
Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO.... I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have first and for which very little credit is given).

Like Cloud computing.............. [?] On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM, kevin.paetzold <kevin.paetzold@gmail.com>wrote:
Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO....
I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have first and for which very little credit is given). _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Clustered computing. On 2/12/2011 8:23 PM, jerry baillie wrote:
Like Cloud computing..............
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM, kevin.paetzold <kevin.paetzold@gmail.com <mailto:kevin.paetzold@gmail.com>> wrote:
Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO....
I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have first and for which very little credit is given). _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org <mailto:Wlug@mail.wlug.org> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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Vaxes were clustered years ago. You could reboot each member of a cluster without impacting applications running on the cluster if you were careful. And swap out hardware, etc. Very cool stuff. I started on DEC-20 at WPI years ago, and missed the VMS side of things when WPI got the Encore Multimax instead of a VMS cluster. John

I still have such a fondness for VMS, that I still own a VAXstation 3100 and occasionally pony up for the DECUS license for OpenVMS .... :) On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:24 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
Vaxes were clustered years ago. You could reboot each member of a cluster without impacting applications running on the cluster if you were careful. And swap out hardware, etc. Very cool stuff. I started on DEC-20 at WPI years ago, and missed the VMS side of things when WPI got the Encore Multimax instead of a VMS cluster.
John
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Trying to get Google Earth to work. Starts and closes without working. Any ideas? Thanks! Walt
From SEalert:
Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): avc: denied { execmod } for pid=22634 comm="googleearth-bin" path="/opt/google-earth/libIGGfx.so" dev=dm-0 ino=683598 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): arch=i386 syscall=mprotect success=no exit=EACCES a0=764b000 a1=36b000 a2=5 a3=bfe8c250 items=0 ppid=21605 pid=22634 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=618 comm=googleearth-bin exe=/opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: googleearth-bin,unconfined_t,usr_t,file,execmod audit2allow #============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod' allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod; audit2allow -R #============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod' allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod;

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2011 11:33 AM, Walt wrote:
Trying to get Google Earth to work. Starts and closes without working. Any ideas? Thanks! Walt
From SEalert:
Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): avc: denied { execmod } for pid=22634 comm="googleearth-bin" path="/opt/google-earth/libIGGfx.so" dev=dm-0 ino=683598 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): arch=i386 syscall=mprotect success=no exit=EACCES a0=764b000 a1=36b000 a2=5 a3=bfe8c250 items=0 ppid=21605 pid=22634 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=618 comm=googleearth-bin exe=/opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 key=(null)
Hash: googleearth-bin,unconfined_t,usr_t,file,execmod
audit2allow
#============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod'
allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod;
audit2allow -R
#============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod'
allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod;
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 setsebool -P allow_execmod 1 That worked! Thank you!!! Walt On 02/18/2011 12:36 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On 02/18/2011 11:33 AM, Walt wrote:
Trying to get Google Earth to work. Starts and closes without working. Any ideas? Thanks! Walt
From SEalert:
Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): avc: denied { execmod } for pid=22634 comm="googleearth-bin" path="/opt/google-earth/libIGGfx.so" dev=dm-0 ino=683598 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1297979188.74:143442): arch=i386 syscall=mprotect success=no exit=EACCES a0=764b000 a1=36b000 a2=5 a3=bfe8c250 items=0 ppid=21605 pid=22634 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=618 comm=googleearth-bin exe=/opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 key=(null)
Hash: googleearth-bin,unconfined_t,usr_t,file,execmod
audit2allow
#============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod'
allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod;
audit2allow -R
#============= unconfined_t ============== #!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod'
allow unconfined_t usr_t:file execmod;
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug restorecon -R -v /opt/google
If that does not work
# setsebool -P allow_execmod 1
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I worked with a guy in the late '90s at a dotcom; at some point before that he managed a huge team at DEC and was friends with KO, played golf and such. Had great things to say about the man. On 2/12/2011 9:56 AM, kevin.paetzold wrote:
Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO....
I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have first and for which very little credit is given). _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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participants (8)
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Adam Gomes
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Daniel J Walsh
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Gary Hanley
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jerry baillie
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John Stoffel
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kevin.paetzold
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Pete Wason
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Walt