My wife chides me when I post here: "And you say you don't do social media." I reply that this is anti-social media.
Greybeard
@Greybeard
Best posts made by Greybeard
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RE: Wow ... just wow...
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RE: WTF Bites
@pie_flavor So, in other words, you might be connected to the wrong MitM attack.
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In which :@Greybeard: tries to access his HSA
About three months back the company that runs my HSA stopped accepting SSO from my health insurer and said "everyone now has to register directly on our website. Fine. So I go to register.
The first page takes the last name, street address, postal code, last 4 digits of SSN, and date of birth. The second takes the last 8 digits of the debit card they issued me. So far, so good.
The third page asks me to select a username, password (at least 7 characters, at least one digit, at least one letter, no specials, cannot contain userid) entered twice, security question and answer, enter email address, checkbox to accept terms and conditions, initial to agree to something-or-other, and the submit button highlights.
Click the button...and I get the third page again, with some fields no longer filled in. No error message anywhere on the page. Fill data in again and the submit button now stays disabled.
I try another browser: same thing.
I try the "Forgot your username" procedure. It sends me email with "Your username is: 24214b82-179f-4f9b-abb6-e4d42a7a0744".
Wait until I have time to call customer support during business hours. Eventually get a human. "You know, you can access your account online at..." "Well, apparently not—that's why I'm calling." Agent complements me on the specificity of my problem report and opens a "referral". No, they don't have a ticket id to give me. Wait three to five business days and try again.
Weeks later, same problem. Again I find time to call. This time the agent says they'll try a "manual registration". They take a callback number and say someone will call me in three to five business days.
Weeks later, no callback, same problem. Again call. Agent sees the previous referral, but no response. Agent opens another referral.
A few days later, I get a callback, which goes to voicemail. I call in. Same problem. Agent asks me to shorten my password to eight characters. That works.
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UI Bites
A mega-thread for user interface failures that don't deserve their own thread.
For example:
Clicking on the "X" in the upper left corner doesn't do jack. To go back to the previous pane you have to click on the "X" in the upper right corner.
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RE: UI Bites
So I was in Canada, driving away from the airport at around 3AM in a newly picked up rental car, when the car started getting really sluggish. It was having a really hard time getting up to speed.
Finally figured it out: my wife had changed the climate control to display in Fahrenheit and this had the side-effect of changing the speedometer to MPH.
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RE: Enlightened
@morowhat Welcome to the forum! Please check whatever's left of your sanity at the door.
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RE: In other news today...
The prison courtyard where the helicopter landed was the only area not protected by anti-aircraft netting. Prison union representative Martial Delabroye said that was because inmates do not use it, "except to leave the prison".
Well, okay then!
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RE: Vehicle Responsibility: Here's Your Ticket
@lucas1 said in Vehicle Responsibility: Here's Your Ticket:
a big gauge on the bumper
What does it measure? Airflow? Precipitation?
Latest posts made by Greybeard
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RE: UI Bites
@Tsaukpaetra The one setting affected both. Afterward, my wife found a "custom" setting which allowed speed and temperature to be set to different unit systems.
But, frankly, I really couldn't care what Blakey thinks.
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RE: UI Bites
So I was in Canada, driving away from the airport at around 3AM in a newly picked up rental car, when the car started getting really sluggish. It was having a really hard time getting up to speed.
Finally figured it out: my wife had changed the climate control to display in Fahrenheit and this had the side-effect of changing the speedometer to MPH.
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RE: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT REBOOT ZERO TIMES WHEN I CLICK REBOOT ONCE
@Zerosquare said in FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT REBOOT ZERO TIMES WHEN I CLICK REBOOT ONCE:
The bug only occurs if the hash for your motherboard's serial number falls into a certain range, which explains why some people like @pie_flavor never experience it.
Cue @Lorne-Kates commenting about @pie_flavor's motherboard.
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
Sheesh, really glad MPS got the boot.
Interesting journalism fail fallowed by a boring flame fest. Thanks for hanging around, @bjolling.
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RE: "Best" Web Technology (necro)
@null1 said in "Best" web technology?:
(probably MySQL, though I am open to
suggestions)Why not MongoDB? I hear it can be used to emulate Redis.
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RE: WTF Bites
Why does it need one?
The one it has does not match it's configured hostname, there is no reverse record for it and it is not known in advance. Most things I can think of that would ‘need’ a DNS record are broken by one of these issues.I've seen it used to identify a POD in a field that required a valid DNS name. But it would be more straightforward to use the pod name in the first component.
But it isn't used for service discovery so doesn't factor into how well Kubernetes uses DNS for service discovery.
So according to the Register, Microsoft claims the customer wasn't setting resource limits and was overloading their nodes. Seems a typical "WOMM, ship it!" type issue.
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RE: Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far
On closer inspection I’m surprised they didn’t trigger the “Why are you posting screenshots of the Lounge?” dialog.