Re: VM Bear lambasted

2007-04-26 Thread Gary Eheman
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:42:03 -0500, Gary Eheman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot e: >I created the animated GIF years ago at IBM. And the image on the >lambasting website, too. Lest what I wrote in the quotation above be misinterpreted, I meant that the image on the wired.com website appears to be

Re: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread Llewellyn, Mark
Mmm...Virtual Reality on Virtual Machines. "Nothing is real..Strawberry fields forever" Mark Llewellyn Visa USA From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Vincent Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:19 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSE

Ted Kotlowski is out of the office.

2007-04-26 Thread Ted Kotlowski
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IBM RD 51-1/2 | Practical software reuse for IBM Sys tem z I/O subsystems

2007-04-26 Thread McKown, John
This might be of interest. The design and implementation of the z/VM® SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) I/O subsystem is described. z/VM is an operating system that provides multiple virtual IBM System z(tm) machines on a single IBM System z computer. The approach adopted herein allows th

Re: Service 2nd level

2007-04-26 Thread dave
Hi, Ann. Yes, you did the correct thing by putting the RSU SERVLINK files on MAINT's 500 mdisk. Try accessing it using a file mode outside the range of file modes VMSES/E uses (E through L, as I seem to recall). Try doing an ACC 500 Z and then run the VMFINS step again. The RSU SERVLINK file shoul

Service 2nd level

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Crabtree
I have a 2nd level z/vm 5.1 system that I am trying to put service on. LE is the first component with PTFs to be applied. I downloaded 5105RSU onto MAINT's 500 disk (3 files: 5105RSU1, 5105RSU2, and 5105RSU3 with SERVLINK as type) When I attempt to do the receive of ptfs for LE (following Chapter

Re: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread James Vincent
zNextGen should be all over this one! I have a few WebSphere apps I would like to see turned into first-person shooters... ;-) On 4/26/07, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems IBM wasn't kidding about having the mainframe support the next generation of virtaul world environments http://w

Re: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread dave
Seems IBM wasn't kidding about having the mainframe support the next generation of virtaul world environments http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21433.wss DJ

Re: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread dave
M Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:00:42 -0500 > "Opens up some new frontiers", indeed. > > I wonder if this means we'll be able to plug a six axis > PS3 controller into the HMC? ;-) > > -dan. > > dave wrote: > > hmm

Re: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread Daniel P. Martin
"Opens up some new frontiers", indeed. I wonder if this means we'll be able to plug a six axis PS3 controller into the HMC? ;-) -dan. dave wrote: hmm... http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070426/D8OO8QKO0.html DJ

IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

2007-04-26 Thread dave
hmm... http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070426/D8OO8QKO0.html DJ

Re: Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers?

2007-04-26 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.vmesa-l,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#20 Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers? for a little topic drift ... a little about

Re: VM Bear lambasted

2007-04-26 Thread Gary Eheman
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:21:34 EDT, Fran Hensler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have an animated VM Bear on my download site at: >http://zvm.sru.edu/~download > >To view the bear in your browser click here: >http://zvm.sru.edu/~download/vmbear.gif > >I'm sorry that I don't know who created this .gif

Re: VM Bear lambasted

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Walter
I'm not 100% certain, but I **vaguely** remember (maybe) Gary Ehman having obtained the bear image from someone else at IBM, and adding the animation himself. Gary has since left IBM for Fundamental Software, and still subscribes to and contributes to this list. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: VM Bear lambasted

2007-04-26 Thread Fran Hensler
I have an animated VM Bear on my download site at: http://zvm.sru.edu/~download To view the bear in your browser click here: http://zvm.sru.edu/~download/vmbear.gif I'm sorry that I don't know who created this .gif . If anyone knows please tell me and I'll give him/her credit. /Fran Hensler at S

Re: Hackers

2007-04-26 Thread Dave Wade
--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One reason for the absence of reported z/VM system > penetrations may be > > that it is not a target of choice for black-hat > hackers. This follows > > from the argument that there may be far fewer > reports of successful > > attacks on the Mac OS b