This is Aaron Sakovich's OpenVMS Hobby Site, where I stash my thoughts and ramblings and technical notes regarding my fav OS: OpenVMS. OpenVMS rocks. It's rock solid, reliable, secure, uncrackable, and incredibly robust. I've been hacking OpenVMS, and it's precursor, VMS, for well over 20 years now, and it's still going strong. My home is run by it, as are this and many other web pages.
I'm an HP certified professional, with both my ASE and CSA. My first VMS box was an 11/750 back in mid '84, running VMS v3.something. Boy, that was a long time ago...
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you can find something useful here.
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I've got some projects I want to do, and one of them requires a simple CMS. When I heard about PmWiki, my heart nearly skipped a beat -- here was an open source, PHP v4-compatible, and flat-file based wiki!
I just had to try it!
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Thanks to Marty for finally providing a real podcast feed for the VMS Audio Updates! There's an article on OpenVMS.org announcing the availability of this great new feature.
Good job, Marty!
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I was perusing the 'net today, looking for links back to this blog. While I didn't find what I was looking for, I did find the Webmaster's Prayer and an Ode to Alpha. Ah, fond memories; I remember struggling with that animated GIF of Homer Simpson, trying to get the size down to something reasonable.
My servers are still Digital.
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The Uptime Project has moved around over the past few years, and currently resides at uptimes-project.org. This server keeps a database of clients and their reported uptimes. Yes, some of the data is absurd (a Windows machine with 272 years of uptime? Heck I thought 1 year was hard to believe...) Fortunately, the OpenVMS and OpenVMS Cluster times are more reasonable and logically consistent.
Here are instructions on setting up the client on your system. NB: don't install this on a system that you do not have authorization to run it on. From a security perspective, the source code is included -- it is up to you to review the code and build it for your system. I am not responsible for software that YOU install on YOUR system.
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Got a package in the mail yesterday! I'd signed up on the HP website, entering the competition to see who had the oldest OpenVMS system based on serial number. I knew I didn't have a chance at winning the Itanium (after all, the oldest system I was able to find was a VAX 3100 Model 80), but I was hoping to be early enough to get a shot at a sweater.
And I was! Thanks, HP!
Although it's hard to tell in this picture (I shot it with my Nokia N800's camera), the lettering is quality stitching, not a silkscreened image.
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Happy 30th birthday, OpenVMS! It was 30 years ago today that VMS v1.0 shipped to the first paying customers on the VAX 11/780. Today, HP is shipping v8.3 on the third family of processors to support OpenVMS, the Intel Itanium, and continues to plan for future releases well into the future.
HP has created this special website to commemorate this anniversary. Pat Thibodeau of ComputerWorld has written another OpenVMS article, HP tries to assure OpenVMS users that OS still has a future that I was interviewed for, but I presume the outlook I expressed was too bland and too positive to be used to draw in readers.
I had just turned 20 and was still in college. I remember all the buzz in Kingsbury Hall at the time about the "new computer" that we were getting! (And I was curious why we would be losing 4 bits -- wasn't that a step backwards?) However, it would be another half dozen years before I got to touch my first VMS box, and that would be my own 11/750 at Boeing Flight Test, running VMS v3.4, IIRC.
So, happy birthday, OpenVMS. The first 30 are just the beginning!
Update: Pat Thibodeau's written a second article, this one printed on November 5, "OpenVMS Still Has Road Ahead Of It, HP Says", does quote me.
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Introduced with OpenVMS v7.3-2:
$ Set Device /Reset=Error_Count
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If Init/Erase isn't sufficient, this does a triple pass over your media with varying patterns (you can even specify the pattern):
$ Analyze /Media /Exercise=Full
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$ Show image(Only available on Alpha & IA64.)
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$ Exit %x34b4(more)
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$ Accounting/Status=-10000001/User=ACCOUNT/Process=Batch
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I don't know why, but...
$ exit 2928
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$ ... f$fao("!%D",0)
The trick here being that you need to include the 0 (zero)! f$fao("!%D") is nonsensical!
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