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September 7, 2004

Man, my colo facility is f’d up. Well, not their facility… Or their service… Just their billing. See, I installed the server back in February and (except for a failed switch card which they quickly replaced) things have been working great. Except for billing.

After the server was installed, I was told that I’d be receiving a bill at the end of the month. No problem… Well, three months rolled by and no bill. After a bit of email being sent around, I received an invoice a few days later. Paid it, no problems.

Well, three more months roll past, and still no bills. So, I email them asking for the June, July, and August bills. After a phone conversation early Wednesday morning, the billing folks explain that they don’t know what happened, but they’ll send an invoice out. So, Friday comes and I receive an invoice. For September. Bah! Heh…

Fortunately after a phone call today with Bill, the person who was there when I put the server in, he said that I should just pay the September bill, and they will get the billing stuff straightened out and send me another invoice in a few weeks to clear it all up.

That’s fine with me… I just hope it happens. Heh. In the mean time I’ve cancelled the June and July checks, adding them back into the pool of float, and waiting for the next invoice. I’ll just send what was to be the August check as the September payment.

Heh… It’s just funny. Most places are rock solid on their billing while service suffers. This place provides great, fast connectivity with cheap colocation rates. Just…. iffy billing. :)

So, yeah. Need someone to host your server? Look up Waveform Technologies.

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Mmm! Pizza!

September 7, 2004

[I originally posted this in yesterday, but I figured people here might want to see it.]

So today I wanted some pizza… Well, there’s a local fruit / veggie market called Randazzo’s who has recently installed a pizza oven. To make a long story short, I ordered a pizza margherita, and this is what I got. While it’s not quite accurate, it still is good… The only problem is that the last time I ordered a pizza from there, a four cheese one, I received basically the same thing, but sans tomato.

I’m not so sure the guy making the pizzas knows how to follow the recipes… But it is good.

There is another shot of the whole pizza here if you’re interested.

Also, one interesting thing… I get there, and there is a big sign out front advertising buy one get one free pizzas for Labor Day. As I hadn’t asked about this, I just head inside expecting to pay the $6.99 for the pizza (did I mention this place is also very reasonably priced?) and the person behind the counter rings it up as $3.49.

Not bad at all… I can forgive the slightly not-to-order-yet-still-tasty pizza for the speed, price, etc. So, if you live in the Macomb Township, Michigan area, Randazzo’s gets a big thumbs up for it’s pizza (not to mention it’s veggies). Especially compared with the crap chains that surround it.

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August 7, 2004

Nothing like finding what appears to be a bug in your email system at 3am. When you are tired. Too tired to fix it now.

Here’s the problem: When vpopmail (the virtual domain mail management add-in for qmail) authenticates a user via pop3 or imap, it adds an entry to a database stating that the IP address the user coming from is allowed to send mail through the server, via SMTP. This all generally works fine, except when you are checking your email via POP3 with SSL.

Then, instead of the standard line like this:

68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091862544

You instead get something like this:

__ffff_68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091861372

As the second line doesn’t work, someone with an account on my mail server won’t be able to relay mail through my mail server.

So, I’m not completely sure what’s going on as of yet. I think maybe if I update vpopmail (qmailadmin needs it as well) things will get straightened out, but we’ll have to see.

Actually, I’m now starting to think that the problem could be with my config in general. It seems I overlooked something, and I currently have qmail doing POP3, and courier doing POP3-SSL. So, I may have overlooked something when I set my mail server up way back when, and this whole time I’ve been working around the problem without knowing it, simply by having just one of my accounts check via POP3 as opposed to POP3 with SSL.

Hmm… So yeah, if this is the case, I need to figure out how to have courier make the required changes to have POP before SMTP work with it, too.

I guess I didn’t do it right instead of the first place.

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August 2, 2004

Okay, so the last time I went rollerblading I did just under 13 miles. Averaged something like 8 mph along the route. This time? I was only able to do just over 6 miles, but had a moving average of exactly 10 mph by the time I got back to my car. It’s definitely different to skate in 90°F (32°C for you power-of-ten-folk) as opposed to 70°F (21°C) weather. Wow. I was sweating while moving. I think that’s a first in as long as I can remember…

Now it’s time to remove spyware from my Dentist’s computer. Whee!

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July 28, 2004

Another thing for sale… Is anyone interested in a Netpliance I-Opener? It’s the original version, already hacked, with a 1GB hard drive installed, ready to go, USB network adapter, etc. I’ve also got a mouse/keyboard splitter so that you can use any PS/2 mouse and keyboard with it. Getting the hard drive in there required replacing the heatsink and doing some ninja-type mounting and fitting. It’s definitely not stock, but *is* ideal.

I just want $100 for it… In the original box, also with original keyboard and docs and firmware intact, etc. It works just fine, I just have no need for it anymore.

Otherwise, it’s going up on eBay, too.

Oh, in case you don’t know what one of these is, it’s a single panel computer/display with a modem, USB port, parallel port, etc. Great for running Linux or Windows 98 or whatever else you feel like on it.

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For Sale!

July 27, 2004

Hey everybody… I finally got some things listed on eBay today, so I thought I’d post the links here:

· VNV Nation – Advance And Follow v2 2 – Sealed New
&middot PAiA FatMan Analog Synthesizer – New – Assembled – MIDI

Oh, and yes, that’s the synth I was building a few months ago. It works great and all, but with all musical gear I acquire, I just can’t use it.

Oh, I’ve also got a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100 network card available, if anyone can use it. I’ve got no use for it, so if you’ve got a use for it, let me know.

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Afie!

July 25, 2004


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Yep, that’s Afie, my parents dog. I’m watching after her for the weekend while my parents are up north visiting my grandparents.

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