Arnold Trembley's Home Page

These pages were last updated Thursday, July 10th, 2008.

I haven't spent as much time as I would like to on each of the various Linux Live CD's, Knoppix, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Ubuntu, but I am leaning towards Ubuntu. It seems to work better than the others when booted as a live CD. But there are new versions of MEPIS and PCLinuxOS that I still need to try. In 2007 I finally replaced Netscape with Mozilla Firefox as my default browser and Mozilla Thunderbird as my default mail and news reader. I upgraded to Firefox 3.0 on the second day it was available. And I've been trying to play the guitar again, but it is difficult to find enough time to practice.

Occasionally I receive emails from programmers in India with COBOL questions, which is very gratifying to me. I hope the comments I provide to other working programmers are helpful.

For original work, I recommend my page on "COBOL Runtime Efficiency", which includes links to some additional performance anecdotes (including Leif Svalgaard's excellent article on Sorting Algorithms). The Programming Resources page has been updated to include links to "www.opencobol.org" and the "Hybrid XE Editor" (an SPF clone) for PC. There is also a sample COBOL program for converting IBM OS/VS COBOL source code to IBM VS/COBOL II source code.

You can read about distributed denial of service attacks at the Gibson Research Corporation website. I recommend this site to anyone with concerns about Internet privacy and security.

• Some Biographical information about me.

• Voting Machines Demonstration - Mock Election

• St. Louis County Libertarian Central Committee

• Political Links, mostly Libertarian

• Runtime Efficiency in COBOL

• UT06 Compiler, written in ICL COBOL

• The TinyCOBOL Project (GNU COBOL for Linux and Windows)

• Links to Programming Resources

• Miscellaneous Links, Bookmarks, and photos

• Gibson Research Corporation Homepage

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