Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-28 Thread Mouse
>> Well, I think "Sun god" is a significant overstatement, and I'm >> pretty sure I never capitalized the "der", but yes, that was me. > It's not an overstatement to me, sir. Thank you. I'm glad to hear I helped; I've received so very much from the net - as cynical and bitter as I tend to wax

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, John Willis wrote: What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh* Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here! #fidobros! *laughs uproariously* g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread John Willis
> > >> What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political > shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh* > > Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here!

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote: > One benefit of contiguous subnet masks is that it makes routing faster. > It's still a linear search, but it's based on the average length of the > netmask instead of the total number of entries. That sounds similar to the idea of route summarization.

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote: It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated: What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own networks over wireless ? The crazy patchwork quilt of

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Koning
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated: >> >> And I spend over $80/month for DSL to a provider that gives me a /29 >> and a /60 from globally routed space. (That everything is now CIDR >> blocks is another loss;

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated: > > > What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the > > same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own > > networks over wireless ? > > The crazy patchwork quilt of regulations applying to amateur use

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated: > > And I spend over $80/month for DSL to a provider that gives me a /29 > and a /60 from globally routed space. (That everything is now CIDR > blocks is another loss; I am not fond of the desupporting of > noncontiguous subnet masks, even

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Mouse wrote: > Well, I think "Sun god" is a significant overstatement, and I'm pretty > sure I never capitalized the "der", but yes, that was me. It's not an overstatement to me, sir. You would probably be very surprised if you knew how many fixes you've helped me out of. I

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Mouse
>> [...] That everything is now CIDR blocks is another loss; I am not >> fond of the desupporting of noncontiguous subnet masks, even though >> I can understand it [...] > Heh, I'm guessing you've been doing something like that for a very > long time. Well, I was doing it a long time ago; I

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-27 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Mouse wrote: > [...] That everything is now CIDR blocks is another loss; I am not fond > of the desupporting of noncontiguous subnet masks, even though I can > understand it [...] Heh, I'm guessing you've been doing something like that for a very long time. I remember "Der