09-Feb-2006

Distributed Netbeans for demo
This nice (oh well..) product has been installed - Netbeans 3.6 on Aphrodite and the IDE-server on Diana. Both client and server are Java, which causes system-wide settings on VMS to be set very, very high: WSMAX to be extended to 300.000, to accomodate PQL_DWSEXTENT of the same amount; PQL_DPGFLQUO to be set to 500.000 - just below the size of the current pagefile. These changes required a reboot (WSMAX is not dynamic), and after that, the accounts used to test it required some changes as well. Once done, it kind of works. Starting the server is quick, but it takes some time for clients to be able to connect. And, please, on this 256Mb, 600 MHz machine, one at a time....
Anyway: good for testing and preparing the demo on Feb 28th.

Tried it first using Netbeans 5.0 on Aphrodite but that didn't take the modules: missing file.

Microsoft's and IBMS's mailserver open relay???
Just for the record - it might be a fake, but take a look at this spam's mailheader:

Return-Path: kentronsi@afsingapour.com
Received: from 64.99.101-84.rev.gaoland.net (84.101.99.64)
by diana.intra.grootersnet.nl (V5.5-11, OpenVMS V8.2 Alpha); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:26:54 +0100 (CET)
Received: from [205.248.102.79] (port=25 helo=mailc.microsoft.com)
by mailc.microsoft.com with smtp
for <me> ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:28:43 +0100
Received: from [32.97.182.141] (port=25 helo=e1.ny.us.ibm.com)
by e1.ny.us.ibm.com with smtp
for <me> ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:28:43 +0100
Message-ID: <000001c62dd9$13cd1b80$0100007f@localhost>
From: "Elias Long"
To:
Subject: Don't get left behind!
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:28:43 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C62DD9.13CD1B80"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180

(for obvious reasons, I removed my emailaddress)

Read the receivers from bottom up:

e1.ny.us.ibm.com - IBM, US, New York (that;s an assumption, but I guess rather valid)
mailc.microsoft.com - Microsoft - you know...

Next is to check:
32.97.182.141 - is this IBM?
205.248.102.79 - is this Microsoft?

Tomorrow, when time permits...