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sashk··on DNS Outage at DigitalOcean
My rule: provider should do single thing:

- Hosting provider - host sites

- vps/cloud provider - provide VMs

- domain registrar - domain related stuff, but not DNS

- dns provider - host dns

- second dns provider - host dns in case first dns provider fails

So many DNS outages recently and all my projects are up.

sashk··on Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
When I gave up to get it working properly on FreeBSD, I see this news. Great news.
sashk··on Telegram stalking
ICQ (remember that one?) used to show when user logs in, or logs out - without need to add user to contact list and get his/her authorization. I used one terminal client to monitor when I get disconnected to see how "stable" my connection was. So this is not new.
sashk··on 32-bit kdb+ free for non-commercial use only
Unfortunately, their license comes in disagreement with what they posted on kxcommunity.com:

> That's why it now can only be used in a commercial environment for development and proofs of concept.

But license says:

> 1.1. "Commercial Use" means any use of the 32 Bit Kdb+ Software for the User or any third party's financial gain or other economic benefit. Any Beta-testing or production use of a User Application is Commercial Use. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following are not Commercial Uses: (a) use solely for educational or personal purposes; (b) use by a registered charity or licensed educational institution, (c) development of a proof-of-concept application, even in a commercial setting; and (d) any use for which Kx has granted the User written permission.

This makes things confusing: one place they say development is ok, but in license agreement they say it's only "proof-of-concept applications"...

sashk··on 32-bit kdb+ free for non-commercial use only
Each version says which date it was released.

    KDB+ 3.1 2015.01.12 Copyright (C) 1993-2015 Kx Systems
    ...

So if you have version dated 2015.09.13 (they released new build on that date) that means you have older version.
sashk··on Why does Gmail hate my domain?
I've had and still have similar issue like you do. I have my own smtp server, which sends some alerts to my google apps account. I've setup my Google Apps account to white -list all email arriving from my mail server, whitelisted source domain, added spf records, etc - but my mail still being blocked. First, Google told me that's because I use IMAP and I should stop using it - only webmail, or exchange on iOS devices - fine, still blocking. Then I was told, that I can't attempt connection to the second MX server if first fails - done, still have problems. Two or three month later, they confirmed issue on their end with firewall blocking DDoS by blocking whole /24 subnet, with no fix in sight.

Remember, I am paid user and I went through rounds of bs with their support.

I feel sorry for those, who have to send email to Google Apps/Gmail as part of their business.

(I've posted this as a comment on original story, but decided to duplicate here, if someone will find this info helpful)

sashk··on Wireless Das Keyboard Modification
I have different problem - keyboard I love doesn't come as wired keyboard, only wireless. I want something to turn into wired one. Why? Because wireless microsoft keyboards aren't secure. And I'm talking about Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard...
sashk··on AeroFS is now free up to 30 users
Do they still require Java installed?
sashk··on GitLab 7.8 release
I've been using GitLab since version 5.0. When we decided to start using GitLab - it didn't have a lot of needed features and we found ways to live without them, but with time they added them and added more useful features which we enjoy and use daily. You're doing great work, guys!
sashk··on Secure Mail for Devs
Their FAQ mentions luks. I guess, their storage is encrypted.
sashk··on [dead]
Agree. I've got same feeling lately after I run in few issues, which required me to call Apple on each of it, because there was no solution anywhere on internet.

I felt, that Apple does not think anymore about use cases. For example, year ago I gave my old iPad to my daughter, so I had to create her apple id. She is under 13, so there was no way to create this id with her real birthday. Apple support told me to use mine- so I did. This year, they came up with kids apple id for Family sharing, but they didn't came up with the way to convert any existing ids to child ids. Nor they willing to find a solution.

Talking about family sharing - it just didn't work. How would you know, that enabling and then disabling allow user to approve purchases option will resolve my issue?

There are many issues. I hope, Apple will slow down and will come up with "Snow Leopard" for iOS. Snow Leopard was great release: no new features, but a lot of bug fixing. I want that in iOS. Please, Apple!

sashk··on Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser
Using virtualenvwrapper is somewhat easier.

    pip install virtualenvwrapper
    source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
    mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python venv
    pip install butterfly
sashk··on Python on Wheels
Spent some time this week to move deployment of venvs to use wheels (we install numpy and matplotlib). Now, instead of close to 10 minutes deployment time, it's done in about 30 seconds. I can live with the fact, that I'll need to make changes to the deployment process now and then, while wheel traveling towards 1.0, but I'm happy to go that route. And you should to.
sashk··on 3.99 One-Day shipping no longer mentioned in Amazon Prime
3.99 One-day shipping is no longer there for months. Price varies from 2.99 to 6.99 from what I saw on several items during christmas time shopping.
sashk··on Tweetbot 3
Different. Will take some time to get used. Othwise very nice update.
sashk··on An Apology From TechCrunch
I don't get what's there to apologize for. Both projects were funny. One of them was distasteful. That's all.
sashk··on GoDaddy no longer on SOPA supporter list.
most likely fight knockoffs
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