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Hi,

I'm Tim Sneddon and this is my blog. I work at Kednos as a Senior Software Specialist. In this capacity I've been involved in just about everything from website maintenance to system management and compiler development. Once upon a time I worked for Reynolds & Reynolds (now Pentana Solutions) in Australia and the various incarnations of Infomedia's Business Systems Division.

You can expect to see a number of topics covered here. There will be plenty of OpenVMS, PL/I, BLISS, Linux, LLVM, C and many others (maybe even some Itanium assembly and TECO too). I'll try and keep up a level of "human" posts too.

This blog isn't my only literary outlet. I have also contributed articles (and continue to do so) to the OpenVMS Technical Journal. If you're just interested in my articles, you can read them here.

If you're wondering what exactly goes on around the office then you can check out the webcam and see for yourself.

Lastly, this blog (as well as the entire Kednos website) has been developed using Mark Daniel's (the man behind WASD) VWcms.

Running Java Software on OpenVMSThursday, 08 April 2010 01:38 (4 months ago)Things have been pretty quiet on my blog for the last few months. Of course, this doesn't mean things have been quiet with me. On the contrary, the blog has been neglected because I have been quite busy. So, here is the first of many posts covering the things [more]

Images from launch of Soyuz TMA-17Monday, 21 December 2009 21:51 (8 months ago)Yesterday, at 21:52 UTC I had the pleasure of watch the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft lauch from Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This is the first time I have watched a Soyuz launch. It is also the second time I have watched a space craft launch via the streaming [more]

A BLISS-ful family treeSunday, 13 December 2009 21:52 (8 months ago)A while back there were some posts on comp.os.vms regarding the history of Digital Equipment Corporation like, "Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc." This particular post covered most of the DEC userland mythology. As usual though it is more than a little [more]

Improvements in VWcmsSunday, 22 November 2009 23:26 (9 months ago)This blog, and in fact the entire Kednos website, is maintained using the web content management system, VWcms (pronounced vee-dub). VWcms is a software packaged developed and maintained by Mark Daniel, the author of the WASD web server software. The software [more]

TECO has now entered the realm of the internetThursday, 19 November 2009 20:18 (9 months ago)So it's Friday and I feel like doing something a little fun although not really that useful. Yesterday I made a crack about getting TECO running in a Common Gateway Interface environment. Well, that's exactly what I decided to do. What follows is a set of basic [more]

Serving Mercurial repositories from OpenVMSMonday, 16 November 2009 08:51 (9 months ago)I have just completed configuring the Mercurial repositories that hold the open source software served by Kednos. It is now possible to use the hg client to fetch and build MMK (The Halls Of ZK and MX will follow very soon) from http://hg.kednos.com. The following [more]

DOS file attributes on OpenVMSMonday, 02 November 2009 05:10 (10 months ago)A few years ago, four according to the source, I was asked if it was possible to set the DOS file attributes on an OpenVMS file that existed on an Advanced Server (aka Pathworks) share. I wasn't sure, but it took only a minute or so to check it out. Sure enough [more]

Jabbing the JIB...Monday, 26 October 2009 07:43 (10 months ago)Recently there was a post to comp.os.vms, JIB Jab. It asked of a way, from DCL, to determine the name of a process' job logical name table. I posted (and submitted to dcl.openvms.org) the following procedure as a solution: $ set noon $ on warning then goto [more]

The VMS/L&T SIG Collection needs YOU!Friday, 23 October 2009 08:56 (10 months ago)I have announced (even tweeted) a call for submissions for the next VMS/L&T SIG Collection. That's right. It's a collection now, not a tape. The last release was all the way back in Spring (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) 2007. A lot has happened since [more]

This is the program that doesn't end...Monday, 19 October 2009 20:19 (10 months ago)Does anyone remember that song, The Song That Never Ends? I remember it from the end credits of Lamb Chop's Play Along when I was a kid. That was the first thing I thought of when I heard of a quine. Although, a quine is a whole lot easier to tolerate! Of course [more]