I think IBM calls it the iSeries now. :)

My brother would use Linux, but cannot figure out how to install or configure it. So he picked Windows 2000 and IIS because it is easier for him to use. We shall install Winroute for his Firewall to keep the Script-Kddies out.

I am not a FUCKING NEWBIE, I fucking ran Linux in 1995-1997, in fucking fact the copies of Linux I have from 1995-1997 run fucking fine with the bitch ass motherfucker older than dirt hardware that I have. Modern Linux pukes on it. In fact, if you want to fucking pay for the shipping I can send the Whitebox PC to you and you can fucking put it on there yourself and ship it back, deal? Chances are you will say to me "Fucking buy a new system, this one is too old to run Linux!"

Slackware 3.X installs just fine on my 200Mhz Pentium MMX Whitebox system, but it is old old old, and I'd much rather have the new stuff. Yet the new stuff pukes on me, except for KNOPPIX Linux, which is just a bootable CDR with their brand of Linux on it.

I call it X-Windows, like you call Microsoft's crapware Windoze. [link|http://www.xfree86.org/|Xfree86] is more like it if you want to get fucking detailed on it. But then your a fucking IT God, you knew this shit and are just fucking with me right? I mean, come on Peter. That is where the hell you download bug fixes and updates from, right? It is a port of the [link|http://www.x.org/|X Window System] which I and others joking call X-Windows to make it sound like MS-Windows. In fact, [link|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=X-Windows&btnG=Google+Search|Enter X-Windows into Google] and see what the fuck pops up and stop kidding around with me over the spelling of the fucking product! How about I call it "Peter's Fucking GUI for Unix systems that needs a major rewrite and has more kludged up windows managers than any other GUI I know and according to him should autmagically work and be called X Windows and not X-Windows. So we disagree over the hyphen in the name"

Error I got, as far as I can remember, was "Missing fixed width font" and "Missing screen" on the other install. Of course I reformatted the hard drive and installed NT 4.0 in fustration. Tell you what, I'll install it on VirtualPC, see if the error message pops up, then take a screen shot and fucking email it to you. if the error does not come up, I'll just use Virtual PC instead of my old hardware. If I can get the network part to work (if you can, reconmend a good Linux Ethernet card, I'll buy it) and only the CLI comes up, if I can I'll get AT&T's VNC on it, set you up a password and have you remotely log into it and fix the fucker. That is if I can get a VNC server than doesn't need that fucking crapware that is called "X Windows" to work. If you are not up to it, my neighbor says that he can configure SuSE 8.0 to work with my old hardware; however, it could be my monitor and display adapter causing it to panic. All I know is that KNOPPIX works like a champ, but it is CD only, and that Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, etc all puke on it complaining about a missing fixed width font or missing screen. I've tried a S3 VirgeDX, ATI Rage Pro II and got the same results. My monitor is a generic 17" SVGA monitor that I bought from Circuit City for Christmas two years ago because it was on sale. Either it is a CTX or EMC. I haven't done an FCC ID lookup on it yet. All I know is that the generic monitor settings don't work on it. My neighbor says that he might be able to fix it, as he's a Linux Guru of many years, but has been out of work for two years because St. Louis is mostly a MS-Shop. I would have taken him up on the offer; however, I've been fucking busy with that new job and trying to get a test environment to work at home until our NA can set up a VPN that works. I can connect to the VPN, log in with my password and user ID, but I cannot see any of the servers, cannot ping their IP, I am on the same subnet, and IP range as them, same gateway and DNS server settings, etc. I had a 192.168.0.1 IP range on my local network, but our NA said to change that to something else. So I did, many times, and none of them work. If you got ideas about how to get a VPN connection working please let me know and I can reformat my NT/W2K boxes back to Linux so I can get some fucking work at home.

Damn, I am turning into a CRC clone. Cussing, and downloading IB, Delphi/Kylix, and other shit. What the fuck is happening to me?

In the meantime I'll do what I can to prevent myself from taking my own life, and live so that you don't have to fly over here and give me that ass kicking that your promised me if I ever got that way again.

at least not until my son grows up. Because I haven't grown up yet, I am one of his best friends, my wife says it is like having two 3 year olds around the house. :) We both watch cartoons, eat food, and play with toys in the front room until she gets off of work. Mine happened to be a laptop or remote control for the TV, his was Hotwheels, and blocks, and other stuff.

Soon I'l be writing code in Delphi and Kylix and then converting from Access and SQL Server into Interbase. :)

but I rather prefer "Awakenings" or "Crazy People". :)

From 1993-1996 I worked with an AS/400. This was before they started putting in PowerPC chips in them. It ran very slow, and the Showcase ODBC we used to connect up with the database on the AS/400 was slow. All I did was the Client Access/400 software install, and the database to make sure that the Network Administrator did not assign two virtual terminals the same session ID codes.

We migrated databases from the AS/400 to a SQL Server running under NT 3.1 and it was much faster. The poor AS/400 had a ton of other users giving it requests and I think a whole bunch of RPG, COBOL, FORTAN, and PL/1 programs running on it, taking up processor time. Many of which were converted to the AS/400 from an old IBM 4381 Mainframe that we happened to get rid of by hiring consultants to quickly port those programs to the AS/400 environment.

Piror to the PowerPC upgrades to the AS/400, from what I saw, the AS/400 was very very slow. I assume that the PowerPC upgrades have speed things up now?

the point I was trying to make was not that a NT Box was faster than an AS/400, but that the AS/400 had been juggling so much stuff that moving part of it over to a NT Box that did nothing but run a SQL Server made the database run faster.

We had AP/AR people upset because it took about 6 to 15 minutes to find an invoice on the AS/400 database. So then it took about 15 to 30 seconds on the SQL Server. The NT SQL Server did not have a ton of stuff running in the background as the AS/400 did. I doubt the NT Server could handle a load like that. It was only a 486, way back when we put NT 3.1 on it. It also ran a Token Ring network card at 4mbs. Remember Token Ring? :)