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Good People
I spend a lot of time trying to surround myself with good people. It’s hard to define exactly what makes a person “good” in my books, but honesty, integrity, and a fundamental belief in win-win is definitely high up on the list.
Why am I writing this? I’ve been trying out a new online resume service and it seems that the site was down for a bit (at least for me). I noticed this as I was in the process of sending out an application and wanted to attach a copy of my resume.
I sent an email out to their technical contact and gave them a heads-up and some (probably not so helpful) diagnostic info.
I ended up getting a response from someone there, who absolutely made my day. I was just looking to be able to download my resume, i.e. get the service back up and running, and it turns out that through corresponding with him, he showed he was a “win-win” person and has unexpectedly helped me out with my job hunt.
Here’s a big thanks to you.
Cheers,
Brad
Lunar Eclipse
Wow. The eclipse last night was something awesome. Not only was this the first lunar eclipse I’ve bear witness to - I was able to see it through three different telescopes.
Now, I missed the first part of the eclipse - the viewing area was on the far side of the city - but the important part where the moon actually passes behind the earths shadow I was able to see and catch on film. This is not a professional photo - it’s my old 2 megapixel camera literally held up to the eye piece. This is however the best one I got and illustrates the three “phases” of the moon during an eclipse (normal, penumbra & umbra).
As the moon goes through the earths shadow it starts to darken as it passes through the penumbra and eventually turns into a rusty red when its fully into the umbra.
Don’t Blame Sendmail…
I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to figure out why I can receive some email and not others from my mail server. I noticed a week ago that emails were not getting through from certain domains and it was starting to drive me crazy not being able to figure it out. I’ve had a few problems with my server as of late, this being one of them. My company ended up moving offices on the 1st, so I initially wanted to blame my ISP (who wouldn’t?!?).
After spending quite a bit of time Googling and reading sendmail man pages I had finally learned enough to debug this. How many of you out there know that you can telnet to port 25 and send commands directly to the mail server? In the course of debugging I had figured out that I could receive connections on port 25 and the standard “handshaking” would happen (EHLO, etc…), but for some connections, it would get stuck on the DATA portion.
I finally ended up posting on comp.mail.sendmail. For some odd reason I needed top drop the MTU on my server from 1500 to 576 bytes.
To change the MTU, all you need to do is ifconfig eth0 mtu 576.
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.10
http://www.sendmail.org/tips/pathmtu.html
Motorcycles…the fastest and funnest way to get into trouble!
Yup, I did it! I ended up getting my class 6 license. I took a motorcycle safety course over the June 18-20th weekend. Nice weather. Kind of sucks that I didn’t get any photos though! The course was excellent. It was put on by the Calgary Safety Council. They took me and about 20 others from never riding a motorcycle before to passing the practical part of the class 6 test. Plus the safety course give you a 50% discount on your insurance premiums ;0)
Needless to say, I need to get a bike. Doug (my brother) took the same course a few weeks before I did, he of course went whole hog and bought himself a new crotch rocket. Awesome bike. He’s been nice enough to let me run around a few times on it. I have to say that it has a LOT more power than any of the bikes the CSC had out. I’m still debating over whether I want to get a bike like his or a cruiser. Regardless, I’ll be waiting until spring before I decide.
Cheers,
Brad
What to look for?
Well what do you suppose this is? A weblog? Let’s just say that I’m going to be posting stuff about anything that interests me, or just stuff that I don’t want to forget about. I’m notorious for doing that. Forgetting, that is ;0)
Most of my posts will be about either technical issues I’m dealing with at work (computers suck, right?!?) or just rambling about my personal life that I want to share.
If you’ve found this entry, congrats! If you didn’t, well…