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June 26, 2007
Must Watch the Flickering Light
When I was in college, a professor was prepping our class with some pre-movie information. It was something about what it means to be human in an age of robots . . . but I forget exactly because the television screen was sitting off to the side, waiting, just showing the "snow" without sound. There were three dozen students, and all of our heads kept turning to the left so that we could look at the screen. We'd watch the snow for a second, realize it was just snow, and turn back to the professor before glancing back to the snow again.
There's something compelling about TV.
Now you have an excuse to watch it at work: We've got a new blog called iStudio, and it features Bob Cozzi on video. In the first installment, Cozzi interviews IBM's System i "big honcho" Mark Shearer, who talks about the last two and half years of System i innovation. Shearer doesn't offer anything startling or even new, but in four minutes he reminds us of the key highlights — positive things about the System i. Cozzi, for his part, notes the pricing difference between a Dell server and a new entry-level 515 System i, which is, in itself, worth hearing.
Cozzi also interviews RJS's Richard Schoen, who talks about iPDF and iForms. iPDF, by the way, is an application that converts RPG to .pdf files — pretty handy for RPG programmers writing reports or print programs — and it gives them an option for some easily portable, high-quality output.
In the third video, BOSaNOVA's Martin Pladgeman discusses the Q3, which is a new backup encryption appliance that sits between a System i host and a tape drive and encrypts on the fly using two soft keys and one hardware chip key. "You don't even need to change one line of code," Pladgeman notes. "We intercept the data on the fly from the system, encrypt it, and send it onto the tape drive."
Video Is Good
Aside from the mindless ability of anyone to lose two hours watching sea slugs barely move in high-definition underwater shows, today's Internet video tends to capture real people in real conversation, and that can make it easy to grok new ideas — plus it makes eating a sandwich at your desk a lot more enjoyable. So check 'em out!
Bonus: Aaron Bartell on Air Guitar
System i RPG-XML and Web services expert Aaron Bartell has posted a funny first attempt at a System i viral video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/czWvC2xRnRo.
Posted by cmaxcer at June 26, 2007 9:13 AM
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