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I leave for a few years and holy crap, the only things I recognize from the site is bob, the color orange, and some of the posters (OriginalGriff, Nish, Joan Murt, Nagy, Marc Clifton, Chris [of course, the hamster whisperer lives here!])..
How is everyone? 
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When did you move to Canada?
Good to see you again on the site. Last time you posted, that I remember, you were talking about some cool recipes you were working on. 
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Hahaha, the irony of my life man!
June 15, 2011, I get repatriated... 1/September, 2016, HPE makes me a phenomenal offer to move from Calgary, AB, Canada to Dubai, UAE (that's where I am officially, but I live in Amman, Jordan [again])...
I cry myself silently to sleep these days, but at least the income is good.
Last trip was to Madrid (I actually landed on New Year's day) and brought back 6 RPI 3s... can't source them easily in Amman, Jordan or in Dubai
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back! Any wintery regrets?
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haha, I love this!
How is it going Bassam?
No regrets, though I would have loved it even more back in North America..
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All's well. Just read your other post. I was traveling on New Year's Day as well. Save your income and leave when you can afford to again. My family would love for me to work there. Never tried applying. 
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There being where? Dubai?
Too flashy and fake if you ask me for my opinion...
Good money though
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Sunshine is overrated.
You'll note that there still isn't a sarcasm emoji.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Extremely.
Give me my 6 months of twilight thank you very much, a double-double will do in place.
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Don't forget myself and Chris Losinger... he's still lurking around here at times too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: How is everyone? 
Faarrrkkkk you for forgetting me ya bastard.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hahaha, you're probably the only one I'll take an insult from Mick and SMILE about it 
Hanging out with Rajesh much these days?
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: Hanging out with Rajesh much these days?
No, the bastard moved to Melbourne.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Welcome back, Mustafa !
cheers, Bill
«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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Ta Bill!
Its old home week here in CP as I see it
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One of our customers hired some party to do a penetration test of our software throughout the week.
This morning half of our database backups failed.
Then, early afternoon, we got an email from one of the users, the system was pretty slow.
After that came a phone call, system seemed to be slow.
Checked out the server, nothing interesting going on.
Another email and then a phone call, things got slower and slower.
Turned out a DDoS was part of the friggin' penetration test, but only after we white listed their IP address.
Good thing they didn't tell anyone they were doing that.
Anyone here could have told them our server wasn't going to survive a DDoS 
When we found out our firewall was getting a beating, remembered something about a pen test and called those guys they just yanked out their network cable and all went back to normal 
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Penetration Test? Are you referring to a wedding night?
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We have a security test once a year. The rule number one: Do not give away nothing... All we give to the company doing the test is the address of the site...
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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Yeah, we did at first.
They tested and everything.
Don't know why they needed to be white listed after that.
And I certainly don't know why they would DDoS us after that
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Do I understand correctly that the customer uses your services and let their penetrators use their systems to access your servers?
veni bibi saltavi
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It's the French Way - Maginot Line Security Protocols.
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That was my first thought too, but he mentioned that someone "remembered" something about a Pen Test, so it was clearly run through their operations people.
I was about to advocate emailing every cert provider to yank everything they have and suing the hell out of them 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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That is not correct.
It's their product on their servers. We only made it, change it, and maintain it (software and server)
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Sander Rossel wrote: only after we white listed their IP address
That's like handing over your house keys and the alarm code for a burglary test.
Block all IPs used by the company, tell them to try again, and then conveniently forget to unblock them, like, forever.
If they want to send results, they can do it by snail mail.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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