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This is a bit of history in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1466


Is it? What section do you mean? I don't see anything in there about private networks or 192.168.0.0/16 (in CIDR notation, which didn't exist at the time).


if you started with sendmail (and sendmail.cf) then postfix was alright


That's it, also Qmail was a nightmare (still is?) Perspective most of times is everything.


Oh I miss qmail, felt much easier to deal with than the alternatives.


I remember getting the cisco compatible switch optics from Memory dealers. Heaps cheaper than Cisco- $5 an optic compared to $1000.


Apparently one way memory dealers products were sometimes cheaper was due being counterfeit:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-4th-circuit/1627804.htm...


We are seeing all the unix forwarders setup a decade+ ago are dead in the water now (have to be replaced with mailing list software)


I was involved with a project to decomission a low code on premise platform (Sharepoint 2013). What we found was there was a lot of user enthusiasm to create stuff but when the platform was end of life and had to be decomissioned the users enthusiasm melted away.

The "IT" dept had to spend a fortune re-validating the user requirements for the various applications, documenting and then converting them into a new platform. Obviously a lot of feature creep and previously accepted bugs (no longer accepted now that responsibility was no longer theirs).

A lot of the applications were frankenstein efforts from people over the years - lots of dead code no longer used, no docs etc. As others have mentioned people create mission critical stuff for their project or team, and then leave or be away on extended leave and it breaks etc.


Hard reboot on those old Sun systems usually meant a dirty filesystem and telling off by the admin as they needed an fsck


No matter how many times I see it I always read fsck as "(for) fucks sake" and then internally correct to "file system check." I think I've got a flashbulb stressful memory floating around in there.


Unlikely as the u2 is not armed


According to Envoy CEO the Atlassian API key was compromised. Not saying how.


I have a bunch in the roof cavity to monitor for roof rat incursion. They have been going for about 3 years now.

I found the Blink camera was the best for a battery camera in terms of startup on PIR detection. In comparison my newer Eufy and Arlo cameras take a second or two (sometimes more) and have much less battery life.

The downside on the Blink is that you have to buy high end lithium AA batteries


My Australian IP is listed as North America.


Both my phone and computer show in Australian subnets however when I had cloudflair's 1.1.1.1 app enabled on my phone it was showing within a Chinese range?


thats not concerning at all!


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