philxor

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by philxor 17d ago
I had the original Matrox Millenium. Just threw out the old box a couple years ago when my parents sold their house. I remember driving like 50 miles to CDW will call to get it and being amazed at the 3D demo programs. I kept it for awhile
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by philxor 5mo ago
It is a great demo and really nostalgic. I was briefly a courier for Razor 1911 in the mid 90s. I recognize many of the handles throughout the demo and in the list at the end, and even BBS names if you slow down or pause some parts of the d
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by philxor 5mo ago
And it came in 5th place in the competition. The winner was this one which is 16 bytes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc
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by philxor 6mo ago
I worked for Exec PC internet which evolved from the BBS which was the largest in the US afaik. It ran on somewhat custom PCs where there were I think four nodes per board on bread racks. No cases. Custom software. That BBS was over 250 l
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by philxor 1y ago
Read this a couple weeks ago when it came out. Great story, but yeah when having kids and a family takes another sort of person to still want to pursue those adventures. But some cannot just sit still and feel the need to push their endeav
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by philxor 2y ago
There is always an oversubscription ratio at pretty much every hop in the network, at least in a commercial service provider network. That doesn't mean packet loss is occurring all the time, for the most part providers monitor and pla
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by philxor 2y ago
Linux tool? Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linux. Have used Expect for many years for many use cases from automating servers to networking use cases as well.
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by philxor 2y ago
BGP confederations are still used in some large SP networks today, mostly because it's hard to transition away from it. However, it hasn't been a recommended solution for scaling BGP for 15+ years now. I had someone approach me re
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by philxor 3y ago
Myself and some of the original #warez folks on EFNet still hang out on a non-IRC chat platform, 30+ years later. Some of those guys were Razor members at one point in time. Lol most have grown up kids now. It's definitely a far cry f