This article can help you determine if MySQL has been installed on your IBM i, and whether it has been installed in a standard location that would be recognized by the Zend DBi updater. Please log on to a 5250 session as QSECOFR or as a *SECOFR class user. Enter … Continue reading
Has it really been seven years? Time flies. Looking back, not much in my prior career prepared me for this job. It’s a bit like living in Oz. It has been a definite adjustment from RPG and green screens. My job has been to stumble through all the novelty to … Continue reading
MySQL is a popular open source data base used widely on the internet. MySQL puts the ‘M” in LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Taken together, these open source software products make it possible to build a complete web site, and to this day a large plurality of web sites … Continue reading
Port numbers are used to uniquely identify TCP services running on the same IP address. Ports are 16-bit numbers, so will be in the range 0-65535. Sometimes we need to find a unique port number to assign to a TCP service. To do it, we need to identify any port … Continue reading
Update: Comet ISON is no more. Or maybe it isn’t. Anyway, looks like there won’t be anything to see. One of the fun things about our house is making various astronomic observations looking out the back. Our view is basically South by Southeast, sitting up on a hill. We can … Continue reading
Hi All! So basically I got tired of having a domain with no web page. It has been a few years, and a lot has changed since I was “that guy”. You know the one, that guy fooling around with all this Internet stuff and making web pages, back before … Continue reading