INFO-VAX Mon, 29 Sep 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 526 Contents: Re: Enhancing DCL, was: Re: How do I add 2 letters to a long Re: OT: USA the fleecing of USA banks by Wall Street Re: quoting characters Re: SSH break-in attempts Re: USB device development on DS10 via Belkin f5U220 - OpenVMS 8.3 with 7.3-1 SR Re: USB device development on DS10 via Belkin f5U220 - OpenVMS 8.3 with 7.3-1 SR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Sep 2008 07:36:32 -0500 From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) Subject: Re: Enhancing DCL, was: Re: How do I add 2 letters to a long Message-ID: In article , AEF writes: > > Yes, I know that. But what's the difference between saving sensitive > information when running the RECALL command at a DCL prompt compared > to running it from within a command procedure? In both cases, the > secret information is written to disk. So why is the former okay but > not the latter? It makes it impossible to automate a potential security mistake. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:10:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Rieck Subject: Re: OT: USA the fleecing of USA banks by Wall Street Message-ID: On Sep 28, 5:12=A0pm, JF Mezei wrote: > This is very OT, but I'd like some feedback from intelligent people... > > It wasn't so long ago that Russia essentially transfered the assets from > Yukos Oil to some other oil company. > > This past Thursday, instead of lending money to Washington Mutual like > it has done to the Wall Street banks over the last couple of months, the > FDIC seized assets of Washington Mutual and immediatly gave them to > Chase Manhattan (or whatever it is called this week with all the mergers > it has had). The 1.9 billion Chase paid for the WaMu bank's assets went > to FDIC. > > Washington Mutual shareholders were left to hold worthless stock because > =A0the FDIC did not arrange for a sale of the bank to Chase, they > transfered assets. (This is different from the wall street emergency > mergers such as Bear Stearns where BS shareholders will get money and > will get to approve the deal). > > Am I the only one who is highly suspicious of this transaction ? Looks > to me that Washington is acting solely in the interest of a few Wall > Street Casino establishements (because of their good frienships with > Washington). > > WaMu had grown from a small regional bank that was no threath to Wall > Street into a sizeable bank that was stealing customers. And Chase found > a very easy and cheap way to kill off a competitor and get its assets. > > About a week and a half ago, rumours of WaMu not doing well started to > surface. I heard it on the BBC, so this wasn't just "local" rumours. > Obviously, this causes a run on on the bank. =A0Shouldn't the SEC > investigate this ? Obviously, it would be politically impossible for the > SEC to find that Chase started those rumours. > > And the timing of this also fits nicely with Bush's "if you don't > approve the 700 billion packlage to help the wall street casino before > sunday night, the whole USA banking system will crumble". Having a large > bank fail just before this greatly helps motivate the congress/senate to > pass that bill and makes it easier to convince the population of the > needs to give a 700 billion gift to Wall Street (but not lend 16 billion > to WaMu to ride through a temporary patch of bad time). > > BTW, it is highly irresponsible for a president/prime minister to > announce that the country's banking system will crumble in 3 days if > they don't approve his project. This is a self fulfilling prophecy thing > because the rest of the world and the USA investors would immediatly > pull their money from USA banks on sunday night/monday morning and cause > it to crumble. So USA legislators have no choice but to pass that bill no= w. For the longest time, people in the financial sector claimed they are smart while the rest of us are dumb. (Try getting an official explanation of "derivatives" without the usual insider lingo and you'll see what I mean). So it turns out that these people are not as smart as they claim, which is not the same as criminal (lthough we do have crimes involving criminal damage to society or its citizens). Some people say this mess was created (in part) by the synoptic view of Alan Greenspan who was repeatedly warned about the sub-prime bubble in 2002. But Greenspan knew better... http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09192008/profile.html (be sure to watch the video) Other people say this mess was caused (in part) by people clinging to their ideologies rather than meeting in the middle after a diplomatic dialog followed by debate. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09262008/watch.html (be sure to watch the video) If this crisis brings the Western-world together in a dialog about why we are running stock markets like casinos, then this crisis might be a good thing. On the flip side, these financial problems seem to come around every 10 years so lets hope that this event isn't as bad as the crash of 1929 which was made worse by the US Federal Government doing almost nothing. Neil Rieck Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:19:44 +0200 From: Michael Unger Subject: Re: quoting characters Message-ID: <6kcdljF75hp5U3@mid.individual.net> On 2008-09-27 23:47, "JF Mezei" wrote: > Michael Unger wrote: > >> Obviously you didn't read the ISO-8859-1 reference [1] mentioned >> previously ... >> [1] > > OK, so it is called different names. Some call it spacing acute. AFAIK they are called "floating accents" in Type 1 fonts. > [...] > > Note that for desktop publishing, there are many addition typographical > encodings which are not part of ISO-8859-1 but are in the font encodings > (which is what had confused me some) (opening/closing single quote and > double quotes for instance). Yes, "General Punctuation" (U+2018 ... U+201E), added by the Unicode Consortium -- see [1] and [2] for reference. Michael [1] [2] -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: H Vlems Subject: Re: SSH break-in attempts Message-ID: Brian, indeed it is the Google groups interface. It's a choice: run a "real" newsreader at home or use Google at work. (They don't let me carry in a personal Alpha :-) Hans ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:21:40 -0700 (PDT) From: davidpryce123@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: USB device development on DS10 via Belkin f5U220 - OpenVMS 8.3 with 7.3-1 SR Message-ID: <4979788f-1e9d-45a9-b75a-138424f385f1@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Hi List, Thanks for the comments. Looks like my Belkin card is faulty as I am getting bugcheck 215 every time I boot my system. Bugchecks SDA.EXE. If I find another card - what do I need to do to stop the OS hijacking my device? Do you match on Vendor and Product ID or another method to determine the driver to load? I have my own non standard Product ID on my device. Thanks again for the useful answers. David. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:18:11 -0400 From: "forrret.kenney@hp.com_nospam" Subject: Re: USB device development on DS10 via Belkin f5U220 - OpenVMS 8.3 with 7.3-1 SR Message-ID: > > If I find another card - what do I need to do to stop the OS hijacking > my device? > > Do you match on Vendor and Product ID or another method to determine > the driver to load? > If you look in sys$examples there is a USB section. There is a document on using UGDRIVER. If you look in there you will find a really complete and detailed write up on how devices get matched. Forrest ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.526 ************************