About MarkJFine

While we're discussing this, just got this error from my server's cron:   Fatal error: Uncaught cURL Lib: [28] Operation timed out after 59999 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (TwitterOAuth\Exception\CurlException) thrown in /usr/home/xxxx/xxxx/vendor/ricardoper/twitteroauth/src/Common/Curl.php on line 130   I get one of these every time my bot fails to connect to Twitter on just a few hops via CenturyLink. ... View more

I know... was just reinforcing my earlier comment that others don't want to accept. ... View more

@maratsade wrote: So now we have to ask the question: Why does a ping test come with low ping, but streaming data have such problems." ...CenturyLink's sporadic 1-minute(+) drop outs. I see it all the time. ... View more

Might be part of a contingency to try to alleviate internal congestion. Don't really know. ... View more

I wouldn't worry about the MTU. You might want to take a closer look at the number of external things that are part of modern web pages (images, css, js, etc.), each requiring it's own ping. Multiply that by 600ms per ping and it adds up. ... View more

I'm not going to argue with you. You go right ahead and continue directing your anger to everyone not responsible for your problem. I'm out. ... View more

You may be angry, but your anger is misplaced. Why are you getting angry with HughesNet and their representatives, when they only have visibility into what they're responsible for? They're not responsible for CenturyLink's wonky backbone any more than you are. ... View more

It's an offshoot of the scam where they supposedly have video of people watching porn and will expose it to people in the mark's address book if the bitcoin isn't paid. Wonderful stuff. If possible, save the email off as a text file with all the headers intact. That will be needed to determine the email server it came from. If you like, there's also a bitcoin fraud report site out there where the IP can be posted. You can also notify the FBI if you wish, if it's coming from a domestic IP (many times it comes from google, microsoft, or other another mass mail server).   It's very likely all the other information in the headers have been forged, so I wouldn't worry about the From: address and things of that nature. The only thing that is likely accurate is the IP the email HELO'd the HN server with, which can be traced. ... View more

Qwest is your gateway's internet provider. CenturyLink now owns all of Qwest, just like they own all of Level3. If you didn't think CentryLink was the problem, now you should. ... View more

I may have jumped the gun on TLS. The stoplight status showed TLS passed. Upon looking at the detail, it is indeed TLSv1, which I'll assume is 1.0, not 1.2. 😱   As far as smtp.* not being reported, try sending an email from your HN account to another account. Think you'll find it's still using smtp.hughes.net regardless of any purported switchover. ... View more

Are you certain it's mx? Generally outgoing mail comes from smtp.hughes.net, and incoming to mail.hughes.net. I have no idea how State Farm came up with any of that information. Try testing 69.168.97.48 (smtp.hughes.net) on that site. The only issue appears to be cert. TLS is fine. Think the issue you're running into has nothing to do with Synacor's general admin of the server. It likely has to do with RBL blocking and they're currently listed on bl.emailbasura.org, dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net, dnsbl.sorbs.net, spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net. ... View more

I've got a 2TB (WD blue) time machine disk via USB 3.0 in an external box. Unsure if it's quicker or slower than using the lan, but thinking of adding a second as a media and alternate backup drive to take the load off the internal SSD.   They moved where the local snapshots went. Wish there was a way to reduce the number of those because that also eats a ton of disk space. ... View more

The only way to get Office on macOS is using their Update app. Plus, if you have it installed on multiple machines and are updating from the same versions, there's a way to search for the install packages while one machine is updating then copy them to a safe place before they get deleted after the install. Then you can put them on a thumb drive or air-drop them onto the next machine and run each package install manually. The only thing I have a problem with Office is while updating the version in my Win10 VM. None of it will update unless I have the 'metered' thing switched off.   Dropbox I rarely use, but they can be a hog if they're not set up properly. Anything that streams or uses the cloud will be a hog, just because of the way it's constantly checking to see if anything changed. I also don't like the way Dropbox force software updates once a week to perform when they want and it out of your control, and the updates are typically huge. We've started using WeTransfer, which is a lot quicker for file transfers, even in the afternoons. I don't use Adobe other than the Acrobat Reader DC, so I really can't comment too much on that.   The only other thing I'm finding a problem with Catalina, as you mentioned, is finding 64-bit replacements for things that were 32-bit. For example, I have an external USB sound 'card' for piping radio audio in through a line in, and for 5.1 audio out. I used to use a small free app called "LineIn" which did all that. They discontinued that in favor of a not so free 64-bit thing called "Audio Hijack", which is bascially overkill for what I need. I've since found I can use QuickTime to start a paused audio recording, so I built a small automator script to kick it off.   There are other things that no longer work properly because of 32 vs 64-bit. I used to have a programmable guitar pedal called "StealthPedal", which was USB/MIDI based. Can't use the wah portion anymore because the control portion was 32-bit and IK Multimedia doesn't support it anymore. The audio feed is MIDI compliant, but I have other things I can use for routing guitar audio. So now it's a fancy looking paperweight. There are other issues with Catalina regarding updating some software that was previously updated under Mojave. To make macOS more secure, you really have two seamlessly overlapping partitions: one that's read-only and contains the core of macOS ('Macintosh HD'), and one that's read-write ('Macintosh HD-Data'). It's supposed to be seamless, until the installer is written to overwrite things in /Applications - then the installer gets totally confused, thinking its overwriting the system volume. I've downloaded Xcode twice now (as sliced and full versions, so really four times) and it will continue to fail until I fully delete the main app first then re-dowload the full 8GB app with a valid Mac App Store 'receipt', but that creates a whole host of additional problems I'd rather not deal with... All said, yeah, Catalina has 99 problems, but I have to say other than disabling some of the additional analytics, FindMy, and Siri things, the internet portion ain't really one of them. ... View more

@Robp1 wrote: In researching, I formulated the opinion that Catalina is a data sucker and preforms well under unthroted Data. I'm running Catalina and it's perfectly fine. Your opinion is misplaced. Perhaps during the upgrade, you forgot to go through and disable things that normally use data behind the scenes, like Siri, FindMy, etc. ... View more

There are lots of reasons why TestMy are used as a standard here, one of which is primarily because it gives a unified place to judge speed for everyone. Anything else is going to be different:   1. TestMy attempts to give you a realistic speed to TestMy. The speed to wherever you downloaded your NVidia driver is partially determined by the path to that site, as determined by HughesNet's provider (who does the routing). Clearly it's going to be different than TestMy.   2. If the link to download the driver used an https:// prefix instead of a http:// prefix, it is possible that the acceleration techniques used by HughesNet won't work very well because of the secure layer(s) employed. ... View more

When you go to this page using computer connected to the modem, what is the "Satellite Receive Signal Strength" at the bottom? Also, what, if anything, is stated as the "IP Gateway Association State"?   Just for clarity, when you say you "reset" the modem, please tell me you just temporarily unplugged the power, and didn't hold in the reset button. The latter may reset the modem to factory settings, unregistering it from the satellite system. If that's the case, you may have to work with telephone support to get re-registered again. ... View more

IMAP leaves the email on the server. It's basically the same as webmail. ... View more

Or not keep them stored where you don't have control over it. You can use a email client to keep everything local by using pop to get mail, and smtp to send. ... View more