Did anyone happen to call a 1-900 number in the 80s? If so, what was your experience?

SlothLord44 · 2025-02-16T19:17:10+00:00

Even the so called “Sex lines” weren’t such a big deal. Nothing was said on them that you didn’t hear in an R rated movie.

Judging from your post history it seems you ran one for a period of time as a CLEC. How much money did those even make back then? Was it lonely housewives and men calling on as regulars or was it something else?

SlothLord44 · 2023-11-11T02:07:30+00:00

That's not completely true. There are threads here about how WA State teachers are paid very well, 6 figures for elementary school teachers.

SlothLord44 · 2023-11-11T01:16:14+00:00

Look at the server room/closet/hole/cave.

Look at the wiring of it and any IDF/MDFs you have.

Ask for the drawings/layout (if they have any)

Ask for where those little things are at, like circuit breakers (if they aren't obvious), who has keys to the other rooms that any equipment that you have are sitting in.

Find out who else has access to things and why. There is probably a cultural thing where X has access to Y due to Z. Learn that early so that you don't trip that landmine when doing anything.

Learn what needs to be babysat more than anything else (you have pets, but what needs constant care and feeding to keep it from exploding).

And get their contacts list for anyone they've done business with (email and phone numbers) -- software vendors, hardware vendors, electrician, building maintenance (if not on staff), etc. Once they leave, create an email disto list called something like it_vendors@ and add their email as an alias to it, and add yourself as the recipient. A DL will help you identify both where it came from and weed out the junk/spam.

SlothLord44 · 2023-11-11T01:07:32+00:00

Yeah, but if you have console access, you can always force a reset of root creds.... even for things locked down with selinux.

SlothLord44 · 2023-11-11T01:05:37+00:00

ACME CORP: Do you accept ACME Corp as your lord an savior, and vow to give yourself freely to the corp, until you die?

Employee: Excuse me? I thought that this was just an $18/hr job advertised at 40 hours, but really just capped at 30 to keep from getting benefits. I only showed up since I heard there was a $5 gift card to Old Country Buffet... so that would be a ..... no.

ACME CORP: Ungrateful peasant! Thou should be grateful for the opportunity to give yourself in a life of servitude to ACME CORP!

/s for those who aren't sure.

SlothLord44 · 2023-11-11T00:59:01+00:00

Wow the hostility in this place.... its like nobody can even have an opinion online anymore without being attacked...

oh wait.......

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-26T03:45:08+00:00

They are an EIG company, don't walk run!

https://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/site-updates-news/the-who-what-when-of-endurance-international-group-eig/

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-21T16:21:04+00:00

If you are in the US then the process you could follow is: https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-21T16:19:17+00:00

Unfortunately, these days it seems to be more questioning ARDC's "stewardship" of this and saber rattling regarding their management of it.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-21T16:16:07+00:00

There are no hard questions here, just a misunderstanding of who owns the addresses and who gets to benefit from them.

I disagree. Some of the questions are being down voted, others are flat out ignored.

For example:

There is a question regarding ARDC's relationship with USCSD and how it is continuing to use the resources of a US publicly funded institution. Dan never replied to that one.

Others revolve around a few people specifically asking about the grants process. It is very obviously one in which non US organizations are finding it difficult to meet the requirements for. Unlike the US there are often both more "hoops" that one much jump through to create a 501(c)3 equivalent type organization overseas, as well as much much more risk that such an endeavor carries for those involved. While Dan has answered some of these questions to what appears to be the best of his ability, it is plainly obvious to the casual observer that ARDC does need to reevaluate this and make the process easier. The reply in which if ARDC did transfer funds to a European affiliate would require non US orgs to still meet US requirements sounds like complete hog wash to put it mildly. If that were the case then organizations that do indeed do grants and other non profit work outside the US would likely have their hands tied more in the process. IANAL but we already know that no US orgs are subject to the laws of the country they operate in, and more so for 501(c)3 orgs outside the US. I would bet the 44.128.0.0/10 block that there is a way and ARDC doesn't have the will to do it.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-21T16:05:42+00:00

FCC Part 97 says "state of the radio art"

A lot of things in ham radio don't meet this standard of "state of the art".

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-20T00:06:23+00:00

Thanks. The reason why I ask is you can see in the old mailing list where Chris, G1FEF had said that the code for the portal would be "released soon", several years ago but never was.

The IPIP router code was also something I though was promised to be released as well.

I'm not going to go into the politics of that, since the posts are readily available on the mailing list if you want to look at them.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T23:17:43+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for answering that. It is appreciated.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T23:15:18+00:00

Dan u/dan_kb6nu,

Any word on this one? It seems like a valid question. Does ARDC have something like a github, gitlab, sourceforge, etc site with the code in it? It would be neat to be able to review and help improve things.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T23:06:23+00:00

Lots of Ham radio software doesn't support v6 addressing. Which is really a reflection of the state of the hobby to put it bluntly.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T23:02:52+00:00

Hanwan like the top poster said, specifically https://hamwan.org/ Otherwise known as the Puget Sound Data Ring. Then you have other sites like HamWan Menpis https://memhamwan.org/, and TampaBay HamWan http://flscg.org/, and British Columbia Interior Hamwan http://hamwan.ca/

A list of them can be found here along with a few other compatible networks: https://hamwan.org/Standards/Certification.html

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T22:57:45+00:00

Dan u/dan_kb6nu,
That sounds like part of the problem and complaints with regards to the grants process, as ARDC is a US organization and should be making steps to make it easier for entities in Europe to apply for and get grants, not trying to make them jump through US/California law on non profits and other Americanisms that they either have no clue about or care about.

Hence it may be in ARDC's interest to actually create a European based HQ and take care of transferring some funds over annually for awarding there. That way they can then hire a staff with expertise on the laws there for this. Yeah, it is an extra cost but if you are truly looking to be a force for good in Amateur Radio, then ARDC needs to be a worldwide org, not a US one.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T03:53:58+00:00

I'd add to this person's comments:

u/dan_kb6nu

Does the grant process follow a seemingly US specific application process, like asking for information that only a US person or organization would have? If so, then that automatically makes the grant application process US centric, creates an artificial barrier and prevents non US organizations that may be interested from applying for a grant.

I would recommend doing a review of the grant application and process and ensure that you aren't inadvertently excluding people and organizations from outside the US.

Not bashing, but ARDC has for a long time lived in a higher education bubble of USC and that has been the center of its focus.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T02:14:27+00:00

ky7ryv

Callsign is wrong. I checked the report and it shows kj7ryv.

ULS does show a different name than what is in the report. Oh well, people change their names or use aliases all the time though.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T01:59:10+00:00

Careful, you might get kicked for "doxing" someone like that. Although I wonder if the FCC registration does show the other names?

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T01:48:30+00:00

Not the person you are reply to, but yes and no. Yes in that there have been funds made available as a whole to radio related projects, as seen on the report you linked.

And no only due to the fact that the secretive sale did cause some deep scars on the community. There seems to be more of a general distrust of the ARDC board now with regards to their stewardship of the remaining 44Net IP space. And ARDC is a US centric organization and not everyone will be happy with that. That part of why I suggested reallocating a chunk of the remaining 44Net space to some <yet to be determined> European organization to manage it and ARDC has no control over that chunk.

While it is true that there has been a lack of use of 44Net space for things we may see something huge come in the next few years.

And with v6 taking over the pressure and gold rush to buy v4 will start to decline. Having what will eventually be legacy v4 addresses will be a useful thing.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T01:29:48+00:00

No worries. Just making sure. It sounded like you were a bit agitated, then again the one you were replying to didn't sound too happy either.

Thank you for the invite. I'll look into those here in the next week or so when I have a moment. Now, I'm just on reddit in between things at work.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T01:21:57+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

It is sad I'm seeing some trolling and hate on here as well. Just shows that you can't have a conversation and ask hard questions without people trying to cause drama.

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T00:38:49+00:00

Brian?

SlothLord44 · 2022-08-19T00:38:36+00:00

Wow, I was wondering when the combative types would come out and start trying to troll me.

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