Rick Troth

Christian, husband, father, life-long wire monkey with strong opinions, now doing crypto/datasec, sometime singer, Extinguished Engineer, #hamradio N5VDC

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@davepl1968 Be wary.
Cloudflare is pretty good ... for the time being. But they already push some policies which have hidden costs / side effects. (Can't just sprinkle encryption on everything like it's fairy dust and have security holes vanish.)

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@davepl1968 @jackunheard Cept that MLB was not previously unwelcoming, so why now emphasize a particular group?

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@AbduMurray Sounds like a John 3:19 situation. You should use it as an illustration. :-)

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@MarkMittelberg @Guitarbizon Also Jeff Porcaro and Dannu Seraphine.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Goodness. What a prophetic quote from 44 years ago.

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

IBM adopted UFT for implementation in their z/VM TCP/IP product as well as in their z/VM RSCS communication product.

Software vendor VSSI is developing a commercial implementation of UFT for multiple platforms.

https://t.co/dIpo8nIcHs

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

An update for PortsMaster ...

https://t.co/Vh2WJcj98R

There are multiple implementations of UFT protocol.
Port 608 was assigned by IANA for unencrypted UFT.
Encrypted UFT (SSL/TLS) can be carried over TCP port 5608.

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

The original RFC describes UFT/1, which is deprecated.
The current protocol level is UFT/2 which changes the behavior of the "DATA" command and adds an open-ended "META" command. (Small changes but significant.)

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

"All ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims."
-- John Stonestreet

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@JohnDCook I can so much relate to that:
done lots, but not such as was on the to-do list.

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

"Correctness comes first.
Readability matters.
You don't hand-optimize code just because it makes you feel like you're wearing a cape."
-- @davepl1968

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

... tomorrow at 7PM US/Eastern.

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

My wife's publicist requested a "documentary" about who she is (my wife) and now she (publicist) wants to drive attentance at the premier (YouTube) of the doco. If you are inclined to join, please do.

https://t.co/pb1NIusn1P

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@davepl1968 This is all so true.
Even today, I'm spending too many hours trying to get around a minor omission in some (otherwise pretty good) code from a decade ago.

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

"Messy code compounds and becomes unfixable."
-- Dave @davepl1968 Plummer

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@davepl1968 upper right

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@davepl1968 Can I have a shell account?

[Rick Troth @vmcowboy]

@cjsmall @davepl1968 I preferred amber since first seeing it, though I never tested flicker or persistence.

Would love to have a couple actual VT220s in the home lab.