Lounge - October 2020

Company that I work for is moving to "subscription licensing", which I don't want to support. Should I quit?

Time appropriate greetings everybody! I hope this is the right "sub forum" for "offtopic" stuff like this. I work for a company that develops and produces spe...

[18 replies] Last: Bazinga it's back on again - Deviance v6.1.1 out now, groomers (by againtry)

by adam2016

Charles Petzold diagram confusion

This may belong in the lounge but it is related to programming all be it at a much lower level. In Charles Petzold's Code, the diagram leaves a lot of ambigu...

[17 replies] Last: @Ganado oh nice, never knew that, exactly what I'll do @Dutch now it... (by adam2016)

by adam2016

How does a router determine internal ip address

let's say we have a local address of 192.168.10.3 and we want to send a packet to 18.2.*.1 on port 21, we send the data to our default gateway, the source ip no...

[6 replies] Last: makes sense thanks Helios :) (by adam2016)

by adam2016

NetCat and TCP

Hi guys, I think I have some misunderstandings when it comes to the TCP protocol. Netcat uses TCP to establish TCP connections from one machine to another( ev...

[3 replies] Last: Thanks guys that makes sense :) (by adam2016)

by leander g

Why does this website not have "https"?

Time appropriate greetings everybody, ever since I first discovered this site a week or two ago I have been wondering why this website does not use https:// ...

[13 replies] Last: The counter and preview work when replying to an already existing thre... (by deleted account xyzzy)

by Talcott

I want to delete my archived post

Hello, How do you delete archived posts on the forum? Is there somebody I can contact? I want to delete my post that was archived on my old account. I have tri...

[7 replies] Last: Thank you all (by Talcott)

by lastchance

Trials and tribulations of Covid-19 Data Reporting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988 I love my country - but sometimes its computer-programming skills leave a lot to be desired!

[4 replies] Last: They used .xls files?? Sheesh!! Everyone knows you should use .dbf fi... (by dhayden)

by Computergeek01

Zero Login

So who else here has actually checked out the white paper for this? Found here: https://www.secura.com/pathtoimg.php?id=2055 supplementary documentation: http...

[3 replies] Last: Zerologon is significantly worse, but don't take my word for it. Using... (by Albatross)

by An Integer

Disclaimer when writing software that can be used for harm

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows anything about disclaimers when it comes to software that may potentially be harmful? I am currently writing a piece of so...

[4 replies] Last: Thank you all for the good replies! I am now certain that it isn't a g... (by An Integer)

by zapshe

Javascript Interview!?

Heyyyy ;-; I have an interview on Friday with a company that primarily codes in Javascript. I've been coding in Javascript recently, making some simple websi...

[19 replies] Last: f it's the type of place where they want people just to go off and co... (by Cubbi)

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