Thursday, June 24, 2010

More VMS how-to's

on unzip make sure you use "-V" capital V folks

unzip "-V" xyz-zip-file.zip

also make sure the exe is common so other users you may have on your hobbyist system can use it
(like the one other user yr allowed besides system)

Figuring out how to extract those damn .bck files for the freeware cd's is a real PAIN in the ass because I didn't understand the command to do it until i found this gem of a real world example.
Geez you think it would be in one place like VMS for dummies or something. examples folks...real world examples so here is one for the above mentioned problem:

backup FREEWARE70_1.bck/save_set [...]

simple yes?

nonetheless, the system is such a puzzle, and that is the fun part.
there is no
./configure
make
make install
here

now if I could only get sound working

Friday, June 11, 2010

How to do stuff on OpenVMS (like get a real web browser)

How to do shit on vms:

REGISTER your licenses AFTER you install the OS. (hell man,
it's like 105 DIFFERENT entries for the alpha pak's, sure you
could only enter what you think you need, but I entered them
all, except for the language based PAK's I knew there was no
way in hell I'd ever use Japanese PHIGS?? you get the
picture.) Of course pretty soon after the install get the license in there for
DW-MOTIF so you at least have a window manager, AND THE DV'S FOR THE NETWORK STUFF

of course you have to set up decnet and tcp/ip before ftp'ing anywhere...
which means you just need to follow the order of operations in chapter 7 of the post install
document here:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba322_90045/ch07.html



FTP'ing = ya dont forget to set it as 'binary' [ha ha on me] if you want to
download anything real. what a freaking hurdle that was.

how to unzip a file on openvms:

unzip :== $sys$sysroot:[SYSEXE]unzip.exe
unzip xyz-zip-file.zip

of course if that is where you saved the downloaded .exe file.

when downloading with FTP>
don't forget to set binary, otherwise you can't get shit

like this at the ftp prompt:

FTP> binary (then hit enter)
oh yeah btw all the commands for ftp are in lower case unix ,
haha (cd, ls, get, connect.. etc)


first thing you want to get is a web browser.
ftp into ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms and cd into a folder called
CSWB

its a mozilla based browser, (seamonkey)

ftp it onto yr favourite old school last computer
workstation made in america Digital DEC pws alpha
(don't forget the binary!)

btw if you didn't set up a user account completely and are
running on the system account, the ftp client downloads into
SYSMGR folder, not the login folder, ya I'm lazy sorry, just
did the minimal UAF so I could install tcp/ip and
decnet-plus

do this next

RUN CSWB-OPENVMS-ALPHA-V1112.SFX_

AXPEXE

that long string after RUN is the file you downlaoded from
the cswb folder at ftp.hp.com. follow the prompts it's
pretty straightforward. when you go to launch the program

@SYS$COMMON:[CSWB]MOZILLA

(hey, don't drive yourself crazy, let the software install
into the default places)

you might get it complaining about FILLM quota's. it might
say [NO]: I say YES and type it after the prompt. All
right a real browser serving up webpages on a really old
machine. God, I love this thing.

OKAY HERE IS THE REAL FIX

$ set default sys$system
$ run authorize

UAF> show
_username: system

Username: SYSTEM Owner: SYSTEM MANAGER
Account: SYSTEM UIC: [1,4] ([SYSTEM])
CLI: DCL Tables: DCLTABLES
Default: SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
LGICMD:
Flags:
Primary days: Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Secondary days: Sat Sun
No access restrictions
Expiration: (none) Pwdminimum: 8 Login Fails: 0
Pwdlifetime: 30 00:00 Pwdchange: 4-JUN-2010 23:32
Last Login: 9-JUN-2010 11:46 (interactive), 9-JUN-2010 11:52 (non-interactive)
Maxjobs: 0 Fillm: 128 Bytlm: 256000
Maxacctjobs: 0 Shrfillm: 0 Pbytlm: 0

all kinds of goodies here but notice fillm: 128 seamonkey is complaining it should be
150, so change it!

UAF> MODIFY SYSTEM /FILLM=175
%UAF-I-MDFYMSG, user record(s) updated

then exit out of uaf

[I RECENTLY CORRECTLY JUMPERED A SECOND LARGER SCSI HARD DRIVE
ON MY BEAST, AND INSTALLED THE MOZILLA 1.7 BROWSER, NO COMPLAINTS ABOUT FILLM, SO YOU DECIDE WHICH WORKS BEST FOR YOU]

once you have the web on yr machine, you can read all the
documentation you want until your blue in the face, until the
cows come home, you get it....

now I'm working on getting some sound on this beast , maybe a cd player and some of that fabulous
freeware I keep seeing....

WRITING FROM THE LAST PC MADE IN AMERICA
A DIGITAL 433AU PWS

MR FOWLER

IF YOU LIKE THIS LET ME KNOW AND I WILL DO ANOTHER INSTALLMENT

Saturday, January 3, 2009

New Year New Ops

New cd coming
the dreamwalker, total fuzz noise rock with some great up tempo jumpers. plus and emo cut "Eric" check it at myspace.com/dekaldekal

New Novel- have a title but all you dastardly writers, no way am I giving the title or the theme be surprised

New kid coming in 6 weeks, hold on cowboy.

ciao

Thursday, June 12, 2008

wow it's already june!
anyway now you can find the DEKAL cd on itunes. thats right folks. if you like joy division, bob mould and my bloody valentine you might like it so check it out.
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all right enough with the business.

yes there is a god for all you doubters. love, hate just knowing what IT IS... for the nay sayers what IS IT?
I remember I was interviewed by the Hartford Courant back in 2004/2005 as to why I had converted to Catholicism. The answer was simple, in all it's eloquent and logical explanations, science had failed to answer the why? It was good at telling me about HOW something happens and WHAT takes place, but the why? no way science gets a big fat F. The liturgical service of the Catholic Mass gives you the answer at every mass. The mystery of life. The liturgy is at least honest enough to say it is a mystery whereas an academician is more likely for instance when asked about the true nature of gravity that the question is not relevant. (that would be because they don't know the answer and are too arrogant to admit it.)
and there you have it....

many people often asked me for some apologist explanation for many things in this world, especially the unjust events. Ya, I can not answer those questions because I don't have the answer.

I wish I could help every single victim in this world... I wish behaviour which demeans and abuses life could be eliminated from the earth. But I can't eliminate it. Does this mean 'God" is a cold heartless entity? I don't know. What I know is this. Do good, try to harm none and always try to act with humility.

as in...
thank you for reading my blog

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

HAVE YOU REALLY THOUGHT WHY? PART2

I know there are people who walk this earth in complete bliss, that they have escaped somehow the attachments of things, but that sort of meditation is certainly a walking death, no closer to life than real death. An enmeshment.

I do not walk the earth in bliss. I have some attachments

I know there are people who walk this earth in complete possession. Gripped by the overwhelming and forever pervasive attachment of things. This is also an enmeshment as the detachment of things is.

I do not walk the earth in possession. I walk it in obsession.

You the indolent and the slovenly, pre-possessed.

The maker of this universe is volent, impecunious and sardonic. Sullen, bored, a monger supreme. Too attach ethical markers, as not phenomenologically evident, as well as the very existance of such an 'entity" , are our attachments.

I know there are people who walk this earth, quite content with an arrangement sketched out which fits the phenomonological, but barely answers any of the fundemental issues. The point and the line. Their supposition of truth is equally blind.




Monday, March 31, 2008

HAVE YOU REALLY THOUGHT WHY?

here is another day, another moment. again plagued with the question why. could I, or should I or would I be some ambassador of awakening? none-the-less the inability to decisively terminate the relationship with the universe is wholly based on the level of "enmeshedness." At times I feel it's complete absurdity, at other times I can not escape it absurdity by virtue of fear of pain in attempting escape.

Have you ever wondered why you struggle to stay alive when clearly the easy way is not to try? I think because the pain of the struggle is lighter than the pain of escape. If it were easier not to try, then that would it not be the preferred choice of billions, but we know from the facts before us this is not the case. Some sense of logic dictates that not to struggle is in some way conserving energy which becomes bastardized AND plasticized into a path of least resistance. Yet in what appears to be the face of this absurdity we call life, we continue to engage. It is a matter of enmeshment. As an insect awaiting its expiration in the web long after the struggle ceases, only an incredible act of desperation and strength of conviction allows one to choose the "easy way", which means it is not the easy way, but the hard way, the struggle to overcome chemistry and it's enmeshment at a chemical and atomic and sub atomic and post atomic level.

The naked face of truth will never be revealed to us, nor some "cosmic" understanding on however many dimensions you wish to postulate or conjure. It's face appears to us as enmeshment. The components or dimensions of the enmeshment are the aperceptible and the perceptible. All other arguments are distractions, mental play toys and entertainment. The items only phenomenologically available to us and everything else which does not fall into this category are those two siblings.

The endless twittering of philosophists, the endless machinations of ethics, epistemology, existentialism, of endless and eternal postulations on the human experienced shivved an untold number of times over and over again, ground from shavings into dust, infinitely.

The endless twittering of the materialists, and the religious, and the people who have to have the lastest and greatest. Who can only see past their noses by a few feet.

That we, as annihilators, convert the raw potential into piles of dust, not only of our phenomenological perceptions of "matter", but also those same perceptions of "being" or "time" or physics and again this paragraph can become another exercise in reduction and annihilation to dust.

I propose this:

That we do nothing. That we let what we so lovingly call "earth" go to a fucking cesspool hell, as all things will in the "natural" way. My only hope is that when it gets really difficult, a threshold will be reached, which will result in the immediate annihilation of the planet. 50 to 60 thousands years later an air will blow across this planetary face like the wind that blew on the face of the earth long before we set spark to the land.

Monday, February 25, 2008

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life fucking sucks, its the diversions til you die that make any day go by faster, so go buy a DEKAL item NOW!