Ive got Baby Brain (5 week old newborn) the other day I unplugged our PBX servers redudent PSU thinking it was my Laptop charger (was working in the server room) redudent suppplies are mains fed.. forgetting I had just been in there with my laptop to order a new Main PSU....
Sorry, I don't know how to contact you in another way.
Filling and submitting the form at http://howto.basjes.nl/contact-info
consistently fails on various hardware+software+country combination -- so it must come from your side.
It repeatedly gives
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an...
I'm trying to create a user "mail" in my fresh VPS (Debian 6), so I can use the email address mail@mydomain, but I receive the error
useradd: user 'mail' already exists
Indeed, /etc/passwd contains the line
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
Can I set the password, login and use it for my pe...
I have my website hosted at one location, on a server that also accepts email, and I use Google Apps for mail as my email provider. I've had no problems in the last 18 months, and no reports of email being lost.
This week however, someone using Hotmail has tried emailing me. 25-50% of the emails...
07/01/2011 Known problem: Check your webserver mail logs, Hotmail seems to send mail directly to A-records when it can find any listening port 25 (SMTP) there, completely ignoring your MX records.
You are not alone: http://www.windowslivehelp.com/thread.aspx?threadid=54f5abf2-d598-4704-a9a8-57095bd53896 http://www.dorianmoore.com/works/6318/working-round-hotmail-live-msn-email-failing-to-deliver-email http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid=2ea606288163b56a&hl=en
On the internet it doesn't matter what your domain is, no one knows what sits behind the name.
username@domain.com. If that confuses your users trying to email you, you obviously have the misconception that users read and comprehend what they're emailing to.
You said the @dherman comes to you regardless. For end users it doesn't matter...stackexchange.com could be a multinational or a kid in the basement. No one knows what the emails come to, aliases or multiple employees or bots.
Dammit, now the stupid stars work.
emailing bob@bob.com to me just means you're emailing the owner if I'm lucky...
It's still a silly reason to try to make your personal email named mail@... instead of your username, or a variation of your username.
It's entirely possible to create a mail user alias and have it work. No question. but he's clearly a beginner and using it for a microsite. Hence, more complicated than he's probably ready to delve into.
Now that Dan has posted his email, how long before the googlebots and spamvesters get him? :-)
@LucasKauffman The simple truth is that a very small percentage of people are aware of SOPA and PIPA... Congressmen do not care about small percentages.
only a day though isn't it - plus imagine all the people out there that have never heard of SOPA but may read a one-pager when they go to lookup snooki's real name or whatever
Wiki being down for a single day will get it on national news more likely than not; I guarantee you at least double digit percentage of people will hear about SOPA & PIPA after.
I mentioned earlier, imgur are likely going dark and not displaying any images. SE will have to check that they don't include the stack.imgur domain otherwise we'll find ourselves without any images.
@Chopper3 it's not about the shutdown, it's more on the how, it took them two times, because the firsttime they blocked www.thepiratebay.org only, so going to thepiratebay.org still worked ...
In other words, all the sites that informed geeks use will go black to tell the informed geeks about the thing they want to protest, while the ones that don't care wouldn't understand in the first place (except facebook and google going down)
@Basil Looting may not be the correct term, but I don't see that hacking a banks website is any different to going in and smashing the place up - from a philosophical PoV
Earlier this week, I found out how to copy file and directory permissions using RoboCopy. To quote Jessica @UberGeekGirl DeVita after I tweeted about my adventures with RoboCopy: Robocopy ftw However, there are two main disadvantages to RoboCopy that I’ve come across so far. RoboCopy Disadvantage #1 It needs the .NET Framework 2.0. Okay, that’s not [...]
@Chopper3 Schools really don't like to admit that ICT is a high skill area and that it should be commanding wages equivalent to their senior teaching staff
The college I work at pays quite well - still less than what I'd make in industry (and add the pension on top of my wages and it looks even better) - but very well indeed compared to other educational places
but that's very much the exception rather than the rule.
@Dan In my college the sysadmins get nice hours, also they get to go seminars and conferences on the college's budget when they want, even during working period without taking a holiday. So they aren't paid that well, but they are compensated in another way
Yeah that's the thing that makes me laugh. Several thousand users would be considered a pretty large enterprise outside of education and budgeted for accordingly, both in terms of equipment and salary for staff
@RobMoir Never been tempted to move into the commercial sector? more pressure I'd imagine but bigger budgets, newer tech and considerably less students and teachers
Lucas, if these seminars are considered training (ok we might all know that they end up as piss ups, but still...) then being given training to do your job isn't compensation.
Secondary is the worst, I remember a few friends of mine did a project in a secundary school to proof that Ubuntu would be liked better than windows. They wanted to cast the images with PXE, until they found out they still were using 10 mbit hubs...
Most public schools can't go and sort their own internet as all their filtering is done off-site. We, however, do have the ability for local filtering, so it's definately an option in the future.
@Holocryptic You know what is really really sad? At home we still use AOL (or the UK AOL/TalkTalk Broadband partnership). Service has become more and more ropey and something of a family meme. Dad got a questionnaire earlier today from them asking about the service. One of his answers is "I am embarassed to tell my friends I have an AOL email address"...and so am I. But as all my main accounts are linked to it and it doesn't do e-mail forward then I'm stuck.
It took me a fierce battle between me and the Belgacom support to get me a decent line at home. Before I only had 1 mbit, because they "only" had ADSL lying around. So I always called them and they would always send a technician. After 4 technicians in 3 weeks there was suddenly a VDSL option they would upgrade me to for free.
@tombull89 AOL has pop3 access, many other e-mail providers can pull your e-mail from them automatically.
My father-in-law is setup that way. Had AOL, has the e-mail still. But their support for tablets and whatnot is so flaky I ended up making him an account on my server and just pulling in his AOL e-mail.
lol job advertisement : Looking for a junior administrator : must know HP EVA Storage, HP Blade enclosure c7000 (configuration and maintenance) and HP Proliant servers, configuration and maintenance
correct me if I'm wrong but in some companies isn't HP EVA storage a job on its own ?
I had a call off a recruiter looking for an experienced VoD platform designer, offering something like £60k, told them they'd get muppets for that, same guy came back a few weeks later offering 50% more, the term 'told you so' was used :)
whenever work in the uk is mentioned it's before tax, so say £750/day would be a contractor rate before corporation tax (20%) and say £100k/pa would be permanent work before (24%-40% tax)
@Chopper3 I see, thanks for the info. scary though to know that a really qualified person would only get 100K before tax and has to pay london real estate prices (which IMHO are insane).
@pfo didn't say they got someone for that, no idea what they paid in the end or if they got someone but there idea of getting someone for 60k was as insulting as that 17k job before
@pfo In the Uk you get something like the first 5k tax free, then you pay 24%(?) on the first about 30 after that then 40% on anything over that, so you'd do better than than in the end
@RobMoir there's such a gulf between the sectors that are having zero problems and other sectors - i.e. banks never dropped their rates for a second
here is 10K tax free, the next 10K above that 10%, next 10K 20%, next 10K 30%, next 10K 40%, next 10 40% etc. for taxes and social insurance is 17.5% of a maximum of 45K pa.
and for 2-3K per month you can live really central in 3-4 bed room roof-top apartments or in a villa outside the city - and the city offers a decent quality of living (according to mercer.com/press-releases/quality-of-living-report-2011).
i was visting a friend that is in east london and for 2K GBP he's basically living in a dump while the neighborhood is known for gang wars and stuff like that
and how could someone live from 17K GBP a year in a city like london?!
(also seriously - it's tiny flurries, they won't stick, you can't tell the difference between this and rain unless you STARE at them melting on your windshield: WHY are people losing the ability to drive?)
Sorry, I don't know how to contact you in another way.
Filling and submitting the form at http://howto.basjes.nl/contact-info
consistently fails on various hardware+software+country combination -- so it must come from your side.
It repeatedly gives
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an...
I'm trying to create a user "mail" in my fresh VPS (Debian 6), so I can use the email address mail@mydomain, but I receive the error
useradd: user 'mail' already exists
Indeed, /etc/passwd contains the line
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
Can I set the password, login and use it for my pe...
