I've decided to implement a mailing list for support information. This list allows me to send emails about the status of the server(s), if I'm doing upgrades or there is downtime etc.
Before I just had a list of users that I sent emails to, but some people may wish not to receive them or others may wish to get these emails.
The mailing list address is support@dalegroup.net
You cannot send emails to this address it is only for out going emails.
To subscribe, send a blank email to support-subscribe@dalegroup.net (please note this is an automated system).
To unsubscribe, send a blank email to support-unsubscribe@dalegroup.net
If you received a test email today you are already subscribed.
The traffic level of this list is LOW. If you want to setup a filter for this list the subject will contain the text [dg-support]
I installed BIND today. A DNS server. It's seems really nice and was much easier to setup than expected. I've heard that BIND was a nightmare but in fact it is pretty good.
Here is a zone that I have on it currently:
zone "dalegroup.info" {
type master;
file "db.dalegroup";
allow-transfer { 10.0.0.1;67.118.43.92;69.111.250.84; };
};
@ IN SOA ns1.dalegroup.net. mdale.dalegroup.net. (
2005012705 ; Serial
7200 ; Refresh after 2 hours
3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
; Name servers
IN NS ns1.dalegroup.net.
IN NS ns1.rollernet.us.
IN NS ns2.rollernet.us.
; Addresses
IN A 203.173.26.192
IN MX 0 mwdmeyer.is-a-geek.com.
IN MX 10 mail.rollernet.us.
IN MX 20 mail2.rollernet.us.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 203.173.26.192
www IN A 203.173.26.192
On another topic I found the following two quotes interesting:
[quote]Ever see someone toss a coat on the floor rather than hang it up, and then go back later to hang it up anyway?
Most lazy people create an extraordinary amount of needless labor for themselves and then berate people who have a lot of free time because of their efficiency[/quote]
and
[quote]I've noticed that a lot of "messy" people seem to know where everything is. I call it the chaos theory of organization; it can often be easier to remember where things are than to spend the effort to put them someplace. So you just put them where there's space, and remember where they went.
My wife has what I call the pro-aesthetic theory of organization; if a room or place appears to be neat, it's organized -- even if the stuff is put away without any regard to an organizational structure (eg, related items aren't in the same cabinet or closet). It's important for the room to look clean, even if in reality its a highly user unfriendly mode of organization.
When you contrast the former and the latter, it's an interesting mix -- on one hand, you have a visual mess but things are relatively easy to find. On the other hand, you have visual neatness, but things are hard to find since there's no scheme (other than size and volume) as to where things went.
As far as laziness goes, I've known neat freaks that never get anything done because the overhead cost of neatness eliminates their time.[/quote]
I have one of these sitting on my desk: http://www.ssbusa.com/hardware.html
It's an old ISA card
"PLL-Synthesized World Band
Triple-Conversion Supereterdyne
Radio Communications Receiver"
Freqency Range 0.5 to 1300MHz.
I thought it was pretty cool ;)
Over the last two weeks the mail server has had some large spikes in traffic. Most of it is spam or indirectly spam. Most of which has been tagged as spam.
Here is an interesting graph from my mail server:
http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/blog/images/mail-jan2005.png
In the last two days I've seen some pretty crazy weather. Very heavy raining, thunder that shakes the house and fog that slows down your driving. It's weird!
I'm sitting here in some random shop using their ISDN connection. Wow it is dodgy! I thought ISDN was meant to be good (you get what you pay for?!), I was wrong. Dodgy USB connection and Telstra keeps dropping the connection.
I was going to logon to get my UNI results, but that doesn't come until 9PM not 9AM damn. So I'll just wait for the SMH tomorrow which has everyone's results :)
I've been at the beach each day. I need to drive anywhere before I can get mobile signal. Doh.
But no it has been very relaxing.
Anyway I better post this before the connection dies again.
It's been a very busy last two weeks and I haven't really had much time to update this site. Oh well :)
base10solutions now has a seriously nice logo and website that will be put online at some stage.
It looks like when I get back from holidays (I'm going away tomorrow for a week down south somewhere) I'll be employed to write some crazy COLBOL/VMS plugin for some fax/invoice system. Wonderful. :|
I've spent the last hour or so getting my mac ready for doing some development. I have Dreamweaver installed, the latest version of php4. Apache 1.3.33. I installed mysql last night. Today I moved over some database stuff and currently I'm compiling a library needed for mysqlcc to run on my mac. It has taken a while, but everything seems to be working well.
A few days ago I bought a 160gb Seagate hard drive (for $129) to replace the old 6.4gb drive in the server. The drive had all the databases and websites on. I thought it was about time to get something better as I wasn't sure if the old drive would last for much longer. Lucky for me I didn't need to reinstall anything, I just did a drive copy late one night. The process was pretty painless.
So now everything is running on a nice speedy hard drive. Cool.