It was the Christmas of 1981 that I received my first computer; a Sinclair ZX81.
It’s been over 25 years since I started using Wordstar and dBase on CP/M running on TeleVideo TS802 and later TS803 machines.
Since then it’s been a downward spiral; through multiple BBC/Acorn machines; then 8086, 80286, 80386sx, 486, Pentium and beyond PCs.
Update time again – this time for another security issue.
Here’s the mail from wp-testers:
http://wordpress.org/beta/wordpress-2.0.6-RC2.zip
http://wordpress.org/beta/wordpress-2.0.6-RC2.tar.gzRC2 addresses the following vulnerability.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Dec/0463.htmlWe also changed how we escape HTML attributes. Escaping is done with a new
attribute_escape() function.http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4656
This touched a lot of files so we need to do some broad testing to make sure we didn’t fat finger anything.
Should be GA soon; advisable to upgrade.
I wrote about moving my primary mail server to SLES 10 and Netmail 3.5.2 a month ago.
Everything has been working really well – great uptime, better performance, another box moved to SLES 10..
Except for one little thing. Grania has been commenting that some of her email is missing.
Well – it’s not been in the inbound SpamAssassin kill files; it’s not stuck on the mail server; there are no errors with connectivity; no problems with DNS or MX records. The mail has been from all over – so it’s not someone like Yahoo being picky. Also normal mail has been coming in fine – so we’ve not been blackholed.
Tonight I decided to hunt down the problem.
It was me. I missed one step for the migration of mail; to use Netmail rules and forwarding the AutoReply agent needs creating and configuring.
The AutoReply Agent also enables users to forward their messages to another e-mail address. Users can specify if they want to retain a copy of the message in their NetMail mailbox or forward the message to the designated address.
Ooops. I missed that one. Three mouse clicks later and everything is back to normal.
I just trawled the aliases and there were over 400 mails to forward to the real mailboxes.
A month ago I got my hands on the RTM DVD of Windows Vista and took the plunge. I installed Vista Ultimate on my production IBM Thinkpad T42p; 80GB HDD, 2GB RAM. I installed Vista into my Active Directory environment
Currently here is what I’ve got running, as well as a list of applications that are working for me:
The only applications I’m having trouble with so far are
I found a couple of defects; Microsoft worked with me and got a fix for one:
The most annoying thing was the User Account Control – every action required confirmation. I’m a domain admin and local admin on the box; my own fault if I do something foolish. I turned off all of the UAC features within a few hours – just too in your face.
Next steps are to find the Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad tools for some of the key mappings; not essential. Also have another hack at the VPN client.
Usual disclaimer – some of the apps listed are not ‘supported’. In fact I’m probably the only person testing Collanos Workplace on Vista 😉
Yesterday evening I moved my mail server from a clunky old Windows 2003 server to a shiny new SLES 10 box.
I still use NetMail – but I had a couple of fun hours with the move.
First I looked at the state of Hula; some pretty broken RPMs that didn’t do much useful for me. Then I saw this post from Alex Hudson
So, Hula as a Novell project is basically over – Novell are no longer interested in any potential “Maui” product (which was going to be an upgrade path to Netmail users), the product group has been broken up, and at least one developer who was part of that group has now left Novell.
Bummer. Kinda confirms what I had found out internally a few weeks ago in planning the mail migration.
Then I saw this from Peter Teichman (who I really respect from his work on Red Carpet Enterprise at Ximian):
Novell no longer has anyone working full-time on
Hula. As a team we have spent some time looking at where the Hula
project is and the opportunities in the market and in the end we had to
conclude that we couldn’t justify investing at the same level in Hula
going forward. So those of us who have been developing Hula full-time
will be moving on to other roles and to other parts of the company.
So Netmail as it stands is somewhat orphaned. It’s pretty much end of life.
I’ve got Netmail running on SLES 10 without major pain; it does what I need. I’ll need to look around for the ‘what’s next’ some time next year – but for now I’m sorry to see Hula and Maui not move forward.
We bought a splendid HD TV a week or so ago – a Sony – very pleased with the quality.
I did the cable magic and got the DirecTV up to speed as well. I decided to go with the ‘old’ HR10-250 Tivo based DVR, rather than the newer MPEG4 non-Tivo DVR. Call it Tivo loyalty.
Nice to know that rather than the $400 we estimated for getting the work done; it cost me around $15 for the extra LNB for the satellite dish and about $20 for the good quality coax. Good job I can still crimp cables 😉
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