I'm blocked by AOL
I discovered that mail from veillard.com is being blocked
by AOL:
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mailin-04.mx.aol.com.:
> <<< 554- (RTR:RD) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/rtrrd.htm
> <<< 554- AOL does not accept e-mail transactions from dynamic or residential
> <<< 554- IP addresses.
> <<< 554 Connecting IP: 82.67.66.12
> ... while talking to mailin-03.mx.aol.com.:
> >>> QUIT
Sure I come from an ISP provided address range (free.fr)
but the domain is legit, I even have a working reverse DNS.
So they block the mail, which is bad, then to prove how
careless they are, the URL they give as the explanation
of their policy generates a 404 Not Found !
Blogging and corporate
I feel a bit uneasy about the two being mixed more and more, okay AOL being a Red Hat customer for example, should
I not report my disagreement ? I think I should. But I also
feel uneasy seeing Schartz Sun's blog, and how much it turned into a pure propaganda, basically a personalized
way to generate media noise. In the advogato tradition,
the way we blogged before the word was coined was for an
individual to express some of his opinions to *share* them
with a community, which quite often turns into a exchange
of opinions if the topic is hot/interesting/hit someone else
nerve. I like discussions, debates but I hate advertizing,
and I'm afraid we may loose that media too (after News/Mail)
as a way to make progresses collectively.
XInclude
Is on its way to become a W3C Recommendation, assuming W3C membership don't vote against it, yay ! I also like the
fact that the W3C XML Core working group mailing-list is now
publicly archived. Let's say historically there have been
a set of the people involved who wanted it public but that
it really got institutionalized within W3C only
recently.
Boston
So I will be around Boston from Oct 9 to the 13 for
the Gnome Summit and also to pay a visit to the colleagues
of the desktop group. I'm looking forward entering the
bizarre new Strada building, maybe see some ex-W3C
colleagues too :-).
Gamin
The inotify interface seems to gain grounds (thanks
rml !) in the kernel circles. To help people
play with it while keeping a sane environment, gamin will
now compile inotify support by default and use it if the
server founds it at startup. So even if we don't ship
inotify based kernels now, people can try them out easilly
(people are more used to install a new kernel than rebuild
a piece of the infrastructure, especially if the kernel
comes prepackaged.)
Network shuffling
I think I'm done with rhgb revamp, and will not focuse
on the network manager, to this effect I wanted to be able
to test various network scenario. This resulted in a big
shuffling I moved the wireless on the other side of the
appartment, the veillard.com also migrated in a cabinet far
away from my desk, I then realized how noisy my work
environment was, and after moving the test boxes to another
room, changing the CPU fan of my athlon 2600, this is all
nice and quiet, I moved the desk too to have a view other
Grenoble and the mountains from my desk ... way better,
now I need to work on the software :-)