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Q: no screenshare option in openmeeting I have installed latest version of openmeeting on ubuntu 18
started the startup.sh
trying to connect with browser : xx:port : ok
I start a public presentation room
I get the whiteboard, but can not find screen sharing option
do we need to install additional package for this ?
thanks for all info/help
best regards, Guy

A: I'm one of OpenMeetings devs
The icon for screen-sharing is upper-right corner.
You should have running KMS, otherwise audio/video/screen-sharing will not be accessible

A: as suggested : kms should be installed and running - follow steps on https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/installation.html


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The Slovenian national cricket team is the team that represents Slovenia in international cricket. The national organising body in Slovenia, the Slovenian Cricket Association, became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2005 and an associate member in 2017.

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Slovenia and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.

History

Early days
It is thought that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974, after Borut Čegovnik, then a 13-year-old boy from the mountain town of Mežica, was introduced to the sport on an extended visit to his penpal in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent. He received extensive coaching from his host's father, and went back to his home with a selection of cricket equipment having decided that cricket was just the thing for his town. Seventeen, mainly single-wicket, tournaments were held between 1974 and 1982, with 24 local boys playing. The game was played in the village until 1982, when several of the ringleaders moved to the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.

Modern era

Cricket resurfaced in Slovenia in 1997 when the Ljubljana Cricket Club was formed. The first game was played between a Slovenian President's XI and a visiting club from The Hague. That game was attended by the then Slovenian president Milan Kučan. Friendly games against sides from various countries and the British Embassy continued, and Ljubljana Cricket Club began to compete in Austrian club cricket.

In 2000, the Slovenian national cricket team made its debut in the European Representative Championships. They finished fourth in the tournament, and came second in 2002. They hosted the tournament in 2004, again finishing in fourth place. This tournament was replaced in 2006 by the Division Four of the European Championship, where Slovenia finished in fourth place out of the four teams. They will retain their Division Four place in 2009.

Records and Statistics

International Match Summary — Slovenia

Last updated 30 July 2022

Twenty20 International
T20I record versus other nations

Records complete to T20I #1708. Last updated 30 July 2022.

Other results
For a list of selected international matches played by Slovenia, see Cricket Archive.

Leading figures

Robert Crawford (born 26 February 1960) is an English-born Slovenian cricketer. He has represented Slovenia since 2002. He has played for Slovenia in the ECC Representative Festival of 2002 and the ECC Representative Championship of 2004. Most recently he has appeared with his team in Division Four of the 2006 European Championship. He is an opening batsman and slow bowler.
Lalantha Karunatilake (born 8 March 1973) is a Sri Lankan-born Slovenian cricketer. He has represented Slovenia since 2004. He has played for Slovenia in the ECC Representative Championship of 2004. Most recently he has appeared with his team in Division Four of the 2006 European Championship. He is a top-order batsman and a spin bowler.
Borut Čegovnik played for Slovenia in the ECC Representative Championship of 2004 and is the President of the Slovenian Cricket Association.
Brad Eve (born 11 November 1967) is an Australian-born Slovenian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium-bowler who has played for Slovenia since 2000. He first played for Slovenia at the ECC Representative Festival of 2000, where in four matches he had an average of less than one run per innings. Two years later he played in the same competition, and, in 2004, he played at the ECC Representative Championship. Most recently he has played in Division Four of the 2006 European Championship for his adopted country.
Tom Furness (born 8 November 1978) is an English-born Slovenian cricketer. He has vice captained Slovenia since 2004. He has played in the ECC Representative Championship of 2004, and most recently appeared with his team in Division Four of the 2006 European Championship. Furness has appeared as an opening batsman since his introduction into Slovenian cricket, and now shares this position with Robert Crawford.
Egon Jakofčič (born 31 October 1967) is a Slovenian cricketer. He has played for Slovenia since 2004. He first represented the Slovenian team during 2004, when he made five appearances in the ECC Representative Championship, as a lower-order/tailend batsman, and, two years later, appeared in the Belgium-based European Championship, for which Slovenia were placed in Division Four. He is also a right-arm medium bowler.
Robert Jakofčič (born 19 May 1970) is an Australian-born Slovenian cricketer. He has played for Slovenia since 2006. He appeared as a lower-order batsman in two matches during the 2006 European Championships.
Mark Oman (born 5 September 1966) is an Australian-born Slovenian cricketer. He has captained Slovenia since 2000. He is an opening batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler. He first represented Slovenia at the 2000 ECC Representative Festival, contributing in his first match to a second-wicket partnership of 72 before a Slovenian batting collapse. He later represented Slovenia at the 2002 Representative Festival and the 2004 Representative Championship, and has most recently played for his adopted country in Division Four of the European Championship. He has made significant contributions to the development of cricket in Slovenia.

Current squad
''The following list contains the 14 players in Slovenia's squad for the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier

 Ayyaz Ahmed Qureshi (c)
 Marko Harry Oman (vc)
 Awais Ikram
 Bhagwant Singh Sandhu
 Dileep Kumar Pallekonda
 Mazhar Khan (wk)
 Muhammad Shahid Arshad
 Muhammad Shoaib Naseem Siddiqui
 Nilesh Laxman Ujawe
 Primoz Pustoslemsek
 Ramanjot Singh
 Sudhakar Koppolu
 Taher Mohammad (wk)
 Waqar Khan (wk)

See also
 List of Slovenia Twenty20 International cricketers

References

Official website of the Slovenian Cricket Association
Member's page of Slovenia at the International Cricket Council website

Cricket in Slovenia
National cricket teams
Cricket
Slovenia in international cricket

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We use stereotactic (mammogram-guided) biopsy when an abnormality can be well seen with a mammogram but not well seen on a sonogram. During a stereotactic biopsy, the breast is positioned similar to how it is positioned for a mammogram. We then produce images of the breast from two different angles using the digital mammography machine. A computer calculates the exact location of the abnormality in the breast once we identify it on the computer screen. The biopsy device has a "guide" that places the needle precisely at this location following administration of local anesthetic (lidocaine). Then we remove tissue samples to be evaluated by our pathologists.
We use MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)-guided breast biopsy when we detect an area of concern seen on MRI but not on ultrasound. We usually perform an ultrasound after a identifying an abnormality on MRI; if the same finding is visible on ultrasound, we may perform an ultrasound biopsy instead. We use MRI to create images of the breast that enable us to guide a needle to the site of the abnormality following administration of local anesthetic (lidocaine). Then we remove tissue samples to be evaluated by our pathologists.
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During a stereoscopic biopsy you will lie face down on a specialized table with an opening for your breast; or you will sit in a chair . The technologist assisting the radiologist will carefully compress your breast and then image it from two different angles. A computer will then use these two images to determine the correct location to place the needle for the biopsy. The radiologist uses a computer console next to the biopsy unit, and using computer guidance directs the needle to the site of the abnormality and will take several tissue samples. The procedure takes about one hour and is performed under local anesthetic. Most patients are able to return to their normal routine within 24 hours.
During an MRI-guided biopsy you will lie face down on the MRI table as you did for the initial MRI. We will insert an intravenous (IV) line into a vein in your hand or arm and will give you a contrast material as suring the prior MRI. Your breast will be gently compressed between two compression plates. Using computer software, we will measure the position of the abnormality and calculate the correct position and depth of the needle placement. We will numb the area around the abnormality with a local anesthetic, then will insert the biopsy needle, advance it to the abnormality, verify its position using MR imaging, then remove some tissue samples from the area. The procedure takes about one hour.
Following breast biopsy there is a very small risk of bleeding or infection, and some women also experience shoulder stiffness.
After a biopsy it may take a few days before the final tissue analysis (pathology report) is ready. A pathologist will examine your tissue sample and make a final diagnosis. If your biopsy results are negative, meaning we determine that the abnormal tissue is not cancerous, we will let you know immediately, and we will let you know if any follow up is necessary. If your biopsy results are positive, meaning we determine that the abnormal tissue is cancerous, we will help you understand the results and talk with you about the next steps in the process. We will refer you to a breast surgeon, who will meet with you to discuss surgical options, and to a medical oncologist who specializes in breast cancer, who will meet with you to discuss treatment options.


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(accumulated-persistence t)              ; Activate statistics gathering.
(show-accumulated-persistence :ratio)    ; or their ratio.
(show-accumulated-persistence :runes)    ; Just show runes alphabetically.
Note: set-accumulated-persistence is equivalent to accumulated-persistence.
See the end of this item for a discussion of ``enhanced statistics gathering,'' which can be useful for more fine-grained proof debugging.
Generally speaking, the more ACL2 knows, the slower it runs. That is because the search space grows with the number of alternative rules. Often, the system tries to apply rules that you have forgotten were even there, if you knew about them in the first place! ``Accumulated-persistence'' is a statistic (originally developed for Nqthm) that helps you identify the rules that are causing ACL2's search space to explode.
For other proof debugging utilities, see break-rewrite and see dmr.
an accumulation site is initialized and henceforth data about which rules are being tried is accumulated into that site. That accumulated data can be displayed with show-accumulated-persistence, as described in detail below. When accumulated persistence is turned off, with (accumulated-persistence nil), the accumulation site is wiped out and the data in it is lost.
The ``accumulated persistence'' of a rune is the number of runes the system has attempted to apply (since accumulated persistence was last activated) while the given rune was being tried.
Consider a :rewrite rule named rune. For simplicity, let us imagine that rune is tried only once in the period during which accumulated persistence is being monitored. Recall that to apply a rewrite rule we must match the left-hand side of the conclusion to some term we are trying to rewrite, establish the hypotheses of rune by rewriting, and, if successful, then rewrite the right-hand side of the conclusion. We say rune is ``being tried'' from the time we have matched its left-hand side to the time we have either abandoned the attempt or finished rewriting its right-hand side. (By ``match'' we mean to include any loop-stopper requirement; see loop-stopper.) During that period of time other rules might be tried, e.g., to establish the hypotheses. The rules tried while rune is being tried are ``billed'' to rune in the sense that they are being considered here only because of the demands of rune. Thus, if no other rules are tried during that period, the accumulated persistence of rune is 1 -- we ``bill'' rune once for its own application attempt. If, on the other hand, we tried 10 rules on behalf of that application of rune, then rune's accumulated persistence would be 11.
One way to envision accumulated persistence is to imagine that every time a rune is tried it is pushed onto a stack. The rules tried on behalf of a given application of a rune are thus pushed and popped on the stack above that rune. A lot of work might be done on its behalf -- the stack above the rune grows and shrinks repeatedly as the search continues for a way to use the rune. All the while, the rune itself ``persists'' in the stack, until we finish with the attempt to apply it, at which time we pop it off. The accumulated persistence of a rune application is thus the number of stack frames built while that rune was on the stack.
Note that accumulated persistence is tallied whether or not the attempt to apply a rune is successful. Each of the rules tried on its behalf might have failed and the attempt to apply the rune might have also failed. The ACL2 proof script would make no mention of the rune or the rules tried on its behalf because they did not contribute to the proof. But time was spent pursuing the possible application of the rune and accumulated persistence is a measure of that time.
A high accumulated persistence might come about in two extreme ways. One is that the rule causes a great deal of work every time it is tried. The other is that the rule is ``cheap'' but is tried very often. We therefore keep track of the number of times each rule is tried as well as its persistence. The ratio between the two is the average amount of work done on behalf of the rule each time it is tried.
The key simply determines the order in which the information is presented. If no argument is supplied to show-accumulated-persistence, :frames is used.
The display breaks each total into ``useful'' and ``useless'' subtotals. A ``useful'' rule try is one that is viewed as contributing to the progress of the proof, and the rest are ``useless'' rule applications. For example, if a :rewrite rule is tried but its hypotheses are not successfully relieved, then that rule application and all work done on behalf of those hypotheses is ``useless'' work. In general, an attempt to apply a rune is viewed as ``useful'' unless the attempt fails or the attempt is on the stack (as described above) for a rune application that ultimately fails. A large number of ``useless'' :frames or :tries along with correspondingly small ``useful'' counts may suggest runes to consider disabling (see disable and see in-theory). Thus, here is a more complete list of the arguments that may be supplied to show-accumulated-persistence. Suffixes ``s'', ``f'', and ``a'' are intended to suggest ``success'' (``useful''), ``failure'' (``useless''), and ``all''.
For a given line of the report, every frame credited to a ``useful'' (respectively, ``useless'') rule application is considered ``useful'' (respectively, ``useless''). We illustrate with the following example.
To prove the thm form, ACL2 attempts to rewrite (concl x) to true by applying rule hyp-implies-concl. It then attempts to establish (hyp x) first by trying rule bad-ax, which fails, and second by trying rule good-ax, which succeeds. As expected, the report labels as ``useless'' the failure of the attempt to establish the hypothesis, (bad x).
Now consider the top-level application of rule hyp-implies-concl. Even though the above report shows the application of bad-ax as ``useless'', note that this rule was applied on behalf of the successful (``useful'') application of hyp-implies-concl, and hence is incorporated into the ``useful'' line for hyp-implies-concl, as follows.
In summary: categorization of :frames as ``useful'' or ``useless'' is based on whether they support ``useful'' or ``useless'' :tries.
Note that a rune with high accumulated persistence may not actually be the ``culprit.'' For example, suppose rune1 is reported to have a :ratio of 101, meaning that on the average a hundred and one frames were built each time rune1 was tried. Suppose rune2 has a :ratio of 100. It could be that the attempt to apply rune1 resulted in the attempted application of rune2 and no other rune. Thus, in some sense, rune1 is ``cheap'' and rune2 is the ``culprit'' even though it costs less than rune1.
If a proof is aborted, then in general, show-accumulated-persistence will only display totals for runes whose attempted application is complete: that is, if the rewriter was in the process of relieving hypotheses for a rule, then information for that rule will not be included in the tally. We say ``in general'' because, as indicated near the top of the output from show-accumulated-persistence when such incomplete information is omitted, you can get this information by using argument :frames-a or :tries-a.
There are other subtleties in how rune applications are tallied, documented elsewhere: see accumulated-persistence-subtleties.
At some additional performance expense (but probably well under a factor of 2 altogether), ACL2 then gathers additional statistics for individual hypotheses of rules as well as their conclusions. To understand how this works, suppose rn is a rune. Then we prepend the keyword :CONC to rn to form what we call its ``conclusion xrune'', and for its I-th hypothesis we prepend :HYP I to rn to form its I-th ``hypothesis xrune.'' Here, ``xrune'' is pronounced ``ex rune'', and is mnemonic for ``extended rune.'' For example, if (REWRITE FOO) is a rune then (:CONC REWRITE FOO) is its conclusion xrune, and (:HYP 2 REWRITE FOO) is a hypothesis xrune corresponding to the second hypothesis of the corresponding rewrite rule.
With (accumulated-persistence :all), we instruct ACL2 to track not only runes but also xrunes. Then, (show-accumulated-persistence) will display information for all xrunes in a format that we consider to be ``raw'', in the sense that data for xrunes are displayed just as for runes. But a ``merged'' format is also available. Here is a summary of display commands, followed below by further discussion.
; Display enhanced statistics sorted by frames, in a ``raw'' format.
; Display enhanced statistics sorted by frames, in a ``merged'' format.
; Display regular statistics sorted by frames, without the enhancements.
There is a significant difference between how runes are tracked and how ACL2 tracks hypothesis and conclusion xrunes: unlike regular runes, these xrunes do not contribute to the accumulated :frames counts. Rather, they serve as accumulation sites without contributing their :tries to any accumulation. Consider for example the snippet below, taken from a report created with the :merge option (to be discussed further below), i.e., by evaluating the form (show-accumulated-persistence :frames :merge).
Notice that while :tries are recorded for the xrune (:HYP 1 :REWRITE PERM-MEM), no :frames are recorded. This is because no stack frames were built for runes while this xrune was on the stack -- only for the xrune itself, which as we explained above is not accumulated into the total :frames counts. As it turns out, this lack of stack frames is explained by the fact that the rewrite rule PERM-MEM has a free variable in the first hypothesis.
The second hypothesis, however, does cause additional rewriting in order to rewrite it to true, resulting in 251 stack frames for runes. We see that the conclusion does not lead to creation of any rune stack frames, which might seem to suggest that only 251 stack frames for runes were created on behalf of this rule application -- yet, we see that 462 frames were actually created. The difference is the 211 frames created for the rewrite rule itself. Even if the total had been a bit more than 462, one need not be surprised, as there could be some work recorded during application of the rewrite rule, such as type-prescription reasoning, that is not done during rewriting of a hypothesis or the conclusion.
Now suppose we have executed (accumulated-persistence :all) and attempted some proofs, and now we are ready to see statistics. The form (show-accumulated-persistence) displays statistics exactly as described above, treating these extra xrunes just as though they are runes; similarly for the form (show-accumulated-persistence KEY), for any legal KEY. A second optional argument may however be supplied to show-accumulated-persistence. The default for that second argument is t, and a second argument of :raw is treated the same as t; thus, these arguments provide the behavior just described, where data for xrunes are displayed just as for runes. You may restrict output to runes, ignoring hypothesis and conclusion xrunes, by giving a second argument of nil. (This gives the same behavior as if we had started with the command (accumulated-persistence t) instead of the command (accumulated-persistence :all).) Finally, you may give a second argument of :merge, in which case output will be sorted and displayed as though only runes were tracked (not the extra xrunes), but each data item for a non-rune xrune will be merged so that it is displayed in suitable order just below its corresponding rune, as in the PERM-MEM example displayed above.
We close by mentioning two aspects of enhanced statistics display for :CONC xrunes that have potential to be confusing. First consider the following example.
It may be surprising that no data is displayed for the corresponding :CONC xrune. The explanation, however, is simple: the hypothesis never rewrote to true, so the conclusion was never rewritten. This is consistent with the marking as ``useless'' of all :frames and :tries for the rune and the hypothesis xrune. Note by the way, once again, that the hypothesis xrune does not contribute to any :frames count.
Another reason not to see data displayed for a :CONC xrune is that if a rule has no hypotheses, then no such data is collected. This decision was made because in the case of no hypotheses, we expect it to be very rare that information for the :CONC xrune will add any useful insight.
On a final note: (show-accumulated-persistence :runes) may be used simply to see a list of all runes (or xrunes) displayed alphabetically.
Users are encouraged to think about other meters we could install in ACL2 to help diagnose performance problems.


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Councillors! Here's how not to do Twitter
Dave Briggs	Oh dear	 November 10, 2010 1 Minute
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Twitter is a great tool for local politicians to use to connect with their electorate.
It's also a brilliant channel for espousing your views on the stoning of women, as Gareth Compton, a councillor in Birmingham demonstrates:
The golden rule of Twitter (and indeed life generally), is of course "don't be a dick". This is what happens when you ignore that advice.
Update: The Guardian has picked up the story, and Cllr Compton has apologised for what he describes as an "ill-conceived attempt at humour" – and deleted the offending tweet.
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Andrew Fielding says:
There seems to have been quite a bit of "being a dick" on twitter today amongst councillors @SimonPRenwick is another example – also an aide to an MP (hopefully soon to be ex-aide).
WHY on earth do they think they can get away with it?
Sarah Arrow says:
It started with Prescott, and it's being continued by the likes of Nadine Dorries with her 70% fiction blog.
You would think someone would actually train these people on how to use the media to their advantage instead of letting them blunder on. I like to think of it as natures way of 'culling the herd' of people who would otherwise be deceiving us in a big way.
Yes and no. Do local politicians need support to help them get the most of these tools, of course.
But was it a lack of understanding of Twitter that got Cllr Compton into trouble here? I don't think so – the problem here was him, and his appalling sense of humour.
Dave Harte says:
"Twitter is a great tool for local politicians to use to connect with their electorate" – I rarely see any evidence to confirm this; usually just examples of the opposite. We should stop encouraging them.
Dave, I don't think that is true at all. Tim Cheetham in Barnsley, James Cousins in Wandsworth and Daisy Benson in Reading are three examples right off the top of my head where local politicians are using Twitter really well, both to the benefit of themselves and their electorates.
The issue is that people cocking up on the internet is always more widely reported than people doing it well.
I'd also argue that these tools offer a useful function for transparency. These incidents always betray someone's lack of judgement, or their appalling views, say. Better to have that out in the open, surely?
I don't understand the terms of 'doing it well'. Who's sense of 'doing it well' are we measuring this against. It there some kind of system for measuring effectiveness? Some polls or research available?
Twitter strikes me as not being about transparency at all. It's as much a place to construct identity as any other media platform. But you make an interesting point in that it's better to have such lapses in judgement out in the open.
So if that's the mission, to sell twitter as an engagement tool to politicians and then wait with relish for the moment they expose themselves, that sounds quite progressive and radical. Count me in.
Dave, I'm slightly confused by your tone here, and will do my best to be conciliatory.
There's so set defined criteria for doing well on twitter, as we both know, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible for a broad consensus of what activity is likely to have a positive response within the community. Off colour jokes of the sort on display with this incident I would say don't fall into that category of activity, and I would imagine that on the occasions that you yourself have shown people twitter and how to use it, you've probably said as much. Indeed, I don't see why research is required to prove that saying nasty things about other people on the Internet isn't a good thing to do, especially if you are a public servant.
As for your other point, no, there is no mission, which is pretty cleat from what I said. Again, it's no more than common sense to say that if my elected representative is a twat, I'd like to know about it. Twitter cock ups might be one way that happens, so fair enough.
The point is that many politicians use twitter and other social media tools, and the majority have no incidents like this. Those politicians find it useful, and it provides another channel for interaction with their electorate.
Your previous comment said "we should stop encouraging them". Why? Because one or two behave in an idiotic way? Because the entire political class is unable to use the Internet as well as you or I?
I'll continue to support local politicians to experiment with new technology, if it's ok with you. Many are interested, and enjoy it when they get stuck in, and realise the benefits while having mature appreciation of the risks. I don't see why the actions of one twerp in Birmingham should mean the end of online innovation in politics and democracy.
EddieGouthwaite says:
I would disagree with that as Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have informed me that we have no Councillors Online on twitter.
I have also requested for a councillor contact on twitter and not had a response.
I have also past images on twitter re problems in my town and they still remain this same.
Until we have a recognised Twitter route from 'Public', 'Educational' and 'Business' including 'Enterprises' such as the Digital Media Centre with a reference to the 'Tweeter' this will remain undemocratic way of providing information to the electorate.
You are also being biased in Barnsley because you do not relate to other opposition political parties on the scene in other words #Fail we also need impartiality from council officers.
Social Media is often being used as the new lynching mob.
Well, possibly, only of course on the internet, nobody actually gets lynched.
Or stoned.
Well this is also true with Mass movement of people outside the Electoral register area coming in to distort the outcome of elections. Perhaps it is necessary to stop the 'Flying Canvasser' as the past two governments have done with Trade union laws with 'Flying Pickest'


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Another, third-party way to extend 3000 life
3000 customers are starting to notice something called the Orbit Advantage, a solution to performance futures for MPE/iX which Orbit and its partner Ideal have quietly started to roll out.
I don't think calling the Orbit Advantage an "emulator," as Joe has ably located in the Web address below, accurately describes what is being offered.
Some months ago, Advant started to roll out hardware and software to let MPE/iX operate on PA-RISC servers — all such servers, no matter what HP firmware determined the system's preferred boot-up OS.
The new feature here is VM/iX, software with the ability to relocate the MPE/iX instance, so the MPE/iX OS can perform on any of HP's PA-RISC hardware with a different HP model name.
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Posted on September 28, 2007 at 09:55 AM in Homesteading, Migration, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Is 2010 really HP's end?
HP made a September 26 announcement that it will extend limited support for the HP 3000 through the end of 2010. But I did not see anything in HP's communication that shut the support door — and HP's 3000 business — completely as of Dec. 31, 2010.
HP has no plans to keep supporting 3000 customers beyond that date. But the vendor did not say that it will not, under any circumstances, end its MPE/iX support at that time.
We may be reading tea leaves here, but with two support extensions already behind us, it seemed responsible to ask if there was any chance of another. The last extension through 2008, announced at Christmas of 2005, said the company's 3000 support would run until '08 "or later." Those two words — the "or later" — are absent from the HP announcement of this week.
But there's still some possibility of support offerings, however slim — provided customers need this and can talk HP into it and the vendor can deliver what it considers "high-quality" support.
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Posted on September 27, 2007 at 09:22 PM in Homesteading, Migration, News Outta HP | Permalink | Comments (0)
HP extends 3000 support through 2010
Tell us what you think of the limited support extension
Hewlett-Packard announced today that it is extending its HP 3000 support once again, setting the end date for manufacturer support at December 2010. But the new HP support which begins in January 2009 will include no new patches, and the fate of untested HP patches as of December 31, 2008 remains unclear.
e3000 Business Manager Jennie Hou and 3000 community liaison Craig Fairchild briefed the NewsWire about the extension five todays before today's announcement. As they have stated in the past, Hou said the extra two years of HP phone-in, online and fax support doesn't change HP's recommendation to customers: Proceed with migration plans to other HP platforms as quickly as possible.
But the extension will carry on HP's 3000 business, however limited, to a full four years beyond its initial 2006 end of support deadline. Hou said this summer that some migrations, especially the more complex projects, are taking longer than planned. Customers asked for the extra time to count on HP.
"We are going to extend the e3000 support to the end of 2010," Hou said. "What we will be offering will not be at the same level as [the Basic Support] we have been doing in the past. We continue to work with customers, evaluating how they're doing with their migrations, and understanding their current support needs that we're hearing from customers. We've also looked internally at HP in terms of our ability to continue providing the right level of support to our customers."
"The intent of this program is to provide customers who still need support on the 3000 that extra time to complete and finalize their migrations," Fairchild said.
Fairchild said the new support level is being called Mature Product Support without Sustaining Engineering. This "MPS w/o SE" will end HP's creation of all patches for the HP 3000's MPE/iX operating environment. This mature support offering will also drop any lab work for the 3000 on future security patches. The extended service has new limits, he said, but hardware system support will remain unchanged.
"We're calling this a limited support extension," Fairchild said. "Hardware support will be unaffected. It will be the same level of support we're providing today — with the caveat of potential regional differences, where HP may have to discontinue [some hardware] support earlier than December, 2010."
HP posted its announcement to its e3000 Web site this morning, as well as an FAQ document and a data sheet for the '09-'10 support offering.
The HP patches carry enhancements to the platform, even in this year, the fourth decade of HP 3000 service. More than 80 beta-test patches, some repairing critical bugs, remain available only to HP support customers — without a general release to the 3000 community. Since HP's lab services manage this general release of these patches, the fate of dozens of engineering projects since 2002 remains uncertain. Some patches may remain in beta-test status indefinitely, unless customers can test and report to HP.
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Posted on September 26, 2007 at 12:00 PM in Homesteading, Migration, News Outta HP, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
How far away is your tomorrow?
It was late in the evening, Texas time, when my phone in the office rang. I answer if I'm not writing, or near enough to hear the ring. The caller caught me.
"Hello, Ron," said Vladimir Volokh in his inimitable Ukranian accent. The co-creator of VEsoft and its MPEX flagship was on the road as usual. His custom, for more than a decade now, is to visit his thousands of customers in person. He travels in a modest rental car and even more modest hotels, but the road life can leave a warrior alone. Vladimir was reaching out, connecting.
He thanked me for including his name in the "Dropping Names" entry in our latest printed issue. Vladimir had sent us the letter to Yale New Haven Hospital, the correspondence that thanked the hospital for the very first order of any HP 3000, more than 35 years ago.
Years were on Vladimir's mind that night. "Do you know how many more years until the HP 3000 stops running?" It was a good question, and the answer is one that homesteading customers should know by heart.
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Posted on September 25, 2007 at 05:41 PM in Homesteading | Permalink | Comments (0)
Keeping up with what's dropped
Every HP 3000 site uses hardware which HP can drop from support. The vendor likes to call this act "obsoleting," but that's a matter of customer strategy. A product from HP, however, can fall from the company price list and still remain eligible for support.
When that support dies, though, the product is no longer in HP's 3000 ecosystem. Then it passes out into the wider landscape of the third parties. Companies need to know when this happens, whether migrating or homesteading.
Migration takes awhile, after all. Some customers are moving to open source solutions now, in preparation for moving off the HP 3000 in a few years.
Happily, HP has a Web page that keeps track of the hardware products it stopped supporting. This information is good to keep up with, especially if a site manager is replacing HP 3000 hardware with something else in the 3000 line. The newly arrived hardware might need a support contract, perhaps from the reseller who's delivering the product.
You will want to bookmark the HP main page for 3000 end of support dates. This Web resource should be a part of regularly scheduled HP 3000 management and strategy.
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Posted on September 24, 2007 at 04:30 PM in Homesteading, Migration, News Outta HP, Web Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)
Anniversary advice, and appreciation
In our first podcast in many a moon (7 minutes, 7 MB), I looked for a subject close to my heart. September is a month that calls up anniversaries. One for Hewlett-Packard, one for the 3000 NewsWire, even one for the family which founded the 3000 NewsWire. Me and my partner Abby Lentz are celebrating our wedding anniversary this weekend — 17 years together as friends, lovers and business partners. Just about all of the engagements two people can have, really. My life is richer, believe me, in more ways than I can say since this very day in 1990.
Anniversaries are a good time to look back on the times we loved. Or remember the lessons we learned. But you can rush to review too quickly. Carly Fiorina, the CEO who pared back HP so it could gobble up new business, she probably deserves credit for starting the changes in HP. How well have those changes worked out for you? Different people have different answers this month. Let us hear about yours, after you listen to our September song.
Posted on September 22, 2007 at 12:17 PM in History, Homesteading, Migration, News Outta HP, Newsmakers, Podcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Fall Bayside MPE Meet is a go
The 3000 networking event of the year is officially on the community's schedule, as the San Francisco bayside MPE meeting is set with a location and a growing agenda. Most interesting to us: Nearly an hour-and-a-half of 5-minute slots when any attendee can talk, ask questions or relate their tales of 3000 migration or homesteading.
And while we mean anybody, that will be an intimate group. The group's key organizers — Alan Yeo of ScreenJet and Michael Marxmeier of Eloquence maker Marxmeier AG — are holding the line at 50 attendees. Get your name in soon to earn one of the spots. Speedware, in a key sponsorship move, will be making a signup Web page available next week, we are told.
For the time being, You can e-mail Michael, or Alan, or send an e-mail to us at the NewsWire if you want to ensure your spot at the MPE meeting.
On the agenda already, according to Yeo: members of HP's 3000 crew; Birket Foster with an OpenMPE update; Speedware; Gavin Scott of Allegro/Resource 3000 on homestead and extended support options; Rick Gilligan of banking app provider CASE (a COBOL shop and migration site); contact with the Encompass user group; Micro Focus and its update on the COBOL choices for 3000 sites.
Plus there's more, like a keynoter of community fame (name under wraps, apparently, for now). Oh, and free food, and free admission.
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Posted on September 20, 2007 at 04:03 PM in Homesteading, Migration, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
HP buying SAP?
The scruffy part of journalism repeats rumors, but it's a habit too entrenched for me to break. So here goes. A journalist out of Boston, Barbara Darrow, says she's heard "from a guy tight with HP insiders" that Hewlett-Packard is "talking to SAP about buying the ERP kingpin."
Darrow says in her blog entry that she doesn't know much else about this transaction, but it wouldn't even be the largest acquisition in the history of Enterprise Resource Planning. But SAP as part of HP would sure be good business for the vendor's services operations. Entering the SAP alternate universe usually requires a guide.
The blog report drew my attention because it mentions one reason HP would want to get into the ERP business. Hewlett-Packard has been there before, Darrow notes, with something "called MM3000. Or MM-3000."
Which became eXegeSys (boy am I glad I don't have to spell that one anymore). Which then sold itself to OpenERP Solutions. Which then became part of the Activant solar system. That's the Activant that operates Speedware.
Nobody knows if HP will strike a deal with SAP, or when, or how much it might matter to HP 3000 manufacturing customers. But many of the customers who homestead on the system use ERP. Would they be any more likely to migrate if HP could offer SAP?
Or does this seem like "everything old is new again?" Because I remember a time 20 years ago when only the best enterprise computer makers were able to offer vendor-branded applications. HP had a book full of theirs. Many have been cold in the graveyard a long time.
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Posted on September 19, 2007 at 08:00 AM in News Outta HP, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Free facts, right from your chair
Webcasts have become popular tools for technology suppliers. A lot of the reason for their favor is the reach a Webcast offers: anywhere in the world, so long as the audience member has enough bandwidth.
So you can't beat a Webcast for cost, even though it's usually a more sterile encounter than a face-to-face lesson or networking event. Encompass has free Webcasts from HP more than any other vendor. A new one next week, on Sept. 27 at 1PM Eastern US time, offers instruction on HP's new storage products.
D2D and Virtual Tape, Today and Tomorrow is an hour with Mike Peebles, HP America's Enterprise Tape and Virtual Library Manager. The Webcast includes a free slice from this year's HP Technology Forum. Watching it offers the chance to "learn how virtual libraries and disk assisted backup can help with today's data protection challenges." Encompass adds that the Webcast was one of the Top 10 sessions from the Forum.
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Posted on September 18, 2007 at 10:58 AM in Migration, Newsmakers, Web Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)
Are you going to San Francisco?
You can get more than flowers in your hair, as the old Scott McKenzie '60s song said, by going to San Francisco on the weekend of Nov. 17 to network with other HP 3000 owners. The meeting by the bay is the only all-3000 confab of 2007, sponsored and instigated by the owners of ScreenJet and Eloquence makers Marxmeier AG.
It must be a worthwhile weekend, consider who's launched the weekend of lunches and talk. ScreenJet's owner Alan Yeo is traveling from the UK and Michael Marxmeier is coming from Germany. Some 3000 owners are lucky enough to be just a hour or less away — in Bay Area traffic, no less — from the Doubletree hotel in Burlingame, set in the shadow of the SFO airport.
If you've got to fly, as do I, type those three letters into an air travel search engine and start on your way. The weekend will include familiar folks like Yeo, Marxmeier, Speedware, MB Foster and some HP e3000 folk from the Hewlett-Packard mothership, plus some surprises, to be sure.
Is it a conference? Not exactly, because it's free. In this case, it's certain to be worth a lot more than you pay to attend. Besides, think of the fun. Maybe more than you'll have the next weekend, supping with your family at that lively Thanksgiving dinner table.
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Challenges in selling a 3000
Many vendors and experts can make your migration away from an HP 3000 easier than ever these days. The "lack of resources" that HP predicted back in 2002 has never materialized. Most people who wanted to turn off their systems by 2006 have done so. (We'll have a little more to say about how many, and their stories, soon here.)
Selling off the used HP 3000s, or getting some value for them — that turns out to be where the resources are scarce in 2007.
It's not the fault of the brokers and resellers who continue to sell HP 3000s, nearly four years after HP gave that up. With an ample supply of used systems on the marketplace, getting a reasonable price for something like a Series 979 — a workhorse of its day, being near the top of the 2000 food chain — has become one of the hard parts of migration.
The vendors leading the way off the platform can't do much to help, in some cases. One customer in Indiana reports that HP wouldn't even take on a used Series 979, after the customer's successful migration. That's a server with more horsepower than any of the latest-generation HP 3000 A-Class servers.
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Posted on September 14, 2007 at 08:06 PM in Migration | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bandle, Fairchild step out at HP Tech Forum
The new liaisons to OpenMPE and the 3000 community carry news of development
HP wasted little time moving its new team of 3000 lab liaisons into the community this summer. Just a few weeks after HP's Jeff Vance and Mike Paivinen retired from lab connection and OpenMPE liaison duties, Jeff Bandle and Craig Fairchild made connections at the HP Technology Forum.
"Taking on the OpenMPE liaison role will be big shoes for me to fill, with Mike [Pavinen] leaving HP," Bandle said. "He has such a strong reputation. I'm excited about the assignment, because I enjoy working with customers and coming to events like this Technology Forum. It presents the reality of what goes on with the platform."
Conference debut checked off Craig's list
After awarding the latest e3000 Contributor Award to Stan Sieler of Allegro Consultants, HP's 3000 business manager Jennie Hou introduced another new but seasoned element to the 3000 community: Craig Fairchild, selected to begin to fill the "very big shoes," as he said, of retired 3000 engineer Jeff Vance.
Fairchild, who has been working on the HP 3000 since 1985, introduced the SCSI pass through drivers for MPE/iX, a bit of engineering coming to a 7.5 beta test patch near you.
Part of Fairchild's duties will be reminding the community about opportunities such as this driver, software which will let HP 3000s utilize storage devices that haven't been officially certified as 3000 peripherals. All support bets are off, but at least the lack of a 4GB drive from HP's parts list won't keep a 3000 offline, thanks to the driver.
"It's designed to teach SCSI devices new tricks," Fairchild said of the driver to be in beta test during the second half of 2007. The device driver makes use of the Posix IOCTL command to send and receive data from the SCSI device.
In fact, the engineering is even more clever than that. Fairchild pointed out that the device file actually talks to the physical path of the device, not just the device itself. HP created an external use for an existing diagnostic interface to create the SCSI Pass Through, which it calls SPT for short.
Fairchild emulated Vance's candor, too. "Using the SPT is not for the timid," he said. "You'll need to know a lot about the device you're talking to."
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Making GZIP work on a 3000
I have a copy of GZIP on my HP3000 947 which I put on back in 2000/2001, now I need a copy for use on my a500 box, but do think I can remember were I got it from or how to install.
I have a client that sends me a file once a month in this format and I am transferring the application from the 947 to A box. All I can find on HP's Jazz Web site is the GNU tool; is it part of this. How do I get going with GZIP?
Mike Caplin replies,
I had a similar situation with PKZIP. It was a pain to get it installed, and once it was on an A-Class HP 3000 I had to do the same on an N-Class. The HP SE told me I couldn't just move the executable, that it had to be installed again. That didn't make sense, so I FTPd the executable to the other box five years ago and it's worked fine ever since.
Matthew Purdue of the OpenMPE board adds,
If you have NS3000 on both systems, issue a DSLINE command, then a DSCOPY command.
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Posted on September 12, 2007 at 05:22 AM in Hidden Value, Homesteading | Permalink | Comments (0)
Finding the will's to enter the future
On a day when many Americans recall a dark part of the past in the US, we'd invite you to cast your gaze at the future.
We owe a lot of today's tech to a writer about tomorrow's, William Gibson. The creator of cyberspace in his keystone novel Neuromancer, Gibson has made a storied career out of stories about the Internet, something most of us call the Web these days.
Now Gibson is taking a step back into the present, even the past, for his more recent writing. His newest book, Spook Country, takes place in Gibson's own Vancouver in our networked, post-9/11 time, "where shadowy and mysterious characters are using New York's smallest crime family, a sort of boutique operation of smugglers and so-called illegal facilitators, to get something into North America," according to Amazon.com.
Gibson's prescience put him at the forefront of Web connections, and so he's exploring a Web community called Second Life, where nothing exists except on a computer screen, but everything can seem so real. In his last novel Pattern Recognition, the present had caught up with Gibson's future. So much of what he imagined has come true. In that way, Amazon's interviewer said, "it seems like we're all living in science fiction now."
The fiction of the HP 3000 ending at Hewlett-Packard keeps trying to turn into fact. But the vendor is once again "visualizing a concept" to keep the company in the support business. Imagination and research are the elements HP's 3000 team and Gibson have in common.
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Posted on September 11, 2007 at 10:44 AM in Homesteading, Migration, News Outta HP, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
The not-so-short evolution of Transact
By Alan Yeo
Second of two parts
By the time we had our team of developers assembled to take a crack at giving Transact new life, we had a dilemma. WE had to refining our stakes under project deadlines
The realisation dawned on us just how difficult this all was, and I suspect for some of us walking away would have been the best solution. But by late Spring the following year the design had been refined and we had the prototype working. We were on a roll, and whilst it wasn't full time for any of us, it kept progressing
This is where fate, coincidence or luck struck several times in quick succession. HP Germany upped the stakes by announcing that they knew several companies were starting to offer to convert Transact by various means, so they were going to issue a challenge to those companies. The competing companies would then do their conversions and submit them to HP. The company with the best solution would be endorsed by HP Germany and get access to the Transact user base in Europe.
We now knew we had potential competitors for the Transact market. With true marketing zeal we announced our solution and grab the attention high ground. So we went public with the product, which by now had a name T2C (Transact to COBOL).
However, reality has a habit of smacking you in the face. We took the HP Sample application, and we were dead in the water. Its not that we couldn't convert it, we could and 75% of it was good. The unfortunate thing with programs is that even if 75 percent of the code is perfect, if you can't execute through the bits that aren't good, and get to the bits that are, you haven't got a program. What you have is a pile of code. We didn't submit the results back to HP.
But neither did anyone else. Someone had submitted some code, but obviously nearly all hand-written code. Not a migration solution, merely a willingness to undertake re-coding work.
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Posted on September 10, 2007 at 08:09 AM in History, Homesteading, Migration, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
A Short History of Transact
The 4GL entering decade No. 4 is becoming TransAction
Actually, there can't be a short history of Transact. Like the HP 3000, the language is now in its fourth decade of life. Even my exposure to Transact goes back more than 25 years.
Transact was hot when I first started working on the HP 3000 in the early 1980s. It was being pushed by HP as their Fourth Generation Language (4GL) for the 3000, with tight integration to IMAGE, VPlus and supported by a Data Dictionary — the last of which was also hot technology back then.
But HP had a habit of taking good software and applications, hyping them for a couple of years, then letting them slowly drown through lack of investment and development as something new came along. This often happened just as there seemed to be enough people using the older product to warrant the exact opposite approach.
The wonder product that made HP stop pushing the Rapid products was the Allbase database and a 4GL called TODAY. HP may have re-badged Today as Allbase/4GL. The 4GL portion was dead within a couple of years. Transact, already forgotten by HP, carried on in many sites for many years to come.
We developed some really beautiful applications using those Rapid products. For a couple of years I earned a good living consulting on Transact projects. Having a good understanding of Transact was one of the reasons that I became involved in the evolution.
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Posted on September 7, 2007 at 05:08 AM in History, Homesteading, Migration, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
HP tunes up millions in ads
Tune in tonight (on US television) to see the start of the broadcast commercials which are the backbone of HP's new $300 million ad campaign. Expect to see singer Gwen Stefani, a favorite from the Carly Fiorina flash days of HP's 2005, front and center in the campaign, which HP is using to push "Print 2.0."
The global marketing campaign is all in support the company's printing business. That sector of HP's operations showed no better growth in the third quarter of 2007 than in the same period of 2006. The fall ad campaign is timed to deliver millions more into the company's final 2007 quarter.
The campaign's first TV spots debut tonight.
A new HP Small and Medium Business Wetpaint Wiki shows at least as much creativity as hiring Stefani. The site "is all about you. What you do, where you want your business to go, and how we can help. We hope you'll contribute your ideas, share examples of what helps your business succeed, and ask lots of questions."
And the hosting site which brings that print bounty to HP customers is edgy.
Wetpaint is a free wiki hosting site with a twisted sense of humor, at least on Tuesdays. Last month one of its "Twisted Tuesdays" wikis was the Dude + Boobs = Doobs Wiki, where Wetpaint proclaimed, "If you got 'em, flaunt 'em! This wiki is for those with magnificent man-mamms and those poor souls who don't know how to handle their he-knockers. Come one, come all!"
Disney TV's Hanna Montana (Miley Cyrus), shown at left, extends the range of American celebrity pop-singer fame beyond Gwen's platinum tresses at Wetpaint.
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Posted on September 6, 2007 at 08:02 AM in News Outta HP, Newsmakers, Web Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)
Cognos will Mature its 3000 customers
Cognos updated its product roadmap for PowerHouse yesterday, giving the HP 3000 community a new service name for what's becoming a norm in the community: MPE/iX support extended into 2009.
The new level of support is extended beyond HP's confirmed 3000 support date of December 31, 2008. HP itself is "conceptualizing" such support for its customers in 2009. Cognos announced today that the users of the Application Development Tool PowerHouse — at least those who cannot migrate by the end of next year — can count on support through the end of 2009.
The Canadian company that offered the 3000 market the first third-party reporting option in Quiz, lo those three decades ago, put up a roadmap document (a three-page PDF file) on its PowerHouse Overview Web page yesterday. The map covers the destiny of every kind of PowerHouse which Cognos still supports. HP 3000 customers will receive "Mature Platform Extended Support."
Cognos would prefer that its HP 3000 customers migrate. In fact, the company says that
As part of our HPe3000 migration strategy, PowerHouse 4GL, PowerHouse Web, and Axiant 4GL support Marxmeier AG's Eloquence, which has an IMAGE emulation layer. To assist in migration planning, we published an MPE/iX Migration Planning Guide in March 2005 that was updated in 2007.
The HP 3000 is beyond Vintage Support, by Cognos standards. Your platform qualifies as mature.
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Posted on September 5, 2007 at 05:56 AM in Homesteading, Migration, Newsmakers, Web Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)
Eloquence picks up a 3000 veteran
Marxmeier AG, creators of the IMAGE database replacement Eloquence, has picked up the services of an HP 3000 development legend to help create software that aids migration. Late in August Lars Appel, writing from a [email protected] address, posted a note in his independent consultant role to the Eloquence mailing list about a new patch bundle.
His message said, in part
We have recently released a set of patches for Eloquence B.07.10 that add the database replication functionality which will also be part of the upcoming Eloquence B.08.00 release in the future.
13 other patches are available, including components like the database server and utilities as well as the language core and related libraries.
Appel is another third-party catch, like Jeff Vance, from the HP retiree pool. Appel delivered Samba to the HP 3000 community in 1995, working on his own after his regular shift in HP Support in Germany. Eventually HP gave him travel opportunity to teach customers how to use and install the file-sharing tool, then bundled his work in MPE/iX.
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Posted on September 4, 2007 at 07:03 AM in Migration, Newsmakers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Two years beyond the storm
Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept into American lives. By Labor Day of 2005, it was obvious that HP had to retreat from its New Orleans plans for the first HP Technology Forum.
HP's David Parsons said in that first conference that the 3000 community needs more collaboration than conflict. Labor and management had bitter, bloody battles in the US during the 1930s before a mission of cooperation emerged. The suggestion that HP will continue its support business beyond 2008, in whatever limited concept, shows the vendor has its eye on collaborating in customer futures.
There are many HP 3000 sites who are beyond the labor of their migration, and many others who must complete what they've planned. On this US holiday, we hope that your labors are fruitful, whether they are the work of staying in place on the 3000 — which will still run without a glitch until 2028 — or migrating away.
Posted on September 3, 2007 at 08:39 AM in History, News Outta HP | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Luxury watch trends and timepieces to covet in 2019
Wi-Liam Teh
Watches are very much part of the fashion industry and usually a key fashion accessory to own. It also plays a significant role when it comes to being a staple piece as watches tend to have its own set of trends outside of the fashion scope.
We are eager to see what SIHH holds next year especially with so much going on in 2018. The yearly event is always the first to arrive for the world of watches, which usually sets the tone for what's to come for the rest of the year.
But how does a trend start, especially when it comes to watches? For the most part, all it takes is just one watchmaker to introduce something different into the market to capture the crowd's attention. And when it's done well, it creates a chain of events for many other makers to follow suit.
We've seen many trends coming forth in 2018 especially with the revival of vintage timepieces. This is all thanks to brands like Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cartier, who introduced the revival through its Memovox Polaris and Santos collections respectively. Smaller-sized watches also made a comeback with Italian luxury watchmaker Panerai going for the gold and doing away with its traditionally larger-sized timepieces.
As 2019 circles around the corner, it'll be an exciting year for the world of watches to see what new trends will be gracing the stage. Here's what we have to say.
More mechanical complications
The past few years have not been kind to mechanical timepieces. However, that may slowly dip in its favour as mechanical watches are steadily making a comeback — younger watch enthusiasts are taking a keen liking on complications in the world of horology.
Mechanical watches also provide a level of connection to the wearer that an automatic timepiece just doesn't have. Familiar names like IWC, Bell & Ross, and Zenith have all been known to feature a heavy mechanical influence into its watches.
Ultra-slim is in
In due time, ultra-slim watches will be less of a trend and more of an expectation. The days of wearing chunky, overbearing timepieces will soon be long gone in exchange for ultra-slim pieces. This not only greatly reduces the weight of the watch but also the overall bulk on your wrist.
Bulgari is a key contender in this category, currently holding three world records for its Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic. Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe have also introduced ultra-slim luxury timepieces recently; indicating that slim iterations are probably going to stay in the market for a very long time.
Angular angels
Generally, the shape of a watch is defined in only two ways. Most of the time, it's either circular or angular. Usually, the more classic designs are circular with many still sticking to it to this day. However, angular watches always tend to snatch the spotlight away due to its shape and size on your wrist.
Speaking of angular watches, there's no better brand that speaks for angular watches than the Cartier Santos. Originally a pilot's watch, the Santos is an icon in its own right with a rich history to guide it for many more years to come.
Vintage continues to reign
Vintage watches will always be part of the list when you talk about the trends of watches. Every year, various watchmakers will introduce a vintage collection dating back years to a new market of consumers. This allows it to capture a new target audience, all the while appealing to the older generation who are familiar with the vintage pieces as well.
Retro timepieces will always have a place in a collector's heart. It goes hand in hand with nostalgia, which works really well in the world of watches. This also allows the watchmaker to dive deep into its archives to bring back icons from its history back into the limelight.
Jaeger-LeCoultre is one such brand, bringing back its Memovox Polaris, which originally appeared back in 1968 as one of the first watches with an alarm clock. 50 years later and the Memovox Polaris is still a popular figure in Jaeger-LeCoultre's arsenal to this day.
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The Lomé Summit was an important signal by Governments in the region to promote implementation of chosen strategies and best practices in this regard. The text of the adopted Lomé Declaration, which includes provisions for monitoring and follow-up, is available as an attachment to this blogpost.
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Martyn Chorlton was born in the north Cambridgeshire fens during the late 1960s, joining the RAF as an Air Photographer in 1984. After tours in Germany and Northern Ireland, his service came to an end in 1997 and, a few years later, cut his writing teeth on an Airfield Focus. To date he has 14 published books under his belt. In 2004 he launched Old Forge Publishing, which has now produced another 17 books. That same year he also began freelancing for the aviation magazine fraternity and has continued this ever since. Currently, Martyn is a regular contributor to Aeroplane Monthly, Jets, Airfix and Aviation Classics.


This weekend the Tour de France kicks off in Yorkshire for the first time and we're reyt excited.
1. It takes four counties to cover all of Yorkshire. A county so big and mighty they had to break it up because it intimidated all the other counties.
3. The Yorkshire pudding. So delicious that you can have it for dinner, tea, sometimes even breakfast. And you'll always fight your sibling for the last one.
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7. They're good honest folk. And not afraid to say what they think.
To celebrate Le Tour Yorkshire, we're running a special #GetOnYourBike competition to win a Movistar Team bike which will be raced in the 2014 Tour. We want to see you or your racing pack out on the roads or conquering those hills.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight
Carlos Henriquez, Obed Calvaire and Marsalis rehearsing earlier this week. (Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was amused as four trumpet players, all under the age of 30, took their position in the rehearsal room late Tuesday morning.
"It's the Young Lions!" called out the baritone saxophone player Paul Nedzela, referring to the coterie of sharp-dressed, tradition-minded bop up-and-comers who rose during the Reagan and Clinton administrations while edging jazz toward a concert art with a classical-music-style repertoire.
That got a laugh.
"We tried that in the '90s," said the bassist Carlos Henriquez.
Another laugh.
Soon, Wynton Marsalis, once the pride of those young lions, called the band to order from his perch in the trumpet section and the orchestra lit into "Windjammers," a Marsalis cooker arranged to showcase the quartet of guest trumpeters, some of them students. The four swapped bars, breaks and occasionally expressions of wonderment, like they couldn't believe they were — to borrow a title from Marsalis's own repertoire — in this house, on this morning.
The occasion: the kickoff to Jazz at Lincoln Center's 34th concert season — and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's first indoor New York City performance since the Covid-19 shutdowns. The season will include a tribute to Chick Corea, who died in February; a celebration of the centennial of Charles Mingus; and three concerts showcasing extraordinary women singers, Dianne Reeves, Catherine Russell and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
Excitement about the reopening pulsed through the band. "To look at and see our audience, and to feel that energy, I'm going to be overwhelmed," said Ted Nash, a saxophonist and composer. "We've been doing all this virtual stuff, but to create together a sound field and an energy field in person, where all the sounds meld together — this is why I do this."
Marsalis was quick to say he didn't name this weekend's concerts — "Wynton at 60" — which celebrate his new status as a sexagenarian with a program of his originals from four decades.
Still, despite a warm, even gentle demeanor, there was no doubt he was in charge, announcing the order of soloists at rehearsal, or small tweaks to the charts. But when a soloist occasionally asked how to approach a section, he replied, "Just do what you all want." Or, "It's you playing it."
Freedom within a structure, of course, separates Jazz at Lincoln Center from other major performing arts institutions with a repertoire. So does Marsalis's tradition of inviting young musicians to play on its biggest stage, the Rose Theater in the Columbus Circle complex.
"It shows the generations working together," he said. "When we started the orchestra, surviving members of Duke Ellington's orchestra played. Marcus Belgrave played with Ray Charles. Sir Roland Hanna played with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. Jerry Dodgion and Frank Wess played with Basie. They passed on a lot of the feeling of the music and its identity and meaning to us. So, this is a continuation."
Chris Crenshaw, a trombonist, composer and arranger who has been in the orchestra since 2006, said, "We have a charge to keep. We have a responsibility. There's so many things in all traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation orally or with music."
The responsibilities that come with serving as the artistic director and public face of a major arts organization has meant that, for Marsalis, the shutdown was never truly a shutdown. He pulled out his phone and thumbed through dozens of photos of score pages for upcoming projects (a tuba concerto, a bassoon piece).
Versions of the band have toured the United States and the world, taking endless Covid-19 tests and often playing music from his politically engaged "The Democracy! Suite," which boasts song titles like "Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters)." Streaming concerts, from the vault and some fresh, have abounded and will continue — this season, any concert can be streamed for a donation of $10.
The work helps distract from the losses that have mounted since March 2020, including Marsalis's musician father, Ellis, and his friend and mentor, the critic Stanley Crouch, in addition to more musicians than any institution could fully memorialize. "I tend not to dwell," he said. "My dad, he said 'Everybody's losing people. And when you focus too much on yours …'" He let that thought drift away and then recalled something the pianist John Lewis once said to him. "'To focus too much on even something negative is a form of deep ego.'"
"You got to keep moving forward, keep being productive and trying to create the world you envision," Marsalis added.
At 60, Marsalis, who won a Pulitzer in 1997 for "Blood on the Fields," his oratorio about slavery, sees a world in which democracy itself is imperiled, and "the intellectual class still always wants the Black man to be a fool on all levels." His humanism, though, buoys him. "You can subvert the Constitution and make it harder for people to vote, make it more difficult for government to work," he said. "But there's always voices that defend the integrity of the document, which is changeable — it's not set in stone."
He shifted quickly back to the subject upon which he has most often stirred controversy. "Music is the same. You can be glib enough to undermine the integrity of it and be successful. But there's always just enough voices who believe in the integrity of it."
Those young trumpeters, in his estimation, count among those voices. Jazz at Lincoln Center's mission has always focused on jazz education and advocacy, and the guest artists at "Wynton at 60" — Summer Camargo, Giveton Gelin, Tatum Greenblatt and Anthony Hervey — demonstrate the power of that outreach.
Camargo caught Marsalis's attention when her South Florida high school placed in the institution's annual "Essentially Ellington" contest, which invites school bands to record themselves playing free Duke Ellington charts and then brings the finalists to New York City to perform. Now a Juilliard student, Camargo said she never would have attempted composition without the impetus of the contest, where, in 2018, she won awards for composing as well as for soloing.
"When people ask me what was one of the best days of your life, I always go back to that moment," she said. "Wynton took me backstage and gave me compliments and advice. He doesn't sugarcoat it — he tells you what you need to do to get better."
Gelin, a recent Juilliard graduate who self-released his debut album, also praised Marsalis's generosity as a mentor — and his practical advice. Visiting New York from the Bahamas during his high school years, Gelin attended a free Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra concert in Queens and afterward worked his way through the line to meet Marsalis. The next day, Gelin played for him at his home and was surprised that so famous a figure invested such energy in urging a kid to dig deeper into developing his own voice.
"I spent a lot of time in the Haitian church," Gelin said. "One of the first things Wynton said to me was to listen closely to the singers there and how their vocal qualities reflect where they're from."
Marsalis nodded when reminded of this encounter. "Your sound will be organic when who you are doesn't fight with who you want to be," he said.
On opening night Thursday, the four up-and-comers got their shot onstage. The orchestra's 90-minute set surveyed some of Marsalis's most crowd-pleasing compositions, including big-band stompers, ballads and percolating curios marked by his fondness for musical onomatopoeia, with muted horns aping the buzz of bees and the keening of train whistles.
The 15-member ensemble tackled "The Holy Ghost," from Marsalis's "Abyssinian Mass," and he delivered a bracing, unamplified solo on a quartet treatment of Gordon Jenkins's "Goodbye" that he dedicated "to all the people who have lost someone and didn't get to tell them goodbye."
But the most boisterous crowd response came soon after those young trumpeters took the stage. Camargo's gutsy opening solo brought patrons to their feet and inspired Marsalis — her hero — to muse afterward, "She ain't playing around at all."
The four ringers' joyous clamor brought the house down. Marsalis called their presence "a birthday present to myself," but their performances suggested it's not just a gift for him.
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