I am having some problems with my mail server that I won't be able to fully fix until this weekend. If you have tried to e-mail and have not gotten a reply or, worse, you got a bounce, please be patient and try again.

The mail server is working now but I can't guarantee for how long.

I haven't blogged in awhile. I got a few blogs stored from my recently worldly travels that I will post as soon as I have completed them...

Anyway, I have been pointed to a technology that is new and is very promising. It is called podcasting and I got turned on to it from mistersleepless. It has lots of promise and is worth checking out.

I did something the other day I can't believe. I was at the World Congress Center and walked up to a public free access point. I opened my mail client and checked my e-mail. I read my mail, closed my laptop and left. 5 minutes later, "Fuck, what was I thinking".

Anyone care to guess my mistake?

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I am so far behind on work to parrot (my server) it isn't even funny. it has been working so well the since Brett and I started it I haven't had to worry about it. Eventually I need to around to switching the mail server from qmail to postfix and also set up some traffic analysis. I would like to know where the bandwidth is going ( Read more... )

There is a real good chance I am going to be a jet setter for the month of October. I am already booked for a trip to Sweden. To add to that one leg of the Sweden trip may be via England. My company needs some technical help setting up for a big conference. That help is probably going to be me. The other option is to fly to Amsterdam the week ( Read more... )

Most popup software should have a button that says: "If you push here you will install software on your computer that will make it run funny. You really don't want this software but push here anyway." Okay it would be a big button but you get the idea ( Read more... )

...being a sysadmin is that everyone thinks they can do your job. Well guess what mother fuckers... you can't.

That's all I got to say about that.

I have been thinking about my computer roots recently. Daily I participate in web based forums such as sysadmintalk.com. They are good systems and are the step child of Usenet and mailing lists. They are almost identical too discussion forums from bulletin board systems (BBSs). However they lack one of the big benefits of BBSs, no off-line ( Read more... )

This is my tentative list of DragonCon events for today ( Read more... )

I work with nationally diverse group of people. Let see, in my little group we have one russian, one romanian, two british, one indian, and a handful of americans. This makes the olympics interesting. The conversation always slips to which nation is better. This leads to larger discussions: "Romania raised athletes from a very young age"; " ( Read more... )