Monthly Archives: January 2012

Mozilla Firefox 10.0 Released

January 31, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v10.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to [...]

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MQAUSX/MQSSX versus WMQ v7.1 CHLAUTH

January 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Last week, there was a robust/lively discussion on the MQSeries List Server regarding Derek Hornby’s question of (see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.mq.devel/13985): In the MQ V7.1 base install, a channel authentication record is created which is a “block user list” for all channels, and the block is on a User List of *MQADMIN So I created a User [...]

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Where’s the Security?

January 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Over the last 2 months, all of the sudden, I have “where’s the security?” phrase running through my head. Instead of that little old lady from the 80′s Wendy’s commercial saying “Where’s the beef?”, I have her in my head saying “Where’s the security?”. Back in 2005, when I first starting selling Capitalware’s MQ Authenticate [...]

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Advanced Workflow with MQ File Mover (How To #6)

January 16, 2012 Roger Lacroix

And now for something completely different. In this blog posting, I will show you how to create an MQFM Workflow to do something other than move files with MQ. Lets say you have an online backup service or a cloud service where you want to backup important files to. So lets create an MQFM Workflow [...]

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Export Messages from a Queue as a PDF File

January 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix

When sharing information with team members or people in other groups, have you ever wanted to export/save messages from a queue into something other than a plain text file? In this blog posting, I will show you how to use MQ Visual Edit, MQ Visual Browse or MQ Batch Toolkit to generate a PDF or [...]

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FreeBSD v9.0 Released

January 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v9.0. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive [...]

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Watching a Directory and Sending Files with MQ File Mover (How To #5)

January 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix

In this blog posting, I will show you how to configure MQ File Mover to watch a directory for new files and send the new files immediately. In this example, MQ File Mover will connect to the queue manager in “client mode”. In the MQ File Mover’s Watch Action, the user can specify all files [...]

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NASA launches code.nasa.gov

January 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

NASA just launched code.nasa.gov to “continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities.” You can browse NASA’s open source projects, the first 4 projects are now available: OpenMDAO – a Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization framework written in Python World Wind – a 3D interactive world viewer created by NASA’s Learning Technologies project Vision Workbench [...]

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Free e-book from McGraw-Hill: Understanding Big Data

January 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

McGraw-Hill is giving away free copies of the e-book: Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_PKG=500016891 Authored by IBM experts, Understanding Big Data will get you up to speed on big data technology, help you understand the big data opportunity, and provide criteria for choosing the right big data platform [...]

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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science

January 9, 2012 Roger Lacroix

If you need new reading material and/or want to stretch your mind then have a look at this site: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Jeff Huang has a web page devoted to Best Paper Awards in Computer Science. The papers are categorized under the following topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, [...]

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