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  • Re: Comcast weirdness

    From Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Dec 27 11:56:00 2018
    Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Dec 25 2018 01:20 pm

    I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I
    heard about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that
    work with cable (coax) outlets rather than power outlets. I've

    Apparently that's what Comcast uses to communicate between your main
    DVR and those little satellite DVRs that share the recordings on the
    main DVR. Rumor on the net has it that it might not be possible to
    have their Moca network working with another network on the same
    cable, and there's not much information on adding other devices to
    Comcast Moca devices. Would be nice, though.

    I was wondering about that. If you have cable internet/TV, then I imagine that may be an issue. But if use another type of internet (such as DSL, Fios, etc.) and don't have cable TV, then I don't think it would be a problem.

    Nightfox
  • From Nelgin@46:1/194 to Nightfox on Tue Feb 26 11:14:37 2019
    Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
    By: Nightfox to Nelgin on Wed Dec 26 2018 01:40 pm

    I'd give MoCa a try but I don't like coffee ;)

    I guess you don't like the Java programming language either? ;)

    I hate Java and everything to do with it. It's a lazy person's C :) Learn to write portable code lol.
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  • From Nightfox to Nelgin on Tue Feb 26 12:47:23 2019
    Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
    By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Tue Feb 26 2019 11:14 am

    I guess you don't like the Java programming language either? ;)

    I hate Java and everything to do with it. It's a lazy person's C :) Learn to write portable code lol.

    Well Java is portable, probably more so than C because Java's runtime runs on multiple platforms. You can often take the same compiled Java binaries and run them anywhere there is a Java runtime. In C, you have to specifically compile it for each different platform, and also in C code, you have to take specific care to make your C code portable - You have to be careful of OS-specific APIs you use if you want your C program to build and run on multiple platforms. Often it means creating a way to use one API or the other, depending on which OS you're compiling it for, which is something you don't have to do with Java.

    Nightfox
  • From to All on Mon Apr 1 10:57:19 2019
    I echo everything you say here. I will also add for the other gentleman is
    the issue of C with other CPU architectures. As a Linux guy, this is something that I am seeing more and more with the rise of ARM devices running Linux distros. When I compile my C program on my Intel X86-64 laptop, I can't use that binary for my Raspberry Pi. I would have to recompile it on the RPI or cross compile it. C isn't very portable.

    This is why many Linux distros need to have separate ISOs and distros for
    other architectures.

    I am not bashing C. I am actually teaching myself C because I have a huge respect for it and it is used prominently in the Linux kernal and many of the programs used in the distros.

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  • From Nightfox to SwordofKas on Mon Apr 1 09:28:18 2019
    Re: Comcast weirdness
    By: SwordofKas to Nightfox on Mon Apr 01 2019 10:57 am

    I echo everything you say here. I will also add for the other gentleman is

    It would be helpful to quote the part of the message you're replying to, to make it easier to follow the conversation. I haven't seen this thread in a while, so I don't remember what I said here.

    Nightfox
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@46:1/115 to SwordofKas on Mon Apr 1 11:51:54 2019
    Re: Comcast weirdness
    By: SwordofKas to Nightfox on Mon Apr 01 2019 10:57 am

    something that I am seeing more and more with the rise of ARM devices running Linux distros. When I compile my C program on my Intel X86-64 laptop, I can't use that binary for my Raspberry Pi. I would have to recompile it on the RPI or cross compile it. C isn't very portable.

    C is very portable - you'd need to *re-write* the program for different architectures back in the bad old days. The face that C was portable by recompiling for different platforms was a big selling point.
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