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A couple of hours you say? This 'couple' is akin to going to have a 'couple' of beers. I just can't accept that after two days it can still be called as a couple of hours of slowness. 
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Canadian hours!
They pass more slowly than hours in the rest of the world. A bit like sitting in a History lesson when you were a kid... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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14 laments the fact that history lessons are too short! One cousin just graduated with a 1st in History, another is reading History at the moment and she loves it and hopes to take it on to degree level and maybe further.
What is it with these girls? Not one of them* can write even the simplest program!
* Daughter and nieces, not girls in general.
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Okay, did you send the financial information necessary for the site to transfer your refund to you ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Sorry - forgot to unpin.
And then I hopped on a plane to Australia.
No, I'm not kidding. (And sorry Mr Martin, no beers because I've only got a few days in Melbourne before I'm hauled, kicking and screaming, back to Canadia)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Wait, what?! If you're in Melbourne, the beer thing is to be done with me because I'm in Melbourne now.
Seriously though, let me know and we could catch up over a cuppa.
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A cuppa would be great. Which part of town?
Email me and we'll sort something out.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So I setup a new website out there and it does not contain any user specific information but it is in finance space. Anyone can use it without registering or providing any private information. I can see in IIS log that there are lot of 404 calls as if someone is trying to access site's back-end via various urls which does not exists. https://s11.postimg.org/hiq7mfqg3/IIS_LOG.png[^] One thing is sure that they are not going to get anything because I don't have any user specific information but I am thinking of adding some new features which will be user specific later. Should I be worried ? Any suggestions ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Set up a honeypot for them to find and let them waste their time attacking that? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why is it a honeypot, no one really likes homey that much. Now a gin bottle ...
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Flies like honey. Hackerz are like Fliez...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Create a Custom 404 page that taunts them into further hacking attempts. In fact, you can keep track of the number of attempts and make the 404 page more abusive as they go. Even more interesting would be redirecting them to gay porn sites and such. Maybe they'll get distracted and forget about your site.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Interesting. However, doesn't googlies heuristic search bot start tagging sites as adult if they link to known prawn sites?
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Hell, I don't know. If you're worried about it, just redirect them to Hillary Clinton's campaign site.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Wouldn't that count as cruel and unusual?
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Probably automatic site scanners.
Don't be worried: just be sure your code is good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At the moment nothing user specific there so I am not bothered much. I setup custom darth vader 404 page for those scanners to enjoy and feel the force.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Do your best to make the response to calls for resources that aren't found look the same as unauthenticated calls to existing resources. That's the key to actually messing those guys up.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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This one! 
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I had a problem not long ago with a merchant not delivering what was ordered. Paypal sorted out the problem and got me a refund. The process was not quick, as there is a lot of right to challenge built in, but ultimately once one side is shown at fault it is closed.
In my case, I ordered a battery and was told at checkout that it would take 3-5 days.
Two days later I'm told it would be up to 2 weeks. I told the merchant that two weeks would take us up to the day I moved and it absolutely had to be there by then or forget it.
It never arrived on time. They claimed it arrived the next day, but it was too late as they had previously been informed. Settled in my flavour.
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FWIW, I've never had a problem with PayPal.
Beware the anecdote. The first instance is because the company violated their terms of agreement and are feigning surprise and indignation. Nothing to do with reliability.
The second doesn't understand that PayPal is not, nor does it pretend to be, a bank. It's a payment processing service similar to that credit card companies use (i.e. Square.) They will freeze accounts under certain circumstances, especially if your return rate gets to high. I'm equally sure that we are hearing only half the story.
(Note that PayPal offers a near instantaneous transfer of funds which makes it especially attractive to fraud.)
The third don't establish whether PayPal any more or less reliable than any other form of financial transaction?
PayPal has it's issues, but in most of these stories, those complaining didn't read the fine print and/or were genuinely abusing the service.
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The one thing I dislike about PayPal is that if you buy something in another currency, PayPal will take the freedom to very royally elephant you over with the exchange rate.
There's a setting deep deep down in some hidden menu where you can change the exchange rate behavior, but the default setting is to elephant you over.
Wout
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"If your transaction requires a currency conversion, we will use a retail exchange rate (the wholesale cost of foreign currency as denominated by an outside financial institution) plus a conversion service charge of 4.5%."
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