KCLUG February 2007

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Sun considers GPLv3
by David Nicol 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-6157761.html?tag=st.util.print

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Fwd: Job Opportunity - Application Analyst II
by djgoku 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

I wonder if this is the job that Wade is hiring for? ________________________________ Job Title: Application Analyst II Location: United States/Kansas/Overland Park/Overland Park YRC Worldwide Technologies, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, a Fortune 500 transportation and related service company, seeks a dynamic and flexible performer to join our high energy team. If you're interested in making global commerce work by connecting people, places and information, then we have the right opportunity for you. This position reports to the Manager of Information Solutions This position will be located in Overland Park, KS Summary The Application Analyst II works in a team environment developing detailed specifications outlining programming requirements. Responsible for analysis, design, and implementation of moderately complex information system solutions using development methodology. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents and maintains these programs. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: Acquires knowledge to monitor, troubleshoot and resolve all system problems and analyzes, installs, and tests upgrades application programs of medium complexity. Provides rotational 24 x 7 on-call support. Writes and maintains documentation of changes to computer code, programs and specifications using efficient and cost effective design techniques. Codes screen layouts, graphical user interfaces, printed outputs, and interfaces with other systems according to specifications using cost effective techniques. Consults with customer during design and test, and debugs programs during customer acceptance testing to attain customer approval. Trains end customers or technical support staff to use programs or sub system. Successfully manages small to medium projects following methodology. Analyzes and estimates time and cost of work as well as feasibility and compatibility with other systems. Participate in departmental or cross-functional quality activities as needed to improve work process or improve customer-supplier relationships. Assist more senior staff members to train and orient new team members in departmental functions or customers in system related functions. Understands and applies company standards, methodologies, processes, and procedures. Participates in the development of standards, tools, methodologies, processes, and procedures across the organization. May perform other job-related duties as assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Required: • 3+ years experience Mainframe • 3+ years experience JCL • 3+ years experience COBOL • 3+ years experience DB2 • 3+ years experience CICS Preferred: • 1-5 years experience Javascript and HTML • 3+ years experience Java Education and/or Experience: Four year college degree, or three to five years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Disclaimer The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. YRC Worldwide Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at www.yellowroadway.com/careers then click on YRC Worldwide Technologies Inc. YRC Worldwide Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and requires pre-employment drug testing. Replies to this message are undeliverable and will not reach the Human Resource Department. Please do not reply.

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JobOP - hardware support
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

A former cow-erker of mine emailed me about an opening with a large, stable company. Details below, email me your resume and I'll pass it along if you are interested. Sorry for the HTML email, but I wanted to preserve the job description in the original format. Brian Kelsay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------- Know anybody who is interested in a hardware position? It is $40K to $50K. If you do, have them send me a resume, I'll get it to the interviewer. Update: I don't want to put a damper on anyone's enthusiasm. Not having a degree will not count them out, but they will be in line after the applicants who do have a degree or are working on it. Job family description Desktop Support Specialist II * Configures and installs new computer hardware and software for end users. * Assist end users with moderate to complex hardware, software and operating system issues. * Performs asset management activities such inventory check in, updates and reconciliation. * Coordinates and configures IT products and services for activities such as video conferencing, webinars and conference room presentations. * Documents group process and procedure. Reviews documentation created by team members. * Researches, recommends and implements solutions with direction from the senior or team leader. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems preferred. 3 - 5 years experience. Should be pursuing Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification * Experienced with Windows XP, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. * Experienced working in a Windows server network environment specifically account and file management. * Experienced with current PC/laptop hardware. * Understands the troubleshooting process and can communicate effectively with end users. Job duties include but are not limited to: PC/Laptop setup, configuration, installation and removal Hardware break/fix Hardware related asset management Physical hardware moves Documentation of hardware specific policies and procedures Event setup, configuration and scheduling

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Two 16+2 port switches
by Jonathan Hutchins 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

My basement switch failed yesterday, so I called Surplus Exchange. They said they had two 16 port 10/100 switches for $10 each, so I picked them up. What they turn out to be are 16 port 10M switches with a two-port 10/100 uplink module. Not what I need. Will pass them on for what I paid. NBase Mega Switch G Model NH218, with NH202-2MP Uplink module. Managed switch with SNMP. Management access through nine pin standard RS-232 serial port on front panel. 1U rackmount with ears, 120V(230V) power on back. Two fans, one unit is missing a fan. 16 10M ports, two 10/100 uplink ports, total 18 ports.

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Fwd: Kansas City: Pandora Get-together
by Brian Kelsay 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

I thought that some of you music fans or programmers might be interested in this. Pandora is a site for online music, but based on your specific selections, ratings and other recommendations they come up with a music genome. It's early so I'm not explaining this well, just think music and algorithms. Brian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Westergren <tour(a)pandora.com> Date: 07 Feb 2007 14:24:45 PST Subject: Kansas City: Pandora Get-together *Join me for a Pandora Get-together in Kansas City!* Thanks a ton to all of you who wrote in with suggestions of where to host the upcoming Pandora meet-up in Kansas City. Your thoughts were extremely helpful and I already feel warmly welcomed. Screenland was pretty much a consensus favorite, so we went with that: *Where: Screenland Theatre Crossroads<http://dbm.pandora.com/t?r=927&c=879611&l=35780&ctl=1624A5C:F59B077156350D9…> ** 1656 Washington, Kansas City, MO* *(map and directions<http://dbm.pandora.com/t?r=927&c=879611&l=35780&ctl=1624A5A:F59B077156350D9…>) * *When: Wednesday, February 21st at 7:00 PM * *RSVP: Reply to this email* This get-together is a free event, open to everyone. It's a chance for me to share our story with you and hear what you have to say. I'll tell you about the Music Genome Project's beginnings, living through the dot-com collapse and what this last whirlwind year has been like. Most of all I'd like to get your ideas and thoughts about the service and where you think music is headed. I'll also have some nice Pandora gear for everyone! Please *RSVP by replying to this email*. You're welcome to bring guests, the more the merrier... just let us know. Dina who is helping plan this will make sure you're on the guest list. Very excited to meet you. -Tim (c) copyright 2006, Pandora Media, Inc. All rights reserved. You are currently subscribed to receive email updates from Pandora. If you would like to unsubscribe, please log in to your account at www.pandora.com, click on the account button, click 'edit my account', click edit, uncheck the checkbox in the lower-left of the screen, and click save. If you have any trouble, please email pandora-support(a)pandora.com. To ensure that Inside the Genome gets delivered to your inbox, please add ' insidethegenome(a)pandora.com' to your address book.

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Not fixing a problem
by Jonathan Hutchins 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

I find myself in an interesting dilemma. I run logwatch the mail and web servers I manage. It used to give me some useful info, but these days, it has problems. It's catching every single 404 from the web server logs. On a site with ~40,000 pages, ~150,000 unique URL's, that's heavily crawled by robots on a daily basis, that makes for a pretty large report. Add to that the fact that it's also reporting every bounced spam, and it appears to be reporting all of the NNTP log entries as well, and any useful information is obliterated in a report that's well over a megabyte of text. So I tried to follow the instructions and turn off HTTPD reporting. Apparently, I got the syntax wrong, so now instead of the 1.4 meg report, all I get is an error message. Which is really just as useful. So why fix it? I know it's theoretically possible to configure and customize logwatch, but when I tried to find documentation on it, all I found were incredibly detailed and obtuse instructions for building your own custom log filters from the ground up. Not helpful. I'm posting this for your amusement at the dilemma, and in the vague hope that someone, somewhere, has written an intelligible guide to configuring logwatch on a very superficial level. Then again, maybe someone knows of a better tool.

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Cancel the Meeting Tonight?
by Christopher A. Bier 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Should we cancel the meeting tonight? The fire doesn't look like it's going to quit any time soon, and all the bridges are closed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFyk16E5xXU3JS1mQRAmj4AKC7Jag+ToE9nwdLXa+sPDvzXSlBLwCgyioy NGwwr/CRXhXUL0u6xENtEL8= =363i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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In other news
by Jared 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Its kind of quiet, so here are some things to chew on: 1. I propose the Novell-Linux-Microsoft "mistake" in the news is part of a larger pattern of FUD, wherein well-placed reporters are assigned to specifically target the misconception of Open Source licensing, intending to strengthen the profile that hackers are trying to take over the world by being mean to little ol' Microsoft. Nah. I'm pulling your leg. http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/05/181235 2. Omnibase Logic, a small high-tech company with a bunch of Ph.Ds on board, recently made headlines, being the first American company to capitalize on practical applications for ternary logic beyond the ternary search algorithm. They make circuitry which runs smaller and faster than binary, and uses less energy. Currently obviated by the discovery of hafnium, yet ternary logic will rise again a few years from now as the limits of hafnium are reached. A dollar invested today will be worth 100 then. http://www.omnibaselogic.com/about/ 3. Kernel mode, user mode, and now guest mode. "Since a virtual machine is simply a process, all of the standard Linux process management tools apply: one can destroy, pause, and resume a virtual machine... This allows system administrators to manage virtual machines with existing tools..." Nice. The incrementalist and stable approach used by Qumranet and now in the kernel is much appreciated by this reporter. http://www.qumranet.com/opensource.php And now for something completely ordinary, -Jared

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the future of wardriving :)
by David Nicol 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088910,00.asp?kc=EWSTEEMNL020107EOAD -- Q: How do I decode unix seconds-since-the-epoch timestamps? A: xterm -T TIMESTAMP_TRANSLATOR -e perl -ple'$_= ~~localtime$_' &

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Fwd: PL/I for GCC version 0.0.14 release
by David Nicol 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: henrik.sorensen(a)balcab.ch <henrik.sorensen(a)balcab.ch> Date: Feb 2, 2007 6:01 AM Subject: PL/I for GCC version 0.0.14 release To: gcc(a)gcc.gnu.org February 2007 This is the fourteenth code drop of the GCC front-end for the PL/I programming language. PL/I for GCC is released under the terms of the GNU Public License; version 2. With pl1gcc-0.0.14 another important milestone has been reached. v0.0.14 is the first release where it is possible to create a partly referencelist for the variables in a program, and an overview of %INCLUDE files. Beside structure level information the referencelist contains the following declare attributes: REAL/COMPLEX FIXED/FLOAT BINARY/DECIMAL AUTOMATIC/BASED/CONTROLLED/DEFINED/STATIC/PARAMETER INTERNAL/EXTERNAL AREA/BIT/CHARACTER/GRAPHIC/PICTURE/WIDECHAR/DATE PROCEDURE/ENTRY There is still no code generation taking place, so don't run out and uninstall your production PL/I compiler just yet :-) Changes in v0.0.14 * added location information to most messages * get rid of warning messages when building pl1gcc * synchronize with gcc version 4.3 Changed syntax in v0.0.14 * allow the tilde(~) character as not operator * allow BUFF as abbreviation for BUFFERS * allow ENVIRONMENT( ... ) as part of OPEN statement * allow %INCLUDE to have filename inside quotes Sourcecode contributions to pl1gcc * From Andy&Pam Norrie: a project used for score keeping of match-races for halfton yachts. For a complete list of changes check the CHANGELOG file. What is pl1gcc? The pl1gcc project is an attempt to create a native PL/I compiler using the GNU Compiler Collection. The project is looking for more people to join the development and testing. There are a number of interesting tasks related to the pl1gcc project, where any help would be greatly appreciated. a) Error regression infrastructure b) Error message codes c) Case insensitive include name expansion d) Test cases e) Project web pages f) Language reference manual g) User guide h) Tutorial to PL/I i) Frequently asked questions j) Internals of pl1gcc For more information, comments, feedback and download, please visit http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net Finally, remember to have some fun. The GCC PL/I Team. Web links mentioned: http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net -- Q: How do I decode unix seconds-since-the-epoch timestamps? A: xterm -T TIMESTAMP_TRANSLATOR -e perl -ple'$_= ~~localtime$_' &

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