Now that I'm motivated for once...

We've been given the semi-official go-ahead at work to replace our current VMS-based email gateway with Postfix running on RHEL. Yay! Trouble is, I know as much about Unix MTAs as I do about Unix in general (ok, I'm typing this on my Ubuntu lappie, but ls -l is about my limit. ps -ef | grep < something > is when I'm being really techie).

( Rivetingly interesting stuff on Postfix )

Great! You say. I got home all ready to start experimenting with scripts ... and I can't find my two Perl books! Ok, my knowledge of Perl is slightly greater than that of the Unix OS, but not much. For the life of me, I can't find my Wrox (Perl for "dummies") book or my Scripting for Win32 one (which may have some stuff on parsing AD-style LDAP, but I can't remember). Wuargh! Neither of them are in my bookshelf so they must be somewhere together. I'm sure I don't have any random piles of possessions left anywhere else in the world right now?

Time to hunt around on the web, then. And have a rummage for those bloody books tomorrow.


ETA: Schtuuuupid typos fixed after Scott kindly pointed them out for me!

And I found my Win32 Perl book. Still no sign of the Wrox one. Maybe check at work? (We don't use Perl at all there, at present).

Vileness

I was downloading a Firefly vid from Megaupload, and they have lots of lovely advertising for adult dating sites and the like. There's a pop-up for Passion.com which circumvents the Fx pop-up blocker, meh.

Why is it that (nearly) every profile pic on these sites is just vile? Bad underwear, bad lighting, wierd desperate cultish expressions, incredibly unflattering body postures/positions etc, flesh bared in odd ways. And we won't talk about AdultFriendFinder.com. Obviously I'm getting old: I don't ever like looking at close-up pics of genitalia. And if you're looking for another woman, surely a pic of you screwing your hubby is not really going to do the thing? (especially when you say you're NOT after MFF threesomes!)

And, for those people I might chat to online, if I say (after a while, like several sessions, in a non-sexual context) "do you have a pic?", please do NOT send a pic of your tits. Call me old-fashioned, but I'd rather see your face before getting up close and personal with other parts of your anatomy. And really, I can wait to see those parts in the flesh. If ever. Honestly. I don't need pictures of boobies, I have my own to look at, ok? Thanks.

Does anyone wonder why I prefer bi women (and lesbos, actually) who have had some experience with women before they try to get in my pants?