Monday, March 21, 2005
Battle of Jutland Order of Battle - World War 1 Naval Combat
All the ships who were present at the battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.
Monday, February 14, 2005
CPYFRMIMPF at V5R3
IBM made some changes in their V5R3 implementation of CPYFRMIMPF. It turns out that they are really starting to obey the CCSID set for the file, so if your system value is set to 65535 (binary/no translation) then you'll really get no translation. Read the below APAR for an explanation, and the PTF that's available to restore the V5R2 behaviour.
IBM eServer iSeries Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APAR): II13784
IBM eServer iSeries Recommended Fixes - Database: SI16664
PTF SI16664 - Operating System/400
PTF/FIX #: SI16752 - Operating System/400
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Linrad home page
Friday, February 04, 2005
USS San Francisco
USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS Sanfrancisco crashed into an uncharted undersea mountain south of Guam. These are some photos of the damage. One sailor was killed, 23 seriously injured. Obviously, the crew sailed the boat pack to port.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader variant counters.
Found this nice web site for new PB/PL counters. Panzerblitz and Leader are Avalon Hill games from the 70s.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
January VHF contest
Just sent in my score for the January VHF contest. Pitiful. It's easily the worst I've done in a long time, but the blizzard and lack of participants didn't help at all. Here's a summary
I use RoverLog by Tom N1MU to log my contests
RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs Grid QSOs Grid QSOs
FN22 9 FN23 8 FN32 12
FN33 3
RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 3 1 3 2
144 18 1 18 3
222 0 2 0 0
432 11 2 22 3
903 0 4 0 0
1.2 0 4 0 0
2.3 0 8 0 0
3.4 0 8 0 0
5.7 0 8 0 0
10 0 8 0 0
24 0 8 0 0
47 0 8 0 0
76 0 8 0 0
119 0 8 0 0
142 0 8 0 0
241 0 8 0 0
300 0 8 0 0
LIGHT 0 8 0 0
Grids activated: 4
Totals: 32 43 12
Claimed Score: 516
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Outsourcing angst
On the one hand, it's reasonably clear that US programmers are losing jobs to India. Not good for US programmers. But I don't recall the same level of stink when US consultants were taking their jobs in the 90s.