Umm, you clearly need to read about SPF.

You can set an SPF record that says: mail claiming to have been sent from this domain will only ever come from this set of IP addresses or subnets.

So, for example, if the SPF record for northpole.com specifies that outgoing mail from that domain will only come from 227.2.43.8, when an SMTP connection is made from 19.2.55.87 to your mail server with mail from santa@northpole.com your mail server should at the very least increase the weighting it gives to the mail's spam likelyhood, and really should be quite happy to just simply reject the mail, no buddy, you don't have mail from santa.

Mmmmm, waxy applicator

Plus a gin and tonic. Oh, and do you have any of those little biscuits, you know, the cheesy ones?

To be fair, though there is no FA to R, it has taken the time to read an unrelated FA and tell us all something we already knew. Which is clearly naff, but as far as ACs go, this one is clearly trying. I vote we all tinkle on its head, and see if it works the same for ACs as it does for citrus.

Yeah, it is.

Pop quiz:

Did you pronounce it "Geo - Cities" or "Geocities", to rhyme with atrocities? I know based upon what I saw, it was always the latter.

To me, AOL is like DoubleClick.

I don't care if you claim to have cleaned up your act, you are still Evil, because that is how your bosses asked you to set your tech up.

Plus, don't imagine I have forgotten that damn bear. Or the stupid CDs.

Okay, so back in the Dark Past, there was a thing called Usenet. And the Evil Daemons of AOL looked upon the Usenet, and after much badgering from the few Enlightened users of AOL, the Daemons saw that it was good. And so they unleashed the feeble Horde upon the Usenet, and the Horde made merry mayhem with many a Quest for Tits and Boobs.

And then, one day a Mighty Troll looked upon the Horde, and conceived a Cunning Plan. He then cross posted to as many Usenet groups as he could be Arsed to cross-post to the simple phrase "I have the Sheryl Crow nude pics, email me if you want them". And shortly thereafter some Damn Fool subscribed to AOL posted to all of the Usenet groups "I would like the Sheryl Crow nude pics". And, moments later, another Damn Fool responded with "Me too". Suddenly, it seemed like a tidal wave of sheer stupidity overwhelmed all of Usenet as one Damn Fool after another responded to every single Usenet group the original troll was cross-posted to with the utterly banal response, "Me too".

Now, not only is this tale one of the most poignant of the Horror that was the September That Never Ended, but it also explains: a) why we who knew the internet before the 'tards were let loose loathe that moment in history b) why many people use the phrase "AOL" to mean "Me too" c) why so many of us in the community would like to take AOL and their stupid setup CDs and repeatedly drown and resuscitate them until it no longer works.

Nuff frigging said?

Hell yes, I am so not going to hire the guy who claims to live on "Surprise Buttsecks Av".

Because, hey, I just don't need that kind of distraction at work.

Of course not, no one needs some one whose main talent is saying "Me too" on their IT team.

Speaking as someone who has seen the horror that is lollypopporn@hotmail.com and pornstargunnabe@hotmail.com, I can tell you that some email addresses really don't belong on any kind of job app.

On the flip side, I tend to treat people who have @gmail.com pretty seriously, because hey, props to you for getting in early enough to get your name as a gmail account.

That said, I am probably going to give a name like john.cocktoasten@gmail.com a second glance.

If only at the bill.

I remember when the options were AltaVista, Yahoo, and several other completely pointless search engines.

Repeat after me: they all sucked arse. You never searched just one portal to find what you were looking for, and often you could search all of them and not find the thing you were looking at a week ago.

The reason Google owns internet search? Because as soon as they came along, it was like night and fucking day. No longer did I have to diddle around with half a dozen search engine in the vain hope that one of them would not be so stuffed with crapware for those keywords that I might actually find what I was looking for.

Oh, and second reason I am well pleased to see AltaVista on this list: when working at an ISP migrating customers from one set of DNS servers to the new ones, I had the misfortune of answering a call from a customer whose response to my query as to what browser he used was "Oh, I don't use a browser, I use the AltaVista". I would like to claim that hilarity ensued, but that would be a big fat lie.

Having gone through late night deployments where I have been both the deployer/dev and other occasions where I have just been the manager, I have never been in a situation where I personally was not going to be able to take charge of any random role and heave to. That said, if the random role is a minor one that takes small pressure off the fulcrum, hey, crises are no time for egos, I'll do what is needed and try and contain panic in those of my staff not used to fan shit interaction.

That said, I have most definitely been in the position where a deployment has gone to shit, and the time and effort to keep a manager who was utterly unable to provide any useful feedback or even perform minor ancillary tasks in the loop is absolute torture, if I had had a stronger sense of my use at the company at the time I would have said "the most useful thing you can do right now is fuck off and leave me to it", but as my manager was also the Head Cheese, such a comment was not going to go down well at the time.

Anyways, my 2c.

Dude, are they going to take in to account the extra time your computer needs to be on to implement all that shit long hand? No? So you're saying your suggestion is something of a funny that failed or a troll that needs some souping up?

Or is there a joke in there that you are crap at telling?

Inquiring minds want to know.

One of the cool things about PHP5 is that you can take objects that are used all the damn time, and implement them in a more efficient language, yet still access them from PHP as if they were native objects. This, one assumes, is the basis for TFA's rant, but you only really see the benefits of such implementations if they are classes you use _all_ the fucking time, if it is something you see once in a blue moon the performance benefit will be unmeasurable, as opposed to the dev time which will of course be far higher for C++. We didn't all get woodies for RAD tools for no damn good reason, of course things are quicker to develop in PHP.

Someone repeatedly drown and resuscitate this damn editor until it no longer works, because really, no fucking clue.

This guys takes some benchmarks that have absolutely no basis in actual real world performance and beats his drum.

What, does he want a medal for a beat up on /.?

Drop this fool down a well, and leave optimisation to those who understand it.