Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Chris, Just a typo from tiredness Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > Scott > > Does this mean that planning work leads to indigestion?[1] > > - > > A frivolous post for once - I promise to keep them to a minimum! > > - > > Chris Mason > > O

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Kern
uot;Richards, Robert B." >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Date: 01/12/2012 05:42 AM >> Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology >> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> >> I, too, got certified (or, according to some, certifiable) at the >> founda

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Goossen
Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/12/2012 04:52:42 AM: > From: "Richards, Robert B." > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: 01/12/2012 05:42 AM > Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Mason
Scott Does this mean that planning work leads to indigestion?[1] - A frivolous post for once - I promise to keep them to a minimum! - Chris Mason On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:02:40 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >Plan the work >Work the pan > > >Regards, >Scott > >Sent from my iPad > >On Jan 11, 2012,

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
as good as how involved the employee's are that are using it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology This remin

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Plan the work Work the pan Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > The requirements: > 1. Write a business plan. > 2. Follow it. > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bill Fairchild > wrote: >> This reminds me of ISO 9000 about 20 years ago. >> >>

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Goossen Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology Peter, You are correct in what ITIL stands for. The British started it. It migrated to the US w

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Kern
When filling in an ITIL based Configuration management database, I used the basic "server" definition for a mainframe. Then I created new entities for LPAR being "part of" the mainframe server, and Virtual Machine also being part of a server or an LPAR. I also use the Virtual Machine definition

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
uot;data center" or DPC, for "data processing center". we had a helluva softball team, regularly beat up on those college kids in programming, and had some serious brawls with the team from building mntce/mailroom... :) --- On Wed, 1/11/12, MainframeJunkie wrote: > From: Mainfr

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Henrichon, Ryan
mpany uses; it is only as good as how involved the employee's are that are using it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Schwab
The requirements: 1. Write a business plan. 2. Follow it. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote: > This reminds me of ISO 9000 about 20 years ago. > > Bill Fairchild -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Bill Fairchild
This reminds me of ISO 9000 about 20 years ago. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Goossen Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Goossen
company's IT. It deals with processes and is equipment independent. ITIL doesn't have terminology for mainframes. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-11 18:18, MainframeJunkie pisze: I have been asked what the common ITIL term in the industry is for "Mainframe". Basically, these are the questions: 1) What term is used for the Mainframe System itself? 2) What are the common names of the Mainframe Organizations in the industry?

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Shirey
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of MainframeJunkie Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ITIL Mainframe Terminology I have been asked what the common ITIL term in the industry is for "

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread John Gilmore
It is not an exclusively British undertaking. In particular, the Japanese are heavily involved. Googling 'ITIL' will yield a great many glossaries, introductions, certification curricula, etc., etc., etc. The entire movement is long on terminology, standardization, and bureaucracy an

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
ling uses "z" in that word. Sorry not to be much help for you. Peter > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of MainframeJunkie > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:19 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject:

ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread MainframeJunkie
I have been asked what the common ITIL term in the industry is for "Mainframe". Basically, these are the questions: 1) What term is used for the Mainframe System itself? 2) What are the common names of the Mainframe Organizations in the industry? The larger organization as a whole and not the in

Re: Terminology

2011-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 12/03/2011 at 09:29 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" said: >The Charset can also be ISO-8859-1 Il va sans dire. I wrote "e.g.", not "i.e.", so those fields were examples. >(which is the usual ISO-8859-*). ISO-8859-a is Latin 1, which does not include the Euro (€) character. ISO-8859-15 is

Re: Terminology

2011-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <201112031227.41137.ibm...@woodsway.com>, on 12/03/2011 at 12:27 PM, Bob Woodside said: >Other old 3270 users just call it "Shift-6" (but don't try that on >your PC keyboard). Alt-M[1] gives me ¬ on my PC keyboard. YMMV. [1] I would have consider Alt-6 to be more logical[2], but thay

Re: ¬ (was: Terminology)

2011-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 12/03/2011 at 06:26 PM, John Gilmore said: >This symbol is present in Unicode as the HTML entity ¬, the >numeric entity ̤, and the hexadecimal entity ¬. The entities ¬[1], ¬ and ¬ represent the same value[2], which is distinct from ̤[3][4]. [1] Technically there is a semicolon after

Re: Terminology

2011-12-03 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:06 -0500 on 11/22/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Terminology: Correct transmission of anything but ASCII require three header fields, e.g., Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Charset can also be ISO

¬ (was: Terminology)

2011-12-03 Thread John Gilmore
This symbol is present in Unicode as the HTML entity ¬, the numeric entity ̤, and the hexadecimal entity ¬. The late Alonzo Church called it a 'corner', and for mathematical logicians there was and is little appeal from his terminological decisions as the founding and longtime editor of the Journ

Re: Terminology

2011-12-03 Thread Bob Woodside
On Saturday, December 03, 2011 at 02:22 am Dale Miller wrote: > I hope, since this is not about "USS", that I won't be moderated on > this. I wish to reply to a question John McKown raised on 18 Nov > :"And what is the proper word for the PL/1 "not" sign' ? (x'00AC' in > Unicode). It is a standard

Re: Terminology

2011-11-23 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Steve, That's a great site!  I'll keep that bookmarked. Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: "Steve Comstock" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:43:42 AM Subject: Re: Terminology On 11/22/2011 10:30 AM, Linda Mooney

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Bill, Yes, that was indeed and abundant reference! Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: "Bill Fairchild" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:45:19 AM Subject: Re: Terminology Look up "diacritic" in Wikipedia and be pr

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Shmuel, Thanks, I appreciate the info and the links.  Linda - Original Message - From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:06:53 PM Subject: Re: Terminology In <143900959.130026.13219830169

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Linda Mooney
ing site. Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: "John Gilmore" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:08:55 PM Subject: Re: Terminology Linda Mooney wrote: | Can anyone offer a link with these marks that includes something about

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca3449...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com>, on 11/22/2011 at 04:47 PM, Bill Fairchild said: >I can only hope that all my diacritics survive the various email >editors through which they pass. Alas, my e-mail client doesn't support UTF-8. However, IMHO you did

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/22/2011 at 12:02 PM, John Gilmore said: >Linguists writing in English, in which it does not occur, sometimes >call it a cup. The /\ and \/ characters are also known as cap and cup in Mathematics, especially in Homology Theory. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <143900959.130026.1321983016994.javamail.r...@sz0042a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>, on 11/22/2011 at 05:30 PM, Linda Mooney said: >Even in my English class it was called an umlaut, The accent in, e.g., Jütte, is an umlaut. The diacritical mark in, e.g., naïve, is a diaresis[2]. >Somebo

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread John Gilmore
Linda Mooney wrote: | Can anyone offer a link with these marks that includes something about them, and | hopefully audible enunciation? Sound bites are useful, but mastery of the linguists' International Phonetic Alphabetic is what you should shoot for first. The marks can be deceptive. Pronunc

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Bill Fairchild
Of Linda Mooney Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Terminology Greetings!   To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:02:05 AM Subject: Re: Terminology The ‘inverted circumflex’, as in ‘ă’, is in fact more like a lower semicircl

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
AIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:02:05 AM Subject: Re: Terminology The ‘inverted circumflex’, as in ‘ă’, is in fact more like a lower semicircle than an inversion of the circumflex in ‘â’. It occur alone and in combination with other marks, as in ‘ặ ’, ‘ắ’, and ‘ẵ’. Linguists wri

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Linda Mooney
Greetings!   To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:02:05 AM Subject: Re: Terminology The ‘inverted circumflex’, as in ‘ă’, is in fact more like a lower semicircle than an inversion of the circumflex in ‘â’.  It occur alone and in combination with other marks, as

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread John Gilmore
The ‘inverted circumflex’, as in ‘ă’, is in fact more like a lower semicircle than an inversion of the circumflex in ‘â’. It occur alone and in combination with other marks, as in ‘ặ ’, ‘ắ’, and ‘ẵ’. Linguists writing in English, in which it does not occur, sometimes call it a cup. In the langu

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Bill Fairchild
iacritics survive the various email editors through which they pass. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4ecac35b.7050...@ync.net>, on 11/21/2011 at 03:32 PM, Rick Fochtman said: >The only name I heard for it, that I remember, was "inverted >circumflex". An inverted circumflex[1] would look like a logical Or, not like a logical Not (¬), which is a horizontal segment and a shorter vertical s

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Brian Westerman
In my college math classes we called it a negation. Which doesn't make it correct, and I no longer have the Calculus books from way back then. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread John Gilmore
There is a name for '¬' too. See the discussion of notation in volume 1 of Principia Mathematica. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@ba

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 11/21/2011 4:32 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: - "negation symbol", but informally called the "not sign". The only name I heard for it, th

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Roger Bolan
I searched IBM font codepages and found that symbol designated as "Logical NOT/End Of Line Symbol". I've always just called it "not sign". --Roger On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: > --**** > --- > I

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
- I hope, since this is not about "USS", that I won't be moderated on this. I wish to reply to a question John McKown raised on 18 Nov :"And what is the proper word for the PL/1 "not" sign' ? (x'00AC' in Unicode)

Re: Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dale Miller > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 1:23 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Terminology > > I hope, since this is not about "USS", tha

Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Dale Miller
I hope, since this is not about "USS", that I won't be moderated on this. I wish to reply to a question John McKown raised on 18 Nov :"And what is the proper word for the PL/1 "not" sign' ? (x'00AC' in Unicode). It is a standard operator in formal mathematical language, AFAIK almost univers

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 November 2011 11:01, John Gilmore wrote: > This 'Shebang'---There is of course another one--- is not just a > verbal slurring of 'Hash Bang'.  It has a much more elegant name.  It > is a conflation. > > Consider, just in English, to which they are not confined, > > o       Edmund Spenser: wr

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Mike Liberatore
Out --Original Message-- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Terminology RE: USS Sent: Nov 19, 2011 9:23 PM In , on 11/18/2011 at 09:14 AM, John Gilmore said: >

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/18/2011 at 09:14 AM, John Gilmore said: >'<' and '>' are often called broken brackets. The ALGOL definition >document, for example, uses this term, as do many descriptions of >BNF. Neither "REPORT ON THE ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE ALGOL 60" nor "Revised Report on ALGOL 60" use the term

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Mike Liberatore
Out --Original Message-- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Terminology RE: USS Sent: Nov 19, 2011 7:17 PM In , on 11/18/2011 at 07:57 AM, Ken Hume IBM said: >We alw

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/18/2011 at 07:57 AM, Ken Hume IBM said: >We always called the * a "splat". I believe that is the norm in EUnix circles. Likewise bang for "!" and shebang for "#!". -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/18/2011 at 08:02 AM, "McKown, John" said: >#! is normally pronounced "shebang" in UNIX. I guess a verbal >slurring of "hash bang" together. I doubt it; my guiess is that the term is short for "shell bang"; it's used with the file of a shell or language processor, e.g., bash, Perl.

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ian > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Terminology RE: USS > > >John McKown writes: > > > >

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Ian
>John McKown writes: > >I never heard of "broken brackets" for < and >. Just "less than" and "greater >than". You probably never heard of "Left Banana" , "Right Banana" for "(" and ")" then? :-) Mike X, a great dba and all around great guy I worked with many years ago used to use those te

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread John Gilmore
This 'Shebang'---There is of course another one--- is not just a verbal slurring of 'Hash Bang'. It has a much more elegant name. It is a conflation. Consider, just in English, to which they are not confined, o Edmund Spenser: wrizzled (wrinkled + frizzled) o Shakespeare: glaze (gl

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer > > I never knew how to call this sign correctly: & > > in Germany, it's simply called: "und" (that's: and) or "Kaufmanns und", that is, merchant's and. > > Almost nobody here knows what an ampersand i

Re: Terminology

2011-11-18 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John > > Since it is now Friday, how about > > / is a solidus, aka a slash > \ is a reverse solidus, aka a backslash > # is an octhothrope, aka a hash mark or pound sign. Not to be confused with > "pound ster

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread zMan
Since the point of this thread is pedantry, that's "octothorpe", and "PL/I". On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, McKown, John wrote: > Since it is now Friday, how about > > / is a solidus, aka a slash > \ is a reverse solidus, aka a backslash > # is an octhothrope, aka a hash mark or pound sign. Not

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Ken Hume IBM
We always called the * a "splat". Ken Hume IBM PD Tools Client Advocate (720)396-7776 kph...@us.ibm.com On 11/18/2011 7:02 AM, McKown, John wrote: Since it is now Friday, how about / is a solidus, aka a slash \ is a reverse solidus, aka a backslash # is an octhothrope, aka a hash mark or poun

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I never knew how to call this sign correctly: & in Germany, it's simply called: "und" (that's: and) or "Kaufmanns und", that is, merchant's and. Almost nobody here knows what an ampersand is. But some day one of my co-workers called it "Brezel" - you know, what a brezel is? Look here: http://de

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread John Gilmore
John McKown writes: | I never heard of "broken brackets" for < and >. Just "less than" and "greater than". Context is all! In such notation as ::= 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9 '<' and '>' are often called broken brackets. The ALGOL definition document, for example, uses this term, as do many descript

Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread McKown, John
Since it is now Friday, how about / is a solidus, aka a slash \ is a reverse solidus, aka a backslash # is an octhothrope, aka a hash mark or pound sign. Not to be confused with "pound sterling" sign. ! is a "bang" - I learned that long ago in college on a Xerox Sigma 7 system. #! is normally pro

The IBM Terminology pages (Was: HFS file questions)

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Mason
Also sent directly to RS so nobody need worry that he probably blocks my contributions to the list. Radoslaw > hint: CSI has two Very_Official_IBM_Approved_Meanings According to http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/c.html CSI means the following consolidated softw

Re: New Terminology for MF Job Functions

2007-06-24 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
d. However, >maybe I am just out of touch with today's terminology for our profession. > >Wasn't this called in the old days an Operator with Production Control >functions? > > > Description: > Our client is looking for Server Specialist OS/390 >

New Terminology for MF Job Functions

2007-06-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
I found this ad on an employment website and was very amused. However, maybe I am just out of touch with today's terminology for our profession. Wasn't this called in the old days an Operator with Production Control functions? Description: Our client is looking for Server

Re: Game-theoretic terminology

2007-03-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/16/2007 at 04:03 PM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >and he is of course free to use words as he likes. Still, the >standard von Neumann-Morgenstern definitions of these terms are very >different. However, you caqn convert any game into a zero-sum game b

Re: Game-theoretic terminology

2007-03-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You can't win You can't break even You can't get out of the game - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-

Re: Game-theoretic terminology

2007-03-16 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/16/2007 11:04:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >War is a negative-sum game. Von Neumann's and Morgenstern's terminology may apply, but I prefer to think of war as a negative-sum activity. B

Game-theoretic terminology

2007-03-16 Thread john gilmore
John McKown wrote: That is a "positive sum game". A "positive sum game" is one in which you come out of the game "ahead" of where you were before entering the game. A "zero sum game" is one in which you neither win nor lose. You come out no worse or better than you were before. A "negative sum

Re: Changing terminology ..

2006-06-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/23/2006 at 08:47 AM, Shane Ginnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >We *all* know what computers are don't we. Used to be flesh and bone Napier's -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Changing terminology ..

2006-06-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
Phil wrote on 23/06/2006 07:59:02 AM: > > How short memories are. Just a few decades. Indeed. We *all* know what computers are don't we. Used to be flesh and bone ... http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7999.html Shane ... ---

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/12/2005 at 07:44 AM, willie bunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Are they availble on the INTERNET? They're real beasts[1]. Try http://www.ora.com for an introduction. [1] Look at their cover art. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO positi

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-12 Thread willie bunter
Thanks to all for your help. Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Here are a couple of good places to start to look up computer terms http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/ computing dictionary http://www.acronymfinder.com/ http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/ -- B

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-12 Thread willie bunter
Hi Rolf, Are they availble on the INTERNET? If not where could I find them? Thanks Rolf Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have countless O'Reilly books. They have this 'Cookbook' series, which is highly recommended. Nobody beats them in quality in their field. /re willie bunter wrote: >

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread Rolf Ernst
I have countless O'Reilly books. They have this 'Cookbook' series, which is highly recommended. Nobody beats them in quality in their field. /re willie bunter wrote: Good Morning to all. Can anybody point me to a website which would have all UNIX terminologies. I have browsed through qui

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... BCV ... I think that this is not a UNIX term. It stands for “Business Continuity Volume”, and is prevalent in Disaster/Recovery. But, I would also try the MVS-OE listserv. -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! --Deming

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread Bruce Black
Here are a couple of good places to start to look up computer terms http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/ computing dictionary http://www.acronymfinder.com/ http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/ -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: UNIX Terminology > > > Thanks John for the tip. I will check out

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread willie bunter
Thanks John for the tip. I will check out both sites. As you can tell I am a novice and I mixed the terminology thinking that both terms as I had described were UNIX. Can I impose upon you one more time to tell me where I could look for SCSI and EMC terminologies as well. Thanks again for

Re: UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:55 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: UNIX Terminology > > > Good Morning to all. > > Can anybody

UNIX Terminology

2005-07-11 Thread willie bunter
Good Morning to all. Can anybody point me to a website which would have all UNIX terminologies. I have browsed through quite a few sites but they contained all the commands and basic terminologies. For instance I am looking for a definition for LUNS or BCV etc. So far I have come up empty