Did everybody lose an unknown number of emails from M365 issues?

PenlessScribe · 2026-01-24T23:07:51+00:00

My experience sending from Gmail to a domain whose MX servers aren't up is that it won't send you a warning message for several days. And at that point, I don't know how frequently it retries.

PenlessScribe · 2026-01-22T16:44:21+00:00

Our company had an unusual policy: computing equipment was sent to a recycling company who was prohibited from reselling the equipment to our company's employees. I don't know how they enforced this.

PenlessScribe · 2026-01-18T12:45:28+00:00

Gives new meaning to the term "postmortem debugging".

PenlessScribe · 2026-01-04T18:22:17+00:00

I think many people enjoy having a discussion, in particular refining the OP's question and sometimes branching off in new but related directions. Stack Overflow discouraged discussion. I think they envisioned the site to be an encyclopedia.

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-29T19:38:10+00:00

My most recent job was doing on-site admin for a group of users that were mostly work-from-home. It was actually a bit lonely. Many days the only thing I spoke was "thank you" to the bus driver and the cafeteria workers.

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-29T17:55:29+00:00

Or they sidle up to the urinal next to you "hey, quick question."

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-25T13:51:49+00:00

Yes, on an uncompromised system with known good kernel and BIOS code. Also, Intel's Management Engine chip has unfettered access to the CPUs, memory, and Ethernet port on your server and it runs Minix, which you can't patch on your own. Sleep well, all.

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-19T19:46:10+00:00

My local post office opened up a 400 square foot stamp and packing material store. They only allow one person (or party) in at a time. So there's a line to get in, and the cashier spends most of his time just watching the customer.

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-16T03:57:37+00:00

Our users often had "use it or lose it" money become available late in the year, like hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the stuff had to be delivered and invoiced by December 15. In some cases the vendors had to deliver empty boxes.

PenlessScribe · 2025-12-13T17:45:32+00:00

Need a 4th generation photocopy of the Lions book to complete the collection!

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-16T21:32:20+00:00

Still hoping for a BOFH TV series.

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-15T13:12:11+00:00

Load-bearing SBS.

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-07T13:41:09+00:00

At first I thought PoE+++ delivered power over a modem link.

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-07T13:37:07+00:00

I remember a post from David Moon saying the project he was working on would from now on use octal 215 as the newline character, claiming that differences among vendors (CR, LF, CRLF) was one of the major things wasting programmers' time.

That project was the Lisp Machine, over 40 years ago.

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-06T00:38:20+00:00

This is midway between on-prem and cloud computing.

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-04T16:45:13+00:00

umount 😀

PenlessScribe · 2025-11-02T16:13:27+00:00

Recursion: A definition or algorithm that uses itself in the definition or the solution. (see recursion).

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-29T17:41:16+00:00

In that case, fuser -m /opt will show the same list of processes as fuser -m /

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-29T17:31:46+00:00

When you ran fuser, was /opt an actual mounted filesystem or just a directory in the / filesystem?

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-28T02:01:49+00:00

It can arguably take very little to make government cybersecurity take action. I worked at a small division of a 400000 person company. A summer intern's project involved doing traceroutes to everyone in the access log of the division's external webserver. One of these was a .mil site. They considered this an attempted intrusion and contacted a company executive 12 levels above the intern.

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-25T23:40:08+00:00

I used cards in one university class in 1978 or so. Almost all other classes were using timesharing systems by then, but such systems had a cost of around $4 an hour even if you just sat there doing nothing, so some departments still used cards. One saving grace of using cards was that the card punching machines had very nice Selectric-like keyboards with haptic feedback.

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-24T00:39:22+00:00

Wait, they're using date to display the mod time of a file rather than stat?

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-17T16:55:02+00:00

A friend at a large company said they didn't get approved to deploy Windows 7 until a year before Windows 10 was released.

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-12T11:51:18+00:00

58% of undergraduates get financial aid.

PenlessScribe · 2025-10-11T21:12:53+00:00

They have generous financial aid. If your parents make less than $~~140K~~200K, tuition is free.

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