[robespierre]

Did they change their procedures since the early 'aughts? I thought you just provided your name, address, and bank account # and they check that you have control of that account by depositing a random number of cents into it and asking you to verify the amount?

How else (apart from cryptocurrency) would you receive payments and disclose less information than that to the processor?

"KYC" isn't something Paypal invented, it's a federal law.

[vishnu]

Did they change their procedures since the early 'aughts? I thought you just provided your name, address, and bank account # and they check that you have control of that account by depositing a random number of cents into it and asking you to verify the amount?

That's how I got my paypal verified account, I don't know if they've changed anything since then but they haven't asked me for (or about) anything else since then.

[robespierre]

The companies like paypal (and ebay) constantly nag you about "2FA" and adding your cell phone to your account, but it may not be mandatory.

[Raion]

PayPal in the States of Virginia Illinois and North Carolina require your social security number in order to collect taxes. PayPal is not a bank and is not regulated like a bank is so I refuse outright to use their services. Not only have they had data breaches in the past but they keep your social security number on file and I've already had issues with people trying to use my social security number for identity theft purposes so I'm quite paranoid about this.

By comparison none of the other applications I mentioned require that level of kyc

[vishnu]

I've been a verified user on paypal since before they were bought by ebay, so I was never asked for my SSN. So I've always been able to login with just my email address and password. I'm pretty careful about my bank account, I typically check it every day. It's somehow been broken into on three occasions, but on each of those occasions my bank reversed the transactions and put the money back into my account. Hence my obsessive daily checking of my account...

[Raion]

Understandable. Just can't deal with it myself.

[markh]

Nixdoc seems to be back up?
I just supported you on Patreon anyway as I appreciate this forum and what you are doing to keep Irix alive.

[Raion]

Let's see if nixdoc actually fixed the search though:

Oh, still a 500 error.

No matter. We're already more than 50% done.

And thanks for the patron sub -- I'll get your flair up tomorrow.

[jwhat]

Hi SGI'er,

In playing around with FreeBSD Ports to see if it would work with IRIX, I was using Infosearch and FreeBSD Manual pages a lot to understand the differences between FreeBSD ASH and IRIX ksh.

I also managed to break Infosearch again, but for different reasons:

EDIT/DANGER !! : In hacking the "Uses/compiler.mk" script (which sends compiler output to /dev/null), I noticed that this does chmod on /dev/null which in turn breaks "Infosearch" (it errors with message saying it cannot find the page). So you need to chmod /dev/null back to a+wr to fix the created problem. This took me a day to diagnose and fix ....

So got distracted seeing if I could stand up a man server using man2html script or the FreeBSD man.cgi script.

What I found was that:
1. FreeBSD Man Pages (uses "big perl script" man.cgi) includes lots of UNIX/BSD Variants (including IRIX 6.5.30 , which is broken) and not just FreeBSD
2. FreeBSD ports man2html - appears to also include a cgi plugin: man.cgi which again does not work with IRIX pages

How are you going with this effort ?

Having an online set of manual pages for IRIX 6.5.30 would be very helpful.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John

[jpstewart]

2. FreeBSD ports man2html - appears to also include a cgi plugin: man.cgi which again does not work with IRIX pages

FWIW, man2html cannot work with the man pages as shipped with IRIX.  SGI shipped pre-formatted man pages ("catman" format) that could be displayed as-is.  But man2html is designed to take the nroff or troff source files and format them as HTML.  Most Unix variants shipped those source files, to be formatted to fit your terminal at run-time.  (Sometimes pre-formatted ones would be cached for subsequent display, but storing the catman files was optional.)  SGI never shipped the source files for their man pages.  On IRIX, you needed the add-on Documenter's Workbench to get any of the roff formatters and associated tools, so there was no point in them shipping the unformatted man source since few people would have been able to use it.

And that's why it will always take some extra effort to display IRIX man pages on the web.  They're distributed differently than usual.