1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 02 Jul 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 364       Contents: Re: Alpha remembrance day  Console assigned to system user # Re: Console assigned to system user # Re: Console assigned to system user # Re: Console assigned to system user  Cryptlib+ Re: Gates says vista "most secure os ever"? + Re: Gates says vista "most secure os ever"?  Re: How to set LOCKIDTBL? G Re: zipping large files (was Re: Info-ZIP's Zip V2.32 is now available)   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:10:11 -0400 ( From: Bill Todd <billtodd@metrocast.net>" Subject: Re: Alpha remembrance dayG Message-ID: <vfednd-oDc4ZJzvZnZ2dnUVZ_q-dnZ2d@metrocastcablevision.com>    etmsreec@yahoo.co.uk wrote:  > Well, that's one view.  I And, at least compared with your own, a relatively informed one.  Why is  H it that there's always some clueless newbie eager to pop up and put his A ignorance on display without having bothered to develop any real   acquaintance with a subject?   > A > Alpha was, although strong, a minority player in the CPU field.   B As, of course, was everyone else - unless you want to include x86 0 consumer products (or some embedded processors).  E Alpha system revenues (still about $7 billion annually until shortly  H before the Alphacide, despite the loss in confidence after Curly killed G Windows on Alpha) were comparable at the time to PA-RISC revenues, for  D example:  Tru64 at the end of Y2K enjoyed only about 1/3 the market I share of Solaris, HP-UX, or AIX (though its share was growing far faster  L than any of them), but VMS revenues made up the majority of that deficiency.      CanI > you say "lack of applications"?  Can you say "lack of operating systems  > to run on it"?  I Can you say "incompetent blowhard?"  I think David addressed that latter  ? chimera adequately, and given that one of said OSs was Windows  F (including support of x86 application binaries) I'd say that puts the B former to rest as well (not to say that VMS and Tru64 didn't have < adequate application support in their own right, of course).   > H > Compaq's main field of work was PeeCees before the purchase of DigitalC > and Tandem.  Compaq really didn't know how to integrate these two @ > enterprise-based corporations into their PC-based corporation.  D Horseshit.  Pfeiffer knew *exactly* how to do this and was actively G engaged in doing so (a hell of a lot more effectively than Palmer ever   did) until he got ousted.   	    So, if H > the merger with HP hadn't happened, it could be that we'd be left withG > a lot less than VMS on Integrity with support of VMS on Alpha and VAX  > moving forward.   I That's certainly possible:  I'd hate to suggest that there was any limit  G to Curly's ability to screw up a healthy corporation.  But, of course,  I that has absolutely nothing to do with Alpha's ability to compete:  it's  F simply a reflection of what happens when you boot out a competent and 1 visionary CEO and replace him with an accountant.    > G > Digital was a sick puppy when Compaq bought its remains.  Compaq just , > didn't realize it until the deal was done.  A Horseshit again.  Pfeiffer knew exactly what he was getting, and  G immediately started out trying to fix what Palmer had let corrode away.       HP made the same mistake  > with the Compaq merger.   I Third strike:  you're out.  Carly also knew exactly what she was buying:  H   a several-years-long stay of execution for her incompetent leadership F at HP, since BoDs are notoriously loath to change horses in the swift ? mid-stream currents of a major merger.  Curly also got to exit  G gracefully rather than get the boot, so it looked good to both of them.    - bill   ------------------------------   Date: 1 Jul 2006 18:26:09 -0700  From: malanalan1@yahoo.com( Subject: Console assigned to system userB Message-ID: <1151803568.967699.16360@v61g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>  G Long time ago I have assigned the console to the system user.  How do I A reenable username prompt  on the console? I am at a loss. I don't  remember a thing.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:45:39 -0400 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> , Subject: Re: Console assigned to system user, Message-ID: <44A7253B.D57BD449@teksavvy.com>   malanalan1@yahoo.com wrote:  > I > Long time ago I have assigned the console to the system user.  How do I C > reenable username prompt  on the console? I am at a loss. I don't  > remember a thing.     D What exactly did you do to "assign the console to the system user" ?  C Normally, after the system has completed its startup, OPA0: becomes + ready for a login by just pressing RETURN.      H If you already have a $ prompt, you might wish to do a SHOW PROCESS/FULLE to find out what it is. LOGOUT from the $ prompt  **SHOULD** be safe.    ------------------------------   Date: 1 Jul 2006 18:57:59 -0700  From: malanalan1@yahoo.com, Subject: Re: Console assigned to system userC Message-ID: <1151805479.063343.234770@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>    > F > What exactly did you do to "assign the console to the system user" ? >   A There is no explicit username prompt. The implicit user is always ' system. I can see only password prompt.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:25:35 -0400 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> , Subject: Re: Console assigned to system user, Message-ID: <44A72E93.4E45E425@teksavvy.com>   malanalan1@yahoo.com wrote: C > There is no explicit username prompt. The implicit user is always ) > system. I can see only password prompt.   B OK. This is probably ALF. (no, not a cartoon character). It is the Automatic Login Facility.   8 If you have an old version of VMS: @SYS$MANAGER:ALFMAINT   For recent versions:
 $MC SYSMAN SYSMAN> ALF SHOW   and then ALF REMOVE <terminal>  * SYSMAN> HELP ALF give you more information   ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:49:01 GMT + From: "Villy Madsen" <Villy.Madsen@shaw.ca>  Subject: Cryptlib , Message-ID: <xZCpg.114323$IK3.8206@pd7tw1no>  . Has anyone built cryptlib on openvms 7.3-1 ???   Villy    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:07:39 -0500 6 From: "David J. Dachtera" <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net>4 Subject: Re: Gates says vista "most secure os ever"?0 Message-ID: <44A6F22B.725DFA05@spam.comcast.net>   Paul Sture wrote:  >  > bob@instantwhip.com wrote:1 > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14905  > >  > E > Following the link from that page entitled "Microsoft: Please Don't  > Disable UAC":  > N > http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Please_Dont_Disable_UAC/1151441160 > H > "User Account Control, or UAC, is a fundamental security change comingE > in Windows Vista and one of the most important additions to protect F > users from threats, Microsoft says. But the company is struggling to0 > find a balance between security and usability. >  > ...  > F > In turn, new Vista users are left with a bad first impression of theJ > operating system and experts simply disable the feature altogether usingG > "msconfig." At the Windows Vista Beta 2 lab in May, almost the entire L > room said the first thing they do after installing Vista is turn off UAC." >  > Oh dear...  A In commentary area, I seized the opportunity to give VMS a little  no-cost exposure.    --   David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems  http://www.djesys.com/  & Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page! http://www.djesys.com/vms/market/   ( Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/   ) Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: " http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:21:25 -0700   From: Z <SpamDumpst3r@yahoo.com>4 Subject: Re: Gates says vista "most secure os ever"?* Message-ID: <__Gpg.1473$wH3.1410@fe06.lga>  )  >Gates says vista "most secure os ever"?   B Bob Muglia, not Gates. Didn't you even bother to read the article?   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:02:15 -0500 6 From: "David J. Dachtera" <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net>" Subject: Re: How to set LOCKIDTBL?/ Message-ID: <44A6F0E7.DEA636B@spam.comcast.net>   
 AEF wrote: > F > I noticed that AUTOGEN always increases LOCKIDTBL on my v6.1 systems- > and always decreases it on my v6.2 systems:  >  > v6.2 example:  > " > LOCKIDTBL parameter information: >         Feedback information. 0 >            Old value was 208, New value is 166) >            Current number of locks: 280 & >            Peak number of locks: 208 > D > Notice that the current number of locks is larger than its peak!!! >  > v6.1 example:  > " > LOCKIDTBL parameter information: >         Feedback information. 2 >            Old value was 3198, New value is 3327) >            Current number of locks: 331 ' >            Peak number of locks: 3456  > D > And I really doubt the peak number of locks is correct in the v6.1G > example. I've never seen it anywhere near that high in a MONITOR LOCK 
 > display. > G > If I let MONITOR LOCK run overnight, can I use that to set this param F > (as a workaround) by picking a value a little larger or smaller than8 > the peak? Or some other way? Does it even matter much? > @ > These are MicroVAX 3100's (models 80, 90, 95) if that matters.  G On a large Alpha-based Oracle database, lock counts in the 50,000 range  are not unheard of.    FWIW...    --   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: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:26:27 -0700 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> P Subject: Re: zipping large files (was Re: Info-ZIP's Zip V2.32 is now available)) Message-ID: <op.tb1cud06zgicya@hyrrokkin>   H On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:06:48 -0700, glenn everhart <everhart@gce.com>  =   wrote:   > Tom Linden wrote: I >> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:13:25 -0700, Tom Linden <tom@kednos.com> wrote=  :  >>7 >>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:28:41 -0700, Hoff Hoffman  =   $ >>> <hoff-remove-this@hp.com> wrote: >>>  >>>> Tom Linden wrote: >>>>D >>>>> Do you have it for Alpha as well?  If so, could you post it  =   >>>>> somewhere please?  >>>>I >>>>    gzip 1.3.3 and likely 1.3.5-1 (if not later) will be generally  =   I >>>> available on the Freeware V8.0 distribution.  (Tom now has a copy o=  f  =  I >>>> an OpenVMS Alpha gzip port to look at; he probably didn't realize i=  t,  =   < >>>> but he just volunteered to test a gzip port for me. :-) >>>>( >>>>> How is it an improvement on 1.2.4? >>>>I >>>>    Other than the large-file support that I centrally needed as par=  t  =  F >>>> of compressing the OpenVMS I64 DVD kits, I didn't particularly  =  E >>>> investigate the details of the changes made to gzip after 1.2.4.  >>>> >>>> >>>>I >>> Testing it now, and will report back later.  It would be nice if gzi=  p  =  
 >>> respected 2 >>> version incrementation instead of overwriting. >>> > >>> HAFNER> dir $1$DGA2:[000000]common.sav*/size=3Dunit=3Dbyte >>> Directory $1$DGA2:[000000]  >>> COMMON.SAV;1         20.49GB  >>> COMMON.SAV-GZ;1       5.03GB >>> I >> BTW  the zipped file above was not derived from that common.sav (that=    =    >> was8 >> derived from an older copy) using the new gzip  I get >> COMMON.SAV-GZ;1      12.36GB 2 >>  so a reduction from 20.49GB to 12.36GB  or 40% >> >>> FREJA> gzip COMMON.SAVI >>> gzip: $1$DGA2:[000000]COMMON.SAV-gz already exists; do you wish to  =    >>> overwrite (y >>> or n)? y >> > G > The difference in compression is large here. I wonder: what is the  =   I > /group size that was used in the two originals? If the first had 0 so =   =  H > there were no xor blocks, and the second had perhaps the default, I  =  I > would be totally UNsurprised by the observed difference. XOR blocks ar=  e  =  I > deadly for adaptive algorithms that just try to treat them as part of =   =   > the "normal" stream.   I used the default.      back dsa0:/image/verify  =  7 $1$DGA2:[000000]common.sav/save/ignore=3D(inter,noback)    > H > If the contents and the Backup factors like size of xor groups (and  =  I > record size: the backup record headers also compress less well than mo=  st  =   I > data and small blocksize will tend to compress worse than large) are t=  he  =   I > same, then the difference in size of the result is really puzzling and=    =    > suggests something wrong.  >  > Glenn Everhart   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.364 ************************                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ''9;cdF'W6NoS;fWjN;'?;yx:e|RCwx.~e76f#
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