Oh, please, Eversource, DO waste my time!
Eversource’s “Energy Savings Plan” application for estimating your energy usage and suggesting ways to reduce it is entirely bogus and useless. Don’t waste your time.
Category Archives: Internet
I wish I’d listened to past me’s advice to never again buy a Netgear router
Almost 11 years ago, back in August 2007, I opined passionately here on my blog, “Why I will no longer buy from Netgear“. Alas, I recently failed to heed my own advice, and I’m sorry to say that the results have been somewhat predictable. Last September, I found myself in need of a new router… Read More: I wish I’d listened to past me’s advice to never… »
Why you should turn off “Ads with your social actions” on Facebook
While I was scrolling through Facebook recently, this came up in my feed: I’ve blurred out the name of one of my friends at the top of the ad so as not to single them out. However, I can say with near-absolute certainty that this particular friend would not knowingly endorse anything that Ben Shapiro… Read More: Why you should turn off “Ads with your social actions”… »
Fun and games with Samsung, FedEx, and recycled tracking numbers
I was so impressed with Samsung. I ordered a new laptop directly from their web site at 7:38pm last night. According to the emails I received while I was at work today, the laptop was shipped at 9:45am and delivered at 3:17pm. Shipping was free. Wow, awesome, right? But then I got home, and the… Read More: Fun and games with Samsung, FedEx, and recycled tracking numbers »
AT&T: This is why we can’t have nice things
A legitimate email from AT&T does its level best to masquerade as a phishing email.
Thoughts about the Equifax data breach
The Equifax breach is a big deal. There are things you need to do right now to protect yourself.
A case study in troubleshooting the email pipeline, chapter 2
It wasn’t Constant Contact. It was never Constant Contact. Constant Contact is fine. Forget I mentioned them.
A case study in troubleshooting the email pipeline
How I plumbed the depths of my email server and falsely concluded that the problem was Not My Fault.
PenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution
Where I work, we have employees who use (in decreasing order of popularity) Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as their desktop computers. We’ve deployed a large, complex remote administration / MDM application for managing the Mac OS and Windows desktops. It’s big and complicated and difficult to maintain. It does much more than we will… Read More: PenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution »
Python: How to make Flask work with Logbook
If you’ve arrived at this page, it’s probably because you’re searching the web for an answer why, even though you’ve called logbook.compat.redirect_logging() in your Python Flask app, you’re still not getting any Flask logging in your log files. The problem is that Flask sets the propagate flag on its logger to False by default, so even though Logbook’s… Read More: Python: How to make Flask work with Logbook »