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Q: Is Santa's House a patriachal Hierarchy
A: No - it's an elf-organising commune
Power-upping my dad-joke skills for adults.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Q: Why is Santa so jolly?
A: Because he knows where all the naughty girls live.
Q: What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?
A: Noel, Noel...Noel, Noel...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're barred from the Christmas-cracker shop, next year.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At least there wasn't a crack about the National Elf Service!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I am thinking about restructuring my hosting early next year and looking around one company that really stands out is OVH.
Their VPS services appear to be very reasonable even for Windows 2012 boxes, domain and email services also look pretty good and what I can see from the administrative interfaces they are also appear well structured and functional.
Anybody here have any experience with them?
Cheers.
(I am currently on 1and1 who have been pretty faultless over the years, but services are lacking and dated in current market)
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My servers are constantly under attack from IP addresses belonging to OVH. They have NEVER responded to my emails reporting problems.
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What do you expect? OVH to close those sites?! They got payed for it my friend!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That does kinda say a lot about them, as far as customer support goes...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, I do expect that. The contract/TOS should specify that.
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Probably there are some lines about that in TOS, but enforcing it is a different thing...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: enforcing it is a different thing
While it shouldn't be automated, and may require a review by "upper management", turning something off pending a response from the process owner shouldn't be a big deal.
The service provider has their own reputation to maintain and turning off misbehaving clients is a positive thing in the long run.
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Except for China, Russia and the usual suspects, my experience has been that most attacks are from compromised servers. So I would like my Hosting Company to tell me of complaints. The usual response I get to my complaints is " thank you, we will tell our customer", and the attack soon quits. but in nearly 10 years of running my own servers, not one single reply from them. That leaves me to believe that the attacks are NOT from compromised customer servers.
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I think everyone's servers are constantly under attack. I know when I go and look at the login attempts of my windows boxes there are always thousands of attempts.
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DaveAuld wrote: I think everyone's servers are constantly under attack.
I check my FTP logs almost every day. About a year ago, I got fed up with the volume and intensity of the attacks. Unfortunately, this is on server 08 which doesn't include a dynamic blocking mechanism. A year later, the hacking attempts are few and far between. 
I imported a list of all current IPs from China into the IIS/Deny IP table. That slowed it way down, but I was still seeing automated attacks, many directed at the Administrator account. I created an FTP account named Administrator with a password of admin having read-only access to a single folder with a single text file with some abusive content. (of course there is not real 'administrator' account on that server)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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DaveAuld wrote: is OVH.
I didn't see any options for Windows servers.
Also, have you checked out Amazon AWS? There are free tiers if you're looking for something cheap.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I didn't see any options for Windows servers.
Scroll down and it states "windows license included" and also in the available list of OS is is shown.
http://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/vps-cloud.xml[^]
4core 4gb ram for 16ukp/month appears good value.
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DaveAuld wrote: Scroll down and it states "windows license included" and also in the available list of OS is is shown.
Ah, I didn't see that. Their website is a bit obtuse. But yes, the prices seem quite reasonable, certainly better than I've seen anywhere else.
Marc
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For past 4 years, My contract job was always up for renewal during christmas time. All these holiday season was always a jittery time.
But after switching to Full time Employee ( same job), I can finally relax this holiday ( though my net income is less compared to contractor)
I have nothing major planned for this holiday but just having no worries about the job makes is a nice feeling.
I will spend my 2 weeks reading some books, watch movies and spending some quality time with daughter.
I am happy and relaxed.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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That's what it is all about!
At some point you have enough $$, and you just have to stop and think about what really matters.
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I am (or was) a Permi and am now looking at a contract role, there seem to be a lot of hurdles that most seem to ignore, like applying for a mortgage, seems to be a bit odd, some will give you a mortgage others won't. Pension plans and the like...
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Peace of mind is way better than high wages. 
If you ain't relaxed, you would get more exceptions and more time to pull to hairs! Rest is compulsary, and yeah, good for you to spend your days without worries.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I just attempted to go permie after 25 years contracting and I didn't like it ( I lasted 7 weeks and walked ) , when i was contracting the thought of my contract running out gave me an edge if I wanted a week off I had a week off, if I want to leave work early I leave work early - being permie has its plusses but its not for me I like the freedom and uncertainty of freelancing, you also get lots of varied work contracting
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Apparently only one person knows the answer and that is Stephen Fry
Personally I think it was just because 42 is inherently amusing as in 2 for tea
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Stephen Fry knows! Damn! 
He must disclose it now!
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