Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    My most sincere apologies - I was at a customer site yesterday and
    KDX200 developed some network/hardware problems (over the weekend, I
    think).  I came in early this morning to fix it.   I know that since 
    the net was DOWN on KDX200 yesterday and H_M, GUITAR, COMMUSIC, and
    MUSCLECARS were unavailable, half the companies productivity was in 
    the crapper.  
    
    Hope all is well now (it appears to be).
    
    jc (Who doesn't LIKE being away)

    
    	But stock prices probably went up a couple points due to all
    	this extra "working time" everyone had.
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI
    

    re: Coop
    
    You mean corporate productivity was at an all-time high!

    Yeah, thats what I meant...
    :-

    FYI - The system device on my workstation ran outta space, and the
    audit server did it's thing and shut down all sorts of handy things 
    (like logins :-).
    
    I'm back in The Springs now, and all is well, we hope!
    
    Sorry for the inconvenience.
    
    jc

    Just so you folks know - there is a high probability that I will be
    partaking in the "Home Office" program.  THis means that in most
    probability, KDX200 (as we know and love it) will be moving to my 
    home.
    
    The good news is that the disk for notes$library will moved to a
    machine that will remain on the net (can't seem to sell the boss on
    a wan router and leased line to my home, and SLIP access for 40 noters
    might be a little lame.  :-)
    
    
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    Actually, I may still have homes for all the conferences - It will just
    be on a non-workstation (i.e. 6640).  Stay tuned!
    jc

Folks - KDX200 is MOVING from CXO1 to CXO3 musical machines...  This will 
require a DECNET address change - The name will be the same, just a 
different address (8.719 is what it is now), it's moving to area 28 
(28.mumble).

I hope to do this sometime this week; I'm trying to coordinate it so 
we'll only be off the air for an hour or so, hopefully late Friday
afternoon (mountain time).  I'll post the new DECNET address BEFORE I 
move the machine, so everyone can find it.  :-)  Those of you who do
not have sufficient privs will need to pass the info along to someone
who does (send mail to system?), and ask them to update the decnet 
database.

Stay tooned!

Jeff

    The new address will be 28.166.  Moving tonight, or tomorrow night,
    depending...
    
    jc

    
    	That's 28838::HEAVY_METAL for the mathematically challenged
    	among us.
    
    	8^)
    

Opppss - Well, I've got an opportunity to move the gear now, so KDX200
is going away in a few minutes - buck up as 28.166 in a little while.

Stay tuned!!

Jeff

    
	Okay!!

	We're back on the air at 28.166 (28838).  The machine has a new cube
 	at CXO3.  Thanks for your patience!!

	Jeff

    this notesfile stinks!

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    Grrr...
    
    I was in Seattle for two days and someone took it upon themselves to 
    *move* KDX200 to a new location.  :-(  Worse, they didn't set anything
    up, boot the thing, and managed to bust up one of my disks in the
    process.  Double worse?  I was up in Seattle working on a big-$$ 
    presentation for a customer and couldn't get to my files.  Double-grr.
    
    Anyway- sorry we were off the air kids.  :-(
    
    jc

    
    	Coop, don't apologize to people for something that wasn't your
    	fault ... especially considering the fact that being the host
    	of this conference is a volunteer effort that you're not being
    	paid for.
    
    	Keep up the good work.
    

    Well thanks Shawn - glad someone appreciates me. 
    
    ...Now what do you want?
    
    :-)

    
    	Now THAT hurt.
    
    	8^)
    

    Sorry.  :-)   I knew you were sincere...
    
    :-)

    I gotta be the first kid on the block, so...
    
    ...I'm gonna upgrade KDX200 to VMS v7.0 - so if it shows up 
    unavailable, you'll know why.  FTSV tells me I won't have the 
    kits until 8pm, so it'll probably be in the morning...
    
    FYI/FWIW/Like_anyone_cares,
    jc

Cool - We're going to convert one node in our cluster to V7 so I can try out 64
bit addressing in C.  Should be interesting - We've maxed out at 4.1M pages on
V6.2.

Of course most of our app uses pointers so that just about doubles memory usage
right off the bat...

    All done.
    
    Only owweee was DNS startup and IP.
    

    Well if you find any bugs in 64-bit C addressing KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF!
    
    ;-)
    
    (I'm the guy that implemented 64-bit support in the code
    generator/optimizer/etc that DEC C uses - GEM).

    Pardon me folks - I had real-short notice to bring down KDX200
    and reconfig the scsi busses for more drives...  Sorry for the
    inconvenience...
    
    jc (Host/Mod)

                             *** Important!! ***
    
    Folks,
    
    I've recently finished building a high performance cluster for my team
    that I think would make a better host than my workstation (KDX200).  
    Actually, I was thinking I might have KDX200 boot from that cluster 
    later ANYWAY...
    
    Tonight, I'm going to move these notes conferences to it.
    
    The reasons for this move are as follows:
    
    1.  NAPALM is a high performance, two node VMS Cluster with redundant
        members including HSC's, disk drives, and a high capacity tape drive.  
        It's configuration (for the propeller heads among you) includes two 
        VAX 6430 processors with 192mb of physical memory, redundant 
        intelligent disk controllers, SCSI buses, connection to dual-rail 
        ethernet, connection to a massive UPS system and PolyCenter Console
        Manager (PCM) system (with auto-paging).  
    		
    	The Result?  These conferences will be available nearly 100% of the
        time via these most righteous, high-zoot resources.
    
    2.  There are six users on this cluster, most of whom are NT weenies
        and use OpenVMS for file/print services only.  :-)  These machines
        are WAY-faster than KDX200 (a little VS3100).
    
    	The Result?  Improved file access speed via load balanced and much
        faster processors/members.
    
    3.  Reduntant XMI-based ethernet controllers.
    
    	The Result?  Improved noting performance via load balancing and a
        (much) higher speed network adaptor.
    
    3.  Blah-blah...Yada,yada,yada.
    
    So;
    
    Sometime tonight, I'm going to shut down notes access to KDX200, and copy
    the files over.  These conferences include:
    
    COMMUSIC.NOTE
    COMMUSIC_V1.NOTE
    GUITAR.NOTE
    HEAVY_METAL.NOTE
    HERETIC.NOTE
    HOME_STUDIO.NOTE
    MUSCLECARS.NOTE
    MUSIC.NOTE
    MUSIC_MAKING.NOTE
    
    When the move is complete, I'll create dummy conferences on KDX200 to
    point folks to the new location.
    
    What do YOU need to do??
    
    Well, most of you know this, but I'll say it anyway:
    
    To retain your unseen maps, go into NOTES and issue the following
    command:
    
    NOTES>modify entry entry_name/file=napalm::new-file-spec
    
    Example:
    
    NOTES>modify entry heavy_metal/file=napalm::heavy_metal.note
    
    Please contact me with any questions or concerns,
    
    Thanks,
    
    Jeff - Host to *ALL* the *COOL* conferences   :-)

    
    	And what if we DON'T want to retain our SEEN maps?
    

    
    Umm...try:
    
    1.  Delete entry mumble
    
    2.  Add entry mumble

    Looks like the move was cool...Especially if you're reading this.
    :-)
    
    Thanks for the patience!!
    
    jeff (Who also converted all the files and saved a BUNCH!)

    
    Don't thank us, you did all the work. 
    The thanks should go to you.... 8)
    
    Dave
    

    
    Well, thanks Dave...

    Well, thanks Coop...

    Good_Job,Coop.. As Elvis Would Say"...Ahhhhh   Ferget it.  :_)
     I Don't Under_Stand All The Propeller_Head Stuff You Exsplained
      But Do Feel Good That The File Has Been Up_Dated And Up_Greated!
    
    
       Crazy_Hey_What_Happened_To_The_Alice_Cooper_Note_Al??

    
    	The only thing I DID understand was the reference to the 3100
    	that used to host the conference, and I'm surprised that it
    	was able to perform adequately since I was even leary about
    	running DecClock on that thing.  Heck, it took 2 seconds for
    	the second hand to move.  8^)