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by _nickwhite 5y ago
My 3 youngest kids, aged 9, 9, and 8 told me Roblix were having an extended outage, world wide. Good job to the team getting everything back up. Been there, done that. #hugops
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
“Thanks” has become such a disingenuous generic ending on e-mails that I’ve stopped using it altogether. And it hasn’t seemed to reduce my replies or cause people to think I’m “not nice.” I end every single e-mail with “-NW” and if I want t
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Without Microsoft software, Ransomware would not hardly exist. I think the “downhill” has been a huge cliff for the past few years, but it’s getting worse. Nothing drives Azure business better.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I’ve been on Fastmail for about 4 months now. This is the first service interruption I’ve seen & didn’t even notice it. I’ve used a lot of other providers, but from what I’ve experienced over these past months, Fastmail is one of the be
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Gen X-ers and Older Millennials will request to be put on hold again just to jam out to that Windows 3.1 nostalgia.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
If I ever start my own company with a real phone system, I’m putting canyon.mid as the on hold music. How cool would that be?
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
Whoops, typo, I had an AMD 386/40 and my friend’s 386/33 kicked its ass. I _did_ actually also have an AMD 286, but it was 13MHz & had a whole 1MB of RAM.
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I think there should be a big message that says "Non-USA Consumers Only". If Dell were to offer this for the USA, my company/IT Department would ship them dozens of products a year to recycle, maybe hundreds when laser consum
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
The SX was always better. I owned an AMD 286 40MHz and my friend’s 386SX 33MHz outperformed it in every measurable way. My jealousy overflowed!
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Finding the Original 1977 'Star Wars' Verges on the Impossible(inverse.com)
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
The math should also include the price of the staff who babysit 625 spinning metal disks, who likely drive to a data center multiple times a week to swap failed drives. I shudder to think if this job fell in my lap!
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by _nickwhite 5y ago
I'm over IT for about 40 remote workers. One of the comments in this article rings so true about the pain of using USB-C to DisplayPort: "I hate my USB-C monitor ports that work is making me use. Sometimes when I plug the USB-Dock
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
This may be true for Surface Book- an uber-high-end device. But almost any other Surface device you buy through consumer channels has "Windows 10 Home" edition on it. If you want to use it for business to join a domain, you still
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
My biggest gripe about Teams is what a memory hog it is. Mine is currently sitting idle (been on vacation all week) at nearly 1GB. Compare this to Zoom, which is idling at just over 100MB. Teams is literally taking up 10 times more RAM than
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Update: According to Reuters, the ship has been partially refloated & moved so other traffic can go past. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-rest...
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Indeed it does, I see it now: "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" My old greybeard eyes completely missed the red text, centered right under the top banner.
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember back in 2002, Openbsd.org had a banner: "Five years without a remote hole in the default install!" Then, later that year OpenSSH had a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability that allowed an at
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
"Longitudinally collected HRV metrics from a commonly worn commercial wearable device (Apple Watch) can identify the diagnosis of COVID-19 and COVID-19 related symptoms." Having first-hand experience, I can confirm that my heart
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
The struggle is real. I found Mailgun to be pretty reliable for yahoo/aol/verizon domains, but my volume isn’t crazy big.
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
I run a few moderately sized corporate e-mail systems. SPF, DKIM, DMARC are all necessities, but unfortunately they don't guarantee delivery. We have much better success sending e-mail out via Mailgun or Sendgrid. Since Verizon swallow
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Trying to use Reddit without the app is maddening. I am aware of old.reddit.com- but it is so annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time I want to read something. On IOS/Safari, visiting any Reddit page re
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
I remember in the late 90's when Amazon competed with Barnes and Noble (here in the US) to sell books online. An interesting fact that stuck with me about Amazon back then is they didn't use any crazy javascript or front-end emerg
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
I've said this from the very beginning of the pandemic that it makes no sense at all focusing on surfaces and raiding stores for hand sanitizer. Even the CDC themselves says this: "On the other hand, transmission of novel coronavi
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Thanks Andy! Without me digging through the SMART data, has there been any difference in data center temps over the years for Backblaze? I ask because I've personally seen disk life vary greatly between "warm" datacenters (cl
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
If a Backblaze engineer (or Andy) is reading this, could you comment on environmental temps and vibration you guys keep the disks at? Thanks.
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Costco. Both the cab & pinot grigio are decent- and I have hated every other boxed wine I’ve tried.
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
I was highly disappointed to read this: "Whatever you do, please don’t buy a VacuVin or anything resembling such a device that allows you to “pump out the air from the bottle.” These devices just don’t work as advertised. Sure, they re
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
They were running all of their websites through AWS, but didn't use AWS as the registrar.
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Dreamhost is/was their domain name registrar- and even though Dreamhost didn't host Parler's services, they were taking massive heat on Twitter over it. So I guess at some point, Dreamhost as a registrar silently deleted them
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by _nickwhite 6y ago
Something interesting here is that not only the Parler app was pulled... the _entire_ parlor.com domain and website registration is non-existent at the moment. It's like a black hole: >dig @1.1.1.1 parler.com +short <empty>

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