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Not GP, but at my previous job we had something very similar. The form did offer options for a handful of variables (on-prem VMware vs EC2, vCPU, RAM, disk, OS/template, administra…

Isn't this just the food equivalent of software whitelabeling?

Receiving is only half of the conversation though - eventually you end up in a situation where you need to reply from the same address. Also, be prepared for the tech support quest…

ImprovMX

In the newspaper industry, the 'Customer' refers to the advertisers who pay for the ads, advertorials, sponsored content, etc that actually make the publication a viable business m…

One of my university professors advised "multiply your best-case-scenario estimate by Pi". It's still absolutely plucking numbers out of the air, but I've found it to be pretty rea…

For me, owning my own email domain is far more about control than privacy. I currently use some MX and SMTP trickery to forward all of my email to Gmail, effectively using Gmail as…

Another very happy (paying) customer of ImprovMX here. I have a dozen or so domains for family and friends configured this way, using ImprovMX for both inbound MX and outbound SMTP…

As an SAU member for almost 20 years, the site is a shadow of its former self. The technical areas tend to be very much a ghost town, with link-rot setting in pretty hard (broken i…

Just in case anyone reading this is considering purchasing the Astro Slide... be very wary. I backed the Indiegogo campaign over 2 years ago, still nothing. The wait isn't the issu…

From memory, AliExpress wouldn't accept aliexpress@mydomain.com, but ali_express@mydomain.com was fine.

SuperMicro 5019D-FTN4 (or 5019A-FTN4 if a little low power Atom CPU would cover your needs)

You can set an organisation policy to disable personal ownership, which forces every password to be saved into an org, unless the user is an org owner or administrator.

Just sold my 1994 Nissan R33 Skyline that I've owned for the last 15 years - currently looking at importing a 2020 Nismo Note S.

Not exactly 'IRL', but many years ago I wrote a simple bash script to submit many entries into an online competition. Yes, I know... I did scour the competition T's&C's and they di…

The multi-profile functionality in Chrome is just so much more usable than Firefox. Yes you can hack things together with command line arguments and shortcuts, but its nowhere near…

This. And other Google services like Hangouts. I've tried a handful if times to switch from Chrome to Firefox but my company uses GSuite so having to have Chrome running for Hangou…

I know its not shiny and new, but I still use Puppet to manage all of my physical and virtual servers.

Electro-house or hard trance. Something with a solid repetitive beat and minimal to no lyrics (occasionally those lyrics may be in a foreign language).

Exactly this. I work for one such large multinational news corporation, and its all about ads and analytics. On the analytics front, we are measuring and reporting on pages and art…

Das Keyboard Pro 4 with blue switches. Honestly not that loud and I love the feel. Seriously solid construction (aluminium body and all that). Has a decent WAF (wife acceptance fac…

Yep, we have proxy servers with SSL decryption/inspection. Root CA installed on all company devices. There are a number of whitelisted URLs (banks, and services that refuse to work…

As a nodejs dev, NodeRED appealed to me. I have lights, curtains, irrigation, aquarium, etc all controlled from my phone/tablet via a raspberry pi.

SAMBA 4 AD is a valid alternative if your requirements are relatively simple. You still need a third party product (or build one) to provide a web interface if you need that.

That looks amazing... will be interesting to see if it actually releases though.