CAVMEN Meeting on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Final Agenda

2009-10-12 Thread Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts
The fourth quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, October 22, 2009. This note includes the final agenda. There is still road construction work in progress in the area around Hewitt Associates. The situation changes weekly, so I will send out

Re: RMF PM presentation from System z Expo

2009-10-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
I thought they pulled it in favor of Omegamon. Odd that someone is still giving presentations on it. Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or ta

Re: RMF PM presentation from System z Expo

2009-10-12 Thread Barton Robinson
I thought IBM stopped pushing RMFPM about 5 years ago because of overhead and lack of development interest? This was developed in the RMF lab for installations that were z/OS, no z/VM and running Linux in an LPAR. Ask your boss to talk to references (for something that has been out almost 10 year

Re: RMF PM presentation from System z Expo

2009-10-12 Thread Harder, Pieter
Hi, I had a look at aroud the same time. Dropped it in favorr of Velocity's ESALPS. More function, less overhead. And never looked back. Best regards, Pieter Harder Van: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] namens Ron Foster at Baldor-IS [rfos...

RMF PM presentation from System z Expo

2009-10-12 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, Last week my boss attended a presentation "Monitoring Linux Performance with RMF" Now he is wanting it installed and would like to evaluate it. Way back in the 2005 and 2006 time frame we looked at it. Primarily based on what we found on the internet, we discontinued it's use. I have d

Re: Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Jobs

2009-10-12 Thread John Campbell
Howard Rifkind wrote: > So my friend, where are the jobs? Going to people off-shore, perhaps? > There is a whole bunch of highly experienced z/Mainframe systems and > applications people out there without jobs. Just as Security == Inconvenience, Experience == High Pay Rates. Remember, just bec

Re: Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Job s

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Woehr
Howard Rifkind wrote: There is a whole bunch of highly experienced z/Mainframe systems and applications people out there without jobs. It's time, in the immortal words of the Firesign Theatre, to climb a tree, take off your shoes, and learn to play the flute! -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I

Re: Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Jobs

2009-10-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
I didn't write the article I found it and posted its link without comment. On 10/12/09 12:15 PM, "Howard Rifkind" wrote: > So my friend, where are the jobs? > > There is a whole bunch of highly experienced z/Mainframe systems and > applications people out there without jobs. > > There are mor

Re: Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Jobs

2009-10-12 Thread Howard Rifkind
So my friend, where are the jobs? There is a whole bunch of highly experienced z/Mainframe systems and applications people out there without jobs. There are more of the above people and fewer mainframes around these days.  That's because client/server is a cheaper way to do business although no

Re: Windows emulation

2009-10-12 Thread John Campbell
> A ROT for performance: > 1 layer of emulation loses 90%. > Bear in mind you're using two layers of emulation. I suggest DOS/Win 3.1 > for your first effort, or WI9{5,8}. > > I'm sure it will work, and you might like to get some screen shots first > time. There are reasons that I refer to these k

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-12 Thread John Summerfield
Scott Rohling wrote: Hmmm.. maybe more like announcing your wife just stopped beating you? ;-) Scott Good news, whichever way you look at in. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: -snip- We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released e

Re: Multipathing for ECKD devices

2009-10-12 Thread John Summerfield
Sterling James wrote: Has the ECKD dasd device driver in SLES11/Redhat 5.4 changed to provide muiltipathing vs multipath? Please, please, do not hijack threads. Starting a new thread is really easy - just click on the list's email address. It's way easier than clicking the "reply" button and t

Re: Windows emulation

2009-10-12 Thread John Summerfield
Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Boyes wrote: (snipped good explanation of basic X11 forwarding) Or use an ssh client with X11 forwarding turned on. The combination of putty and xming works well on windows, or (with a bit more fiddling) cygwin ssh cl