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One thing about working on embedded stuff, is it's all very formal and stiff to me. You can tell the culture is very academic and engineering oriented.
I'm fine with that in theory, even if it's not me. I was at Microsoft at 18, so I'm self taught.
I kind of fell into this field, and it's kind of frightening, because it's just so not my way of going about things.
If I was Buddhist the way I'm a coder, I'd blow my nose on my robes. I am far more creative than I am meticulous. I am idea person. Coding is a means to an end for me - realizing a design - bringing that *design* to life.
And that part of the field appeals to me. But the way everybody goes about it - documenting in triplicate, expressing theories behind operation, and just dotting i's and crossing t's that I've never bothered with.
I feel unqualified. I feel I'm being trusted with stuff I shouldn't be. And yet people are happy with it, so I tell myself, it's all good.
But is it?
And how far can my ruthlessly autodidactic nature take me in this field? I've never had the head for school. I used to ace tests after learning the material on my own, but that feels like it serves me here as well as it would (or rather wouldn't) at university.
I feel like an artist more than an engineer. I know there are other developers I consider to be engineers first. I'm not saying it isn't some of both in many cases, just expressing the side i tend to come down on pretty heavily.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I need to transfer my email hosting to a new company to save some cost.
Any good one to recommend based on your experience?
thanks a million!
diligent hands rule....
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#Worldle #615 5/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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At around 2AM this morning things started to go a little pear-shaped with our servers. Our tech guys were looking into it trying to work out what was happening, but it became a all-hands exercise in trying to work out what broke what.
We had updated CodeProject's code. So we redeployed, cleaned and deployed, rolled back and cleaned and deployed. It wasn't our code.
Our requests per second were a little crazy. As in 1000x what we normally would get, but nothing that set off the DoS alarms. Things were adjusted to ease the load but the load remained uneased. Finally, with zero load we still had the site pinned. It turns out the firewall needs replacing. Firewall fixed, load reduced, site back up. Mostly.
There were also a series of Windows patches that were installed as part of routine maintenance. These were to do with HTTP security, so they naturally got some attention. Uninstalling Windows patches can be painful, but once one of the patches was removed everything popped back up. However, that was only on 1 of the servers, so that patch, since it's a security update, will be reinstalled, and if it causes issues the entire server will be binned and a new one rolled in.
So: fun and games at CodeProject central and I apologise for being down for so long. This was a bit of a trifecta, but we're now into mopping up and analysis stage so ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) all round.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well done Chris
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was very educational and I see how addicted I (we) are to CP.
Anyway, great you are back and I (we) don't need to look for another dealer 
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Must... not... tell... war... story...
It involved a customer replacing the 1Gb hub we have in our equipment with a 100Mb hub they had laying around. They had the audacity to (1) not tell us what they had done, (2) lie when we asked them point blank what they had changed, and (3) tried to hide the evidence when a [very sleepy after a 10 hour drive] field service dude showed up.
Irrelevant side note: the outage must be Jeremy's fault, since he raised the subject of uptime a few threads down.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: if it causes issues the entire server will be binned and a new one rolled in
So you know Chris, ever think about hosting CP on Debian? 
Jeremy Falcon
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I missed CP
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It's time for a beer or 3. What a day.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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What happened Chris ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I seem to remember offering a round of beer for the CP team. The offer is still valid 
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That was a loooong outage - The hamsters caught Covid, I suspect ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I can't remember a longer one.
I am guessing plenty of ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) is in order to soothe the throats made sore by excessive cussing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm thinking the Hamsters went on strike?, seems to be wide spread lately!
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.1.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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2 CCC'c tonight?
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Wordle 831 3/6
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Wordle 831 3/6
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I did follow the rules I usually use and got it in four! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 831 3/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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