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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Noise-cancelling Airpod Pros + Brown Noise. I have 3x 10-year-olds & this lets me completely not even know they exist.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
"That's the perk of running Linux on your personal laptop, no one bothers writing malware to target you." Yet.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I have a couple of cheap, super huge Walmart black friday-type budget TVs in my house (including Visio). I would never hook these up directly to the Internet, and use a set-top device (Xbox, Roku, AppleTV, iPad, etc.) Never had a negative
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
How many greybeards here remember the O'reilly Sendmail bat book[1]? I built an ISP off of deciphering cryptic sendmail.cf parameters from it. This is what the "fix" in Postfix aims to "fix". (Although the Postfix c
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
You could also do this with an iPhone hotspot- although the connected device _will_ have Internet access. Not sure if that's a problem for an oven or not.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Top 10 Best Selling Video Games of All Time: 10) Red Dead Redemption II (43M) 09) Wii Fit (43.8M) 08) Pokémon Red & Blue (47.5M) 07) Mario Kart 8 (51.8M) 06) Super Mario Bros. (58M) 05) PUBG: Battlegrounds (75M) 04) Wii Sports (82.9M) 0
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
This now puts a HUGE target on ProofPoint. My guess: Akamai buys them in the next 12 months.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
This is great for the ad itself, but I want hear what happened directly after they ran it. The site went down for maybe 10-15 minutes and then came right back up. Probably a great war story from the depths of cloud engineering and devops.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
This news about Windows 11 Pro "requiring" a Microsoft Account is a bit of sensationalism. You can still bypass it and create a local account if you know what you're doing, as has been the case for several years with Windows
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
It would be great to see ISPs in the USA, even rural or municipal ISPs begin offering this. The biggest issue I see with doing this (for residential users) is the fiber handoff. For 25Gbit, the very minimum is going to be a SFP28 module wit
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I’m ordering a grip of employee laptops to refresh our fleet and expand some departments. Because Teams is such a dog, my #1 requirement is 16GB RAM. Maybe Microsoft _wants_ Teams to be piggy to drive hardware sales? On another note I think
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
This. I have a few /24s and only actually use maybe 25 active IP addresses. If I want to exist in global BGP tables, it's the smallest block I can use for my ASN (and not be filtered out). I think in 2022, the rise of SDWAN, CDNs,
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
They’re not really “losing” staff as those staff members are just moving somewhere else for a 30% pay raise. For FAANG companies, “The Great Resignation” is more like “The Great Reshuffle”.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
As a long time Linode user, I hung in there through a lot of service issues and growing pains. Linode has always been just one of a handful of providers I have, and I figured at _some_ point, all of these issues will result in a solid platf
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Use a router with pfSense or OPNSense so you can see egress traffic & know what is flowing outbound from your network. Visibility into this traffic is really the only way to know for sure what is going on.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
"Ordering begins January 19." I see they have this behind Akamai. That's a good thing because my first thought was "Man, I hope they have this site behind a good load balancer!"
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Unfortunately, using Windows Server as a gaming computer is highly frustrating, and rarely works long-term. Biggest issue is driver compatibility (especially video drivers). Direct X used to be an issue, but I think it actually runs fine no
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Instead of "Making Windows 2000 Usable in 2021" I'd like to see something more along the lines of "Making Windows 11 Usable in 2021". Past attempts at doing this (oftentimes) produced shady utilities (or illegal ISO
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
At least they acknowledge it: https://portal.office.com/servicestatus
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I love the ending. Seriously, if you're a TLDR; person and just here for the comments, go read the article (it's short) and come back.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
There are 2 types of crotchety old men: 1) This one yells "get off my lawn!". 2) This one yells "get off my lawn!" and proceeds to explain why he doesn't like kids walking through his grass, and gives the complete h
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I used to keep a huge Notepad .txt file of a ton of company knowledge, gotchas, offhand documentation, and any kind of tidbit that I might need later. A few years ago, I migrated all of this to OneNote with detailed, formatted notebooks for
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
You graduated and had to get a job?
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Us greybeards have been around long enough to experience several of these bad/evil domain registrars. One common path I see has been: Network Solutions -> GoDaddy -> Namecheap -> Google Domains OR CloudFlare Domains Seriously,
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
1:10PM - either it has resolved itself, or a regional issue, but I'm not seeing anything being down from the East coast USA.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
What a cool project. Expose that port 3389 (RDP) to the internet & see how long before it gets cryptolocked.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
“Summary: We are experiencing Networking issues” That’s the full details right there folks, no other technical explanation.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
AWS is more often than not a better solution than colo when factoring in the on-site engineers, techs, and operational complexity costs a company will pay to monitor and respond to hardware-related events. One could build out a datacenter m
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
This is a cool “tinkering” project, but my “ultimate” ThinkPad would rarely see the BIOS boot screen, and sleep/suspend/wake would actually work properly.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Twins + adoption actually. The current picture is 8, 9, 9, 16, 16. Figure that one out. :)

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