Decrease Your Carbon Footprint: Work at Home
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Thursday, 12 June 08 - 05:23 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in General |
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- Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home an average of 2.5 days a week.
- Office equipment energy consumption at the office was 130 watts per hour compared to 64 watts per hour at employee homes.
- Commuting represented more than 98 percent of each employee's carbon footprint for work, compared to less than 1.7 percent of total carbon emissions needed to power office equipment.
- By eliminating commuting just 2.5 days per week, each employee reduced the amount of energy used for work by the equivalent of 5,400 kilowatt hours per year.
- Working from home 2.5 days per week saved employees an average of 2.5 weeks of commuting time (8 hours per day, five days per week) per year.
May's Meeting
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Tuesday, 20 May 08 - 04:21 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in General |
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Dear ASU Members:
The IBM announcements in April were arguably some of the most disruptive to the mid-range community since the introduction of the System/38.
You might be thinking to yourself now, "Well now, those are some pretty bold words. What exactly does he mean by that?"
Think about what IBM announced, beyond the introduction of i5/OS V6R1 (or IBM i 6.1 as it's now called), beyond the re-introduction of WDSCi as RDi / RDi-SOA. What basically happened with the merging of the System i and System p into the POWER Systems was nothing less than the death of the hardware platform that we knew (originally, anyway) as the AS/400.
That's right - there's no more AS/400, no more iSeries, no more System i. So, does that mean that we're all out of a job? Are OS/400 / i5/OS gone for good? Well, no, not quite on either count.
As you already know (if you've been following the IBM mid-range platforms for any length of time), the hardware convergence has been coming for quite a while, and will no doubt be a good thing. AS/400 hardware has always been more expensive than its UNIX / AIX System p brethren, even as more and more components were shared between them. The former System i hardware was capable of running Linux in a separate partition, and AIX applications directly in the PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment) - without emulation.
What made the IBM Midrange systems special was not hardware - it was software, in particular the operating system and integrated services that it provided. Whether it was called CPF, OS/400 or i5/OS, it was this software that made the hardware what it was - the best business computing platform on the planet.
But that was the past - what about the present and the future? We're honored this month to welcome IBM's Gerri Passe to discuss the technical aspects of the new POWER systems, IBM i 6.1, and IBM's continued plans for the operating system's development.
Gerri is a Senior Information Technology Specialist with IBM in Rochester, MN. Her primary focus has been in the areas of IBM i 6.1 and i5/OS upgrade planning since mid 2006. During her previous seven years at IBM, she provided Lotus Domino for i5/OS technical sales support to customers and Business Partners in the Americas. In addition, Gerri was an IBM AS/400 Systems Engineer in southern Minnesota for seven years. During her first nine years with IBM, she was a mainframe (VM/VSE/MVS) Systems Engineer. Gerri has co-authored a number of IBM ITSO Redbooks and has been a speaker at IBM and customer conferences including COMMON and System i Technical conferences.
Speaking of the future, the May meeting is also when we nominate and elect new officers for the coming year. If you're going to attend an ASU meeting, this is the one to attend. Not only do we have an outstanding speaker discussing an important topic, but you'll also have the opportunity to influence the direction of ASU in the coming year.
The meeting will be held at the Affiliated Resource Group's corporate offices, starting at 5:30 PM. We'll have a light dinner, officer nominations and elections, and then get right into Gerri's presentation.
See you then!
Jon Juracich
No meeting for December 2007
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Thursday, 13 December 07 - 03:45 PM (GMT -05:00) By Jon Juracich in ASU |
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As you probably noticed, you haven't received a Mid-Ranger for December, 2007. The board and I decided that, given how busy people are during the Christmas season, there would be no meeting or other ASU function during the month of December.
Watch for the January 2008 Mid-Ranger for information on upcoming ASU meetings and events.
Have a great Christmas, a Happy New Year, and we'll see you next year!
ASU MidRanger for November 2007 has been published
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Thursday, 13 December 07 - 03:29 PM (GMT -05:00) By Jon Juracich in ASU |
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The November 2007 newsletter has been published and is now available from our 'Newsletters and Meetings' section.
Yes, we've been rather lax in maintaining the website. I apologize!
Become a member and get automatic delivery of the newsletter every month.
Attend iSeries DevCon, get a $100 rebate from ASU
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Friday, 14 September 07 - 01:12 PM (GMT -05:00) By Jon Juracich in ASU |
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For those of you who don't know, iSeries DevCon is a premier technical event dedicated solely to iSeries/System i developers and it covers all the topics that are critical to being successful including RPG, ILE, Java, WDSC, XML, AJAX and much more. Even better, if you're a paid ASU member and attend the event in Las Vegas October 29-31, you can receive a $100 rebate directly from ASU. For information on how to register to receive your rebate, please send an e-mail to president@asu-columbus.org.
See the "Events" link for information on iSeries DevCon,
ASU MidRanger for September2007 has been published
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Friday, 14 September 07 - 09:54 AM (GMT -05:00) By Jon Juracich in ASU |
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The September 2007 newsletter has been published and is now available from our 'Newsletters and Meetings' section. Become a member and get automatic delivery of the newsletter every month.
COMMON Webinars
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Monday, 06 August 07 - 08:13 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in iSeries In the News |
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COMMON Webinars are part of the new “COMMON…Customized” education model. Webinars are a series of live web-based seminars on leading edge topics to meet the increasing educational needs of attendees. Delivered over a 4-6 week span and conducted by industry-leading experts, COMMON Webinars provide focused education at a minimized cost. Learn and interact with the presenter right from your desk!
The fee is $149 to COMMON members, providing a competitive value and allowing you to take advantage of your membership benefits. Non-members may also participate for a fee of $249.
For a list of upcoming webinars, go to the 'COMMON Webinars' folder on our home page.
F.R.O.G.
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Monday, 06 August 07 - 07:53 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in Utilities |
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I don't know what F.R.O.G. stands for, but it looks like a useful programmer utility - and it's free, which is the right price for me.
According to Innovative Systems F.R.O.G. is a Windows based database utility that lets you:
- Connect to your iSeries
- Browse through libraries/files/members/fields
- Execute SQL statements against your database
- View the properties of files
- Save the results of an SQL statement to your PC
- Generate the SQL syntax needed to create an object
- Work with IFS Files
- Work with QM Queries
- Run SQL Scripts
- Automate downloads to a PC
- Edit database records
Certainly worth checking out!
ASU members can receive 10% off COMMON Fall Focus
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Monday, 06 August 07 - 08:26 AM (GMT -05:00) By Jon Juracich in ASU |
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Here's some great news - ASU members are entitled to an additional 10% off of registration for the COMMON Fall Focus event here in Columbus, Ohio! That's right - if you're a paid member of ASU, your early-bird (until Sept. 20, 2007) registration cost is only $1278! After Sept. 20, 2007, you'll still pay only $1430. Either way, it's a great deal! For information on joining ASU, or to receive your discount code, e-mail president@asu-columbus.org.
Our new website (almost) goes live
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Saturday, 04 August 07 - 08:44 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in Developing this website |
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- No more adverts on the site. We are now paying our web hosting provider a small amount each month, and in return they have removed the adverts.
- Greg our webmaster has made the url http://www.asu-columbus.org point to our new website at asu.terapad.com. The url http://asu-columbus.org still points to the old web site for the time being.
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