Words of wisdom from the IBM i community
Minor announcement … midrange.com’s mail server has been upgraded. It used to be a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (2.4ghz P4, 640mb ram, 160gb dasd). It is now a Dell PowerEdge SC430 (3ghz P4 Dual Core, 1gb ram, 160gb dasd). The old server wasn’t failing, and was still capable of doing the job, but it was quite…
Have you ever had a problem that has you absolutely stumped … and you ask a co-worker for assistance or post a message to an online forum (like a midrange.com mailing list) for assistance. Then, quite soon after you ask for assistance, you finally discover the answer yourself? This is called the ‘Cardboard Analyst’ phenomenon…
Yeah, I know … this blog isn’t getting the activity it probably should. Problem is, I’m a technician … not a writer. However … it might be worthwhile to take note of some of the recent improvements to midrange.com … DSL speed has been upgraded from 768 to 1100. If you land on a page…
Martin Rowe has written a well put together HOWTO on implementing the open soure anti-virus scanner ClamAV on the iSeries. It can be found at http://dbg400.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/DBG400/ClamAVoniSeries. [tags]antivirus, iseries[/tags]
Have you seen the IBM iSeries Info Center lately? The old info center’s navigation panel was a Java applet that was problematical at best. More often than not I could not get it to work properly in one browser or the other. IBM has recently revamped the navigation panel for the info center … changing…
I’d like to take a moment and remind everyone of the first rule of software upgrades … no mater how confident you are of your upgrade procedure, it is absolutely critical that you … BACKUP YOUR DATA! I’m currently dealing with a situation where someone did not do a backup before performing a upgrade, and…
Just a few quick items from the Spring 05 COMMON conference in Chicago … Scott Klement received an iSeries Innovation award from IBM & COMMON Ask the Experts night at Sundays CUDS was quite a success … a lot of list members stopped by the MIDRANGE-L table to chat. A number of list members who…
Just a quick report from the Chicago COMMON conference … and some first impressions. The expo seems bigger than before, but kind of spread out in an awkward pattern. Attendence seems to be up a bit. Although I haven’t seen any figures. I’ve run into a few people wearing the old (black) MIDRANGE-L buttons ……
If you’re attending the Spring 2005 COMMON conference in Chicago, don’t forget to stop by the MIDRANGE-L table at CUDS on Ask the Experts night. Put some faces to the email addresses. 🙂 Ask The Experts night will be … SUNDAY, March 13, 2005 from 8-10pm, Crystal Ballroom B, Green Level-West Tower Yours truly will…
<sigh> Even IBM can’t figure out what to call the AS400 / iSeries / i5. Recently I visited a IBM web page that was describing a local event … here’s a fragment of what is displayed: Take a look at the title … then look at the body. The title refers to eServer iSeries ……