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.
Category Archives: Internet
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 »
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 »
Microsoft broke free Office 365 Skype minutes four months ago, still not fixed
If you were using a pre-Microsoft-acquisition Skype account with your free Office 365 Skype minutes, then Microsoft broke your Skype on March 1, 2017, and they still haven’t figured out how to fix it.
How to hose your web server by releasing free software
I run a virtual server on Linode which hosts, among other things, the blog you are currently reading. The server doesn’t get a lot of traffic and is rarely busy or overloaded, so when I get an alert from Linode that its CPU has been pegged for the past two hours, as I did early… Read More »
GameStop data breach: why am I not surprised?
I was victimized by GameStop’s security breach back in October, and again now. I hope it puts them out of business.
Comics Aggregator now supports “Strong Female Protagonist”
I’ve added support for the wonderful webcomic “Strong Female Protagonist” to the comics aggregator. I heartily recommend it. I also heartily recommend that you support its continued publication by donating or buying swag (see the links at the top of strongfemaleprotagonist.com). Enjoy!