• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=Vaeh;52257346]If you were to start an email hosting service using that domain you'd probably get a lot of users. And increase the likelihood and magnitude of offers for it, too. Just an idea. Or if you can't be bothered you could just offer it to that Cock.li guy. :v:[/QUOTE] [url]https://youtu.be/BftfMZByg8A?t=157[/url] :smug:
[QUOTE=garychencool;52256716]Interesting, I am in the market for getting my own custom email address and that would work just fine. I was also thinking of building a website for freelance video work so I dunno if getting both would affect anything.[/QUOTE] With how little jobs are out there these days, I'm thinking whatever stands you out from the crowd on your resume is worth it.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52256716]Interesting, I am in the market for getting my own custom email address and that would work just fine. I was also thinking of building a website for freelance video work so I dunno if getting both would affect anything.[/QUOTE] Personal project showcases and portfolio will always benefit your employment opportunities, especially if you have little to no work experience as a student or new grad.
[QUOTE=supervoltage;52253444]Sorry for the late reply, but I just remembered a ghetto way of grounding your shit. All in a handy step-by-step guide: Step 1. Obtain any decently sized Aluminum rod and polish it of all the dirt (about 1-2 meters long should do) Step 2. Find an area outside just near a window or something Step 3. Hammer that rod into the ground as far as it will go, leave about 10-20 centimeters length Step 4. Take power strip apart Step 5. Connect a cable joining the grounding part to the rod you just inserted outside I'm pretty sure when people design buildings they do the above steps to ensure proper grounding. I know one of my electrical installation teachers in high school told me about this method and how some people just replicate the above steps to ground their shit. Again, I cannot stress the fact that if you're not comfortable doing it, don't even touch it. AC mains voltage is extremely dangerous to your health if you manage to touch the wrong wire and if proper safety guidelines are not followed religiously. I also advise against following the above set of steps - I posted them merely from an educational point of view.[/QUOTE] This is in no way safe or smart. If someone is comfortable working on mains AC voltage, they can just fix the grounding path. Deploying a grounding rod should be done with a proper device, not some random aluminium rod. But more important than that, you don't just connect the ground directly to a random power strip. But even more fucking important, you don't build random metal installations and connect them from outside into your living space, unless lightning doesn't exist in the reality you live in.
So, the X220 has the ThinkLight, and it can even be accessed via ACPI. But it doesn't support setting a brightness like later hardware supports. But you can turn it on and off really fast. Like, microseconds fast. Trying to come up with a use case, but at least it works.
A rave on your keyboard
[QUOTE=nikomo;52258109]Trying to come up with a use case, but at least it works.[/QUOTE] Morse code. Just because you can.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52257780]Personal project showcases and portfolio will always benefit your employment opportunities, especially if you have little to no work experience as a student or new grad.[/QUOTE] So let's say I get a domain and email from name cheap. I should be able to connect it to Gmail and use that to handle it. For the domain, I can just connect that to whatever website building service I use (looks like it costs some money to connect domains to website builders).
[QUOTE=garychencool;52258375]So let's say I get a domain and email from name cheap. I should be able to connect it to Gmail and use that to handle it. For the domain, I can just connect that to whatever website building service I use (looks like it costs some money to connect domains to website builders).[/QUOTE] You can either let namecheap handle emails or give Google $5/10 (depending if you want 25 GB or unlimited) to handle it. If you're on namecheap you just go to the advanced DNS tab, for gmail add these: [t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170521205357467.png[/t] [t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170521205428906.png[/t] No idea about website builders, I just use VIM myself. They'll likely give you an IP and you'd put it in as an A record for IPv4 or AAAA for IPv6.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52258375]So let's say I get a domain and email from name cheap. I should be able to connect it to Gmail and use that to handle it. For the domain, I can just connect that to whatever website building service I use (looks like it costs some money to connect domains to website builders).[/QUOTE] Connect it via pop3 or whatever
Or you just use zoho.com with your custom domain (or any other free mail provider that supports custom domains really) for mail and get it for free Then connect it to gmail via pop3/imap or whatever as scratch said
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52258907]Or you just use zoho.com with your custom domain (or any other free mail provider that supports custom domains really) for mail and get it for free Then connect it to gmail via pop3/imap or whatever as scratch said[/QUOTE] my old cpanel used to have three mail clients good shit
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[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52258950]I personally think that it's a shame that self hosting email is impossible due to spam filters. One possible solution is that someone makes an "open source" machine learning algorithm for spam that anyone can deploy on their own server That way due to the black box nature of machine learning algos spammers won't be able to game it like they would if current email providers opened sourced their spam filtering algos[/QUOTE] But you can. It just takes effort and research. I certainly have a few times, often never get marked as spam. Just follow rules and best practises.
Noo I snipped it but you still caught it D:
[QUOTE=helifreak;52258433]You can either let namecheap handle emails or give Google $5/10 (depending if you want 25 GB or unlimited) to handle it. If you're on namecheap you just go to the advanced DNS tab, for gmail add these: [t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170521205357467.png[/t] [t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170521205428906.png[/t] No idea about website builders, I just use VIM myself. They'll likely give you an IP and you'd put it in as an A record for IPv4 or AAAA for IPv6.[/QUOTE] So I can't buy a domain (whatever.com), connect my domain to Google, make a [email]gary@whatever.com[/email] and just use it with GMail for free. I don't really need the 25GB of storage (up from 15GB). [QUOTE=LennyPenny;52258907]Or you just use zoho.com with your custom domain (or any other free mail provider that supports custom domains really) for mail and get it for free Then connect it to gmail via pop3/imap or whatever as scratch said[/QUOTE] So with Zoho, I can connect my domain with it, and make a [email]gary@whatever.com[/email] email address that would work, then connect it via POP3 or IMAP to whatever other email client I want.
Wanted to make a google cloud compute VPS to move data from my ACD to google drive. They give you a free trial with $300 in credits. I sign up. To make a compute VM says I need to enable billing. ok sure, I thought I did. Go to make a new billing account. Then it says it had an error, to try later. Go to my email, says my account has been banned immediately from using the service. I have to appeal to them to have it unbanned and to verify I am who I say I am. it needs me to send them a picture of my credit card with me blocking the first 12 numbers. And a scan of my drivers license. For a fucking free trial of a virtual server, where the whole point they advertise is they'll never charge you more than your credits. Google, what the fuck. [editline]22nd May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=garychencool;52259932]So I can't buy a domain (whatever.com), connect my domain to Google, make a [email]gary@whatever.com[/email] and just use it with GMail for free. I don't really need the 25GB of storage (up from 15GB).[/QUOTE] In the past, Google Apps, let you do that for free. But now it's under Gsuite basic for 5$ per month.
[QUOTE=Vaeh;52258181]Morse code. Just because you can.[/QUOTE] I actually have a project for the Raspberry Pi, back from 2014, that would take user input and encode it as morse and then flash an LED. So I refactored the control. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgIPfhYsXg[/media]
Sunday, 17:58: Client raises support ticket because our software is giving a network error upon opening. Monday, 07:57: Assign ticket to myself, RDP into client server. Monday, 07:58: Inform client their SQL server is down, close ticket. Monday, 08:30: Client rings up accepting quote for our hosted service. Did you know MS SQL server has a 180 day trial? I didn't.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52260174]Sunday, 17:58: Client raises support ticket because our software is giving a network error upon opening. Monday, 07:57: Assign ticket to myself, RDP into client server. Monday, 07:58: Inform client their SQL server is down, close ticket. Monday, 08:30: Client rings up accepting quote for our hosted service. Did you know MS SQL server has a 180 day trial? I didn't.[/QUOTE] my old highschool had their entire cashless food/printing service running on SQL Server [I]Express Edition[/I] You know how express has a 10gb database size limit? they didn't
Bluetooth audio latency is so much better under Linux with my ThinkPad, with this Bluetooth daughter card that arrived today (that's from an X230), than under Android with my Nexus 5X. Pulseaudio is reporting varying latencies in the 40-50ms range when I'm next to the laptop, on the Nexus I swear I'm hitting closer to 200ms typically.
How deep does it go? Will we ever find the bottom?
Damnit microsoft, I normally defend your shit but c'mon, at least stop phoning home after the extremely hidden killswitch is turned on
The GTA5 self-driving convnet AI stream suddenly has 1000+ viewers, I think there might have been an article somewhere about it... [url]https://www.twitch.tv/sentdex[/url]
Fun fact, Hans Reiser can get in front of the California Board of Prison Terms by as early as 2021. If they deem him fit for release, he can get out. ReiserFS might make a comeback if that happens - he sure knows how to put the competitors in a stranglehold.
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52260455][url]https://twitter.com/m8urnett/status/866353982217699328[/url] Oh Microsoft...[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/5ueSRdt.png[/t] This guy puts it nicely [editline]22nd May 2017[/editline] ANY unwanted data is a leak as far as infosec is concerned
I dunno if I should hate Microsoft or thank them, they gave me the incentive to switch to Linux, aside from the occasional game I have practically no reason to boot Windows.
It's hard too because Microsoft is a company that certainly has the capability to make great software; it just seems that they get 90% of the way there and in that last 10% stretch they just torpedo the damn thing over and over. Like, how many Microsoft products can be described like "well it does this thing well, but..." with some sort of caveat? Don't get me wrong, as a .NET developer I love Microsoft, but some things they make are just so head scratchingly awful sometimes.
I like Windows 10, but some of the shit they're doing with it is bugging me. Microsoft is requiring you to get an enterprise license for you to control the start menu through group policy. It's like pulling teeth to get software purchased at work and it will be nearly impossible to convince anyone to go for the cost enterprise licensing, especially when a machine already came with Windows 10 Pro that's already capable of being attached to active directory. When I got my Thinkpad T470s, I threw in a new 500GB Samsung 960 Evo NVMe drive and did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro. I had Cortana try to talk to me throughout the whole setup and I had to tell it to shut up every step. Are you shitting me? I hope none of you guys have to manually setup a bunch of fresh Windows 10 machines any time soon...
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52261520]It's hard too because Microsoft is a company that certainly has the capability to make great software; it just seems that they get 90% of the way there and in that last 10% stretch they just torpedo the damn thing over and over. Like, how many Microsoft products can be described like "well it does this thing well, but..." with some sort of caveat? Don't get me wrong, as a .NET developer I love Microsoft, but some things they make are just so head scratchingly awful sometimes.[/QUOTE] Why make a good product when you can make a passable product that everyone is going to basically have to use anyway, and then milk them for all the money they can possibly generate for you [editline]22nd May 2017[/editline] Microsoft is trying to out-Google Google by using their huge userbase and near monopoly status to make Windows an ad based money printer
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