4 ms·

IBM has a event where you can get access to a mainframe and complete different tasks https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the-mainframe http

by erk__ 5y ago

IBM has a event where you can get access to a mainframe and complete different tasks https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the-mainframe https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the... You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud

vbezhenar 5y ago
> You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud What's the point? VM with linux is hardly interesting to anyone.
- erk__ 5y ago
  I used it when I was doing some porting of smaller programs to run on z/Architecture for example setting up the de/compression co-processor correctly. It's true that Linux on x86 or arm is not unusual, but this is Linux on Z
- exikyut 5y ago
  Amusingly, I signed up for this a couple days ago (https://mtm.masterthemainframe.com/ https://mtm.masterthemainframe.com/), which worked fine at the time, but the following day when I went to follow up I discovered the HTTPS cert had expired :D That was several hours ago. The site's still down.
  - exikyut 5y ago
    UPDATE: THE DOMAIN EXPIRED HAHAHA Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210729160256/https://mtm.masterthemainframe.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210729160256/https://mtm.maste...
    - exikyut 5y ago
      Update-update: Bureaucracy, Inc™ has belatedly noticed and exercised untold power to bring the domain back in a great hurry. Everything's back to exactly how it was before, even down to using "" (ie, empty string) where my name should be. Excellent. I must say that site responsiveness is much, much slower than it was when it was serving spam. :D
      - erk__ 5y ago
        That is pretty amusing, I also just received a mail from them telling me that my opinion was important to them. Heh