Techie geeky stuff

[trixtah]

I did something useful today, and wrote up my entire implemention regime for getting Postfix to relay mail to multiple Exchange servers without a bridgehead server. I put the whole thing on the Postfix wiki since it may be of use to other people. It certainly took me a while and quite a bit of brain-cudgelling to get it all working nicely, although once you see it in action, it's really quite straightforward.

Also, I have to thank damned_colonial for going, "Duh! Net::LDAP?" :-)

I really don't expect people here to read my deathless (techie) prose, but it's now immortalised for linkie purposes as Relaying mail to multiple Exchange servers. I'm hoping for two things: 1. It gets linked on the front page fairly soon; and 2. Some geek doesn't come along and say "Oh, here's this thing that takes 5 minutes to implement and much more efficient, and by the way, everything you've got here is wrong."

We'll see. O_o

(And I need a techie icon. Ack!)

Comments

[shangchi.livejournal.com]

You are brilliant.

Here is my techie icon.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Eee, thanks. It appears to work, which is the main thing. :-)

I like your techie icon, it's cute. I'm trying to put together featuring something with Kaylee from Firefly, but getting a good screencap of her with some kind of tool is proving somewhat challenging...

[shangchi.livejournal.com]

I have the entire series and the movie. If you can think of a scene that would be suitable, I'd be happy to make an icon for you.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

heh, I have the DVDs too. It's the only way an antipodean got to see the programme up until earlier this year. :-)

It's finding a suitable scene that's proving to be tricky. I thought Out of Gas would be good, but all the shots with Kaylee holding a tool or near the engine are fuzzy, or you don't get both in the same frame. Bugrit.

Well, damn, it just means I'll have to watch the whole series and the movie all over again to find some suitable fodder. *stapling hand to forehead* Life can be soooo hard. ;-)

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

bugger. < /a> is not quite the same as < /i>, is it?

[shangchi.livejournal.com]

You poor thing. Good luck with your search!

[kavri.livejournal.com]

OMG GIR! I love your Icon. Yay! Techie GIR!

[shangchi.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have a lot of Gir icons. I made them myself. :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Well done you. I've spent a great chunk of this week turning a broken implementation of a POP3 mailer on a shared folder into a set of sleek and speedy IMAP folders instead.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yay! I really have no idea why anyone continues to use POP3. Maybe if you're a nasty ISP that deletes read messages after 30 days..? otherwise IMAP is just 6000 times better.

I worked at a university once where some of the academics wanted POP. Because, supposedly, they were worried about their Intellectual Property (in initial caps), and if they left the mail on our servers, we could look at it. Assuming we'd actually want to, it apparently didn't cross their minds that their mail had already been archived and/or logged on our servers. Until I pointed it out to them. Idiots.

Anyways, yay you, death to evul POP! :-)

[filkferengi]

Remember Sesame Street, when Ernie sings "Rubber Ducky"? Thanks to your evil icon quest, I now have "Techie Ducky" lodged in my head.

;)

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

hee! But, while I love duckies sooo much, I can't quite envisage them holding tools. Alas.

Still, did you know that the devil duckie has a song?

Devil Duckie, you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Devil Duckie, I'm awfully dirty today.
(woh,woh,bee day!)

Devil Duckie, when you float,
It's like I'm bathing in a flaming moat!
Devil Duckie, you're my very best friend, hooray!
(Doo,doo,doo,dee,day)

Every day when I make my way to get clean,
I find a little fella who's
Red and yellow and mean
(rub-a-dub-keen!)

Devil Duckie you're so swell,
You guide me on my path to hell,
Devil Duckie, I'm awfully dirty
Devil Duckie, you're a naughty birdy
Devil Duckie, I'm awfully dirty today!