Re: [AFMUG] drop splicers

2020-10-12 Thread fiberrun
This is the only third party info I've seen about it online: https://www.thefoa.org/foanl-5-16.html (you need to scroll down)   Pros: it has fiber holders Cons: it's a V groove splicer It claims to be of Swedish origin, but I have some doubts about that since I've seen Chinese vendors selling a

Re: [AFMUG] Brigham Young University's Internet Measurement and Anti-Abuse Laboratory

2020-10-12 Thread John Osmon
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:49:18PM -0400, Mark - Myakka Technologies wrote: [...] > I can not think of any > valid reason for someone to spoof my IP on incoming packets. There are some asymmetrical cases where you may see your own addresses coming in over an edge router. Most of them are solved

Re: [AFMUG] drop splicers

2020-10-12 Thread chuck
Nice, wish one of you would buy one and tell me how you like it. From: liddy303 Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 7:37 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] drop splicers Any of you guys seen or used one of these?: http://www.easysplicer.com/easysplicer/ $1250 on Amazo

Re: [AFMUG] drop splicers

2020-10-12 Thread liddy303
Any of you guys seen or used one of these?: http://www.easysplicer.com/easysplicer/ $1250 on Amazon. Wonder if these are better than the version from Mao's Dollarama. On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:00 AM wrote: > I have one of those SignalFire fusion splicers. They are sold all over the > place by

Re: [AFMUG] DIY Broadband rocks!

2020-10-12 Thread Craig House
Thanks Sam. It was a pleasure to meet you and I appreciate the nice comments Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 12, 2020, at 16:59, Jaime Solorza wrote: > >  > Pictures? > >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 3:31 PM Sam Lambie wrote: >> We just had the pleasure of getting a tower swapped out with Craig and

Re: [AFMUG] DIY Broadband rocks!

2020-10-12 Thread Jaime Solorza
Pictures? On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 3:31 PM Sam Lambie wrote: > We just had the pleasure of getting a tower swapped out with Craig and > Josh from DIY broadband this weekend. Both of them were pros and fun to > work with. We got the job done in the allotted time in 25-35 mph winds with > no drama. >

Re: [AFMUG] Brigham Young University's Internet Measurement and Anti-Abuse Laboratory

2020-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Normally that is an amplification attack, but the spoofed source address would be the victim and you would be the amplifier. They use some service like DNS or NTP where a small packet can generate a much bigger response. By using UDP instead of TCP, the source address can be spoofed, and that addr

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Cameron Crum
I know what you mean Robert. I got my first job out of college with Sprint Cellular during a poker game on a ski trip. A group of my friends and I went to Crested Butte over Thanksgiving because they used to do free skiing for the week of Thanksgiving. One of my buddies was from Chicago and ran int

[AFMUG] Brigham Young University's Internet Measurement and Anti-Abuse Laboratory

2020-10-12 Thread Mark - Myakka Technologies
I got an e-mail from BYU about IP Spoofing. Looks like they ran some testing during December 2019. "The intent of the experiment was to determine the pervasiveness of networks failing to filter spoofed incoming traffic appearing to originate from within their own networks." Apparentl

[AFMUG] DIY Broadband rocks!

2020-10-12 Thread Sam Lambie
We just had the pleasure of getting a tower swapped out with Craig and Josh from DIY broadband this weekend. Both of them were pros and fun to work with. We got the job done in the allotted time in 25-35 mph winds with no drama. I am always so appreciative of people who do what they are going to do

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread chuck
I agree the help in getting them educated was a big gift, but we always did give them some kind of gift too. So far I have two with masters, two more working on masters, one finishing CS one starting some medical based thing and one that has taken some classes but prefers the machine shop and

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Mark Radabaugh
The wife and I were checking into a hotel for my oldest sons graduation. The desk clerk asked what we were celebrating and I said my sons graduation. She asked what we were getting him for a graduation present. The wife and I both look at each other kind of dumbfounded. Shit, we were su

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread chuck
Pranks... BYU has a system of tunnels under the whole campus. If you know your way around you can come up in any building. Most of it was locked down but I knew of a set of metal shelves in the physics building that you could remove the bottom shelf and get down into a pipe chase. It was fun

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Robert Andrews
The fundamentals of Silicon Valley have been driven out of Stanford and Cal since they were founded. The connections for grad students are what drive the funding from the VC. Yang and Filo met as undergrads at Stanford and their funding came from a meeting at a party they went to. I would sa

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Nate Burke
I was lucky enough to get out of College with No Debt, thanks to my Parents. They were not wealthy, but were frugal their whole life. Deal was they would pay for 4 years, anything more was on Me. Stayed on Campus for 2 summers that I paid for out of pocket. I was making $15/hr back in the lat

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread chuck
I agree, but more of a problem for the humanities than engineering I would think. -Original Message- From: Robert Andrews Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 11:40 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer I think Universities without student to student connections

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Robert Andrews
I think Universities without student to student connections are going to be a big problem. I still think they are about building personal bonds. It's pretty tough to do that on video chat at the same level as a kegger. ( not that I did keggers ). But knowing someone out of the classroom i

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Too much easy money out there for students. It’s not a simple problem - how do you make higher education available for those who don’t have the means to pay for it without inadvertently raising the costs for everyone? Visit any decent 4 year college. They are far closer to a country club than

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread chuck
It will be interesting to see how education changes post covid. I would think that we have proven brick and mortar universities are not needed. Perhaps for some labs and other special things. But online works. Should drive the cost down I would hope. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, Octo

Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer

2020-10-12 Thread Cameron Crum
Universities know the government will give big loans to kids and they all want to be on that gravy train. They raise tuition and just put it on the kids to go get more money in the form of debt. Kids would be hard pressed to pay tuition working their way through right now. Tuition costs have double

Re: [AFMUG] I miss

2020-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Wow, those people seem a little … entitled. Good thing people aren’t like that now. Shade! From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 9:50 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] I miss I imagine something more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kdRd

Re: [AFMUG] I miss

2020-10-12 Thread Bill Prince
I imagine something more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kdRdzxdZQ bp On 10/11/2020 9:01 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Business opportunity:  telepresence tourism.   I’m imagining

Re: [AFMUG] OT: external keyboards and mice

2020-10-12 Thread Josh Luthman
Toughbooks and Thinkpads. It's an option on them and I buy used. Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:51 AM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > What laptops are you buying that the

Re: [AFMUG] OT: external keyboards and mice

2020-10-12 Thread Matt Hoppes
What laptops are you buying that they don’t have blue tooth? > On Oct 12, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > >  > Proprietary works better than Bluetooth for sure. It's more likely to have a > USB port on your laptop than Bluetooth, too. > > Josh Luthman > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 >

Re: [AFMUG] OT: external keyboards and mice

2020-10-12 Thread Josh Luthman
Proprietary works better than Bluetooth for sure. It's more likely to have a USB port on your laptop than Bluetooth, too. Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mathew Howard wrote: > Yeah, it real

Re: [AFMUG] I miss

2020-10-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I have been thinking the same thing. I'm 2019, I spent nearly 3 months in hotel rooms between work and pleasure. Basically was a week a month somewhere. In 2020, the only trip we've taken other than a couple nearby weekend camping trips was to Vegas for CES in January. My biannual trip to Munic

Re: [AFMUG] fun size Paydays

2020-10-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Something has to be going on to account for the seeming increase in both severity and quantity of peanut allergies. I am personally allergic to both peanuts and tree nuts. In my case it was apparently pretty obvious when my mother fed me my first and only peanut butter sandwich. She says that

Re: [AFMUG] I miss

2020-10-12 Thread Steve Jones
have you watched spaceforce? same issue with the global handshake handjobs. we humans would find a way to make it perverse On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 11:02 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Business opportunity: telepresence tourism. > > > > I’m imagining a self-driving tour bus full of telepresence robots s