[Info-vax] "Thanks for botherin'"
Richard Maher
maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com
Fri Sep 25 09:05:56 EDT 2009
Hi JF,
"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message
news:006a3a3c$0$24559$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>
> > - IPsec comes during 2010.
>
> Could this news possibly create a miracle and make Mr Maher happy for 30
> seconds ? :-)
That's bloody priceless coming from Eyeore! :-)
Yes it is potentially great news but, given the endless stream of flip-flop,
vacillations in recent times, you'll have to forgive me if I insist on
referring to them as eggs instead of chickens :-(
After 4+ years of IPsec on the RoadMap it's now "2010"? "31-Dec-2010"? "In
the fullness of time"? I mean how long does it really take to certify code
that's already there in situ?
Look, I hope Matt continues to do his best (and I for one don't understand
8.4 without tequila) but, at the end of the day, who really cares? (Besides
me) I've got the surf-ski and rods on the roof-rack and this time tomorrow
I'll be in Kalbarri and the day after Exmouth/Turquoise Bay. (I can't
believe the crap weather we're having down here so I'm gagging to get the
budgie-smugglers out and have a beer in the sun)
The "better" news was HP/VMS were cancelling at least one of their useless
browsers but, regardless of that, VMS license fees will continue to be
siphoned off by "those who [can] never leave".
My Spring-Clean Holiday advice to all VMSers her is to spend more time in
places like comp.lang.javascript and comp.lang.java.programmer (or .NET
perhaps, Adobe? HTML 5?) and see what the rest of the world is doing.
Leastways you'll more readily be able to spot the bullshit you're being fed
by the usual suspects in HP/VMS. Remember that they only treat you like crap
'cos you let 'em, and if you stop swimming round and round the same barrel
then you'll be a lot harder to shoot.
Take a look at one of those wonderful (and incredibly cheap let alone
up-to-date!) LAMP servers and ask yourself why you're running a webserver on
VMS at all. Or perhaps .NET and the proprietary IIS or WAMP tickles you
fancy? And no need for Apache, WSIT, CGI, Perl, Python on VMS at all - Just
access your tried and tested VMS 3GLs via VMS 3GLs! No wrappers, No ODBC,
JDBC, No serialize/de-serialize bollocks, just direct, authenticated, and
transparent network access to your rich heritage of VMS-hosted
functionality, business-rules, and data.
Sure, use Java, Python, Perl, C#, Flash, XAML, MXML, Javascript, and HTML to
access VMS by all means, but how about using them on a well supported
platform with current releases and security patches hey? When will you stop
trying to slap a beak and flippers on VMS and call it Linux?
"But it's been [14] years now and I'm starting to lose confidence" -
(Almost) Inigo Montoya
"They would not listen, they're not listening still. . ." - Don McLean
"The world[newsgroup] was never meant for one as beautiful as me" - Richard
Maher (also Jose Mourinho)
Cheers Richard Maher
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