Hi Paul!
Post by Paul RatcliffeWhy do you care what the IP address is anyway? If you do, then you
should be using a static address. If you are using DHCP, then by definition
you don't care. But then you're a bit odd anyway...
<shakes head and wonders why he bothers to reply>
Oh I make letter errors lots of times K/M, especially as an old guy who grew
up thinking certain cycles were lots of fun until modern day politicos taught
they hertz.. grin!
Odd? YES! but not gay about things, chuckle. I for one do not think Angels
play on a HAARP. As a NARTE Master Telecommunications Engineer since 1985, I
realize there is a *LOT* I don't know about things, but need to learn. Even
today; now.
As things get faster and faster and even just a couple months ago if you
really care to dig into the NASA data and other places, you'll find we were
about at a one-in-five chance of a level F5 Solar Flare. About as big as the
Carrington Event. And, yes, I really do hold one of the very few USA First
Class Radiotelegraph Commercial licenses ever issued in the USA. Could have
signed for the Titanic, but glad I wasn't there and ordered to send the
distress code by the boss. And sent CQD intead of the newly agreed upon SOS in
Morse Code.
And with my airplane having been hit six times directly by lightning as a very
high time commercial pilot, plus my ship over a dozen times directly, plus
twice having it hit a phone pole on a public street I couldn't get off of in a
questionable tornado, plus having it hit my car and blowing out the left front
tire, plus taking about an average two direct strikes on my rural ham radio
telegraph HF antenna farm a year for about thirty years now, one that even
rolled me out of bed that morning with a strange taste in my mouth ..
I realize that the networking masters are absolutely acting VERY risky to tell
us all we have to be talking to Master Government in REAL-TIME just to do
medical treatments, handle drugs, orchestrate power grids ..etc,, etc..
Let alone assign this to CLOUD technology, shall we say just a string that can
be tweaked by a HAARP , a single two hundred mike up nuke or substitute, or
even just our wonderful sun? On the way to the next 'peak' in Cycle 24 of the
sunspot cycle? With sunspots that have reverse polarity from cycle to cycle
every 11-13 years or so? Which is how we identify passage from one to the
next. And seem to be on the course to peak at the 'normal' about two years
after a new cycle starts. At about the last quarter of 2012. When we, the
sun and our solar system can reasonably be expected to pass through the center
of the galaxy magnetic polarity, which can maybe do what to the Earth?
Words have funny similarities. Magnetic and magma, for example. How many
degrees has the North Pole shifted just in a few years now that is so far off
even now that the direction identity runway markings for Florida airport
runways aren't even correct at 18/36 or whatever?
Paul .. I believe that the *ONLY* way we folks here in our computer world can
continue to tale care of those we love and respect, in the future, is to put
together complete EMP pulse and fully LOCALLY continuable operating LAN
systems which *CAN* and *DO* work in the event of either a tragic human caused
attempt what I believe is to wrongfully control others, or may easily be just
another facet of nature.
Remember the Carrington Event burned up most all of the telegraph sounders in
the whole USA that two years after the Golden Spike was driven mid-1800's
here. As well as sent many telegraph operators into confusion from strong
electrical shock. Plus actually, in a number of places, set the wood railroad
cross-ties on fire when the rails arced over them to the ground as the flare
hit the rails.
Sure .. I respect cloud movement for data. But absolutely only as backup
real-time LAN storage capability that, as long as things are working with the
cloud, are OK. That said, at the same time we *MUST* have totally local LAN
operations which can handle even manually auto-merged LOCALLY controlled LAN
administration. Even in an instant when the 'cloud' is gone. From completely
independent hardware clones that can be moved anywhere on demand in an
instant. Even if the LAN is just in an adjacent room at a local mission
critical site. Where maybe some rooms survived for use as to whatever
destroyed the copper wire connectivity of everything, but others in even the
same building did not. On different LAN's.
Remember that even a lightning strike is *NOT* electricity as such. It is
more or less a radio wave! Which doesn't even travel inside the conductor, be
it copper wire, a steel rail, the wires in the building. And reverses in
maximum voltage vs. maximum current every quarter wavelength along its path
down whatever; wherever? Ever seen a lightning ball? Grin!
I am researching how to do this LAN survival game in OS/2, as well as the
ability to carry forth with data from even absolutely necessary 1980's level
code .. to a decade or more in the future. Transparently, so as to help my
fellow man survive as best as possible.
As we go forward living in interesting times.
And *YES*, I do respect and appreciate everything you are doing for us all and
how you look at things, my friend! But what I am thinking about, working
about and asking about may not be what a lot of folks might think is normal.
And sure, it may be absolutely useless! But maybe not? Maybe your comment is
totally valid!
Grin!
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--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
Mike Luther