

i only want to install redhat in our new z800 :(

Thanks.

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(Administracisn de Mainframe).
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Secretarma de Finanzas.
Gobierno del Distrito Federal.



Re: System Installation Suite on zSeries ?

2003-01-27 Thread Beinert, William
You might want to look at Levanta, which I saw recently at LinuxWorld...

http://www.linuxcare.com/products/levanta/features.epl

Bill

-Original Message-
From: Seifert, Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System Installation Suite on zSeries ?


I'm searching for a tool 
to clone Linux Images under z/VM.
I have found in the IBM Redbook 
Linux on zSeries  S/390: System Management Chapter 8 
the System Installation Suite described,
but there is stated that SIS is beta on zSeries. 
Does anyone have some experiences with SIS on zSeries ?

  
 
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