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I run an email server at home, and there is this one spambot that tries to send us this ridiculous spam, about 4 times a minute, 24 hours a day, for 3 years now. It is 100% rejected, every single one, easily. But they never slow down. At some point you would think they would realize that if the first million got rejected, they are kind of wasting there time on us.
Dense mother f'rs.
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They're waiting for a sysop to accidentally clear the spam filter, or if it's a paid filter for it to expire.
Have you tried closing the port during the wee hours/public holiday? It may get dropped from the list if it doesn't see reaction on the mail ports (just announce it as sched maint for the important genuine users.)
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No I don't close the port, friends and family across the country depend on it. And it's a cluster so it stays up even during maintenance.
However, I DO run fail2ban on my edge firewall (Bob be praised!)
And fail2ban rejects their coming traffic even before it hits the MTA.
Their packets just drop - like dookie on the street. It's so satisfying to see millions upon millions of dropped connections in the firewall logs.
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I'll be starting at my new job on Monday.
And at my first assignment on Tuesday.
A good hour commute, have to start at 7, leave at 6 and get up at 5, if I don't want to get stuck in traffic every day 
I currently start at 10 and live 20 minutes by bike from work, I'll miss that 
Other than that I'm expecting good times 
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07:00 start? I assume you get away early as well?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah, after 8 hours I guess.
Probably half an hour lunch, so that's 15:30.
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Good luck, Sander.
Up at 5, though? Doesn't the Geneva Convention protect us from that sort of thing? 
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Sander Rossel wrote: if I don't want to get stuck in traffic every day
Are you driving, or is some of it public transportation? Not to be a wet blanket, but spending 2 hours a day driving can become very wearing, and not just on your car!
On a positive note, congrats! What will be your new responsibilities?
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It's not so bad when you get used to it. I've been driving 2 hours a day, to and from work, for the past 10 years. Before that, I was a consultant and I drove, on average, 5 hours a day. That was tiring.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I'll be travelling by car.
Did public transportation while I was in school, that's pretty tiring as well!
And thanks, I'll be having the same function as I have now, software engineer, but in a different environment, using different tools (but still C# and SQL Server), etc.
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Welcome to old-man life. Looking at the clock, seeing it's 2200, and thinking "I need to get to bed."
Up at 05, in at 07 is my schedule BTW, so I feel your pain.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I should be IN bed by 22:00 
Not ideal for an evening person
Ah well, I'll suck it up for now
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For the last 18+ years, I've commuted an hour each way, to two different jobs.
I don't mind the commute because it allows me to think about the day's activities on the way in and clear my mind of the day's activities on the way home.
I have the option of taking interstate highways, but prefer the secondary highways - less traffic, more scenic.
And, for the last 6 years, it has been: up at 5:00, leave at 6:00, leave work at 3:30.
So, decide in your own mind if the commute is worth it to you.
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It's probably worth it for now, but I don't see myself doing that for the coming 18 years 
That's A LOT of hours wasted in traffic.
Well, as you said, you don't consider it waste, I do
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My longest commute about 45 mins by car, just over an hour in public transport, and 45 minutes on my bicycle. (without the special bike paths and flatness everywhere where you live.) This week every day.
Cycling is:
- the most pleasant,
- less stressful method,
- almost completely free with free benefit of fitness.
(And can laugh the braniacs that spend an each way hour on their extended backsides commuting 5 km/miles to work in rush hour, and then pay way too much money to spend another hour running on a treadmill / stationery bike in a gym.)
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Yeah, I currently cycle to work, about 20 minutes.
We moved about two years ago, before that it was 45 minutes.
20 minutes by bicycle is nice, going to miss that
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Maybe after working for a little while can try the bike,
but traffic sucked when I there (over 20 years ago), must be worse now.
brommer?
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Good luck. 
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Just to piss you off, I have a 7 minute stroll to work and come home for lunch. And I'd still prefer to work from home.
In real estate it is location in our line of work it is content, I hope yours is interesting.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Being hostile because someone borrowed your jeep, we hear?
(9)
modified 29-Sep-17 5:00am.
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Truculent (sounds like "truck you lent")
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Hurrah - you win
(and I can now get some work done  )
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Truckulent!
Wow, I am almost getting good at this, if a little slow!
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Baby walks into a bar...
> Hello World?
> CONTINUE
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 29-Sep-17 3:31am.
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Babybar?
Is that even a word? Call that a cryptic clue? You are useless!
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