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Comment Thin skinned (Score 1) 354

by edack on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:06PM (#60340973) Attached to: Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!'

Did someone forget his asbestos Depends(tm) again?

Comment Re:If IBM really wants to help (Score 1) 116

by edack on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:52PM (#59933632) Attached to: IBM Rallies COBOL Engineers To Save Overloaded Unemployment Systems

Well they did place MVS 3.8j in the public domain.

Comment Re:For what application? (Score 1) 133

by edack on Sunday April 25, 2010 @08:21AM (#31973158) Attached to: EComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14

You mean they are forced to buy Windows. Dell was running an ad right hear touting their netbook with Ubuntu. click on the add all you get was a machine with Windows, and yes I tried to reconfigure it without any OS, not possible. Tried to find the advertised product also not available. I don't want Windows yet if I buy a new PC/laptop/netbook guess what I get.

Journal Journal: TD Bank online ?upgrade?

Journal by edack on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @08:17PM

My bank TD Bank in the USA as they purchased Commerce Bank, decided to merge and upgrade their systems. Somthing went horribly wrong.

Since Friday The bank processes some debits right away and some deposits right away. However, my direct deposit is not there. I have called them and get the message "Your call can be completed at this time, please try again later". Calls to my branch which previously had reached a person now go to the branch closed voicemail.

Comment Re:SSD (Score 1) 611

by edack on Sunday July 19, 2009 @11:20PM (#28752523) Attached to: Best Home Backup Strategy Now?

How about a Teletype ASR 33 with mylar tape? Sure it takes while, but I can still read my tapes from 1977 (DG Nova 820 16 MB Core) How about you?

Comment Re:Here is to.... (Score 1) 223

by edack on Saturday July 11, 2009 @12:56AM (#28657789) Attached to: Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce

Have you looked at Hercules? It's a great mainframe emulator. It will run MVS, ZOS and in a wierd configuration you could host it on a 1U server running Linux, bring up ZOS, and then run Linux under ZOS.

Comment Re:You are Micro Focus (Score 1) 351

by edack on Thursday May 07, 2009 @07:41AM (#27857785) Attached to: Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus

APL !

Microsoft Faces Fight Against Online Office Rival 186

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 22, 2007 @06:20PM from the docs-on-the-move dept.

bharatm writes "It's now been a decade since Microsoft bought Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service, for about $400 million. Now Sabeer Bhatia (the site's co-founder) is challenging the software giant's core $20 billion office desktop business. Yesterday Sabeer Bhatia released a free online rival to the bestselling Office suite of applications that will allow users to view, share and edit documents from any computer. 'Designed to help consumers avoid expensive upgrades and to foster collaboration on a secure internet platform, Live Documents matches features found in Office 2007, the most recent version. It will be given away to individuals with 100MB of free data storage space per user. Companies will pay for the system, either hosted remotely or on an internal server, at a discount to Microsoft's licensed technology.'"

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