On 2016-Apr-30, at 9:05 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> That's interesting I had a FidoBBs back in 1983 No 33
>
> Written by a guy called Tom Jennings in C.
Tom was on this list, up until somewhere ~ mid-2000s AIR.
http://sensitiveresearch.com/
http://worldpowersystems.com/
. . fro
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 05:05:31AM +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> He says I'll go and get the fork lift. Er no - not two pallets full - just
> two boxes !!
Great story.
mcl
That's interesting I had a FidoBBs back in 1983 No 33
Written by a guy called Tom Jennings in C.
I had a BT modem type 2B (about the size of a small suitcase)
I modified it to auto answer.
In addition it would dial out at 03:00 to exchange mail at 300baud
There was a version for DEC Rainbow
On Sun, 1 May 2016, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:07:34AM -0700, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
[...]
Just look into the political machinations of what was known as FidoNet to
see how this could end up.
What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) an
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:07:34AM -0700, geneb wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
>
[...]
> > Just look into the political machinations of what was known as FidoNet to
> >see how this could end up.
> >
> What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a
> political shi
>> Well, I think "Sun god" is a significant overstatement, and I'm
>> pretty sure I never capitalized the "der", but yes, that was me.
> It's not an overstatement to me, sir.
Thank you. I'm glad to hear I helped; I've received so very much from
the net - as cynical and bitter as I tend to wax abo
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, John Willis wrote:
What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political
shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh*
Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here!
#fidobros! *laughs uproariously*
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f1
>
>
>> What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political
> shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh*
>
>
Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here!
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
> One benefit of contiguous subnet masks is that it makes routing faster.
> It's still a linear search, but it's based on the average length of the
> netmask instead of the total number of entries.
That sounds similar to the idea of route summarization. Wi
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the
same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own
networks over wireless ?
The crazy patchwork quilt of regulation
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
>
> It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
>>
>> And I spend over $80/month for DSL to a provider that gives me a /29
>> and a /60 from globally routed space. (That everything is now CIDR
>> blocks is another loss; I am not fond of
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
>
> > What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the
> > same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own
> > networks over wireless ?
>
> The crazy patchwork quilt of regulations applying to amateur use of
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
>
> And I spend over $80/month for DSL to a provider that gives me a /29
> and a /60 from globally routed space. (That everything is now CIDR
> blocks is another loss; I am not fond of the desupporting of
> noncontiguous subnet masks, even though
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Mouse wrote:
> Well, I think "Sun god" is a significant overstatement, and I'm pretty
> sure I never capitalized the "der", but yes, that was me.
It's not an overstatement to me, sir. You would probably be very surprised
if you knew how many fixes you've helped me out of. I
>> [...] That everything is now CIDR blocks is another loss; I am not
>> fond of the desupporting of noncontiguous subnet masks, even though
>> I can understand it [...]
> Heh, I'm guessing you've been doing something like that for a very
> long time.
Well, I was doing it a long time ago; I stoppe
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Mouse wrote:
> [...] That everything is now CIDR blocks is another loss; I am not fond
> of the desupporting of noncontiguous subnet masks, even though I can
> understand it [...]
Heh, I'm guessing you've been doing something like that for a very long
time. I remember "Der
> Is it NAT keeping everyone suppressed behind dynamic translation or
> is it more that 80% of the people on the net are just consuming media
> and since they don't clamor for equal "real" IP access, the ISPs
> simply don't care about that.
A bit from column A, a bit from column B, I would say.
>
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