dan 💾No packet collisions today 🥰
#RetroComputing
#RetroComputing
folken@billgoats setting up traffic lights along the ethernet cables helps. Also don't forgett the speed limits in curves.
@folken We're gonna take this traffic from 10baseT all the way down to 10base2
@billgoats don't forget the copper 2 pair HDSL modem in between and the ultimate IRDA transission into the infrared. 🙂
@folken Hmmmm... I do have a LocalTalk bridge running and a couple of old PowerBooks with IR ports, so could probably rig up some sort of convoluted IR setup, but don't know if it'd be IRDA or Apple's weird IRTalk thing
@billgoats me and a friend found out that when we put two switches across from each other (by accident!) the fibre ports would actually connect despite there being no fibre. We had some wierd results with ip address conflicts and seeing foreing mac addresses... took us a while.
@billgoats i have another one. In #soaring (flying planes without engines) we long used #ipaq s for navigation (screen sunlight readable), attached to the windshields. One pilot came to me and told me that his IPAQ would stall when the course of the plane was between 270 and 300 degrees. Somewhat perplexed I went looking and found out that the IRDA port in IPAQs had a bug, that would cause 100% cpu if the sun shone into the IRDA port. Firmware update fixed that.
@folken Ha! :D