1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 06 Mar 2005	Volume 2005 : Issue 129       Contents: a little help please BSD installation on simh Re: BSD installation on simh  Re: Change MAC address on DE500?* Damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership, Does OpenVMS exist for the Sinclair ZX81 ???0 Re: Does OpenVMS exist for the Sinclair ZX81 ???# Re: Fiorina and The Peter Principle  How to grow OpenVMS?  Simple! ! Re: How to grow OpenVMS?  Simple!  Re: HP Web Site Slow Lately? Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity Video  Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity Video  Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity Video   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2005 10:46:49 -0800  From: dark.kitty@verizon.net Subject: a little help please B Message-ID: <1110048409.748833.70500@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>  F i am trying to get a new computer as cheaply as possible and our localF fox news channel said this was a very legal offer so i thought i wouldD give it a try. sorry for the "spamming", i am just trying to get theE word out. i appologize for any incomvienence and thanks to anyone who 	 signs up.   D all you have to do is sign up - complete 1 no obligation (that meansG free) offer and than get 10 people to do the same thing. Give it a try,  what could it hurt?   B Here is my referral link. To help me get my Desktop PC, click this8 exact link to join, or copy and paste it into a browser:( http://www.FreeDesktopPC.com/?r=11596071   ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2005 12:58:57 -0800 % From: "jeff_hann" <schaiba@yahoo.com> ! Subject: BSD installation on simh B Message-ID: <1110056337.311010.13860@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>  C hi,I use win 2k over which I run a simh emulator of VAX.My question G is,how exactly can I install OpenBSD or NetBSD on my emulator?Thanks in  advance    ------------------------------  * Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:38:51 +0000 (UTC)? From: Graham Burley <burley.not-this@encompasserve-or-this.org> % Subject: Re: BSD installation on simh 9 Message-ID: <422A349D.704B7514@encompasserve-or-this.org>    jeff_hann wrote: > E > hi,I use win 2k over which I run a simh emulator of VAX.My question I > is,how exactly can I install OpenBSD or NetBSD on my emulator?Thanks in 	 > advance   ? The Simh user mailing list might be a better place to ask this:   6 http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh   ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:21:10 GMT 5 From: rdeininger@mindspringdot.com (Robert Deininger) ) Subject: Re: Change MAC address on DE500? L Message-ID: <rdeininger-0503051621090001@user-uinj58g.dialup.mindspring.com>  H In article <Se1Wd.2754$Ny6.4823@mencken.net.nih.gov>, "Jonathan Boswell"  <jsb.NOSP@M.cdrh.fda.gov> wrote:  8 >Is there any way to change the MAC address on a DE500B? > F >Here's my situation.  I have a single critical application (a licenseG >manager called flexlm) running on an old DEC 3000-500S whose I/O board M >crumped.  Front panel countdown stops at F0.  I would dearly love to migrate L >this application to a newer Alpha, but the application queries the ethernetE >hardware for it's MAC address to determine that it is running on the K >originally-licensed node.  It then serves licenses to 2 other applications * >on 8 other Alphas which are still in use.  D The ethernet address for the DEC 3000-500s is in a ROM which is in aI socket on the IO board.  If you replace the IO board, you are supposed to D move the ROM over to the new board.  The ROM is a 16-pin DIP package, located close to the Dallas Real Time Clock.  J You can likely obtain a replacement DEC 3000 system for little money, moveH your disk(s) and ethernet ROM to the new system, and then you'll be back in business.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:32:41 -0800  From: Z <Z@no.spam> 3 Subject: Damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership ( Message-ID: <1KwWd.223$Ys7.115@fe03.lga>  G "There is a pretty damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership while at  D HP on TechnologyReview.com. The author was working for HP Labs, the I center of invention and innovation for the company, only to be told that  D nothing exciting will happen in the tech market since it's a mature F industry. He left the company in 2003. "The lab was never packed with I genius marketers. Carly told us we had no business sense, and that every  H project needed to make a profit within three years or less. She usually I said that right before the research budget got slashed again and morelab   employees were laid off.""  D http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/wo/wo_delio030405.asp   ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2005 21:03:58 -0800 + From: insane_pile@yahoo.co.nz (Paul Eisner) 5 Subject: Does OpenVMS exist for the Sinclair ZX81 ??? = Message-ID: <d97491c7.0503052103.6478ee6d@posting.google.com>   F I have a network of 2356 Sinclair ZX81 machines with 16Kbyte each.Will? OpenVMS work on this super-computer or must I port it first ???    ------------------------------   Date: 6 Mar 2005 05:18:17 -0000 < From: Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (The Anti-Troll)9 Subject: Re: Does OpenVMS exist for the Sinclair ZX81 ??? 7 Message-ID: <C2W14ORD38417.2626967593@anonymous.poster>   ; On 5 Mar 2005, insane_pile@yahoo.co.nz (Paul Eisner) wrote: G >I have a network of 2356 Sinclair ZX81 machines with 16Kbyte each.Will @ >OpenVMS work on this super-computer or must I port it first ???      B Every month or so, using a fictitious name, this troll floods 5000B newsgroups (all cross-posted to a single low-traffic but unrelatedK newsgroup) with superficially relevant comments. The purpose is to  disrupt  with off-topic crosspostings.   I Like all trolls, he means to annoy and disrupt. The tracking newsgroup is D the way he "keeps score" of how much damage he has caused. Don't put( yourself on display in his trophy case.   : Like all trolls, the way to handle  him is to IGNORE him.   J Take a few minutes of your time and check out the following score cards toG see firsthand  what this perverted troll is doing. I promise, you'll be J amazed at just how active  and perverted he is. You will see firsthand theJ troll's work and his trophies. You will see into the sickness and darknessI of the worst troll on the internet today. Read some of his posts and look F at the headers. You will see than no newsgroup is immune. You will see< flamewars started, some containing over a hundred messages.   I Browse the can.uucp newsgroup, his old score card, for Karl-Hugo Weesberg   F Browse the is.matur newsgroup, his current score card, for Dan Simper.  F Browse the scot.tld newsgroup, his current score card, for Bruno Beam.  J Browse the israel.amix newsgroup, his current score card, for Paul Eisner.  I He is known as the "anagram troll" because his fictitious names are often D discovered to be anagrams (for example "Dan Simper" is an anagram of7 "Spiderman", Bruno Beam is an anagram of "Unabomber").    G This guy is a serious troll with a serious problem. Don't be one of his 	 trophies.   A Chances are that I don't subscribe to this newsgroup. I am simply K monitoring the newsgroups the Anagram Troll is using as his score card. Any J posts from me are a result of that monitoring. I normally only post to theI newsgroup being spammed, not to the score card newsgroup, thus I will not & see any replies directly to this post.  C Above all, please do not allow him to start a flamewar or extensive J discussion in your newsgroup. He thrives on that. If it is too late, don'tJ crosspost to his score card newsgroup. That trophy count is his motivation9 to continue trolling. Please help stop him in his tracks.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:02:03 -0500 ( From: Bill Todd <billtodd@metrocast.net>, Subject: Re: Fiorina and The Peter Principle= Message-ID: <FKidnQTwvrzGsbffRVn-pw@metrocastcablevision.com>    Dave Weatherall wrote:F > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:17:48 UTC, Bill Todd <billtodd@metrocast.net>  > wrote: >  >  > H >>Too late:  the last election already did.  Cut Kerry down a bit above G >>the ankles and give him a fake Texas drawl, and it really would have  I >>been Tweedledee (Kerry) and Tweedledum (emphasis on the last syllable).  >> >>- bill >  > H > This is well OT and I apologise but what percentatge did Nader get? I , > never a report anywhere. Was it so measly?  H I think only about 1%:  the Democratic party did manage to keep most of H its members in line, despite a significant lack of enthusiasm for Kerry.  I Without Bush to hold over their heads as a threat, I suspect they'll not  G do as well next time unless they decide to start acting like Democrats  I again (no, not the old 'tax and spend' Democrats, just good, mainstream,  C socially- and fiscally-responsible, non-corporate-whore Democrats).    - bill   ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2005 15:39:31 -0800  From: bob@instantwhip.com & Subject: How to grow OpenVMS?  Simple!B Message-ID: <1110065971.671871.80840@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>  3 All that is needed are regional teams or a national / hp var team that exclusively specializes in vms 0 solutions ... if they get big enough, they could. even advertise themselves ... they could offer. mail server packages, web server packages, RDB/ packages ... make deals with oracle and Process 0 software and other vms software vendors ... hire4 a few former vms engineers and offer support or even5 purchase/write/port new software to vms ... why isn't 5 this being done ... I see it is on a small scale, but  why not a large one?   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:20:21 -0800 ( From: Jeff Cameron <roktsci@comcast.net>* Subject: Re: How to grow OpenVMS?  Simple!/ Message-ID: <BE4FC505.87A1%roktsci@comcast.net>    On 3/5/05 3:39 PM, in article K 1110065971.671871.80840@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "bob@instantwhip.com"  <bob@instantwhip.com> wrote:  5 > All that is needed are regional teams or a national 1 > hp var team that exclusively specializes in vms 2 > solutions ... if they get big enough, they could0 > even advertise themselves ... they could offer0 > mail server packages, web server packages, RDB1 > packages ... make deals with oracle and Process 2 > software and other vms software vendors ... hire6 > a few former vms engineers and offer support or even7 > purchase/write/port new software to vms ... why isn't 7 > this being done ... I see it is on a small scale, but  > why not a large one? > J  I would say that making OpenVMS available on HP Integrity servers besides Itanium is a positive sign.   I Can anyone enlighten me as to the processor architecture of the Integrity  servers?   ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 05 17:32:12 EST ) From: cook@wvnvms.wvnet.edu (George Cook) % Subject: Re: HP Web Site Slow Lately? ! Message-ID: <PsVMvYs7BR4Q@wvnvms>   r In article <1110003787.bbf01d5a4d26ba4feeee2ecec1770fee@teranews>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes: > AEF wrote: >>  H >> Is it just me, or is the HP Web site kind of really slow lately (last >> couple of days or so)?  > G > They've put back the 1 pixel gif images to set background of the left C > column, instead of learning that html has a tag to set background G > colour. This is especially slow when you are scrolling up because the I > browser has to start painiting the white pixel from the top of the page H > down to where you are so that the tiling will be correct. (the purposeM > of background images is to tile larger images, not to set a stupid colour).  > J > HP is blatantly stupid for having such poor web standards and shows  itsF > incompetance in web sdesign, certaintly not a good advertising if HPC > wants to sell web desitgn services as part of its consulting arm.  > (simiular to its SAP flop).   B This kind of HTML moronity is the main reason VMS Mosaic has hacksB layered on top of hacks.  Tiny background images are a disaster asF far as browser performance is concerned unless the browser has specialC code to deal with them.  I had to add code to VMS Mosaic to handle  D this exact situation.  The code tiles a tiny image into a larger oneF which is then used to paint backgrounds.  Before the change VMS MosaicF would freeze for an extended period; afterward there was no noticeable	 slowness.      George Cook  WVNET    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:40:23 +0100 9 From: Jan-Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6derholm?= <aaa@aaa.com> ( Subject: Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity Video' Message-ID: <422A2747.51371B37@aaa.com>   ! VAXman-, @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:  > H > >Apologies in advance if this was posted already, but there is a new => > >video on HP OpenVMS-Integrity servers that is available at:C > >http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/integrity_video.html  >  > ...and once again, .WMV  > < > VMS and Integrity... It's for Micro$oft PeeCee users only!  < Any VMS admin understanding the world we are living in, does9 probably have a PC on their desk. So what's the problem ? ; Don't we all want the message about VMS to be wide spread ?    Jan-Erik   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:59:26 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> ( Subject: Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity VideoB Message-ID: <1110059211.a17bed1b7c8e298b3d294cf0e360f37f@teranews>   Jan-Erik Sderholm wrote:    > > Any VMS admin understanding the world we are living in, does; > probably have a PC on their desk. So what's the problem ? = > Don't we all want the message about VMS to be wide spread ?   F Then why not use more open standards such as MPG ?  Don't wintel boxesF have the ability to play MPG movies, or just the proprietary microsoft	 formats ?    ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2005 16:13:21 -0600 - From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) ( Subject: Re: New OpenVMS-Integrity Video3 Message-ID: <l$MTRHQftKaC@eisner.encompasserve.org>   c In article <422A2747.51371B37@aaa.com>, Jan-Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6derholm?= <aaa@aaa.com> writes: # > VAXman-, @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:  >>  I >> >Apologies in advance if this was posted already, but there is a new = ? >> >video on HP OpenVMS-Integrity servers that is available at: D >> >http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/integrity_video.html >>   >> ...and once again, .WMV >>  = >> VMS and Integrity... It's for Micro$oft PeeCee users only!  > > > Any VMS admin understanding the world we are living in, does; > probably have a PC on their desk. So what's the problem ?   @ The problem is those whose working arrangements do not meet your( expectations.  Brian and myself for two.  = > Don't we all want the message about VMS to be wide spread ?   B If you reread Brian's comment, you will see that he did not objectA to the message being available in a proprietary Microsoft format. C He objected to it being available _only_ in a proprietary Microsoft  format.    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2005.129 ************************                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                t\tint argc = 3;\n"
        "\t\tUzpInit init = { 16, MyMessageFn, NULL, MyPauseFn };\n"
        "\t\tif (UzpAltMain(argc,argv,&init))\n"
        "\t\t  printf(\"error: unzip failed\\n\");\n\n"
        "\t\tSee unzip.h for details.\n"
    },

    {
        "UZPUNZIPTOMEMORY", "UzpUnzipToMemory",
        "int UzpUnzipToMemory(char *zip, char *file, UzpBuffer *retstr);",
        "Pass the name of the zip file and the name of the file\n"
        "\t\tyou wish to extract.  UzpUnzipToMemory will create a\n"
        "\t\tbuffer and return it in *retstr;  0 on return indicates\n"
        "\t\tfailure.\n\n"
        "\t\tSee unzip.h for details.\n"
    },

    {
        "UZPFILETREE", "UzpFileTree",
        "int UzpFileTree(char *name, cbList(callBack),\n"
        "\t\t\tchar *cpInclude[], char *cpExclude[]);",
        "Pass the name of the zip file, a callback function, an\n"
        "\t\tinclude and exclude file list. UzpFileTree calls the\n"
        "\t\tcallback for each valid file found in the zip file.\n"
      