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My school had a classroom of BBC Micros which were connected over a primitive network to a "server" which I guess must have had a hard drive for saving files too. I can't take the credit but a school friend worked out how to view the memory of another machine over the network, from which we made the first remote keystroke capture I had ever seen, which got us the teachers' passwords.

Our first hack was born - with their password we could get onto the server and print out the password file (in plain text of course). The teachers started to realise they'd been hacked but I think thought it more likely we'd observed their typing when sat nearby and so changed their passwords. Of course we could just keep watching their passwords being entered at a distance.

I think we were caught in the end red handed with the password file printing out and unable to stop it printing when they came in the room. Luckily back then it was seen as experimentation not criminal!

This is pretty up to date: https://github.com/ryyppy/nextjs-default

Currently getting up to speed with Reason (ReasonML). The latest version (3) brings Javascript-like syntax, and after many years of dynamically typed languages, having a compiler infer and check my types for me (and catch many errors before they reach the browser) is a good feeling. It's built using Bucklescript which brings a great toolkit of its own, and also means I'm pretty much learning OCaml at the same time.

I'm learning Haskell too for home/side projects, but ReasonML means I can do functional programming for work whilst I learn all about FP again.

This is too technical for most unfortunately, but the only way to guard something as valuable as your email address is to own the domain and so control the MX records.

I'm fortunate enough to have a grandfathered free Gmail account so I can own my domain and point it to a Gsuite account without paying.

Otherwise it's worth paying up for Gsuite, Fastmail or similar.

Ours is a commercial service, but we built https://www.bigfilebox.com to solve this problem 10 years ago and we're still going strong. Our main market is architects and engineers who needs to send files like this every day, to specific groups of people, and be sure only those people can see the files sent.

It would be a great destination for cloud backup, where one of the concerns is loss of all your backed up data due to malicious action - look at the trouble the hackers had to go to in Mr Robot to take out their offsite tape backups. I'd be more concerned though with the durability of the company rather than their disk systems over the long term though.

Dropbox for Business has really changed my view of Dropbox the company. With AzureAD SSO integration, and the new Smart Sync feature, it's now possible to run a small company completely in the cloud, with terabytes of data in the cloud accessible to everyone without them synching it all to their laptop.

Smart Sync is their game changer.

That's sort of exists with the file requests feature.

I'm guessing I'm a similar age to the author from the reference to parents shouting at the phone bill from my 1200/75 modem running all night. And just recently I've felt exactly the same way. My job involves both running systems and writing software, and the joy has disappeared from both. I used to work all day, then come home and hack all evening, but now I don't know if I'm burnt out, but I can find no interest in making computers do cool things any more.

There's been one small bright spot - I tried learning Haskell and loved the way functional programming stretched my brain but there's an awful lot to learn to do anything useful. But Elm, wow, do I love Elm. I feel the excitement I felt when I saw Ruby on Rails for the first time ten years ago. It's finding something interesting and useful to build with Elm that I'm struggling with now.

I wonder if it's the message that if you're not building a product that will build a unicorn company, then it's not interesting that's part of the general malaise.

Sometimes only A power or B power is delivered to the rack (otherwise you could receive different phases).

Power failures also occur sometimes when the issue is on the wrong side of where power is distributed - we've lost power to our servers when maintenance has gone wrong for example.

We run some between offices across the street from each other. We were lucky as we didn't understand the minimum distance was probably more important than the maximum distance for this type of setup! They have run flawlessly at about 800Mbps for the last year.

The majority of the corporate world is either already on Office 365 or moving to Office 365 for their email, which could be subject to the same argument.

That said, I think any hacker would die of boredom reading my company's Slack channels before they hit any nugget of interesting information!

We were using Mandrill's email to HTTP feature for delivering inbound emails into our web services. The cutover period for needing to be a paying Mailchimp is April 27th, so we had two months to convert. Luckily it took less than a day to build and test the same functionality using Amazon SES, so we've already converted away. To be fair, it was functionality we were using completely for free, so I expected it to happen sooner rather than later.

Exactly this, made even simpler by the naming scheme that lets you have iOS and Android versions of the same component.

I'm referring to native apps on iOS and Android as the code commonality is huge, with just a small number of platform specific components. The biggest surprise though was how much I could port out for a web version (and Electron based Windows and Mac applications)

As a C and then a Ruby on Rails programmer, I never thought I would see the day that my main programming language was Javascript. But I find React such an enabling technology that I made the effort to learn Javascript properly, and am glad that I did.

React itself is allowing me to write web applications faster and with less bugs, primarily because of the unidirectional information flow, but also because of the way it guides you into making everything components, which keeps the borders up between objects and makes testing easy.

Even better, I can now create both iOS apps and Android apps at the same time (I knew Objective C but not Java for Android), and at a much faster speed than before - the flex layout model alone has saved me days and weeks of debugging the iOS layouts in storyboards, and now I'm able to shift code between the app codebase and the web codebase with ease.

It is indeed overwhelming when first trying to learn React, especially when trying to learn Javascript at the same time, and this flowchart is so spot-on with the tendency to start using packagers, boilerplate, redux before understanding why they are useful.

Follow the flowchart, and you will find happiness!

It appears to be an Azure AD issue at the root.

It's impacting any O365 web based login across Europe. If you're logged in, everything works. Mail is delivered by activesync/ Outlook still.

http://downdetector.com/status/office-365

It seems to be http (perhaps load balancers) rather than the instances being down - I'm ssh-ed into a droplet and everything is working fine, except remote HTTP connections.

Looks like they've fixed whatever the issue was as our networking is back to normal.

Similar here, direct to an instance, it runs at about full speed for 15 seconds, then stops. We can SSH in no problem, and the web logs show some people are connecting in fine.

Funny how the AWS status page still has a green tick (and a small discrete (i)) even though there's a confirmed problem.

Yes, it is.

We're experiencing network connectivity issues in eu-west-1 at the moment, confirmed on the AWS status page

It's blocking in Safari too so I think it's a MacOS diagnosis rather than a Chrome one perhaps? Or both browsers are detecting the same thing

This is often discussed in the UK, here's one such article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/10183004/Pr... but the conclusion is that a UK company at least should promote the success of the company, and that isn't all about pure profit.

My home computer is my work computer, and vice versa. I work from home several days per week, but I'm out consulting for the rest, so my laptop is usually always with me. I've thought about taking just an iPad but I like having the ability to catch up on some iOS programming during quiet periods.

The biggest reduction in what I travel around with has been to leave old PSUs at places I visit regularly to save me carrying them with me.

I tried Rackspace but there's no equivalent of AWS's elastic IP, so if you stop the instance you lose the IP address. It's ok if you go through load balancers, but no good for a single site with a single IP.

Why do credit card forms ask you to enter the credit card number without spaces between the clusters of digits, when it's simple for the machine to parse with or without them?

Sometimes words just seem to get overused by everyone at the same time. In the UK at the moment, every single cookery and bakery program insists their recipe will give you the PERFECT X, where X is cake, meal, dinner party. We can't just make great food, it has to be perfect.