A bright flash in the night. Tracers flit across the horizon. The report of distant cannon.
It’s the Cowboy Bebop Photoshop Wars, son. Best find a place to hide.
(EK, you rock.)
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Welcome back, friends
If you can read this (which may be one of the more inane phrases in the entire English language) then I’m happily back online and on my new server. There are still a few little quirks to work out, but for the most part things are under my control once again.
Yay!
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Northwest Link almost comes through
Part of the process of bringing this site back online involved having Northwest Link point the DNS for my domain to the new machine I built. As soon as I was able to change my domain so that their DNS servers were in charge, I sent their hostmasters a couple of emails detailing what I wanted.
All but one of the instructions was followed perfectly. You see, the new server is named “duckpond,” hence “duckpond.greyduck.net” being the machine name that email should be directed to. They did put that address into DNS… but put it in the MX record as “duckpond.greyduck.com” which, of course, does not exist.
So email directed to greyduck.net is bouncing like a big rubber ball right now.
That’s not all: Because the Request Tracker system I use to track “trouble tickets” is (was) set to email my greyduck.net account every week with a list of current tasks, and because Request Tracker is (was) configured to reply automatically to new ticket requests, and because email to greyduck.net addresses bounces, my RT system has almost three thousand new tickets, all from Northwest Link’s mailer daemon telling me that my email address is undeliverable. RT sees those notices as new tickets and replies, which generates another bounce, which generates another ticket, which generates another reply, which generates another reply, which generates another ticket, ad infinitum.
I’ll be spending the next few hours here at the office, killing duplicate tickets, 100 at a time. *sigh* Just another lesson in system administration, I suppose.
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If it weren’t for lousy luck, I’d have none at all.
File this one under “The Joys Of Mergers And Acquisitions.”
Invite.net has been sold to BizLand.com, which doesn’t support several of the key features that brought me to Invite.net in the first place. I got an email today that states that first thing next week my website and email will be transferred to BizLand’s servers.
There’s a very good chance that this site will completely break when that happens. The best-case scenario is that the existing journal entries will display but comments and a lot of the “extras” here won’t work (not to mention some of my security settings), I won’t be able to add new journal entries, and there won’t be a damned thing I can do about it since SSH shell access isn’t an option with BizLand.
My current plan is to have Europa, the dial-up provider I’ve used for many years now, point the domain at a box I need to build here at the office. It’s not the best solution, but at least this way I’ll control the box in its entirety. This is also going to cost me a little more. Such is life.
Ideas and contacts are welcome. Be warned that this may be my last journal entry until I get this thing moved elsewhere. No point adding entries that may get lost anyway. Grr.
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New screenshot uploaded to DevArt
By way of summing up my KDE efforts this week, I’ve uploaded a new screenshot to my DeviantArt page.
I think my next personal projects will include some long-overdue code tinkering on this website, as well as some artistic endeavours that are taking form in my twisted little brain. But that’s just right now, and we all know how much I love doing real work. I’ll probably just screw off and play Doom Legacy instead.
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Peruvian Congressman politely deals with Microsoft FUD
So what happens when a government official introduces legislation that would put open-source/free software into full service at the government level, and Microsoft tries to head him off at the pass?
You get this letter, a masterwork of rebuttal and reasoned discourse that should be required reading for anyone fighting against the Microsoft Juggernaut in their workplace.
Peruvian Activism