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Epilogue: after I applied subtle pressure through management, the IT Manager actually checked and I was not in the access group after all. Apparently they didn't bother checking because everyone is in that group. I have no words.

Fastmail SMTP Settings without 2-step authentication: Server = either mail.messagingengine.com or smtp.fastmail.com (note that mail.messagingenginemail.com is incorrect) Port = 465 Username = your full email address Authentication = Normal password Security = SSL/TLS See...

If you want to keep them separate, it's just a case of creating a folder with the same name (eg "Adobe" in the example above) and Fastmail will automatically filter it for you. Easy as pie. You can also have multiple real email addresses under a single account, but I'm pretty sure that costs...

In that case, you definitely want FastMail. I'll give you an example. I used sub-domain addresses (eg. adobe@myemail.fastmail.com and photoshop@myemail.fastmail.com) to register two Adobe products. When Adobe got hacked, I started receiving at least 50 spam emails a day to each of those...

Knog. Great product at a great price. Elliptical beam headlights, fantastic multi-blinking-pattern tail-lights. I only bought the cheap POP lights that use an AA battery, and they just blew me away in terms of value for money. Note that the high power versions use a non-replaceable Li-ion...

That's an excellent recovery so far. I think you probably understand what I meant about PT exercises, particularly since you scored a posterior op where they cut the gluteus maximus. It will take a long time for your body to rebuild everything. Just WOW. :o

As Stereodude said, the object at the top is actually a 2RU 300mm deep rack of sorts. It exists purely to mount the patch panel. It didn't occur to me that Dell would pretend to make routers or WAPs. My question is why? I don't think it's that crooked, mine is angled at about 45 degrees - but...

We've done more testing, and the problem appears to be something to do with my user profile. Logged into a laptop through my home internet, I can use my colleague's credentials for the VPN just fine, but mine either achieve nothing or fail in various ways (now getting a...

Local subnet is 192.168.248.0, remote is 10.61.101.0. Route Table: =========================================================================== Interface List 25...........................Company VPN 11...44 37 e6 ae e8 6f ......Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection...

I'm trying to connect to a corporate VPN endpoint, to allow remote access to intranet apps, etc. It's a M$ PPTP VPN. I seem to have the problem at my home. A colleague tested my credentials at his home (with a Windows 10 laptop) and had no issues. I have tried two completely different Windows 7...

Nah, you can usually hobble after a day or so, but of course full recovery can take several months. Those 4-6 weeks will be spent following exercises devised by your physio. Howell, I thought hip replacement was mostly due to arthritis?

A steal at only $430.

I'm going to guess that "poly" is short for polygraph? Does anyone outside the USA even use this fatally flawed device?

How big is a 'standard' drink in the USA or Canada?

I had to share this interview with Ginger Baker, founder and drummer of the 70's group Cream. Talk about the interview from hell - this is one serious curmudgeon. :) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-ginger-baker-on-why-the-rolling-stones-are-not-good-musicians-20131011 He and Jack...

Thanks, the one I was citing in particular was indeed Hyper-V. I've thrashed the virtualized disk subsystem with Diskspd (Microsoft's version of IOMeter) and noted that the array is obviously RAID 5 (read throughput is 3 times write throughput), but performance is actually not too bad when the...

Hairline crack for sure. Unfortunately, you just added a zero to the cost. :( J/K, sort of, maybe. Exact same thing happened to my daughter. Ended up destroying an otherwise perfectly good tooth to do a root canal. Dentist broke off the end of the drill/tool in the end of the "J" and didn't...

Hey, I don't know if they do. I was just trying to think of what else they might be running if they can only afford 2 cores and 4GB for us. :(

WPS *does* render MS file formats 100% correctly. I actually keep it to repair spreadsheets that Excel has screwed up. Yes, I'm saying the Chinese can write better software than Microsoft.

How did you notice performance was abysmal? I need to be able to present empirical results to force people into action. As I said, I haven't found DiskSpd as configured by Crystal to very useful so far. Running 7-zip uses most of one virtual CPU core (if configured that way) while exercising...

While I understand all these issues on paper, the target platforms are hosted by customers so all we can see is the VM. Groups of customers are configured and supported by certain third party firms, so we can have a dialogue with them but need to be able to quantify what we are unhappy about...

Many of you probably already know this, but Pebble, the idiosyncratic smart watch maker, has folded. Their IP has been bought by Fitbit, but there is no prospect of continued manufacturing. Pebble was one of the great innovators in smart watch design, although they never adopted a touchscreen...

Hey, I don't know. That's why I started this thread. OK, seriously, how do people get half-decent disk I/O in a VM? I see published benchmarks where someone claims to get 99.99% of bare metal performance in their dedicated hypervisor (ESXi) VM. In real life, I think 40% of bare metal is as...

Why don't we have our own popcorn emoticon? I had to steal this one.

Women have varying amounts of hair too. But in modern western society, most remove it regularly and painfully. So you're a bit of an insensitive prick for making that comment, wouldn't you agree?

That IS their intention - they don't want you to run, that's too easy. ;) I just did poorly on one (less than 6 minutes, whereas on the previous one 2 years ago I managed the next two levels of incline and 12 minutes). I felt sick - I'll see what the cardio consultant makes of it on Tuesday.

If the street outlet is visible in the gutter, just stick a running hose in the downspout and watch how much water is coming out. Try to compare with how many gpm you're getting direct from the hose.

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So that was you?

:bow: Awesome.

Honeywell 470PB But really, I was just thinking of something like two multimeter probes, as long as you could get sufficient corrosion resistance. Most moisture probes are designed to consistently measure moisture in soil, whereas you want a flood detection system. Fibaro Flood Sensor is an...

I read up on it, and it appears to be the seals. Making matters worse, under no load conditions the rpm increases dramatically so the friction from the seals skyrockets (eg. 3x rpm = 9x heat in seals = cooked seals or melted impeller or even cooked motor). I can't see why you can't just keep...

You might have more joy by just changing the lock cylinders. See Stereodude's hassles with retrofitting whole locks, and in your case metal not wood. Some things to watch out for: 1. Some security screen door locks cannot be removed without a key. 2. Security screen doors need a triple lock...

The idea behind the double cylinder is to stop thieves opening your doors from the inside and carrying out your belongings. If you leave a key inside, you may as well just have a single cylinder. When you're in the house, double cylinder locks should have a key in them. When you leave, you take...

You need the ET-4500 for the document feeder. To match the print duplexing of the Brother MFC, you need the ET-4550, which is US$500. The 4000 page rating is achieved with continuous printing in low quality. In real life, head cleaning (automatic self maintenance) will reduce this dramatically...

I've driven a couple as loan cars, although not with the Titanium trim. I'm not really into SUVs - the chassis response is way too slow for me - but I'd consider one if I was. Quite expensive in Oz, unfortunately.

Mine would be constantly firing from moths and geckos. :(

Far from it, but I do have 6 external doors. All but two have a security door as well, and three also have a key-in-knob lock as well as deadbolts. We usually don't bother using the key-in-knob locks except as latches. The two without a security door are in a courtyard with a smooth, 8 ft high...

Practical considerations have stopped me achieving that level of external lighting. For example, I didn't want lights shining in the windows or interfering with the cameras. As it is, I count 13 external lights (although 10 are in dual cans aimed in different directions). Only one is hooked up...

One thing that is stopping me upgrading my locks is the logistics. I count 14 locks on external doors, all keyed alike. All but four are double cylinder, so that's technically 24 barrels. Expensive to rekey, let alone change all the barrels.

This. To me, the main purpose of an alarm is to be a deterrent. The external siren/light is usually highly visible. I don't think monitored alarms are any use except for commercial premises away from where anyone lives. And then it's only as good as the response, which at a minimum should...

To be fair, I suspect that video is from 2007 - which predates Lockwood's move to "Kinetic Defence" pins. They're now much harder to bump or pick, at the expense of smoothness of operation.

Hey Chewy, I think the reporter is bumping a variant of your lock 1:24 into this video: https://youtu.be/PlLyu9ZmWiQ

Forget Clinton and Trump - America's democracy is broken and they can't fix it

From the first link: "The credit requirement is 4.5 percent of sales in 2018, rising to 22 percent in 2025." And here are the clauses designed to penalize Toyota and GM (and even Nissan), so they have to buy more credits from Tesla: "In 2018, plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) can only account...

You could say that the profit figure represents a margin of less than 1%. But the penny dropped for me when I finally understood Tesla's business model. Telsa was able to sell $139 million of California zero emission vehicle credits, which turned an operating loss into a $22 million profit. I...

US cable TV: 'The death of democracy by a thousand cuts of the stupid and vile' A view from outside the USA.

News report: the presidential race

No, but here is the full specification. What really caught my eye was the fact that this is a variable current charger! Although the average for two cells is 1.5A, the peak is 3.2A! I assume that after stabilization, the charger increases the current and monitors the battery temperature. When...

This doesn't affect everyone the same way, but for me it was an ambulance and the most severe pain I've ever experienced in my life - I was drifting in and out of consciousness. I hope it was a little less dramatic for you.