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Ysabel's InsaneJournal:
- I'm a reseller, so I need some sort of reselling-service-allowed account.
- I need it to handle IMAP-based email. Procmail is preferable but not absolutely required. Catching user-*@domain while still rejecting *@domain is required, as the majority of legitimate email for me these days comes in on an address that looks like that.
- Obviously, I need multiple domains, since I'm reselling.
- Access to a billing-tracking tool would be cool, but not absolutely required. But a big plus; I currently cannot bill my customers correctly and that's a big issue
- Reliable service. Preferably on reliable/fault-tolerant hardware (mirroring, RAID, whatever). This shouldn't have to be stated IMHO, but I'm also realistic.
- Ability to host PHP and MySQL required, ability to run Zope/Plone a big plus but not required.
- I'm currently paying $85/month for the service I'm unhappy with. Less than that would be better.
| Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 | |
| 1:52 pm | Back from lunch. Been reading more reports. People are saying "zombies". Honestly, I work for the phone company...it's hard to tell whether anyone here would be affected by that. A little more credible is the report that I've seen in two places now about a necrotizing bug of some sort (virus? bacteria? I haven't found the official CDC report yet, still looking for that)... However, while out, I saw a lot more military vehicles than the usual one or two I might see on any day, I watched two cars hit each other in an intersection and both drivers just got out and wandered away, and I heard more sirens than usual. But lots of the city is still seeming pretty normal, if a little less busy than usual. Maybe it's just panic. Then again, I'm not looking forward to trying to ride the bus home, even if it's just a mass hysteria thing. Maybe it's just happening slower here than on the coasts. Maybe Amy will be willing to drive down and pick me up. Maybe we should go visit my stepdad up in the mountains this evening... |
| 11:23 am | Am I the only one nervous here? I mean, I see all these reports various places on the net now, but none of my coworkers seem to notice. Once the sirens stopped, everyone just went back to working. I need to go get lunch here shortly. Hopefully I'm just being worried for nothing. If not...I guess I'll find out. |
| 11:13 am | WTF? Lights all just went off, but I still have power to the computer, and presumably the network's still working right. Good thing there's a good bit of sunlight. The civil defense sirens have stopped, too. Finally. They were getting annoying. |
| 10:10 am | Can't see anything from here, though we've looked out all the windows. I have to wonder if that's smoke over there or not. If so, maybe there's a good-sized fire in one of the major buildings, slightly more central to downtown, and that's what's up. I've seen a few other disturbing posts on my friends list, but none of them are local to me, so it seems unlikely to be related. |
| 9:58 am | Civil defense sirens. Only it's not the normal test day. And I don't see any tornado-style clouds. I wonder what's up? Weird. |
| Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | |
| 10:06 am | I just love it when you have to go back to the business folks and tell them that you can implement a requirement they gave you, but if you do, they'll hate you for it. Luckily, I think we can come up with something that'll do what they really want without the impacts their current requirement would cause. |
| Monday, June 11th, 2007 | |
| 11:03 am | "There's a utopian view that women ought to be able to have sex any time they want to without consequences -- that's the bottom line of all these bills," Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America told the AP. ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} crevette says it better than I could. My rant would be incoherent, frankly. |
| 8:26 am | I vaguely remember what it was like to not be exhausted and hurting. I am otherwise doing well, but I will be much, much better when we're finally done with the moving and the work on the old house. |
| Thursday, May 31st, 2007 | |
| 2:12 pm | I have run across the very best quote about the whole Strikethrough 2007 debacle. It's quoting from Perverted Justice, an actual anti-pedo group that tried to get LJ to do something about certain people months ago, and were told off at the time. I am pleased that 6A's CEO is personally involved in trying to repair the damage that's been done. I'm not happy the damage was done, though. The whole thing was mishandled so badly it's not even funny. We'll see if they learn from any of this. |
| Friday, May 25th, 2007 | |
| 1:01 pm | Okay, Amy rocks. She met me for lunch and she had a sprig of lilac for me. |
| 8:29 am | Always remember The People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road! |
| Thursday, May 17th, 2007 | |
| 10:23 am | Also? Still no net. |
| 10:22 am | I have found the best response to the death of Jerry Falwell so far. Seriously. |
| Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | |
| 10:18 am | So, the manual install request also fell out. Or rather, was explicitly rejected. For being "out of process". Yes, that's what the comment rejecting the order said. Never mind that it was a manual expedite and thus being out of process was sort of the whole point. After some more work on Monday morning (no one who could actually solve the problem was in the office until Monday morning) we have low-level DSL signal at the new house, as of about 10 am Monday. Of course, it's with the wrong ISP, so we still don't have an actual net connection. The change order for getting us on the right ISP is due on Friday, but they're trying to get it done faster. Hopefully that won't generate yet another rejection for being out of process... (Yes, I'll be writing up the whole thing with timelines and commentary about helpful and not-so-helpful people and emailing it to someone very high up who has asked for exactly these sorts of stories. And noting that if I weren't as knowledgable as I am about the technologies underneath and the actual systems in the order flow, being an employee myself, it would have taken a lot longer to get this resolved.) |
| Friday, May 11th, 2007 | |
| 10:42 am | Also, I cannot for the life of me correctly spell the word "separate". I am very careful about spelling and I generally do not have trouble with spelling these days, but I want to spell "separate" "seperate" every damn time. I usually catch it on review, even when I'm not using a spellchecker, but my fingers will not type it correctly. |
| 10:37 am | So, the "install DSL" portion of my transfer service from old address to new address order fell out ("fall out" is a technical term meaning "requires manual intervention"). Which means they didn't install the DSL line yesterday when they transferred my service. Which wouldn't have been a huge problem, except that a) they didn't tell me this and b) the "disconnect DSL" portion of my transfer service order did not fall out. So, yeah, no net connection at either house. I spent an hour and a half on the phone with three separate reps this morning. Finally the last one found a manager who was able to tell me what had actually happened, and also get a manual install order in place that they think they can get done today. So in theory sometime today I'll have net at the new house. As an aside, it's very easy to confuse customer reps when you actually understand the underlying technology, and you work for the same company so you know all the systems they use and you know some of the idiosyncrasies they have to deal with already. |
| Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | |
| 9:19 am | Yesterday was full of suck. I had six separate issues that had to be dealt with right now on four separate projects, two of them severity 1 problems in production. Here's hoping today will be a little less insane. |
| Monday, May 7th, 2007 | |
| 2:49 pm | Here's what I need in hosting: Things I don't need include root access and the like. I currently have a dedicated server. I don't like the service I'm getting nor the price. I could do another dedicated server but I suspect I'll have the same problems, unless I'm willing to pay way more than I can justify. (I found a reputable dedicated server provider that could do all of what I wanted, and they wanted $350/month for it.) There are several providers that provide most of what I want at a price I can justify (HostGator is damn close, but that user-*@domain email thing may be a dealkiller if I can't get them to support it). I haven't found one yet that is a definite win. I thought HostGator was worth trying, but I haven't yet either cancelled my account or called them to see if I can get what I need. I really need to do one of the two soon. Anyone have any recommendations? |
| 12:39 pm | Has anyone else used HostGator for web/email hosting? Their reseller account seems to have everything I need and several things I'd really want, however, I found out after opening an account that they don't think they can deal with a very simple exim rule that I need (it's a standard one, but it's turned off by default, namely the user-blah@host idiom). I've been trying to decide if I want to call them and try to talk to a real human or just cancel the account and go back to looking for a better solution. Their email support was responsive, but entirely, "Sorry, we don't do that." |
| Sunday, May 6th, 2007 | |
| 9:53 pm | My first freehand, limited sketch on the Wacom. I used the pencil tool, so lines are all weight-constrained to 1-pt strokes, and the fills are just solid black fills, but it let me try it out with a very limited toolset. (I was playing with the brush settings too much, instead of drawing.) Next I try the same basic thing but with the calligraphic brush, so I can adjust line weight and the like. Hopefully while actually drawing this time, instead of just fiddling.  I really, really like the Wacom. |
