1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 28 Nov 2004	Volume 2004 : Issue 660       Contents:4 Re: dtrace's (Solaris 10) equivalent tool on OpenVMS4 Re: dtrace's (Solaris 10) equivalent tool on OpenVMS" Re: FAST BOOT OF SIMH VAX Emulator Re: OT: Joke of the weekD Re: Yet another [Un]Zip behavior quirk.  Non-stupid opinions sought.8 Re: [OT]: Digital Equipment Corp. and the origin of Spam8 Re: [OT]: Digital Equipment Corp. and the origin of Spam  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:55:13 -0500 # From: "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> = Subject: Re: dtrace's (Solaris 10) equivalent tool on OpenVMS , Message-ID: <4Pidnd6LHKdcajXcRVn-vQ@igs.net>   Phil wrote: 6 > "Sarkunarajah S" <ngroup@gmail.com> wrote in message= > news:1101523237.300729.7560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...  >> hi,C >> Whenever I read a review/or articles on Solaris 10, dtrace never / >> fails to be mentioned as a really cool tool.  >>H >> A question to OpenVMS & Solaris experts out there, is there a similar >> tool available in OpenVMS ? >> >> thanks...sarkunarajah s > @ > VMS has SDA (System Dump Analyzer) to examine running systems,A > and PCA (Performance Coverage Analyzer) to identify performance D > issues and bottlenecks. It has had these facilities as part of the' > operating system for many years.(20?) C > Similarly, Sun have made a big thing recently about "containers", C > these are similar to VMS Galaxy  partitions, which have only been  > around for about 5 years. F > Sun probably also do host-based volume shadowing, but I bet it has a" > smart name and glossy brochures.    J One other thing it has vs. VMS....advertising & marketing.....okay then, 2 things.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:40:31 +0100  From: Dirk Munk <munk@home.nl>= Subject: Re: dtrace's (Solaris 10) equivalent tool on OpenVMS 2 Message-ID: <coavp4$5uo$1@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>   Nigel Barker wrote: E > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:21:43 +0100, Dirk Munk <munk@home.nl> wrote:  >  > 
 >>Phil wrote:  >>7 >>>"Sarkunarajah S" <ngroup@gmail.com> wrote in message > >>>news:1101523237.300729.7560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >>>  >>>  >>>>hi, J >>>>Whenever I read a review/or articles on Solaris 10, dtrace never fails* >>>>to be mentioned as a really cool tool. >>>>I >>>>A question to OpenVMS & Solaris experts out there, is there a similar  >>>>tool available in OpenVMS ?  >>>> >>>>thanks...sarkunarajah s  >>>  >>> A >>>VMS has SDA (System Dump Analyzer) to examine running systems, B >>>and PCA (Performance Coverage Analyzer) to identify performanceO >>>issues and bottlenecks. It has had these facilities as part of the operating  >>>system for many years.(20?)D >>>Similarly, Sun have made a big thing recently about "containers",D >>>these are similar to VMS Galaxy  partitions, which have only been >>>around for about 5 years.G >>>Sun probably also do host-based volume shadowing, but I bet it has a # >>>smart name and glossy brochures.  >>>Phil  >>>  >>P >>No, actually it is a standard feature of Solaris, just like raid 0 and raid 5. >  > D > Is it really Host Based Volume Shadowing or merely Disk Mirroring?  N Excellent remark. It is Disk Mirroring. AFAIK you can not uncouple and couple 9 both members as you please, which is how shadowing works.   L As is often the case in Unix, things do not happen on disk level. A disk is K usualy partitioned in what is called slices in Solaris terms. If a disk is  I partioned, there are always 7 slices although slices can have a size o 0  Q blocks/cilinders (such a slice is just a administrative entry). If you just want  P a simple mirrorset, you mirror two slices. If you want to build a raid 0+1 set, N you start with striping slices. When you have a configuration of two stripes,  you can mirror those.      >  > -- > Nigel Barker! > Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur    ------------------------------    Date: 27 Nov 2004 17:38:58 -0800& From: "Galen" <gspamtackett@yahoo.com>+ Subject: Re: FAST BOOT OF SIMH VAX Emulator C Message-ID: <1101605938.781377.169600@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>    Dave,   E I don't have any way currently to check into this at home. Stay tuned  and maybe this will change.   @ I'm hoping to pick up a PCI Ethernet NIC (10 MB ok) that is OS X+ compatible but am not sure what to buy yet.    Anyone have advice?    Galen    ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:30:36 GMT ( From: Tom O'Toole <ereiamjh@pacbell.net>! Subject: Re: OT: Joke of the week + Message-ID: <41A94531.6D89F81A@pacbell.net>    John Smith wrote:  >  > Bob Koehler wrote:= > > In article <RoidnTb4i-9Jtj_cRVn-1Q@igs.net>, "John Smith"  > > <a@nonymous.com> writes: > >>D > >> Maybe we should offer him a free e-mail account on an Alpha/VMS > >> system. > > F > >    Alas, VMS is no better than most on receiving spam.  But add-on? > >    spam filters are available and HP is looking at new one.  > > H > >    We should get HP to ship that as a product and sell it to all the% > >    ISPs while making loud noises!  > - > The only loud noises HP ever will make are:  > "Buy Proliant" > "Buy Microsoft Windows" L > "Buy a printer while you're at it. And we have some lovely digital cameras< > you can use to take pictures of carly's(tm) shapely legs."    H It's true, three out of five of the itanium customer vignettes on hp.com concern bathgatesOS.   ------------------------------  + Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:17:45 -0600 (CST)  From: sms@antinode.orgM Subject: Re: Yet another [Un]Zip behavior quirk.  Non-stupid opinions sought. ) Message-ID: <04112800174542@antinode.org>   G    As another example of the benefits of fab$v_sqo, in the creat() call C in my QREADCD program, I changed '"mbc = 64"' to '"mbc = 127"', and . '"fop = mxv, tef"' to '"fop = mxv, sqo, tef"'.  E    These changes (mostly the "sqo") cut about 30% off the total time, G and eliminated those annoying three-second pauses when the CD-ROM image E file was extended (on an ODS2 disk with highwater marking enabled, of  course).  ;    As before, the latest QREADCD.C source is available near . "http://www.antinode.org/dec/sw/qreadcd.html".  =    I claim that fab$v_sqo definitely deserves more publicity.   H ------------------------------------------------------------------------  4    Steven M. Schweda               (+1) 651-699-98183    382 South Warwick Street        sms@antinode-org     Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547    ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:24:15 GMT L From: winston@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing)A Subject: Re: [OT]: Digital Equipment Corp. and the origin of Spam 6 Message-ID: <00A3B7FC.17484A99@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>  i In article <6.1.2.0.2.20041127072948.025c0de0@raptor.psccos.com>, Dan O'Reilly <dano@process.com> writes: 3 >At 08:58 PM 11/26/2004, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:  >>Dan O'Reilly wrote:  >>H >>>I think Vint Cern would argue with that...Gore had as much to do withC >>>"inventing the internet" as I did with "inventing space travel".  >>9 >>What fraction of NASA's budget have you helped provide?  > K >Sorry, but "providing budget" is *FAR* from "inventing" it...based on your L >reasoning, everything that any company I've ever bought something from thatJ >has come out, I've "invented", because the money (or at least part of it)I >that I spent with those companies have helped pay for their R&D costs... J >and given that I pay a bunch of income taxes that help fund NASA, I guess, >I "invented the space shuttle, for example.  L I think maybe we had this argument already, but I do feel compelled to pointK out that Gore didn't claim to have "invented the internet"; he claimed that E during his time in the Senate he'd taken the initiative to create the I commercial internet, which didn't mean inventing it, it meant writing the  legislation that enabled it.    O Don't you remember all that tedious stuff about the "information superhighway"? " That was Gore selling his program.   -- Alan    ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:59:50 GMT 0 From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>A Subject: Re: [OT]: Digital Equipment Corp. and the origin of Spam - Message-ID: <GF7qd.473303$D%.42077@attbi_s51>   , Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:   (snip)  N > I think maybe we had this argument already, but I do feel compelled to pointM > out that Gore didn't claim to have "invented the internet"; he claimed that G > during his time in the Senate he'd taken the initiative to create the K > commercial internet, which didn't mean inventing it, it meant writing the  > legislation that enabled it.  Q > Don't you remember all that tedious stuff about the "information superhighway"? $ > That was Gore selling his program.  D If I remember right, there was a time when university and governmentD users were allowed to access commercial (.COM) sites, and commercialB sites to reference university and government sites, but commercial@ sites weren't allowed to access other commercial sites.  I don't5 know that there was any system to enforce it, either.   = It may be hard to see now, but the transition to a commercial 6 Internet was a big thing.   The Internet as we know it depended on it.    -- glen    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2004.660 ************************