Category computers

Another reason why DreamHost could be called crap:

They block some email based on a non-user-configurable blacklist. The domains americastestkitchencorp.com and dm-4.com are two such domains blocked in this manner. The problem? americastestkitchencorp.com is the company which runs America’s Test Kitchen on PBS, and dm-4.com is used to send travel confirmations for those traveling on Princess Cruises.

If Junk Filtering is turned on, mail from (at least) these two domains will be blocked, regardless of the user’s settings for mail tagging and quarantine. The only way to keep mail from those domains from being blocked is to proactively whitelist them.

That is a stupid way to run things.

What the hell?

jawbreaker:~> mysql -uc0nsumer -hmysql.nuxx.net -p nuxx_net
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1125434 to server version: 5.0.18-standard-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> select * from mw_user;

...

1 row in set (18.07 sec)

mysql>

Anyone want to know what’s been going on with DreamHost?

Read this: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/08/01/anatomy-of-an-ongoing-disaster/

So. DreamHost is disappointing me again. I’m within about a day of dropping $1300 (and 2.5x per month) on a 1U server and going back to colocation with Waveform.

This is pissing me off.

UPDATE: Yep, looks like MySQL problems.

More and more I’m finding myself wanting an email client which doesn’t have folders for sorting things, but instead has ‘views’. That is, everything goes into one giant bucket and where one would normally find folders there are what amount to canned search queries. For example, ‘LJ’ for all things from LiveJournal, or maybe ‘Honda’, for all messages which contain the string Honda.

Still having folders available would be good for some, but I’m not sure I’d use it.

I’m fairly certain newer versions of Outlook almost meet all these requirements… But why not Mail.app or some other simpler mail client?

< sigh >