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Voting Question: career guidance?

14 Mar 2008 at 9:42am

hi to everyone im aravind from chennai,im B.E(ece-2007 passout),i underwent ibm mainframe training in reputed insititute,now im looking for the job,my question is ,whether any company will ask for mainframe trained fresher . i posted my cv to some companies dealing with mainframes but i not even get a single interview call,whether can i wait or shall i search for other jobs........plz help

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7 Mar 2008 at 10:07am

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15 Feb 2008 at 2:06pm

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Resolved Question: Need info on software/mainframe engineer jobs in Korea?

28 Jan 2008 at 2:31am

I want to know about how much opportunities are there in Seoul,Korea to get into a Software Engineer(IBM mainframe) job. I have been trying to find this our for the past 6 months and have not found any answers. Please help me out in this. Please let me know the way of finding a job there since no website in korea is written in English language, and so I am unable to search jobs My Spouse is working there in Korea, and he does not know Korean language.

Resolved Question: Anyone in the Southeast have an opening for an IBM mainfra...

17 Jan 2008 at 3:38am

Moved from Kent to Berkshire and I need a job!

Resolved Question: mainframe training?

8 Jan 2008 at 9:07pm

I'd like to study IBM mainfrme based on OS390 operating system,I focus my career on mainframe system manager. I would be appreciate it if there's anybody can tell me which university in Sydney provide such chance to study mainframe?

Resolved Question: Please tell me from where i can purchase IBM Mainframe Hos...

21 Dec 2007 at 2:44pm

Resolved Question: Hi guys can any one tell what is IBM Mainframe?

9 Dec 2007 at 11:14pm

Resolved Question: Messaging between home PCs?

6 Dec 2007 at 3:27pm

I have a home wireless network of 4 PCs; two running Vista and the other 2 XP home. Given that all the PCs are networked via a wireless router, is there an application (or some part of the operating system) that enables one user to send a message to another user on the network that immediately comes up on the screen of the recipient when it is sent (eg your dinner is ready - come and get it). Obviously something like Windows Messenger would do this but these messages can be ignored by the recipient. This facility was certainly available on IBM mainframes where on the command line, you could type 'msg 230244 meeting is starting' and this message would immediately appear on the recipients screen. Without going out an buying a mainframe (!), does the Windows operating system provide any in built facilities that would give me this capability - or does anyone know of any software that would provide this capability? Thanks in advance for your help.

Resolved Question: CCNA / SAP / IBM Mainframe / A+ / oracle APPS / CDAC certi...

15 Aug 2007 at 10:22am

Im a bachelor of engineering pass out in C.S (2007) from Bangalore .. am in a fix which certification course to go for of the ones mentioned .. and y ? or should i better find a job for myself first ?

Resolved Question: Can you please suggest me some topics in ibm mainframe for...

9 Aug 2007 at 2:41am

Resolved Question: i m BE ELECTRONICS PASSED out 2006 i have to make my caree...

7 Aug 2007 at 12:59am

CURRENTLY I M WORKING WITH NON IT INDUSTRY !!! i m BE ELECTRONICS PASSED out (2006/FIRST CLASS WITH DISTINCTION / 69%) i have to make my career in IT field (mumbai pune) so which courses are perfect & FROM WHERE TO DO THESE COURSES whether ORACLE CERTIFICATION ,.NET OR IBM MAINFRAME AND WHICH INSTITUTE IS BEST for industry working people. what salary exactly .NET PRFESSIONAL GETS AS FRESHER ?

Resolved Question: Which course is better SAP or IBM Mainframe training?

26 Jul 2007 at 11:23pm

Resolved Question: Is it mandatory to have a technical background in order to...

25 Jul 2007 at 3:59am

Voting Question: I am thinking about going for IBM mainframe training, but no...

24 Jul 2007 at 5:32am

I have completed my MCA now working at Gameloft Pune. I am not sure about doing IBM mainframe training. Any suggestions?? I have completed my MCA now working at Gameloft Pune. I am not sure about doing IBM mainframe training. Any suggestions?? Also let me know about certifications which can provide me handsome salary job & reliable institutes for the same... Thanks :)

Resolved Question: What is future of IBM Mainframe?where is the best place to...

8 Jul 2007 at 4:05am

Resolved Question: where i get IBM mainframe study material?

6 Jul 2007 at 11:17pm

i am verymuch like about ibm mainfraim cource,hance i need the link wheer i get that.

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27 Jun 2007 at 6:41am

Resolved Question: IBM Mainframe Network Hardware?

14 Jun 2007 at 4:47pm

Does anyone expect there is a need for an Adtran ISU 2x64 or an IBM 7857-017 anymore? I have these, but I don't want to put them on e-bay if they aren't going to sell.

Resolved Question: what is IBM Mainframe?

1 Jun 2007 at 1:15am

What is IBM Mainframe Technology and after doing the course of that. what's job opportunity in India for mainframe technology ? I confused bcz afer completing my B.E I.T should i go in this course or not IBM is not offer but another institute offer it ..

Resolved Question: what is IBM mainframe? can we have opportunities for that?

31 May 2007 at 10:32am

i hav ecalled from ahmedabad GIIT. they can teach me IBM mainframe. can any1 tell me . is this a right choice.. or it is old now. pl give me brief idea. i have done BE IT & Master of e-business.

Resolved Question: What is IBM Mainframe technolgy?

30 May 2007 at 12:48am

What is IBM Mainframe Technology and after doing the course of that. what's job opportunity in India for mainframe technology ? I confused bcz afer completing my B.E I.T should i go in this course or not? IBM is not offer but some other institute offer this course.

Resolved Question: How can I ftp an EBCDIC file from the mainframe to Unix wi...

24 May 2007 at 11:17am

I am in the middle of a migration from our mainframe. We currently use CA's TCPAccess product for ftp and telnet. To cut costs I want to eliminate TCPAccess and use IBM's TCPIP stack. I have "snake files" on the mainframe that look like 80 byte records but are in reality one big record that spans multiple 80-byte records. When I ftp using FTP2 under TCPAccess, the file is present to Unix as one big record. When I ftp using IBM's product, it inserts a CR-LF at the end of each 80-byte record. I had used an XLATE table in CA's product to eliminate the CR-LF but cannot find a way to eliminate them under IBM. BTW, I am running z/OS 1.4 and cannot upgrade the OS to 1.7 or 1.8 due to HW constraints so I am stuck with an unsupported OS. I am dumping redundant SW to save $ thru the end of the project.

Resolved Question: What are the educational qualifications required to study ...

22 May 2007 at 3:55am

I completed my B.sc in lifesciences in 2005 with 80% marks.Now i want to study IBM Mainframes.Please teel me what are the educational qualifications required to study IBM Mainframes.

Resolved Question: Anyone intrested in writing a two page summary of this?

17 May 2007 at 7:02pm

FIBER KEEPS ITS PROMISE BY GEORGE GILDER "Today, I await the death of television, telephony, VCRs, and analog cameras with utter confidence as Moore's law unfolds." Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, John Malone, are you listening?" Get ready. Bandwidth will triple each year for the next 25, creating trillions in new wealth. Editor's note: Four years ago, Forbes ASAP published its first issue with a stunning prophecy by contributing editor George Gilder. Fiber optics, said George, had the potential to carry 25 trillion bits per second down a single strand. This represented a ten-thousandfold leap in carrying capacity over the 2.5 billion bits "barrier" long assumed by most experts in the field. What did George see that others had missed? One, a little-recognized (at the time) breakthrough called an erbium-doped amplifier, which keeps optical signals pure and strong over long distances. The other was a deep technical shift, with roots in the 1940s-era work of information theory pioneer Claude Shannon. If you believed Shannon, his logic dictated a new messaging scheme called wave division multiplexing. Though scorned by the experts four years ago, WDM now is emerging as the winner George had prophesied. The real winners will be all of us, as the coming world of cheap, unlimited bandwidth unfolds and at last fulfills the true potential of the information age. Here is George with an update. IMAGINE THAT IN 1975 YOU KNEW that Moore's law--the Intel chairman's projection of the doubling of the number of transistors on a microchip every 18 months--would hold for the rest of your lifetime. What if you knew that these transistors would run cooler, faster, better, and cheaper as they got smaller and were crammed more closely together? Suppose you knew the law of the microcosm: that the cost-effectiveness of any number of "n" transistors on a single silicon sliver would rise by the square of the increase in "n." As an investor knowing this Moore's law trajectory, you would have been able to predict and exploit a long series of developments: the emergence of the PC; its dominance over all other computer form factors; the success of companies making chips, disk drives, peripherals, and software for this machine. With a slight effort of intellect, you could have extended the insight and prophesied the digitization of watches, records (CDs), cellular phones, cameras, TVs, broadcast satellites, and other devices that can use miniaturized computer power. If you did not know precisely when each of these benisons would flourish, you would have known that each one was essentially inevitable. To calculate approximate dates, you had only to guess the product's optimal price of popularization and then match its need for mips (millions of instructions per second) of computer power with the cost of those mips as defined by Moore's law. Merely by using this technique of Moore's law matching--and holding to it with unshakable conviction for nearly 20 years--I became known as a "futurist." Today I await the death of television, telephony, VCRs, and analog cameras with utter confidence as Moore's law unfolds. You can tell me about the 98% penetration of TVs in American homes, the continuing popularity of couch-potato entertainments, the effectiveness of broadcast advertising, and the profound and unbridgeable chasm between the office appliance and the living-room tube. But I will pay no attention. Just you wait--Jack Welch, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, and David Jennings--the TV will die and you may be too late for the Net. It is now 1997, and a stream of dramatic events certifies that another law, as powerful and fateful and inexorable as Moore's, is gaining a similar sway over the future of technology. It is what I have termed the law of the telecosm. Its physical base lies in the same quantum realm of eigenstates and band gaps that governs the performance of transistors and also makes photons leap and lase. But the telecosm reaches beyond components to systems, combining the science of the electromagnetic spectrum with Claude Shannon's information theory. In essence, as frequencies rise and wavelengths drop, digital performance improves exponentially. Bandwidth rises, power usage sinks, antenna size shrinks, interference collapses, error rates plummet. The law of the telecosm ordains that the total bandwidth of communications systems will triple every year for the next 25 years. As communicators move up-spectrum, they can use bandwidth as a substitute for power, memory, and switching. This results in far cheaper and more efficient systems. In 1996, the new fiber paradigm emerged in full force. Parallel communications in all-optical networks became the dominant source of new bandwidth in telecom. Like Moore's law, the law of the telecosm will reshape the entire world of information technology. It defines the direction of technological advance, the vectors of growth, the sweet spots for finance. AMERICA'S DARK SECRET FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, American companies have been laying optical fiber strands at a pace of some 4,000 miles a day, for a total of more than 25 million strand miles. Five years ago, the top 10% of U.S. homes and businesses were, on average, a thousand households away from a fiber node; now they are a hundred households away. However, the imperial advance of this technology conceals a dark secret, which has led to a pervasive underestimation of the long-term impact of photonics. Sixty percent of the fiber remains "dark" (unused for communications) and even the leading-edge "lit" fiber is being used at less than one ten-thousandth of its intrinsic capacity. This problem has prompted leaders in the industry, from Bill Gates and Andy Grove to Bob Metcalfe and Mitch Kapor, to underrate drastically the impact of fiber optics. Restricting the speed and cost-effectiveness of fiber has been an electronic bottleneck and a regulatory noose. In order for the signal to be amplified, regenerated, or switched, the light pulses had to be transformed into electronic pulses by optoelectronic converters. For all the talk of the speed of light, fiber-optic systems therefore could pass bits no faster than the switching speed of transistors, which tops out at a cycle time of between 2.5 and 10 gigahertz. Meanwhile, telecom companies could not deploy new low-cost fiber products any faster than the switching speed of politicians and regulators, which tops out roughly at a cycle time of between 2.5 years and a rate of evolution measurable only by means of carbon 14. Nonetheless, the intrinsic capacity of every fiber line is not 2.5 gigahertz. Nor is it even 25 gigahertz, which is roughly the capacity of all the frequencies commonly used in the air, from AM radio to kA band satellite. The intrinsic capacity of every fiber thread, as thin as a human hair, is at the least one thousand times the capacity of what we call the "air." One thread could carry all the calls in America on the peak moment of Mother's Day. One fiber thread could carry 25 times more bits than last year's average traffic load of all the world's communications networks put together: an estimated terabit (trillion bits) a second. Over the last five years, technological breakthroughs and legislative loopholes have begun to open up this immense capacity to possible use. Following concepts pioneered and patented by David Payne at the University of Southampton in England, a Bell Laboratories group led by Emmanuel Desurvire and Randy Giles developed a workable all-optical device. They showed that a short stretch of fiber doped with erbium, a rare earth mineral, and excited by a cheap laser diode can function as a powerful amplifier over fully 4,500 gigahertz of the 25,000 gigahertz span. Introduced by Pirelli of Italy and popularized by Ciena Corporation of Savage, Maryland, and by Lucent and Alcatel, today such photonic amplifiers are a practical reality. Put in packages between two and three cubic inches in size, the erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) fit anywhere in an optical network for enhancing signals without electronics. This invention overcame the most fundamental disadvantage of optical networks compared to electronic networks. You can tap into an electronic network as often as desired without eroding the voltage signal. Although resistance and capacitance will leach away the current, there are no splitting losses in a voltage divider. Photonic signals, by contrast, suffer splitting losses every time they are tapped; they lose photons until eventually there are none left. The cheap and compact all-optical amplifier solves this problem. It is an invention comparable in importance to the integrated circuit. Just as the integrated circuit made it possible to put an entire computer system on a single sliver of silicon, the all-optical amplifier makes it possible to put an entire system on a seamless seine of silica--glass. Unleashing the law of the telecosm, it makes possible a new global economy of bandwidth abundance. Five years ago when I first celebrated the radical implications of erbium-doped amplifiers, skepticism reigned. I was summoned to Bellcore, where the first optical networks had been built and then abandoned, to learn the acute limits of the technology from Charles Brackett and his team. I had offered the vision of a broadband fibersphere--a worldwide web of glass and light--where computer users could tune into favored frequencies as readily as radios tune into frequencies in the atmosphere today. But Brackett and other Bellcore experts told me that my basic assumption was false. It was no simpler, they said, to tune into one of scores of frequencies on a fiber than to select time slots in a time-division-multiplexed (TDM) bitstream. Indeed, electronic switching technology was moving faster than optical technology. In the face of the momentum and installed base of electronic switching and multiplexing, the fibersphere with hundreds of tunable frequencies would remain a fantasy, like Ted Nelson's Xanadu. In 1997 the fantasy is coming true around the world. Xanadu has become the World Wide Web. The erbium-doped fiber amplifier is an explosively growing $250 million business. Electronic TDM seems to have topped out at 2.5 gigabits a second. TDM gear has suffered a series of delays and nagging defects and so far has failed in the market. Electronic TDM failed not only because it pushed the envelope of electronics but also because it violated the new paradigm. In single-mode fiber, the two key impediments are nonlinearities in the glass and chromatic dispersion (the blurring of bit pulses because even in a single band different frequencies move at different speeds). Chromatic dispersion increases by the square of the bit rate, and the impact of nonlinearities rises with the power of the signal. High-powered, high-bit-rate TDM flunked both telecosm tests. By contrast, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) follows the laws of the telecosm; it succeeds by wasting bandwidth and stinting on power. WDM takes some 33% more bandwidth per bit than TDM, but it reduces power to combat nonlinearity and divides the bitstream into multiple frequencies in order to combat dispersion. Thus it can extend the distance or increase capacity by a factor of four or more today and can lay the foundations for the fibersphere tomorrow. In 1996 the new fiber paradigm emerged in full force. Parallel communications in all-optical networks, long depicted as a broadband pipe dream, crushed all competitors and became the dominant source of new bandwidth in the world telecom network. The year began with a trifold explosion at the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication in San Jose when three companies--Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, NTT Labs, and Fujitsu--all announced terabit-per-second WDM transmissions down a single fiber. Sprint confirmed the significance of the laboratory breakthroughs by announcing deployment of Ciena's MultiWave 1600 WDM system, so called because it can increase the capacity of a single fiber thread by 1,600%. The revolution continues in 1997. At the beginning of January, NEC declared that by increasing the number of bits per hertz from one to three, it had raised the laboratory WDM record to three terabits per second. During 1996, MCI had increased the speed of its Internet backbone by a factor of 25, from 45 megabits a second to 1.2 gigabits. On January 6, Fred Briggs, chief engineering officer at MCI, announced that his company is in the process of installing new WDM equipment from Hitachi and Pirelli that increases the speed of its phone network backbone to 40 gigabits per second. Accelerating MCI's previous plans by some two years, the new system will use a more limited form of wavelength-division multiplexing to put four 10-gigabit in-cause formation streams on a single fiber thread. The first deployment will use existing facilities on a 275-mile route between Chicago and St. Louis, but the technology will be extended to the entire network. This move will consummate a nearly thousandfold upgrade of the MCI backbone, from 45 megabits per second to 40 gigabits, within some 36 months. Ciena, meanwhile, has announced technology that allows transmission of 100 gigabits per second. Its February IPO was the most important since Netscape (market cap at the end of the first trading day: $3.4 billion). Why? Ciena is the industry leader in open standard WDM gear. During the first six months the MultiWave 1600 was available, through October 1996, the firm achieved $54.8 million in sales and $15 million in net income. (Lucent is believed to be the overall leader with more than $100 million of mostly proprietary AT&T systems.) At the same time, the trans-Pacific consortium announced that it would deploy 100-gigabit-per-second fiber in its new link between the United States and Asia. A powerful new player in these markets will be Tellabs, currently the fastest-growing supplier of electronic digital cross-connect switches and other optical switching gear. In a further coup, following its purchase of broadband digital radio pioneer Steinbrecher, Tellabs has signed up all 12 principals in IBM's all-optical team. Headed by Paul Green, recent chairman of the IEEE Communications Society and author of the leading text on fiber networks, and by Rajiv Ramaswami, coauthor of a new 1997 text on the subject, the IBM group built the world's first fully functioning all-optical networks (AONs), the Rainbow series. Tellabs now owns the 11 AON patents and 100 listed technology disclosures of the group. The implications of the WDM paradigm go beyond simple data pipes. The greatest impact of all-optical technology will likely come in consumer markets. A portent is Artel Video Systems of Marlborough, Massachusetts, which recently introduced a fiber-based WDM system that can transmit 48 digital video channels, 288 CD-quality audio bitstreams, and 64 data channels on one fiber line. Aggregating contributions from a variety of content sources--each on different fiber wavelengths--and delivering them to consumers who tune into favored frequencies on conventional cable, the Artel system represents a key step into the fibersphere. It can be used for new services by either cable TV companies or telcos. The deeper significance of the Artel product, however, is its use of bandwidth as a replacement for transistors and switches. The Artel system works on dark fiber without compression. The video uses 200-megabit-per-second bitstreams (compare MPEG2 at 4 to 6 megabytes per second) that permit lossless transmissions suitable for medical imaging, and obviate dedicated processing of compression codes at the two ends. A move to massively parallel communications analogous to the move to parallel computers, all-optical networks promise nearly boundless bandwidth in fiber. According to Ewart Lowe of British Telecom, whose labs at Martlesham Heath in Ipswich have been a fount of all-optical technology, the new paradigm will reduce the cost of transport by a factor of 10. For example, the optoelectronic amplifiers previously used in fiber networks entailed nine power-hungry bipolar microchips for each wavelength, rather than a simple loop of doped silica that covers scores of wavelengths. As these systems move down through the network hierarchy, the growth of network bandwidth and cost-effectiveness will not only outpace Moore's law, it will also excel the rise in bandwidth within computers--their internal "buses" connecting their microprocessors to memory and input-output. While MCI and Sprint move to deploy technology that functions at 40 gigabits a second, current computers and workstations command buses that run at a rate of close to 1 gigabit a second. This change in the relationship between the bandwidth of networks and the bandwidth of computers will transform the architecture of information technology. As Robert Lucky of Bellcore puts it, "Perhaps we should transmit signals thousands of miles to avoid even the simplest processing function." Lucky implies that the law of the telecosm eclipses the law of the microcosm. Actually, the law of the microcosm makes distributed computers (smart terminals) more efficient regardless of the cost of linking them together. The law of the telecosm makes broadband networks more efficient regardless of how numerous and smart are the terminals. Working together, however, these two laws of wires and switches impel ever more widely distributed information systems, with processing and memory in the optimal locations. WHAT SHOULD THE MAJOR PLAYERS DO NOW? FOR THE TELEPHONE COMPANIES, the age of ever smarter terminals mandates the emergence of ever dumber networks. Telephone companies may complain of the large costs of the transformation of their system, but they command capital budgets as large as the total revenues of the cable industry. Telcos may recoil in horror at the idea of dark fiber, but they command webs of the stuff 10 times larger than any other industry. Dumb and dark networks may not fit the phone company self-image or advertising posture. But they promise larger markets than the current phone company plan to choke off their own future in the labyrinthine nets of an "intelligent switching fabric" always behind schedule and full of software bugs. Telephone switches (now 80% software) are already too complex to keep pace with the efflorescence of the Internet. While computers become ever more lean and mean, turning to reduced instruction-set processors and Java stations, networks need to adopt reduced instruction-set architectures. The ultimate in dumb and dark is the fibersphere now incubating in their magnificent laboratories. The entrepreneurial folk in the computer industry may view this wrenching phone company adjustment with some satisfaction. But computer firms must also adjust. Now addicted to the use of transistors to solve the problems of limited bandwidth, the computer industry must use transistors to exploit the nearly unlimited bandwidth. When home-based machines are optimized for manipulating high-resolution digital video at high speeds, they will necessarily command what are now called supercomputer powers. This will mean that the dominant computer technology will first emerge not in the office market but in the consumer market. The major challenge for the computer industry is to change its focus from a few hundred million offices already full of computer technology to a billion living rooms now nearly devoid of it. Cable companies possess the advantage of already owning dumb networks based on the essentials of the all-optical model of broadcast and select--of customers seeking wavelengths or frequencies rather than switching circuits. Cable companies already provide all the programs to all the terminals and allow them to tune in to the desired messages. But the cable industry cannot become a full-service supplier of telecommunications unless the regulators give up their ridiculous two-wire dream in which everyone competes with cable and no one makes any money. Cash-poor and bandwidth-rich, cable companies need to collaborate with telcos--which are cash-rich and bandwidth-poor--in a joint effort to create broadband systems in their own regions. In all eras, companies tend to prevail by maximizing the use of the cheapest resources. In the age of the fibersphere, they will use the huge intrinsic bandwidth of fiber, all 25,000 gigahertz or more, to simplify everything else. This means replacing nearly all the hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of switches, bridges, routers, converters, codecs, compressors, error correctors, and other devices, together with the trillions of lines of software code, that pervade the intelligent switching fabric of both telephone and computer networks. The makers of all this equipment will resist mightily. But there is no chance that the old regime can prevail by fighting cheap and simple optics with costly and complex electronics and software. The all-optical network will triumph for the same reason that the integrated circuit triumphed: It is incomparably cheaper than the competition. Today, measured by the admittedly rough metric of mips per dollar, a personal computer is more than 2,000 times more cost-effective than a mainframe. Within 10 years, the all-optical network will be thousands of times more cost-effective than electronic networks. Just as the electron rules in computers, the photon will rule the waves of communication. I know people would not write it..But worth a try:)

Voting Question: what are the latest (or best) mainframe computer models from...

9 May 2007 at 9:07pm

the name of the models would be fine but if you know what SO they work with and their processor speed that's even better.

Resolved Question: IBM 390 Mainframe Computer?

16 Apr 2007 at 8:25pm

Where can I find specifications for this? I've look on IBM's webiste and can't find anything. I've done searches for it, still no specs on it.

Voting Question: wat r the institute providing mainfram.?is there any eligibi...

15 Apr 2007 at 9:07am

I 've just passed out my b-tech(it) in this april .plz tell me about some of the good institute in related to mainframe.wat about IBM mainframe is there any entry criteria for a student .is there any eligibility test conducted by ibm mainframe.

Resolved Question: what is your idea?

12 Apr 2007 at 5:35am

a 12 year old kid (that is what she says) wrote this: Excuse me, kind sirs and m'ams, my computer is not really a computer. It's an old atari game console that's been altered to work with an ancient IBM mainframe running on DOS, both of which my dad found at the local dump. The terminal is a giant light bulb and I am able to compose messages on it by morse code by pressing the joystick button in rapid sequences. It's solar powered so no electricity hook up is necessary, so that's why I can only log on here during daylight hours. I'm screwed during the monsoon season though. My 'puter is the 'jeepney' of computers! First of all the kind of excellent English spoken by a 12 yr old kid who lives on the streets in Manila? The knowledge of such a kid? Morse code to use a pc? etc..etc.. Who is this "kid"? Why do people bother to answer her "questions"? In my humble opinion, this is not a kid, but someone who's fooling around...If it was such a smart kid, "she" wouldn't live on the streets Thank you Alaistair...I have the same questions... to pinkbookworm... I think that "she" and one of her "answerers" are one and the same person...A double or split personality To Michelle: I totally agree To Pesteng Kontrabida: What you say is possible, but I wouldn't care to clean, desinfect and pay the bills to adopt a streetkid. The problem is that I have problems with dishonest people. Although being honest can also be taught...might get white hair from that, or get bald..hehehe To all the others: I would really like to comment all of your answers, but there's not enough space. No matter who Palimos is, it certainly is a colourful character. Either you like her (him) or not... As for myself I am quite satisfied with your answers and it is very hard to pick the best one...possible one of you is Palimos herself with another account #! I am helping some poor kids in the province by organizing some games and a spaghetti party (not too expensive and fun for kids). Unfortunately I can't adopt all...one or two would do...but who to choose... A lot of my (also expats) friends are into charity, doing great things, like building a classroom, eye surgery, taking care of the sanatorium etc..and the bright smile you get from these kids is the biggest reward one can get. Melts your heart. Really... To Palimos: Why do you NEVER answer the asked question? Why do you NEVER reply? What do you do with DIMES and QUARTERS, while in the Phils, people have PESOS and CENTAVOS? To Palimos (2): how many suitcase does this poor girl have? Because you already told many people that you would like to be adopted by them, and that your suitcase is ready. Please don't say such thing to these people. They really want to make some streetkid happy. If you can't keep your promises, then don't promise anything... To Sheer Black: there is a difference between "humour" and "fooling around with people's feelings" or not saying the truth.

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28 Nov 2006 at 2:32pm

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30 Aug 2006 at 2:00pm

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10 Aug 2006 at 11:06pm

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