On July 2, 2017 10:29:00 AM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <[email protected]> wrote: >| From: James Knott via talk <[email protected]> > >| On 07/01/2017 05:38 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
<snip previous> >And while listing currently lost causes, I really wish we'd gotten to >Opportunistic Encryption. Ok, this made me chuckle. One of the first questions I typically get when I get into a computer discussion with a non techie parent is, "what should my child learn as part of the basics" I always said try a machine assembly language. My answer these days is a one time pad. > >| Incidentally, I first heard about NAT when I saw a dial up NAT >router, >| at Computer Fest in 1996. > >I miss Computer Fests. > >| Also, at IBM, I had 5 static IPv4 addresses, 1 for my computer and 4 >for >| testing in my work. I similarly had 5 SNA addresses. Back then, my >| computer's address was 9.29.146.147. > >I got my /24 before I had a broadband connection. I think that it was >in the late 1980s when I was pondering what IP addresses to stick on >my 2-node LAN. I didn't want to use an RFC 1918 address (this was >before RFC 1918 or even 1597). So I naively asked for some IPs and got >them. It was many years before they were actually routed from the >internet to my LAN. >--- >Talk Mailing List >[email protected] >https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Russell Sent by K-9 Mail --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
