Posts by CrazyOldCatMan

Re: SPF

If only recipients used SPF!

You know a lot of places don't bother with SPF? All the domains I manage have their SPF properties correctly set but I still get lots of bounced mails where the originals claim to be from one of my domains..

And it's quite clear (looking at the headers) that the scumbags that sent them are using mail servers that don't even make a pretense of looking at SPF (my servers are neither in Brazil nor Russia. Or Thailand or China[1] or some parts of Eastern Europe).

[1] A lot of those places are geo-blocked on my firewall - I know it's not going to block everything but it does vastly reduce the attacks on my webservers and also the amount of spam that I get. And every little helps.

Re: To boldly go where Japan has been ten years ago?

and just says "yup, it's dirt."

Unlikely given how few bacteria and worms there are in space - the majority of usual soil is lifeforms of various sorts and the... 'output' of said creatures.

Pedantic I know. But without pedantry, where are we?

Re: Pay more, receive less

Way to gouge us

You are not required to buy one. Too expensive? Don't buy it.. Too loaded with crapware? Don't buy it (which is one reason I don't buy Samsung).

Moral of the story - buy the phone that's at the price you want and with the features you want.

"Then again, we're getting on fine without Alta Vista."

I'm not sure about "fine" when you look at some of the alternatives.

Fortunately, Usenet still exists.. And because it isn't known much, no more Eternal September..

Re: Ever increasing totals

Or being several generation Sabra, Gadot probably has a historically correct look for Cleopatra..

Same goes for Western depictions of Christ - he wouldn't have been a tall, handsome white guy.. (especially when you take Isiah 53 into account: "he had no form or beauty that would attract us"..).

Re: RE: applies an equal and opposite force to the launch platform

there is nobody standing in the opposite direction to the target

Much like firing an anti-tank missile (or so I've heard)

Re: Call me Mr Cynical but...

thorough the testing was

It compiles! Time to release it..

Re: So tell me if you heard this one: an ERP deployment goes horribly over budget...

So what terrible Indian outsource shop/slave market did they use?

Doesn't need an Indian outsourcer - sometimes an internal team can do just as badly. When I was at a certain bat-winged supplier of cellular base stations in the late 90's, we had a project to deploy what was called a "factory management suite" - it did component ordering, build tracking, inventory levels, order and shipping tracking etc etc rather than relying on paperwork and people.

To say that it was badly done is an understatement. Each of the modules was late and, when 'finally' implemented, we could ship anything for several weeks - until they (reluctantly) paid for external consultants to actually fix the problems.

The project manager got a handsome promotion out of it even though the project ended up successful (despite being way over time and budget) depite the PM rather than because of the PM..

Outsourcing just makes failure more likely..

Re: Coffee chain coffee

If there isn't a decent café around?

Drink tea.

(We've got a couple of local chain coffee shops here - they sell good coffee and decent food - certainly better than the big international chains do).

Re: Dont worry, the pain

The stronger The Faith

"But I tell you this, faith without works is dead. You say you have faith - then show it by the works you do". So, all those people putting their faith in Brexit are going to be very, very disappointed

Have an email system that can handle multiple domains

I use qmail and vpopmail. Of course, it doesn't have a point-'n-drool interface so most support staff wouldn't be able to cope with it..

Re: Trumps cut

Send a big honkin Exadata rack directly to him at Mar a Lago

Delivered directly by B-52?

Or perhaps they thought I was being serious ....

TSA <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Sense of humour..

Re: Trump hs shown distain for the courts

rump is willing to negotiate away things he claims are 'national security' if he thinks he's getting a "good deal"

So, an quiet handover of a well-stuffed brown envelope and suddenly Tiktok are the greatest thing since Fillet-O-Fish?

Re: I choose the clients...

I believe the phrase is:

No. Hell, no.

raditional dogfight was pretty much dead as it was cheaper & easier to fire various missiles at your opponents

I remember a sci-fi short story called "A hawk among the pidgeons". The basic plot was that a modern (for the 1980s) fighter[1] somehow gets thrown back through time to WW1.

"Aha!" thinks the pilot - at a stroke I will kill the German biplanes - how hard can it be?

The answer is - very hard. Not enough metal or heat for the missiles to lock onto and the speed difference is just too great for the gun to be useful. The most he can do is try and tear them apart with his slipstream and even that doesn't work.

Just as he's about out of fuel, the time-rift opens again and he's back in his time.

[1] And F104 Starfighter if I remember correctly. Surprised that the pilot survived..

Re: As far as eBay and PayPal are concerned

Whether it was his son, his cat

This is why purchases from my Mac require Touch-ID authentication. I learnt that after the first crate of cans of tuna and 75kg bags of catnip arrived..

And I haven't registered their pawprints.

Re: well..

and for PHE to be scrapped. Stage 1 complete?

It's the usual Whitehall bait and switch. What was left out of the announcement was that the very people at PHE who messed up the Covid response (doubtless spurred on by the utter lack of comprehension, resources and assistance provided by Whitehall) were slid sideways into the new agency..

So the names have changed but the people in charge are the same. And I doubt very much that Whitehall will let them off the leash to actually, you know, do something effective..

Much like the handling of the exact same problem by the Scottish

Which is even more inexplicable that the English carried on doing what they did - they had a very clear indication from what happened in Scotland that what they proposed was really, really not going to work and yet they carried on doing it anyway..

It's one thing to make the mistake yourself but it's a really special kind of stupid to see the process fail so badly and then CARRY ON AND DO THE SAME THING YOURSELF!

Did they somehow think the special magic of being 'English' would automagically make things work? Or, maybe, did they think that it would be bad for their image to be seen to be following one of the 'lesser'[1] nations?

Whatever. If there were any lingering doubts that Boris' shower of idiots were incompetent then those doubts are hereby dispelled. Yes, they *really* are that incompetent. And, even worse, the Education Minister still has his job and hasn't done the honourable[2] thing and resigned. And even, even worse, Boris hasn't grown a backbone and sacked him.

[1] Not my view at all. If I had my way, all the nations would be a lot more free (including Cornwall)..

[2] Not that most of this government would know what honour was if it dressed up in sparkly clothes and carried a big sign saying "I'm Honour"..

Re: People who want to continue will just get VPNs.

or just switch to a less intrusive search engine.

And, if you can't find one, just Duck Duck Go it..

Re: As a side note ...

use a drill to remove the flow restriction in my shower

I used to know people who did that to power-restricted learner motorbikes. And then whinged when said motorbike engine blew up after their hamfisted butchering and (unsurprisingly) their warranty was void..

Re: Hand sanitizer chasers

alcohlics I ever met were doctors

You know the old saying: And alcoholic is someone who drinks more than their doctor...

Re: Every last Chinese

I'm not being pedantic

Nowt wrong with a little pedantry..

Re: And just to think...

...it's thanks to these nutters we have Brexit.

I suspect that this rump of UKIP were just the tools and footsoldiers that Farage used to spread his pernicious message. Once he (and his mysterious backers) got what they wanted, he dropped them like the dross they are.

After all, he's not a paragon of morals and integrity either - becoming an MEP, not bothering to turn up unless he could guarentee that there would be TV cameras and accepting an MEP's pension even though he despised the EU Parliament and all it stood for. At its best it's it's hypocracy.

Re: Obvious

The 'Free Market'(TM) is a gigantic con

The free market (as such) can't really exist. Either you have a regulated market of some kind in order to attempt to stem rampant criminality or abuse of market position or you have a free-for-all where one company will inevitably win and kill off all the competitors and proceed to form a monopoly to ensure that none of it's competitors can ever overtake it. And any proto-competitors will get swallowed up or forced out of business.

None of todays market is devoid of covert or overt state aid - the Chinese manufacturing sector got so big because of support from the government and the West's rampant desire to pay less and less for more and more. If we concentrate on *only* the price as a determinant of what we buy then we are propping up regiemes that we don't like. Unfortunately, after decades of wrecking our hi-tech and technology companies, sometimes we don't have a choice.

Re: The mistake you're making

Where he's failed is on everything that needs planning

Like: running casinos, running golf courses, running business generally, running a 'university'. IN fact, running anything that involves brainwork, hard work and decency.

I don't know if it's true but surely if he just banked the money left to him or given to him (sometimes illegally) he would have more money now than he currently does (even at his own inflated self-worth).

And why won't he publish his tax returns like previous presidents have? I can only think of two reasons - either they will show that he really doesn't have as much money as he says he does or they will reveal clear indications of criminal or illegal activities (like using campaign funds to silence people for example). Either of which would be deeply embarrasing or lead to criminal charges.

Re: The need for passwordless WebAuthn and Yubikeys

getting a Yubikey for a while.

Until I realized how much it would suck if it was lost or stolen

Which is why I have several - one kept in the safe at home and one carried on me. The one in the safe is configured to have the same access as the live one..

Re: Orangeade

The US is a corrupt oligarchy, which is the reason that people actually voted for Trump

.. in order to increase the corruption, decrease the ability to actually look after the poor and to ensure the rich get even richer?

mac Book & look at 45 Deg. to the screen and you will see a complete KB scratched into the display coating

Not on the two I'm currently looking at. But then, I look after my kit (I've got a drawer-full of old mobiles, most of them in pristine condition)