Text 26443, 79 rader
Skriven 2012-03-02 11:02:53 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 26285 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: clandestine, etc.
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02 Mar 12 00:08, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 Roy>> At first Brent posted as a PVT node in another net. Then he got
 Roy>> brave and requested that we use his pre-excomm node number by the
 Roy>> method known to all as a nodediff file.

 RW> Yep, can relate to that.

 Roy>>> Putting him back in the nodelist after running the weekly diff
 Roy>>> file was to include your own diff file with his listing in it
 Roy>>> after the regular diff file event.

 RWebb> R W> Yep, and every nodelist compiler i've ever seen has a way to
 RWeb> do that,

 RWebb>> that's how point lists are added usually.

 Roy>> That's where I learned it. FD was a great teacher in that regard.

 RW> YEp, xlaxnode does it fairly easy.

I don't even like the name of that one. 8^)

 Roy>> This would work as well:

 Roy>> An NC can (and did) put a PVT node in the nodelist for a
 Roy>> clandestine node and no one was/would be the wiser. So Brent Hamm
 Roy>> is now someone else, who would know for sure? Only those who knew
 Roy>> that and those who were informed of it by the NC that listed him.
 Roy>> All sworn to secrecy, of course.

 RWebb> YEp, that's been known to work too.  I had a listing in my
 RWebb> nodelist, a point, which never trafficked in echomail or netmail.
 RWebb> HE had an older machine, a 386, and a dot matrix printer, and
 RWebb> autoexec brought him up binkleyterm.  When I wanted him to be
 RWebb> ready to receive information I'd tell him to fire up the machine,
 RWebb> let it answer the phone, the automation would then print the text
 RWebb> file I sent him so he could have the info for his radio work.  He
 RWebb> didnt' have an itnernet connectionand didn't know or understand
 RWebb> squat about a computer. SEnt it to him preconfigured, had another
 RWebb> buddy go up there and troubleshoot it for him once, and once in
 RWebb> awhile when he'd take an air watch I'd tell him before he was live
 RWebb> to fire it up and have it connected to the phone line, and not
 RWebb> answer the phone when it rang but let the machien get it.

That's a very interesting story. Sounds like my dad. He didn't know squat
about computers and against my advice, bought a conglomeration by
mail-order. He wouldn't let my brother touch it and so all the software
that came with it was still in the packaging when I went to pay M&D a
visit. It had also died in that time. I don't know what was wrong with it
anymore, but he let me open it up and I got it running. It was just a DOS
machine and no instructions in how to install software. I didn't need it
and installed enough to get it off the ground.

 RWebb> There are of course several such methodologies that this sort of
 RWebb> thing could be done if one really is so inclined.

When I got back to San Diego from the above visit, I bought him a 386 and
put Win3.1 on it, along with some card games and a word processor (which
is why he bought a computer in the first place). Shipped it to him and
when I called and asked if he got it, he said yeah but it got damaged in
shipping, so it doesn't work. I told him to let my brother look at it, but
he was adament about my brother not touching it. So he went without a
computer for 2years, until I paid them another visit. Had it up and
running and the first thing out of his mouth was; I don't want to play any
games on it. When I showed him the Solitare games, he changed his mind.
After that, he was always playing Gulf Solitare every morning when I came
downstairs for coffee... 8^)


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