Windows problems

[Carroll Robbins]

Huh, well my aging memory recalls anti-spam forums in years past echoing
with cries that if only certain ISPs would block Port 25 blah blah blah the
spam load would be greatly diminished for reasons I won't pretend to have
the technical knowledge to understand (I had the impression it allowed
people to do an end run around their ISP's mail servers, or something). And
when I set up OE in XP Mode last week my ISP told me to use a different
port. Not a big deal, if it works then I'm happy.

They meant block port 25 except for the ISP's own SMTP server. They thought
that was obvious. Blocking port 25 doesn't stop users from avoiding their
ISP's SMTP servers. Some ISP's don't block the port but redirect all port
25 traffic to their own servers. It does stop users from inadvertently
spewing spam. For most users it doesn't matter. For some it does.

 

[Ken Blake]

Hammer, mallet--if you know what tool I'm asking for why be picky about the
name?

If you call something by the wrong name, you run the risk of confusing
everyone reading your message. I, for one, didn't know what you were
talking about.

 

[DGDevin]

If you call something by the wrong name, you run the risk of confusing
everyone reading your message. I, for one, didn't know what you were
talking about.

Well that makes two of us. ;~)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I was wrong. It's microseconds. See
http://ed-thelen.org/1401Project/1401GuidePosterV9.html

Thanks for the link. I'm about to go off on a tanget to look at it

Thanks for your link too, relic.

Time for two trips down memory lane...

 

[Chuck]

I don't know what started this--But-- the earliest computer I saw still
in operation around the middle 60's was owned by an insurance company,
Franklin Life, in Springfield Illinois. It was vacuum tube based, with
hexagon? equipment bays full of 6146 tubes. You could walk into the
center of the bay, which just had room for one or two and a Tektronix
Oscilloscope on a cart. The diagnostics called out a defective drawer,
and the scope was used to see which section of the drawer had failed.
Don't remember much else, other than a wall full of line printers
connected to the beast!

Another monster of the time (but small in size), 1967-68, was used by
the military, and had a very large number of sub miniature tubes in
rows(used as flip flops). Never mind what it was used for. It was setup
with a punch card in a holder, or a small patch panel for testing, and
the output usually went to an ASCII caps only printer referred to as a
"Mighty Mite".

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I don't know what started this

These things start at the drop of a hat

We geezers love to reminisce, after all (and maybe brag?).