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April 2009

[27-Apr-2009]
$ SET RESTART_VALUE: A little used feature of DCL appears to be the $ SET RESTART_VALUE command. This is a pity, as this is an extremely useful technique to know if you wish to guarantee that a command procedure will always run, despite system crashes or operator intervention. (286 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[08-Apr-2009]
CSS Naked Day 2009: eight-cubed.com once again bares it all in support of web standards. If you're wondering what happened to the site design, see the link. (23 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[01-Apr-2009]
MATH utility: Announcing a Bison based utility that implements an infix calculator supporting all the one argument double precision C math functions. You can get a zip file containing full source code, and a binary compiled and linked on Alpha 8.2 from the MATH section on the downloads page. (583 words, 1 comments, 0 pings)

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SAN Design with Brocade Switches: Tricks and traps when implementing a multi cluster SAN solution.
Planning for and installing a GS160: Considering the purchase of a Wildfire system? This article describes the site prep and some partitioning thoughts.
Pros and cons of gigabit ethernet: What factors need to be taken into account when switching to gigabit ethernet?
Reading a traceback dump: How to track down runtime errors in OpenVMS applications code.
Detecting and correcting alignment faults in OpenVMS IA64: How to detect potential alignment fault issues.
DCL coding standards: A personal set of standards for coding procedures in DCL.
Class scheduling: An introduction to class scheduling on OpenVMS.
Login speedups: How to do fast login procedures with 3GLs

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