Enderboi
Imagine my surprise discovering that this little banner in their Outlook settings that said "Using Microsoft sync technology" actually means "This is no longer really a local IMAP client".
Apart from the security issues, it's also very annoying to have to explain that I can't actually troubleshoot any IMAP connectivity issues when your machine isn't the one thats actually making the connection.
Now we've been internally discussing whether we should just firewall off whatever Azure ranges are connecting to our IMAP backend servers and intentionally "break" the functionality. Not my first choice, but users keep seeing the "New" toggle and turning it on, causing all sorts of other uncontrolled chaos!
Cloud-first, in all the wrong ways. It's supposed to be a local app..
Back to playing Berks I guess :P
Then try to explain that rotating a few dozen TB of data offsite to cold offline storage every week isn't cheap. Because unlike some vendors, we take pride in data integrity and ensuring that our DR plan is actually.... you know, recoverable :P
We switched most of our primary NFS storage pairs from Linux to Illumos a good five years ago due to a bunch of locking issues and race conditions with high-volume NFS traffic. Solid as a rock as long as you have the right HBA heh
Supercut video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVLim5tVwU&ab_channel=colin...
... erm, wasn't the original issue created by an undocumented change to File API semantics?
Not that I know how their backend works, and I'm sure their consume function is all super robust with every edge-case possible covered in the test suite..... but "Infallible" oh dear... :P
Immediately following this was one of the most chaotic times to ever post on an LambdaMOO ARB (Architecture Review Board) *Ballot.
(Mines the one with the prog bit stucking out of the pocket, and 50 poorly parented instances of yduJ's Rubber Duck Tutorial in my inventory).
If they don't instantly change their tone (as many vendors do once you mention certain four-letter agencies like ACCC or ACMA...), then lodge a complaint with the ACCC.
Ingram in this case are just acting as a warehouse/drop-shipper, same as they do for Microsoft and various other OEMs.
... although our (Australias) Data Retention and 'Lawful Access' legislation is crap, at least the Consumer Guidelines still generally favour the public! :)
I'm happy they're just discontinue the free Cloud version, rathert than changing the licensing for On-Prem :)
... better than Atlassian!
Learning all the default VMS passwords definately didn't get me in trouble during High School with the state's herd of Vaxen... I mean the book was right there, in the library! Wink wink :P
This particular 'bot' would start crawling in-line Javascript on a customer site, and then get stuck in an infinite loop requesting things like:
/page/window.open
/page/window.open/page/window.open
/page/window.open/page/window.open/page/window.open
Unfortunately, we do see enough legitimate requests with that UA that we had to resort to the IP blocking. A bunch of /16's and a few smaller ranges... it feels dirty :(
"It was mithro, in the hallway track, with the pogo pin programmer."
Unfortunately we had some strange HBA issues with our disk shelves, which went away with an Illumos downstream. Since our use case for this was basically an isolated box that just supplied NFS shares, the limited ecosystem wasn't a major concern more so than stability :)
I've also seen NFS/ZFS on Linux have very... bizzare... issues with locking, latency, and poor handling of errors bubbled up from the block layer taking down clients or even the host.
All of these went away when we redeployed everything into a Solaris-based distro (still exporting ZFS shares to Linux clients via NFS). It does seem something specific to the interaction of these two components under load on a Linux kernel.
Unfortunately, it also only happens under real-world production load and was impossible to create reliable test-case with simulated stress tests or benchmarking :(
This is horrible, I couldn't even stand staying on the page long enough to figure out what the product is :P
It's hard to even visualise the effort it must have taken to overcome those obstacles to become one of the better self-published sci-fi authors. Respect.
Sadly with a Linux NFS server, lock state eventually corrupts itself to extinction but OmniOS can tick along past 300 days uptime without a problem.
Of course.... these issues only show up under production levels of load, and have never been able to be distilled into a reproducable test case.
FML, and FNL ( = fricking NFS locking :P)
That's targetted, not systemic. And hey, you're not removing the encryption your just making it slightly less secure. Neatly sidesteps a whole bunch of restrictions in 317ZG.
It's only FUD until the policy makers decide it's the norm :P
"Because your CMS is rewriting out trailing slashes. Make it stop that, and then you'll be in the relative path you think your in".
The internet uncertainty principle: It's not DNS, it's trailing slashes. (apologies to Herr Heisenberg :)
looks at Rachel's blog post
looks at greylisting table schema again
Doh! :P
But 20 years later, Residual has been merged back into the main parent ScummvM codebase! This is thanks to both targetted devices being more powerful this generation, and a decision to increase the scope of ScummVM.
See - back in the day there was a more strict scope and titles that were not 'pure' 2D point-and-click adventures were generally not eligible or considered. However 'adventure games' are not aways so easily defined, sometimes leading to arguments, debates and disappointment.
But in the last few years, the project has gradually widened it's scope and begun to accept contributions to engines that may previously have been rejected (for example: being classified as a 'RPG' instead of an 'Adventure', or having non-traditional elements like FMV or pseudo-3D).
... and that - along with lots of hard work from the engine developers and other contributors - is partially why there are so many new engines and games supported in the massive 20th Anniversary release :D
Happy Days!
- Ender, a (long) retired former ScummVM co-lead from the early years
Unless they're using the 'voltswagen' NTP server :P /lamejoke
Working on Litestep taught me so much about Windows internals - and I know a few people ended up being poached by Microsoft to work on the Windows shell proper due to their work on LS :)