• Home network security

    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Ennev on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 22:45:18
    Re: Re: Let's talk about secu
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Tue Jul 28 2020 03:06 pm

    So I agree that a lot of people are careless, the vast majority in fact. They expect theses device to be like appliances that you just plug and forget about it. The industry has to step up.

    I'm not sure how much of it is the industry's responsibility. People should be responsible in knowing how to use their stuff too. Computer technology has been around for a long time now..

    Nightfox

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 07:13:46
    On 2020-07-29 1:45 a.m., Nightfox wrote:

    I'm not sure how much of it is the industry's responsibility. People should be responsible in knowing how to use their stuff too. Computer technology has been around for a long time now..

    If as a user you use a password like "123456" then that's the user problem

    When you have an hard coded master password in you device readable in
    the firmware, you should bare some responsibility. Especially if the
    user has no possibility to change it.

    You can't expect every user to audit a device and check the firmware
    code to decide if your buying it or not. And it's not something
    obtainable before purchase and it's not even accessible after.

    But I blame the consumers to go to the cheapest price product that are
    made by careless company that are just there for the buck and will be
    any oem product out of china and just print theirs logo on it.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 06:18:37
    Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Ennev on Tue Jul 28 2020 10:45 pm

    Re: Re: Let's talk about secu
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Tue Jul 28 2020 03:06 pm

    So I agree that a lot of people are careless, the vast majority in fact. They
    expect theses device to be like appliances that you just plug and forget abou
    it. The industry has to step up.

    I'm not sure how much of it is the industry's responsibility. People should be
    responsible in knowing how to use their stuff too. Computer technology has been
    around for a long time now..

    Nightfox


    The trend is to make the service provider responsible. MOst users think IT is black
    magic. You sacrifice a chicken and stuff works, no need to know what the demons are
    doing in the background.

    It gets serious stupid really fast. My boss once told me to secure some assets so I
    pseudo-full-disk-encrypt the computer in which they were stored, put a lock on the
    door of the room, that sort of thing. I told the boss that for the thing to be remotely secure, it was absoultely essential to follow thes esecurity practices:

    * Don't let the computer unlocked if you are not in the room.
    * If you are not in the room, ensure the computer is powered off and the door is
    locked.

    The encryption system is fully transparent and the only difference between it and a
    regular operatin system is you have to input a passphrase when powering up.

    Boss answer was: "If I can't leave the computer unatended this is rubbish. I need
    something that is simple to use".

    I think he was expecting me to install some magic on the comptuer that would magically
    make it secure and GDPR compliant without any effort from the system user.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Ennev on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 09:27:46
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2020 07:13 am

    If as a user you use a password like "123456" then that's the user problem

    When you have an hard coded master password in you device readable in
    the firmware, you should bare some responsibility. Especially if the
    user has no possibility to change it.

    You can't expect every user to audit a device and check the firmware
    code to decide if your buying it or not. And it's not something obtainable before purchase and it's not even accessible after.

    If a device has a hard-coded password that can't be changed, then I'd agree that's a flaw in the device and should be fixed. I have yet to see a device like that, though I haven't worked with any webcams myself.. I've mostly only worked with home routers I've used, and those at least let you change the admin password, set the wifi password, etc.. On a home router, you can even set it up to not broadcast the SSID so people normally won't see it when doing a scan.

    Nightfox

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 14:44:01
    On 2020-07-29 12:27 p.m., Nightfox wrote:

    On a home router, you can even set it up to not broadcast the SSID so
    people normally won't see it when doing a scan.

    That's how i'm set and no stupid WPS !!!

    and what does WPS stand for ?? : "Wi-Fi Protected Setup" .... yeah
    right, since 2011 it's been hacked

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 13:09:34
    Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Ennev on Tue Jul 28 2020 10:45 pm

    should be responsible in knowing how to use their stuff too. Computer technology has been around for a long time now..

    Yup. Computers have been in the home longer than modern automobiles had been in the 60s. The fact people still think of these things as "New" technology is astounding.
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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 13:30:04
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Ennev on Wed Jul 29 2020 09:27 am

    If a device has a hard-coded password that can't be changed, then I'd agree that's a flaw in the device and should be fixed. I have yet to see a device like that, though I haven't worked with any webcams myself.. I've

    I've seen a few in my time. Almost always cheap chinese or ebay junk, they pretty much universally go straight in the bin or get relegated to their own limited access vlan.
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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Underminer on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 18:51:17
    On 2020-07-29 3:09 p.m., Underminer wrote:

    Yup. Computers have been in the home longer than modern automobiles had been in the 60s. The fact people still think of these things as "New" technology is astounding.

    What I hate to hear the most is "I'm not good with computers" I used to
    hear that from the older generations, but no now it's people even way
    younger than me. I'm sorry if your under 40 ( I'm tempted to say 50)and
    you don't basic skills with computer you have no good excuses, computers
    where accessible in almost and school, junior high and colleges since
    the mid 80's

    I don't expect you to compile a kernel but come on ....

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 19:08:00
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Wednesday 29.07.20 - 07:18, arelor wrote to Nightfox:

    It gets serious stupid really fast. My boss once told me to secure
    some assets so I pseudo-full-disk-encrypt the computer in which they
    were stored, put a lock on the door of the room, that sort of thing. I
    told the boss that for the thing to be remotely secure, it was
    absoultely essential to follow thes esecurity practices:

    [[snip]]

    The encryption system is fully transparent and the only difference
    between it and a regular operatin system is you have to input a
    passphrase when powering up.

    Boss answer was: "If I can't leave the computer unatended this is
    rubbish. I need something that is simple to use".

    If he wants to leave the computer on and walk away for a while, why not
    force the pc to go into standby after a few mintes, and then have a
    password to come out of standby.


    I think he was expecting me to install some magic on the comptuer that would magically make it secure and GDPR compliant without any effort
    from the system user.

    He needs some basic education on how easily an unsecure computer can be exploited.

    Is he concerned about the casual employee using that computer?

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Arelor on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 15:49:00
    Re: Home network security
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2020 06:18 am

    Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Ennev on Tue Jul 28 2020 10:45 pm

    Re: Re: Let's talk about secu
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Tue Jul 28 2020 03:06 pm

    So I agree that a lot of people are careless, the vast majority in f expect theses device to be like appliances that you just plug and f it. The industry has to step up.

    I'm not sure how much of it is the industry's responsibility. People sho responsible in knowing how to use their stuff too. Computer technology h around for a long time now..

    Nightfox


    The trend is to make the service provider responsible. MOst users think IT i magic. You sacrifice a chicken and stuff works, no need to know what the dem doing in the background.

    It gets serious stupid really fast. My boss once told me to secure some asse pseudo-full-disk-encrypt the computer in which they were stored, put a lock door of the room, that sort of thing. I told the boss that for the thing to remotely secure, it was absoultely essential to follow thes esecurity practi

    * Don't let the computer unlocked if you are not in the room.
    * If you are not in the room, ensure the computer is powered off and the doo locked.

    The encryption system is fully transparent and the only difference between i regular operatin system is you have to input a passphrase when powering up.

    Boss answer was: "If I can't leave the computer unatended this is rubbish. I something that is simple to use".

    I think he was expecting me to install some magic on the comptuer that would make it secure and GDPR compliant without any effort from the system user.


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    At one place I owrked at we really pushed locking workstations if we step
    away for more than 5 minutes. One co-wokrer would walk up to unattended machines and send emails to our superviser under the other user's accounts. When my supervisor would reply back, it didn't go well for that person. If a person figured my co-worker did it, he'd say something like imagine if
    someone send a nasty email to the CEO while you were getting coffee or got pulled into an impromptu hallway meeting? Even worse, what if someone launche d malicious code, and it appears they were the ones who sent it?


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 16:04:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Ennev on Wed Jul 29 2020 09:27 am

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2020 07:13 am

    If as a user you use a password like "123456" then that's the user prob

    When you have an hard coded master password in you device readable in the firmware, you should bare some responsibility. Especially if the user has no possibility to change it.

    You can't expect every user to audit a device and check the firmware code to decide if your buying it or not. And it's not something obtainable before purchase and it's not even accessible after.

    If a device has a hard-coded password that can't be changed, then I'd agree rs I've used, and those at least let you change the admin password, set the

    Nightfox

    Devices with hardwared override or reset codes tend to require being reset through a physical connection, as in inserting an ethernet cable. Otherwise you'll have the wanna be anarchist kids who maliciously fiddle with
    unsecureds access points also having the means to remotely reset locked sown routers.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Ennev on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 16:18:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2020 02:44 pm

    On 2020-07-29 12:27 p.m., Nightfox wrote:

    On a home router, you can even set it up to not broadcast the SSID so
    people normally won't see it when doing a scan.

    That's how i'm set and no stupid WPS !!!

    and what does WPS stand for ?? : "Wi-Fi Protected Setup" .... yeah
    right, since 2011 it's been hacked

    When a wifi device gets kicked off and reconnects, the SSID can be pulled from the un-enecrypted part of the reconnection request even if the SSID is not broadcast. Once the SSID is determined, a laptop or sbc can be set up with that SSID so the device tries to use it's credentials to connect to the fake S SID. I think it was Network Chuck on Youtube who demonstrated this in a mom and pop coffee shop and showed how much better a big chain like Starbucks
    locks their wifi down.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Ennev on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 22:29:22
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Underminer on Wed Jul 29 2020 06:51 pm

    What I hate to hear the most is "I'm not good with computers" I used to hear that from the older generations, but no now it's people even way younger than me. I'm sorry if your under 40 ( I'm tempted to say 50)and you don't basic skills with computer you have no good excuses, computers where accessible in almost and school, junior high and colleges since
    the mid 80's

    Yeah, I find it baffling when I see people my age or younger who aren't really computer literate..

    Nightfox

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Ennev on Thursday, July 30, 2020 04:23:54
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Underminer on Wed Jul 29 2020 06:51 pm

    On 2020-07-29 3:09 p.m., Underminer wrote:

    Yup. Computers have been in the home longer than modern automobiles had been in t
    60s. The fact people still think of these things as "New" technology is astoundin

    What I hate to hear the most is "I'm not good with computers" I used to
    hear that from the older generations, but no now it's people even way younger than me. I'm sorry if your under 40 ( I'm tempted to say 50)and
    you don't basic skills with computer you have no good excuses, computers where accessible in almost and school, junior high and colleges since
    the mid 80's

    I don't expect you to compile a kernel but come on ....


    I have a better one. "I don't need to know how to use a computer! That is your job!"

    No sorry, my job is that you have a computer that works and a platform to upload
    customer data to and that sort of thing. Your job is to use the computer. Geez :-)

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Ogg on Thursday, July 30, 2020 05:12:31
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ogg to All on Wed Jul 29 2020 07:08 pm

    The encryption system is fully transparent and the only difference between it and a regular operatin system is you have to input a passphrase when powering up.

    Boss answer was: "If I can't leave the computer unatended this is rubbish. I need something that is simple to use".

    If he wants to leave the computer on and walk away for a while, why not force the pc to go into standby after a few mintes, and then have a
    password to come out of standby.

    What I ended up setting was a timer that powered the computer off. Still far from
    perfect, and does not help much if he does not lock the door.

    The actual thread model is... classified.

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Moondog on Thursday, July 30, 2020 11:20:00
    On 29 Jul 2020, Moondog said the following...

    At one place I owrked at we really pushed locking workstations if we step away for more than 5 minutes. One co-wokrer would walk up to unattended machines and send emails to our superviser under the other user's accounts When my supervisor would reply back, it didn't go well for that person. I person figured my co-worker did it, he'd say something like imagine if someone send a nasty email to the CEO while you were getting coffee or got pulled into an impromptu hallway meeting? Even worse, what if someone lau d malicious code, and it appears they were the ones who sent it?

    I do this at my current job. As the IT guy security is part of my job.

    If I happen to be walking by a desk with an unlocked computer I'll send a simple email saying "Ask me about leaving my desk without locking my
    computer" to their manager if I happen to know who that is. Sometimes I'll send it to their department group.

    Often if there's time I'll paste a gif in-line, just so they know they're not in trouble, it's just to keep security in mind. That's why it's called security awareness training.

    There have been times I've been caught walking away with my computer
    unlocked. I've come back to some funny replies to email sent from my computer...

    Jay

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Thursday, July 30, 2020 08:15:00
    Moondog wrote to Arelor <=-

    At one place I owrked at we really pushed locking workstations if we
    step away for more than 5 minutes. One co-wokrer would walk up to unattended machines and send emails to our superviser under the other user's accounts.

    I left my computer unlocked once when I went to a meeting and found
    out I'd sent a message entitled "Free CUPCAKES in my cube!!"

    Had to explain to the entire floor my misdeed. And buy cupcakes the
    next day.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Arelor on Thursday, July 30, 2020 08:20:00
    Arelor wrote to Ennev <=-

    No sorry, my job is that you have a computer that works and a platform
    to upload customer data to and that sort of thing. Your job is to use
    the computer. Geez :-)

    I hope that generation has retired. I had a facilities manager who
    insisted that we need 11x17 MFPs in our office. We ended up getting
    HP MFPs that were absolute cows - they overheated and killed their
    hard drives, had more consumables than I could keep track of, left
    smeary ink on the paper path regularly, and broke down more than they
    were up.

    HP onsite service was useless - they wanted my techs to do 2-3 hours
    of work before they'd come out.

    I took his word for the need, and when I later did some research,
    realized the only person copying 11x17 was him, because he
    couldn't mark up a floor plan in AutoCAD. He'd use AutoCAD to print
    them out, mark them up by hand, and copy them.

    I figured it out when I asked him to email me a copy of the current
    plan and he kept leaving hard copies on my desk.

    He retired a few years later.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Arelor on Thursday, July 30, 2020 11:52:45
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Arelor to Ennev on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:23 am

    I have a better one. "I don't need to know how to use a computer! That is your job!"

    No sorry, my job is that you have a computer that works and a platform to upload customer data to and that sort of thing. Your job is to use the computer. Geez :-)

    A long time ago, I worked for someone who said one time one of his clients (an older guy, I think) said "I got a computer that don't work. Fix sumbitch."

    Nightfox

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, July 30, 2020 15:51:00
    On 30 Jul 2020, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I left my computer unlocked once when I went to a meeting and found
    out I'd sent a message entitled "Free CUPCAKES in my cube!!"

    Had to explain to the entire floor my misdeed. And buy cupcakes the
    next day.

    LOL - That's awesome! :)

    Jay

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, July 30, 2020 16:00:00
    On 30 Jul 2020, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I had a facilities manager who insisted that we need 11x17 MFPs in our office. We ended up getting HP MFPs that were absolute cows - they overheated and killed their hard drives, had more consumables than I
    could keep track of, left smeary ink on the paper path regularly, and broke down more than they were up.

    This reminds me of when our QA dept asked for a colour printer. Back then we were still using Xerox, so I asked what they were going to be doing with it (colour documents only? photos? both?) and they mentioned it was mostly for documents and signs. I suggested a couple of models, including this new
    model (Phaser I believe it was called) that used this new "wax" ink that kind of looked like blocks of crayons. One block for each colour and one for
    black.

    They decided on that model and I ordered one in. It turns out that it works really well until you decide to laminate the signs, then you get a trippy tie-dye effect. She wanted to return the printer (which would have been a pain) as we were leasing it. I ended up buying them a cool laminator and everyone was happy.

    Jay

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Arelor on Thursday, July 30, 2020 15:06:58
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Arelor to Ennev on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:23 am

    I have a better one. "I don't need to know how to use a computer! That is your job!"

    My favourite is when you spend days or weeks trying to find or build the simplest and most user friendly solution possible with the available resources for a client, spend more days documenting procedures, maintenance, and training, all with regular reports to the client and opportunity for input... And on completion their response is "But I don't want to have to do it that way, I want to do it (insert convoluted, likely technically impossible demand)."
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Warpslide on Thursday, July 30, 2020 16:45:58
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Warpslide to Moondog on Thu Jul 30 2020 11:20 am

    If I happen to be walking by a desk with an unlocked computer I'll send a simple email saying "Ask me about leaving my desk without locking my computer" to their manager if I happen to know who that is. Sometimes I'll send it to their department group.

    Often if there's time I'll paste a gif in-line, just so they know they're not in trouble, it's just to keep security in mind. That's why it's called security awareness training.

    There have been times I've been caught walking away with my computer unlocked. I've come back to some funny replies to email sent from my computer...



    sounds like you work at a weird place. we dont do that at my company.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, July 30, 2020 16:51:23
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Thu Jul 30 2020 08:20 am

    them out, mark them up by hand, and copy them.

    I figured it out when I asked him to email me a copy of the current
    plan and he kept leaving hard copies on my desk.

    He retired a few years later.



    we had a guy who'd been at the company for 50 years. he could NOT help himself from clicking spam links. he knew fedex doesnt have a package for him. he knew they wouldnt know his work email address and contact him. still clicked it.

    twice he really fucked some stuff up and some of our stuff got crypto'd.
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  • From Dreamer@VERT/BMTSOFT to Nightfox on Thursday, July 30, 2020 17:02:00
    Nightfox wrote to Ennev <=-

    If a device has a hard-coded password that can't be changed, then I'd agree that's a flaw in the device and should be fixed. I have yet to
    see a device like that, though I haven't worked with any webcams

    It's getting more rare, but these are totally out there. Pretty much every device you can think of has a shipped model like this, including business internet routers.

    The good news is I believe most of them to have long since been replaced
    by newer tech for various reasons (age, ipv6 upgrades, better features, and
    so on); however, I'm sure we can all imagine those small businesses whose IT
    is Sharon in the finance department, or those homes who just reboot their computer and router once a month to keep things "optimized". I'm pretty
    sure they're not keeping up with the security bulletins on their devices,
    nor are they all applying firmware updates. Because these devices were NOT coded to auto update.


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  • From Dreamer@VERT/BMTSOFT to Ennev on Thursday, July 30, 2020 18:07:00
    Ennev wrote to Underminer <=-

    On 2020-07-29 3:09 p.m., Underminer wrote:

    Yup. Computers have been in the home longer than modern automobiles had been
    i
    n the 60s. The fact people still think of these things as "New"
    technology is astounding.

    What I hate to hear the most is "I'm not good with computers" I used to hear that from the older generations, but no now it's people even way younger than me. I'm sorry if your under 40 ( I'm tempted to say 50)and you don't basic skills with computer you have no good excuses,
    computers where accessible in almost and school, junior high and
    colleges since the mid 80's

    I don't expect you to compile a kernel but come on ....

    You would not believe what people don't know today. I'm the interim program director for my college CIS program. I just started teaching a few years ago.

    We were just discussing in another thread how the high schools aren't required to teach any computer literacy anymore. They just teach basic microcomputer applications. From my discussions with students, it's prettyvmuch Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I mean, we have a microcomputervapplications course, too -- it definitely does not teach computer literacy.

    The office I was issued was occupied by the person who was director before
    me, and apparently goes all the way back to when the building was built. I found an original binder from around 1995 describing the program and some syllabi. (Along with enrollment #'s and lots of other useful info I'm
    keeping. It dates from before our college was spun off from the university. Cool stuff.) We used to have a computer literacy class for CIS. I'm pretty
    sure the college dropped it because the high schools were teaching this stuff.

    So, bottom line, I can tell you that a majority of students are graduating
    high school without understanding:

    Basic file maintenance. I will have students who don't know what it means to upload a folder of items. They will send me one or two files, not a folder. They do not know how to package a folder in Windows, even if the directions state to send a compressed folder. I have literally had to explain it to a student more than once. Don't even get me started on file extensions or
    naming conventions.

    File system navigation. I've had students not understand how drive letters work. They don't know where their downloads go. They bring their USB drives, but leave their work at home, or vice versa, because they don't know how Windows Explorer works.

    Basic programming concepts. I had one student -- I am serious, here -- after
    an entire semester with extra help (God bless her) from me, extra time in the lab, and so on, flunk the final project on JavaScript. Very early into the semester, she came to me stating that she didn't understand anything. After several probing questions, she was right. She couldn't even create a
    a variable. (For anyone who doesn't know, this is the easiest language I can think of for creating variables.) She had struggled with HTML the previous semester -- after that last class, I think she went into dental hygiene instead.

    Basic hardware concepts. I teach a class called introduction to pc operating systems. It has some computer literacy, but it's pretty much crammed in
    amongst heavier concepts. I think they merged the original literacy class
    with the networking class and started offering this one. Which makes sense if most students understand computers. Most of my students, entering class, can identify a single port on a computer, except maybe USB and "the video port",
    or "the sound port".

    Anyways, I would expect public school to teach students the basics of these things we use every day. The history of how we got here, and how to do some basic programming. Instead, the best I've heard from a student is "yeah, we learned how to make a website in Dreamweaver".


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Thursday, July 30, 2020 21:28:26
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Warpslide on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:45 pm

    There have been times I've been caught walking away with my computer
    unlocked. I've come back to some funny replies to email sent from my
    computer...

    sounds like you work at a weird place. we dont do that at my company.

    At the last place I worked, they had employee training for how to keep company information safe. One thing they recommended was always locking your laptop when you step away from it, even when you're in the company office, so that anyone who happened to walk by wouldn't be able to sneak onto your laptop and copy data off or do other nefarious things.

    There was a guy from another team I sometimes worked with, and if I stepped away without locking my laptop, he'd often joke about getting on my laptop and sending an awkward email to the company CEO.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Thursday, July 30, 2020 21:30:58
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:51 pm

    we had a guy who'd been at the company for 50 years. he could NOT help himself from clicking spam links. he knew fedex doesnt have a package for him. he knew they wouldnt know his work email address and contact him. still clicked it.

    twice he really fucked some stuff up and some of our stuff got crypto'd.

    I've worked at 2 places now that sometimes send phishing test emails to test us to see whether we'd click on links or report it as a phishing email. They'd also have training videos to show how to spot phishing emails.

    Nightfox

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Friday, July 31, 2020 01:14:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:51 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Thu Jul 30 2020 08:20 am

    them out, mark them up by hand, and copy them.

    I figured it out when I asked him to email me a copy of the current plan and he kept leaving hard copies on my desk.

    He retired a few years later.



    we had a guy who'd been at the company for 50 years. he could NOT help hims

    twice he really fucked some stuff up and some of our stuff got crypto'd.

    It is easy to assume engineers with multipler degrees and a PE license would
    be generally smart across the board, however I've seen a few that would lcick on emails that said "urgent! Open right away" without looking at the sketchy email address the he email was sent from. When the "love letter" virus came out, I asked a high level manager how many times a vendor for industrial
    pumps refers to him as "sweetheart" in their emails. Even after we held physical meetings telling people not to click on certain links, it would
    happen anyways. The reply, "ugh, you sadi that yesterday. Today is a different day." I now understand most engineers are borderline autistic, and obvious danger signs do not register.

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Dreamer on Friday, July 31, 2020 07:10:28
    On 2020-07-30 7:07 p.m., Dreamer wrote:

    Anyways, I would expect public school to teach students the basics of these things we use every day. The history of how we got here, and how to do some basic programming. Instead, the best I've heard from a student is "yeah, we learned how to make a website in Dreamweaver".

    Will be a nice future will all theses uneducated people. Promising

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2020 19:15:00
    On 07-30-20 21:30, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    I've worked at 2 places now that sometimes send phishing test emails to test us to see whether we'd click on links or report it as a phishing email. They'd also have training videos to show how to spot phishing emails.

    I actually managed to train a whole office to consult me, if they found anything unusual in email - there were a couple who would pass on hoaxes or click on links in spam, until they realised I could take one look and spot them, and I let them know that I'd prefer to get a false alarm from them, than have them suckered in by something online. After a couple of years, I pretty much got them running anything doubtful by me (and waiting for my rpely!), before doing anything else. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Moondog on Friday, July 31, 2020 19:32:00
    On 07-31-20 01:14, Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    It is easy to assume engineers with multipler degrees and a PE license would be generally smart across the board, however I've seen a few that would lcick on emails that said "urgent! Open right away" without
    looking at the sketchy email address the he email was sent from. When
    the "love letter" virus came out, I asked a high level manager how many times a vendor for industrial pumps refers to him as "sweetheart" in'

    Haha, that's a good one.

    their emails. Even after we held physical meetings telling people not
    to click on certain links, it would happen anyways. The reply, "ugh,
    you sadi that yesterday. Today is a different day." I now understand most engineers are borderline autistic, and obvious danger signs do not register.

    That's because they lack the appropriate experience and/or training, which may need to be done a little differently. I spot the fakes, scams, hoaxes and other dodgy emails _because_ I am autistic. That gives me the ability to even identify new dodgy emails, because I can pick the patterns from almost 30 years of online experience, as well as my technical knowledgedge, which can be used to invalidate false claims. It's a matter of finding a way that works for how you think. I had to teach the managerial type enough of what to look for, buy in a way they could cope, as well as enough simple things to check, s they could at least refer the email to me for analysis.

    And similarly, I'm a telemerketer's worst nightmare, because high pressure sales tactics are also in my large base of experience, and they more they try those tactics, the more they lose me! :D For them, trying to sell to me is like swimming in quicksand. But an honest, customer focused calesperson who listens can get a sale out of me very quickly, if they're selling what I want at the time. :)


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Underminer on Friday, July 31, 2020 10:54:42
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Underminer to Arelor on Thu Jul 30 2020 15:06:58


    all with regular reports to the client and opportunity for input...
    And on completion their response is "But I don't want to have to do
    it that way, I want to do it (insert convoluted, likely technically impossible demand)."

    that's when you figure out that they didn't even read any of the reports and updates until after the work was done...

    i once had a client that was very big on backups... insisted on getting the latest (at that time) DAQ tape backup system... there were two problems, though... the first is no one in their organization changed the tapes and
    the second was they refused to buy another machine to test the restoration on... there was also kinda a third problem... they expected me to come out each day at the close of their business and do the tape swap but they
    didn't want to pay for the on-site trip and time... in looking back, their previous support companies had done this and babysat the backups... at a loss... that was when i figured out the client had been fired as a client
    from pretty much every computer support company in my area... they were good people, though... it was an accounting firm which also explains the extremely tight fists with the $$$ in them...


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Ennev on Friday, July 31, 2020 11:09:58
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ennev to Dreamer on Fri Jul 31 2020 07:10:28


    Dreamer>> Anyways, I would expect public school to teach students the
    Dreamer>> basics of these things we use every day. The history of how
    Dreamer>> we got here, and how to do some basic programming. Instead,
    Dreamer>> the best I've heard from a student is "yeah, we learned how
    Dreamer>> to make a website in Dreamweaver".

    Ennev> Will be a nice future will all theses uneducated people. Promising

    sounds like Idiocracy...

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Friday, July 31, 2020 09:22:12
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Moondog on Fri Jul 31 2020 07:32 pm

    And similarly, I'm a telemerketer's worst nightmare, because high pressure sales tactics are also in my large base of experience, and they more they try those tactics, the more they lose me! :D For them, trying to sell to me is like swimming in quicksand. But an honest, customer focused calesperson who listens can get a sale out of me very quickly, if they're selling what I want at the time. :)

    Unsolicited telemarketing & similar things annoy me. If I want something, likely I'll find out about it and research it myself before buying. Honestly there have been times where I'd just hang up on a telemarketer because I didn't want to waste my time talking about buying some random thing they're selling. Or if my phone says it detects a potential telemarketer or scammer, sometimes I'd answer my phone in German or Portuguese (which I've studied a bit) and pretend I don't speak English and don't understand them, and they'll usually hang up.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Warpslide on Friday, July 31, 2020 07:55:00
    Warpslide wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    They decided on that model and I ordered one in. It turns out that it works really well until you decide to laminate the signs, then you get
    a trippy tie-dye effect. She wanted to return the printer (which would have been a pain) as we were leasing it. I ended up buying them a cool laminator and everyone was happy.


    Happy Sysadmin day!

    Coming up with alternatives is a part of the job that hopefully is
    appreciated by management.

    I dealt with an issue in a fulfillment center where their label
    printing kept running into issues. They'd only be able to print in
    small batches, until a VP noticed, made a stink, asked the center
    manager to propose the fastest/most expensive printers, to the tune
    of around $75,000, then demanded of our CIO that we order them and
    fly someone out to make sure that our S%^! systems can keep up with
    "his" business.

    I did some investigation, noticed that the printers they had were
    running within the duty cycle, and that they supported a memory
    upgrade that would double the memory - for $75/printer. I bought one
    for each of them, showed them how to install them, and the problem
    went away. My boss then got to tell the VP that they should have
    reported the issue to us years ago.

    I got a Starbucks card.

    Later on, I could see the writing on the wall. The boss was unhappy
    with my work, I was unhappy working for him, company underperforming,
    and no budget for new projects. It was turning into a painful, slow
    ride down. I ended up finding one of the best bosses I've worked for,
    and had accepted a position. I had a 1:1 meeting with my old boss
    scheduled for monday at 8am, which was odd. I figured I'd give him my
    resignation then.

    I walked into our 1:1 meeting. The HR Manager was there. He announced
    that my position had been eliminated, then walked out, while the HR
    manager and I discussed severance packages.

    Best layoff, ever. 3 month severance, 6 months of COBRA, and a 2 week
    vacation before I started the next job. I so wished I could have told
    him he could have saved the severance costs if he'd let me talk first.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2020 08:15:00
    Nightfox wrote to Arelor <=-

    A long time ago, I worked for someone who said one time one of his
    clients (an older guy, I think) said "I got a computer that don't work.
    Fix sumbitch."

    I worked at a company that had an Australian engineer, great, funny
    ginger guy with a big laugh.

    One day, a friend of mine saw me in the hallway and told me that "Bob"
    (the Aussie) asked him to tell me that the Laserwriter in Engineering
    had Gone Billy.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Underminer on Friday, July 31, 2020 08:16:00
    Underminer wrote to Arelor <=-

    My favourite is when you spend days or weeks trying to find or build
    the simplest and most user friendly solution possible with the
    available resources for a client, spend more days documenting
    procedures, maintenance, and training, all with regular reports to the client and opportunity for input... And on completion their response is "But I don't want to have to do it that way, I want to do it (insert convoluted, likely technically impossible demand)." ---

    Trying to find a problem to match the solution.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dreamer on Friday, July 31, 2020 08:22:00
    Dreamer wrote to Ennev <=-

    Basic hardware concepts. I teach a class called introduction to pc operating systems. It has some computer literacy, but it's pretty much crammed in amongst heavier concepts.

    One of the best summer camps I sent my (then 15 year-old ) son to was
    a computer hardware camp. They learned all of the components, and
    built computers from the motherboard on up, learned about voltages,
    different types of memory, SATA versus SSD, and so on. Got a nice
    little toolkit in a vinyl zipper case.

    He was able to buy a new motherboard, memory, CPU and graphics card,
    and build a new system from scratch, then sell his old one to pay for it.

    It would have been a great class in the old days, with jumpers, IRQs,
    and I/O boards instead of having everything built-in to the
    motherboard.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Friday, July 31, 2020 09:34:00
    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    It is easy to assume engineers with multipler degrees and a PE license would be generally smart across the board,

    At one company I worked at, they always seemed to assume that since
    they knew what they knew so well, that they knew more than IT did.
    One VP of engineering only hired the best candidates from a handful
    of schools, and not a one of them worked well with others.

    I still remember one of them dropping in my lap a task to migrate DNS
    from a SUN workstation that was loaned to us from the local
    university - I think he was concerned that DNS was slowing down his
    work.

    He claimed the University wanted it back in a week, so, armed with a
    BSD/OS CD, O'Reilly's DNS and BIND book and a free weekend, I
    installed a new box, learned DNS from cover to cover, set up the new
    resolver, repointed all of the clients to it, added a few bells and
    whistles engineering guy hadn't thought of, and turned BIND off on
    the box.

    He told his boss, who was unaware that this was happening and
    concerned over downtime that he was sure the transition would be
    alright, since Kurt "Knows at least as much as I do about DNS."

    Probably the most passive-agressive non-compliment I've ever
    received.

    The deadline? Never happened. The box stayed on our network for
    months afterwards. I knew because I was running DNS and the network.
    I don't know how his network port was locked into 10 megabit,
    half-duplex, I must have been (spins the BOFH excuse wheel...) a
    firmware incompatibility with the network driver.

    Never go passive-agressive on a sysadmin, we wrote the book - and
    we'll make your packets crawl.






    in my career.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2020 13:28:55
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Thu Jul 30 2020 09:28 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Warpslide on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:45 pm

    There have been times I've been caught walking away with my
    computer unlocked. I've come back to some funny replies to email
    sent from my computer...

    sounds like you work at a weird place. we dont do that at my
    company.

    At the last place I worked, they had employee training for how to keep company information safe. One thing they recommended was always locking your laptop when you step away from it, even when you're in the company office, so that anyone who happened to walk by wouldn't be able to sneak onto your laptop and copy data off or do other nefarious things.

    There was a guy from another team I sometimes worked with, and if I stepped away without locking my laptop, he'd often joke about getting on my laptop and sending an awkward email to the company CEO.


    we have had lots of security training and our workstations lock after a few mins automatically... but still if you walk around you can see our computers that we juse to punch in. and they are in these industrial protective cases and the password is written right on the plexiglass.

    then at a bunch of other computers there's passwords written on a postit note.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2020 13:32:55
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Thu Jul 30 2020 09:30 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jul 30 2020 04:51 pm

    we had a guy who'd been at the company for 50 years. he could NOT
    help himself from clicking spam links. he knew fedex doesnt have a
    package for him. he knew they wouldnt know his work email address
    and contact him. still clicked it.

    twice he really fucked some stuff up and some of our stuff got
    crypto'd.

    I've worked at 2 places now that sometimes send phishing test emails to test us to see whether we'd click on links or report it as a phishing email. They'd also have training videos to show how to spot phishing emails.


    they did that to me and i just wrote fake info in.
    i wonder if it counted as a win for them.

    i think we fail every penetraton test.
    they are getting better at blocking sites and blocking spam emails.
    they a red banner if the email is from the outside now too.

    whats sad is we actually have customers who use aol addresses and dumb shit like that. it's mostly overseas people.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Friday, July 31, 2020 11:54:35
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Jul 31 2020 01:32 pm

    I've worked at 2 places now that sometimes send phishing test
    emails to test us to see whether we'd click on links or report it
    as a phishing email. They'd also have training videos to show how
    to spot phishing emails.

    they did that to me and i just wrote fake info in.
    i wonder if it counted as a win for them.

    At the company I worked at, if we just clicked on the links rather than immediately report it as suspected phishing, the system would count that as us failing the phishing test and we'd be required to watch their phishing training video.

    Nightfox

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2020 16:24:29
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 31 2020 09:22 am

    Unsolicited telemarketing & similar things annoy me. If I want something, likely I'll find out about it and research it myself before buying. Honestl there have been times where I'd just hang up on a telemarketer because I did want to waste my time talking about buying some random thing they're selling Or if my phone says it detects a potential telemarketer or scammer, sometime I'd answer my phone in German or Portuguese (which I've studied a bit) and pretend I don't speak English and don't understand them, and they'll usually hang up.

    Nightfox

    I usually just hang up. Time is precious. I'd rather not waste mine talking to telespammers when I can be doing something more interesting, like trimming my nails or something.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Friday, July 31, 2020 21:42:48
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Fri Jul 31 2020 04:24 pm

    Nightfox

    I usually just hang up. Time is precious. I'd rather not waste mine talking to telespammers when I can be doing something more interesting, like trimming my nails or something.

    just be nice because they are regular people. you are the one that probably got your number leaked anyways.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Friday, July 31, 2020 23:45:48
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Arelor on Fri Jul 31 2020 09:42 pm

    I usually just hang up. Time is precious. I'd rather not waste mine
    talking to telespammers when I can be doing something more
    interesting, like trimming my nails or something.

    just be nice because they are regular people. you are the one that probably got your number leaked anyways.

    What do you mean by "got your number leaked"? There always used to be phone books with peoples' phone numbers published in them, and now there are online versions of that. Your name and phone number are probably out there somewhere without you even doing anything.

    Nightfox

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Saturday, August 01, 2020 18:26:00
    On 07-31-20 09:22, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Unsolicited telemarketing & similar things annoy me. If I want
    something, likely I'll find out about it and research it myself before buying. Honestly there have been times where I'd just hang up on a telemarketer because I didn't want to waste my time talking about

    They often don't even get that far with me now. A dead line for more than a second is enough to trip my "spam radar" now, as they try and "call ahead" to save time. Similarly, any "robocaller" also gets dumped pretty quickly, unless I'm expecting a call from such a system.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, August 01, 2020 19:41:00
    On 07-31-20 08:22, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dreamer <=-

    It would have been a great class in the old days, with jumpers, IRQs,
    and I/O boards instead of having everything built-in to the
    motherboard.

    I miss those days. The fun was getting it all working properly, and the satisfaction of getting a bunch of cards to peacefully coexist was immense. :) Today's PCs are too easy - slap a mother board, SSD/HDD and power supply into the case, hook up a few wires and you're done - no working out what cards to put where, or set I/O and IRQ jumpers - the stuff that really demanded the technical knowledge. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, August 01, 2020 19:46:00
    On 07-31-20 09:34, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Moondog <=-

    He claimed the University wanted it back in a week, so, armed with a
    BSD/OS CD, O'Reilly's DNS and BIND book and a free weekend, I

    That's a must have book, though I need a new version, mine's around 20 years old. It's had plenty of use, but I also learnt how to run DNS servers from it.

    installed a new box, learned DNS from cover to cover, set up the new
    resolver, repointed all of the clients to it, added a few bells and
    whistles engineering guy hadn't thought of, and turned BIND off on
    the box.

    Cool! :)

    He told his boss, who was unaware that this was happening and
    concerned over downtime that he was sure the transition would be
    alright, since Kurt "Knows at least as much as I do about DNS."

    Probably the most passive-agressive non-compliment I've ever
    received.

    Oh dear. :/

    The deadline? Never happened. The box stayed on our network for
    months afterwards. I knew because I was running DNS and the network.
    I don't know how his network port was locked into 10 megabit,
    half-duplex, I must have been (spins the BOFH excuse wheel...) a
    firmware incompatibility with the network driver.

    Haha funny things happen to stupid people. Gotta hate that "firmware incompatibility". ;)

    Never go passive-agressive on a sysadmin, we wrote the book - and
    we'll make your packets crawl.

    ROFLMAO!!! :D

    ... Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor

    Not as silly as it sounds - that's the concept of an "anchor point" in firefighting. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Saturday, August 01, 2020 19:48:00
    On 07-31-20 11:54, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    At the company I worked at, if we just clicked on the links rather than immediately report it as suspected phishing, the system would count
    that as us failing the phishing test and we'd be required to watch
    their phishing training video.

    Clever. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Saturday, August 01, 2020 19:50:00
    On 07-31-20 23:45, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    What do you mean by "got your number leaked"? There always used to be phone books with peoples' phone numbers published in them, and now
    there are online versions of that. Your name and phone number are probably out there somewhere without you even doing anything.

    Yeah, when we had real POTS lines here, you had to be listed in the phone book, unless you paid extra to have a silent number. Telemarketers were always calling the number. But now that we're on VoIP, many numbers never make the phone book (or online equivalent), and the volume of telemarketing calls is much lower as a result.


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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:14:00
    On 01 Aug 2020, Vk3jed said the following...

    At the company I worked at, if we just clicked on the links rather th immediately report it as suspected phishing, the system would count that as us failing the phishing test and we'd be required to watch their phishing training video.

    Clever. ;)

    We have that set up at my work. You can choose all sorts of phishing
    templates that you think your users may fall for: O365 password reset
    emails, Canada Post Delivery, "HR Infraction", Bank messages among many
    others.

    One of the ones I sent out was a "Free McDonalds Breakfast" message, I was actually surprised at the number of people who clicked on that one.

    You can choose to send them all your users, or only a certain department, whether to send them all at once or stagger them over a period of time.

    You get a dashboard to see who clicked on what & whether they reported it as
    a phishing message.

    Jay

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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to Ennev on Saturday, August 01, 2020 06:09:00
    On 31 Jul 2020, Ennev said the following...

    Anyways, I would expect public school to teach students the basics of th things we use every day. The history of how we got here, and how to do s basic programming. Instead, the best I've heard from a student is "yeah, learned how to make a website in Dreamweaver".

    Will be a nice future will all theses uneducated people. Promising


    What do you mean, its all right there in the Apple-cloud, its on my iMac, iPhone and even my AppleTV.

    I don't need to know what a folder is.



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........
  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Saturday, August 01, 2020 12:08:32
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Jul 31 2020 11:45 pm


    What do you mean by "got your number leaked"? There always used to be phone books with peoples' phone numbers published in them, and now there are online versions of that. Your name and phone number are probably out there somewhere without you even doing anything.

    they dont get the numbers from the phonebooks. they never did. they are told to say that, though.

    when you buy something via mail order or whatever, the company sells your information and that is why you are getting those phone calls.

    also in my state the dmv sells your info unless you tell them not to.

    i was a 'fundraiser' / telemarketer for a year or so. hardest job i ever had. ---
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:01:00
    Vk3jed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    On 07-31-20 08:22, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dreamer <=-

    It would have been a great class in the old days, with jumpers, IRQs,
    and I/O boards instead of having everything built-in to the
    motherboard.

    I miss those days. The fun was getting it all working properly, and
    the satisfaction of getting a bunch of cards to peacefully coexist was immense. :)

    Exactly!

    I had serial mice from very early on - Logitech had a TSR that would
    let you define mouse actions per program, so you could make a
    non mouse-aware application mousable. I was hooked on making it work
    with my DOS apps.

    Then, I had an old Apple Laserwriter that only had serial and
    Appletalk interfaces.

    Add in a high-speed serial port for the modem, and a network card,
    and you've got IRQ hell.

    When I finally got everything working, I wrote them all down on a
    piece of paper and taped it inside of the case.

    You might appreciate this story:

    In the early 90s, I was working at the company that made After Dark,
    the screen saver. They had DOS, Windows and Mac versions at the time.

    We traded for tons of software and hardware, and built up a pretty
    impressive lab.

    Our QA lab manager at the time was ripe for some practical joking, so
    a audio engineer friend of mine went to his desk, took his sound card
    setup disks, and added a stutter to the test sounds.

    "Perperperperperforming iiiiiiiiiiiRQ Testttttttttttt"

    So, even when he got the IRQ and port right, it sounded wrong.

    We heard a stream of obscenities coming from the lab, apparently he'd
    been working for hours trying to get a card working...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rampage on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:22:00
    Rampage wrote to Underminer <=-

    i once had a client that was very big on backups... insisted on getting the latest (at that time) DAQ tape backup system... there were two problems, though... the first is no one in their organization changed
    the tapes and the second was they refused to buy another machine to
    test the restoration on... there was also kinda a third problem... they expected me to come out each day at the close of their business and do
    the tape swap but they didn't want to pay for the on-site trip and
    time...

    I worked in local government, and at one point we had something like
    7500 tapes at Iron Mountain. We didn't have a data retention policy,
    so everything had to be kept. We were in the process of moving that
    to a hybrid on-site/cloud storage, didn't wait around to see how that
    ended up.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Arelor on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:24:00
    Arelor wrote to Nightfox <=-

    I usually just hang up. Time is precious. I'd rather not waste mine talking to telespammers when I can be doing something more interesting, like trimming my nails or something.

    I've heard rumors to the extent that some of those shops pay by the
    call, and as long as they have you on the phone for >X number of
    seconds, they get paid.

    Staying on the line doesn't cost them anything materially any more,
    so providing incentive for their workers to find another career is
    the best option.




    ... "Proximity alert. Must be coming up on something."
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:30:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Yeah, when we had real POTS lines here, you had to be listed in the
    phone book, unless you paid extra to have a silent number.

    Paying them to do less work - genius marketing!

    An April Fool's article back in the 90's reported that Hollywood was
    running out of imaginary 555- numbers. The solution was to run an FX
    (Foreign Exchange) service to Hollywood, where other number exchanges
    could be used. There'd be a mileage charge for each imaginary number,
    however. They said that the Bells had experience charging for
    non-service, such as non-publish charges.

    About the same time, I moved to a new house; I convinced the Pacific
    Bell agent taking the order that Poindexter Fortran was my roommate
    and got the number listed under "his" name.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to paulie420 on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:32:00
    paulie420 wrote to Ennev <=-

    What do you mean, its all right there in the Apple-cloud, its on my
    iMac, iPhone and even my AppleTV.

    I don't need to know what a folder is.


    Gmail didn't help, either. e-mail management used to rely heavily on
    folders, now Gmail supports folders and labels, but the bulk of their
    mail management is to archive it and let search sort it out.

    Which, actually works pretty well.



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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, August 01, 2020 15:07:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Fri Jul 31 2020 09:34 am

    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    It is easy to assume engineers with multipler degrees and a PE license would be generally smart across the board,

    At one company I worked at, they always seemed to assume that since
    they knew what they knew so well, that they knew more than IT did.
    One VP of engineering only hired the best candidates from a handful
    of schools, and not a one of them worked well with others.

    I still remember one of them dropping in my lap a task to migrate DNS
    from a SUN workstation that was loaned to us from the local
    university - I think he was concerned that DNS was slowing down his
    work.

    He claimed the University wanted it back in a week, so, armed with a
    BSD/OS CD, O'Reilly's DNS and BIND book and a free weekend, I
    installed a new box, learned DNS from cover to cover, set up the new
    resolver, repointed all of the clients to it, added a few bells and
    whistles engineering guy hadn't thought of, and turned BIND off on
    the box.

    He told his boss, who was unaware that this was happening and
    concerned over downtime that he was sure the transition would be
    alright, since Kurt "Knows at least as much as I do about DNS."

    Probably the most passive-agressive non-compliment I've ever
    received.

    The deadline? Never happened. The box stayed on our network for
    months afterwards. I knew because I was running DNS and the network.
    I don't know how his network port was locked into 10 megabit,
    half-duplex, I must have been (spins the BOFH excuse wheel...) a
    firmware incompatibility with the network driver.

    Never go passive-agressive on a sysadmin, we wrote the book - and
    we'll make your packets crawl.






    in my career.

    ... Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor

    Never piss off someone who can replace you with a script

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Warpslide on Saturday, August 01, 2020 13:38:17
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Warpslide to Vk3jed on Sat Aug 01 2020 09:14 am

    We have that set up at my work. You can choose all sorts of phishing templates that you think your users may fall for: O365 password reset

    What are you using for click tracking, if you don't mind me asking? I have a few client offices that I should really do some compliance testing with in the near future.
    ---
    Underminer
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, July 31, 2020 16:29:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dreamer <=-

    Basic hardware concepts. I teach a class called introduction to pc operating systems. It has some computer literacy, but it's pretty much crammed in amongst heavier concepts.

    One of the best summer camps I sent my (then 15 year-old ) son
    to was a computer hardware camp. They learned all of the components,
    and built computers from the motherboard on up, learned about
    voltages, different types of memory, SATA versus SSD, and so on. Got a nice little toolkit in a vinyl zipper case.

    He was able to buy a new motherboard, memory, CPU and graphics
    card, and build a new system from scratch, then sell his old one to
    pay for it.

    It would have been a great class in the old days, with jumpers,
    IRQs, and I/O boards instead of having everything built-in to the motherboard.

    That's awesome. Didn't know such a thing existed. What I would
    have given to have attended that way back when. :-)



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 01, 2020 13:24:44
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Aug 01 2020 07:41 pm

    It would have been a great class in the old days, with jumpers,
    IRQs, and I/O boards instead of having everything built-in to the
    motherboard.

    I miss those days. The fun was getting it all working properly, and the satisfaction of getting a bunch of cards to peacefully coexist was immense. :) Today's PCs are too easy - slap a mother board, SSD/HDD and power supply into the case, hook up a few wires and you're done - no working out what cards to put where, or set I/O and IRQ jumpers - the stuff that really demanded the technical knowledge. :)

    Occasionally I'd run into an issue where a card would have a fairly limited selection of IRQs, so you'd have to figure out if you can shuffle IRQs on other cards so you could use all the cards together. But I kinda miss those days too. These days, I've noticed that many PC cases don't even have any external-facing drive bays for things like internal card readers, optical drives, etc.. I still like to use optical discs sometimes (at least for ripping music and movies), and I also like having an internal card reader in my PC to make it easier to copy photos from my camera. I suppose you could use external USB versions of those things though.. But when building a PC these days, as you said, you don't need to mess with I/O and IRQ settings. And one might not even be apt to put in an optical drive or a card reader, etc.

    There are some other cool things you could put in a 3.5" or 5.25" drive bay, such as a readout to show CPU & system temperature, etc.. Also, in the past, there were other things such as a front audio panel for a 5.25" drive bay that was included with the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to paulie420 on Saturday, August 01, 2020 13:27:26
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: paulie420 to Ennev on Sat Aug 01 2020 06:09 am

    What do you mean, its all right there in the Apple-cloud, its on my iMac, iPhone and even my AppleTV.

    I don't need to know what a folder is.

    If you open the photo gallery, all the places you organize photos into are folders on your storage. It's not rocket science..

    Nightfox

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Underminer on Saturday, August 01, 2020 18:28:00
    On 01 Aug 2020, Underminer said the following...

    What are you using for click tracking, if you don't mind me asking? I have
    client offices that I should really do some compliance testing with in th
    future.

    It's an add-on to our ProofPoint subscription. They purchased a company
    called Wombat and rolled it into their ProofPoint Security Awareness package.

    Part of the same package also allows you to put a "document" on a USB key and get notified when it's opened. It's actually called "whatever_you_want.xls.exe" and will send back the currently logged in username, IP address, etc.

    I made a bunch of these and laid them around the facility with a file called "company_payroll_2018.xls.exe" - One person did end up opening it & we got a notification.

    When the user opens it they get a "Woops! You fell for a phish!" message. Shortly after the notification arrived the user came walking in with his tail between his legs, USB key in hand. LOL

    Jay

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Gamgee on Saturday, August 01, 2020 17:48:37
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Gamgee to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jul 31 2020 04:29 pm

    That's awesome. Didn't know such a thing existed. What I would
    have given to have attended that way back when. :-)

    In high school I built my own first computer to modernize from the Atari 8-bit I inherited from my father when he moved up to the XE line, I had this book out pretty much permanently from the library for a couple months in order to familiarize myself with the ins and outs of PC hardware. I remember it being a pretty thorough resource:

    https://www.amazon.ca/Build-Your-386Sx-Compatible-Bundle/dp/0830637508
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, August 01, 2020 20:30:11
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sat Aug 01 2020 09:24 am

    I've heard rumors to the extent that some of those shops pay by the
    call, and as long as they have you on the phone for >X number of
    seconds, they get paid.

    no they dont pay by the call. they pay by results.
    they dont get paid by the amount of the time on the phone.

    Staying on the line doesn't cost them anything materially any more,
    so providing incentive for their workers to find another career is
    the best option.

    all you have to do is ask them to take you off their list. they are a person doing their job.
    ---
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Underminer on Saturday, August 01, 2020 22:00:00
    Underminer wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Gamgee to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jul 31 2020 04:29 pm

    That's awesome. Didn't know such a thing existed. What I would
    have given to have attended that way back when. :-)

    In high school I built my own first computer to modernize from
    the Atari 8-bit I inherited from my father when he moved up to
    the XE line, I had this book out pretty much permanently from the
    library for a couple months in order to familiarize myself with
    the ins and outs of PC hardware. I remember it being a pretty
    thorough resource:

    https://www.amazon.ca/Build-Your-386Sx-Compatible-Bundle/dp/0830637508

    That's very cool. I may have seen that book too, back around that
    time frame. A lot of knowledge back in those days was gained by
    trial and error, and word of mouth between like-minded folks. I
    built and tinkered with a lot of hardware in that era. Great
    times.



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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Gamgee on Sunday, August 02, 2020 00:29:10
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Gamgee to Underminer on Sat Aug 01 2020 10:00 pm

    That's very cool. I may have seen that book too, back around that
    time frame. A lot of knowledge back in those days was gained by
    trial and error, and word of mouth between like-minded folks. I
    built and tinkered with a lot of hardware in that era. Great
    times.

    Oh yeah, everything was word of mouth in the schoolyard until I got ahold of a 2400 baud modem at the yearly rummage fair at the College campus that year. Connected to my first BBS, and that hooked me.
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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Warpslide on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:07:00
    On 08-01-20 09:14, Warpslide wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    We have that set up at my work. You can choose all sorts of phishing templates that you think your users may fall for: O365 password reset emails, Canada Post Delivery, "HR Infraction", Bank messages among many others.

    Cool, what a great way to pick out the suckers who need training. :)

    One of the ones I sent out was a "Free McDonalds Breakfast" message, I
    was actually surprised at the number of people who clicked on that one.

    Haha, lots of Maccas fans. :D

    You can choose to send them all your users, or only a certain
    department, whether to send them all at once or stagger them over a
    period of time.

    You get a dashboard to see who clicked on what & whether they reported
    it as a phishing message.

    Pretty neat system. And does it record those of us who simply delete it? :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:12:00
    On 08-01-20 09:01, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I miss those days. The fun was getting it all working properly, and
    the satisfaction of getting a bunch of cards to peacefully coexist was immense. :)

    Exactly!

    I had serial mice from very early on - Logitech had a TSR that would
    let you define mouse actions per program, so you could make a
    non mouse-aware application mousable. I was hooked on making it work
    with my DOS apps.

    There was another mouse TSR that gave some mouse functionality on DOS. I quickly switched to PS/2 mice when I could - that freed up a serial port. ;)


    Then, I had an old Apple Laserwriter that only had serial and
    Appletalk interfaces.

    Add in a high-speed serial port for the modem, and a network card,
    and you've got IRQ hell.

    LOL I had a PC with a soundcard, multiple serial ports and a network card. There's 5-7 IRQs that need a home! ;)

    When I finally got everything working, I wrote them all down on a
    piece of paper and taped it inside of the case.

    LOL cool. ;)

    You might appreciate this story:

    In the early 90s, I was working at the company that made After Dark,
    the screen saver. They had DOS, Windows and Mac versions at the time.

    We traded for tons of software and hardware, and built up a pretty
    impressive lab.

    Our QA lab manager at the time was ripe for some practical joking, so
    a audio engineer friend of mine went to his desk, took his sound card
    setup disks, and added a stutter to the test sounds.

    "Perperperperperforming iiiiiiiiiiiRQ Testttttttttttt"

    So, even when he got the IRQ and port right, it sounded wrong.

    We heard a stream of obscenities coming from the lab, apparently he'd
    been working for hours trying to get a card working...

    Hahaha, that's a classic! :D





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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:14:00
    On 08-01-20 09:30, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/REALITY
    Vk3jed wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Yeah, when we had real POTS lines here, you had to be listed in the
    phone book, unless you paid extra to have a silent number.

    Paying them to do less work - genius marketing!

    The days of the monopoly, initially government owned, then privatised. :)

    An April Fool's article back in the 90's reported that Hollywood was
    running out of imaginary 555- numbers. The solution was to run an FX
    (Foreign Exchange) service to Hollywood, where other number exchanges
    could be used. There'd be a mileage charge for each imaginary number,
    however. They said that the Bells had experience charging for
    non-service, such as non-publish charges.

    Haha I'm sure I've heard about that somewhere online. :)

    About the same time, I moved to a new house; I convinced the Pacific
    Bell agent taking the order that Poindexter Fortran was my roommate
    and got the number listed under "his" name.

    Cute. :D


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:18:00
    On 08-01-20 13:24, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Occasionally I'd run into an issue where a card would have a fairly limited selection of IRQs, so you'd have to figure out if you can
    shuffle IRQs on other cards so you could use all the cards together.

    I went one better, and have hardwired IRQ lines by cutting the PCB tracks and soldering jumpers to the IRQs I wanted to use. Had a serial board configured for COM3 and COM4 with different IRQs done that way in my PC for years. The card only offered the standard IRQ4/IRQ3 options, which weren't viable, because COM1 and COM2 were already using those. :)

    But I kinda miss those days too. These days, I've noticed that many PC cases don't even have any external-facing drive bays for things like internal card readers, optical drives, etc.. I still like to use
    optical discs sometimes (at least for ripping music and movies), and I also like having an internal card reader in my PC to make it easier to copy photos from my camera. I suppose you could use external USB
    versions of those things though.. But when building a PC these days,
    as you said, you don't need to mess with I/O and IRQ settings. And one might not even be apt to put in an optical drive or a card reader, etc.

    Yeah, just go with a USB one nowadays.

    There are some other cool things you could put in a 3.5" or 5.25" drive bay, such as a readout to show CPU & system temperature, etc.. Also,
    in the past, there were other things such as a front audio panel for a 5.25" drive bay that was included with the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
    sound card.

    Yeah, there were all sorts of things for a drive bay. Today's computers are nice, but a little boring in some ways. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to MRO on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:48:00
    On 08-01-20 20:30, MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    all you have to do is ask them to take you off their list. they are a person doing their job.

    Doesn't always work, there's dodgy ones who are basically spammers, who won't listen, and they're generally based offshore. Reputable local companies will generally take you off their list, if you ask.


    ... And then there was the guy who stuffed Corn Flakes in the serial port.
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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Sunday, August 02, 2020 21:54:00
    On 08-01-20 22:00, Gamgee wrote to Underminer <=-

    That's very cool. I may have seen that book too, back around that
    time frame. A lot of knowledge back in those days was gained by
    trial and error, and word of mouth between like-minded folks. I
    built and tinkered with a lot of hardware in that era. Great
    times.

    They were great times. I'm self taught from that era. Trial and error, and reading whatever I could - books, downloads from BBSs, and later, the web. I built my first PC in 1991 - an XT clone, and I didn't buy one until 2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)


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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to Nightfox on Sunday, August 02, 2020 07:53:00
    On 01 Aug 2020, Nightfox said the following...

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: paulie420 to Ennev on Sat Aug 01 2020 06:09 am

    What do you mean, its all right there in the Apple-cloud, its on my i iPhone and even my AppleTV.

    I don't need to know what a folder is.

    If you open the photo gallery, all the places you organize photos into
    are folde rs on your storage. It's not rocket science..

    Nightfox

    :P NF. I know that; but the kids these days don't think they need to know
    that. Lol.



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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 02, 2020 14:16:00
    On 02 Aug 2020, Vk3jed said the following...

    Pretty neat system. And does it record those of us who simply delete it?

    The usual entries I see are "Received", "Opened", "Clicked" or "Reported".

    Those that simply delete the message come up as "Received".

    Jay

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Sunday, August 02, 2020 12:36:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sat Aug 01 2020 01:24 pm



    Occasionally I'd run into an issue where a card would have a fairly limited
    noticed that many PC cases don't even have any external-facing drive bays f al card reader in my PC to make it easier to copy photos from my camera. I ight not even be apt to put in an optical drive or a card reader, etc.

    There are some other cool things you could put in a 3.5" or 5.25" drive bay, e Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card.

    Nightfox

    When I put an network card in my Portable II (8mhz 286) I had to remember XT systems and AT used different address ranges for peripherals, and it was possible to run out of hardware address on an XT machine. Luckily it shipped with the multi-IO card with the serial parallel, and floppy and hard drive controllers all on one card.

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 02, 2020 13:52:16
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Sun Aug 02 2020 09:54 pm

    2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233.
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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 02, 2020 13:58:47
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Sun Aug 02 2020 09:54 pm

    2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233, though it by far spent the longest time as a 486 dx2 66
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 02, 2020 15:12:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    That's very cool. I may have seen that book too, back around that
    time frame. A lot of knowledge back in those days was gained by
    trial and error, and word of mouth between like-minded folks. I
    built and tinkered with a lot of hardware in that era. Great
    times.

    They were great times. I'm self taught from that era. Trial and
    error, and reading whatever I could - books, downloads from BBSs,
    and later, the web. I built my first PC in 1991 - an XT clone,
    and I didn't buy one until 2003. My original PC evolved through
    a series of upgrades from the XT to a low end Pentium, in stages,
    over the years. :)

    I followed very similar steps. A new CPU here, a new (16550) UART
    there... eventually need a new motherboard. RAM was never a big
    issue, not sure I ever had more than 4MB in the DOS days. Video
    cards were critical after Doom/Duke came out, and sound cards too.
    It really was fun trying to get it all to work together.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Underminer on Sunday, August 02, 2020 15:09:32
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Underminer to Vk3jed on Sun Aug 02 2020 01:52 pm

    2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the
    XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233.

    If you upgrade enough components over the years, including the case and everything, you'd end up with a totally different PC than what you started with.
    I upgraded my PC sometimes, but sometimes I felt like it was best to build a whole new PC and sell my old one to someone who could use it. For instance, if you want to upgrade to a new CPU, you'll also probably have to buy a new motherboard to support it, which in turn would need newer/faster RAM, etc., etc., and you might as well just buy everything new anyway.

    Nightfox

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Warpslide on Monday, August 03, 2020 18:38:00
    On 08-02-20 14:16, Warpslide wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/NRBBS
    On 02 Aug 2020, Vk3jed said the following...

    Pretty neat system. And does it record those of us who simply delete it?

    The usual entries I see are "Received", "Opened", "Clicked" or
    "Reported".

    Those that simply delete the message come up as "Received".

    Ahh OK, I was curious. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Underminer on Monday, August 03, 2020 18:40:00
    On 08-02-20 13:52, Underminer wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/UNDRMINE
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Sun Aug 02 2020 09:54 pm

    2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233.

    Yeah, the fun. I think my XT ended up as a P90. I know I had a 200 MHz machine of some sort, before I bought the Athlon in 2003.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Underminer on Monday, August 03, 2020 18:46:00
    On 08-02-20 13:58, Underminer wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233,
    though it by far spent the longest time as a 486 dx2 66 ---

    Cool. I'm not sure what my evolving machine spent most of its life as, probably a fairly even spread, because it did evolve through every processor generation. From memory, it went something like:

    XT (4.77 MHz 8088), 206, 306SX40, 408SX33, 408DX-66, 406DX4-100, P90. After that, things got confusing, as I had a second machine operating with slightly higher specs. From 2003 onwards, I tended to buy systems from a local computer store, usually with minor additions like a video upgrade, which I installed myself, if they were going to charge labour. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Monday, August 03, 2020 18:52:00
    On 08-02-20 15:12, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I followed very similar steps. A new CPU here, a new (16550) UART there... eventually need a new motherboard. RAM was never a big
    issue, not sure I ever had more than 4MB in the DOS days. Video

    RAM often was an issue for me, especially once I discovered DESQview. And that showed me the different between on board RAM and expansion cards, which even on a 386 were poles apart in performance. Back then, I had 2MB RAM on the mother board, and another 2BM on a card, which I configured as extended memory (and let the 306's MMU sort things out). When multitasking on DV, I could tell when I went past the 2MB limit - additional sessions were rather sluggish. :)

    cards were critical after Doom/Duke came out, and sound cards too.
    It really was fun trying to get it all to work together.

    Cideo cards were never critical for me, until I needed VGA and HDMI out together. Today, a better GPU is going to be of more use for its computational power than graphics rendering. In case you didn't already know, I'm not a gamer. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Monday, August 03, 2020 19:03:00
    On 08-02-20 15:09, Nightfox wrote to Underminer <=-

    If you upgrade enough components over the years, including the case and everything, you'd end up with a totally different PC than what you
    started with. I upgraded my PC sometimes, but sometimes I felt like it
    was best to build a whole new PC and sell my old one to someone who
    could use it. For instance, if you want to upgrade to a new CPU,
    you'll also probably have to buy a new motherboard to support it, which
    in turn would need newer/faster RAM, etc., etc., and you might as well just buy everything new anyway.

    In the old days, you had a bunch of cards you wanted to keep, so you could replace the motherboard/RAM and swap the cards across. Today, you swap the motherboard/RAM, and there's nothing else left, so yes, now it's definitely new PC time. :)


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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Rampage on Monday, August 03, 2020 10:36:21
    Ennev> Will be a nice future will all theses uneducated people. Promising

    sounds like Idiocracy...

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Monday, August 03, 2020 09:29:52
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Mon Aug 03 2020 06:52 pm

    Cideo cards were never critical for me, until I needed VGA and HDMI out together. Today, a better GPU is going to be of more use for its computational power than graphics rendering. In case you didn't already know, I'm not a gamer. :)

    Graphics cards these days can actually be fairly useful for general-purpose computing. There are more and more applications these days that can make use of a graphics card for computing, such as photo & video editing, distributed computing, and others. And GPU processing can often be much faster than CPU processing because GPUs these days have so many more cores than CPUs. It's common for a GPU to have around 1500, 2000, or more cores, whereas an average desktop CPU might have 8, 16, 24, or more cores/threads available. One thing though is that I think GPUs tend to be good at floating-point math, whereas I think CPUs tend to be better for integer math.

    Nightfox

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Monday, August 03, 2020 09:58:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Underminer on Sun Aug 02 2020 03:09 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Underminer to Vk3jed on Sun Aug 02 2020 01:52 pm

    2003. My original PC evolved through a series of upgrades from the
    XT to a low end Pentium, in stages, over the years. :)

    Funny how that works. I had a 386 dx40 that ended life as a K6-233.

    If you upgrade enough components over the years, including the case and ever I upgraded my PC sometimes, but sometimes I felt like it was best to build a t, which in turn would need newer/faster RAM, etc., etc., and you might as w

    Nightfox


    Iwent through a series fo upgrades for my first pc, a 486 DX33, however after that technology was moving fast enough in the early Pentium years it was just as easy to build or replace a 2 year old computer completely. My 486 was new back in 1990, and by 1995 it was running a DX2/66 cpu and sound blaster cd combo. The pc that replaced it was a P166.

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Vk3jed on Monday, August 03, 2020 18:06:19
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 07:03 pm

    If you upgrade enough components over the years, including the case
    and everything, you'd end up with a totally different PC than what
    you started with. I upgraded my PC sometimes, but sometimes I felt
    In the old days, you had a bunch of cards you wanted to keep, so you could replace the motherboard/RAM and swap the cards across. Today, you swap the

    Yup, when I was going through generations it was always a case of changing out a part or two at a time until I went from the k6 to the k6-2. At that point everything was ATX and an AT case and power supply wouldn't cut it, and you really wanted to go AGP for video instead of PCI, ram was incompatible, etc etc, so it was the first time I needed to build an entire system to upgrade. In the years since then that's become the norm.
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Monday, August 03, 2020 19:16:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Mon Aug 03 2020 09:29 am

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Mon Aug 03 2020 06:52 pm

    Cideo cards were never critical for me, until I needed VGA and HDMI out together. Today, a better GPU is going to be of more use for its computational power than graphics rendering. In case you didn't already know, I'm not a gamer. :)

    Graphics cards these days can actually be fairly useful for general-purpose
    And GPU processing can often be much faster than CPU processing because GPU s/threads available. One thing though is that I think GPUs tend to be good

    Nightfox


    Other than crypto currency, do any other applications use the extra number crunching power of GPU's for things other than graphics? it would make
    sense, but I've never heard any applications named before.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Monday, August 03, 2020 19:03:07
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 07:16 pm

    Graphics cards these days can actually be fairly useful for
    general-purpose And GPU processing can often be much faster than CPU
    processing because GPU s/threads available. One thing though is that
    I think GPUs tend to be good

    Other than crypto currency, do any other applications use the extra number crunching power of GPU's for things other than graphics? it would make sense, but I've never heard any applications named before.

    Yeah. A few that I know of:
    - Distributed computing with BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing): There are projects you can join that can use your computer's computing power for projects like cancer research & other heatlh projects, SETI@Home (which I've heard has shut down now), and other projects. Some of those computing programs can make use of a GPU
    - Video & photo editing:
    - Topaz Labs makes AI-based software for things like photo enlarging, video upscaling, de-noise, etc., and those can make use of a GPU. Examples are their Gigapixel software and Video Enhance AI
    - Lightroom
    - I seem to remember seeing Nikon's Digital Photo Professional photo editing software using the GPU on my PC
    - AI: GPUs have AI engines that can be used for software that need AI

    Also, Nvidia has a computing library called CUDA that software developers can use to make use of Nvidia grapics cards for floating-point math.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Moondog on Monday, August 03, 2020 20:47:13
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 07:16 pm

    Other than crypto currency, do any other applications use the extra number crunching power of GPU's for things other than graphics? it would make sense, but I've never heard any applications named before.

    Absolutely: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Monday, August 03, 2020 07:54:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I followed very similar steps. A new CPU here, a new (16550) UART there... eventually need a new motherboard. RAM was never a big
    issue, not sure I ever had more than 4MB in the DOS days. Video

    RAM often was an issue for me, especially once I discovered
    DESQview. And that showed me the different between on board RAM
    and expansion cards, which even on a 386 were poles apart in
    performance. Back then, I had 2MB RAM on the mother board, and
    another 2BM on a card, which I configured as extended memory (and
    let the 306's MMU sort things out). When multitasking on DV, I
    could tell when I went past the 2MB limit - additional sessions
    were rather sluggish. :)

    I never did much with DV, but did use various memory managers such
    as QEMM. It was an art to fiddle with the loading order and stuff
    like "loadhigh" to squeeze every bit of stuff (drivers, TSR's)
    into upper memory to conserve that precious bottom 640K. :-)

    cards were critical after Doom/Duke came out, and sound cards too.
    It really was fun trying to get it all to work together.

    Cideo cards were never critical for me, until I needed VGA and
    HDMI out together. Today, a better GPU is going to be of more
    use for its computational power than graphics rendering. In case
    you didn't already know, I'm not a gamer. :)

    I'm not much of a gamer now, but certainly was back then. Video
    cards made a HUGE difference in gaming performance then (as they
    do now, but it seemed more important then with the limited
    horsepower of the CPU's).

    We can do so much more these days with hardware and software
    advances, and mostly it's pretty easy. I still look back at my
    DOS years, roughly 1986 - 1996, before the internet but at the
    peak of BBS'ing, as the best period of my computer life. The
    feeling of success after fighting with drivers/configs, finally
    getting the complicated batch file to do what you wanted it to do,
    getting the IRQ's and jumpers set properly, attaching a SCSI
    multi-disc CDROM to the computer, mailers such as FrontDoor, and
    DOS BBS's were the Golden Age to me. :-)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 20:27:00
    On 08-03-20 09:29, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Graphics cards these days can actually be fairly useful for general-purpose computing. There are more and more applications these days that can make use of a graphics card for computing, such as photo

    Yes, that's far more interesting to me. :)

    that I think GPUs tend to be good at floating-point math, whereas I
    think CPUs tend to be better for integer math.

    I thought GPUs were better at integet math, but I could be wrong. Whatever they're better at, they run rings around the CPU. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Underminer on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 20:28:00
    On 08-03-20 18:06, Underminer wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yup, when I was going through generations it was always a case of
    changing out a part or two at a time until I went from the k6 to the
    k6-2. At that point everything was ATX and an AT case and power supply wouldn't cut it, and you really wanted to go AGP for video instead of
    PCI, ram was incompatible, etc etc, so it was the first time I needed
    to build an entire system to upgrade. In the years since then that's become the norm. ---

    Yes, for me, the switch to ATX was about when I went from incremental upgrades to complete new systems.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 20:35:00
    On 08-03-20 07:54, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I never did much with DV, but did use various memory managers such
    as QEMM. It was an art to fiddle with the loading order and stuff
    like "loadhigh" to squeeze every bit of stuff (drivers, TSR's)
    into upper memory to conserve that precious bottom 640K. :-)

    QEMM was awesome. My best result was around 720k conventional, IIRC. QEMM and running in CGA mode allowed one to do that. :)

    I'm not much of a gamer now, but certainly was back then. Video
    cards made a HUGE difference in gaming performance then (as they
    do now, but it seemed more important then with the limited
    horsepower of the CPU's).

    Yeah, my idea of "playing games" requires power of a different kind, and countless hours on the track and in the gym to make that possible. But I did demonstrate that power tonight to the young guys, when we were running with apeed parachutes into the wind. With the added load, I left kids behind who would normally beat me. ;)

    We can do so much more these days with hardware and software
    advances, and mostly it's pretty easy. I still look back at my
    DOS years, roughly 1986 - 1996, before the internet but at the
    peak of BBS'ing, as the best period of my computer life. The
    feeling of success after fighting with drivers/configs, finally
    getting the complicated batch file to do what you wanted it to do,
    getting the IRQ's and jumpers set properly, attaching a SCSI
    multi-disc CDROM to the computer, mailers such as FrontDoor, and
    DOS BBS's were the Golden Age to me. :-)

    Yes, those were very satisfying times to be doing computers. I loved that tinkering myself. Today, it seems software is where it's at, whatever your interest is. I'm loving technology such as software defined radio. :)


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Moondog on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 06:41:28
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 07:16 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Mon Aug 03 2020 09:29 am

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Gamgee on Mon Aug 03 2020 06:52 pm

    Cideo cards were never critical for me, until I needed VGA and HDMI together. Today, a better GPU is going to be of more use for its computational power than graphics rendering. In case you didn't alre know, I'm not a gamer. :)

    Graphics cards these days can actually be fairly useful for general-purpo
    And GPU processing can often be much faster than CPU processing because s/threads available. One thing though is that I think GPUs tend to be go

    Nightfox


    Other than crypto currency, do any other applications use the extra number crunching power of GPU's for things other than graphics? it would make sense, but I've never heard any applications named before.


    Password cracking is the first thing that comes to mind.

    Also a data center at my old college rented GPUs for weather simulations and such.


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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Moondog on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 11:19:00
    On 03 Aug 2020, Moondog said the following...

    Other than crypto currency, do any other applications use the extra number crunching power of GPU's for things other than graphics? it would make sense, but I've never heard any applications named before.

    Password cracking tools such as hashcat or aircrack-ng can take advantage of GPU's.

    It also looks like the Folding@home project also uses your GPU for helping fight covid:

    https://foldingathome.org/home/

    Jay

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Gamgee on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 10:50:00
    I never did much with DV, but did use various memory managers such
    as QEMM. It was an art to fiddle with the loading order and stuff
    like "loadhigh" to squeeze every bit of stuff (drivers, TSR's)
    into upper memory to conserve that precious bottom 640K. :-)

    I did quite a bit with DV and QEMM under DOS 5.0 -- at the time,
    I was running GT Power for dial-up, and as one of my connects noted,
    "DV was the bomb!!". :) Unfortunately, both Quarterdeck (that made
    DESQview and QEMM) and TeleGraphix (which pioneered RIP Graphics) are
    both long since out of business.

    One former local Sysop quipped at a gathering of users and Sysops
    years ago that "I thought RIP was what you did to a f@r+". <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 10:52:00
    Tony,

    QEMM was awesome. My best result was around 720k conventional, IIRC.
    QEMM and running in CGA mode allowed one to do that. :)

    I always got a kick out of the optimizing options with QEMM. :)

    Yes, those were very satisfying times to be doing computers. I loved
    that tinkering myself. Today, it seems software is where it's at, whatever your interest is. I'm loving technology such as software
    defined radio. :)

    But, SDR has another acronym -- Spousally Declined Radio. <G>

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Underminer on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 10:37:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Underminer to Vk3jed on Mon Aug 03 2020 06:06 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 07:03 pm

    If you upgrade enough components over the years, including the case
    and everything, you'd end up with a totally different PC than what
    you started with. I upgraded my PC sometimes, but sometimes I felt
    In the old days, you had a bunch of cards you wanted to keep, so you co replace the motherboard/RAM and swap the cards across. Today, you swap

    Yup, when I was going through generations it was always a case of changing o
    for video instead of PCI, ram was incompatible, etc etc, so it was the firs

    Same here. It's easier to give away or re-purpose an older pc in a case.
    Back in the late 90's and early 2000's technology was neary doubling itself every 18 months, so a new pc would either have twice the cpu speed or close
    to twice the processing power of a pc built 2 years earlier.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 16:59:21
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Underminer on Tue Aug 04 2020 10:37 am

    Back in the late 90's and early 2000's technology was neary doubling itself every 18 months, so a new pc would either have twice the cpu speed or close to twice the processing power of a pc built 2 years earlier.

    Doubling every 18 months was Moore's Law.. Some say it's still true (especially Intel), but some people say processors aren't progressing as fast
    as that anymore.

    Nightfox

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Nightfox on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 22:32:00
    On 04 Aug 2020, Nightfox said the following...

    Doubling every 18 months was Moore's Law.. Some say it's still true (espe
    Intel), but some people say processors aren't progressing as fast
    as that anymore.

    I seem to remember the leap from 3GHz to 4GHz taking quite some time, though I'm tired and can't recall the reasons off the top of my head...

    Jay

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 15:24:00
    On 08-04-20 10:52, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/TBOLT
    Tony,

    QEMM was awesome. My best result was around 720k conventional, IIRC.
    QEMM and running in CGA mode allowed one to do that. :)

    I always got a kick out of the optimizing options with QEMM. :)

    WEMM was awesome.

    Yes, those were very satisfying times to be doing computers. I loved
    that tinkering myself. Today, it seems software is where it's at, whatever your interest is. I'm loving technology such as software
    defined radio. :)

    But, SDR has another acronym -- Spousally Declined Radio. <G>

    I don't have that problem. :P


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 22:40:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Tue Aug 04 2020 04:59 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Underminer on Tue Aug 04 2020 10:37 am

    Back in the late 90's and early 2000's technology was neary doubling itself every 18 months, so a new pc would either have twice the cpu spe or close to twice the processing power of a pc built 2 years earlier.

    Doubling every 18 months was Moore's Law.. Some say it's still true (especi as that anymore.

    Nightfox


    Moore's law had to do with transistor integration, however the rule had been adopted for processing power. I think the time has stretched out to more
    than 18 months. Instead of clock speed, the solution is to add more cores.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Monday, August 03, 2020 10:27:00
    Vk3jed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I had serial mice from very early on - Logitech had a TSR that would
    let you define mouse actions per program, so you could make a
    non mouse-aware application mousable. I was hooked on making it work
    with my DOS apps.

    There was another mouse TSR that gave some mouse functionality on DOS.
    I quickly switched to PS/2 mice when I could - that freed up a serial port. ;)

    Oh, then there were bus mice and CD-ROM drives with proprietary
    cards...And, when work gave me a DDS-2 DAT drive, an Adaptec 1541
    SCSI card...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Monday, August 03, 2020 19:13:00
    Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-

    When I put an network card in my Portable II (8mhz 286) I had to
    remember XT systems and AT used different address ranges for
    peripherals,

    I had a chance to buy one of those plasma-screen 286 portables to
    replace my old XT portable from way back when. I should have gotten
    it.

    My college next-door neighbor had one with a 287, and it screamed
    compared to my poor ol' XT.

    x

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Monday, August 03, 2020 19:16:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Underminer <=-

    Yeah, the fun. I think my XT ended up as a P90. I know I had a 200
    MHz machine of some sort, before I bought the Athlon in 2003.

    As a sysop, you always had trickle-down hardware. My BBS started off
    as a clone 286 in an AT-style case, then a 386SX/16, then a 386/40,
    then a 486SX, as my desktop computer shed parts.

    Then, I ended up inheriting a 486 server-class box with 16 MB of RAM
    and SCSI drives, and I could run the BBS on my desktop without it
    breaking a sweat, and I halved my computer count.




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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Warpslide on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 08:35:08
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Warpslide to Nightfox on Tue Aug 04 2020 10:32 pm

    Doubling every 18 months was Moore's Law.. Some say it's still true
    (espe Intel), but some people say processors aren't progressing as
    fast as that anymore.

    I seem to remember the leap from 3GHz to 4GHz taking quite some time, though I'm tired and can't recall the reasons off the top of my head...

    Moore's Law was more about the number of transistors on a chip doubling every 18 months or so. Chip speed is another thing..

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 08:36:38
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Tue Aug 04 2020 10:40 pm

    Moore's law had to do with transistor integration, however the rule had been adopted for processing power. I think the time has stretched out to more than 18 months. Instead of clock speed, the solution is to add more cores.

    Yep.
    I've heard some workloads are still better as single-threaded tasks, but more cores certainly helps with multi-threaded workloads and running many applications at a time.

    Nightfox

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Warpslide on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 15:42:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Warpslide to Nightfox on Tue Aug 04 2020 10:32 pm

    On 04 Aug 2020, Nightfox said the following...

    Doubling every 18 months was Moore's Law.. Some say it's still true (e
    Intel), but some people say processors aren't progressing as fast
    as that anymore.

    I seem to remember the leap from 3GHz to 4GHz taking quite some time, though I'm tired and can't recall the reasons off the top of my head...

    Jay


    Most likely it's a speed limit or internal connection limitation, hence the movement towards expanding outward with more cores and threads. It may be restriction on the technology.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 15:16:00
    Tony,

    I always got a kick out of the optimizing options with QEMM. :)

    WEMM was awesome.

    WEMM?? Is that the Austrailian version?? <G>

    Or are you suffering from fat finger syndrome, as I am?? But, without
    fat fingers, how do you pick up the food, and the silverware?? <G>

    But, SDR has another acronym -- Spousally Declined Radio. <G>

    I don't have that problem. :P

    At present, I don't either. <G>

    Or "Do You, Ham, Take Radio, To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Spouse??" <G>.

    Or the following from "The Honeymoon And More, after Ham And Radio
    Were United In Holy Telephony...we have this verifed from a trusted
    group of "Official Observers" (hi hi).

    After turning down the lights, and putting on some soft JT-65 music,
    ham and radio assumed positions of horizontal and vertical polarization,
    as they intimately got to know each other...because he wanted to work
    Up Her Sideband, and Zero Beat Her Frequencies. But, they had to be
    careful not to put the wedding gifts of Morse Code keyers where they'd
    sleep. Otherwise, they'd become infested with bedbugs, and that would
    be a real pain in the brass.

    Yes, I have too much time on my hands...and more of a QWK Packet
    to read (hi hi).

    For those who want "the rest of the story", point your web browser
    to https://www.theweatherwonder.com/elk.htm -- and look for the file
    "The Triple Play".

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, August 06, 2020 19:17:00
    On 08-03-20 10:27, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Oh, then there were bus mice and CD-ROM drives with proprietary
    cards...And, when work gave me a DDS-2 DAT drive, an Adaptec 1541
    SCSI card...

    Yep, I remember those too. I was actually using quite a bit of Adaptec SCSI stuff at work. Didn't see too many of the proprietary CD drives myself.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, August 06, 2020 19:21:00
    On 08-03-20 19:16, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    As a sysop, you always had trickle-down hardware. My BBS started off
    as a clone 286 in an AT-style case, then a 386SX/16, then a 386/40,
    then a 486SX, as my desktop computer shed parts.

    My parts came from all sorts of places - friends, fellow BBS enthusiasts and hams, flea markets, computer swap meets, you name it. :)

    Then, I ended up inheriting a 486 server-class box with 16 MB of RAM
    and SCSI drives, and I could run the BBS on my desktop without it
    breaking a sweat, and I halved my computer count.

    Nice one. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Thursday, August 06, 2020 19:34:00
    On 08-05-20 15:16, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/TBOLT
    Tony,

    I always got a kick out of the optimizing options with QEMM. :)

    WEMM was awesome.

    WEMM?? Is that the Austrailian version?? <G>

    LOL the fat fingered version. :D

    But, SDR has another acronym -- Spousally Declined Radio. <G>

    I don't have that problem. :P

    At present, I don't either. <G>

    Doesn't look like I ever will! :D

    Or "Do You, Ham, Take Radio, To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Spouse??"
    <G>.

    Haha. :D BBSs, ham radio, barbell, athletics track... :D

    Or the following from "The Honeymoon And More, after Ham And Radio
    Were United In Holy Telephony...we have this verifed from a trusted
    group of "Official Observers" (hi hi).

    After turning down the lights, and putting on some soft JT-65 music,
    ham and radio assumed positions of horizontal and vertical
    polarization, as they intimately got to know each other...because he wanted to work Up Her Sideband, and Zero Beat Her Frequencies. But,
    they had to be careful not to put the wedding gifts of Morse Code
    keyers where they'd sleep. Otherwise, they'd become infested with
    bedbugs, and that would be a real pain in the brass.

    Yes, I have too much time on my hands...and more of a QWK Packet
    to read (hi hi).

    Haha got lockdown syndrome? :D

    For those who want "the rest of the story", point your web browser
    to https://www.theweatherwonder.com/elk.htm -- and look for the file
    "The Triple Play".

    :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Thursday, August 06, 2020 18:36:00
    Tony,


    I always got a kick out of the optimizing options with QEMM. :)

    WEMM was awesome.

    WEMM?? Is that the Austrailian version?? <G>

    LOL the fat fingered version. :D

    At least it wasn't "the fart fingered version". Remember, as the
    blooper notes, "you can stop a gas leak with one finger". :P

    Or "Do You, Ham, Take Radio, To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Spouse??"
    <G>.

    Haha. :D BBSs, ham radio, barbell, athletics track... :D

    I won't ask about ones medicine balls. <G>

    Yes, I have too much time on my hands...and more of a QWK Packet
    to read (hi hi).

    Haha got lockdown syndrome? :D

    Practically. Would you believe that yesterday, when I posted a
    message out on a local college ham radio club list server, about
    precautions for COVID-19, this one individual went ballistic and
    defiant, saying "I will NOT wear a mask". He obviously didn't care
    about anyone else except him (in other words, he's selfish). He
    also cussed us out.

    I was seriously tempted to contact ARRL/VEC, and tell them
    "screw it", and send all the licensing exam stuff back. When I
    called the Central Arkansas Library System, they said "it does
    not matter whether dates are on the schedule or not...or whether
    you keep them on there or remove them...until further notice, we
    are not allowing meetings of any kind". They even said "you might
    want to look for another facility".

    So I'm thinking that I'll email them next week, and have the
    2 session dates taken off the calendar, and send back "the Field
    Stock" stuff...but keep the items that I printed myself. So few
    areas are doing license exams or hamfests now. I doubt we'll ever
    get back to what it was before COVID-19.


    For those who want "the rest of the story", point your web browser
    to https://www.theweatherwonder.com/elk.htm -- and look for the file
    "The Triple Play".

    :)

    I had to practice that so many times, as I could NOT keep a straight
    face.

    ... I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!

    If the batter has 4 balls, it's "Strut, Casey...Strut"...and "Walk
    With Pride, Me Lad"!! <BG>

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Saturday, August 08, 2020 15:21:00
    On 08-06-20 18:36, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    At least it wasn't "the fart fingered version". Remember, as the
    blooper notes, "you can stop a gas leak with one finger". :P

    Hrmm....

    Or "Do You, Ham, Take Radio, To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Spouse??"
    <G>.

    Haha. :D BBSs, ham radio, barbell, athletics track... :D

    I won't ask about ones medicine balls. <G>

    From a dodgy Chinese importer. ;P

    Yes, I have too much time on my hands...and more of a QWK Packet
    to read (hi hi).

    Haha got lockdown syndrome? :D

    Practically. Would you believe that yesterday, when I posted a
    message out on a local college ham radio club list server, about precautions for COVID-19, this one individual went ballistic and
    defiant, saying "I will NOT wear a mask". He obviously didn't care
    about anyone else except him (in other words, he's selfish). He
    also cussed us out.

    There's wankers like that everywhere.


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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 08, 2020 12:24:45
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to Daryl Stout on Sat Aug 08 2020 03:21 pm

    Practically. Would you believe that yesterday, when I posted a
    message out on a local college ham radio club list server, about
    precautions for COVID-19, this one individual went ballistic and
    defiant, saying "I will NOT wear a mask". He obviously didn't care
    about anyone else except him (in other words, he's selfish). He
    also cussed us out.

    There's wankers like that everywhere.

    Agreed. But to refraise there are a lot of ignorant, stupid people out there is how I would put it. People don't want to admit our way of life has been seriously altered. What will we say to the people that refuse to get vaccinated once one is found?

    HusTler
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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Saturday, August 08, 2020 17:58:00
    Tony,

    At least it wasn't "the fart fingered version". Remember, as the
    blooper notes, "you can stop a gas leak with one finger". :P

    Hrmm....

    Take that however you want it. <G>

    Or "Do You, Ham, Take Radio, To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Spouse??"
    <G>.

    Haha. :D BBSs, ham radio, barbell, athletics track... :D

    I won't ask about ones medicine balls. <G>

    From a dodgy Chinese importer. ;P

    For sure.

    Practically. Would you believe that yesterday, when I posted a
    message out on a local college ham radio club list server, about precautions for COVID-19, this one individual went ballistic and
    defiant, saying "I will NOT wear a mask". He obviously didn't care
    about anyone else except him (in other words, he's selfish). He
    also cussed us out.

    There's wankers like that everywhere.

    And, as the tagline notes...

    "Status Quo -- Latin for 'the mess we're in'". :P

    I personally don't want or need those idiots in the hobby. I even
    quoted US Federal Law that covers amateur radio, and Maria Somma,
    AB1FM, head of ARRL/VEC, told me that "you are correct". It is Part
    97.511 -- and since I consider COVID-19 instructions part of the exam
    session instructions, if he isn't going to comply, he needs to go
    elsewhere.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to HusTler on Sunday, August 09, 2020 17:06:00
    On 08-08-20 12:24, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Agreed. But to refraise there are a lot of ignorant, stupid people out there is how I would put it. People don't want to admit our way of life has been seriously altered. What will we say to the people that refuse
    to get vaccinated once one is found?

    Yes, that is true. :( Anti vaxxers are particularly troubling. I will probably be relatively early in the queue, when a viable vaccine is available, because of my emergency service connection. And I suspect it would be mandatory for me to be vaccinated, if I was going to continue in that role. As a volunteer, that's my choice, but unless there's documented evidence of significant risk of side effects, I'll take the vaccine anyway. Given that the probability of chronic side effects of COVID-19 is unknown, but estimated to be around 10%, I'd bet on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Sunday, August 09, 2020 18:44:00
    On 08-08-20 17:58, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    And, as the tagline notes...

    "Status Quo -- Latin for 'the mess we're in'". :P

    Yep.

    I personally don't want or need those idiots in the hobby. I even
    quoted US Federal Law that covers amateur radio, and Maria Somma,
    AB1FM, head of ARRL/VEC, told me that "you are correct". It is Part
    97.511 -- and since I consider COVID-19 instructions part of the exam session instructions, if he isn't going to comply, he needs to go elsewhere.

    That's one way to deal with it, and COVID-19 safety rules are there to be followed.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 09, 2020 08:06:47
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Sun Aug 09 2020 05:06 pm

    around 10%, I'd bet on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.

    "Properly tested" being the golden combination of words.

    What I am hearing so far is that they are dropping regular procedure to hurry vaccines to the market. That is not reassuring at all.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 09, 2020 07:13:00
    Vk3jed wrote to HusTler <=-

    take the vaccine anyway. Given that the probability of chronic side effects of COVID-19 is unknown, but estimated to be around 10%, I'd bet
    on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.

    Even the one that Bill Gates has put nanotech into for mind control
    and physical tracking? The one that'll need to be updated every year
    as new strains come out, guaranteeing that we're subjugated and human
    will is finally extinguished by the global government?

    The conspiracy theorists have come out of the woodwork, recently.
    David Icke has been touting something similar recently, and I heard
    someone parroting that almost verbatim to a hapless shopkeeper just
    happy to have some walk-in business.

    I was a long-time listener to Coast to Coast AM, and I love a good
    conspiracy theory for entertainment value, but haven't found one yet
    that's worth repeating in all seriousness.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, August 09, 2020 13:15:52
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vk3jed on Sun Aug 09 2020 07:13 am

    I was a long-time listener to Coast to Coast AM, and I love a good conspiracy theory for entertainment value, but haven't found one yet that's worth repeating in all seriousness.

    I used to listen to Coast To Coast sometimes. Sometimes I wondered how much truth there was to some of the stories on that show.. If those stories really had serious validity, then why would they only be reported on a late-night AM radio talk show like that?

    Nightfox

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:05:00
    Tony,

    I personally don't want or need those idiots in the hobby. I even
    quoted US Federal Law that covers amateur radio, and Maria Somma,
    AB1FM, head of ARRL/VEC, told me that "you are correct". It is Part
    97.511 -- and since I consider COVID-19 instructions part of the exam session instructions, if he isn't going to comply, he needs to go elsewhere.

    That's one way to deal with it, and COVID-19 safety rules are there to
    be followed.

    I don't like to wish bad on folks, but if "karma" bites him where he
    ends up getting a severe case of COVID-19, then he'll have gotten what
    he deserved, for his selfishness.

    Daryl

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sunday, August 09, 2020 21:01:22
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Aug 09 2020 01:15 pm


    I used to listen to Coast To Coast sometimes. Sometimes I wondered how much truth there was to some of the stories on that show.. If those stories really had serious validity, then why would they only be reported on a late-night AM radio talk show like that?

    plausible deniability
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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Arelor on Monday, August 10, 2020 16:08:00
    On 08-09-20 08:06, Arelor wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    @VIA: VERT/PALANT
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Sun Aug 09 2020 05:06 pm

    around 10%, I'd bet on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.

    "Properly tested" being the golden combination of words.

    What I am hearing so far is that they are dropping regular procedure to hurry vaccines to the market. That is not reassuring at all.

    I know the Russions certainy are bypassing testing and using their healthcare workers as guinea pigs by October (What could possibly go wrong? ;) ). I think the vaccine developers in the West are being a bit more careful, though of course, longer term testing is impossible, because that requires time (obviously!).


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, August 10, 2020 16:13:00
    On 08-09-20 07:13, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Even the one that Bill Gates has put nanotech into for mind control
    and physical tracking? The one that'll need to be updated every year
    as new strains come out, guaranteeing that we're subjugated and human
    will is finally extinguished by the global government?

    Yould you be interested in my 5G proof tinfoil hat? ;) I accept payment in Bitcoin, and it comes with a bonus bridge. ;)

    The conspiracy theorists have come out of the woodwork, recently.
    David Icke has been touting something similar recently, and I heard someone parroting that almost verbatim to a hapless shopkeeper just
    happy to have some walk-in business.

    I was a long-time listener to Coast to Coast AM, and I love a good conspiracy theory for entertainment value, but haven't found one yet that's worth repeating in all seriousness.

    Between COVID-19 and 5G, the conspiracy theorists have been running rampant. And all I can say is it's a good time for psychoceramics - the study of crackpots. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Monday, August 10, 2020 16:25:00
    On 08-09-20 12:05, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I don't like to wish bad on folks, but if "karma" bites him where he ends up getting a severe case of COVID-19, then he'll have gotten what
    he deserved, for his selfishness.

    Yeah, one hopes he comes to his senses, before karma balances the books.

    Daryl

    ... Meteor shower tonight, bring your own soap!

    I don't want to know what a "baby shower" is then! :P


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Monday, August 10, 2020 13:36:00
    Tony,

    I don't like to wish bad on folks, but if "karma" bites him where he ends up getting a severe case of COVID-19, then he'll have gotten what
    he deserved, for his selfishness.

    Yeah, one hopes he comes to his senses, before karma balances the
    books.

    And, it does bite hard...my karma ran over your dogma. <G>

    ... Meteor shower tonight, bring your own soap!

    I don't want to know what a "baby shower" is then! :P

    They provide the water...and I'll let your mind take it from there. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Monday, August 10, 2020 18:28:00
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I used to listen to Coast To Coast sometimes. Sometimes I wondered how much truth there was to some of the stories on that show.. If those stories really had serious validity, then why would they only be
    reported on a late-night AM radio talk show like that?

    I miss Art Bell. He had the ability to suspend disbelief and give his
    callers and guests the air to share their thoughts.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, August 10, 2020 20:03:19
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon Aug 10 2020 06:28 pm

    I used to listen to Coast To Coast sometimes. Sometimes I wondered
    how much truth there was to some of the stories on that show.. If
    those stories really had serious validity, then why would they only
    be reported on a late-night AM radio talk show like that?

    I miss Art Bell. He had the ability to suspend disbelief and give his callers and guests the air to share their thoughts.

    I first heard about Coast To Coast in 2004, and by then, I think Art Bell had already been doing the show a long time and sometimes wasn't hosting. Sometimes Geore Noory would be hosting, and I thought he was good too. I thought some of the topics were interesting, but sometimes it was hard to know if the people calling were serious and really believed what they were saying or if it was part of a hoax. I remember hearing about the supposed time traveler John Titor (I think I've heard he called Coast To Coast, but I didn't hear that episode), and I'm not sure if that was serious or not.

    Nightfox

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 21:39:00
    Hello Vk3jed!

    ** On Sunday 09.08.20 - 03:06, vk3jed wrote to HusTler:

    Agreed. But to refraise there are a lot of ignorant, stupid people
    out there is how I would put it. People don't want to admit our way
    of life has been seriously altered. What will we say to the people
    that refuse to get vaccinated once one is found?

    Yes, that is true. :( Anti vaxxers are particularly troubling. I
    will probably be relatively early in the queue, when a viable vaccine
    is available, because of my emergency service connection. And I
    suspect it would be mandatory for me to be vaccinated, if I was going
    to continue in that role. As a volunteer, that's my choice, but
    unless there's documented evidence of significant risk of side
    effects, I'll take the vaccine anyway. Given that the probability of chronic side effects of COVID-19 is unknown, but estimated to be
    around 10%, I'd bet on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.
    ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Be cautious of the numbers arm-chair researchers throw out. The numbers change depending on other factors that they might disclose - later.

    Be dubious about the definition of "properly tested".

    It would be a sad commentary that after working so hard to build and
    maintain a healthy body that you are so proud of, one rushed-to-market vaccine could uproot all of it. Would you have any (legal?) recourse if
    the stuff would make you sick or ruin your quality of life?

    I find it particularly troubling to hear that the 1st people to get this stuff *will* be the front-line health and emergency workers. These are the people that other people's safety depends on. But if the injection proves fatal or debilitating, then the very services that people depend on will
    be less effective.

    Today, I heard that Russia has made the claim of producing a successful vaccine. Putin even said that one of daughters got innoculated and that
    she is fine. Wow, we should all leap for joy! His daughter is fine! I
    find it suspect that Putin himself did not get vaccinated with the stuff.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 17:26:00
    On 08-10-20 13:36, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    And, it does bite hard...my karma ran over your dogma. <G>

    True, that's an old one. :)

    ... Meteor shower tonight, bring your own soap!

    I don't want to know what a "baby shower" is then! :P

    They provide the water...and I'll let your mind take it from there.



    Haha, knew you'd bite. :P


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 21:20:55
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Ogg to All on Tue Aug 11 2020 09:39 pm

    Today, I heard that Russia has made the claim of producing a successful vaccine. Putin even said that one of daughters got innoculated and that she is fine. Wow, we should all leap for joy! His daughter is fine! I find it suspect that Putin himself did not get vaccinated with the stuff.


    putin is a fucking bad ass. he doesnt need a vaccine for anything.
    his white blood cells are little assassins.
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  • From Atroxi@VERT to Ogg on Thursday, August 13, 2020 20:51:00
    Ogg wrote to All <=-

    Hello Vk3jed!

    ** On Sunday 09.08.20 - 03:06, vk3jed wrote to HusTler:

    Agreed. But to refraise there are a lot of ignorant, stupid people
    out there is how I would put it. People don't want to admit our way
    of life has been seriously altered. What will we say to the people
    that refuse to get vaccinated once one is found?

    Yes, that is true. :( Anti vaxxers are particularly troubling. I
    will probably be relatively early in the queue, when a viable vaccine
    is available, because of my emergency service connection. And I
    suspect it would be mandatory for me to be vaccinated, if I was going
    to continue in that role. As a volunteer, that's my choice, but
    unless there's documented evidence of significant risk of side
    effects, I'll take the vaccine anyway. Given that the probability of chronic side effects of COVID-19 is unknown, but estimated to be
    around 10%, I'd bet on any properly tested vaccine that comes out.
    ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Be cautious of the numbers arm-chair researchers throw out. The
    numbers change depending on other factors that they might disclose - later.

    Be dubious about the definition of "properly tested".

    It would be a sad commentary that after working so hard to build and maintain a healthy body that you are so proud of, one rushed-to-market vaccine could uproot all of it. Would you have any (legal?) recourse
    if the stuff would make you sick or ruin your quality of life?

    I find it particularly troubling to hear that the 1st people to get
    this stuff *will* be the front-line health and emergency workers. These are the people that other people's safety depends on. But if the injection proves fatal or debilitating, then the very services that
    people depend on will be less effective.

    Today, I heard that Russia has made the claim of producing a successful vaccine. Putin even said that one of daughters got innoculated and
    that she is fine. Wow, we should all leap for joy! His daughter is
    fine! I find it suspect that Putin himself did not get vaccinated with
    the stuff.

    Exactly this. If they're so confident with their vaccines working those political leaders themselves should do a public testing of it, but of course they won't.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 00:48:39
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Ogg on Wed Aug 12 2020 09:20 pm

    Today, I heard that Russia has made the claim of producing a
    successful vaccine. Putin even said that one of daughters got
    innoculated and that she is fine. Wow, we should all leap for joy!
    His daughter is fine! I find it suspect that Putin himself did not
    get vaccinated with the stuff.


    putin is a fucking bad ass. he doesnt need a vaccine for anything.
    his white blood cells are little assassins.

    I saw a photo of Putin standing next to the Chinese leader, Putin is a little fugger.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Denn on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:57:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Aug 18 2020 12:48 am

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Ogg on Wed Aug 12 2020 09:20 pm

    Today, I heard that Russia has made the claim of producing a
    successful vaccine. Putin even said that one of daughters got
    innoculated and that she is fine. Wow, we should all leap for joy!
    His daughter is fine! I find it suspect that Putin himself did not
    get vaccinated with the stuff.


    putin is a fucking bad ass. he doesnt need a vaccine for anything.
    his white blood cells are little assassins.

    I saw a photo of Putin standing next to the Chinese leader, Putin is a littl fugger.


    It's the little guys you have to watch out for. They think they have to do mo re in order to make a statement.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 16:40:48
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Denn on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:57 am


    putin is a fucking bad ass. he doesnt need a vaccine for
    anything. his white blood cells are little assassins.

    I saw a photo of Putin standing next to the Chinese leader, Putin is a
    littl fugger.


    It's the little guys you have to watch out for. They think they have to do mo re in order to make a statement.


    well he has nothing to prove. he has probably personally killed tons of people. ---
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 09:16:00
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 18 2020 04:40 pm

    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to Denn on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:57 am


    putin is a fucking bad ass. he doesnt need a vaccine for
    anything. his white blood cells are little assassins.

    I saw a photo of Putin standing next to the Chinese leader, Putin is a
    littl fugger.


    It's the little guys you have to watch out for. They think they have to mo re in order to make a statement.


    well he has nothing to prove. he has probably personally killed tons of peop

    He probably killed them to earn people's fear.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 22:10:41
    Re: Re: Home network security
    By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Aug 19 2020 09:16 am

    well he has nothing to prove. he has probably personally killed tons
    of peop

    He probably killed them to earn people's fear.


    well he was kgb. so he probably killed people. then he killed people for talking shit about him. like that guy who drank the plutonium tea.
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