Dealing with People Giving me Money I did not Ask for

When people do that for no good reason, I don't play this I give you back round and round game. I interpret it as God in His mighty providence and foreknowing power is showing me what they are actually saying:

"Tim, I'm sorry, I don't know how to use this $2000 USD, so God is asking me to give it to you, you can better use it for it would be a waste on me."

Matthew 13:12

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LinkedIn, Adobe Got Hacked?

This appears to be causing some panic at my company lately.

Spoof mails (usually sending as recipient's address) claiming to be a darknet hacker and sometimes revealing passwords of users asking for bitcoin payment.

It seems that this is related to a recent LinkedIn hack or something.

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MERF: Sermon Today on Psalm 107 by Dan Ragusa

Ragusa: chapter has broken into East, West, North, South.

My reflection:

It sets out to show God's mercy. What sinners deserve needs to be focused, elaborated, for conviction of sins (v. 11, 17)

Such is the longing is God for his people. The good relationship, that is heaven. For there is no other heaven, but hell. Yet, we image a "hell" that we desire, that is filled with beautiful things from God which we take for granted. A hell nonetheless, for those blessings will be but only vain fantasy, since there is no desire for the good relationship, which is with God. All prayers will be in vain, if there is no such good relationship.

Therefore, give thanks, praise His name for his righteousness! Come close to him with no desire to step back at all, not on holidays, not on movie nights, nor any game night.

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Poop Tips

Eating Cereal/high fiber at night before sleep is good for morning pooping.

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Sagacious

Kathy’s Word of the Week (10/08/2018), by Lloyd

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sagacious

Pronunciation:
sa-ga-cious

Definition:
having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; shrewd

As used in a sentence:
They were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation.

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Elevation Map

While many sites failed on promises, this is the best I've found so far:

https://elevationmap.net/

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Emailing with Telnet

All SMTP servers basically work this way. This can be done using the freeware PuTTY.

Telnet to server & port: (bold types are user input)

220 BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 3 Oct 2018 23:54:21 +0000
ehlo
500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command '????' [BY2NAM03FT048.eop-NAM03.prod.protection.outlook.com]
ehlo
250-BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Hello [69.60.23.131]
250-SIZE 157286400
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-STARTTLS
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
mail from:<test@mafia.com>
250 2.1.0 Sender OK
rcpt to:<timlyg@yahoo.com>
250 2.1.5 Recipient OK
data
354 Please start mail input.
subject: This is the Subject Line.

this is just a test
.
250 Mail queued for delivery.
quit

 

Advanced:

For authentication, after establishing telnet connection and entered two "ehlo" commands, use the command: auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6; will prompt username input, enter base64 encoded username, which is usually the full email address.
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6; is prompted then for password, enter base64 encoded password.
The rest is the same as above.

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Clear Night Sky Map

A good light pollution map.

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Iceland - Blue Lagoon

Flight from New York to Iceland is not a big deal.

And the Blue Lagoon maybe on the must-see list. $60+ entry fee. Interesting mineral blue semi-artificial lake.

  • Best time to visit is late at night to enjoy the midnight sun in summer or the Northern Lights in winter.

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Office 365 Outlook Shared Inbox folder now appearing after added to some user

Problem: When a user is given a shared mailbox, that mailbox should automatically appear in the user's Outlook client right under the user's folder in the left panel, within a couple of hours if not minutes. But some users never see this happening, and if I add this folder manually via Account settings > More Settings > Advanced > Add Mailboxes > name of mailbox, it will usually prompt for username/password again but will keep popping such prompt as if no valid credentials are entered even when the input is correct, or, the folder will show up but clicking it will only show further error about Exchange server problem. There are similar solutions about this but it never works on my case. They were talking about turning off / on cache, uncheck / check download shared folders, etc.

I searched and searched to no avail.

Solution: Upgrade Outlook 2013 to 2016.

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