djweis

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by djweis 2y ago
If you would ever part with a 7011 I'd happily pay for it plus shipping.
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by djweis 2y ago
Are you still actively working on the port?
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by djweis 2y ago
The book you are looking for is https://www.amazon.com/RISC-System-6000-PowerPC-Architecture... It explains the architecture of the 7011/250 in detail. When I was much younger I was working with a group to get Linux on
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by djweis 2y ago
That's not accurate - when a telephone company registers a block of numbers (at least in the US), you specify if it's landline, pager, VoIP, cellular, etc.
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by djweis 3y ago
US West (telephone company) used them around that time. I know they were in Omaha, NE but unsure of where else in their market it was available.
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by djweis 3y ago
I've used devices like https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-110VDSLEXT-Ethernet-Exte... in similar cases. You will likely need to modify your phone lines to get a pair from the living room to the work room, though.
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by djweis 5y ago
It's not hard, it's complex. I spent a few years going through 834 and later at a different company, 811. For the first I embedded a javascript interpreter to do translations. For the second I put most of the logic in the code.
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by djweis 5y ago
That's referred to as rubber hose cryptography.
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by djweis 5y ago
My eyesight is getting worse but is that person typing nude?
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by djweis 5y ago
There is still a lot of it in service. Sometimes you'll see a tank of nitrogen chained to a pole. It is there to put pressure through the cable to keep water out of a cut/nick on the lead sheath. The lines are pressurized normally
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by djweis 5y ago
It was available in CenturyLink/Qwest areas. Not sure about now, a lot of the loop products have been grandfathered recently. https://www.centurylink.com/wholesale/pcat/fcp.html I was one of two providers in
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by djweis 5y ago
Perhaps Ubiquiti could use those savings to operate a support department.
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by djweis 5y ago
You aren't allowed to have a CNAME on the naked domain - it has to be an A record. It's not a shortcoming of the host. You'll have to make an A record that points to the same IP as www.
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by djweis 5y ago
Before automated switching it actually was an office and housed staff and the telephone operators. After a hundred years the name stuck.
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by djweis 5y ago
I have a book that covers this in great detail - The Deal of the Century. You're correct that long distance subsidized local service.
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by djweis 6y ago
Assuming I'm running malware.com, I would make 192-168-0-1.router.malware.com resolve to 192.168.0.1 so the origin matches and I can prod the router as much as I'd like without crossing the origin.
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by djweis 6y ago
Shhh - don't tell everyone about Iowa.
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by djweis 6y ago
AOLserver was a joy. I was able to speak about it at the O'Reilly OSCON in 2000 or so.
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by djweis 7y ago
This will also put your co-founder in 100% control of whether or not an exit will happen. You won't be able to sell the business if a critical patent doesn't come along with it.
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by djweis 8y ago
You don't even need to forge the paperwork if you work at a telco. Create the number port request in NPAC, wait for the confirmation timeout, and activate the number port. The timeout depends on the two carriers but it's generally
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by djweis 8y ago
It's workable if you take your MTU down to 256 or 128.
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by djweis 8y ago
"the underserved San Francisco markets of Bayview and Portola" Next time you fly over the midwest, look at density. If you can see your neighbor, you're probably not underserved.
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by djweis 9y ago
Tech unemployment is essentially negative in Iowa.