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Richard MacCutchan wrote: What! Why wasn't I told?
This made me LOL!
Well, my trivia game was received far better at CP than I had hoped.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: And?
No and required. Just crawl out of that cubicle!!!
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Huh. Maybe my father knows about it (highly doubtful). He spent his career designing telephone switching systems.
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My first bet was "Hidden Gems Magazine"
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Bonus point for knowing (without googling it) what '2600' stands for.
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Let me get my box of cereal...
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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David Crow wrote: Let me get my box of cereal
Cap'n, don't Krunch too much. You may accidentally swallow the whistle.
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I'm not looking. I promise.
2600hz
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Correct.
The frequency was used to mark a free line on the AT&T system, which used in-band signalling. Playing this tone into the phone made the switch (but not the billing system) think that the line was free, and subsequent dialling would start a new call. This allowed "phone hackers" to make long distance calls for the price of a local call.
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If only I had a good blue box to do this for me?
Oh, wait, I can grab one from Woz & Jobs.
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raddevus wrote: good blue box
The real phone hackers could whistle the correct tone. Harumph!
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I was sure that, that kind of magazines are in electronics only... Or maybe an un-hackable copy is always a good idea?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Or maybe an un-hackable copy is always a good idea?
A PDF file stored on a CD or DVD is pretty safe. OTOH, swatting flies with it is difficult...
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: swatting flies with it is difficult
Don't swat the flies. Dip your device in honey[^] and they will be attracted to it.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Little Bobby Tables got himself a driver's license...
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Was it in a computer class in high school or college? Did you implement an algorithm?
Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia
I actually first learned about it from my father when I was 10 or so, and worked it out on paper, haha, for the first 100 or so.
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School I think, certainly well before I met my first computer, or even programmable calculator!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ditto. IIRC, this was not long after we learnt division.
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I learned about the Sieve of Eratosthenes shortly after I was asked to drain the Pasta of Eratosthenes.
This space for rent
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