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Dilbert Does Virtualization 9 64 (2/12/2008 1:48:16 PM) comp.os.vms http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20183362080212.gif ... Kilgallen

Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS 1 95 (1/10/2008 2:13:52 PM) comp.os.vms I just took a look at the online documentation for the product Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS. It looks at VMS files to see if any contain viruses that might affect a Windows machine. Is anyone in the newgroup... Kilgallen

Disconnecting a drive being used by Time Machine 5 187 (1/7/2008 7:37:30 PM) comp.sys.mac.system My wife's new MacBook running MacOS X 10.5.1 has just been hooked up to an external drive (bought for the purpose) to run Time Machine. There is a question about the proper protocol for disconnecting from the ... Kilgallen

Converting PDF to text 33 55 (12/23/2007 6:41:12 PM) comp.sys.mac.system What would people recommend for converting PDF to Text that: a) can be purchased on CDROM (no downloading) b) is compatible with MacOS X 10.5.1 c) can do this to a document that is 400 pages long I reali... Kilgallen

MacDraw 19 60 (12/17/2007 10:08:51 PM) comp.sys.mac.system My wife bought a new Macintosh running MacOS 10.5.1 today, and she is wondering what is the logical replacement for MacDraw. Being able to import her existing MacDraw files would be nice, but something morally... Kilgallen

Buying incremental MacOS releases on disc 21 52 (11/9/2007 2:04:49 PM) comp.sys.mac.system In considering getting a more modern Macintosh, I see web sites predicting MacOS X 10.5.1 release within a few months. What is the current mechanism for buying such a release for a machine: a. that is not on... Kilgallen

Porting HP C from Alpha to Itanium - __DIVG_C 60 68 (5/30/2007 11:58:02 AM) comp.os.vms I have not had much contact with Itanium due to the lack of PLI and compatible Ada compilers. But I (naively) told someone their Alpha C program would be "compile-and-link" on Itanium and she could keep her VA... Kilgallen

AMD's well may be running dry 171 97 (3/11/2007 2:51:01 PM) comp.os.vms From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_bi_ge/amd_intel_shifting_fortunes;_ylt=Aq92wST7yGqKfikqJHJ7jCNj24cA SAN JOSE, Calif. - The high-flying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of 2006 has given way to a co... Kilgallen

MacOS X emulation of VT100 Application Keypad Mode 36 67 (2/16/2007 10:10:47 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I use MacOS 9.1, and in particular the Reflections terminal emulator to access OpenVMS systems running DEC Notes. Some years ago I tried MacOS X and its (then) new Terminal Utility and found it wanting. Last ... Kilgallen

NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 1 0 67 (12/21/2006 5:54:14 PM) comp.os.vms The US Government has published Revision 1 to the "Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems", although for US federal systems (including those run by US federal government contractors) on t... Kilgallen

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OT: now CA schools want to indoctrinate your kids with communism 1 65 (3/5/2008 2:54:49 PM) comp.os.vms http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58061 ... ultradwc (217)

Burn a CD from XP that VMS will mount/read? 18 69 (3/5/2008 9:14:08 PM) comp.os.vms Hello, I am trying to apply patches to a newly installed I64 VMS server in a black environment. This server has no network connections (yet) and even when it does it will not have access to the white world or ... bakermo (4)

Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! 95 49 (3/8/2008 6:04:09 AM) comp.lang.ada As many of may have already noticed, there has been a tremendous furor over the lack of multicore support in the common languages like C and C++. I have been reading these articles in EE Times and elsewhere... abcdefg (56)

New HP laptops for sale 14 51 (3/13/2008 1:16:42 PM) comp.os.vms RB546UA#ABA nx6325 RB546UA#ABA Processor AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Processor TL-50 (1.6GHz) Operating System Genuine Windows XP Professional System Memory 1024 MB 66... dturner4 (178)

VMS Mail translates incoming tilde character into a dollar sign. 128 89 (3/13/2008 10:25:24 PM) comp.os.vms Dear comp.os.vms, This one caught me by surprise. Apparently the problem has been around for at least a year, looking back into old mail. Let's hope none of you are reading this on VMS Mail. ;-) ... bach (43)

Re: VMS Mail translates incoming tilde character into a dollar sign. #2 2 54 (3/15/2008 5:48:54 PM) comp.os.vms From: AEF > Bill, what does Unix offer for mail? I haven't used it lately, but years ago, when I had a Sun workstation at my desk, I used dtmail (one of Sun's contributions to the real CDE, as I recall). ... sms (1039)

Please critique my backup practices 32 48 (3/20/2008 2:02:14 PM) comp.os.vms To do a backup, I pop a drive out of a shadowset, back it up and put it back. The problem is, I don't record the backup dates. I have a incremental that runs every night that does record backup dates. If I h... tadamsmar (630)

Re: Too many files in one directory (again) #2 3 59 (3/21/2008 7:45:45 PM) comp.os.vms From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= > > I just pass this along as a reminder that there's still some room > > for improvement in dealing with cases like this which,... > > And some of them are und... sms (1039)

Thanx for the assistance wtih VMS security questions in general 4 56 (3/24/2008 6:53:30 PM) comp.os.vms Good Morning, Thanx to the folks that provided usefull information. Some of your feedback was quite helpfull, and much appreciated. My requirements for research were fairly broad: (1) The capability to gene... rfc2307 (2)

Tripwire on OpenVMS Best Practices? 7 59 (3/21/2008 8:52:41 PM) comp.os.vms Good Morning, I'm looking for any information on best practices on what to monitor, that is Operating System specific on the OpenVMS platform. Any information or lessons learned would be appreciated. Please re... rfc2307 (2)