I had to cert whatever as a journeyer after reading their mature attitude toward free software as well as posts in general.
Kudos!
I had to cert whatever as a journeyer after reading their mature attitude toward free software as well as posts in general.
Kudos!
Finishing Cryptonomicon (by Neal Stephenson) a few days ago has finally cleared my synapses. All (well most) of the fuzz from my brain is gone. How do i know? I have decided to pick up and start reading a book on Chaos theory (which I have intended to read for a long time), instead of vegeing or TVing.
Once all the legal shit with the parents-in-law is out of the way my brain will really clear... (Anyone want to help fund our legal case? We are currently $5000 in the hole :/ With 6 kids to feed).
Although, I have much to thank Neal Stephenson for.
Just posted to the gnupg-devel mailing list about some features i'd like to see happening. Even if i have implement them myself.
i wonder how clean the code is.....
The first test of the cohosting/virtual domained webmail went without a hitch. The remote management scripts work fine, even via SSL.
Still need to finish the major contract i have going in my spare time. Once I have that finished, i can collect the money and relax.
Home
Only 250 pages to go until I finish Cryptonomicon. Its shaping up to be even more brilliant then I thought.
Need to get the house cleaned for a rent inspection. If I was not so exhausted I'd be able to do more cleaning :/
Also need to help untangle Tonia's threads (wonderful kids had a go at them), so she can sent 10meter skeins out to her 'thread swap partners'.
Beg
Anyone with a spare laptop. Even a cheap and rusty 486 or a lowend pentium, I'd appreciate to 'borrow' it. I need a way to keep emails and documents with me most of the time. Plus play around with writing 'OrdoEmacs' as in Cryptonomicon. *thanks*
Finally, premium services are a long distant memory. Now we have the task of working on a paying customer. And writing services for them. Cohosted and branded webmail, with our standard IVR backend.
Not to mention lots of funky hacks with DNS and remote adding of users from another website. Yes, its all shoelaces and sticky tape here.
Oh my ghods!
Solaris did not handle me missing a exit(1) very well. It ended up being a fork bomb. Normally, i'd expect a modern Operating system to restict the number of processes per uid to something reasonable. And this being a non-root user it should not have hurt. But it brought a dual cpu e250 to its knees, using 1gig of RAM and 1 gig of swap in under 2 minutes.
Oh well, that'll teach me.
Am currently 377 page into Neal Stephenson's brilliant new book Cryptonomicon. A lot of it makes me kinda wish i was single and childless again, so I could devote 100% of my energy to technology and invest time into outlandish startups.
However, it has encouraged me to take a stand. I wont be accepting email that is not digitally signed or at least encrypted from now on. With the exception of mailing lists of course. This way I can halt spam mail and essentially reduce my time needed to read email daily.
trying desperately to catch up on the contract work i do on the side. Once its done I can pay of my slowly growing debts and get back to being a father to my kids :/
Now, if I can get this last bits done, I can totally sign it off and wipe my hands of it. Its hardly an elegant website. And its too bloated, having to design a database front end to match the original in functionality but make it lighter blech!. Moving from perl/flattext to php/sql was a good move....
Finally.....
The Premium Services have been rolled out. Built on a bed of ultra fast Sun's and tied together with quite a lot of open source tools, it works wonders.
Now, if i could be allowed to install Debian GNU/Linux on some of the E250s i'd be happy. *grins*
That asside, I am learning a lot more about project management and the huge benefits of documenting everything (not that i didn't already ;), and generally running a test system, with
And heh, the boss has moved to a X Window System solution in the office for the non-technical staff and to using CVS on my recommendation... :)
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