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We had our best training session of our time in Delhi so far when we took on Scotland for some full-contact work at Hindu College. Our reward was to be able to unwind and watch the 100m finals in the main athletics stadium in the evening.
In our first warm-up outing against Canada on Tuesday we weren't at our best and it made us a bit more honest. We had to look at ourselves. You can cruise along in your own little bubble but if you don't go out and try things and see if they make a positive change, then you never know.
In response to not getting things right first time the boys have done what they always do well – bounce back, raise the mood and relax a bit. We're at the Commonwealth Games but what we do is still essentially the same.
We enjoy the occasion and enjoy our rugby. We've had a pretty heavy week's training and to finish on such a high, looking sharp and composed in defence and attack was great. We have a well-earned rest day tomorrow.
The 100m finals were pretty impressive. In the men's final, Lerone Clarke looked in great shape just warming up – casually cruising along but so sharp you kind of weren't surprised he won it – while Mark Lewis Francis had a shocking start and then pulled things back, which was impressive too.
They are just lightning and it's pretty amazing to watch it live. You finally understand how quick it is – and there are guys like Usain Bolt who can go quicker.
To be able to pop out to the athletics and have a watch was exciting and the boys all enjoyed it. We'll get to have a look at some more other sports tomorrow – with more athletics and hockey on the agenda, as well as some quality rest as things build up towards our game days.


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Many breeds of dogs have long or thick coats. In order to maintain the animal's health and appearance, it's important to have the correct tools to ensure proper grooming. A beautiful coat can become dirty, matted, and uncomfortable for the pet in short order, so having the proper tools and techniques is important. If you don't want to pay a groomer to care for your pet's coat, essential tools are even more crucial.
Undercoat Rake
An undercoat rake is a metal tool with a series of spaced teeth. Rakes come in smaller sizes for tiny breeds or detail work, and larger sizes for larger dogs. Select a rake with a sturdy handle and blunted teeth to avoid scratching the dog. The purpose of the undercoat rake is to separate and remove loose undercoat without removing the longer guard hairs. Use the rake in the direction of the hair's growth and use care not to press so hard as to scratch the dog's skin. An undercoat rake is invaluable during shedding season when the dog is 'blowing coat'. These rakes generally work best on double-coated breeds found on such dogs as the Collie, Husky, Samoyed, Pomeranian, and Newfoundland.
Generally of metal, a good comb is perhaps the most versatile tool. It can be used on long coats of the silky variety (Afghan hound, Yorkshire Terrier) as well as the double-coated breeds. A quality comb is a good investment. Cheap combs can hang up in the hair, pull, or damage the coat. A good comb will decrease static, slide smoothly through the coat, and last for decades, so it is well worth the money. Combs vary in size, from tiny combs with closely-set teeth for the face and small dogs, to large combs with wide teeth for combing through a tangled dog. You will need at least one comb; preferably two of varying sizes. Be sure the teeth of your comb are long enough to reach all the way to the skin of the dog. You want to comb out the entire coat, not just the top layer.
Pin Brush
A pin brush usually consists of a series of metal pins set in a paddle-shaped brush with a rubber backing. Pin brushes are used to lift and separate the hair, aiding in 'line combing' through the entire coat down to the skin. Avoid cheap pin brushes with little balls on the end of the pins. These tend to catch and split the coat. A quality pinbrush will have blunted pins that can be used without worry of scratching the dog's skin, and use will not cause the brush to pull loose from the backing.
Slicker Brush
Some groomers of long-coated dogs prefer to use a slicker brush, while others will not use them. If used, proper technique is important to ensure the coat is being groomed from the skin outward, and not just the top layer. On a dog with a double coat, a slicker brush is generally most effective on the shorter hairs of the legs, head, and stifles. A slicker can be useful for 'finishing' a long, silky coat if used correctly.
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A dog with a long coat or a double coat should never be groomed dry. Nor do you want the coat saturated. Before grooming, mist the coat lightly with plain water or a good grooming spray to cut static and help the brush 'glide' through the hair.
High-Velocity Dog Dryer or Blow Dryer
If you are grooming a dog with a long, double coat, a high-velocity force dryer made specifically for dogs is a great asset. The force of the air blows out dander, dirt, water, and loose hair with minimal effort on your part. The air is warm, but not hot enough to burn or damage the coat. For a dog with a long, silky coat, a dryer with less air velocity may be preferred to avoid 'wind whipping' or tangling the longer hair. This type of dryer is available through dog supply catalogs and online. If you have a long-haired or thickly-coated dog, you may wish to purchase a dryer and learn to do your grooming at home.
A sharp scissors is essential for trimming long hair away from the foot pads, neatening the appearance of the legs and feet, and sculpting growth elsewhere on the dog.
Shampoo and Conditioner
A safe dog-oriented shampoo is essential. Take your pet's coat into account- if he has itchy skin, consider a medicated or oatmeal shampoo. Coarse coats will retain their texture with a shampoo tailored toward this coat type. Full double coats should not be subjected to a conditioning treatment as it weighs down the hair and affects insulating properties. Dogs with long, silky coats will benefit from a conditioning shampoo and you will most likely want to apply a conditioner as well.
Nail Clipper, Nail File, or Nail Grinder
The tool used is up to you, but the outcome is the same- neat, shortened nails. A dog with long nails cannot walk properly. If the nails click on a hard floor, they are too long. Clip only the tips of the nails to avoid the quick. Overly-long nails may take months of work to work back to a normal length. If you are uncomfortable trimming nails or if the dog is not cooperative, ask you veterinarian or groomer to do it for you.
With the proper tools, you can save money and learn to groom your pet yourself. Even if you still wish to use a professional groomer, you can keep your animal's coat in top condition and save your groomer's time by maintaining your dog yourself. Ask your groomer to show you proper techniques; most are very willing to help. Wandering through the grooming area at a dog show is another way to learn technique and visit with others about tips for your pet's coat care.


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BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Edward Markey says he'll run for John Kerry's U.S. Senate seat if Kerry is confirmed as the nation's new secretary of state.
Markey is a Democrat and is the dean of the state's congressional delegation. He's from Malden, just north of Boston. He announced his decision Thursday.
Markey says recent events including Superstorm Sandy, the Connecticut school shooting and the fiscal cliff debate have made it clear Massachusetts needs a senator with the "right priorities and values."
Kerry is expected to be confirmed by his fellow senators as secretary of state. The Democrat would have to leave the Senate.
The field of candidates in the special election for Kerry's seat likely would be crowded, especially among Democrats, who have no clear front-runner. Sen. Scott Brown would be the Republican favorite if he decided to run.
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Martin Kastler, Member of the European Parliament, Germany
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László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Professor em. Philippe de Woot
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Heinz Becker, Member of the European Parliament, Austria
in observance of the International Day of Families
and as part of preparations for the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family (2014)
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The 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family offers an opportunity to refocus on the role of families, take stock of recent trends and share good practices in the field of family policies, review challenges faced by families worldwide and recommend solutions. This Raise Awareness Conference was organized to take part in the preparations for this Anniversary.
The event was centered on work-family balance, one of the three main themes of the 20th Anniversary besides confronting family poverty and social exclusion, and advancing intergenerational solidarity. The first panel on the Rush hour of life and the life cycle approach explored practices that proved to be effective in promoting a better work-life balance for families. With reference to these good practices, the speakers of the second panel provided their expert opinion on how the different stakeholders (employers, employees, civil society) can work together to enhance these practices. The conference also provided an opportunity to explore the possibility of creating a European family-friendly label as an initiative of the European civil society.
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Towards the empowerment of families in the United Nations Framework: A Declaration of the Civil Society
Ignacio Socias (International Federation for Family Development)
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ABINGDON, Va. (AP) -- Local groups are working to establish a barn quilt trail in Washington County.
The trail will be similar to one in northeast Tennessee. It will feature large wooden painted quilt squares on barns or other buildings. The squares will be visible from public highways.
Holston Mountain Artisans manager Donna Price tells the Bristol Herald Courier (http://bit.ly/11Qi6Yc ) that quilts tell good stories. She says a lot of quilt squares already have been installed in the area, and the groups thought it was time to organize a trail.
The Southwest Virginia 4-H Educational Center will build squares for people interested in participating in the trail or who want them for personal use. Students will build both ready-made squares and squares with custom quilt designs.
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Augusta--With all of these bus problems that have been reported over the past few days, you may wondering what the rules and regulations are for the buses your child rides to school.
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Sending your child away on the bus for the first time can be a scary thing, there's always a little bit of apprehension that they'll be ok.
The rules for both South Carolina and Georgia are pretty clear cut and they're designed to make sure your child gets to and from school safely.
In both states, drivers are required to do a post-trip inspection. That's designed specifically to make sure a student hasn't fallen asleep in the back and missed their stop.
If they have missed their stop, the driver may take them back to the stop or call their parent or guardian to come and pick them up.
As far as making sure your young one gets off at the right stop, that falls upon the individual school to decide how they'll do that.
Often times, the very young ones who are in kindergarten, first or second grade are required to wear a tag that has their address and bus stop on it.
There are some things you can do to help the situation out.
Most young kids don't know exactly where they live, so make sure they have their address and phone number memorized.
And also make sure there's an adult at the bus stop to pick them up and also one in the morning to make sure they get on o.k.
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If you haven't prepared your garden for cold weather, now is the time, said Tom Stebbins, director of Master Gardeners of Hamilton County.
Cleaning out beds and preparing new plantings for the spring are good activities for this time of year, he said.
Begin with cleaning out the vegetable gardens, Stebbins said. Pull up gardening stakes and cages and store them until next spring. It's not too late to can or freeze vegetables salvaged before this week's frost.
Late fall can allow for one last flowering of perennials, so cut them back now since the area has already experienced a frost, Stebbins said.
While performing garden maintenance, Stebbins said, raking and bagging leaves is not actually beneficial for plants.
"It'd be nicer if you could somehow chop up the leaves or put them through a lawn mower, because they're very nutritious," he said.
If taking leaves off the lawn is necessary, he said, they are a good addition to a compost pile.
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Here are Stebbins' tips for preparing the garden.
1. Pull up any vegetable remains.
2.Test your soil to prepare it for next season.
3. "Leave" nature alone. Either allow fallen leaves to naturally nourish soil, or add them to a compost pile.
4. Trim back perennials and weed around the base of fruit trees to create a protective perimeter. Consider a loose-fitting trunk guard.
5. Plant trees now. November through March, Stebbins said, is good tree-planting time.
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Viral gastroenteritis is caused by one of several viruses that assault the intestines. The viruses are usually spread through contact with someone who is infected or with something he or she touched. Viral gastroenteritis also can spread through food or water that is contaminated.
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.
Risk factors for viral gastroenteritis include:
The symptoms of viral gastroenteritis usually begin between 1 to 2 days after you're exposed to the virus. The illness usually lasts 1 to 2 days, but it can rarely last for up to 10 days.
Symptoms may include:
Vomiting and diarrhea can lead to dehydration (losing more water than you take in), especially in children.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam. Your doctor may also order a stool culture. This test looks for bacteria in a stool sample, which would indicate a different type of illness.
There is no specific medical treatment for viral gastroenteritis. Antibiotics are not helpful for infections caused by a virus. However, there are a number of things you can do to be more comfortable and avoid dehydration.
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ESCALATION – AT 8:51 A.M. ET: The conflict between Israel and Hamas is escalating dramatically, threatening to ignite a new Mideast war. The current round began with a sharp increase in rocket fire into Israel, prompting a sharp Israeli response, which included the killing of the Hamas military commander. From today's Jerusalem Post:
COMMENT: Members of the esteemed UN Security Council met to discuss the escalation, but couldn't agree on much more than planning another meeting. The Obama administration, at least on the surface, is currently siding with Israel in its response to rocket attacks. So is Canada. The New York Times, to the left of Obama, immediately criticized the Israeli operation.
The new Islamist Egyptian government has withdrawn its ambassador from Israel, hardly a surprise.
There is obvious concern that Iran, operating through its agents in the Mideast, could escalate the conflict somewhere else, to divert attention from its nuclear program.
There's an Israel national election in January, and the political impact of the rapidly growing crisis can't be discounted. Obviously, a strong Israeli response helps the Netanyahu government. One wonders why Hamas would launch a major rocket attack, knowing that the military reaction could only help Bibi. Maybe it's because they see a tough Israeli government as being in their interest. For a terror group, conflict is natural, and the tougher the enemy, the braver the terrorists look.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and three of its member organizations announced Tuesday (Feb. 25th) that they have filed a federal housing discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development against Deutsche Bank.
The civil rights organizations allege that Deutsche Bank maintains and markets foreclosed homes in majority white neighborhoods in a strikingly better manner than it does in majority African-American and Latino neighborhoods. Failing to maintain and market homes based on the racial or ethnic composition of the neighborhood violates the federal Fair Housing Act.
The metropolitan areas named in the complaint are: Chicago, Memphis and Washington, D.C., including Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland. The three member organizations that conducted investigations with NFHA are the South Suburban Housing Center (Homewood, Ill.), Open Communities (Winnetka, Ill.), and HOPE Fair Housing Center (West Chicago, Ill.).
(The New Tri-State Defender contacted Deutsche Bank and was forwarded to media relations, with no comment received by press time.)
The fair housing organizations investigated the maintenance and marketing of REO properties for 39 different types of maintenance deficiencies, including broken windows and doors, overgrown lawns and shrubs, trash on the property, mold, water damage and other problems that could cause health and safety issues for the neighbors and community at large if not taken care of properly.
In June 2013, Deutsche Bank settled a lawsuit with the City of Los Angeles, which accused the bank of allowing hundreds of foreclosed properties to turn into slum conditions, leading to the destabilization of communities.
"Deutsche Bank settled a lawsuit with the City of Los Angeles because it failed to maintain its REO properties. That $10 million settlement should have inspired Deutsche to change its business model and increase quality control measures," said Shanna L. Smith, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance.
"However, this initial investigation, including foreclosed homes within range of the nation's Capitol, clearly demonstrates the opposite. It is simply bad business not to mow lawns, remove trash or perform routine maintenance in order to preserve the home and get top dollar at sale."
Trash on a property is not only an eyesore for neighbors, but it makes a home unappealing to buyers and is a potential health and safety hazard. Trash attracts rats, mice, and stray animals and signals to vandals the home is vacant and neglected. Regular maintenance and a good quality control process would correct trash problems, but in Memphis, 69 percent of Deutsche Bank REOs in communities of color had substantial amounts of trash. In Chicago, 55 percent of REO properties in communities of color had substantial amounts of trash. In the Washington, DC suburb of Prince George's County, Md., NFHA identified 52 percent of the Deutsche Bank REOs as having substantial trash on the properties.
"Deutsche Bank is causing harm to Chicago homeowners, schools and local governments by neglecting to provide basic maintenance to these homes," said John Petruszak, executive director of the South Suburban Housing Center. "The bank's failure to maintain its properties listed for sale brings down property values and reduces tax revenue for schools and city services. Homeowners have lost the opportunity to refinance at historic low levels because of the damage to property values."
Having secured doors and windows on a vacant home is essential for community safety and preservation of the REO. In Chicago, 27 percent of properties in communities of color had broken doors or locks and 40 percent of properties in communities of color had damaged windows. In Washington, D.C., 22 percent of properties in communities of color had broken doors and 35 percent of properties in communities of color had unsecured windows.
"Deutsche Bank needs to ensure they are protecting children and the safety of the community," said Anne Houghtaling, executive director of HOPE Fair Housing Center. "By not properly securing doors and not fixing broken windows, Deutsche Bank encourages vandalism. Just one home damaged by fire and left in disrepair can cause health issues for neighbors and blight in the neighborhood."
One property in a predominately non-white community in the suburbs of Chicago had trash, boarded and unsecured windows, damaged fence, peeling paint, and damaged siding. "Deutsche Bank must be held responsible for maintaining and marketing its properties," said Gail Schechter, executive director of Open Communities.
"No one at Deutsche Bank would want to live next door to one of these poorly maintained REOs. So why should African-American and Latino homeowners have to suffer economic harm and threats to their health and safety?"
Another property in a predominately African-American neighborhood in Memphis was listed "for sale" and had trash in the yard, broken windows and doors, a severely damaged fence and piles of wood and debris scattered over the front yard and the public sidewalk.
"This house and yard are disgusting. Not only is it a safety hazard for anyone walking down the street, it attracts rodents and has an immediate impact on the quality of life for the neighbors," said Smith.
NFHA and its member agencies are represented by Stephen Dane, Jean Zachariasiewicz, and Anne Bellows of Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC located in Washington, DC.
Additional detailed statistics and photos are available at www.nationalfairhousing.org.
• 73 percent of Deutsche Bank-owned homes in Chicago communities of color had more than five maintenance or marketing problems.
• 88 percent of Deutsche Bank-owned homes in Memphis communities of color had more than five maintenance or marketing deficiencies, and 25 percent had more than 10 maintenance or marketing deficiencies.
• 91 percent of Deutsche Bank-owned homes in Washington, D.C. communities of color had more than five maintenance or marketing deficiencies.
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It's a shame, isn't it. The term 'legacy' could mean such good things, but in IT we use it in the same condemning way we might refer to burnt out old warehouses, or rusting farm equipment. No system worth its salt wants to be considered as part of the legacy environment, and indeed, it's a CV decision as to whether people want …
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Not a Data Centre tale, but I recently had a client come to me to upgrade from desktop to laptop, as her desktop had finally given up the ghost. I advised her on a suitable laptop and undertook to get all her data across, to run under OpenOffice 3. All went well, until it came to her word processor documents, which turned out to be wps files from Works for Windows 3, circa 1995. She had never needed to upgrade before, because the kit she had covered all her needs. Isn't that the way it should be? Change only when what you have doesn't do the job, or could be done more quickly/simply/cheaply?
BTW, converting Works 3 wp files to doc or rtf is not an easy thing, anymore, with very few converters going back before Works 6 (including current MS offerings). In case anybody else has the same problem, you can massage them through Ability Office -- as I eventually discovered.
Legacy means
Legacy is just what we use to call yesterday's big fashionable idea that failed to deliver only to be replaced by the latest IT bandwagon that will disappoint in turn. No doubt we will never learn.
Legacy Apps
The biggest problem I have encountered is a business problem.
The business commissions an app to fulfill a function in the business.
Say for example they buy an email system for 500 users.
Then 3 years later they buy another company, add 250 people to the existing email system but critically they don't upgrade the kit that original email system is running on.
Then they have the gall to bitch and bellyache that the system is inadequate for the businesses needs, despite their IT people telling them over and over that it won't cope.
IT people hate legacy systems because they generally cause more support calls per user than any other app. Many of them are also specific to a department and despite efforts, that dept INSISTS on sticking with their outdated, cluncky, non-company-standard app.
We are all for apps that work as advertised and don't add to our workload, at least until the business, through lack of investment, allows the app to become obsolete.
Survival of the Fittest
Hey, if your data centre is still alive, running COBOL etc, with the economy going as it has been, your employer is a winner surrounded by losers. Had you blown all that investment by trying to rewrite it for whatever was hot in 1990, trying again in 2002, and so forth, you might now be amongst the losers.
Some respect for legacy, please!
treasure trove
my old high school was a treasure trove! bbc micros, acorn computers (with a HDD Platter!) and huge plotters hmmmm!
A Way to Avoid Obsolescence
As long as something does what it's supposed to, it's fine.
The real headaches only begin when you have to migrate away from ancient, no-longer-supported proprietary systems using proprietary and undocumented file formats. Just because a file ends in ".doc", for instance, doesn't necessarily mean that the latest edition of Microsoft Word will open it, let alone render it correctly. Proprietary software vendors have to change their save formats from time to time, otherwise users would have no reason to upgrade to the latest versions. (Of course, that's not the only reason save formats change: sometimes a radically new feature needs a radically new storage format. But at least documented file formats make it much easier to create migration tools if the need ever arises.)
At least with mainframes and dumb terminals, you could usually use a PC to simulate a user performing lookups and capture the data -- though if the replacement system was proprietary and closed, you might have a job getting the recovered data into it.
If you stick to open, documented data formats (and you've got IT staff with at least some rudimentary awareness of scripting languages) then you will never, ever have migration issues when new software and hardware come along. An awk one-liner or a few lines of Perl are all you need.
Users of proprietary, closed systems, on the other hand, may well find themselves retyping lots of data by hand one day soon. Strangely, almost nobody will regard this as being less than acceptable.
"What's in the pipe today...
...that will become legacy after it gets deployed?"
Er, surely the answer to that is 'everything' (eventually)?
I see your 1995 Works files and raise you my own collection of Mac Word 5.1 (copyright 1992) docs, which NeoOffice won't acknowledge (though I don't think I've tried Pages... hmm...) - fortunately I still have an OS9.1 machine I can open them on, must get round to converting them all...
Legacy is the idea that WORKED
No Steven Jones, Legacy is the yesterday's big idea that WORKED, otherwise it would not have hung around long enough to have gained the label!
Legacy System
We have a "legacy" system. It was written in the early 80's. There are only two guys left at the company who wrote it and one is about to retire so the auditors are making us move away to a better supported product. The problem is, the current product has eveolved. It's been tweaked, streamlined and perfected. Granted, it may not look pretty. It still runs off a DOS interface using numbered menus to access the functions. But it does exactly what WE want and in the way WE want it. Some of it's features are years ahead of other rivals.
We've been eveluating competitor products for nearly a decade but none come close to the current product in terms of fitting OUR needs. Basically, we are going to have to buy an off-the-shelf product, take a huge hit in terms of functionality and, therefore, productivity and then spend several years trying to catch up to where we are today by writing out own plugins and interfaces.
Back around 1976, I took some early 8080A microcomputer programming classes, I'll never forget what happened at the first day's lecture. The professor described how he was a former engineer for Univac, and how as a hobby, he still maintained the last working Univac II system still in active use. It was used by a local company to calculate payroll, not a terribly complex task by the standards of the modern era, although it was a huge breakthrough back in the late 1950s. Of course he was baiting the students, and one of them asked the obligatory question, "why would the company keep such a dinosaur in production, when you could do the same job on one of these new microcomputers?" The professor thundered back, "because the old computer is already PAID FOR!"
I thought about that incident a lot, especially in 1980 when I sold that company a small microcomputer with payroll software.
@ Bassey
Why don't you just advertise for someone to clone your "legacy" software -- probably on a Linux platform, if only because you can be fairly sure if it builds on Linux it'll build on anything -- and this time, demand the Source Code as part of the deal?
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Not that recent...
But back around 1999 (TaDum, TaDum), I got a call from someone who had been told I had IBM1401 experience. He had an _urgent_ need to reverse-engineer some 1401 binaries that had been running in a customer's workflow, under emulation, since, well, since that hadn't been a truly daft idea.
The latest release of the mainframe OS, required by the latest hardware upgrade, no longer (some 30 years after migration should have been complete) supported 1401 emulation.
After some discussion, he ended up just looking at the inputs and outputs and replacing those parts with Perl.
Yeah, when I hear "legacy" I think of it in terms of a Lovecraft story, where it refers to that hide-bound chest in the cellar of which it is best not to ask what sort of hide it is bound in.
@Big_Boomer: Non standard tech
It's not just in IT that individual departments insist on using idiosyncratic non company standard tech. All across the hospital where I work we use the same needle free connector for central venous lines. All except for the Intensive Care unit, where they have to use their own. So whenever patients get transfered out of the ICU, not only are they complicated and difficult (or they wouldn't have gone to the ICU in the first place), but they need the fiddly sterile procedure of changing the claves over to the ward standard.
UK compared to the US?
Maybe it's different in the US to the UK - I always hear how the US is about three years ahead in deploying new IT ideas - but here in the UK we don't seem to get rid of anything unless we really have to. When I was a young and naive graduate, I had this idea I would jump into a job with a company brimming with the latest technology, but my very first job entailed working on a system almost as old as I was!
The pre-Y2K period was a real eye-opener what with the number of dinosaur systems coming out of the woodwork, all having to be checked to see if they were Y2K compliant, the usual request being not to replace the old systems but to find ways to "temporarily" get round the problem - some of those dinosaurs I helped "temporarily" patch are still grinding away! The scare of my life was when I was working late with one of the contractors brought out of retirement (!) to decypher and write updates for in-house COBOL apps from the '70s, and - tired of my jokes about dinosaurs - the old fart faked a heart attack!
I'd be intersted to know from US readers if they see the same in corporates there, with re-use rather than replacement being king?
$25,000 pen plotters
Not even useful as boat anchors, except maybe for battleships.
Pen plotters - worth more than most cars in their day, built like brick sh1thouses, still work beautifully (made from METAL not creaky plastic shite we get nowdays) BUT they use serial ports (eh, whats that?) and HP (yep, those clowns) sites say - old model, not supported, no drivers beyond NT4.0
Their year-old inkjet models don't properly support 64bit, which we've just upgraded to... grrr...... so now we have MORE legacy tech... the waranty ran out on 24/10/08 so I can't even drop it down the stairs to 'upgrade'
RE: Not that recent...
> But back around 1999 (TaDum, TaDum), I got a call from someone who had been told I had IBM1401 experience. He had an _urgent_ need to reverse-engineer some 1401 binaries that had been running in a customer's workflow, under emulation, since, well, since that hadn't been a truly daft idea.
> The latest release of the mainframe OS, required by the latest hardware upgrade, no longer (some 30 years after migration should have been complete) supported 1401 emulation.
Knowing IBM, what's the betting that this was heard around 1996:
"Have you seen our latest company-wide software and systems audit? They've done something about that last 1401 system - it's not listed any more."
"Really? I'll make some enquiries, make sure we're not treading on anyone's toes, but I'd say we can ditch 1401 emulation in the next upgrade."
Legacy *can* be the idea that worked. There are legacy systems that were tailor-made then, and still fit now. There are also ones that don't fit now. And also ones that were an expensive, troublesome "best bodge" back then, but could now run on a LAMP server, with web browser clients accessing it over SSL - if the people in charge could get their fingers out and make the changes.
Legacy stuff isn't the problem.
That's a myth.
There are running, functional systems, and there are broken systems. Legacy stuff that is still running, and functional is (by definition) not broken.
All of the examples listed in the 17 (at this moment) comments above are MANAGEMENT errors, and have nothing to do with the functionality of the systems being discussed.
The biggest management blunder is not having a plan for the future.
The second is not standardizing on functional systems (including upgrade path).
The third is not properly training staff in the use of those systems.
I have 30 year old machine code (running in a PDP11 emulator on Linux) that one client of mine is happy as hell to have ... It helps him keep track of a portion of his business that would otherwise require three or four pairs of technically trained eyes. (It's a specialty greenhouse, if you're curious ... the guy grows orchids, and keeps track of humidity, temperature, light levels, soil moisture, pH, salt, etc.). It originally ran on a pair of PDP11s (redundant systems ... hardware was flaky 30 years ago), now it's on a pair of dead-screen Pentium laptops that cost a total of $50. His electricity bill dropped, and the UPS powers the laptops for a little longer than the PDP11.
Is legacy stuff inherently "bad"? Nope. Bad management is, though.
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Details have now been published about BBC Two's Shakespeare Season for 2012:
Richard II (Ben Whishaw)
Henry IV Pt 1 (Jeremy Irons)
Henry IV Pt 2
Henry V (Tom Hiddlestone)
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Details have now been published about BBC Two's Shakespeare Season for 2012:
Richard II (Ben Whishaw)
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[I feel a 'Hurrah for the Olympics' coming on ...]
Looks good, ff - especially RII, one of my favourites of the plays.
It'd be much easier to read the press release if they didn't include the actors' other TV claims to fame in parentheses (and I think the actors might feel it was unflattering that they had to be referred to).
I don't think it'll make me raise a 'Hurrah for the Olympics' though - it's only what the Beeb should be doing anyway, and used to do without the excuse of the Olympics in the past.
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"Nor to hear, miss," returned Mr Vholes. "A little music does occasionally stray in; but we are not musical in the law, and soon eject it."
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Time enough then to get out the Plays and do a bit of homework. It's a long long time since I read them, and 'did' two of them at school, and I don't believe I ever got to see any of them. My one abiding memory of Shakespeare in my home town is of the spontaneous applause by the audience after the FILM of Richard III!
Time for the BBC to wheel out Lenny Henry again (its been a month so long overdue !) to tell us all how he used to not like Shakespeare but has become converted etc etc etc etc
and how great it all is ,,,,,,,, if only teachers would blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Extremely lazy programming. Has no-one at the BBC ever read The White Devil; Volpone; Dr Faustus; or The Changeling? Rhetorical.
The press releases always include the 'also starred in' details for the benefit of the press to give them something to pad out their stories with. What really riles me is when they include it in the online Drama on 3 details. Lazy and irrelevant.
Richard II also one of my favourites - don't know much about the Henry IVs. I wonder whether a television 'film' is more expensive than a television 'play'.
It's basically the equivalent of Radio 3 only playing Beethoven. Can you tell me when was the last time any dramatist before the 20th century was performed on television other than the bard? Can you remember any productions of Shaw, Jonson, Middleton, Marlowe et al? These are hardly negligible playwrights: indeed, Dr Faustus exerted at least as large an influence on mainstream european literature as any work of Shakespeare over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries.
How much more enterprising a series putting Shakespeare into context alongside his contemporaries would have been.
I don't think it's lazy programming - lazy programming is what you have now, which is no classic drama at all, Shakespeare or otherwise. IIRC there have been productions of Marlowe and Shaw on TV in recent years (Shaw perhaps as recently as last year). To expect a flood of Elizabethan and Jacobean TV drama productions to appear in the desert that is BBC TV's arts scheduling is to stretch expectation too far.
Anyway, 'lazy programming' which gives us a production of Richard II is OK in my book.


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By AnneNettie
from Riverdale,Ga
This is just what I need to keep my folding cane handy and also the color blue is so pretty.
Bottom LineYes, I would recommend this to a friend