Looks like the DOS creep is back

[mazda77]

Let's see how quickly the brain-trust can extricate the creep.

[musicman]

"Well if he is snooping
his mom sneak eats bacon...."



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[Eagles Field]

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[Albion Wilde]

I’m having no trouble today at all, even having preferences set on 100.

[NoCmpromiz]

You wouldn’t happen to be from around Dexter, MO would you?

[tophat9000]

well after “denial of service” ....”serious hand whacking”...IS one common solution

[SkyDancer]

Just like what you’d like to do to graffiti spray painters. Sort of “let’s see you play the piano now!” These people have nothing better to do than to inconvenience others.

[John Robinson]

whack-a-mole

 173.239.230.22:58431  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:62586  209.157.64.200:80     ESTABLISHED  1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:57032  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      7s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:51045  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:53037  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      7s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:62422  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSING      4s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:54090  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:65266  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSING      2s     1 KB/s
 173.239.230.22:58035  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 99.126.244.198:58843  209.157.64.200:80     ESTABLISHED  0s     2 KB/s
 68.98.178.210:56011   209.157.64.201:80     ESTABLISHED  8s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:49702  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSED       1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:64730  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      4s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:62054  209.157.64.200:80     ESTABLISHED  4s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:50313  209.157.64.201:80     ESTABLISHED  1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:58524  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:49998  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      2s     1 KB/s
 173.239.230.22:52156  209.157.64.200:80     SYN|ACK-ACK  0s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:51532  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      8s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:58469  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      3s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:51071  209.157.64.201:80     ESTABLISHED  1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:58816  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:56957  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      4s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:58490  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      6s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:49754  209.157.64.201:80     CLOSING      2s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:51153  209.157.64.200:80     CLOSING      1s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:65307  209.157.64.200:80     SYN|ACK-ACK  2s     0 B/s
 173.239.230.22:49343  209.157.64.201:80     ESTABLISHED  2s     0 B/s

... ad nauseam ...

[Paal Gulli]

I just hope you don’t resort to filtering the TOR exit nodes through reCAPTCHA. Any other ‘captcha’ is fine but reCAPTCHA isn’t about excluding bots, it’s about annoying the piss out of humans so they stop using anonymous browsing.

reCAPTCHA is emblematic of G**gle’s efforts to control the entire Internet.

[mazda77]

I’m just a lurker like you and not connected to the operators of this blog. I know why the creeps are doing what they are doing but we can outlast them and ‘The James Gang’ can learn to better defend from them.

[OldMissileer]

Right and you used bank switching to fool the CPU so you use more then 48k that’s K folks not Meg not Gig, K.

My first storage was a certified cassette tape drive I bought at Radio Shack and also the old phone cradle modem.

[OldMissileer]

DOS was a lot easier to use than Windows 10...........................

I really do not like Win10. Using DOS was actually quite simple and I became quite good at it.

[OldMissileer]

I am such a dinosaur that my FORTRAN and COBOL classes in college were with punch cards. After my class finished the computer science department installed the dumb terminals.

[citizen]

What’s the difference....

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Good point. I’m stealing it to post to twitter :)

[Jim Robinson]

48k? Tape cassette? Radio Shack? Hell, I cut my computer teeth on an IBM 360/20 card machine. That was with a grand total of 8k of magnetic core memory with 80 column punch cards for input and storage. Programmed it in BAL and RPG. Had to write tight code. Graduated a couple years later to IBM System/3 with 96 column card input and two (1 fixed, 1 removable) 2.5mb disk cartridges.

[OldMissileer]

Programmed it in BAL and RPG. Had to write tight code.

I did FORTRAN and COBOL on punch cards. Actually ended up learning Machine Language for a project in the Air Force. Likeyou, very tight code. No waste.

We now look at terabytes of hard drives for a couple of hundred dollars. The 10Meg IBM at my university cost millions and took up an entire room.

Putting target coordinates and the flight program into my old Titan II ICBM guidance computer was amazing too. Now that I look back at that it amazes me how we could put the bomb on target with such primitive systems. I still have the wiring and other diagrams for that system and see how efficient we were at coding those things. Now days the programmers throw around a few megs here and there like it is nothing.

[Jim Robinson]

Sounds like you had some great experience.

[NoCmpromiz]

Canada, eh?

(At least according to http://network-tools.com )

TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 173.239.230.22
[ip-22-230-239-173.toronto.ca.northamericancoax.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) | IP Address | Host name
1 Timed out Timed out Timed out
2 Timed out Timed out Timed out
3 26 27 26 | 77.67.71.221 | ae13.cr3-dal3.ip4.gtt.net
4 41 40 40 | 141.136.105.34 | xe-5-2-2.cr0-tor1.ip4.gtt.net
5 42 42 55 | 69.174.4.34 | ip4.gtt.net
6 40 40 40 | 173.239.230.22 | ip-22-230-239-173.toronto.ca.northamericancoax.com

[Oatka]

Hell, I cut my computer teeth on an IBM 360/20 card machine. That was with a grand total of 8k of magnetic core memory with 80 column punch cards for input and storage. Programmed it in BAL and RPG.
Same here - Camp Pendleton PX system 1967. The RPG compiler was a 12" high deck of cards and you had to insert your program deck somewhere in the middle. If you exceeded memory, all you got was a cryptic "Too big" printout. When they issued a new version that told you by how much, we thought we were in paradise.

Had to write tight code.
Oh boy, remember that. Multiply and divide commands cost a lost of memory so we would add or subtract the divisor and looped it until the remainder was less than the divisor, then count how many times we looped. In another instance, we got an invoice program to compile only by leaving out a period in an abbreviation.

[John Robinson]

*.northamericancoax.com expanding upon this fun list:

        173.239.232.0/22
        173.239.236.0/23
        173.239.230.0/23
        196.52.84.0/24
        196.52.2.0/24
        173.244.48.0/22
        173.244.36.0/24
        173.239.228.0/24

[OldMissileer]

Sounds like you had some great experience.

For some reason God and my Country honored me with duties that became the greatest and best things I have done in my lifetime. I got to do some really cool and important stuff and I still look back and wonder why a regular guy like me was picked to do it.

Through the years after my retirement from the Air Force I did make a lot more money but I can never say the jobs I did could ever match what I was allowed to do in the service of my Country.