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Thursday, August 11th, 2005InfoWorld this week is running a ten-page guide to building your business entirely with OSS. The guide highlights OSS alternatives for many enterprise applications categories such as CRM, ERP, content management, and so on. It’s not exhaustive, but where it skips the obvious categories like databases and Web servers it includes some others that you [...]
PHP date — Format a local time/date
Friday, June 17th, 2005string date ( string format [, int timestamp] )$hh = date(“H”);if ($hh > “11″) { after_midday() };
Fmt DescriptionDAY ===========================================================d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zerosD A textual representation of a day, three lettersj Day of the month without leading zerosl [...]
Is It Business That Doesn’t Get IT ?
Monday, April 4th, 2005Should IT management be boring ?
Last June, David Moschella wrote a ComputerWorld column entitled Why Business Leaders Ignore You … arguing that one of the main reasons so many business people embraced Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (excepts available here) was that it played to some of their deep-rooted fears [...]
Old PC Operating Systems
Sunday, March 20th, 2005Software doesn’t wear out
The Washington Post has an article on how aging operating systems are still widely used. The article states that “The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win 95, [...]
DB2 / UDB table rebalancing APAR IY48902
Thursday, February 17th, 2005DMS rebalancer is active
APAR IY48902 describes a problem which occurs when you issue an ALTER TABLESPACE command which seems to succeed–that is, there are no error messages–but in fact the operation is not performed.
A major symptom that we saw was that the db2rebal process wasn’t running even though the db2 list tablespaces show detail [...]
Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
Thursday, October 7th, 2004a mainframe under your desk
Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
Has low hardware and software requirements..
From the FAQ:“A Pentium 200 with [...]
Literate Programming?
Thursday, August 19th, 2004What is Literate Programming ?
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/tchrist/litprog.htmlLiterate programming was invented around 1983 by the very famous Donald Knuth, author of the TeX typesetting system and the multi-volume series The Art of Computer Programming. It is based on two important ideas.
The first idea is that good program documentation shouldn’t be squeezed into little `comments’. It should be structured [...]
Faster PDF reading
Sunday, August 15th, 2004How to use liposuction to repair Adobe Reader 6
When you load Adobe / Acrobat (to read *.PDF files), it loads a whole bunch of crap. To prevent this from happnening, so that it can get on with reading your PDF quicker, do the following:
Install Adobe Reader 6
From the Start->Run windows menu, [...]
DB2 UDB – Disaster Recovery, SAP
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004from DB2 DeveloperWorks
Data replication optionDB2 UDB includes integrated replication abilities. DB2’s implementation of replication consists of two pieces: Capture and Apply. The replication administrator designates replication sources from tables to be replicated, and then creates replication subscriptions on a target database, the secondary system, using the replication sources from the previous step as its source. [...]
U. S. tax code customizing SAP
Friday, July 2nd, 2004thanks to Sean House:
In the USA they have a very complex jurisdictional tax system – and tax at both the state, county, municipal and (even lower) levels. This makes taxation highly complex [for example, in the state of Louisiana you might have a different tax rate on one side of the street than you do [...]
Status of CICS/CEMT FROM BATCH interface (MTPBATCH)
Thursday, July 1st, 2004Under CICS,BMTP INQthen goto SDSF and look at the CICS* output – use INPUT ON mode if required
SDSF JOB DATA SET DISPLAY – JOB CICSCPD0 (STC03760) COMMAND INPUT === [...]
SAP OSS Note 438315
Thursday, July 1st, 2004LVEPR causes Rpcalc to dump if Base salary > 1.2 million Note Number: 438315 Application Area: PY-AU Last Changed On: 01.10.2001 Priority: Correction with high priority Category: Program error Release Status: Released for Customer
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