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On MVS there are mainly VB and FB files. This is abbreviated RECFM=VB or RECFM=FB (record format). VB files are variable block, each record in the file contains a 4-byte header for the length information. FB are fixed block, each record having a fixed number of bytes. The record length is…
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When processing input files I have to check whether those input files have a common record format. For this I therefore have to compute the line length of each record in the input file. 1. Perl solution. The below program reads the input file and shows a histogram of each line length with its…
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I am using J-Pilot since more than 20 years. I mostly use: Datebook as kind of a diary and for accounting purposes (what did I do for client X at date Y) Address Memos I use Todo's rarely, if at all. I had used Todo's in the past a bit. For the Expense part: I just played with Expenses, but never…
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The J-Pilot SQLite plugin stores data in SQLite with Id's stemming from J-Pilot and your various Palm devices over time. These Id's are not necessarily consecutive and jump wildly. Below SQL can be used to renumber them. The approach is to move the Id's to a high range, then copy that range to your…
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This blog including my previous blog at WordPress have now been viewed more than 120.000 times. Roughly 600 views per month, also see Statistics of this Blog in 2021. This is less than the usual 1.000 to 1.500 views per month on WordPress, see Statistics of this Blog: Crossed 110.000 Views. This…
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This week Peter Kammermeier installed two measurement tools in the switchbox and DC to AC solar converter box. Measurement tool is a Shelly 3EM, "Professional Energy Meter". Shelly is a brand of Allterco, headquarted in Sofia (Bulgary). On their website they say that they have sold over…
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Simplified Saaze is the static site generator, which is used to generate this blog. So far, there are three example themes for Saaze. Saaze Example: By design, this design is very simple. Saaze J-Pilot: This design contains top-menus with sub-menus, pages in English and German, a blog, responsive…
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1. Problem statement. I had written on website performance and measurement here: Speed-Tests with Pingdom.com Bandwith Diet for This Blog Accelerating Page Load Times by Reducing Requests Accelerating Page Load Times by Reducing Requests, Part #2 The overall lessons were: Measure your website…
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1. Terminology. Cloudflare offers a service called "Cloudflare Pages". It is two things: Provide ample space for static content: HTML + CSS + images + PDF + etc. Provide a JavaScript execution environment on the edge Part #1 alone would be a good thing. I have written on this here…
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At 04-Aug-2022 06:52:19 I ended up in an infinite loop at Twitter: I could not log-out, but I could also not continue. The remedy was nevertheless easy, I simply had to correct the URL to twitter.com again. It is noteworthy that even a large internet company like Twitter produces these kinds of…
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Nima Badizadegan, an electrical engineer, who previously worked almost three years for Google, wrote Use One Big Server on his blog. He talks on cloud computing, not specially on cloud storage. He starts with a description of a cloud machine from Microsoft Azure having an AMD CPU with 64 core, 128…
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Since Thu, 04-Aug-2022, Simplified is now officially part of the Jamstack list: Site Generators -- A List of Static Site Generators for Jamstack Sites. I had requested a merge on 21-Feb-2022, and now almost half a year later Netlify reacted and added the entry. Good to see Simplified Saaze next to…
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I wrote about hosting static sites on various platforms: Hosting Static Content with surge.sh Hosting Static Content with now.sh, now.sh renamed themself to vercel.app Hosting Static Content with netlify.app Since end of 2021 Cloudflare greatly enhanced their static site offering: Cloudflare…
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I tried to install some npm packets with npm install. This failed with error npm install npm ERR! must provide string spec Looking into the source of the error in the entire npm under /lib/node_modules/npm: node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/edge.js 51: throw new TypeError('must provide string…
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Josep Stuhli is CTO of SofaScore. SofaScore has live scores from more than 600 soccer leagues world wide. According SimilarWeb it has around 50-100 million totals visits per day. Headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, most users come from Brazil, Italy, USA, and GB. On DORS/CLUC 2022, a Linux and free…
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Simplified Saaze is the static site generator, which is used to generate this blog. So far, there are two example themes for Saaze. Saaze Example: By design, this design is very simple. Saaze J-Pilot: This design contains top-menus with sub-menus, pages in English and German, a blog, responsive…
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Simplified Saaze is the static site generator, which is used to generate this blog. So far, there was one example theme for Saaze: Saaze Example. This example was, by design, very simple. Now there is another theme, which showcases Simplified Saaze. It's called the J-Pilot theme. You can see it in…
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In Aggressive Vodafone Router I already mocked about the software quality of the Vodafone router TG3442DE: software in this router was stone old, configuration was user unfriendly. In continuation of this: this router broke on 03-Jun-2022. No reboot or power off and power on method helped to make…
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Unfortunately classical mainframe has no builtin decompressing software for ZIP files. What you could do: Transfer ZIP file to USS, decompress and unpack there, then copy back to MVS. To do it directly on MVS you need to purchase a separate utility to do this. One utility is FLAM, Frankenstein…
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Since Friday, 10-Jun-2022, till Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022, eklausmeier.goip.de was down as the internet modem+router was defective. This downtime was unplanned. Now online again. Dates from UptimeRobot. Uptime robot reported downtime starting: 2022-06-10 12:23:16 UTC+1 Uptime robot report machine up…