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djweis | 1 year ago | on: IBM RISC System/6000 Family

If you would ever part with a 7011 I'd happily pay for it plus shipping.

djweis | 1 year ago | on: IBM RISC System/6000 Family

Are you still actively working on the port?

djweis | 1 year ago | on: IBM RISC System/6000 Family

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 there. We got to the point of making a boot floppy that would display a 3 digit number on the front panel.

djweis | 1 year ago | on: Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store

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.

djweis | 2 years ago | on: Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit

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.

djweis | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA?

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.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: What makes EDI so hard?

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.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops

That's referred to as rubber hose cryptography.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: PDP-11 Booting

My eyesight is getting worse but is that person typing nude?

djweis | 4 years ago | on: ADSL works over wet string (2017)

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 from the central office and if the monitoring shows a drop in pressure (a cut in the sheath), they roll out cable maintenance.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: ADSL works over wet string (2017)

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 their 13 state region that used it. It was really successful and let us put in ADSL and then Ethernet over Copper in business parks.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company

Perhaps Ubiquiti could use those savings to operate a support department.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: Chrome breaks my website by hiding www in address bar

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.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: Telephone Central Office Building Pictures

Before automated switching it actually was an office and housed staff and the telephone operators. After a hundred years the name stuck.

djweis | 4 years ago | on: If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google

I have a book that covers this in great detail - The Deal of the Century. You're correct that long distance subsidized local service.

djweis | 5 years ago | on: Feedback wanted: CORS for private networks (RFC1918)

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.

djweis | 5 years ago | on: Where the missing middle of housing isn't missing

Shhh - don't tell everyone about Iowa.

djweis | 5 years ago | on: Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive

AOLserver was a joy. I was able to speak about it at the O'Reilly OSCON in 2000 or so.

djweis | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Starting a Company on a Cofounder's Patent

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.

djweis | 7 years ago | on: Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts

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 a day or two.