Our friend Aaron Bartell produced a … um … interesting (yeah, that’s the right word) video while taking a break from writing an article for System i Network magazine. What do you think?
Aaron’s Video
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System i evolution: The missing link is still missing (Part 2)
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How did we do? Well, it has been a mixed bag. Our interest in keeping the solution cross platform quickly ran aground as we faced the difficulty in getting the more entrenched RPG programmers to embrace Java as well as finding Java programmers who were comfortable in the System i world. We also got some…
System i evolution: The missing link is still missing (part 1)
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Five years ago I started a company with a few other folks who were trying to “save” a school administration system that was written in RPG that we did not own. In this particular case, the company that owned the software and the source code was really just using the customer base as a revenue…
iSociety
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The other day I was wandering around the internet and found a blog post that had a short interview with Toni Taylor, who is the IBM liaison to iSociety, that I thought was pretty good. Since midrange.com is one of the founding members of iSociety, and as a sort of experiment, I’m going to make…
Awards
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For those of you who have been paying attention, midrange.com was nominated for a System i Innovation Award in the Community Support category. While we didn’t win the award (Trevor Perry of angustheitchap.com won), it was quite an honor to be a finalist. It certainly shows that people have noticed, and appreciate, the work that…
Service Programs
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Hah, I’ll bet you thought this blog was dead … didn’t you? It’s not … at least mostly not dead. Here’s a hint that might save your bacon sometime in the future. It may seem obvious to some people … but Service Programs are probably the BEST enhancement to System i that IBM ever implemented….
Stuff is Happening
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Things are happening in the System i / iSeries / AS400 community. The COMMON conference is just around the corner … and there promises to be some pretty big news announced there. Trevor Perry announced a new site: www.i4everyone.com as a place to showcase YOUR marketing ideas for System i. He is looking for images…
System i5 with USB ports?
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Strange as it sounds … this is what I’ve observed on a new System i5 Model 520 we just took delivery of at work. I could be wrong, of course, but I do have pictures to back up the claim… Here’s the backplane of the system … Here’s a closeup of the…
What’s in a name?
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Back in February, IBM Systems Magazine ran an article “The Name Game” by Neil Tardy. Yours truly was quoted in the article … but Neil only mentioned the names of my wife and my laptops (lorien & rohan respectively). For the record: The main mail server that runs midrange.com is named ‘rivendell’ and the primary…
News Server
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As many of you know, it’s possible to access most of the midrange.com mailing lists via a news reader (nntp) using the gmane.org news server. Now, however, it’s also possible to access the lists via a news reader using a midrange.com news server! Visit news.midrange.com for information on how to do this. In order to…