1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 31 Dec 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 721       Contents: Re: Formatting an IDE drive ?  Re: Formatting an IDE drive ? , Re: Hobbyist PAK (whining, minor) complaints Re: LANCP and CLUSTER_CONFIG Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000 Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000 US Military bans HTML in emails # Re: US Military bans HTML in emails # Re: US Military bans HTML in emails   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:52:41 -0700 $ From: Jeff Campbell <n8wxs@arrl.net>& Subject: Re: Formatting an IDE drive ?2 Message-ID: <1167551643_6885@sp6iad.superfeed.net>   JF Mezei wrote:  > Jeff Campbell wrote:E >> Try the AlphaBIOS console on your DS10L. While it's there to allow H >> access to the MYLEX RAID controllers, the menu has a Hard Drive SetupG >> option. If it's functional, you could format a FAT partition on your  >> drive. 8-) 8-)  > J > Alas,  it really wants me to press F2 to enter setup mode on AlphaBios, I > and that is rather hard to do on a VT220 connected to serial port on a  C > VAX and then to the serial port on the alpha via SET HOST/DTE ;-)   
 CTRL-B (IIRC)    > E > Interesting that the SRM doesn't have disk formatting capabilities.   G Not the console's job! 8-) Better off to have a manufacturer's specific A tool do the job, since it is much more likely to handle a drive's  'features'.     > Last E > machine I had that did not have native disk formatting was the all  J > mighty microvax II where you needed to boot the diagnostiks TK50 to get  > to the disk formatter.  D But that formatter was specifically there to support MSCP operation,> not to low level initialize / bad block random disk drives. It1 expected RD and RA drives. See comment above. 8-)    > B > I take it that with SCSI disks, one could "connect" to the SCSI E > controller which would then present a menu to format a scsi drive ?   C Depends on the manufacturer. My NT4 boxes at home have Adaptec 3940 A controllers in them which, IIRC, will low level format the drives C attached to them. Been a long time since I've used SCSISelect.  8-)     Q ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- S http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups K ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----    ------------------------------  + Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:36:15 +0000 (UTC) 7 From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) & Subject: Re: Formatting an IDE drive ?( Message-ID: <en8hsv$vhd$1@pcls6.std.com>  1 > Sorry if this is truly a newbie question but...  > D > On an Alpha DS10L, how does one go about formatting an IDE drive ?  F Do you have a drive that is acting up?  If no, all you need is $ INIT.8 Modern drives generally don't need the low level format.  G If it's a couple of bad blocks here and there, $ INIT/ERASE will write  < every block, and the drive will revector the truly bad ones.   ------------------------------  + Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:42:38 -0600 (CST) * From: sms@antinode.org (Steven M. Schweda)5 Subject: Re: Hobbyist PAK (whining, minor) complaints 2 Message-ID: <06123100423818_2020028F@antinode.org>  3 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net>   L > Well, still "living" in a corporate environment, I have to assume that the > (hobbyist) user is:  > % > - Not a C(, BASIC, etc.) programmer G > - Does not have a compiler license (the compiler itself is on the CD) 2 > - Does not (need to) support a build environment  B    I have to assume that a hobbyist user has approximately all theB compiler PAKs known to man, and pretty easy access to a C compiler@ installation kit.  (Worst case, or perhaps best case, depending:6 "ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/C-CXX/openvms/c/".)  P > Basically, taking my cue from Hunter ala the kits he posts on "FILESERV" whereM > one need only, at most, reLINK from .OBJs/.OLBs provided in the kit. (Samba C > V2.2-8 used to follow this model, also - dunno if it still does.)   E    I'm too lazy to try to build this stuff to accomodate many old VMS . and C RTL versions.  Call it a character flaw.  Q > Ease of installation/use in the hobbyist world should translate directly to the R > corporate (for profit) world, in my view. Few - if any - packages from "OpenVMS,O > Inc." or third-parties require (or offer the option of) building from source; < > so, I believe this genre of code should follow that model.  D    Few, if any, non-free products come with the source code.  If youF would like to _buy_ wget built for some particular environment, let me3 know how big your budget is, and we can discuss it.   . > Maybe that's why I don't really fit in here.  C    I really didn't think that the "Instructions" section of my wget D "VMS_NOTES.TXT" was all that opaque, and it's also not obvious to meE that any actual C programming is needed to re-build everything.  Yes, @ you need MMS (hobbyist licensed) or MMK (free), and a C compilerG (hobbyist licensed), and you need to read and follow the instructions.  G If something's not clear there, feel free to complain about it.  If you A would like to enable some optional stuff (like SSL support), more H reading is required.  If you are unwilling to run a VMS version which isE reasonably up-to-date, and you are unwilling to gather the few common E tools which would be necessary to build the product from the sources, 4 then you may find that I'm not terribly sympathetic.  ' > %LINK-W-NUDFSYMS, 1 undefined symbol: ( > %LINK-I-UDFSYM,         DECC$NANOSLEEP   > Steve S.? Any clues?  7    Build it from the sources.  Wake me when that fails.   H ------------------------------------------------------------------------  3    Steven M. Schweda               sms@antinode-org 4    382 South Warwick Street        (+1) 651-699-9818    Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547    ------------------------------    Date: 31 Dec 2006 03:10:34 -0800( From: "Ian Miller" <gxys@googlemail.com>% Subject: Re: LANCP and CLUSTER_CONFIG B Message-ID: <1167563434.676779.11260@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>  F could the node database be shared? If it can that could be why its not
 converted.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:27:48 -0800 * From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos-remove.com>! Subject: Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000 ) Message-ID: <op.tlfg4mkptte90l@hyrrokkin>   6 On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:17:03 -0800, David J Dachtera  # <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net> wrote:    > Tom Linden wrote:  >>E >> Just got back from Palm Desert.  While away I had left 3 XP1000's, H >> a VAX and a DS10L running in the cluster.  Owing to our annual winterE >> storms we had a several power outages here in Pebble Beach.  After H >> the first outage the systems rebooted.  There were apparently severalJ >> other outages and when I returned I noticed that all the power switchesJ >> on the XP1000's were dark.  Not so on the VAX or DS10L.  Depressing theJ >> switches restored things to normal.  Anybody expreience this with theseB >> machines?  Is this a known bug?  AUTO_ACTION is set to RESTART. > C > Ask Santa for a UPS for next Christmas. They're fairly cheap now.  > J Have an APC Matrix 5000, been waiting for a replacement battery.  Actually( may buy a natural gas powered generator.       --  E Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:47:56 -0600 3 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net> ! Subject: Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000 0 Message-ID: <459805DC.388AEB20@spam.comcast.net>   Tom Linden wrote:  > 6 > On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:17:03 -0800, David J Dachtera% > <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net> wrote:  > [snip] > > E > > Ask Santa for a UPS for next Christmas. They're fairly cheap now.  > > L > Have an APC Matrix 5000, been waiting for a replacement battery.  Actually* > may buy a natural gas powered generator.   As long as you're buying, ...    --   David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems  http://www.djesys.com/  & Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page! http://www.djesys.com/vms/market/   ( Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/   ) Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: " http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:55:40 -0500 . From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca>( Subject: US Military bans HTML in emails8 Message-ID: <f0252$45976d1c$cef8887a$29035@TEKSAVVY.COM>  , http://www.fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web ##H Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is J blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook L Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task $ Force for Global Network Operations. ##    2 I wonder why those wouldn't be permanently banned.   ------------------------------   Date: 31 Dec 2006 14:21:22 GMT( From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon), Subject: Re: US Military bans HTML in emails0 Message-ID: <4vpvb2F1c6oicU1@mid.individual.net>  , In article <459783d4$1@news.langstoeger.at>,9 	peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER) writes: k > In article <f0252$45976d1c$cef8887a$29035@TEKSAVVY.COM>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> writes: . >>http://www.fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web >>##J >>Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is L >>blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook N >>Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task & >>Force for Global Network Operations. >>## > G > Better late than never. I banned them (and MIME mails) some years ago = > (though I run my mail on VMS and don't fear virii/worms)...  > Q > "Text mails only here. No HTML or binaries needed for proper communications..."   I What do you do when someone needs to send a Word document to someone else F at a remote location (inbound or outbound)?  The Business Woirld still" runs on MS Office, like it or not.   bill      --  J Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolvesD bill@cs.scranton.edu     |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton   |A Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>       ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:24:16 -0500 6 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>, Subject: Re: US Military bans HTML in emails. Message-ID: <2nSlh.7552$ky2.2993@newsfe21.lga>    Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote:k > In article <f0252$45976d1c$cef8887a$29035@TEKSAVVY.COM>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> writes: / >> http://www.fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web  >> ## K >> Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is  M >> blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook  O >> Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task  ' >> Force for Global Network Operations.  >> ##  > G > Better late than never. I banned them (and MIME mails) some years ago = > (though I run my mail on VMS and don't fear virii/worms)...  > Q > "Text mails only here. No HTML or binaries needed for proper communications..."   8 I assume you by "MIME mails" mean mail with attachments.  , Practically all mail clients today use MIME.   Arne   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.721 ************************