Here’s an idea! Let’s add a new feature called Greylisting, set the default to be on, and push the update out without a word. What could possibly go wrong? Back on 3/25/2021 at around noon I sent an email to a pimp I keep in touch with. (For those that don’t work in IT, person at consulting firm. They arrange a date, collect a fee . . . you get the idea.) I called him … GreylistingRead more
Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Tales that just make you want to scream and other humiliating kicks to the crotch.
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CS Graduate Falsehoods
What should be the #1 entry on this list of CS Graduate Falsehoods is missing: Agile is valid Software Engineering Otherwise that list of computer science graduate falsehoods is rather good. No list could be complete, but, other than missing Agile, that list does a good job of identifying computer science graduate falsehoods. Some recent graduates have actually smelled the tea brewing though. They are asking us old-timers “What surprised you the most in your … CS Graduate FalsehoodsRead more
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Yet Another Reason to Ditch Facebook
I will never understand why people join Facebook or why they don’t ditch Facebook. You should never post that much about yourself online. “Oh no, I have private pages” is the usual response. Well, 553 Million users just had their personal information posted on a hacker site. Yes, your information. If you are a user you should expect you are part of the 500 million. Yes, I’ve posted about security breaches before. They happen all … Yet Another Reason to Ditch FacebookRead more
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A Fedora 33 Virus?
Several weeks ago Google started popping up their “we’ve noticed suspicious activity” screen and making me respond to a Captcha any time I used them to search something. I try to use Google as little as possible because nobody should be allowed to collect that much information about anyone. Sometimes, when all my other search engines fail I have to go there. This finally became too annoying. The Google screen also said it through one … A Fedora 33 Virus?Read more
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Lousy Software Policies of Microsoft Windows 10
Been a long time since I had Windows as a primary OS on any machine I cared about. I had forgotten Microsoft’s lousy software policies. Nobody could really forget the lousy software or why <ALT><CTRL><DEL> became ingrained in the mind of generations. You can forget the really bad design when you only let Windows run in a VM. Well, one has to be more specific when talking about bad design and Microsoft. In this particular … Lousy Software Policies of Microsoft Windows 10Read more