From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Tech Time Warp of the Week: Check Out Mid-'90s Netscape, the Coolest Startup in Silicon Valley Date: 28 Feb 2014 Blog: Google+re:
Tech Time Warp of the Week: Check Out Mid-'90s Netscape, the Coolest
Startup in Silicon Valley
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/tech-time-warp-netscape
we were brought in to consult with small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce" (we had previously worked with two people that were responsible for their "commerce server", when they were at Oracle).
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: RSA 2014: Target Breach Has Bigger Impact on Data Security than Snowden, says Vormetric Date: 28 Feb 2014 Blog: Google+re:
RSA 2014: Target Breach Has Bigger Impact on Data Security than
Snowden, says Vormetric
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/37169/rsa-2014-target-breach-has-bigger-impact-on-data-security-than-snowden-says-vormetric
More than decade ago we were tangentially involved with the Cal. state
data breach legislation. We had been brought in to help wordsmith the
cal. state electronic signature legislation and many of the
participants were heavily involved with privacy issues. They had done
extensive public privacy surveys and the #1 issue was financial fraud
as result of breaches. The problem is that normally security measures
are taken in self protection. The issue with breaches is that the
institution isn't at risk, but the public and so there was little
motivation to take countermeasures. There was some hope that the
publicity from notifications would prompt countermeasures. In the more
than a decade since the cal. legislation there have been similar acts
passed in other states. There have also been several notifications
acts introduced in congress (none have passed), about equally divided
between similar to cal's act and acts that would effectively eliminate
requirement for notification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
For-profit corporations now account for 70% of intelligence budget and
over half the people ... and possibly have little motivation in taking
security countermeasures (similar to their retail counterparts). The
agency also has the Success Of Failure issue
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
one issue in the above incident was that the whistleblower just reported to the responsible parties in congress and there was no release of classified information ... and was still charged the same as person in the most recent incident (and charges only relatively recently dropped).
I believe it is security classification ... IBM (use to have?) had with increasing levels of data protection "IBM Internal Use Only", "IBM Confidential", "IBM Confidential - Restricted", and "IBM Registered Confidential". There was a industrial espionage case over 30yrs ago involving plans for unannounced 3380 walking out the door. IBM was claiming a couple billion in damages. Judge ruled that IBM had to show security procedures proportional to value. As aside in the late 70s I had a whole raft of "IBM Registered Confidential" documents having to do with 370/xa ... besides all sorts of locks ... office was regularly checked after hours for unsecured documents along with random inventory audit of documents in my possession (Registered Confidential included each document copy having unique serial number)
posts mentioning electronic signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:52:40 -0500JimP. <pongbill127@cableone.net> writes:
mentions 570,000 active in 2011 with forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. there is some discussion about degree of effectiveness ... part of WW2 strategy was overwhelming resources to defeat enemies ... lots of raw brute force ground forces.
the draw down in Iraq & Afghanistan reduces army role and emphasis
on ground troops ... the "asia/pacific pivot" increases emphasis on
navy & air force roles (along with various special forces).
http://www.defense.gov/News/newsarticle.aspx?ID=119505
i've mentioned gao report about desert storm ... significant
percentage of iraqi tanks were taken out by air strikes before the
ground war began and iraqis began walking away from their tanks
(because they were sitting ducks). Later coalition tanks were
reporting completely destroying large number of iraqi tanks w/o taking
any damage ... however there are no numbers about how many of those
iraqi tanks actually had anybody home.
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent posts mentioning iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#15 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#31 An insider's story of the global attack on climate science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#52 US Army hopes to replace 25% of soldiers with robots by 2040
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#54 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#58 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#106 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb Date: 28 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookLet's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get educated before we can defeat Internet threats
Internet threats are just a small part. Boyd used millions of dollars
of supercomputer time for E/M and F16 design, F16 was already part way
to being a drone with "fly-by-wire", F22 has 1.7M lines-of-code, F35
was originally suppose to be 5.7M lines-of-code but has exploded now
to 24M lines-of-code. Software plays major role in gov. dataprocessing
modernization failures and the spreading Success of Failure culture:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
In the 90s, half of the advanced technical degrees from Cal. univ. went to students born on the other-side of the pacific ... and they were at least half the silicon valley population that fueled the internet bubble (I come from era in silicon valley when there use to be a joke that there were only 200 of us ... we just moved around a lot)
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
a few more (software) failures ...
Government Software Project Failure
http://defense.about.com/od/prodinnovate/a/Government-Software-Project-Failures.htm
World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/139218/worlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure
The scariest software project horror stories of 2012
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234581/The_scariest_software_project_horror_stories_of_2012
Study: 68 percent of IT projects fail
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/study-68-percent-of-it-projects-fail/1175
Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/technology/air-force-stumbles-over-software-modernization-project.html?_r=0
software complexity possibly plays a little bit here too
Opinion: Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_02_24_2014_p16-664173.xml
Target Breach Has Bigger Impact on Data Security than Snowden, says
Vormetric
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/37169/rsa-2014-target-breach-has-bigger-impact-on-data-security-than-snowden-says-vormetric
More than decade ago we were tangentially involved with the Cal. state
data breach legislation. We had been brought in to help
wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature legislation and many of
the participants were heavily involved with privacy issues. They had
done extensive public privacy surveys and the #1 issue was financial
fraud as result of breaches. The problem is that normally security
measures are taken in self protection. The issue with breaches is that
the institution isn't at risk, but the public and so there was little
motivation to take countermeasures. There was some hope that
the publicity from notifications would prompt countermeasures.
In the more than a decade since the cal. legislation there have been
similar acts passed in other states. There have also been several
notifications acts introduced in congress (none have passed), about
equally divided between similar to cal's act and acts that would
effectively eliminate requirement for notification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning electronic signature act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
we were tangentially involved with the Cal. state data breach legislation. We had been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature legislation and many of the participants were heavily involved with privacy issues. They had done extensive public privacy surveys and the #1 issue was financial fraud as result of skimming, breaches, etc. The problem is that normally security measures are taken in self protection. The issue with breaches is that the institution isn't at risk, but the public and so there was little motivation to take countermeasures. There was some hope that the publicity from notifications would prompt countermeasures. In the more than a decade since the cal. legislation there have been similar acts passed in other states. There have also been several notifications acts introduced in congress (none have passed), about equally divided between similar to cal's act and acts that would effectively eliminate requirement for notification
we've used a couple metaphors about the current paradigm
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
posts mentioning security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
For-profit corporations now account for 70% of intelligence budget and
over half the people ... and possibly have little motivation in taking
security countermeasures (similar to their retail counterparts). The
agency also has the Success Of Failure issue
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
one issue in the above incident was that the whistleblower just reported to the responsible parties in congress and there was no release of classified information ... and was still charged the same as person in the most recent incident (and charges only relatively recently dropped).
Success Of Failure implies it hasn't been "UP" for some time
NSA director calls for stronger strategy to deter cyberattacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-director-calls-for-stronger-deterrent-strategy-to-oppose-cyberattacks/2014/02/27/aabd3d92-9fd4-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html
from above:
"So our ability to stop [terrorist attacks] has gone down just when
they'e growing," he said. "Look at Syria, Iraq, all of that. And I am
concerned, over the next 12 months, something ... bad will happen."
... snip ...
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
we've used a couple metaphors about the current (payment) paradigm
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
security proportional to risk posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
... from military standpoint no skilled military officer would choose to defend such a poor position ... unfortunately there are a lot of special interests in preserving the status quo.
disclaimer: we were brought in to consult with small client/server
startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they
also had invented this technology called "SLL" which they wanted to
use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Somewhat having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s were asked
to participate in the x9a10 financial standard working group that had
been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial
infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments. As part of the effort we did
detailed end-to-end threat analysis of several different modes of
payments. The result was the x9.59 financial transaction standard.
X9.59 didn't do anything to prevent breaches ... what it did do was
eliminate the usefulness of information from previous transactions to
crooks ... which then eliminated the motivation for crooks to do
breaches (and therefor the fraudulent financial risk to the
public). Since the major purpose in the world today for "SSL" is the
hiding of financial transaction information in "electronic commerce",
it also eliminate the major use of "SSL" in the world today.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:48:27 -0500ERSHC <ershc123@invalid.invalid> writes:
this is besides recent news that the family of 9/11 victims have been allowed to sue the gov. of Saudi Arabia (as responsible for 9/11 attacks) ... previously the position was that they weren't allowed to sue a gov. for terrorist attacks (somewhat making Iraq & Afghanistan misidection). A recent point was some of this has been made possible by increasing US energy independence and the changing world energy geo-economic climate.
there was also Boston's "Big Dig" ... mostly funded by fed. gov., originally was suppose to be $2B ... but then went to over $20B ... some comment that US owed it to the state of Mass. I remember living in Mass and some comment about use of water soluable asphalt as part of subsidey to the road industry and non-stop need for road repair.
and more private equity activity
We Sue CalPERS Over Denial of Our Private Equity Public Records Act
Request
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/sue-calpers-denial-private-equity-public-records-act-request.html
post mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:06:46 -0500re:
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Ben Bernanke's Biggest Mistake; New documents show the Fed's critical
error in focusing too much on banks rather than the real economy.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/september_2008_fomc_meeting_transcripts_reveal_ben_bernanke_s_biggest_mistake.html
aka let them come off as incompetent and not knowing what they are doing
The Greatest Propaganda Coup Of Our Time?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-01/greatest-propaganda-coup-our-time
from above:
While this is effective propaganda, it's basically a lie, mainly because
it diverts attention from the Fed's role in crashing the financial
system, preventing the remedies that were needed from being implemented
(nationalizing the giant Wall Street banks), and coercing Congress into
approving gigantic, economy-killing bailouts which shifted trillions of
dollars to insolvent financial institutions that should have been
euthanized.
... snip ...
posts mentioning Bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:16:35 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
posts in the health care, medicare, medicaid thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#94 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#18 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#27 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#105 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#107 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: N.Y. Barclays Libor Traders Said to Face U.K. Charges Date: 2 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityN.Y. Barclays Libor Traders Said to Face U.K. Charges
from above:
The Libor Scandal Sets Off a Wave of Probes
These would be the first U.S.-based individuals charged in the British
probe. Most of the eight people charged by U.S. authorities in their
rate-rigging investigations worked in the U.K. Global enforcement
agencies are investigating whether more than a dozen firms colluded to
manipulate the rate, with about $6 billion in fines levied to date.
... snip ...
related brought up in this article on Gold "Fix" (some claims that it
is much worse tha Libor)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-28/gold-fix-study-shows-signs-of-decade-of-bank-manipulation.html
from above:
The Libor Scandal Sets Off a Wave of Probes
Abrantes-Metz advises the European Union and the International
Organization of Securities Commissions on financial benchmarks. Her
2008 paper "Libor Manipulation?" helped uncover the rigging of the
London interbank offered rate, which has led financial firms including
Barclays Plc (BARC) and UBS AG to be fined about $6 billion in
total. She is a paid expert witness to lawyers, providing economic
analysis for litigation. Metz heads credit policy research at ratings
company Moody's.
... snip ...
then there is letting them come off as incompetent and not knowing what they are doing
The Greatest Propaganda Coup Of Our Time?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-01/greatest-propaganda-coup-our-time
from above:
While this is effective propaganda, it's basically a lie, mainly
because it diverts attention from the Fed's role in crashing the
financial system, preventing the remedies that were needed from being
implemented (nationalizing the giant Wall Street banks), and coercing
Congress into approving gigantic, economy-killing bailouts which
shifted trillions of dollars to insolvent financial institutions that
should have been euthanized.
... snip ...
about
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Ben Bernanke's Biggest Mistake; New documents show the Fed's critical
error in focusing too much on banks rather than the real economy.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/september_2008_fomc_meeting_transcripts_reveal_ben_bernanke_s_biggest_mistake.html
note that in the wake of Enron&Worldcom ... claims in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future occurrences ... guaranteeing executives and auditors would go to jail, but it required SEC to do something. However, possibly because even GAO didn't believe anything SEC was doing anything, GAO started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing uptic after SOX (and nobody doing jail time). There have been articles that the statue of limitations for many of the violations predating 2008 have expired .... however, they would still be prosecutable under SOX.
The congressional Madoff hearings had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff. He was asked if new regulations were needed. His response was that while new regulations might be needed, much more important was transparency and visibility. He also mentioned that tips/whistleblowers turn up 13 times more fraud than audits.
Madoff said JPMorgan executives knew of his fraud: lawsuit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/20/us-jpmorgan-madoff-idUSBREA1J21W20140220
As an aside, in the late 90s, I was brought into NSCC (before its merge with DTC to become DTCC) and asked to improve the integrity of exchange trading transactions. I worked on it for awhile ... and then got a call saying it was suspended ... a side effect of the integrity work would have greatly increased transparency and visibility ... antithetical to wallstreet culture. At the time there was comment about issue with possible 30% of the offers and acceptance (HFT has greatly exploded that number).
posts mentioning Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
posts mentioning sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
posts mentioning madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
posts mentioning enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Microsoft culture must change, chairman says Date: 2 Mar 2014 Blog: Wild DucksMicrosoft culture must change, chairman says
How IBM Was Left Behind ... 28Dec1992:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
from above
Only a year ago, IBM reorganized its operations into 13 semiautonomous
units, called "Baby Blues." The latest round of cuts will include the
first layoffs in the company's history and will lead to a $6 billion
write-off for the fourth quarter. IBM is expected to post a net loss
of about $4.8 billion for the year -- the second largest in American
corporate history.
... snip ...
"Baby Blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. After we had left the company ... we got a call if we could help inventory all the inter-divisional MOUs ... that included things like one operating unit was piggy-backing on supplier contract out of a different operating unit. There were enormous number of these interdependencies that would complicate actually breaking IBM into 13 separate companies. Later the board brings in Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company.
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
I've also told about late 80s when a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at an annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference. Supposedly the talk was going to be about 3174 performance, but he opened the talk with the comment that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was the communication group had a stranglehold on datacenters with strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls and were fighting hard to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm and install base ... doing whatever they could to prevent client/server and distributed computing. The disk division was starting to see data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions to reverse the flight ... but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
posts mentioning communication group terminal emulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
It was only a couple years earlier that the top executives were predicting that world-wide revenue was going to double, mostly based on mainframe revenue ... and had kicked off internal building program to double mainframe product manufacturing capacity
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda Date: 5 Mar 2014 Blog: Google+re:
NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David ;
Keith Alexander says revelations have caused "grave damage" and claims
officials are making "headway" on 'media leaks'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda
Article mentions that during the Alexander Q&A ... they stopped the Guardian reporter from asking a question ... saying that Q&A was only open to attendees (not the press)
International Engagement on Cyber 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
somebody talked me into going ... but I think it was just to get me
riled up that nothing has changed in 20yrs except the bad guys have
gotten better. I pontificated being backed into doing strong
authentication for international financial transactions standard
because of EU-DPD ... but found lots of confusion in US about
authentication versus identification ... Inglis then needled me about
non-repudiation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
did run into somebody from Finland and we got sidetracked talking
about Boyd.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
With respect to Inglis and the non-repudiation dig, in financial
standards meetings there were various gov. people including
representation from the agency (especially given their crypto
bent). There was a security acronym PAIN/CAIN:
privacy/confidentiality,
authentication,
identification, and
non-repudiation
For the transaction standard I had to eliminate identification &
non-repudiation (and there is lots of old email on the subject)
... then when I helped word-smith the (cal state) electronic signature
legislation, the lawyers really put end to non-repudiation because
it had very precise legal definition (and was not a security theme).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
there was some cybercrime vis-a-vis drug crime. note somebody from
treasury gave a talk in the middle east in 2005 and happened to say
cybercrime was larger than drug crime ... which was picked up and
reverberated around the world, old post from 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#47
after they took a lot of heat for saying it, I got an email asking if I would find an open source reference. All the LEO-sites around the world, including Intepol, DOJ, FBI, etc. had readily available drug crime details. However, all cybercrime info was need-to-know and required authorized userid/password. It took me over 2hrs to find an open source reference with actual numbers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:46:21 -0500tv sound bite just now, recent report that US ranks 17th in the top 17 developed countries in health care outcomes ... and 48th of 48th in top countries in health care effectiveness per dollar.
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#12 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:11:18 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:09:16 -0500"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
I was at recent conference where there was presentation on growing US energy independence ... and that has radically changed the world geo-energy landscape (there have been a number of recent articles on the subject). That change is more adjacent in time to the change in (saudi 9/11) legal ruling than the change in administration.
there have been various finger-pointing at members of the previous administration and other finger-pointing at the overall country's economic condition.
previous post had references to earlier posts with a number of URLs to articles that explore details of the various possibilities and alternatives.
there are also more than single motivation for Iraq & Afghanistan ... not just misdirection away from Saudis ... excuse to increase flow of funds into MICC, possibility resume flow of drugs that had been cut by taliban (and things like too big to fail have been repeatedly caught money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists).
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning team b spinning details in support of MICC funding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
posts mentioning to too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
recent posts mentioning the taliban
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#69 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#96 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#43 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#46 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:22:59 -0500re:
and now for something completely different ... more recent conference on tuesday ... I think I got con'ed into going just to rile me up that little has changed in 20yrs other than bad guys have gotten better.
International Engagement on Cyber 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
article from weds about the conference.
NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David ;
Keith Alexander says revelations have caused "grave damage" and claims
officials are making "headway" on 'media leaks'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda
i've also made comments in google+ (where I also pontificate a little
on cybercrime and drug crime)
https://plus.google.com/102794881687002297268/posts/YjoYvoLB3hw
I was cut off once at the microphone because they had to keep alexander on schedule. However, they let me pontificate in the panel discussion that had Hayden (former director), Ingles (former deputy director) and some others.
I mentioned having done international financial industry transaction standard and sort of being backed into strong authentication because of EU-DPD (data privacy directive) ... while working on the US financial industry privacy standard found lots of confusion in US regarding authentication and identification. Also mentioned for privacy standard working with people responsible for gov. health privacy (HIPAA) and identifying that financial statement metadata can leak PII data (in violation of HIPAA) ... was suppose to be question ... but more observation about difficulty reconciling us and europe.
Ingles then needles me about non-repudiation
Turns out that in financial standard meetings had agency representatives
... especially in light of their interest in crypto. They (and others)
had a security acroynum PAIN/CAIN:
privacy/confidentiality
authenticaiton
identification
non-repudiation
and I had to do away with "identification" and non-repudiation (which
agency people didn't really care for). Later we were also brought in to
help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act ... where the
lawyers really laid into non-repudiation as having a very specific
legal definition (and not security).
some past posts mentioning financial transaction standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
some past posts on ssl domain name certificates that also may wander
into non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
some past posts mentioning electronic signature act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:56:11 -0500re:
besides URLs from (referenced) past postings ... search engine URL for
"9/11 families sue saudi arabia"
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=9%2F11+families+sue+saudia+arabia&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_en&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=9%2F11+families+sue+saudi+arabia&tbs=lr:lang_1en
one of the things that also came out recently is that FBI had mole in Al
Qaeda and was present when Ben Laden was talking about funding for
terrorist attacks in the US ... and this information wasn't made
available to the 9/11 commission. search engine URL
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=9%2F11+families+sue+saudia+arabia&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_en&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=fbi+mole+ben+laden&tbs=lr:lang_1en
"9/11 commission classified" URL (includes URL that link to Saudi
Arabia is contained in 28 redacted pages)
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=9%2F11+families+sue+saudia+arabia&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_en&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=9%2F11+commission+classified&tbs=lr:lang_1en
some amount of this becoming public has been attributed to increasing US energy independence
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:50:17 -0500Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> writes:
one of the examples was the brownstones with steep steps going up from the street to first flr 8-12 ft about street level was because enormous piles of horse manure that accumulated on the street.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Mar 2014 16:56:53 -0800ibm science center was on part of the 4th flr of 545 tech sq ... some past posts
but the machine room occupied part of the 2nd flr. it had duplex (two processor) 360/67, 768kbytes memory, three 2301 "drums", five 8+1 drive 2314 string plus one 5 drive string. The IBM CE painted each 2314 string a different color ... so mount/unmount 2314 packs on specific drives could be more easily identify which string.
on one side along one wall ... right next to floor level ... the 4in (6in?) water pipe from air conditioned units poured directly into 8in sewer pipe (bldg. codes required air gap).
the (virtual machine) cp67 development group split off from the science center and took over the ibm boston programming center that occupied part of the 3rd flr (the rest of the 3rd flr was listed as lawyer firm, but the telco closet was on the ibm side, and clearly labled it as a 3letter gov. agency) ... where they got a 370/145 with (unannounced) virtual memory for development of vm370 (morphing cp67/cms into vm370/cms) in their own machine room.
MIT Multics was on the 5th flr and they had (multics) GE645 machine room.
city of cambridge wanted to pass a water conservation ordinance and cut flowing water directly through air conditioning units and straight into the city sewer ... however, it turned out that bldgs. had not been designed/built to handle weight of recirculating water towers on the roofs.
Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, Kendall
Square Pioneer (1Feb1964)
http://angelinvestingnews.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-50th-birthday-to-ibm-cambridge.html
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Scientific_Center
current tech square (bldg 200 is the old 545 with major rennovation,
encapsulating a lot of the old bldg)
http://tech-square.com/property.html
multics 545 tech sq reference
https://www.multicians.org/tech-square.html
the science centers were shutdown in 1992 ... as part of company going into
the red ... company was then reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in
preparation for breaking up the company (before the board brought in
Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company)
http://smartphonestechnologyandbusinessapps.blogspot.com/2011/07/rip-ibm-cambridge-scientific-center.html
invention of virtual machines
http://smartphonestechnologyandbusinessapps.blogspot.com/2010/05/bob-creasy-invented-virtual-machines-on.html
for other trivia ... a couple of above references were by G. McQuilken, IBM 65-81 (including cambridge science center 77-81) ... other positions include CEO of RSA Security 85-87.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Write Inhibit Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Mar 2014 05:42:07 -0800ibm-main@TPG.COM.AU (Shane Ginnane) writes:
and after the meetings, the Amdahl people would ask a lot more detailed questions.
one of the Amdahl issues was starting with 3033 mvs/sp ... it appeared that ibm was constantly making lots of minor architecture tweaks that were would be required by the latest mvs operating systems (by comparison, vm370 was shipped that it ran better with its microcode assists, but would continue to run even if they weren't available) ... as a countermeausre to clone processors.
The Amdahl response was macrocode ... slightly modified 370 instruction set that ran in microcode mode ... enormously simplifying the task of implementing minor architecture tweaking ... especially compared to the ibm effort which required being implemented in native horizontal microcode (a significantly more complex effort). the Amdahl hypervisor then became a relatively straight-forward move of vm370 code into "macrocode".
By comparison the 3090 pr/sm was a significantly more difficult undertaken since it had to be done in native 3090 microcode ... even tho it was incremental add-on to SIE support that was already implemented (for a long time, SIE performance assist wasn't available for vm370 running in pr/sm).
one of the issues pointed out about 3033 mvs/sp microcode assist ... sort-of targeted as the equivalent of ECPS for vm370 ... was that 3033 was already running close to one 370 instruction per machine cycle (165 was 2.1/cycle, improved in 168 to 1.6/cycle and finally close to 1 per cycle in 3033). The low & mid-range machines ran vertical microcode (somewhat analogous to modern day 370 simulators running on intel platforms) with an avg. of ten native instructions per 370 instructions. ECPS was relatively straight-forward move of vm370 370 instructions on a one-for-one basis getting a ten times throughput improvement. Doing the equivalent on 3033 saw little or no throughput difference, since the hardware was already executing 370 instructions at nearly one per machine cycle.
the place where hypervisor got its performance boost was that it was subset of the full vm370 virtual machine function ... so a lot of extraneous instructions could be eliminated ... and it was a different machine mode with its own status and registers ... eliminating the "task-switch overhead" ... aka saving registers from the executing virtual machine and loading the vm370 operating systems registers ... and then saving the vm370 operating system registers and reloading the virtual machine registers.
for some topic drift ... old email by 3090 (aka "trout 1.5") engineer
discussing the enhancements that went into 3090 SIE (compared to 3081
SIE):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#email810630
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#27
one of the problems with 3081 SIE ... was that 3081 had limited microcode memory and so had come up with mechanism of swapping microcode .... invoking SIE required a large amount of hardware overhead to get all the SIE code swapped into microcode memory (replacing other microcode ... which typically would have to be swapped back in later).
Part of the reason for the 3081 SIE performance was POK had managed to convince corporate to kill the vm370 product ... and dedicate all the vm370 development people to support mvs/xa (endicott manage to resurrect the vm370 product mission but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch). The virtual machine VMTOOL was created to support MVS/XA development ... but was never planned to be released to customers (as was SIE microcode assist as part of VMTOOL execution)
Later POK realized that a lot of customers could use VMTOOL purely for
MVS to MVS/XA migration ... and it was released as VM/MA and VM/SF
(later evolving into VM/XA) ... past references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#38 CMS under MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#47 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#67 Hercules etc. IBM not just missing a great opportunity...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#27 moving on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#9 DOS history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#14 Multics on emulated systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#54 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#27 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#25 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#23 How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#32 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#72 "SIE" on a RISC architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#18 Melinda Varian's history page move
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#26 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#114 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#19 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#46 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM ACS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 10:50:36 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
channel "data streaming" (muultiple bytes transferred per handshake) was introduced for 3380 3mbyte/sec transfer and 400ft maximum distance (helping customers that had pushed limits of 2D 200ft radius configurations.
i've mentioned doing channel-extender in 1980 for STL that was remoting 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg with service back to STL datacenter. Part of that was downloading channel programs to the remote end (as streamed data) and just running the channel handshaking protocol at the remote end ... and streaming actual data over the extender link (very limited syncrhonous end-to-end handskaking)
in 1988, I get asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
have (two dedicated links for transfer concurrent in each direction).
Part of this morphing into fiber channel standard was similar sending
i/o programs to remote end for execution ... to minimize end-to-end
serialized handshaking ... maximizing concurrent transfer throughput in
both directions (more from end-to-end, synchronized protocols to
asynchronous concurrent protocols in part to mask increasing end-to-end
latency issues)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
later IBM channel engineers layer a heavy-duty protocol layer on
FCS ... emulating lots of serialized, synchronized end-to-end
handshaking ... that radically cuts the throughput of native FCS ...
which ships as FICON ... misc. past posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
about the same time, I also get sucked into participating in something
similar for scalable coherent interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
akin, pair of parallel serial links that provide for concurrent transfer
in both directions (originated at slac)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface#Legacy
SCI was defined for various i/o protocols ... but a version was also
defined for memory "bus" protocol ... stores/fetches to/from memory
... where operations ran asynchronous, concurrent in parallel
(again somewhat masking end-to-end latency)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface#Cache_coherence
SCI memory protocol was used by (at least) convex (for 64, 2 HP RISC processor boards), by Sequent & Data General (for 64, 4 Intel i86 processor boards) and SGI (for MIPS processor boards).
the early work on asynchronous serial FCS & SCI (in part for latency
compensation) contributes to later asynchronous, serial protocols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand
recent posts mentioning SCI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#12 5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz Allen Hamilton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
past posts mentioning high-speed data transport project ... a lot of it
involved asynchronous, non-serialized, concurrent bi-directional
transfers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Write Inhibit Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Mar 2014 08:08:35 -0800edjaffe@PHOENIXSOFTWARE.COM (Ed Jaffe) writes:
I had a bunch of stuff from undergraduate days in the 60s and from cambridge science center days in the 70s ... triple-replicated on three different tapes in the Almaden Research Tape Library.
In the mid-80s, the Almaden datacenter had an operational problem with mounting random library tapes as scratch ... and I lost all three tapes.
The only thing that was saved was the original CMS multi-level source update programs that had originally been done at the science center circa 1971. Melinda had contacted me (shortly before the incident) if I had any information ... and was able to retrieve and send her a full copy.
for other topic drift ... after we left IBM in the early 90s, we had been called in to consult with small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Part of the work was mapping "SSL" technology to business processes. I had only advisery control over the webserver/browser deployment and operation ... and almost immediately they violated several of the "recommendations" ... which continues to account for some number of the exploits that continue until this day.
However I did have complete authority over the webserver to payment
gateway (payment gateway sits on the internet and handles interface
between webservers and financial payment networks) ... some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
the payment gateway was never compromised. It had multiple layers of firewalls and other protections. The actual gateways were multiple machines in high-availability configurations ... and built in nearly such a way that nearly everything ran from disk drives that had "write inhibit" enabled.
as an aside ... last product done before leaving IBM was HA/CMP
(High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
past posts mentioning the almaden incident
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#14 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#51 Scholars needed to build a computer history bibliography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#8 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#66 Evolution of Floating Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#51 Source code for s/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#39 1971PerformanceStudies - Typical OS/MFT 40/50/65s analysed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#89 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#3 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#4 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#80 TSO Profile NUM and PACK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#29 Congratulations, where was my invite?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#16 Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#22 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#72 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#61 Google Patents Staple of '70s Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#68 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#9 IBM ad for Basic Operating System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#59 write rings
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Write Inhibit Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Mar 2014 08:48:40 -0800barry@MXG.COM (Barry Merrill) writes:
both 3033 & 3081 were q&d machines done after failure of fs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
this details how 3081 was warmed over FS technology that compared
very poorly with clone processors
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
there was enormous amount of hardware that was really expensive for the throughput it achieved ... as noted ... price had to be significantly adjusted to be somewhat price/performance competitive.
the other issue was 3081 was originally going to be multiprocessor only ... while clone processors were coming out with increasingly fast single processor machines ... making single threaded operation even worse comparison.
further aggravating the problem was a major market segment was ACP/TPF (airline reservation system, transaction processing, etc) which didn't have multiprocessor support (so was stuck on 3033 or going to clone processors).
there was all sorts of activities ... until a 3083 (3081 with one of the
processors removed) was released ... about the only thing that could be
said was it was a little faster than 3033. some old posts discussing 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#1 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#21 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#14 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#79 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#23 Item on TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#24 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#78 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#20 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#49 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#70 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#16 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#26 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#49 Dyadic vs AP: Was "CPU utilization/forecasting"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#60 Dyadic vs AP: Was "CPU utilization/forecasting"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#7 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#84 'smttter IBMdroids
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#59 Hard Disk Drive Construction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#71 Help with elementary CPU speed question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#10 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#59 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#86 OT: Physics question and Star Trek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#90 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#41 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#55 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#37 AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#11 Relative price of S/370 AP and MP systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#45 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#59 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#56 Early !BM multiprocessors (renamed from Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Write Inhibit Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Mar 2014 11:00:00 -0800PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
sorry finger slip avg 370 was 2.1cycles for 165, 1.6cycles for 168 and 1cycle for 3033
165 had same cycle time as 168 ... but went from 165 2mic access memory
to approx. 400ns access memory for 168 (so cache miss latency was less).
recent posting in thread about IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#104 IBM ACS
3033 started out Q&D effort to 168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips
(from FS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
i.e. the lack of 370 products during the FS period (which was completely different than 370 and was going to completely replace it ... internal politics had 370 efforts being suspended and/or killed off) is credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold.
some logic optimization finally had 3033 approx. 50% faster than 168 (rather than just 20%) .... 3031 was 158 with new covers and the integrated channel microcode moved to a 2nd 158 engine; a 3032 was 168 with new covers and using channel directors (158 engine with just the integrated channel microcode) as external channels.
the previous mentioned URL goes into more details about the FS failure
and the Q&D efforts to turn out 3033 & then 3081.
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
With regard to ACS (IBM's advance computing effort) by Amdahl ... this
has account of many of the features ... but was killed off by IBM
management because they were worried it would advance computing
state-of-the-art too fast and they would loose control of the market.
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
Amdahl leaves sorthly after ACS was killed to start his own clone computer computing. The ACS "end" article lists several ACS features that don't show up in IBM processors until es/9000 over 20yrs later.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Mar 2014 17:22:50 -0800shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
almost. one of the earliest uses of the internal network was distributed
development effort between science center and endicott ... to create 370
virtual machine (including 370 virtual memory support) on cp67 running
on real 360/67. this was referred to as the cp67h level updates. posts
mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
then there was modifications to cp67 to run on 370 virtual memory architecture instead of 360/67. this was referred to as cp67i level updates.
since science center cp67 service allowed students and staff from various univ. in the boston/cambridge area ... it wasn't allowed to expose them to 370 architecture. so the production cambridge system ran cp67l systems. cp67h then ran in a 360/67 virtual machine on the production cp67i system.
then under cp67h (running in 360/67 virtual machine under cp67l system), cp67i ran in a 370 virtual machine. Then it would run cms in a 370 virtual machine under cp67i system (in 370 virtual machine under cp67h which ran in 360/67 virtual machine under cp67l on real 360/67).
this was in regular production use a year before the first engineering 370 processor was operational ... in fact cp67i system was used to boot on the first engineering 370 processor as test (first boot didn't work because they had reversed the op-codes for rrb and ptlb ... had to patch cp67i to correspond with the hardware bug ... until they fixed it).
in fact the original multi-level source update ... mentioned here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#19 Write Inhibit
was originally done for the l, h, & i software system development.
then some people from san jose came out for a stint at cambridge and did the cp67 software to provide 2305 & 3330 device support.
for a very long time ... cp67i with sj 2305&3330 device support was the primary software that ran on 370 processors internally.
this is old email reference to continuing to work on cp67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
during much of the FS period ... even periodically ridiculing FS
activities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and then finally moving lots of enhancements to vm370 base for "csc/vm" which became extensively used at internal datacenters (most of them by then having migrated from cp67 to vm370). With the failure of FS ... there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline ... which contributed to decision to picking up some of my enhancements for shipping in official product.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Mar 2014 07:51:02 -0700jcewing@ACM.ORG (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
Bob Creasy (manager of cp40 effort) sent me copy of his cp40 speech he
gave on seas (european share) 1982 ... I ocr'ed it and put it up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
basically the science center had done the hardware modifications to add
virtual memory support to 360/40 ... pending the availability of the
standard ibm product with virtual memory ... 360/67. When they
were able to get standard 360/67 virtual memory machine, cp40 morphs
into cp67. posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
50th anniv of science center just passed a month ago ... mentioned in previous post in this thread.
Melinda Varian did detailed history that was available
at share and also early versions were posted on vmshare ... tymshare
had made its cms-based online computer conferencing available to
share for free starting in AUG1976 ... archives available here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
melinda's current home page ... scroll done for the detailed history
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
lots of customers had been convinced to order 360/67 to run the
"official" ibm virtual memory operating system, tss/360 ... however
tss/360 had difficulty making it to production level ... so many
locations just ran the machine as 360/65 with os/360.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/360
However a couple locations wrote their own virtual memory operating
systems for 360/67. Univ. of Michigan wrote MTS (michigan terminal
system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
MTS was ported to 370 and was in use at numerous locations ... MTS customers also were the early adopters of clone processors. A large east coast financial datacenter was planning on being the first commercial "big blue" customer to install a clone processor (would be a red box in a datacenter with enormous sea of blue boxes) because the local branch office had done something that had made them extremely angry. I was asked to spend six months at the customer basically obfuscating why the customer was installing the box. I was use to periodically visiting the customer and knew the people well and also knew that my being onsite would have no effect on their decision ... so I refused (I had been told that the CEO would be grateful if I made it look like it was my failure that the customer installed clone processor ... so the refusal wasn't exactly career enhancing decision ... along with periodically ridiculing the FS effort).
Stanford wrote Orvyl (Wylbur was original implemented on Orvyl before
porting to MVS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM ACS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:28:53 -0400Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
i never actually saw 2byte channel ... but have some vague memory might have been two 1byte channels running in parallel (@1.5mbyte/sec) ... getting 3mbyte/sec aggregate.
the 200ft was max. ... lots of things limited it. For awhile IBM san jose research had 370/158 with 2305-2 (1.5mbyte/sec standard 1byte channel) having trouble with more than 25ft-30ft cable. The issue was channel cable ran half-duplex ... do a hand-shake, send down a byte, do another hand-shake. The 370/158 had integrated channel microcode (i.e. the 158 engine was shared with executing the channel microcode and the 370 microcode) ... and its hand-shake latency was relative slow ... in addition to the hand-shake transmission latency ... if the cable was too long ... the hand-shake operations would not have been completed before the next byte from the 2305-2 (at 1.5mbyte/sec) was ready to transmit.
the slowness of the 370/158 plays a role in other latency sensitive operation. VM370 carefully layed out paging records on 3330 tracks ... three records at identical rotational position on each of the 19 tracks at same disk arm position. There was case of request for records at different rotational position at the same cylinder (head location) ... and had to add a channel command to tell the controller to switch head/track before doing record transfer. Not only is there half-duplex handshake on every byte ... but there is a whole lot more half-duplex handshake on every channel command. It turns out that the 370/145 and 370/168 channels were fast enough to do the CCW program processing for the head switch and catch the next record (on different track) in single rotation ... but the 370/158 channel wasn't.
with the failure of FS effort (when 370 efforts was being killed off)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get 370 stuff back into product pipeline ... both
303x & 3081 starting somewhat simulataneously ... some discussion here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
for 303x they created a "channel director" that was used as externel channels for 3031, 3032, and 3033. The channel director was a 158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and w/o the 370 microcode). The 3031 was 158 with new covers and the 158 engine just had the 370 microcode ... with a 2nd 158 engine as channel director. The 3032 was 168 with new covers and configured to use "channel director" for its external channels. A 3033 started out being 168 logic mapped to 20% faster channels and "channel director" for external channels. As a result all three 303x channels suffered same limitations as 158 channels (i.e. a 168 3032 had i/o latency problems worse than real 168 external channels).
old email reference to 4341 integrated channels were so fast that with
minor microcode tweak, they were used for 3mbyte channel testing.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email810617
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#36
old posts discussing the 3330 head switch testing (the hand-shake latency
processing in both the channel end and the controller end ... as well as
total cable length could affect total latency)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#64 System/360 40 years old today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#65 System/360 40 years old today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#22 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#40 REAL memory column in SDSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#19 old vm370 mitre benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#52 Computer History Museum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#12 Secret Service plans IT reboot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#15 History of Hard-coded Offsets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#65 Speed of Old Hard Disks
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Mar 2014 08:57:06 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
as undergraduate in the 60s, I got to rewrite a lot of cp67 (after it being installed in at the univ in jan1968). I had to compete with the IBM SE working on tss/360 for weekend dedicated stand-alone time (the rest of the time, the machine ran os/360).
one of the things I did was dynamic adaptive resource manager
... periodically called "fair share" scheduler because a default
resource management policy was "fair share" ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
... and would ridicule the table driven scheduler in tss/360.
the IBM SE and I did a synthetic workload benchmark ... simulating user think time doing fortran program edit, compile and execute ... he ran it on tss/360 with four simulated users ... I ran it on cp67/cms (on identical hardware) with 35 simulated users ... getting better response and throughput (than he did with four simulated users).
one of tss/360 features was "single level store" ... basically
filesystem was treated as extension of memory access ... which had
very poor throughput. For whatever reason, the tss/360 "single level
store" design was carried over into the future system effort
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
after joining the science center, I did a form of "single level store" for CMS as paged-mapped filesystem ... but fixing most of the throughput problems I had observed in tss/360 ... and was part of the reason that I would periodic ridicule what they were doing in FS (considering both my resource management and my paged mapped filesystem significantly better than what they were doing).
this was included in stuff that I later migrated from cp67 to vm370
... but the page mapped filesystem was not one of the things included
for release to customers .... possibly because of the bad rep that
"single level store" got in both tss/360 and future system. misc. past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
one of the things that I did have lots of problems with was supporting
position independent code (mentioned in the tss/360 wiki article) ...
constantly having to hack code to make in position independent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Mar 2014 12:21:07 -0700re:
univ ran fortran student jobs on 709 ibsys tape-to-tape in around second per job ... tapes were moved between 709 drive and 1401 drive where the 1401 handled input/output unit record.
in transition from 709 to 360/67 & tss/360 ... it got a 360/30 to replace the 1401 ... could run in 1401 hardare emulation ... but also be used to get some familiarity with 360.
as noted, tss/360 never got to production level, so when 360/67 came in, it ran mostly as 360/65 with os/360. initially student fortran ran over a minute elapsed time (almost 100 times longer than on 709). getting hasp cut the elapsed time in half to little over 30secs.
I then did a lot of work on os/360 starting with mft11 to carefully
order the placement of files and pds members to optimize PDS member
search and arm seek distance ... which got almost additional three times
improvement in elapsed time. This is old post with part of presentation
I gave at fall1968 share meeting ... mostly about major rewrite I did
for cp67 kernel and associated pathlength and throughput improvements
... but also discusses a little about the very careful rework of stage2
sysgen to optimize disk throughput.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#20 CP/67 & OS MFT14
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Mar 2014 12:47:34 -0700jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
I've used position & location independence somewhat interchangeably.
In my use for cp67/cms page mapped filesystem and in tss/360 use ... the executable image on disk could be directly mapped to any address in memory w/o any further alterations or changes.
traditional os/360 image had "relocatable address constants" ...
originally the executable image would be loaded into some arbitrary
address in real storage ... and then the loading process would cycle
through the list of relocatable address constants ... appropriately
adjusting them for the loaded address/location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360_Object_File_Format
in tss/360, position/location independance met that the executable image on disk could be mapped to arbitrary address in virtual memory w/o having to change/adjust antyhing (there was no such thing as os/360 relocatable address constants).
going from 360/67 to 370 virtual memory ... it was limited to only 24bit
virtual addressing ... which could be configured as 256 64kbyte
segments. in my paged mapped implementation ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
it was possible to map executable images (or any file system object) as one or more shared segments (single copy appearing simultaneously in multiple different virtual address spaces). with position independence, any address space could have any combination of shared objects at any arbitrary virtual address.
in the location/position dependent subset implementation (characteristic of os/360 & relocatable address constant paradigm), each shared object effectively had to have a unique virtual address across the whole system (in effect it had to be preloaded at some address, and all the relocatable address constants "fixed" for that address, and that image written back to disk). this became extremely problamatical in a large system when the total aggregate of all possible shared objects exceeded 16mbytes.
in the location/position independent implementation any single virtual
address space could have any possible combination of shared objects up
to a total of 16mbytes. in the location/position dependent subject, a
virtual address space couldn't have shared objects that had been
predefined at the same address (even if there was still large amount
of remaining space at other locations in the virtual address space)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memorie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#26 [OT ] Mainframe memorie
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Write Inhibit Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Mar 2014 17:15:40 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
"The rise and fall of IBM" references that a major motivation for Future
System effort was countermeasure for clone controllers
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
past posts mentioning Future System effort ... including 370 efforts
being killed off and/or suspended
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
other references to Future System
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
From Ferguson/Morris Computer Wars (effect of Future System failure):
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became
politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
discusses in the failure of FS, there was Q&D efforts to create 3033 &
3081 ... even though they weren't very competitive with clone processors
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
also the lack of 370 products during the FS period was credited with giving clone processors market foothold.
one of the things I worked on as undergraduate in the 60s was clone controller. CP67 was delivered to the univ. in Jan1968 with 1052 and 2741 terminal support ... including support for doing dynamic terminal identification and dynamically switching the terminal controller line-scanner type. the univ. had some number of tty/ascii support, so I added tty/ascii support in a way that was consistant with doing dynamic terminal identification (and dynamic line-scanner switching). what I really wanted to do was have a dialup "hunt group" with a single number for all incoming terminal types ... using a common pool of controller ports. the problem was that while it was possible to dynamically change line-scanner type for each port, the IBM controller took a short cut and hard-wired each port's line-speed.
The univ. then kicked off a clone controller project, with objectives
including being able to do both dynamic terminal type and dynamic line
speed. The channel interface was reverse engineered and a channel board
built for an Interdata/3 programmed to emulate IBM controller. Later
this was enhanced to be an Interdata/4 handling the channel interface,
and cluster of multiple Interdata/3s handling port interfaces ... and
Interdata is selling it ... after Perkin/Elmer buys Interdata it
continues to be sold under the P/E logo. Four of us get written up for
(some part of) clone controller business. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
other recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#97 IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#104 IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#18 IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#19 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#24 IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#26 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#27 [OT ] Mainframe memories
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:10:55 -0400Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
I've mentioned before that after end of hostilities in ETO, my wife's father was posted to Nanking as adviser to the generalissimo and was allowed to take his family with him. The family was evacuated to Tsingtao in an army cargo plane on 3hrs notice when the city was ringed (arriving after dark, they used headlights from trucks & cars to light the airfield).
I had found his status reports from ETO at national archives ... one
reference in these posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#82 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#37 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#16 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#35 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#19 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Mar 2014 07:57:10 -0700shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
the paradigm allowed the same executable image part could be memory mapped as r/o shared segment concurrently in different virtual address spaces at different addresses and work correctly.
os/360 convention had relocatable address constants appearing somewhat randomly throughout an executable image which needed to be swizzled by the loader for the address location that the image was loaded. this tended to prevent the same exact executable copy from working correctly concurrently at different virtual addresses (minus possibly some quantum effects where a relocatable address constant would assume the appropriate correct value whenever it was used).
I would tend to use the distinction that for the psect, a private copy was loaded and adjusted for the specific virtual address space location ... separately from (r/o) memory mapping the executable image with no requirement for pre-loading and/or changing ... allowing the same exact (r/o) executable image to concurrently occur simultaneously in different virtual address spaces at different virtual addresses (with just a per virtual address space private copy of the psect having been preloaded and swizzled).
this also has the side-effect of precluding things like self-modifying instruction streams. when hardware instruction pre-fetch & decode was first starting out ... one of the complicating, high overhead hardware items was checking if the previous instruction had modified the current instruction.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Apple's long IRS-Irish history Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:21:43 -0400Apple's long IRS-Irish history
from above:
There's no avoiding the stories surrounding Apple's shifting tax rates,
whether through stock-buybacks or by moving profits among its off-shore
operations. However, Apple has been in Ireland for decades and in
dispute with the IRS just as long.
... snip ...
posts mentioning tax evasion, offshore tax shelters, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
not just in the U.S.
Apple sent billions offshore to avoid Australia tax, report says
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-apple-billions-offshore-australia-tax.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Mar 2014 10:33:39 -0700tony@HARMINC.NET (Tony Harminc) writes:
for other topic drift ... I first modified HASP for release 15/16 to add
2741 & tty terminal support for online conversational editor
... implementing CMS editor syntax (had to be redone from scratch since
cms execution/programming environment was completely different than
hasp). of course I thought it was much better than what they came out
with for TSO. past posts mentioning HASP, HASP networking, JES2, and/or
NJE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
that summer, I was sucked into going to Boeing (still an undergraduate) to help setup Boeing Computer Services (consolidate dataprocessing in independent business unit to better monitize the investment). 747#3 was flying the skies of seattle for FAA certification.
I thought that the renton datacenter was possibly the largest in the world (several hundred million in 360s), that summer there was flow of 360/65s constantly coming in, faster than could be installed ... there were alwaus pieces of 360/65s being staged in the hallways around the machine room. There was a disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up causing a mudslide that takes out the renton datacenter. The estimate was the loss of the renton datacenter for a week would cost the company more than the cost of the renton datacenter ... so they were in the process of replicating it at the new 747 plant up in everett.
they also got a 360/67 in corporate datacenter (across from boeing field) previously only had a single 360/30 for running company payroll.
that summer I modified cp67 to support "pageable" kernel. The standard cp67 kernel was fix-loaded at boot time. I modified low-usage pieces of the kernel into fixed sized 4kbyte page sizes ... which could use the standard paging i/o system for bringing in and removing. However, the cp67 kernel ran non-translate mode ... so the changes were somewhat analogous to what you describe for HASP II. While a lot of my code from undergraduate days were picked up and shipped in CP67 ... the pageable kernel change didn't showup in the product until vm370.
posts mentioning dynamic adaptive resource management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
posts mentioning kernel paging & algorithm rewrites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
that summer they also brought the duplex (multiprocessor) 360/67 up to seattle from boeing hunstville. it had been originally ordered for tss/360 ... but never got to point of production use. As a result Huntsville, starting out running the duplex as two 360/65 with os/360. The primary application was numerous 2250 graphic devices used for physical design. The problem was that OS/360 had fragmentation with storage allocation that significantly worsened for long running applications.
Boeing Hunstville had modified OS/360 MVT release 13 ... to run in virtual memory mode on the 360/67 ... it didn't actually use virtual memory for paging operations ... it just the virtual memory hardware to address the OS/360 storage fragmentation problem (exasperated by long running applications).
I've mentioned before that there were a number os/360 subsystems done
during that period ... as work around to significant os/360 problems
... including CICS ... both the enormous pathlength overhead of many
os/360 services ... but also things like storage fragmentation. Other
trivia drift ... Univ. library had gotten ONR grant to do an online
catalog ... some of the money was used to get a 2321 datacell. The
effort was also tagged to be one of the original CICS product betatest
sites ... and I was tasked to support/debug CICS for the project. misc.
past posts mentioning CICS (&/or BDAM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
For other drift ... later I got to know John Boyd and sponsored his briefings at IBM. His biographies mention that Boyd did a stint in command of "spook base" (about the time I was at Boeing) including a comment that it was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (over $17B in today's dollars) .... nearly order of magnitude more than renton datacenter.
old description of spook base, gone 404 ... but lives on at wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
past Boyd posts & URL references from around the web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Long lived code? Long live long lived code!? Date: 10 Mar 2014 Blog: Old Geeksre:
Mainframe Memories in (linkedin) Old Geek discussion
http://lnkd.in/dBHcsD9
also
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/gjt-2Rlc_jU
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#32 Mainframe memories
above mentions doing dynamic adaptive resource management as
undergraduate in the 60s ... it comes up again in this Boyd
discussion:
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/03/10/another-ring/#comments
I understood Boyd to talk about all the individual O, O, D, & A going on (and interacting) constantly in real time. I could sympathize with Boyd (I had met Boyd in the early 80s and would sponsor his briefings at IBM) having done dynamic adaptive computer resource management algorithms as undergraduate in the 60s and difficulty showing 4D operations in a two dimensional space. When it was picked up and included in IBM products, I had to document ... and even included an obscure joke with regard to 4D operation ... that apparently nobody got. In the early 90s I ran into a recent graduate in Hong Kong who claimed to have studied it at the Univ. ... and asked him if anybody got the joke
posts mentioning dynamic adaptive resource management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
posts (& web URLs) mentioning Boyd and/or OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:39:52 -0400World Wide Web turns 25 years old
other refs:
The Web at 25: I was a teenage dial-up addict
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57619807-1/the-web-at-25-i-was-a-teenage-dial-up-addict/
25 years of the web: what were your first impressions of the internet?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/25-years-of-the-web-what-were-your-first-impressions-of-the-internet
25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/09/25-years-web-tim-berners-lee
cern's first website
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
first webserver outside cern ... on slac's vm370/cms system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
GML was invented at the science center in 1969, past science center
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
... and GML tag processing was added to the existing cms script
processing
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
after a decade, GML morphs into sgml
https://web.archive.org/web/20230703135757/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/sgmlhist.htm
another decade and SGML morphs into HTML
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
past gml/sgml posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:24:06 -0400re:
more:
Happy Web day! 25 websites for 25 years
http://akamai.infoworld.com/slideshow/143576/happy-web-day-25-websites-25-years-238205
25 years of the World Wide Web
http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/143971/25-years-of-the-World-Wide-Web
Web at 25: Tim Berners-Lee's Amazing Propsal Document
http://time.com/21039/the-web-at-25-revisiting-tim-berners-lees-amazing-propsal-document/
Happy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web! Our Gift: An Intentionally Brief
History Of You
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027557/fast-feed/happy-25th-birthday-world-wide-web-our-gift-an-intentionally-brief-history-of-you
precursor to modern internet/cloud ... was nsfnet backbone, originally
to interconnect the nsf supercomputer centers ... then regional networks
start connecting to the centers.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
we were working with some of the centers and were originally to get
$20M to do the interconnect. then congress cuts the budget and some
other things happen, finally NSF releases RFP. Internal politics
prevents us from bidding on the RFP. The director of NSF tries to help
by writing a letter to the company, but that just aggravates the
internal politics (as does comments that what we already have running
is at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
then came the transition to commercial with CIX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:19:24 -0400re:
even more
Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web!
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-world-wide-web/
Web at 25: Tim Berners-Lee's Amazing Proposal Document
http://time.com/21039/tim-berners-lee-web-proposal-at-25/
Bittersweet Feelings As The World Wide Web Turns 25
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027540/bittersweet-feelings-as-the-world-wide-web-turns-25
Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/23649/happy-birthday-world-wide-web-itbwgk
Web Turns 25: 10 Graphics To See
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/web-turns-25-10-graphics-to-see/d/d-id/1127645
The WWW's Quarter-Life Crisis: As The Web Turns 25, The Threats It
Faces
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027597/fast-feed/the-wwws-quarter-life-crisis-as-the-web-turns-25-the-threats-it-faces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:08:15 -0400hancock4 writes:
Smedley's "War Is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and spreading Success of Failure scenario ... would appear beltway
bandits and gov. contractors using advanced gaming techniques to help
with constantly increasing quarterly profits and "leave no money on the
table"
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
then there are numerous stories around team b promoting inflated
analysis of advisaries as way of promoting DOD spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
and go back to Eisenhower's warnings about the military industrial
complex ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent mention (in ibm-main mailing list) of doing stint at Boeing
summer of 1969, brought in to help with formation of Boeing Computer
Services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#32 Mainframe memories
Boyd did stint in command.of."spook base" ... his biographies mentioned
it was $2.5B windfall for IBM (over $17B in today's dollars)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
posts (& web URLs) mentioning John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:22:38 -0400re:
discusses wind down after Vietnam ... and then rise of military actions during the 80s ... in part continuation of Smedley's "War is Racket" from earlier in the century ... as well as Perkins' "Economic Hit Man"
Fighting Reagan's Secret, Illegal Wars - Michael Ratner on Reality
Asserts Itself (6/7)
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11590
above includes mention of iran-contra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
computer trivia ... part of evidence was email from the executive branch vm370 profs system (deleting emails didn't remove them from tape backups).
in addition there is the support of Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
& supplying WMDs during Iraq/Iran war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
and some of the executive branch involved in above ... were same people involved in most recent invasion of iraq.
posts mentioning team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and recent update on allowing 9/11 victims' families to sue Saudi Arabia
Lawmakers, victims' families call to declassify key portion of 9/11
report
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/12/221042/lawmakers-victims-families-call.html
A call to declassify key portion of 9/11 report
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20140313_A_call_to_declassify_key_portion_of_9_11_report.html
recent references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#11 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#12 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:18:23 -0400scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
online & email from ctss, multics, cp67 from the 60s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#44 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#49 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
referencess ctss email (1965)
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html
and van vleck cp67 story
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
tymshare had its cms-based online computer conferencing in very early
70s on vm370 (cp67 morphed into vm370 for ibm 370s) and then in Aug1976
made it available to (ibm user group) SHARE for free as VMSHARE
... archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
some of the ctss people had gone to the science center (on 4th flr) and
done cp40 and then cp67; other ctss people went to the 5th flr and
did Multics. posts mentiong science center, 4th flr, 545 tech sq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
recent post mentiong 50th anniv of science center (orig 1feb1964)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#88 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, Kendall Square Pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
Tom's story was about cp67 installation at MIT Urban Systems Lab. ... which was in another tech sq. bldg (across the courtyard from 545 tech sq).
His story was about mod. to USL's cp67 to the tty/ascii code ... to support max. line length of 1200 characters for some sort of tty/ascii device down at Harvard (I think a plotter). I had done the tty/ascii terminal support for cp67 while undergraduate at the univ. and had a hack in it that assumed max. line length of 80chars. His q&d change for 1200 chars resulted in incorrect length calculations that resulted in bad things happening.
Tymshare reference ... little about its online IBM-based online
service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
but lots about its TYMNET network ... and porting to Interdata. For
little topic drift, recent post mentioning work on Interdata as
undergraduate in the 60s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#28 Write Inhibit
the Tymshare article does reference doing 370-based operating
system GNOSIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
which was spun-off when M/D bought Tymshare in 1984. Trivia: I was brought in to do the audit of GNOSIS as part of the spin-off.
recollection of tymshare from 1966 (on bitsavers)
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/tymshare/history/Kahrs.pdf
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Mar 2014 09:42:57 -0700darth.keller@ASSURANT.COM (Darth Keller) writes:
x9.59 did nothing to eliminate breaches, but did slightly tweak the infrastructure and made the information from breaches useless to the bad guys (no longer able to use the information to do fraudulent financial infrastructure). the standard ran into some deployment difficulties because it eliminated fraud. merchants had been indoctrinated for decades that a major portion of interchange payments was heavy prorated surcharge based on fraud rates. Around 2000, x9.59 and some other "safe" payment products were pitched to internet online merchants (accounting for 70+% of online transactions) and saw high acceptance ... they were expecting 90% drop in interchange fees. Then cognitive dissonance set in, the financial institutions told them that instead of a 90% drop in fees, there would essentially be a surcharge on top of the highest fee they were already paying ... and the whole thing falls apart. One of the issues was payment fees were accounting for 40-60% of the bottom line of these institutions and a 90% drop would be a big hit.
we were also tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach
notification legislation (first in the country). we had been brought
in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act ... some
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
and many of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues ... and had done detailed, in-depth public surveys. The #1 issue was identify fraud, primarily the kind that results in fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches. There was little or nothing being done about it ... and it was hoped that the resulting publicity from breach notification might prompt corrective action. The issue is that security measures are normally taken for self-protection ... the problem with breaches is that the institutions aren't at risk ... it is the public.
we've also pointed out several issues with the current paradigm ... a couple metaphors:
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can afford to outspend the defender/merchants by a factor of 100 times.
posts mentioning security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:23:37 -0400Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
that is at least part of communication group SAA in the late 80s and 90s ... but mostly targeted at fighting off client/server and distributed computing ... and preserving their dumb terminal paradigm.
we had come up with 3-tier architecture and my wife had written it into
a large secure gov. distributed environment RFI response ... and we were
out pitching it to customer executives ... and taking lots of arrows in the back
from the saa & token-ring forces. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
then somebody I had worked with on ECPS for 138/148
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#28 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
got promoted to run SAA ... and got a top floor corner office in the new IBM Somers complex ... and we would go by periodically and ridicule SAA.
note this was also in the period that communication group was spreading
misinformation on how the internal network absolutely had to be
converted to SNA/VTAM ... as well as how the NSFNET backbone could
be run on SNA/VTAM ... referenced here in this old list of NSFNET
backbone related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and as I have mentioned before, a senior disk engineer got a talk
scheduled at annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference
supposedly on 3174 performance, but opened the talk with the statement
that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise
of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had
corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter
walls and were working hard to preserve their dumb terminal paradimg and
install base ... the disk division was see the result with data fleeing
the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with
drop in disk disk sales. They had come up with a number of solutions
to correct the problem, but they were constantly being vetoed by
the communication group. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
the communication group efforts and misinformation played significant factor in the internal politics that prevented us from bidding on the NSF RFP ... even in the face of efforts/pressure by the director of NSF.
The NSFNET RFP called for T1 links ... in large part because we already
had T1 (& faster) links running internally. The winning bid actually
only put in 440kbit/sec links ... and then sort of to look like they
were meeting the letter of the RFP, put in T1 trunks with telco
multiplexor that ran multiple 440kbit/sec links over T1 trunks. past
posts mentioning NSFNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computer museums Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:36:14 -0400hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:47:41 -0400re:
co-worker at science center responsible for internal network technology,
larger than the arpanet/internet from just about beginning until late
'85 or possibly early '86
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
it was also the technology used for bitnet (500 organizations & 3000
nodes around 1991, all educational institutions)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
some of his account about ibm bungling internet
http://edh.net/bungle.htm
past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
past posts mentioning bitnet (&/or EARN in europe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
as previous mention ... most of our nsfnet &/or activity was done in spite of the communication group.
some internet specific related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm
including this one
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#0
with old email about (first) ibm email gateway (to csnet)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
past post discussing NSF backbone that includes copy of NYSERNet
from 14Dec1989
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#45 Arpa address
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:42:53 -0400despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) writes:
I mentioned tymshare & making their cms-based online computer
conferencing available to share as vmshare. people from tymshare were
also regulars at monthly "baybunch" meetings held at slac (and the happy
hour afterwards). Tymshare had also acquired Bngelbart's (inventor of
mouse) augment (which had hyperlinks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
augment reference
http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/augment.html
and
http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/hypertext.html
when M/D bought Tymshare in 1984 and I was brought in to audit/review gnosis as part of its spinoff, I was also asked if I could find somebody in IBM interested in Doug/Augment ... I managed to setup some interviews ... but couldn't find anybody really interested.
as an aside, Ted Nelson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
and some of the Xanadu people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
more
http://xanadu.com/HISTORY/
(as well as Engelbart) would periodically show up at annual silicon
valley hacker's conference (small invitation only). there was even
xanadu demos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference
other doug & ted reference
http://1997.webhistory.org/historyday/abstracts.html
and some more here
http://ted.hyperland.com/
for other drift, some old email mentioning vmshare (I had setup with
tymshare to provide me monthly tape dump of all vmshare files that
I could make available on IBM internal network ... one of the hardest
problems was getting around lawyers objections that ibm employees
would be contaminated by vmshare information)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
vmshare archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
and as previously mentioned slac had first webserver in the us on their
vm370 system (SLAC is CERN's "sister" institute ... sharing lots of
stuff)
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: World Wide Web turns 25 years old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:10:14 -0400re:
more
25 Years: How the Web began; Summary: 25 years ago there was the
Internet, but there was no Web. Then, Tim Berners-Lee proposed creating
an Internet-based hypertext system and the Web was on its way.
http://www.zdnet.com/25-years-how-the-web-began-7000027311/
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges Date: 15 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityalso Google+
Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing
charges
http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/
New Lawsuit Alleges That Wells Has a Manual for Mass Fabrication of
Foreclosure Documents
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/new-lawsuit-alleges-wells-manual-mass-fabrication-foreclosure-documents.html
references followup on whistleblower report from March 2013, a year ago:
Whistleblower: Wells Fargo Fabricated and Altered Mortgage Documents
on a Mass Basis
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/whistleblower-wells-fargo-fabricated-mortgage-documents-on-a-mass-basis.html
Securitized mortgages were used in S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s we were asked to work on improving the integrity of supporting documents as countermeasure. However, in the start of the century we watched as wallstreet paid rating agencies for triple-A ratings ... which removed any requirement for loan originators to pay any attention to loan quality, borrowers qualifications and/or documentation (triple-A rating trumps everything, including being able to do no-documentation loans). However, from the law of unintended consequences ... the requirement for documentation on the rash of foreclosures on the enormous numbers of bad loans resulted in the too big to fail to setup fraudulent document mills to supply the needed documents.
Contributing to the problems was the FED was required to do something about the non-depository loan originators ... and WASN'T.
Also, Sarbanes-Oxley had section that SEC do something about the rating agencies ... and WASN'T ... of course the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONS and WORLDCOMS and that executives and auditors involved in fraudulent financial filings were guaranteed to do jail time ... but that also required SEC do something. Apparently even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything and started doing reports of fraudulent financial filings ... even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley (and nobody doing jail time; semi-facetious question: 1) did sox have no effect on fraudulent financial filings, 2) did sox encourage fraudulent financial filings, 3) if it wasn't for sox all financial filings would be fraudulent).
A Loan Fraud War That's Short on Combat
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/a-loan-fraud-war-thats-short-on-combat.html
from above
Most of all, the report is depressing because it indicates that the
Justice Department, our nation's top law enforcement agency, is simply
unequipped -- or unwilling -- to combat complex financial frauds.
... snip ...
Democrats Press Holder on Exaggerated Mortgage Fraud Claims
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/17/221552/democrats-press-holder-on-exaggerated.html
posts mentioning fraudulent financial filings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud
posts mentioning sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
And in the Madoff case, in congressional hearings they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something (SEC's hands were finally forced when Madoff turned himself in)
posts mentioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
2010 United States foreclosure crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure_crisis
role of MERS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_Electronic_Registration_Systems
"Robo-signing" of mortgages still a problem
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/robo-signing-of-mortgages-still-a-problem/
posts mentioning triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
a few specific past posts on robosigning & foreclosuer documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#8 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#13 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#68 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#55 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#63 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#73 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#80 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#58 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter Date: 15 Mar 2014 Blog: FacebookStolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter Design data on F-35 stolen in 2007
part of the 2007 heist, does that help or hurt them?? and cross-over
from "cyber dumb"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
New fear: Worm that ransacked US military PCs was blueprint for spies'
super-malware Secret stealer spawned spooks' snoop stooge, it seems
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/cyber_espionage_daddy/
remember 2007 is also Success of Failure ... dating back a decade:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
The narrative is to purposefully have a series of failures because it makes more money. We've been called a number of times very early in gov contract to evaluate what was being done and concluded that it wouldn't work. The response was ok but this is just the start of multi-year contract and they didn't want to leave any money on the table ... they might consider something that works for contract renewal
... oh ... and in the very early part of the century ... including what becomes the Success Of Failure case ... although we didn't know it at the time
Actually for the Success Of Failure case ... we did a proposal that they (for some value of "they") agreed would work
recent posts ic-arda/iarpa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#12 5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz Allen Hamilton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
Sort of round about ... in 96/97 we were consulting for free to
commerce on 2k census. They got technical audit by somebody from the
agency and I was asked to handle it. Then later we were asked to look
at an agency problem. past posts mentioning consulting on 2k census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#92 Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#21 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#56 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#11 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#98 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
as an aside ... this has it fixed(?) to be more like f22 than f35
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2014/03/j-20-program-update.html
learning from mistakes ... as opposed to what appears to leveraging
failure paradigm for maximizing revenue
http://time.com/23031/danah-boyd-let-kids-run-wild-online/
well, when you tell them it isn't going to work and they agree ... and
then they refer to not leaving money on the table ... beltway bandits
are spending some amount of time gaming the system. but it is like
many other forms gaming the system ... there has to be some valid
instances of failure to obfuscate the issue. In the particular
Success Of Failure scenario the whistleblower reported to responsible
parties in congress and congress investigated ... which basically
supported the details. Note that didn't stop them charging the
whistleblower with effectively the same charges used in the most
recent incident. posts mentioning whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
my rant about the financial collapse is similar. Securitized mortgages
had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent
mortgages. In the late 90s we were (also) asked to look at improving
the integrity of the supporting documents in securitized mortgages as
countermeasure to fraud. However, in the early part of the century
they discovered that they could pay rating agencies for triple-A
ratings (even when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they
weren't worth triple-A) As it turns out, triple-A trumps documentation
... and they could start doing no-documentation mortgages (and w/o
documentation there is no issue of documentation integrity). As things
were crashing there were cover articles claiming that the algorithms
used were too complex and were responsible for miscalculation.
However, about the same time, there were risk managers coming forward
and saying that they had been forced by the business people to fiddle
the inputs until the desired results were generated (garbage-in,
garbage-out). And from the law of unintended consequences ... the lack
of documentation on the mortgages (that had been designed to fail)
... resulted in real problems since foreclosures have legal
requirement for documentation ... which resulted in the foreclosure
mills generating fraudulent documentation ... that continue to this
day ... most recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/new-lawsuit-alleges-wells-manual-mass-fabrication-foreclosure-documents.html
and
http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/
recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
and we watched as it was happening and unable to do anything about
it. In Oct2008, Congress had hearings on the role that rating agencies
played and there was lots of testimony that the rating agencies were
being paid for triple-A when both the rating agencies and sellers knew
they weren't worth triple-A. Note that Congress also had hearings on
Madoff scheme and had testimony form the person that had tried
unsuccessfully for a decade to try and get SEC to do something about
Madoff.
posts mentioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Current projection for earliest passing audit is 20yrs after legally mandated ... my faith in DOD quality control is on par with SEC during financial crisis
In wake of (Success Of Failure) whistleblower, congess investigated and put the agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own projects. However one scenario is it was further micc ploy as part of privatizing gov (intelligence now 70 percent budget and over half the people). Corgessional interest is it expects 5percent of appropriations from private companies ... which is prohibited if strictly gov.
more cyber dumb ...
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by
Chinese cyberspies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
Stolen F-35 Secrets Showing Up In China's Stealth Fighter
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/03/stolen-f-35-secrets-showing-up-in.html
Officials: Chinese Spying Helped Develop Stealth Jet
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-cyberspying-f-35-stealth-jet/2014/03/13/id/559402/
New Chinese stealth jet built with stolen F-35 component designs
http://rt.com/news/chinese-jet-cyber-espionage-stolen-718/
Chinese Stealth Fighter Operating With Stolen U.S. Technology
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/13/chinese-stealth-fighter-operating-with-stolen-u-s-technology/
...
Boyd's Organic Design For Command and Control would include comment
that former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down
command&control were contaminating business culture as they climbed
corporate ladder. However this was also about the same time that
articles were starting to appear that MBAs and myopic focus on
quarterly profits were destroying american business. Earlier
Eisenhower had warned about the military-industrial-complex attempting
to ever increasing budget. Boyd would tell tales about top officials
in pentagon were myopically focused on budget issues. The revolving
door scenarios between gov.&industry (not limited to MICC) is
increasing individual/personal benefit. several articles have been
written about defense industry able to show increasing quarterly
profit even in the face of declining defense budgets. However, there
is also lots of obfuscation and misdirection More recent than Smedley
"War is Racket" is Perkin's "Economic Hitman" and Spinney's "The
Domestic Roos of Perpetual War".
http://www.challengemagazine.com/extra/054_069.pdf
People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy They are
wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: Don't interrupt
the money flow, add to it.
-- Col. John R. Boyd (U.S. Air
Force, ret.) Fighter Pilot, Tactician, Strategist, Conceptual
Designer, Reformer
posts (& web URLs) mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
note Goodman's "National Insecurity"
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-Media-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/
is much more detailed look at the "perpetual war" theme and multitude
of methods used for preserving the flow of money into the defense
industry ... revolving doors, lobbying, payoffs, spreading programs in
multiple congressional districts, etc, aka Boyd's comment about the
pentagon's (primary, all consuming) strategy is "don't interrupt the
money flow, add to it". Conway/Oreskes "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
have public relations and scientists "for hire", obfuscating and confusing issues, sort of coming together for the tobacco industry ... however over the years, their paths periodically showing up shilling for the defense industry.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization Date: 15 Mar 2014 Blog: Google+re:
NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/199447
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible
collapse'? Natural and social scientists develop new model of how
'perfect storm' of crisis could unravel global system
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists
A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/pubs/handy-paper-for-submission-2.pdf
NASA Models Collapse of Western Civilization -- Concentration
of Wealth and Cascade of Critical Break-Downs
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2014/03/nafeez-mosaddeq-ahmed-nasa-models-collapse-of-western-civilization-concentration-of-wealth-and-cascade-of-critical-break-downs/
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb Date: 15 Mar 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
International Engagement on CYBER 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
somebody talked me into going ... but I think it was just to get me riled up that nothing has changed in 20yrs except the bad guys have gotten better. I pontificated being backed into doing strong authentication for international financial transactions standard because of EU-DPD ... but found lots of confusion in US about authentication versus identification ... Inglis then needled me about non-repudiation. did run into somebody from Finland and we got sidetracked talking about Boyd.
Commander: U.S. Military Not Ready for Cyber Warfare; Gen. Alexander
tells Senate threat of major cyber attacks is growing
http://freebeacon.com/commander-u-s-military-not-ready-for-cyber-warfare/
I was next in line to ask question ... and got cut off because they had to keep Alexander on schedule.
this mentions that during the Alexander Q&A ... they stopped the Guardian reporter from asking a question ... saying that Q&A was only open to attendees (not the press)
NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David
Miranda; Keith Alexander says revelations have caused "grave damage"
and claims officials are making "geadway" on "media leaks"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda
With respect to Inglis and the non-repudiation dig, in financial
standards meetings there were various gov. people including
representation from the agency (especially given their crypto
bent). There was a security acronym PAIN/CAIN:
privacy/confidentiality,
authentication,
identification,
non-repudiation.
For the transaction standard I had to eliminate identification &
non-repudiation (and there is lots of old email on the subject)
... then when I helped word-smith the (cal state) electronic signature
legislation, the lawyers really put end to non-repudiation because
if had very precise legal definition (and was not a security theme).
there was some cybercrime vis-a-vis drug crime. note somebody from
treasury gave a talk in the middle east in 2005 and happened to say
cybercrime was larger than drug crime ... which was picked up and
reverberated around the world, old post from 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#47
after they took a lot of heat for saying it, I got an email asking if I would find an open source reference. All the LEO-sites around the world, including Intepol, DOJ, FBI, etc. had readily available drug crime details. However, all cybercrime info was need-to-know and required authorized userid/password. It took me over 2hrs to find an open source reference with actual numbers.
other recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#9 NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda
Unmanned Systems and Distributed Operations: Out of One, Many
http://cimsec.org/unmanned-systems-distributed-operations-one-many/
from above
Rather than relying on 40 year old legacy data-links, the architecture
that connects manned and unmanned systems, regardless of domain,
should be secure, light-weight, high-bandwidth, and affordable. With
today's technology, those attributes need not be mutually exclusive.
... snip ...
more from the age of software: Faulty safety-critical software changed
after fatal Mull crash
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280091852/Faulty-safety-critical-software-changed-after-fatal-Mull-crash
New fear: Worm that ransacked US military PCs was blueprint for spies'
super-malware; Secret stealer spawned spooks' snoop stooge, it seems
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/cyber_espionage_daddy/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Can we logon to TSO witout having TN3270 up ? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 08:29:29 -0700PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
for a time I used to report to the same executive as the guy responsible
for APPN ... when it came time to announce, the communication group
non-concurred and objected to the announcement ... after several weeks,
the APPN announcement letter was carefully rewritten so not to imply any
relationship between APPN and SNA ... now they try and pretend that SNA
and APPN are somehow related (somewhat like doublethink out of 1984,
arbitrarily redefine words to mean whatever you want them to mean)
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/IBM_Systems_Network_Architecture_Protocols
I would periodically bug him about coming over and working on real networking.
in the late 80s, they came up with SAA as part of preserving their dumb terminal install base and paradigm; fighting off client/server and distributed computing ... I've periodically mentioned the senior disk engineer's opening statement at an annual, world-wide, internal communication group congerence that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division.
about that time, my wife wrote 3-tier network architecture into
the response to a large, distributed, highly secure, gov agency
RFI ... and then we were out pitching it to customers executives
(and taking loads of arrows in the back ... and political heat
from the communication group and the token-ring crowd). some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Can we logon to TSO witout having TN3270 up ? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 08:44:10 -0700Kees.Vernooij@KLM.COM (Vernooij, CP - KLM , SPLXM) writes:
aka the "mainframe" started out batch/job centric ... while the various open, online systems started out being people centric
the early mainframe "monitors" (like cics) attempted to implement person-centric paradigm layer ... attempting to isolate it from the underlying mainframe batch/job centric paradigm. these monitors would do large block mainframe batch oriented resource allocation at startup and then make as little use as possible of mainframe system services in doing their own operation ... also one of the reasons that it took cics almost 40yrs to achieve multiprocessor exploitation
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multi-region Operation (1980)
https://web.archive.org/web/20040705000349/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev198001.htm
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multiprocessor Exploitation (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20041023110006/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200402.htm
past cics (&/or bdam) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:09:21 -0400"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
old email about national lab looking at 70 4341s for compute farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
instead of single large expensive supercomputer, compute farm cluster of
much more cost effective computers ... however, 4300s also out in
departmental areas, the leading edge of the distributed computing
tsunami, other old 43xx email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
precursor to modern internet, and (cluster) grid/cloud computing ... was
nsfnet backbone, originally to interconnect the nsf supercomputer
centers ... then regional networks start connecting to the centers.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
we were working with some of the centers and were originally to get $20M
to do the interconnect. then congress cuts the budget and some other
things happen, finally NSF releases RFP. Internal politics prevents us
from bidding on the RFP. The director of NSF tries to help by writing a letter to the company, but that just aggravates the internal politics
(as does comments that what we already have running is at least 5yrs
ahead of all RFP responses). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
specific email in conflict between meetings with NSF director on NSF
supercomputer interconnect and project putting large number of
processors in racks with large number of racks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email850315
and followup comments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email870315
and continuation a few years later, putting large number of processors
in racks with large number of racks ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
for both (scientific) compute farms as well as commerical. Reference to
meeting in Ellison's conference room during Jan 1992, Usenix/uniforum
conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
in less than a month after the ellison meeting, the cluster scale-up is
transferred, we are told we can't work on anything with more than four
processors and it is announced as supercomputer for scientific and
technical *ONLY* 17Feb1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and then comments that the company was caught by suprise by the national
labs' insterest in cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
hours before transfer took place, still riding high with cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129
email from the office of FSD president (federal systems division) same
day:
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 18:05:00
To: <wheeler@almaden>
MEDUSA uber alles...I just got back from IBM Kingston. Please keep me
personally updated on both MEDUSA and the view of ENVOY which you
have. Your visit to FSD was part of the swing factor...be sure to tell
the redhead that I said so. FSD will do its best to solidify the
MEDUSA plan in AWD...any advice there?
Regards to both Wheelers...
... snip ... top of post, old email index
recent posts in web threads:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#34 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#35 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#36 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#41 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#43 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#44 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#45 World Wide Web turns 25 years old
past posts mentioning compute farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#54 Thoughts About Mainframe Developers and Why I Was Oh So Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#5 What is a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#38 DEC/PDP minicomputers for business in 1968?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#15 Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#86 IBM unveils new "mainframe for the rest of us"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#3 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#53 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#32 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#43 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#75 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#35 OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#94 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
past posts mentioning distributed computing tsunami
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#33 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#6 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#23 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#37 Hard drives: A bit of progress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#72 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#2 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#76 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#78 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#80 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#31 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#52 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#54 Thoughts About Mainframe Developers and Why I Was Oh So Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#75 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#17 "JP MORGAN SAW ITSELF AS ABOVE THE REGULATORS" Do you agree?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#15 Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#86 IBM unveils new "mainframe for the rest of us"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#32 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#43 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#51 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#75 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#4 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#26 Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#28 The History of the Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#33 Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#60 Bloat
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: FDIC Sues 16 Big Banks That Set Key Rate Date: 17 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityFDIC Sues 16 Big Banks That Set Key Rate
from above:
The banks rigged the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR, from
August 2007 to at least mid-2011, the FDIC alleged. The LIBOR affects
trillions of dollars in contracts around the world, including
mortgages, bonds and consumer loans.
... snip ...
BofA, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Sued by FDIC Over Libor
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/bofa-citigroup-credit-suisse-sued-by-fdic-over-libor.html
FDIC Sues 16 Big Banks For Rigging LIBOR Rates
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/fdic-banks-libor_n_4965875.html
FDIC sues 16 banks over Libor manipulation
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/03/14/fdic-sues-us-banks-over-libor/6427563/
FDIC sues big banks over alleged Libor manipulation
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/14/news/companies/fdic-libor-suit/
U.S. regulator sues 16 banks for rigging Libor rate
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-fdic-libor-idUSBREA2D1KR20140314
FDIC Sues Banks Over Libor
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303730804579439442827174438?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303730804579439442827174438.html
The Most Dishonest Number in the World: LIBOR
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/dishonest-number-world-libor.html
posts mentioning LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 12:00:27 -0700Gary.Shiminsky@DOIT.NH.GOV (Shiminsky, Gary) writes:
the biggest problem/effort was channel program translation ... i.e. nearly identical problem as MVT running in 16mbyte virtual machine under cp67. In CP67, the routine to translate channel programs from virtual addresses to real addresses was CCWTRANS ... it made a copy of the passed channel program, replacing virtual addresses with real addresses, fixing up crossing page boundaries, etc. In fact, when Ludlow was doing the work, he actually cribbed a copy of CP67's CCWTRANS into the side of EXCP processing to do the channel program translation.
Later OS/VS2 morphs into MVS ... each application getting their own 16mbyte virtual address space ... however OS/360 API heritage is extremely pointer passing intensive ... so they had to stick a 8mbyte image of the MVS kernel into each 16mbyte virtual address space ... so that the pointer passing API paradigm works (aka call the kernel passing virtual address pointer to parameters in application space ... mvs needing direct access to those addresses).
Further complicating things were the subsystems were also pointer passing API intensive ... but they each now residing in their own, separate virtual address space. To address this, they started out with the "common segment" (1mbytes), an image of which occupied every virtual address space. applications could reserve space in the common segment, lay down the parameters, and then make call to the subsystem, passing an address pointer to the parameters in the common segment.
This left applications with 7mbytes (out of the original 16mbytes). However, the requirement for common segment space is somewhat proportional to the number of different subsystems and the number of concurrent applications. By the 3033 timeframes many datacenters were running with 4-5mbyte common area (leaving only 3-4mbytes for applications our of the original 16mbytes) and verging on increasing to 5-6mbytes ... leaving only 2mbytes for applications.
Some particular large internal VLSI chip development fortran programs were constantly threatening to exceed 7mbytes running for hours at a time on several of the largest MVS mainframes ... all requiring a carefully constructed MVS systems that didn't use more than 9mbytes. In order to address the problems they were on the verge to moving to vm370/cms ... since a CMS application could get nearly the whole 16mbytes ... solving a slew of constant applications problems trying to stay within the MVS limitations.
for other drift ... part of a Future System discussion where original
MVS was supposedly on the glide path to the Future System operating
system (FS was going to completely replace 370 ... and the machines
were nothing like 370 machines):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
past posts mentioning (failed, w/o even being announced) FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 14:21:39 -0700tony@HARMINC.NET (Tony Harminc) writes:
OS/390 ... 1995 after we had left
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=OS/390
OS/390 was introduced in late 1995 in an effort, led by the late Randy Stelman, to simplify the packaging and ordering for the key, entitled elements needed to complete a fully functional MVS operating system package.
... snip ...
marketing, service, availability, withdrawal dates; z/OS, z/OS.e,
OS/390, MVS/ESA (1st OS/390 available 29Mar1996)
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/zos_eos_dates.html
recent post leading up to us being gone by aug1992 (in the wake of
cluster scale-up being transferred and being told we couldn't work on
anything with more than four processors)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#52
the company had gone in the red and there was some work that was going
to break up the company into the 13 "baby blues". leading up to
leaving we saw some periodic email from the POK region about would the
last person to leave POK please turn out the lights. The disk division
was furthest along as ADSTAR. I've mentioned before that disk division
was predicting the demise of disk division with data fleeing the
datacenters and drop in disk sales, blamed on the communication group
that had stranglehold on the datacenter ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
the executive in charge of software at ADSTAR was involved in various
work arounds to the communication group road blocks (fighting off
client/server and distributed computing) ... paying for posix support
in MVS and funding startups doing various products (that communication
group wouldn't let him do inside IBM) ... and he would call us to
consult (up until the time we were gone). 28dec1992 baby blue
reorganizations in preparation for breakup
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
we move on in Aug1992, doing some work on non-mainframe cluster and DBMS
for non-homogeneous data ... working well for things like taxonomies and
ontologies, like UMLS
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
and works better for 3-value logic (than strict RDBMS/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#40
past posts about original releational/sql System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
we did get a call if we would consult with inventoring corporate inter-divisional MOUs as part of the breakup (i.e. lots of divisional relationships would have to be explicitly turned into contracts as part of breakup, like one division piggy-backing off a supplier's contract with another division). However, before we start work on the MOU inventory, the board brings in Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company.
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
conjecture about os/390 was help reduce the enormous skills and
resources required for the care&feeding of MVS system. I've commented
before about the large explosion in 4300 sales during the late 70s and
first half of the 80s ... sort of the leading edge of the distributed
computing tsunami ... customers ordering hundreds at a time for vm/4300
going out in departmental areas. Part of the issue was high-end disk was
(CKD) 3380 ... but the entry & midrange disks were FBA (3310, 3370)
which MVS continues to not support to this day (even though real CKD
disks haven't been manufactured for decades). Eventually as some
concession to possibility MVS playing in that exploding mid-range
distributed computing market, they come out with 3375 (CKD simulated on
3370 FBA). However, that didn't address the enormous skills and
resources that would have been required to support several hundred
systems. old email mentioning 4300s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 14:55:09 -0700dasdbill2@COMCAST.NET (DASDBILL2) writes:
as mentioned upthread, os/vs2 svs started out using cp67 ccwtrans crafted into EXCP processing to perform building a copy of the passed channel program with virtual addresses converted to real addresses.
the science center recently had its 50th anniv (1Feb1964)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#88 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, Kendall Square Pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
the science center that it would be the center for virtual memory system and bid to MIT for Project Mac follow-on to CTSS on IBM 7094. However, that effort went to another group (TSS/360 and 360/67) and IBM loosing the big to GE645. Some of the CTSS people went to IBM science center on the 4th flr and others went to Project Max Multics (ge645) on the 5th flr.
The science center decides to go ahead and work on virtual memory
anyway ... getting a 360/40 and making the hardware modifications
to support virtual address translation ... and builds the CP/40
system ... which turns out to also be a virtual machine system
with CMS (and 360 guest operating systems) running in virtual
machine. CMS borrows some amount from what was learned with
the online CTSS system. CP40 talk given at SEAS (european share)
meeting in 1982
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
when standard virtual memory 360/67 product becomes availalbe, cp40 morphs into cp67. Science center installs cp67 on the (MIT) Lincoln Labs 360/67 in 1967 and then installs it at univ system last week of Jan1968 (where I'm undergraduate).
recent posts discussing several customers were talked into ordering
360/67s to run tss/360 ... but because of production issues with
tss/360, most used 360/67 for other purposes ... recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#26 Mainframe memories
note that long ago and far away ... my wife was con'ed into
going to POK to be responsible for loosely-coupled architecture
... where she developed Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
however, little uptake (except for IMS hotstandby until sysplex and parallel sysplex) and constant battles with the communication group trying to force her to use sna/vtam for loosely-coupled operation ... eventually took its toll and she leaves.
then there is the issue with MVS 15min MTBF when tried in the disk
engineering labs. I rewrote I/O supervisor so it would never fail ... so
they could do ondemand concurrent multiple device testing ... which was
enormous improvement in productivity (compared to their 7x24 stand-alone
testing schedules). I wrote-up a report ... and happened to mention
the MVS 15min MTBF issue ... which brings down the wrath of the MVS
RAS group on my head ... some mention in these past posts
getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
this is old email where FE standard error regression tests for 3380
(reasonably expected errors from 3380) results in MVS failure in all
cases ... and in 2/3rds of the cases leaving no evidence of what caused
the failure.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Mar 2014 15:37:43 -0700dasdbill2@COMCAST.NET (DASDBILL2) writes:
one of the first distributed development efforts using the internal network technology was joint between the science center and endicott to modify cp67 to support a 370 virtual machine (cp67 running on real 360/67). then a version of cp67 was modified to run on 370 virtual memory archived .... running in the 370 virtual machine (on a real 360/67). this was in regular use a year before the first 370 enginneering processing with virtual memory support was operational.
then a couple of engineers came out from san jose and added 3330 & 2305 device support to the (370 version) cp67.
this effort was where the cms multi-level source update process was developed.
base system was "cp67l" (that actually ran on real 360/67 at the science center
370 virtual machine support was "cp67h" ... ran in 360/67 virtual machine ... the issue at the science center was that students and other people from univ. systems in the boston area had access to the science center system ... and there was concern about them being exposed to unannounced 370 features.
370 version was "cp67i" which ran in a 370 virtual machine (provided by cp67h).
for quite some time cp67i (or cp67sj with 3330 & 2305 support) was the
primary operating system running internal on 370 hardware ... even after
vm370 became available (even if cp67 370-version wasn't shipped to
customers). some discussion in this recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 Mainframe memories
One of the primary issues was that in the initial morph from cp67 to vm370 they did a lot of simplification and dropped a lot of features .... including my fastpath work (that significantly cut pathlengths), my page replacement algorithm (that was significantly better at choosing page to replace) and my dynamic adaptive resource management.
old email eventually moving those features from cp67 base to vm370
base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
after that there was increasing use of my csc/vm system distribution internally ... as well as decision to pickup some of the features for release in product.
as an aside, I also had an argument early in the os/vs2 prototype its page replacement algorith ... that they were doing a very poor design ... and eventually resulting in agreeing to disagree. the issue was that they were taking a very myopic optimization at the micro level ... that resulted in making things worse at the macro level. Well into the MVS product cycle, somebody realized that they were choosing non-changed, highuse, shared, linkpack page for replacement before choosing changed, lowuse, private application data pages.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The CIA's new "family jewels": Going back to Church? Date: 17 Mar 2014 Blog: FacebookThe CIA's new "family jewels": Going back to Church?
as an aside ... none of their stuff was working
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
as undergraduate I did lots of operating system work that would be
picked up the vendor and shipped in product ... periodically they
would even suggest some enhancements for me to do ... in retrospect
some suggestions may have originated from these customers (which I
didn't learn about until much later) ... gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
later teaching security/computer classes, some of the guys would show
up ... and offline brag that they knew where I was every day of my
life dating back to birth (I guess justified all their stuff based on
software I was doing) ... of course that was before church
committee. They were also active in computer user group activities
... their installation code was CAD (folklore is for "cloak and
dagger"). This archive of online user group conference (started August
1976) where they periodically post
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
past posts mentioning "cloak and dagger"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#4 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#20 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#51 Search for first Web page takes detour into US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
old email referencing the customer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#email851025
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 07:28:42 -0700shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
while vm/370 was pretty much rewrite of cp67 ... it followed the same structure and pretty much had the same source modules ... i.e. cp67 CCWTRANS became vm370 DMKCCW. Also as mentioned upthread, it also did a lot of simplification ... dropping a lot of stuff that I had done as undergraduate and shipped in cp67. The simplification also eliminated the multiprocessor support ... and tweaked some things that made it difficult to put multiprocessor support back in.
note while there was lots of code changes for the morph from CP67 to VM370 ... CMS was almost unchanged except for 1) crippled the ability to IPL on real machine and 2) changed the name from Cambridge Monitor System to Conversational Monitor System.
old email reworking lots of vm370 to make it look a lot more like cp67
and put a lot of the performance stuff (and infrastructure for
multiprocessor) back in.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
note the spring of 75 ... besides doing csc/vm for internal distribution
... and getting con'ed into preparing some of the stuff for inclusion in
vm370 release 3 ... endicott also con'ed me into helping them with the
ECPS microcode that would come out with 138/148 ... old reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
this is in the timeframe that FS was failing and the mad rush to get
stuff back into 370 product pipelines. Spring of 75, a group in POK also
con'ed me into working on design for 5-way multiprocessor 370 ... which
got canceled being announced ... some old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
Note that after the demise of the 5-way effort, the science center got
sucked into helping a group in POK with 16-way multiprocessor effort
... we even distracted some of the processor engineers working on 3033
to put in some spare time on it. It was going along gang busters until
somebody told the head of POK that it might be decades before MVS was
ready for 16-way support ... and the whole thing was killed ... and the
head of POK invited several of us to never visit again. posts mentioning
science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
a subset of the csc/vm stuff went out in vm release 3 ... including
a very small subset of the shared segment support ... but reworked
to not use my cms pagemapped filesystem ... recent posts discussing
the subject:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#27 [OT ] Mainframe memories
note that the 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement included the decision to
start charging for software ... however the company made the case with
the gov. that it should be just application software and that kernel
software should still be free.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
With the rise of the clone processors ... lack of 370 products during
the FS period credited with giving clone processors a market foothold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
it was decided to start charging for kernel software, a decision was made to package some of my other csc/vm stuff as separate kernel product and make it the guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software ... which was first made available for vm370 release 3.
then the decision was made to release simple 2-way SMP support for vm370
release 4. At that time, the rules for free/non-free kernel software was
direct hardware support was still free. However, vm370 mulitprocessor
support was dependent on a bunch of code that had shipped in my charged
for product for releease 3. The decision was eventually made to move
nearly 90% of the code from my charged-for product into the "free" vm370
release 4 base ... but not change the price for the software. past
posts mentioning multiprocessor support (and/or compare&swap
instruction)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 08:03:40 -0700phil@VOLTAGE.COM (Phil Smith) writes:
it used similar technology to that used for the ibm internal
network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
that was originally developed by a co-worker at the science center,
originally on cp67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
also a lot of melinda's pieces are at the vmshare archive
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
tymshare (a virtual machine based online commercial service bureau) made is cms-based online computer conferencing system available for free to SHARE starting in august 1976.
other recent posts mentioning tymshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#53 Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#44 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 08:07:21 -0700m42tom-ibmmain@YAHOO.COM (Tom Marchant) writes:
XA finally got all processors being able to address all channels.
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#60 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 11:25:37 -0700dba@LISTS.DUDA.COM (David Andrews) writes:
... they kicked off 3033, 3081 & xa-architecture approximately
concurrently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
but the extensive pointer passing api and need to map common address ... by late in 3033 period, the combination of mvs kernel and common segment (morphed into common system area) was on the verged of taking up all the area in the 16mbyte virtual address space given to each application for execution.
One of the people that was involved in XA, the (aborted) effort to use 801/risc (Iliad chip) as the microprocessor for low & mid-range 370 ... do a retrofit of a subset of XA multi-address space addressing to 3033 as dual-address space mode ... as a way of trying to take some pressure off the need for the constant growth in common system area size (for passing parameters between address spaces). dual-address space mode allowed semi-privileged subsystem to access parameter list in calling application parameter list ... w/o it having to be in the common system area.
he was working on 801/risc Iliad chip right up until the time he left
for HP Labs ... where he worked on the HP risc chip (snake) used in
their line of machines. He then was the lead architecture (at HP) on the
architecture for Itanium. shortly after he left for HP Labs ... I was
getting email asking if I was going to join him. some old 801/risc email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
past posts mentioning 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
the other problem that mvs had in the 3033 time-frame was that it not only was in danger of taken up the whole 16mbyte virtual address space ... but its really bloated implementation was starting to overwhelm 16mbyte real storage limitation. Besides dual-address hack for 3033, another hack was rasing real storage to 64mbytes ... even though there was only 24bit addressing. There was two unused bits in the 16bit page table entry (that mapped a virtual page number of real page number). The hack was to prepend the two unused bits to the existing 12bit page number allowing addressing up to 64mbytes (the 12bit virtual page number mapped into a 14bit real page number). It wasn't possible to directly address any of the storage about the 16mbyte line ... except via virtual page number.
Fortunately for I/O there was IDAL ... originally introduced in 370 to handle a problem with overruns involving non-contiguous page crossing i/os (360/370 channel architecture precluded prefetching of CCWs so data-chaining could sometime overrun since it had to wait for the i/o transfer on the previous ccw to complete before it could fetch the following ccw ... IDALs lifted that restriction allowing all addresses in IDALs to be prefetched). In any case the IDAL field was 32bits ... allowing I/O transfer addresses in the greater than 16mbyte area to be addressed.
Especially in vm370 ... when virtual machine data in a virtual page above the 16mbyte line needed to be addressed ... it had to be brought down below the line. There original approach was to write the page to disk and then read it back in below the line. I provided them with a hack using dummy page table entries where a MVCL in virtual mode could bring the page down below the line (w/o resorting to in/out page i/o).
as an aside, in the wake of the FS failure, POK kicked off 3033, 3081,
and XA architecture. At the same time, Endicott kicked off 138/148,
138/148 ECPS ... mentioned here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
the 4331/4341 and E-architure. The 4331/4341 was approx. mid-range
analogy to the 3081 ... except it was all brand new technology and
finished much faster than the use of the warmed over FS technology
for 3081 ... discussed here:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
The E-architecture for DOS/VS and VS1 was sort of the low/mid-range analogy to XA architecture for MVS. However, its primary feature was moving much of the single virtual address space operation into microcode. DOS/VS (virtual dos/360) and VS1 (for os/360 mft) did something similar that OS/VS2 SVS did ... map the real kenel operation into single virtual address space ... sort of like emulating a large real memory machine. E-architecture moved a lot of what was the 370 virtual pagetables into the microcode layer.
However, the big explosion in 4300 machines were with vm/370 ... which required separate (370) virtual address space for each virtual machine ... and so E-architecture didn't catch on like XA did (although you see its influence in the "name" VSE).
Another 4341 issue was that they were out in late 70s, overlapped with
3033 and well before 3081. Cluster of vm/4341s had more processing power
than 3033, larger aggregate memory than 3033, high aggregate i/o than
3033, and much less expensive (and more cost/effective) than 3033. While
lots of 4300s were publically positioned as competition to other
mid-range like DEC VAX ... POK 3033 also felt the competitive heat, and
at one point the head of POK managed to have the allocation of a
critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half. some old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
other posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#60 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#61 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 11:38:46 -0700PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
once the legacy code was in place there were all sorts of problems. this
is tale that 360 was originally suppose to be a ascii machine ... but a
temporary hack was done because the new ascii unit record gear wasn't
available ... and had to make do with lots of old BCD unit record gear
(biggest computer goof ever):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
other of his computer history
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
other posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#60 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#61 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges Date: 18 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
also Google+
https://plus.google.com/102794881687002297268/posts/LdxjWSq1fH5
Democrats Press Holder on Exaggerated Mortgage Fraud Claims
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/17/221552/democrats-press-holder-on-exaggerated.html
A Loan Fraud War That's Short on Combat
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/a-loan-fraud-war-thats-short-on-combat.html
from above
Most of all, the report is depressing because it indicates that the
Justice Department, our nation's top law enforcement agency, is simply
unequipped -- or unwilling -- to combat complex financial frauds.
... snip ...
referencing
http://www.stopfraud.gov/
Why the Justice Department Inspector General Report on Mortgage Fraud
Matters
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/justice-department-inspector-general-report-mortgage-fraud-matters.html
from above:
"Mortgage fraud" is a limiting term: There's a yawning gap between
"mortgage fraud," in the context of how the IG presents it in this
report, and the full breadth of fraud and deception at the heart of
the crisis. Mortgage fraud, per the definition used by the FBI and the
IG, is very specifically mortgage origination fraud, the
misrepresentation used to get people into loans.
... snip ...
old references to how MBA influenced FBI in definition of "mortgage fraud"
The FBI's 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report Reveals Why the Banksters Love
Holder
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/the-fbis-2010-mortgage-fraud-report-reveals-why-the-banksters-love-holder.html
The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/the-incredible-con-the-banksters-pulled-on-the-fbi.html
Obama's FBI Channels the Tea Party: Partner with the Banks and Blame
the Poor for the Crisis
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/obamas-fbi-channels-the-tea-party-partner-with-the-banks-and-blame-the-poor-for-the-crisis.html
from above:
CBS 60mins had segment on MBA when it was having press releases
telling borrowers all the reasons it was bad to walk away from
underwater mortgage ... but 60mins had a hard time finding the MBA
... they had walked away from their new hdqtrs bldg (across from IMF
& world bank) and defaulted on their mortgage
... snip ...
I previously mentioned about asking to look at improving integrity of supporting documents ... some of the later meetings were actually in MBA hdqtrs (before they had walked away from the bldg).
posts mentioning triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
past refs to mortgage fraud:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#31 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#10 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#7 The Enablers for this "Real Estate Crisis"- Willful Blindness, Greed or more?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#4 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#19 Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#30 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#36 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#39 Greek knife to Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#48 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#11 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#12 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#1 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#40 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#13 The White House and Mortgage Fraud: So Far It's All Talk, No Action
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#31 Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#35 Inequality and Investment Bubbles: A Clearer Link Is Established
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#69 Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#83 Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#86 The Dangers of High-Frequency Trading; Wall Street's Speed Freaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#12 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#14 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#71 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#0 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#25 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#36 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#58 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#17 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#85 Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#86 Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#22 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#37 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#64 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#48 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#48 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#59 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#11 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#55 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#26 Why bankers rule the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#45 Nate Silver is Not Just Wrong, but Maliciously Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#21 AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#35 Does the UK Government Really Want us to Report Fraud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#42 Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#44 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#60 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#62 Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#68 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#35 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#38 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#8 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#65 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#36 The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#86 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#15 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#57 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Cracking IBM Mainframe Password Hashes Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 15:30:56 -0700andrew@BLACKHILLSOFTWARE.COM (Andrew Rowley) writes:
things were speeded up some when repositories of tens of thousand of the most common passwords were published.
some countermeasure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29
simple search engine turns up how to crack racf passwords
(from feb2013)
http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/43072129477/how-to-copy-the-racf-database-off-the-mainframe-and
also from search
http://www.toolswatch.org/2014/02/new-tool-racfsnow-password-cracker-for-racf-ibm-mainframe-v1-5-in-the-wild/
disclaimer: we have dozens of patents on non-password, non-PKI,
non-digital-certificate public key authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
basically recording publickey in lieu of password; we did implementations for both radius and kerberos ... as well as some prototype chips.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Can we logon to TSO witout having TN3270 up ? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Mar 2014 20:36:53 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
and i just got thru pointing out that the communication group did
everything possible to make sure that nobody would confuse that
APPN was in any way related to SNA (see figure and then what the
paragraph talks about):
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321377&image_number=7
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Internet founders say flexible framework was key to explosive growth Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:42:56 -0400Internet founders say flexible framework was key to explosive growth
and as i periodically pontificate the administrative procedures ... i.e. pre tcp/ip, arpanet used IMPs and there was tight control & authorization of the IMPs and their connections.
with the internal network and arpanet/internet after great change-over on 1Jan1983 ... it was (increasingly) easy for anybody to connect to anybody else. for the next step ... in was the interconnecting of the NSF supercomputer centers ... which became the "backbone" (precursor to modern internet) with regional networks connecting to the NSF supercomputer network.
old email related to NSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't Work Date: 19 Mar 2014 Blog: Facebookalso Google+
The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't
Work
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/03/pentagon-spent-27-billion-intelligence-system-doesnt-work/359319/
can you say Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
ome of the refs:
Army critical of its controversial intelligence system
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/07/army-critical-of-its-controversial-intelligence-system/
Accounting Fraud And Waste Is Standard Procedure at the Pentagon
http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/11/accounting-fraud-and-waste-routine-pentagon/71701/
How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1
recent posts mentioning any of the refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#55 Behind the Pentagon's doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
how 'bout the $16B in shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 bills that were airlifted to Iraq??? NCIS last night even had case semi-related.
past posts mentioning the $16B in shrink wrapped $100s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
U.S. has spent $53 billion training Afghan forces
http://southasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/19/india_blocks_leaked_war_report_us_spent_53_billion_training_afghan_forces_briton_se
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Littoral Warfare Ship Date: 19 Mar 2014 Blog: Facebookthere is lots of discussion that it is too expensive and vulnerable (something like the F35) and is going to have to be completely scrapped and start all over. there are two versions, the more traditional single hull and the above trimaran ... I believe done from work at david taylor model basin.
there are some much more cost effective being built by other countries that may be used as alternative to restarting from scratch (see wiki ref)
note the trillion dollar national security budget:
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/defense-budget/2014/americas-one-trillion-national-security-budget.html
... many of these games started with 9/11 ... there was 2010 cbo report that the dod appropriations was increased a little over $2T (over "baseline") ... a little over $1T for the two wars and couldn't account for where another trillion-plus went. Current projection is that DOD might be able to pass a financial audit by 2017, two decades after it was first legally mandated.
well then a couple recent on the FED
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Ben Bernanke's Biggest Mistake; New documents show the Fed's critical
error in focusing too much on banks rather than the real economy.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/september_2008_fomc_meeting_transcripts_reveal_ben_bernanke_s_biggest_mistake.html
The Greatest Propaganda Coup Of Our Time?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-01/greatest-propaganda-coup-our-time
latest from today on littoral review:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140318/DEFREG02/303180031/LCS-Alternative-Task-Force-Named
and
http://news.usni.org/2014/03/18/navy-kicks-lcs-follow-study
past post mentioning littoral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#22 Preparing for War with China
recent posts mentioning fed articles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#101 How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the Fed to the growing danger before the crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#102 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#5 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#7 N.Y. Barclays Libor Traders Said to Face U.K. Charges
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:10:58 -0400Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives; While solid state gains ground, vendors surprise the market with new hard disk drives. Does anyone really need them?
HGST is the remnants of the old IBM San Jose disk division. As IBM was going into the red ... it was the furthest along of the 13 "baby blues" as ADSTAR ... reorganization in preparation for breaking up the company.
I've periodically commented that a senior disk engineer in the late 80s had got a talk scheduled for the communication group, annual, worldwide, internal conference supposedly on the subject of 3174 performance, but opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was the communication group had stranglehold on the datacenter and was fighting off distributed computing and client/server, attempting to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing the effects of data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions to address the opportunity, but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group (which had corporate strategic "ownership" for everything that crossed the datacenter walls)
past posts mentioning communication group & dumb terminal paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
old "13 baby blue" article (28Dec1992)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
we had left, but we got a call if we would work as consultants inventorying all the interdivision MOUs ... lots of things that would have to turn into contracts between independent companies (including things like one division had contract with supplier and another division was making use of that same contract). Before we started, the board brings in Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company (however, the disk division still didn't survive long)
past posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
past posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14 & 15
(on the old plant site)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:30:15 -0400Freddy1X <freddy1X@indyX.netx> writes:
going to smaller (2.5in) diameter helps with spinning faster & faster access ... the referenced articles says a 60drive, 36terabyte box delivers 18,000 IOPS ... also mentions that flash/SSD deliver throughput.
i've mentioned before peak (mainframe) z196 I/O benchmark was 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (compared to single FCS announced for e5-2600 claiming over million IOPS) @18k IOPS/box ... would require 111 such boxes for peak z196 I/O benchmark.
following has HDD drive (unit) sales peaked 2010.
Will Flash Memory Spell The End Of The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Industry?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1974691-will-flash-memory-spell-the-end-of-the-hard-disk-drive-hdd-industry
has individual drive IOPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
peak individual hard disk 175-210 IOPS
lowend SSD starts at 400 IOPS and goes up to almost 10M IOPS
posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
recent posts mentioning e5-2600 FCS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#18 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:55:22 -0400re:
As an aside ... before we left, the executive heading software at adstar was also doing all sorts of stuff to try and work around corporate granting communication group the stranglehold on datacenters ... and he asked us to help with some of the efforts. He was paying for getting POSIX support on MVS ... and also investing in startups that would do products (that communication group wouldn't let him do directly).
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Federal Reserve: Masters Of The Universe Or Trapped Incompetents? Date: 21 Mar 2014 Blog: Google+re:
The Federal Reserve: Masters Of The Universe Or Trapped Incompetents?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/federal-reserve-masters-universe-or-trapped-incompetents
from above:
But suppose rather than being masters of all things financial, the Fed
was actually little more than a collection of incompetents trapped in
a broken system that is beyond repair. Many reasons have been proposed
to explain the Fed's policies,and most (including my own expressed
here) focus on the Fed's need to protect the banking sector and the
Status Quo, lest the whole rotten contraption collapses in a heap of
worthless derivatives and various Ponzi schemes.
... snip ...
"QE Was A Massive Gift Intended To Boost Wealth", Fed President Admits
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/qe-was-massive-gift-intended-boost-wealth-fed-president-admits
from above:
With Bernanke gone, the remaining Fed members knowing full well they
will be crucified, metaphorically of course (if not literally) when it
all inevitably comes crashing down, are finally at liberty with their
words... and the truth is bleeding out courtesy of the president of
the Dallas Fed
... snip ...
other recent items
Bernanke Finally Reveals, In One Word, Why The Financial System Crashed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-04/bernanke-finally-reveals-one-word-why-financial-system-crashed
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Ben Bernanke's Biggest Mistake; New documents show the Fed's critical
error in focusing too much on banks rather than the real economy.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/september_2008_fomc_meeting_transcripts_reveal_ben_bernanke_s_biggest_mistake.html
The Greatest Propaganda Coup Of Our Time?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-01/greatest-propaganda-coup-our-time
past posts mentioning Bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
spike in oil prices covered in griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:24:20 -0400JimP. <pongbill127@cableone.net> writes:
(ssd) write amplificatioin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification
secure erase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification#Secure_erase
references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence
more discussion
http://gizmodo.com/5494427/leave-no-trace-how-to-completely-erase-your-hard-drives-ssds-and-thumb-drives
a few past posts mentioning zeroization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#straw AADS Strawman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#2 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#28 The Foolish Dozen or so in This News Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#40 [survey] Possestional Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#64 Can you use ECC to produce digital signatures? It doesn't see
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#15 secure delete on 3390
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#6 How Safe Are Your Personal Records In The Hands Of Government Officials?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#58 Price Tag for End-to-End Encryption: $4.8 Billion, Mercator Says
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: NJE Clarifications Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Mar 2014 06:40:21 -0700tony@HARMINC.NET (Tony Harminc) writes:
and so NJE nodes couldn't be trusted except as edge nodes (since they were prone to tossing traffic).
NJE also was relatively dirty implementation ... intermixing network and job control fields ... as a result NJE systems at different release levels exchanging traffic had habit of crashing the host (MVS).
By comparison, RSCS was very clean layered network design ... done by
coworker at the science center ... some past science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
it didn't have the number of nodes limitations, didn't toss traffic when it didn't understand the origin ... and it's clean layered design was straight-forward to have drivers that understood other protocols ... useful in supporting JES/MVS as edge nodes. In fact, as the number of nodes exploded around the world ... and all JES/MVS systems couldn't be kept at the same release levels ... involving JES/MVS systems in one part of the world crashing MVS systems in other parts of the world ... a library of RSCS NJE drivers grew up that translated NJE header fields to canonical form ... and then a specific RSCS NJE driver would be used to convert any NJE fields to the appropriate format required by the NJE system at the other end of the link (as countermeasure to traffic crashing the host MVS system) ... there was the famous case of traffic from san jose (gpd) mvs system crashing mvs system in hursley ... and it being blamed on the hursley vm/rscs people for not having the correct vm/rscs nje driver started (to keep mvs from crashing).
VM/RSCS was also the basis for IBM-sponsored BITNET for educational
institutions (where this ibm-mailing list originated)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
internal politics eventually stopped the shipping of native RSCS
drivers, just the NJE drivers ... even though they continued to be
used on the internal network, in part because they werre more
efficient ahd had much higher throughput. then later, internal
politics forced the move of the internal network to SNA/VTAM, at a
time when it would have been much more cost effective to have moved to
tcp/ip ... which BITNET did. Some old internal network related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
including this reference to a little of the internal politics behind
moving to sna/vtam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
it was in the same time period that they were spreading misinformation
internally that the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet)
could be done on sna/vtam ... somebody had collected a lot of the
internal misinformation and forwarded it to us ... heavily snipped and
redacted to protect the guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
other old NSF related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning hasp, jes, and/or nje
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
one of the other early NJE issues was they couldn't find a valid business case to ship the product ... the standard internal process resulted in price much higher than customers would pay i.e. IBM still adjusting to having to charge for software (after the unbundling announcement). Eventually they came up with the hack that they would announce a joint vm/rscs and JES2/NJE product ... business case where they combined the costs & revenue for the two products (pricing vm/rsc the same as jes2/nje ... where vm/rscs revenue was used to cover the jes2/nje costs... and eventually eliminating shipping native vm/rscs drivers helped with the facade).
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Crowdsourcing Diplomacy Date: 22 Mar 2014 Blog: FacebookCrowdsourcing Diplomacy
side track innovation ...
there is ongoing theme that business schools not teaching innovation but how to protect and monopolize ... as well as
How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation - James Allworth
http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/12/how-corruption-is-strangling-us-innovation/
Lot about TPP and how big corporations driving treaty to their benefit
... claims even allowing them to sue/trump governments when it is in
their interest. older article
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal
i would go with "self interest" and possibly downhill from
there. There has been claims that investment banking attracts high
percentage of amoral/sociopaths ... with some of the same involved in
the S&L crisis, the internet bubble IPO mills, and the real-estate
mortgage scam ... there may be little room for win/win since others
are viewed as prey. One of the accounting firms does periodic survey
of us workers if they had personally observed serious corporate
misconduct in the past 12months, financial industry is twice as high
as other industries (about 2/3rds). In the wake of the crash ... there
was some articles trying to deny all responsibility and blame it on
computer models ... but then came articles by risk managers saying
that the business people had forced them to fiddle the inputs until
they got the desired outputs (garbage in, garbage out). There have
some articles that from the recent release of 2008 Federal Reserve
minutes that they are simply incompetent ... but other articles saying
that a whole lot of things have to be glossed over to come up with an
interpretation so kind. ... a couple examples "The Greatest
Propaganda Coup of Our Time?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/27/the-greatest-propaganda-coup-of-our-time/
and "The Federal Reserve: Master Of The Universe Or Trapped
Incompetents?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/federal-reserve-masters-universe-or-trapped-incompetents
recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#5 Royal Pardon For Turing
posts mentioning bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
some specific past amoral/sociopath posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:20:59 -0400Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
so hard disks in the consumer market is somewhat coupled to the "last gasp" for desktop computers with the increasing moving to tablets, etc. (although there has been work on miniture HDD to play in smartphones and tablets).
hard disks in the enterprise market isn't so much the price comparison of SSDs and hard disks ... but the system throughput costs ... if SSDs can get 10-100 times the throughput ... then the overall system costs per transaction can be less (even if SSDs are more expensive than hard disks).
regarding enterprise hard disk+DRAM cache ... there is work on large system (dram) memory ... rather than coupling the DRAM with the hard disk ... just adding it to system memory. DBMS strategy has been nominal data "home" location is on disk, temporarily resident in memory.
newer "in-memory" DBMS strategy is the whole DBMS is in system memory, changes are sequentially logged ... and there is only infrequent checkpointing. checkpointing just requires high sequential transfer and random access is less important. some HDD could play here but it is changing landscape.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges Date: 22 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
back to the original subject:
Wells Fargo foreclosure manual under fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wells-fargo-foreclosure-manual-under-fire/2014/03/17/25cd383c-ae00-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
Democracy Now Discusses Wells Fargo Foreclosure Document Fabrication Manual
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/democracy-now-discusses-wells-fargo-foreclosure-document-fabrication-manual.html
manual
http://www.scribd.com/doc/213832018/Wells-Fargo-Foreclosure-Manual
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Kleptocrats hiding funds in US warned 'we will find you' Date: 22 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityKleptocrats hiding funds in US warned 'we will find you'
from above:
So far, the United States has not approved any comparable measures,
and a former US financial crimes investigator recently argued in the
New York Times that states such as Delaware are corrupt secrecy havens
on par with any Caribbean paradise. The US Treasury Department is
drafting a more limited measure which would require US banks and other
financial institutions to find out and inform authorities -- but not
the public -- of the true "beneficial owners" of their client
companies.
... snip ...
other recent from icij.org
Offshore Web Nets Chinese Giant in Italian Solar Scandal
http://www.icij.org/offshore/offshore-web-nets-chinese-giant-italian-solar-scandal
from above:
Court records and secret offshore files shine light on a Chinese green
energy firm's links to an Italian criminal probe and figures with
possible ties to the Sicilian Mafia.
... snip ...
maybe, maybe not, close door on "corrupt secrecy" operations in the US
Stars start to align for bill to outlaw shell corporations
http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/03/stars-start-align-bill-outlaw-shell-corporations
then there is
The $1 Million 2014 TED Prize Wish: Abolishing Corrupt Anonymous
Companies
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027842/the-1-million-2014-ted-prize-wish-abolishing-corrupt-anonymous-companies
post mentioning tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:05:14 -0400IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot
i had gotton one for the kids ... and then got hotshot as upgrade
Date: 86/09/29
PCJRHOME FORUM (internal discussion group)
re: hotshot;
hotshot has 150 ns chips ... at the same time I put in hotshot, I also
replaced 8088 with 8mhs v20. The hotshot comes with a couple of DOS
device drivers that a) allocates the first 128k of memory so dos runs
in the 150ns memory which really makes things fly. The first 128k can
either go unused or be allocated for a electronic disk (variable size
with it potentially spilling over into fast memory).
Be sure your 8088 card is socketed before you place your order --
unless you are willing to unsolder it.
WHO: WHAT:
ES Quality Products -- Clock = $ 35
5311 Mango Blossom -- Drive Adapter = $ 45
San Jose, CA 95123 -- 512K Memory = $179
(408) 224-5574 -- ----
-- TOTAL = $259
Ed Straus is the -- Sidecar trade-in = -$ 89
the owner (?). -- Net Total = $170
You can buy each feature separately -- no need to buy the entire package.
The trade-in was because he needed it -- not sure he will continue to
need a sidecar, even so you could probably sell on the open market.
Installation was VERY EASY. The physical part of the job was done
in less then an hour and I had never had the covers off my PCjr.
INVENTORY:
1) One jrHOTSHOT(tm) board
2) One flat cable for two diskette drives
3) A set of instructions
INSTALLATION:
1) Remove the top cover
2) Remove/set aside the diskette drive
3) Remove 8088 chip and reinstall on the jrHOTSHOT board
4) Insert the board into the 8088 socket
5) Put diskette back in place
6) Install flat cable for two diskette drives
7) Reinstall top cover
8) Setup DOS and go
The instructions were clear. There is a two year warranty which
includes fixing the product and giving you technical support. In
addition, they will give you your money back within 60 days if you
are not satisfied.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Eisenhower's military-industrial warning rings truer than ever Date: 23 Mar 2014 Blog: Google+re:
Eisenhower's military-industrial warning rings truer than ever' The
latest in the Snowden and NSA revelations show the reach of the
military-information complex
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/23/eisenhowers-military-industrial-warning-snowden-nsa
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
note 70% of budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
some Gerstner content: Gerstner wins "competition" to be next CEO of
AMEX (looser leaves, taking protege Jamie Dimon). AMEX is in
competition with KKR for private equity take-over of RJR, KKR
wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires Gerstner away to turn RJR
around. IBM board then hires Gerstner to resurrect IBM and reverse the
breakup of the company (had been reorganized into the 13 "baby blues"
in preparation for breakup). Gerstner leaves to headup
Carlyle. Carlyle does private equity take-over of BAH (Snowden's
employer). posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
post mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
The looser with protege go to Baltimore and acquire whats been referred to as loan sharking company. They take-over some other companies, eventually acquiring Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greespan gives them exemption while they lobby washington for repeal of Glass-Steagall enabling too big to fail. The protege leaves and becomes ceo of another too big to fail
posts mentioning Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
in financial standards meetings ... they had representatives, in part because of lots of crypto content. I kept strongly stating "no backdoors" ... because the bad guys could use them too.
Also, over a decade ago, I was co-author of the financial industry privacy standard. We had several meetings with HHS HIPAA people (some that had been working on it since early 70s) and one of the things that came out was metadata in financial statements could leak PII information in violation of HIPAA.
also there was enormous uptic in privatizing the federal gov. last
decade. oh and in 2007: Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
in the wake of the congressional investigation, the agency was put on probation and not allowed to manage their own projects. However, there has been some claims that this is just congressional ploy to further privatize the gov. ... congress expecting 5% back on appropriations that go to private companies (lobbying and donations) ... which they can't get if money just stays with gov. agencies.
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: S&P Judge Tentatively Rules It Must Face Deception Claims Date: 23 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityS&P Judge Tentatively Rules It Must Face Deception Claims
Note testimony in the Oct2008 congressional hearings was that the rating agencies were selling triple-A ratings on mortgage-backed securities when they knew they weren't worth triple-A.
posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
The Stone Unturned: Credit Ratings
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/business/the-stone-unturned-credit-ratings.html
Note also ... while rhetoric in congress leading up to passing of Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and Worldcoms and guarantee that executives and auditors would do jail time for public company fraudulent financial filings ... it also required SEC to do something about the rating agencies.
posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
posts mentioning enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Possibly because even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent public company financial filings, even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley (and nobody doing jail time). The only thing that SEC appeared to do about the rating agencies was write a report. Also in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to do something about Madoff (their hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in).
posts mentioning madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Mar 2014 15:14:05 -0700Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> writes:
there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines.
I got sucked into helping Endicott with ecps for 138/148 (follow-on to
135/145) old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
this went along with vs/1 handshaking performance increase. I also got sucked into (off&on for a year) going around to different countries helping present the business case for 138/148 to business forecasters.
Endicott also tried to have vm370 shipped from the factory as part of every machine (sort of like modern day LPAR). However, at the same time POK/MVS was convincing corporate to killoff vm370, shutdown the product group and transfer all the people to POK as part of MVS/XA development. Endicott managed to save the vm370 product mission (had to reconsitute a development group from scratch) ... but prevail in having vm370 shipped as part of every machine from the factory.
note the following to 138/148 ... was 4331/4341 and had the endicott follow-on architecture, "e-architecture" (sort of endicott's equivalent to POK's 370/xa architecture). E-architecture was a little like vs/1 running in virtual machine under vm370 with vm370 handling lots of stuff ... but not quite ... it is where "VSE" originated.
one of the interesting business things learned ... was that US was dividied up in regions ... a little like world trade countries. However non-US countries would make a forecast and place an order for that many machines from some factory (and "pay" for them) ... and the machines would be shipped to that country ... and the countries were then responsible for selling those boxes. As a result world trade business forecast people had their jobs on the line when making forecasts.
Forecast by US regions carried no such obligations ... business forecasters tended to make a forecast based on internal political winds. US forecasters effectively would say it made no difference what features a product had ... they would forecast whatever they were expected to forecast. Forecasters in world trade were completely different ... they were extremely sensitive to box features and competitive analysis how a box compared point-by-point with the competition.
past posts in this thread;
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#60 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#61 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#63 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Mar 2014 20:52:43 -0700Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
posts mentioning online computer communication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#60 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#61 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#63 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#83 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Parallel programming may not be so daunting Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:49 -0400Parallel programming may not be so daunting
from above:
In theory, doubling the number of cores doubles the chip's efficiency,
but splitting up computations so that they run efficiently in parallel
isn't easy. On the other hand, say a trio of computer scientists from
MIT, Israel's Technion, and Microsoft Research, neither is it as hard as
had been feared.
... snip ...
past post (in afc)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
above includes this reference:
Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
from above:
Microsoft, to its credit, has multi-threaded the calculations in Office
Excel 2007. But that's about where the credit ends.
Intel and AMD executives fail to hide their disappointment with
Microsoft well on the multi-threaded software front.
During a speech last June, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said the following:
"A couple of years ago, I had a discussion with Bill Gates (about the
multi-core products). He was just in disbelief. He said, 'We can't write
software to keep up with that.'"
Gates ordered the Intel executive to keep pumping out faster product.
"No, Bill, it's not going to work that way," Gelsinger informed him.
... snip ...
One of the commonly use parallel processing paradigms was invented by
co-worker at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
when he was doing fine-grain multiprocessor kernel locking work on cp67 ... and was "named" compare-and-swap (since CAS are his initials).
The initial attempt to get compare-and-swap added to 370 architecture
were rebuffed ... the 370 architecture owners said that the POK favorite
sone operating system people believed that test-and-set was more than
sufficient (and compare-and-swap wasn't needed). They challenged use to
come up with other uses for compare-and-swap (that weren't specific to
multiprocessor kernel operation). Thus was born the examples of large
multi-threaded applications needing serialized operation (not even
necessarily running on multiprocessor hardware). Big uptake was DBMS
implementations that could correctly serialize lots of operations w/o
requiring kernel calls for serialization. Some of these examples still
appear in principles of operation.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320
past posts mentioning multiprocessor and/or compare-and-swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:39:42 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
more recent email trail article
Deal Book Thinks Lawyers' "Cardinal Rule" is to Advise CEOs how to
Defraud with Impunity
http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog2.php/2014/03/23/deal-book-thinks-lawyers-cardinal-rule-is-to-advise-ceos-how-to-defraud-with-impunity
from above:
The lead sets the bemused tone of the article. The article's hook is the
ironic failure of top lawyers to follow their own advice that they
purportedly "always tell their clients" on how to commit fraud with
impunity by ensuring that there is no paper (or electronic) trail of
"incriminating" evidence of their crime. The "crim" root of the word
"incriminating" comes from the Latin word for "crime." The word
"incriminating" means that it provides evidence that one has committed a
crime.
... snip ...
referencing:
4 Accused in Law Firm Fraud Ignored a Maxim: Don't Email
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/former-top-leaders-of-dewey-leboeuf-are-indicted/
the rest of my original post was about iraq, iran, saudi arabia (including responsibility for 9/11). recent article:
Al Qaeda's Second Act; Is Saudi Arabia Regretting Its Support for
Terrorism?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/19/is-saudi-arabia-regretting-its-support-for-terrorism/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Mar 2014 08:23:52 -0700elardus.engelbrecht@SITA.CO.ZA (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes:
well there is also this (about the same time) ... mentioned upthread,
the MVS RAS group would have gotten me fired ... if they could have
figured out how ... but failing in that ... they tried to make things as
unpleasant as possible ... including precluding any corporate-level
awards for any of the work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
part of the issue, in the wake of the future system failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
... and the change in corporate culture to sycophancy and make no
waves ... recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#28 Write Inhibit
one of the side-effects was that some of the organizations started carefully managing information up the executive chain ... any reference to MVS MTBF of 15mins (even internal only) would have disturbed a carefully managed image.
When the MVS RAS group originally tracked me down and called me up ... I thought they were going to ask me for help on correcting all the problems ... but the first thing they wanted to know was who my management chain was ... I then realized I was going to be in trouble ... they didn't actually want to know how to fix things ... they were interested in much more important things.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Parallel programming may not be so daunting Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:53:12 -0400Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
I use "make -jn" to control some amount of parallel execution (needs command or shell) ... I've also done some amount with shell functions that can run asynchronously/parallel within shell (both bash & perl)
firefox electrolysis was working on threaded/multiprocess ... but sort of died off ... but work is now picking back up (search electroysis and/or e10s). I've mentioned before that I have process that goes out and does (parallel) wgets and 100 news sites and then eliminates URLs seen before ... and then does parallel commands to running firefox to bring up the new news URLs in background tabs (since firefox is still running serially, i've got to pace things a little to keep from overrunning firefox ... also some websites don't like being asked for several URLs from the same ip-address over short period of time).
i current run with 4-core chip configured with two hyperthreads per core (aka looks like 8-processor machine). for compute intensive stuff I'll run "make -j8" (actually query number of processors and stick it in shell variable that is argument for the "make -j"). make threaded stuff was to do parallel compiles&builds keeping all the dependencies and prerequisites straight ... but you can fake it into managing concurrency w/o a makefile.
few past posts mentioning background tabs.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#54 Is there a way to configure your web browser to use multiple
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#50 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#55 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#66 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#41 Moz 1.8 performance dramatically improved
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#51 Intel abandons USEnet news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#85 Which of the latest browsers do you prefer and why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#29 How were you using the internet 10 years ago and how does that differ from how you use it today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#54 Windowed Interfaces 1981-2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#72 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#22 OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#39 Unix systems and Serialization mechanism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#61 Agents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#90 Just for a laugh ... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#39 PDP-10 and Vax, was System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#25 GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Mar 2014 09:35:36 -0700john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes: you be interested in a slightly used, but very lucrative stake in a > bridge in NYC? <grin/>
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#84 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#87 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
recent reference to how lawyers are trained to advise CEOs how to
defraud with impunity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#86
but they got charged because of email evidence ... even tho part of the
lawyer training is to never put it in email. references this slightly
earlier post about evidence in iran/contra affair was from executive
branch (vm370) profs email system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#36
above also mentions that families of 9/11 victims are now being allowed to sue saudi arabia as responsible for 9/11 (some speculation that it comes from growing energy independence)
in slightly older (long-winded) posts in IBM employee (linkedin)
discussion group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55
goes into some detail about (some of) IBM history over past two decades
there is slightly related discussion about business schools training
MBAs on how to protect monopoly positions (as opposed to how to promote
innovation).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Mar 2014 18:37:05 -0700Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
prior to developing cp/m (73/74), kildall had worked with cp67/cms at naval postgraduate school.
cp/m reflects some of both cms & dec10/tops10 ... some additional
history (dec10 machines used at intel at the time)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html
lot of cms traces back to mit ctss system on ibm 7094 ... which also
influences pdp10/tops10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10
tops10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-10
note the tops10 scheduler described in above is similar to description for ctss and what was in release 1 of cp67 delivered jan1968.
as undergraduate, one of the (other) things i rewrote was schedule for
dynamic adaptive resource manager (sometimes called fairshare scheduler
because default resource policy was fairshare) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
other tops10 history ... work from mit being moved into DEC machine
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/TOPS-20.html
similar but different, including several emails from 1980 ... writing
3880 control floppies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#17 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#19 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
There was joke that the 64kbyte os/360 simulation in cms was much more cost effective os/360 simulation than the 8mbyte one in MVS.
It turns out that los gatos did 12kbyte additional os/360 simulation ... which got many things running.
part of the problem was that the burlington development group had
previously done lots of enhancements to cms os/360 including things like
read/write os/vtoc disks directly supporting lots of os/vtoc disk file
formats ... but it hadn't been released yet ... when POK got the
development group shutdown and the group moved to pok to support mvs
development ... and the people responsible had managed to escape the
move (part of the joke, that the head of POK was a major contributor to
DEC VMS operating system). recent references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#4 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#92 write rings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#83 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive' Date: 24 Mar 2014 Blog: IBMersre:
I've repeated several times before
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1876891-ibm-shrinks-analysts-hate-it
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
HBR Blows The Lid Off C-Suite Over-Compensation
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/02/22/hbr-blows-the-lid-off-c-suite-over-compensation/
one of the periodic US corporate themes is that relatively recently the ratio of top executive compensation to avg worker compensation has exploded to over 400:1 after having been 20:1 for a long time and 10:1 in much of the rest of the world.
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from this recent book about lots of details about different ways
corporations came up with for raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
A major selection of work for outsourcing is non-strategic, non-critical activities that aren't part of the focus of top executives. Another criteria that has been used to select work for outsourcing is political considerations. MICC has fine-tuned it for defense projects where they try and put a piece in every critical congressional district ... creating strong congressional backing to continue funding the project ... even when there is no other valid reason. The various mergers may have MICC contaminating Boeing into parceling out pieces of 787 to various countries (there was a Boeing article about the 787 outsourcing to different countries ... likely in return for country airlines making 787 orders ... was a mistake, added a couple years and significantly increased cost).
In some countries IBM has been faced with local laws about how much money (from local sales) that can be taken out of the country ... forcing them to spend some amount of the money (earned there) on things like salaries.
Periodic news stories have just about the opposite occurring in the US, heavy congressional lobbying allowing corporations able to take nearly unlimited amount of money out of the country ... as part of tax avoidance.
On the subject of US military rigid, top-down, command&control infrastructure and former military officers climbing the corporate ladder and contaminating US corporate culture
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II,
loc2328-34:
Only years later did many get the opportunity to attend the then best
military school in the United States -- The Infantry School. Even
before George C. Marshall took over as assistant commandant with full
responsibility for the curriculum, the school was highly beneficial
for the younger and even older officers attending it and, though it
was supposed to be a steppingstone to the Command and General Staff
School, it had become in fact superior to it.138 Correctly labelled
"the heart and the brain of the infantry," no other school taught the
desperately needed hands-on knowledge of infantry weapons and tactics
on a company, battalion, and regimental level.139 Attending officers,
however, were still four to eight years behind their German
counterparts in experience.
loc2341-44:
Help, however, was on the way in the person of George C. Marshall, who
was determined to set right the wrongs he had experienced when a
woefully unprofessional U.S. officer corps went to war in Europe,
causing an unparalleled number of American casualties in only nineteen
months of war. In his view -- and it can be stated now that he made a
historically correct assessment -- the inadequacy of many American
officers came from their advanced ages, inflexibility of mind, and
lack of modern and practical training.
loc2377-79:
Marshall received specific input for his reforms from a German war
veteran and exchange student to The Infantry School. Hauptmann
(Captain) Adolf von Schell stayed in Marshall's house and came as
close to a friend as a foreigner could get to the enigmatic Marshall.
... snip ...
one of the points in the book was that most military education in the US was strongly oriented towards turning out conformity in contrast to German military schools that were oriented towards turning out leadership. One of the examples was the widespread occurrence of hazing in US military schools (as part of producing conformity and stamping out independence) was so bad that in one hazing incident at VMI, Marshall was injured so badly he almost had to drop out of school.
El-Erian: 6 Reasons Why Capex Is Constrained
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-02/el-erian-6-reasons-why-capex-constrained
from above:
Following last week's confirmation that capital expenditure in the
land of the Free runs a very poor third to buybacks and dividends (and
well anything that props up the over-inflated share prices of US
corporates), and merely confirming what we have been discussing for
the last few years (that Fed policy has focused management on
short-term gratification and not long-term growth and stability),
ex-PIMCO shit-cleaner-upper Mohamed El-Erian notes six reasons why the
collapse in capex spend will continue and how central banks have
failed to prime the pump of the real economy.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
Retirement Heist
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
some IBM specific excerpts
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
some addition on the buyback/dividend theme and lack of support for the real economy
The Greatest Propaganda Coup Of Our Time?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-01/greatest-propaganda-coup-our-time
from above:
While this is effective propaganda, it's basically a lie, mainly
because it diverts attention from the Fed's role in crashing the
financial system, preventing the remedies that were needed from being
implemented (nationalizing the giant Wall Street banks), and coercing
Congress into approving gigantic, economy-killing bailouts which
shifted trillions of dollars to insolvent financial institutions that
should have been euthanized.
... snip ...
When I was sponsoring Boyd's briefings at IBM (air force officer
responsible for E/M theory, F15, F16, F18, etc) he would comment about
former military officers steeped in rigid, top-down, command&control
destroying US corporate culture as they climbed the corporate ladder
(lot more over in the IBM "Wild Duck" discussion group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#97 Where does the term Wild Duck come from?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#98 How to groom a leader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#52 First 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#53 Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#8 Microsoft culture must change, chairman says
The "Wild Duck" reference is to Watson Sr. saying every business
needed "Wild Ducks". Note the referenced ("Command Culture") book is
result of the author's phd, spent months pouring over primary sources
in both US and Germany .... and Boyd's version of IBM's "Wild Duck":
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
of course, this is after he had passed, before that USAF had pretty
much disowned Boyd ... it was the Marines that were at Arlington when
he was buried (around 1990, the commandant of the Marine Corps had
leveraged Boyd for a corps makeover, Boyd's effects went to Quantico
and the corp sponsors Boyd conferences) A reference to some of Boyd's
accomplishments (including E/M theory, F15, F16, & F18)
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
and UCSD business school just had a Boyd conference ... some number of
Boyd acolytes were there (I got stuck going to something in
Annapolis).
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
reference to Watson's corporate culture died with failure of FS
... from Fergson/Watson "Computer Wars"
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive
... snip ...
more on stock buybacks
How Investors May Be Getting Fooled by Buybacks
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/investors-fooled-buybacks-22864822
Lots of large US corporations have bought major tax dodgers from
congress
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/102512%20-%20JobDestroyers3.pdf
from above:
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $3.3 billion tax
refund.
In 2010, not only did General Electric pay no federal income taxes, it
received a $3.3 billion tax refund from the IRS, even though it earned
over $5 billion in U.S. profits.
Number of offshore tax havens? At least 14.
GE has at least 14 tax haven subsidiaries in Bermuda, Singapore, and
Luxembourg for the purpose of avoiding U.S. income taxes.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve? $16 billion.
During the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve provided GE with $16
billion in financial assistance, at a time when Jeffrey Immelt was a
director of the New York Federal Reserve.
Jobs Shipped Overseas? At least 25,000 since 2001.
... snip ...
other references:
General Electric Avoids Taxes By Keeping $108 Billion Overseas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/general-electric-taxes_n_2852094.html
G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?pagewanted=all
this has been trying to track a lots of the offshore tax evasion
http://www.icij.org/offshore
posts mentioning tax evasion, avoidance, havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
other past posts mentioning stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#16 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#79 Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#104 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#31 Apple's long IRS-Irish history
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM India Battles Fraud Amid Scramble To Save Its $2.5B Airtel Contract Date: 24 Mar 2014 Blog: IBMersIBM India Battles Fraud Amid Scramble To Save Its $2.5B Airtel Contract
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: New York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading Date: 24 Mar 2014 Blog: LinkedInNew York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading
CFTC Investigates The "Secret" HFT-Exchange Incentive Program
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-19/cftc-investigates-secret-hft-exchange-incentive-programs
Algo Activity (And Manipulation) Breaks Record On Friday's Quad
Witching Debacle
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/algo-activity-breaks-record-fridays-quad-witching-debacle
some of the same operations supposedly also involved here IceCap:
Which Bubble Is Created Next?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/icecap-which-bubble-created-next
The Holy Grail Of Trading Has Been Found: HFT Firm Reveals 1 Losing
Trading Day In 1238 Days Of Trading
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-10/holy-grail-trading-has-been-found-hft-firm-reveals-1-losing-trading-day-1238-days-tr
other recent past posts mentioning HFT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#56 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#65 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#7 N.Y. Barclays Libor Traders Said to Face U.K. Charges
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: ebooks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:41:40 -0400settlement in suit against apple conspired to fix prices
Have You Bought An E-Book At Amazon? Check Your Email Right Now To See
If You Just Got Some Money
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-book-settlement-2014-3
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0400hancock4 writes:
SJR did the enhancements to support APA (all points addressable, SHERPA)
a few past posts mentioning SHERPA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#44 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#74 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#49 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#19 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#21 program coding pads
lots of other past posts mentioning 6670
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#42 Enter fonts (was Re: Unix case-sensitivity: how did it originate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#43 Enter fonts (was Re: Unix case-sensitivity: how did it originate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#52 Enter fonts (was Re: Unix case-sensitivity: how did it originate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#29 20th March 2000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#81 Coloured IBM DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#1 What good and old text formatter are there ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#50 IBM 705 computer manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#5 New IBM history book out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#31 Hercules etc. IBM not just missing a great opportunity...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#7 disk write caching (was: ibm icecube -- return of
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#52 Microsoft's innovations [was:the rtf format]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#24 IBM Selectric as printer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#29 6670
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#43 Early attempts at console humor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#1 Oldest running code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#13 JSX 328x printing (portrait)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#48 Xah Lee's Unixism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#61 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#34 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#48 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#51 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#54 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#29 Job seperators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#20 Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#44 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#49 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#1 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#36 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#27 The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#72 Parse/Template Function
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#51 It has been a long time since Ihave seen a printer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#68 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#42 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#71 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#6 Timeline: The evolution of online communities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#19 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#1 Does this count as 'computer' folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#74 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#85 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#2 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#23 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#68 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#57 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#59 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#49 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#61 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#1 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#89 Make the mainframe work environment fun and intuitive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#82 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#84 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#24 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#55 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#10 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#21 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#62 Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#19 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#21 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#53 Virginia M. Rometty elected IBM president
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#77 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#95 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#97 Just for a laugh ... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#54 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#57 Displaywriter, Unix manuals added to Bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#22 I Need A Good Password
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Lockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says Date: 25 Mar 2014 Blog: FacebookLockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says
F22 has 1.7M lines-of-code, F35 was originally suppose to be 5.7M
lines-of-code but has exploded now to 24M lines-of-code ... also
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/03/gao-next-week.html
... other recent
Fixing the F-35?
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/03/fixing-f-35.html
USAF stops F-16 upgrade that was to be a hedge against F-35 delays
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/03/usaf-stops-f-16-upgrade-that-was-to-be.html
Wear RAAF uniform-get free pass to mislead (note: f35 & counters to
F22)
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/03/wear-raaf-uniform-get-free-pass-to.html
I couldn't resist: America's $1 Trillion Target Barge
http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/20/americas-1-trillion-target-barge/
and
Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier
http://politics-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/03/23/0359233/iran-builds-mock-up-of-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier
and person is no relation
Growler Advocates Outline Stealth Vulnerabilities
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_03_24_2014_p24-674336.xml
from above
Much of the concern of skeptics is centered on the emergence of
very-high-frequency (VHF) radars, which uniquely can be used to detect
stealthy aircraft. "All 'stealth' means is delayed detection
in [a specific] frequency," says one industry official. With a
VHF system, "you are essentially the size of your aircraft
from long range"
... snip ...
GAO Predicts F-35 Software Troubles May Drive Annual Costs Up To $15
Billion
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/03/gao-predicts-f-35-software-troubles-may-drive-annual-costs-up-to-15-billion/
from above:
To execute the program as planned, the Department of Defense
(DOD) will have to increase funds steeply over the next 5 years and
sustain an average of $12.6 billion per year through 2037; for several
years, funding requirements will peak at around $15 billion.
... snip ...
GAO Issues More Cost Warnings For F-35
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_03_24_2014_p0-674992.xml
froma above:
Lower-than-expected reliability threatens the future of the F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter program, along with doubts as to whether the Pentagon
can afford the planned production rate, according to the latest report
from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made in America Date: 25 Mar 2014 Blog: FacebookThe Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made in America
This is showing up more and more in articles about stealth and drones
(in part because drones made physically smaller) along with comments
about better integration with targeting systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency_radar
also mentions used to shootdown f117
http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v12/2/stealth.html
topic raised in this article ... mentions integration with other
systems about where to concentrate more precise radar
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_03_24_2014_p24-674336.xml
and this article gets into it in a little more detail
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
from above
In summary, the kind of IADS Western aircraft will confront in the
post 2010 timeframe will involve mixes of a wide range of radars and
missile systems, with considerable diversity in operating bands,
power-aperture performance, and often using sophisticated jam
resistant modulation techniques, good frequency agility, and smart
digital signal and data processing, with data fusion capabilities. The
notion of a future IADS resembling Cold War era Soviet export systems
is completely unrealistic.
... snip ...
Opinion: Is Saab's New Gripen The Future Of Fighters?
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_03_24_2014_p15-673319.xml
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The SEC Finally Takes an Interest in Collateralized Loan Obligations Date: 25 Mar 2014 Blog: Google+re:
The SEC Finally Takes an Interest in Collateralized Loan Obligations
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/sec-finally-takes-interest-collateralized-loan-obligations.html
SEC Is Probing Dealings by Banks and Companies in Loan Securities
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579459721396289900
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
recent refs to rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#64 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#82 S&P Judge Tentatively Rules It Must Face Deception Claims
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: ebooks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:31:07 -0400scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: New York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading Date: 25 Mar 2014 Blog: LinkedInre:
Algo Activity (And Manipulation) Breaks Record On Friday's Quad
Witching Debacle
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/algo-activity-breaks-record-fridays-quad-witching-debacle
some of the same operations supposedly also involved here
IceCap: Which Bubble Is Created Next?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/icecap-which-bubble-
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Reflexivity Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 Mar 2014 10:34:19 -0700PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
special-use domain names (including localhost)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761
special-use ipv4 addresses (including 127.0.0.1)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735
127.0.0.1 convention appears in this older rfc (requirements standard)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122
have 127.0.0.1 reserved going back to rfc790 (sep1981)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc790
trivia at interop '88 ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
sunday night and early monday morning the floor nets were constantly crashing with packet storms ... fortunately fix was found before the show starts. work-around/convention specification then appears in rfc1122 (even tho I was still at ibm, i had equipment in another vendor's booth at the show).
other trivia, the former RFC editor (Postel) would let me help him with
(periodically released/updated) STD1 (before he passed). my rfc index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
I even got con'ed into giving electronic commerce seminar to USC/ISI and
USC comp.sci graduate deprt. I even covered some amount of the first
patent (well before it was granted) in this patent portfolio
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
as I've commented a number of times, original mainframe tcp/ip product
was implemented in vs/pascal ... which had none of the exploit & buffer
overflow problems that are epidemic in tcp/ip stacks implemented in C
language. Originally, it did have some performance issues (getting about
44kbytes/sec using 3090 processor) but I did the changes to support
RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at cray research between 4341 and cray
... got sustained 4341 channel throughput using only modest amount of
4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvment in number of bytes moved
per instruction executed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping Date: 25 Mar 2014 Blog: IETFre:
As an aside ... late 80s and early 90s the gov. was saying that tcp/ip and the internet would be eliminated and mandating everything converts to GOSIP. At interop '88 there were lots of OSI booths (courting the gov. business).
How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping; An IETF plan
looks to HTTP 2.0 to help protect internet users from the NSA.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/103113-nsa-ietf-275483.html
We were brought into a small client/server that wanted to do payment transactions on their server; they had also invented this technology called SSL they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". we had to map SSL technology to the payment business process.
later we were tangentially involved in the Cal. state data breach
notification legislation. we had been brought in to help wordsmith the
cal. electronic signature legislation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
several of the pariticipants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done extensive detailed public surveys and found the number one issue was identity theft, specifically the kind resulted in fraudulent financial transactions frequently as a result of data breach. an issue was that typically institutions take security measures as measures against treats & risks to the institution. in these cases, the risk wasn't to the institutions but the individual account owners and as such there seemed to be little or nothing being done. there was some anticipation that the publicity from the data breach notifications would prompt countermeasures.
one of the issues in many of these cases is the value of the
information to the crooks is 100 times more than the value to many
institutions (i.e. prior financial transaction that crooks can use to
perform fraudulent transactions). For instance the value of
information to the merchant is the profit from the transactions
(possibly only a couple of dollars), while the value of the
information to the crooks is the credit limit or account balance
(possibly several hundred to several thousand) ... as a result, crooks
may be able to afford to spend a hundred times more attack a system
than can be spent defending. posts mentioning security proportional to
risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
another issue in the current electronic payment information paradigm is its dual use characteristic ... to prevent fraud, it needs to be kept completely confidential and *NEVER* divulged ... while at the same time it is need in dozen of business processes at millions of locations around the world (we've periodically claimed that even if the planet was buried in miles of information hiding encryption, it wouldn't prevent information leakage).
we were brought into the x9a10 financial standard working group (which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments) and were
co-authors of x9.59 financial transaction standard which slightly
tweaked the paradigm and eliminated the value of previous transaction
information (& account numbers) to crooks ... and therefor eliminated
the major motivation for most of current breaches. it also eliminated
the current major use of SSL in the world today ... this earlier stuff
we worked on for electronic commerce.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
Internet architects propose encrypting all the world's Web traffic;
Next-gen HTTP calls for default crypto to stop spying by spooks and
criminals.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/encrypt-all-the-worlds-web-traffic-internet-architects-propose/
The original analysis we did for using SSL for electronic commerce was that the user understood the relationship between the webserver they wanted to talk to and the URL they typed into the browser; then browser use of SSL would establish the relationship between the typed in URL and the webserver it actually was talking to. Both were necessary to have the webserver being talked to was actually the webserver that the user was expecting. However, ecommerce sites found out that use of SSL cut their throughput by 90% ... and they dropped back to only using SSL for checkout.
Now the URL that the user provided was no longer being validated by SSL; then they would click a button and the (unvalidated) website would provide a URL for SSL to validate. Now the only thing that could be said was that the website was the website it claimed to be (but not necessarily the website that the user was expecting). This click on convention for URL violated/voided a basic security premise for SSL.
As an aside ... late 80s and early 90s the gov. was saying that tcp/ip and the internet would be eliminated and mandating everything converts to GOSIP. At interop '88 there were lots of OSI booths (courting the gov. business).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:23:42 -0400Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code
recent thread over in ibm-main mailing list that wandered into
bootstrapping and what was used for cp/m
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#90
before ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before seattle computer there was cp/m,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before cp/m, kildall worked on cp67/cms at npg (gone 404, but lives on
at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html
npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
cp67/cms (aka precursor to vm/370)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
before cp67/cms ... there was virtual machine, interactive computing
cp/40
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
at the IBM science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
lots of cp/67 starting in the 60s (gone 404, but lives on at the
wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
note that after CTSS,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
some of the folks went to the science center on the 4th flr and did
cp/40 and then cp/67. Other of the folks went to the 5th flr and did
multics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
some number of the people that started work on multics returned to bell
labs and did unix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX
other posts mentioning cp/m
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#7 Why former IBMers who left maybe years ago for any reason are still active on the Greater IBM Connection?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#22 What is a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#23 HCF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#28 Some interesting post about the importance of Security and what it means for the Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#51 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#0 What in your opinion is the one defining IBM product?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#51 Search for first Web page takes detour into US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#9 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#3 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#69 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#74 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: ebooks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:52:14 -0400re:
Kindle v Glass, apps v text: the complicated future of books; Is the
future an interactive novel read on a Google Glass? One thing's for
certain: the transformation of the written word is one of the defining
issues of our age
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/kindle-v-glass-apps-v-text-the-complicated-future-of-books
and ...
You Could Soon Read An Entire Harry Potter Book In Under 90 Minutes
With This App
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/27/spritz-reading_n_4865756.html
Spritz app lets you read at 1,000 wpm -- but at what cost?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/13/technology/innovation/spritz/
New App Wants to Help You Read Things Four Times Faster
http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/03/new-speed-reading-app-will-help-you-read-things-4x-faster/359005/
Spritz
http://www.spritzinc.com/
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: After Target, Neiman Marcus breaches, does PCI compliance mean anything? Date: 26 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityAfter Target, Neiman Marcus breaches, does PCI compliance mean anything?
We were tangentially involved the cal state data breach notification
law (first in the nation). We had been brought in to help word smith
the cal state electronic signature act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
and many of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done extensive public surveys and the number #1 issue was identity theft, primarily the form account fraud form involving fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches/skimming. The issue was that little or nothing was being done and it was hoped that the publicity from breaches would motivate corrective action (nominally security measures are taken in self-protection, however in the cases of breaches, the institutions weren't at risk, the public was).
In the years since the cal. state breach notification act, there have been numerous federal preemption notification bills (none passed), about evenly divided between those similar to the cal. legislation and those that effectively would eliminate notification. Some of the notification "elimination" acts would reference industry action, like PCI which originated after the cal. legislation.
some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#10 PKI, Smartcard, Certificate Chain Verification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#25 PCI audit compliance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005v.html#4 ABN Tape - Found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#64 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#85 PCI Compliance - Encryption of all non-console administrative access
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#94 PCI Compliance - Encryption of all non-console administrative access
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#0 The Unexpected Fact about the First Computer Programmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#77 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#79 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#91 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#35 U.S. Identity Theft at Record Level in 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#1 PCI's Bob Russo: Data loss hurts brand more than a fine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#69 PCI Compliance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#72 Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#3 Cybersecurity hearing highlights inadequacy of PCI DSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#16 Cybersecurity hearing highlights inadequacy of PCI DSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#36 PCI security rules may require reinforcements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#44 Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?; Hackers PINing after your details
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#57 Data masking/data disguise Primer 1) WHY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#10 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#25 New standard for encrypting card data in the works; backers include Heartland
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#63 New standard for encrypting card data in the works; backers include Heartland
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#53 Merchant Groups Ask for Broad Changes in Letter to PCI's Overseer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#13 PCI SSC Seeks Input on Security Standards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#62 An Information Gap Sparks a Dust-Up over Remote Key Injection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#50 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#28 PCI Council Releases Recommendations For Preventing Card-Skimming Attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#36 The Compliance Spectrum...Reducing PCI DSS Scope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#75 What's old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#39 Six Months Later, MasterCard Softens a Controversial PCI Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#49 Six Months Later, MasterCard Softens a Controversial PCI Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#9 On Scope Scrinkage in PCI DSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#3 zSeries Manpower Sizing
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: The IBM Strategy Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Mar 2014 10:29:20 -0700URL recently showed up in (ibm employee) linkedin group
The IBM Strategy: We are making a new future for our clients, our industry and our company. This is how.
01: We are making markets by transforming indusries and professions with data
02: We are remaking enterprise IT for the era of cloud
03: We are enabling systems of engagement for enterprises. And we are leading by example.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Bank of America to pay $9.3 billion to settle mortgage bond claims Date: 26 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityBank of America to pay $9.3 billion to settle mortgage bond claims
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and/or
too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
but then there is this: "The Economic Scam of the Century"
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/26/the-economic-scam-of-the-century/
from above:
The leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Tim Johnson
(D., S.D.) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho), released a draft bill on
Sunday that would provide explicit government guarantees on
mortgage-backed securities (MBS) generated by privately-owned banks
and financial institutions. The gigantic giveaway to Wall Street would
put US taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the losses on toxic MBS
the likes of which crashed the financial system in 2008 plunging the
economy into the deepest slump since the Great Depression.
... snip ...
also note that there was over $27T (thats trillion) done during the
bubble:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
turning loan business into transaction business funneled through wallstreet ... there are claims that the skim of the new $27+T in business tripled the size of wallstreet (as percent of GDP) during the bubble.
posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: The IBM Strategy Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Mar 2014 08:25:14 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
Attack of the killer clouds and the coming IT storm
http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/attack-of-the-killer-clouds-and-the-coming-it-storm-239006
from above:
Death by cloud and virtualization
The specific IT dodo myth tends to revolve around the specter of
virtualization combined with the private and public cloud. This
multiheaded monster will turn all networks into self-sustaining,
self-configuring, self-remediating benevolent SkyNets and, thus, kill
the IT pro. When you have instant infrastructure provisioning,
policy-based scalability, and a network that runs at the cut-and-paste
level, not the crack-the-rack level, who needs IT pros?
... snip ...
I've mentioned before the explosion in vm/4341s at large corporations
... ordering hundreds at a time and putting out in departmental areas
... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunamis.
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
The high-end disks for datacenters were 3380s ... the low-end and mid-range disks were all FBA (3310s & 3370s) ... sort of locking MVS out of the market. Eventually they came out with CKD 3375 (emulated on real FBA 3370, sort of the beginning of the end of real CKD ... which haven't been manufactured for decades). However, the MVS system care and feeding could easily to run to dozen or more people ... so didn't scale very well when talking about putting out hundreds in every departmental area.
The big cloud massive megadatacenters now involve hundreds of thousands of systems with millions of processors, being managed by several scores of people.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Citigroup Fails Fed Stress Test as BofA Gets Dividend Boost Date: 27 Mar 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityCitigroup Fails Fed Stress Test as BofA Gets Dividend Boost
... BofA gets to increase dividend at same time socked with $9+B settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#107
Bank of America to pay $9.3 billion to settle mortgage bond claims
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/26/us-bankofamerica-settlement-fhfa-idUSBREA2P23720140326
and Citi fails stress test.
Is the Citigroup Stress Test Rejection Really a Surprise? Really?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-03-27/citigroup-stress-test-rejection-really-surprise-really
Citi Fails Fed Stress Test -- The REAL Story
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-03-26/citi-fails-fed-stress-test-%E2%80%A6-real-story
Fed Admits "Stress Tests" Are a Sham Washington's Blog
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/fed-admits-stress-tests-are-a-sham.html
above from Apr2009 about "stress tests" were pure sham ... note that
end of 2008, just the four largest too big to fail were carrying $5.2T
in toxic CDOs "off-book" ... if they had been required to bring them
back on-book, they would have been declared insolvent and forced to be
liquidated (with Citi carrying the largest share of the $5.2T)
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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