Questions Frequently Asked of or about Rick

• Q: Where do you find time for all your various projects?
  A: I don't.
  No, really. I have run completely out of time. It's a drag.
  There are so many things I want to do that I just don't have time for anymore.
  I've sold my big "HF rig"; no time to play radio even.
• Q: What's your e-mail address?
  A: I can't tell you here. Certain marketeering slime seem to think that
  my placement of an e-mail address here gives them the right to dump junk advertising on me.
  If you have questions about Webshare or other software I've written, please don't direct those to my BMC address. I'll just have to forward them to La Casita.
• Q: Who do you work for?
  A: BMC Software, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA
  before that, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
• Q: Where can I get the CMS HTTP server?
  A: You can get Webshare from Beyond Software, Inc.
  They're working on a commercial version and they're also distributing the free version.
• Q: What is "::1, sweet ::1" in your email signature?
  A: "::1" is the loopback address for IPv6, also called "localhost" or "home". Thus "home, sweet home" in IPv6 parliance.
  Cute, eh?
• Q: What's that DMSINI1255T in your e-mail signature?
  A: That's another VM-ism. It's the message number of a message that says something like "this version of CMS doesn't run in a S/370 mode virtual machine". If you don't know VM, then it won't make much sense. If you do know VM, then you should know that VM/ESA v2 is leaving behind some of the strappings of the old System/370 mode of operation.

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This page last updated 2012-Aug-15 by RMT.