15-Aug-2008
One of my major focuses in the upcoming weeks will be assisting with the port of a major user application to OpenVMS running on an Integrity server.
The developers are already building and running the application (at least the batch side) on an Itanium based system. As you would expect with a COBOL application, we are seeing lots of alignment faults. I've written a document today describing what alignment faults are and how to detect and fix them. The more privileged of you out there might like to look at Guy Peleg's article on the same subject that appeared in the Technical Journal.
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[12-Aug-2008]
Crash!:
Fortunately not a system crash, but a crash in the bus on the way to work. I'd congratulated myself on making the early bus leaving Parramatta station, thinking "Great! I'll be 10 minutes early on my second day at work" when suddenly there was a horrendous metallic crunching sound from the side of the bus. (106 words)
HP finally patches cache poisoning problem:
HP have finally released patches for the cache poisoning problem (CERT vulnerability note VU#800113) that has received so much publicity recently. (118 words)
[11-Aug-2008]
Starting a new job today:
I've started a new job today. Unfortunately, the commute is huge, but with the lack of work in the VMS space in Sydney, I can't be choosy.
I'll be discussing blogging ettiquite with my manager as soon as I get a chance, and hopefully the frequency of articles will pick up here again.
From what I've seen of this operation so far, I'm sure I'll have a lot to write about. (71 words)
[07-Jul-2008]
Element extinction:
An article at Asimov's makes for interesting reading. Robert Silverburg talks about the death of gallium, pointing out a report by a materials chemist at Germany’s University of Augsburg, who is predicting the "death" of a number of elements. (170 words)
[26-May-2008]
Congratulations, Phoenix!:
Congratulations to all the people at the Mars Phoenix project on a successful landing of the spacecraft. I'll be watching the project website with interest over the next couple of months. (31 words)
[19-May-2008]
Announcing ALMF:
Most management today desire commercial operating systems under their control be properly licensed, as they are potentially liable for licensing violations. ALMF is designed to make it easy to find out if you are violating licensing terms in your OpenVMS environment. (154 words)
[07-May-2008]
Send you name to the moon:
NASA is inviting you to send your name to the moon aboard the LRO, to be launched later this year. (58 words)
[09-Apr-2008]
3rd Annual CSS Naked Day:
In respect of CSS Naked Day, this website is removing all formatting for the day.
For more information on web standards, and the reasons behind this, see Dustin's webpage. (30 words)
[02-Apr-2008]
Artistic Style 1.22 released:
Artistic Style 1.22 has been released. Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C# and Java programming languages. This version corrects a number of bugs, adds recursive directory handling, and internalizes wildcard processing. Additionally, a Java Native Interface version and a sharable image version have been provided, allowing Artistic Style to be easily incorporated into other programs such as IDEs. More information and the links to download the package can be found at the Artistic Style home page. (99 words)
