On July 2, 2017 10:29:00 AM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| On 07/01/2017 05:38 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
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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 talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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