Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Scott Rohling
You may be surprised .. especially in the z/VM area... dinosaurs may still be useful. But I would certainly try your hand at other things.. I have a couple kayaks and a canoe - and live on an island in the Puget Sound -- so more then ready to experience (and paddle to) a lazy reality for the

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Alan Ackerman
I’m under no illusion that I would have any luck in finding another job. It’s work for the Bank or retire. (He says slyly, sitting back and waiting for a flood of headhunters.)  Sent from my iPhone On Nov 16, 2018, at 5:49 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: I've been working at home exclusively

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Scott Rohling
I've been working at home exclusively (except for customer engagements) since 1996 or so.. I think I'd have retired much sooner if I'd had a daily commute to deal with. In this virtual world - physical location means less and less. I'm not sure there's anyone on my team less then 50 - so that

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Alan Ackerman
I’m 71. So far I have no desire to retire and have not been encouraged to leave. I’m not aware of age discrimination here. Several years back (5-10) we were encouraged to go work at home. I may have been the last one to take the offer. I’m gregarious by nature, but eventually I was surrounded

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Rick Troth
On 11/16/18 4:33 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/ > > > No surprises, just a lot of details... As it happens, I just learned this week that a good friend was cut loose from a certain other company. I won't say which, but I

Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

2018-11-16 Thread Gabe Goldberg
https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/ No surprises, just a lot of details... -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:

Re: Installing Fedora 29 in an LPAR (no z/VM)

2018-11-16 Thread Jan Stodola
Jim, when installing in an LPAR, the installer should ask you for additional boot parameters: Enter additional kernel command line parameter (end with ctrl-d or .) > This is where you need to specify the installation source (inst.repo=...) and configure networking in case of http/ftp/nfs