There is an article about a incident in Houston that a “Ghetto Handbook” as privately being distributed amongst police officers to explain certain abnormal words and phrases used by the locals.
“A crudely made “Ghetto Handbook” distributed by a Houston school district police officer sparked angry words Thursday from leaders in the district and the community — both because of its language and the fact that no action was taken for three months.”
So what did the Ghetto Handbook contain?
So one more thing to add to the wish list. I am going to send you to Ken Rockwell’s site to learn more.
Link to Ken Rockwell’s D3 Article
The Nikon D3 is a landmark introduced on August 23, 2007.
The D3 is Nikon’s first full-frame DSLR to mimic the old 35mm film format, and surprise number one is that it can crank at 9 FPS. Surprise number two is that it’s the same price as the D2Xs ($4,999.95), not the ridiculous $8,000 of Canon’s three-day-older 1Ds Mk III.
So you need to put ZIP and UnZIP on your System i? Here is how to do it. I found this usefull.
Link –> Bringing Zip and Unzip to i5/OS PASE and QShell Environments
Zipping documents and directories has become a common practice. It is also possible to use the Zip functions in Portable Application Solutions Environment (i5/OS PASE), with a little help from AIX. This tip provides the steps for bringing the Zip and Unzip functions to your System i server.
I would first like to start out by begging. I will take one for those 4U units. If you want to donate to my 48TB Server Fund please email me and I will send you my Paypal account.
Details from the press release: “iXsystems recently unveiled the most rack-dense storage solution in the Nearline Storage Class: the Colossus SAN RAID Storage Device. The Colossus is a high-performance, energy-efficient, tiered storage solution, ideal for use in expanding data environments, and provides greater storage density (in terms of GB per rack unit) than any other storage product currently available. With more than 2x the storage capacity, up to 2x the throughput, and data transfer rates up to 100 MB/s (~15%) faster than the nearest competitor, the iXsystems Colossus addresses and exceeds the increasing demand for storage systems capable of managing and maintaining vast amounts of business-critical data.”
I am a fan of these guys and what they are doing. This is a great improvement. I only wished I had pictures or diagrams of the 4U server so I can see how they are doing it. Hats off to you guys at iXsystems, I am impressed with your hardware and dedication to the BSD movement.
Update: So if you ask you shall receive and the guys at iXsystems delivered. They actually sent me pictures of the Colossus last night. I was asking if I could publish them, but since they sent them and I know they are proud of their work I am going to have to put them up for your viewing pleasure. The pictures also make the mouth water. I really want a 48U rack full of them now. If only I had the funds? Yor going to have to go to the next page to see the pics of the Colossus!
Finally someone has said it in the main stream the Colorado based CROCs company is finally getting called out for being ugly. I hate those funny little shoes. I don’t know why you would want them, they are just plain ugly!
“all I could see was a row of ten of the ugliest, daftest, least flattering items of footwear I have ever seen in my life….And they were stuck to my darling family’s feet, as if they were auditioning for the part of Krusty the Clown’s less fashionable relatives.”
I am ripping this from Chris, but it’s to precious to leave in one place.
Link to Chris Whisonant and his post. Thanks Chris!
Mac OS X is a powerful platform for Java™ development. While the Java development environment is fully integrated into Mac OS X, the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) brings a fully integrated Java development environment to Mac OS X that provides a consistent cross-platform experience. Discover how to use this environment to import existing Xcode projects into Eclipse, tweak key bindings, and integrate Eclipse with the Mac OS X-bundled Concurrent Versions System (CVS).
Well I guess they already have bit from their homepage at IBM.com they have a link to a section that details how they can help the gaming market. It’s interesting that IBM still seems like a rudderless ship. What next?
This was written by some psychologist not a marketing person. It is a wonderful grouping of words that means nothing:
“IBM’s games solutions and interactive entertainment solutions offer products and services designed for the games industry—whether you develop or publish console, PC, or mobile games, or develop or host multiplayer and massively multiplayer online entertainment, or are an animations or special effects studio.”
Were you still talking….what is that?
It was winter of 1996 and I was on the USS Camden, we were on a 6 month deployment to the middle east. It was just before Christmas and I saw Sasebo for the last time.
I lived in Sasebo, Japan from October 1993 - May 1995. I enjoyed it. Every moment of it. I have great memories of the city of Sasebo and the fine people too. I still have the mountain bike I used to ride there and that bike and I saw more of Japan than most bikes. I would pack up a bag and ride until I could not ride anymore.
I have always been interested in Japan and to this day I still am. Ask my mom and she will tell you I am half Japanese because of all the rice I used to eat. I have once again picked up some material on learning Japanese and am starting to study again in hopes to return on vacation in the next 12 - 16 months.
Here is a site I found if you are looking - Japancast.net
So on Saturday night I had the opportunity to hang out with Gerry Dee the Comedian. I think he is very very very funny. He has been on Last Comic Standing this season and IMHO he is the funniest person on the show right now. If you think you are funnier than Gerry Dee you would be wrong.
So I want to first thank Gerry’s wife for letting him out of the country (This Link is for your wife Gerry), you are a real trooper and should be given an award. Also I would like to thank my wife for letting me come to dinner, she didn’t have to do that but she did and it was great and lastly I would like to thank Gerry. He is a really bright person and a truly talented comic, it was great having dinner with you and if you are in Colorado again I would be happy to take you out just to catch up.
I will be posting the half eaten meatball sandwich on eBay soon and bidding will start @ $45K. Every bit of the money from eBay will go to the David Vasta Apple Purcahing Fund.
No one is allowed to sit in the front seat of the Volvo anymore now that Gerry Dee was the last person to sit in it.
“A friend of mine asked me to have a look at his Linux-server. “It behaves strangely” he said, most notably the web-server apache refused to start. It turned out to be more than just a problem with apache.”
I found this interesting and useful. I was doing some thing like this the other day and this would have been very helpful to reference.
So if you have a few hours to spare I would highly recommend memorizing this map so that you will always be able to debate the finner points of UNIX’s history….just kidding. It is pretty neat. Funny all the great OS of our day show up somewhere on this map. While the i5/OS is not on here it did barrow from the ideas behind UNIX.
I have been looking around talking to other IT people about education, management, managing technical people and what skills are needed to do all of these things well. It’s not easy and not everyone is cut out to be a manager. That is more obvious today than it ever has been.
I have been making sure I have the skills and behaviors a manager needs to present to his people to be effective. Over the past 17 years I have been a manager and have been managed. Most of the managers I have seen over the years have been great people. I am not going to name names but we all know who you are and I have always written down what I thought made them all good managers. I have also come across some lackluster managers over the years as well. I also made sure to write down what made them good and what I thought made them lackluster.
While everyone knows I am a fan of Linux. I love the idea of Open Source and other communities I am having trouble with all of the different versions of Linux out right now. It seems like anyone with a pulse and a computer has created a Linux distribution and is not afraid they are doing what everyone else is doing. I liked it better when there were 5 or so Linux’s out there and they has really good momentum. Today it seems a little more muddy than I would want it. Can we ever get back to a concerted effort to just have some really focused Linux distributions or have we gone to far?
I would like to see the following projects continue and the others maybe consolidate their efforts to help the major distributions.
OpenSuSE / Fedora(?) / Yellow Dog / Debian / Slackware / Ubuntu / OpenSolaris(not Linux but I like the idea)
I think those all had some focus and the ? next to Fedora is the fact that they are a bit lost right now and I can’t seem to like anything they have done with it in the past 2 years.
So I found this interesting and figured I would share it. I lived in Japan for a few years and still find their culture interesting.
“Young people in the world’s second-largest economy, famed for its love of luxury goods, are also growing less keen on audio-video equipment, sporting goods and foreign designer brands, it said”
Have you seen this thing. It’s Uber Cool. I have a Herman Miller Areon and I love it but this things looks awesome.
Photo Gallery of the Trey Chair
A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they’re shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, the MIT professor behind the famous and venerable Raw project on which Tilera’s first product, the TILE64 processor, is based. Tilera’s director of marketing, Bob Dowd, told Ars that TILE64 represents a “sea change in the computing industry,” and the company’s CEO isn’t shy about pitching the chip as the “first significant new chip architectural development in a decade.” So let’s take an initial look at what was announced about TILE64 today, with further information to follow as it becomes available.
I was surfing around and found this page.
Transforming Operational Efficiency with POWER6
The new IBM System i POWER6 570 delivers exceptional versatility and scalability with
COOL! Get your new i570 with Power6. Sorry no nVidia card Ken?
IT Jungle has the post. It’s a very god read. Hope to get more details on this so we can all understand it.
Without getting too technical, here’s what happens on the OS/400 and i5/OS platform when you create applications, which explains the problem customers ran into in 1995 and which IBM wants them to avoid in 2008. A programmer writes an application in say, RPG. They run it through a compiler, either using the Original Program Model (OPM) or the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) compilers, and the code compiles so they can run it. Or, rather, that is what it looks like to the programmer. What is really happening is that this application is compiled into an intermediate stage, which some IBMers have called RPG templates (in the case of RPG applications). These templates have a property called observability, which in essence means they are compiled to the TIMI layer. These intermediate templates are then used by the TIMI layer on an actual piece of hardware with a specific processor and instruction set to compile the application to run on that specific processor. TIMI compiles these RPG templates down to actual compiled code behind the scenes the first time an application runs, and because the code was originally compiled to the TIMI layer, there is no need to change the source code. Only the object code changes, which end users never had access to anyway because only TIMI can reach down there. This is the brilliant way that IBM has preserved customers’ vast investments in RPG, COBOL, and other applications over the years.
Getting Ready for V6R1 Redbook
David | 
08 31st, 2007| 
