Re: email and crypto

2023-12-12 Thread David L. Craig
Also, everyone should be aware key service is effectively dead since it was discovered nothing prevents apparent public keys from being poisoned by a black hat. If you want one of my public keys, visit http://dlcusa.net (hosted on a Marist Z-box--thanks, Sir Santa). -- May the LORD God bless you

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-12 Thread David L. Craig
On 23Dec05:1319-0500, Rick Troth wrote: > So that's the question: are any of you using PGP via Thunderbird? (Or > using PGP at all?) I'd like to hear from you. Maybe converse with myself > and our unnamed colleague. Sorry, I glossed over this since I do not use Thunderbird. I've used GPG for

Re: IBM vs other virtualizations

2021-10-30 Thread David L. Craig
On 21Oct30:1346-0400, Rick Troth wrote: > Haven't used Qubes. Qubes requires Xen. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.

Re: Future-Watch: Big changes to login and /home directory handling

2020-05-02 Thread David L. Craig
On 20May02:0808+, David L. Craig wrote: > > This may say it all: https://systemd.io/CONVERTING_TO_HOMED/ > > Really? No support for ssh is designed in yet? > Who do they think they're kidding? Wrong link, go to https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-mana

Re: Future-Watch: Big changes to login and /home directory handling

2020-05-02 Thread David L. Craig
On 20Apr30:1442+, David Boyes wrote: > > On 4/30/20, 10:41 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rick Troth" > wrote: > > somebody please make it stop > > +1. This may say it all: https://systemd.io/CONVERTING_TO_HOMED/ Really? No support for ssh is designed in yet? Who do they

Re: Devuan

2020-03-08 Thread David L. Craig
On 20Mar08:1216-0700, Dave Jones wrote: > Gentoo? What about Funtoo, then, which is on record to never support systemd? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd

Devuan

2020-03-08 Thread David L. Craig
Does anyone have Devuan running on Z? Are there any Z distros besides Rick Troth's NORD that do not require systemd? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better

Re: I checked that it's not April 1

2018-10-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 18Oct28:1919+, Neale Ferguson wrote: > https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider On the other hand, it IS Sunday... -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

Re: Meltdown/Spectre; Linux on z affected?

2018-01-04 Thread David L. Craig
On 18Jan04:1754+, David L. Craig wrote: > > According to this article published by Red Hat, you cannot. > > : Red Hat has been made aware of multiple microarchitectural > : (hardware) implementation issues affecting many modern > : microprocessors, requiring updates t

Re: Meltdown/Spectre; Linux on z affected?

2018-01-04 Thread David L. Craig
On 18Jan04:1336+, Guest, Darren wrote: > > Not sure if people have seen that attached article or heard : of the 'intel' chip issues from elsewhere: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > The 'fix' for meltdown (at least) is apparently to change the > Linux

Re: Network Time Protocol Daemon needed for zLinux?

2015-03-19 Thread David L. Craig
On 15Mar19:0045-0400, Alan Altmark wrote: But you must be careful. If you think about this too hard, you will create a tear in the time-space continuum and fall in. Just remember that The music is reversible, but time is not. Kcab nrut, kcab nrut, What is it about computers and their

Re: openssl CA certificate maintenance

2014-07-14 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Jul14:1553-0400, Alan Altmark wrote: On Monday, 07/14/2014 at 11:03 EDT, Rick Troth ri...@velocitysoftware.com wrote: A growing number of experts are making noise about the sad state of PKI on this planet. The people who make the most noise about old mousetraps typically have a

Re: openCOBOL

2014-05-05 Thread David L. Craig
On 14May05:1549+, Neale Ferguson wrote: I saw the following on a LinkedIn group: Customers who are proposed to migrate from zOS to zLinux may have a concern about the presence of cobol programs. Porting the cobol code to a different language not only may affect the migration costs, but

Re: Learn something new every day

2013-11-13 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov13:1047-0700, Mark Post wrote: For all of you out there with auditors that get all upset if netcat (nc) is installed on your Linux systems... You probably should never tell them about the bash /dev/tcp builtin. Just for fun... exec 3/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80 echo -e GET /

Re: Anyone running z/Linux natively and not under z/VM?

2013-05-29 Thread David L. Craig
On 13May28:2000+, Pesce, Andy wrote: Just a curiosity question: Is anyone running Red Hat or SUSE natively in its own LPAR without having z/VM? I know that under z/VM you can run multiple LINUX images. It is also very easy to clone systems. However, just wondering if there are

Shell Account Or zLinux VPS Service

2013-05-09 Thread David L. Craig
Sigh. I have begun sending out the following form letter to some ISPs: : Alas, after becoming a digex.net refugee in the mid : '90s, radix.net has announced I must find a new : provider of UNIX shell and web page service by the : end of June. For $250 annually, I've had a 10 MB disk : quota and

Re: Micro Focus

2011-03-06 Thread David L. Craig
I found this thread late. Did these issues get resolved? My experience with MF, back in the '90s when they were loathe to acknowledge the W32 compiler and RTE were supported by GNU/Linux very nicely indeed, makes me think what you seek should be eminently feasible. Did that turn out to be so?

SuSE Withdrawal

2009-10-13 Thread David L. Craig
Did anyone besides me notice this among today's announcements? What exactly does it signify? http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS909-210/ENUS909-210.PDF -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Posting etiquette

2009-03-13 Thread David L. Craig
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:50:57PM -0500, Mark Wheeler wrote: These sorts of messages have been used for many years by members of the VM community to announce retirements, job changes, etc. The subject Moving On was not arbitrary, tracing back to MEMO MOVING-ON on the old VMSHARE site (for

Re: SLES11

2009-02-27 Thread David L. Craig
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:27:45PM -0500, Aria Bamdad wrote: It basically says that if you want to stay current, you better be able to afford to buy a new processor. Why does it have to be like this? The short answer is because IBM is _not_ a non-profit corporation. The longer answer

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:45:11AM -0600, Dave Jones wrote: David L. Craig wrote: [snip.] Sigh... We're running VM/ESA 2.2 which means CP doesn't know about the IEEE floating point hardware. As I see it, we can upgrade VM, tell the kernel to use emulation even though the hardware

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:09:58PM -0500, David L. Craig wrote: I looked at the code (don't you just love free software?) and it looks like I can get away with zapping off the AFP bit in the first set of control registers loaded by the kernel in head31.S shortly after bootstrapping completes

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:19:45PM -0600, Dave Jones wrote: I'm a bit confused here.why are you turning off the AFP bit in the Linux kernel? Is it causing you some problems on teh 7060? I want to run it in a virtual machine under VM/ESA 2.2, but support for the IEEE floating point

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-23 Thread David L. Craig
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:46:08PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 1/13/2009 at 1:00 PM, David L. Craig d...@radix.net wrote: I curate a museum which includes a uni-CP Multiprise 3000 -snip- Do current distros still support this platform

Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread David L. Craig
I curate a museum which includes a uni-CP Multiprise 3000 (7060-H30) with 2 GB in basic mode running VM/ESA 2.2 and hosting VSE/ESA 2.2 in V=R. We may be required by auditors to encrypt files for transmission to other hosts. I'm saying it's feasible to install a Linux distribution into a V=V

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread David L. Craig
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:58:57AM -0800, O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: I knew Multiprises were old, but I didn't know that they were old enough to be museum exhibits. Oh, it's not the main exhibit at all. It's our newest. The main event is the 9121 we use for DR, complete with 9345s. If more

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread David L. Craig
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:23:57PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: IBM 360/75 with 2311s? 8-) Powered up? Under hardware maintenance (the drives, not the CPC)? Has a business purpose? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread David L. Craig
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:54:16PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:23:57PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: IBM 360/75 with 2311s? 8-) Powered up? Well, only on request. That thing EATS power. Under hardware maintenance (the drives, not the CPC)? Well, if you