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Irish script traditionally used a dot-less "i", something that persists in current road signage (anecdotally to save confusion with "í", or with adjacent old-style dotted consonants, I can't find a definitive source to cite). It's only an orthographic/type thing, it's semantically an "i", though the Unicode dot-less "i" is sometimes used online to represent it.


AFAICT it's also (though I'm very rusty) in ModSecurity, if XML content processing is enabled then rules like these will trip:

    SecRule REQUEST_COOKIES|!REQUEST_COOKIES:/__utm/|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|XML:/* "@pmFromFile lfi-os-files.data"
    SecRule REQUEST_COOKIES|!REQUEST_COOKIES:/__utm/|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|XML:/* "@pmFromFile unix-shell.data" ...
where the referenced files contain the usual list of *nix suspects including the offending filename (lfi-os-files.data, "local file inclusion" attacks)

The advantage (whack-a-mole notwithstanding) of a WAF is it orders of magnitude easier to tweak WAF rules than upgrade say, Weblogic, or other teetering piles of middleware.


So that's why immediately when I hear "WAF" I read "...and the site will break in weird and exciting ways due to arbitrary, badly developed heuristics outside of your control, every odd day of every even week" - I remember the glory days of shared hosting and mod_security.

Turns out the hunches were right all along.


"mbasic.facebook.com" was a vastly simpler UI, and had notably less noise content. Sometimes "back" navigation even worked properly. They killed that last year :/

Were it not for distant family using it, I would almost certainly download my content and nuke my account.


"V5" article doesn't render (multiple browsers), try the older v4.1 version linked from it at the bottom (the faux "energy efficiency" graph).


Double whammy: spray foam attic insulation (aided by goverment grants!) causing sale & mortgage problems.

https://hoa.org.uk/advice/guides-for-homeowners/i-am-improvi...


We had our cladding replaced but now our fire safety certificate is invalid.

The replacement was done so poorly that panels come loose and we have to request the building management company sort it out.


My handle arose from a former colleague's attempt, decades ago, to describe a network malfunction he was trying to diagnose as either (or both) of spurious and erratic in a single word...


Not too be confused with sporadic?


In Ireland as well as property tax we also have a dereliction charge for sites/properties, it's been on the books since 1990, but recently being leveraged (clumsily) to punish land hoarding in urban areas. It's currently 7% p.a. of what somebody declares the market value of the land is, and the land can also be subject to a CPO unless remedied. The LPT local property tax is a fraction of 1% p.a. typically 0.1% (subject to regional and valuation variables).


Here in California, we tend to have total property tax rates of ~1.5%, which includes improvements like buildings. For various reasons, this is lower than the rest of the country which is more like 2-2.5%. But also, the assessed values of buildings tends to be artificially low in most places. These low assessed values discourage real estate changing hands, because the new owner would often have to pay more.

There's a lot of economists who think we should have a higher tax rate, but only on the true market value of the land, to promote efficient usage of real property.



Fortunately the Internet Archive has a copy in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190611150403/https://www.msn.c...


By coincidence I found an old Toshiba external USB drive in a drawer last week when I was rummaging for a cable, a black STORE.E one with the (now sticky and nasty) rubberised coating. I just powered it up: happily it still works so I guess no internal rubber bumper. Worst application of rubber so far was on some old Stanley screwdrivers, now unusable unless you want to apply solvent to your hands after use. I got those maybe 15+ years ago, put me off Stanley branded tools. Now I have a perfectly good beech handled Wera set which (sigh) Wera appear to have stopped making.


I used to netboot Windows 95 on a campus Novell network... you can probably work out how long ago that was ;) It started booting a 1.44MB floppy boot image of DOS 7 via (IIRC) BootWare boot ROM (pre-PXE) and switching to Windows using Joe Doupnik's installation method. In fact I was lucky enough to get Joe to help out in person on his way back from a nearby conference.

Performance was not where it needed to be though, we switched to a netboot way of imaging Windows 95 onto the local disk -- actually 2 images, a "good" copy on a hidden partition that could quickly replace the live version when it hit cruft force 4 or thereabouts; and running (almost) everything else over the network. Fun fact: ~1200 PCs used to run an awk (gawk.exe v3.0) configuration script during boot.


Haha, that's awesome!


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