P-1 Anyone ?
Brings to mind, the book "The Adolescence of P-1"
Interesting.
Posts by Ima Ballsy
172 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2018
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Tuesday 2nd February 2021 17:10 GMT 
In the Know
Having worked on a Local version to our state as provided by the COurt Systems:
System is written in Perl 5.x , System uses some home brew DB access modules as well as a Somewhat of a Framework all written back in the mid to late 1990's, all written in, you guessed it, Perl. The encryption routine was a C module that was easily hackable.
The database is Informix , I converted ours to Postgres, and YES the UI and other functions are clunky at best, but Attorneys love it.
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Slack serves up out-of-order messages, shaky comms as world goes back to work
CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream
US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base
'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up
GoDaddy hack: Miscreant goes AWOL with 28,000 users' SSH login creds after vandalizing server-side file
In case you need more proof the world's gone mad: Behold, Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels
Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the 'iMask'
Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown
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Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves
After a weekend of WTF-ing at Trump's COVID-19 testing website vow, Google-Verily's site finally comes to life... And it's not what was promised
Tuesday 17th March 2020 17:33 GMT 
ROFLMAO .....
On the flow chart of what it does.
Did the design get taken straight from head / hammer one (you know):
A: DO you have a hammer in your hand (yes / no)
NO: Find a hammer go to step A:
YES: Go to step B:
B: hit yourself in the head with hammer.
C: Does your head hurt ?
NO: Go to step B:
YES Go to step D:
D: Stop hitting your head with the hammer ....
IBM's outgoing boss Rometty awarded $20m+ in 2019 for growing revenue 0.1%
Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023
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I heard somebody say: Burn baby, burn – server inferno!
Friday 28th February 2020 15:07 GMT 
Snark .....
One of the State agencies I used to maintain the DB for, moved to a Custome renovated floor in a high rise building.
The created a centrally located 'server' room out of a 12 by 10 closet located in the middle of the floor.
To keep things secure they kept the door locked to THAT server room which housed 4 new rack servers, 4 old rack servers, high end routing equipment and the complete PBX system as well as UPS's - Your could barley walk around the racks.
Guess what the renovator forgot to do and the on contract network / system administrator / hardware manager forgot ?
Yeah, no AC to the room. -
Second DAY after they moved in, everything shut down
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save data from a computer that should have died aeons ago
Monday 24th February 2020 13:07 GMT
Most ....
of the Software written for the ti990 was COBOL based (usually MCBA)
The OS was either DNOS or DX10 (Yes I programmed on those back in the 1980's)
The systems were pretty much bullet proof and if you write decent code, never was problematic - except seg limits were restricted to 64K
Converted one of the afore mentioned setups to a Motorolla 66 series UNIX box. The var had some sort of conversion tool that could read the
tape backup off the TI and lay it down on the UNIX box.
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So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
*David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter
Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites
Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd
Wednesday 8th January 2020 17:21 GMT
Re: Oh, bullshit. Greg.
I must feel that I need to comment on Mr. Greg Kroah-Hartman !!
ANOTHER ASSHAT.
The year, 2002 and I'd just gotten my shiny new Sony Clie, but There was no support for it.
I joined the CLie users group and everyone was having the same problem
I then research and following Mr. ASSHAT's articles I updated the header files to now include the
Clie in the USB stac. I posted what I did to the CLie users group and everyone was happy.
I sent my change request along with the source to Mr. Hartman and explained I knew nothing about the process of getting something included in upstream revisions and could he please include them for me.
A few days latter I got a email reaming my out for what I had done.
A few weeks latter a USB update came out with the EXACT Clie changes I had made, but with all the "updated" Copyright (Gpl of course) with my name being removed.
Some of these guys are PURE EGOTISTICAL DICKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday 6th January 2020 13:29 GMT 
I've had .....
the GREAT pleasure of fsking about in Lennart Poettering other hell on earth creation "PulseAudio".
Think systemd , but for sound, but probably be part of systemd in some point in the future ...
I think he really is an Employee of MicroSoft in disguise ... or a total asshat .....
Wheelie bad end to 2019 for Canyon Bicycles as hackers puncture IT systems
GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated
It's 2019 so, of course, this Wells Fargo employee accused of stealing customer cash posed with wads of dosh on Instagram, Facebook
Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC
Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States
Since the FCC won't act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act
Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors
Space-wrecks: Elon's prototype Moon ferry Starship blows its top during fuel tank test
Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket
Linux kernel is getting more reliable, says Linus Torvalds. Plus: What do you need to do to be him?
IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door...
We're free in 3... 2... 1! Amazon unhooks its last Oracle database, nothing breaks and life goes on
Wednesday 16th October 2019 17:10 GMT
Re: Informix to Postgres ...
Had to go back to our intervals timeline ..
Started POC conversion Jan 2016, finished March 2016 (Includes writing conversion programs and scripts (90 days of about 6 hours a day).
Ran testing conversion August 2016 - April 2017, which included testing BY Q&A (off and on - a lot of testing done by Q&A)
Converted our first court instance May 2017. Completed all conversions of 20 existing courts by December 2017.
So, it would be safe to say 1 person converted a enterprise system to Postgres by themselves in less than a man year
Most of the work I automated with python (Hey, I'm a lazy programmer / DBA - what can I say ...)
Wednesday 16th October 2019 16:36 GMT
Re: Informix to Postgres ...
Sorry, heads down in writing python programs to generate Web pages from Postgres tables for FLASK.
Anyway, it was 500,000 USD to 1,000,000USD (Half to a full Million) depending on what options we wanted.
They even quoted a power based appliance instead of the VMWARE license for close to the high figure ....
Wednesday 16th October 2019 14:47 GMT
Informix to Postgres ...
I did a Informix to Postgres conversion for a branch of our state government.
IBM wanted us to continue to run Informix on a Mainframe at a cost of about 5,000.00 USD per month,
or by a 'Core' VMWARE license for 5000,000 - 1,000,000 one time plus maintenance.
It took me about a year to do the conversion and testing. About 230 tables converted, 80 functions and 175 triggers.
Did most of the work writing python programs to convert about 70 - 80% of the stuff for me.
Hope this gives you an idea.
From what the forums say, converting from Oracle to Postgres is not that big of a deal ..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
