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On tools and their appropriateness

Last week I was in Dallas, USA, working with some of my “zAcceleration Team” colleagues on an exciting enablement capability for a new IBM product. Watch this space! Well, maybe not this space in particular… 😀 One of the tasks I’m performing for this project is the development of a sample web site to “underlay” what we’re delivering. I’d already been through the process of building the web…

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z/VM Express System Installation (ESI)

I was introduced to the z/VM hypervisor in the early 2000s, around the time that IBM announced formal support for Linux on the System/390 family (earlier in my career I had heard of something called “VM/ESA”, and thought it sounded cool). I was part of the team that wrote the “ISP/ASP Solutions” IBM Redbooks publication, and during that residency I got to log on to “VM” for the first time. I had…

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Making changes to Git repository access in CodeReady Workspaces

Making changes to Git repository access in CodeReady Workspaces

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com As part of the setup of an environment for a customer workshop, I installed Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces (RHCRW) in an OpenShift cluster on IBM Z. My Z environment is in a testing lab without direct Internet connectivity and that creates some challenges — easily overcome, but it does mean that nothing is quite straightforward… In setting up the environment I was…

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LDAP on z/VM as an Open Authentication Source

LDAP on z/VM as an Open Authentication Source

I have been using LDAP as a central data store for a very long time. Back when I had a home Asterisk PBX, I had an LDAP directory that functioned as a household phone book and source of caller-ID data for the IP phones installed through the home. This LDAP directory was also the authentication source for the home Linux servers.

In 2012, when I was part of the team that wrote the first edition…

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On global roaming for data

On global roaming for data

Like most international travellers in the Internet age, during our recent travel through Europe I was confronted by the ridiculous situation that exists for mobile data access.  By ridiculous I mean ridiculously expensive.

Warnings from Telstra when a customer connects to a roaming network.

Look, don’t get me wrong: the technology that allows GSM/UMTS global roaming is pretty magical[1].  But…

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The last time

I had an unexpectedly emotional departure from Brisbane last week. It was supposed to be a standard flight to Sydney, but became something a lot more.

When I first started travelling by air, flights to Melbourne were on 737s and to Sydney were 767s. I guess you knew you were going to the “big smoke” when you were on the really big plane (sorry Melbourne, you know I love you). As flight schedules…

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Confidence

Among the coffee mugs in my cupboard at home is one I’ve had for over 20 years.  It was a gift; if I remember right, a semi-joke gift in an office “Secret Santa”.

“Works and plays well with others”. O RLY?

The slogan on it reads “Works and plays well with others”, and it’s a reference to one of the standard phrases seen on children’s school report cards.  It’s one of the standard mugs in my hot…

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Relaunching... again

Relaunching… again

It’s been a long time since I wrote here. The earlier content you see here actually came from my previous blogs at veejoe-dot-com-dot-au and later viccross-dot-com, both of which for various reasons are… no longer available. So why relaunch? Well, mostly because I still have things to say! I have not decided exactly what yet, but let’s see where it goes.

To get things started, and to…

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“Dog lovers—and such beings do exist—derive much joy from their Dobermans, their quaking Chihuahuas, and everything in between, and we should not begrudge them that delight; to be ceaselessly gratified by one’s pet, however, and to find one’s love returned with interest, on all occasions, is bad education for the soul. Cat people, on the other hand, know what it is to be adored and then rejected, with no explanation, in the space of a single minute, with the purr switched off like an alarm clock.”

Anthony Lane on cat lovers. Read hisforeword to “The Big New Yorker Book of Cats”: http://nyr.kr/17VS58p (via newyorker)

So so so true. 3 

Cat people, unite!

(via wired)

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Firefly / Serenity FTW

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