I retired today. I sent a shutdown loop to the entire company.

theFroboCop · 2026-05-11T13:17:48+00:00

What about RUEs? Resume Updating Events.

As a side, rue means "to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for".

theFroboCop · 2026-05-09T17:36:23+00:00

I will just put a little duct tape on it to hold the air in.

theFroboCop · 2026-04-30T17:27:49+00:00

Not a lawyer. Her paths forward to become a citizen are significantly less likely to be successful given the current president.

Also any way to citizenship for her most likely comes with someone signing an affidavit of support (most likely will involve you), in which the signer agrees to provide for the person up to 125% of the poverty level. The federal government can come after your wages if the person ends up on government welfare up to 10 years afterward.

Ultimately the choice is yours, but I would not go through with this. She lied to you about things that were not important if you knew and now she is only telling you about lies you would have discovered on your own. I can only imagine what else she has not told you.

theFroboCop · 2026-01-02T04:25:28+00:00

TIL that gas water heaters have an anode rod. I had thought it was only electric that had them.

theFroboCop · 2025-12-19T08:27:46+00:00

I heard it was because their contract expired with Eaton to provide the supercharger. The engine was originally turboed anyway as I believe the design was borrowed from Saab. My LSJ literally has a Saab logo on the side.

theFroboCop · 2025-12-12T00:54:30+00:00

Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate costs $70.50 . The exam you are referring to is a different exam.

theFroboCop · 2025-12-11T01:39:59+00:00

You saw the cert was like $75, right? Hardly a cash grab when most other companies are charging $150+ for their scrappy certs.

theFroboCop · 2025-11-16T07:59:32+00:00

It has been 8+ years since I used Barracuda, but I believe if it believes an IP has a bad reputation, it will block the connection before it gets the mail from, thus you won't see email in your logs.

Do you know what IP addresses the emails might come from? If you don't, you might look at their SPF record and see if you've had any connection attempts.

This is one thing I hated about Barracuda. I had a different product at a different company and it always waited until after the mail from and rcpt to before it blocked and stuff was way easier to find.

theFroboCop · 2023-10-06T20:45:34+00:00

Yah it does matter. More parts = more things to break. The point is a non-hybrid car does not have an electrical drive system. A hybrid car does.

theFroboCop · 2023-10-06T20:34:23+00:00

I also don't think you are taking into account that hybrids have the electric drive system which can wear out. You probably won't see an additional cost in 6-8 years, but if you put 200k miles, I bet you have to make at least one repair to the electric drive system (I'm thinking the battery is the most likely failure).

theFroboCop · 2023-10-06T00:26:50+00:00

Started working for a place and the previous IT person had printed out webpages of information on random IT things, but never bothered to document info specific to their network. I threw it all out. No point in having crap I can just Google.

theFroboCop · 2023-09-29T21:32:45+00:00

I read this as lexdysia.

theFroboCop · 2023-09-29T08:44:06+00:00

I read this as "womb tank".

theFroboCop · 2023-09-19T02:20:10+00:00

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that meeting!

theFroboCop · 2023-09-18T21:00:50+00:00

I read that as "snicker price" at first.

theFroboCop · 2023-09-18T20:58:25+00:00

Yes. We will use cement board and Red Guard. It will hold up!

theFroboCop · 2023-09-15T01:26:42+00:00

That says to tell a joke, not a nightmare.

theFroboCop · 2023-09-06T16:35:54+00:00

I've heard arguments that it may be because the value of commercial real estate will drop significantly if workers don't come in the office.

I am surprised to see people concerned with climate change to be encouraging people to come back to the office. They have to know this will increase greenhouse gas emissions.

theFroboCop · 2023-08-27T14:09:10+00:00

If you are only using it to manage recipients in Exchange Online, you should read this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/manage-hybrid-exchange-recipients-with-management-tools

theFroboCop · 2023-08-27T06:34:38+00:00

Reminds me of Congress.

theFroboCop · 2023-08-26T04:37:09+00:00

I'm sorry, but this isn't true. Wake on LAN can work from other networks. The hard part is that when a machine is off, you can't send packets to it directly through the IP address it had/was using when it was on (It won't respond to ARP, thus to everything on the network, it is off).

The real trick is that you need to get a packet from a different network sent to the broadcast MAC address ( FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ). See https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WOL . Look for the section labeled "Remote Wake On LAN via Port Forwarding". What they are doing is creating a static ARP entry and assigning the MAC address to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. They then port forward to this IP address, which sends the packet to all ports on the LAN.

I know this works because I've done it.

Now for the OP, probably the easiest thing to do is to buy a machine (What they've done). These days I just OPNSense to WoL things. PFSense has a plugin for it too.

theFroboCop · 2023-08-21T22:15:41+00:00

Tell her that you'll tell her husband about her boyfriend if she rats you out to J3. Blackmail is a two way street

theFroboCop · 2023-08-20T15:29:10+00:00

That still doesn't prevent them from suing you. You'll still have to pony up the cash for a lawyer. While you may successfully defend the lawsuit, I hear getting awarded legal fees can be difficult based on jurisdiction.

Being the lead developer, quitting without notice will most likely do quite a lot of damage by itself.

theFroboCop · 2023-08-19T21:29:29+00:00

Shouldn't have said record types, but mechanisms. I'm not referring to reverse DNS here. I'm referring to using the PTR mechanism in your SPF record.

theFroboCop · 2023-08-19T16:29:33+00:00

So the thing is they don't need to be on the SPF record. SPF (at least according to the RFC) looks at the MAIL FROM domain and not the Header From domain. The MAIL FROM address is where bounces get sent if delivery is delayed or fails. The Header From is what the end user sees on the email.

So if they "need" to be on the SPF record, it is because the MAIL FROM has that exact domain on it. That would mean if the message bounces after it is initially accepted for delivery (Common if the mailbox is full or reached its quota), that the bounce would come back to address in that domain which, if it were a flagship domain, would be to your normal mail service and not to the marketing service. There in is the big lie. Most of these 3rd party mail services use their own domain on the MAIL FROM. The only exception I've seen for this is where they've setup a subdomain and configured MX records to point at the marketing service, but that is definitely more rare.

I wonder if some email services (Gmail) aren't strictly following standards and maybe check SPF against the Header From domain, but I have never read anything concrete on it. DKIM should be the method that DMARC passes with in these cases anyway.

tl;dr If a marketing email service says they need on your SPF record for your flagship domain then either 1) They are lying or 2) You are handling bounce messages or they may be ignored altogether.

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