Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : Vk3jed
From : N1uro
Date : Wed May 19 2021 09:11 pm

Hello Tony;

-=> Vk3jed wrote to N1uro <=-

 Vk> True, but money doesn't make up for sanity. :)

You're right - and it's part of why when I open my sunroof it's to feel the
air blow through my... scalp <G>


 Vk> Well, if you can understand "Strine", I can help! :D

HA! 

 Vk> Haha, with me, you never know what I'll attempt.  I link ideas that
 Vk> most people don't associate, and that's the source of my out of the box
 Vk> thinking.  Many years ago, after Skip (WB6YMH) chatted with me about
 Vk> the Echolink protocol, and I noticed the similarities with RTP and the
 Vk> Speak Freely protocol that IRLP uses, EchoIRLP was conceived. ;)  And I
 Vk> knew Speak Freely, because years before IRLP, I ran it over dialup
 Vk> modems to talk to friends.

Congrats on your work! I've done some simlar things with networking. For 
example when I was going for my Novel Netware 4 cert, the instructors said
in class IP on Netware 2 was impossible - to which I *had* to correct them.
While they were semi correct, meaning that the IP stack modules were never
included with Netware 2, you *could* import them from Netware 3 as they were
compiled by the same compiler. Import them and configure them. They called
my bluff but gave me the modules and a ver 2 server to put them on then went
to their office work stations. To their surprise they received valid ping
replies :) I was deep in Netware back then.

 Vk> Dave Cameron even had to prune the unused codecs from the IRLP
 Vk> software, because I wrote some custom decode entries to access them! :D
 Vk>  Let's say that 2400bps LPC didn't sound great over radio. ;)

No?? ;-)

 Vk> But it was fun tinkering. :D

That's the best part of computing - tinkering. Often I find a good amount
of "undocumented features".

 Vk> There's a couple of things I've done that I don't tell many about,
 Vk> because while they work and are well behaved, they're not officially
 Vk> sanctioned. :)

Those are often the best kind of features!

 Vk> While I'm not a coder, I am a systems integrator and will attempt to
 Vk> make anything talk to anything, if I can get away with it. ;)

Glad you weren't around during my divorce hearing, my ex couldn't talk to
the judge... and was threatened to be jailed <G>



.... Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough.
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