Comments on: Possible Future Service Offerings for FS http://cocoacrusty.com/2007/02/21/possible-future-service-offerings-for-fs/ Still Eatin' on Ho Hos... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Josh http://cocoacrusty.com/2007/02/21/possible-future-service-offerings-for-fs/#comment-77 Josh Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:09:55 +0000 http://cocoacrusty.com/2007/02/21/possible-future-service-offerings-for-fs/#comment-77 I'm convinced now that there isn't a whole lot that open-source software can't do, either on Windows or Linux platforms. I also can't help thinking that working on both platforms makes you a better techie. That's one of the reasons I respect both you and Chris so much - you guys are fluid in multiple types of systems. That, and Chris pw3nes. (Did I get that right? Pw3nes? Warez? War-ez?) All of that stuff aside, I would love to help all I can. I echo Chris' statements: I have never had a better coworker or boss. Or lover. Okay, just kidding about that part... I’m convinced now that there isn’t a whole lot that open-source software can’t do, either on Windows or Linux platforms. I also can’t help thinking that working on both platforms makes you a better techie. That’s one of the reasons I respect both you and Chris so much - you guys are fluid in multiple types of systems. That, and Chris pw3nes. (Did I get that right? Pw3nes? Warez? War-ez?)

All of that stuff aside, I would love to help all I can. I echo Chris’ statements: I have never had a better coworker or boss. Or lover. Okay, just kidding about that part…

]]> By: chris http://cocoacrusty.com/2007/02/21/possible-future-service-offerings-for-fs/#comment-71 chris Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:59:55 +0000 http://cocoacrusty.com/2007/02/21/possible-future-service-offerings-for-fs/#comment-71 I've said this before numerous times, I've never had a better boss or co-worker. And just for the record, it wasn't my fault we stayed until midnight, that's just how long it took to get the client PCs reconfigured and mail transfered over to the new software. Although it did take me every bit of that time to finish the server. I'm extremely glad we were able to do this after hours and not during the day. After spending the 4 days I had possession of the server working (at my day job) until 4am and 2am, school until 10pm the next night, and up until 2 or 3 (working on the server) the night before install, I didn't exactly have a 100% complete server. I would say from what I understood the SoW to be that I was 90% done. Wrong. No webmail (still) and they didn't want IMAP, they wanted POP3. Oops, I guess I should have asked instead of assuming. And it wasn't until midway through that I got SpamAssassin to actually tag spam emails. My glory was shortlived, however, because as soon as I fixed something, Jeff was "reminding me" about something else that needed to be done ... like forgetting to setup Fetchmail to pull all of their mail down. Oops, another potentially huge mistake on my part. Oh, and after setting the server to respond to their email domain, any request to their own website took them straight to the server's proxy reporting page. Not good in the least. Luckily "a friend of mine" had recently used Squirm, a rewriting tool for proxy requests. After spending a good deal of time on it I was able to rewrite all of their http://domain.com requests to http://www.domain.com. Whoever wrote that deserves a Guinness. Brilliant!! Sorry for rambling so much ... I sort of got carried away there. If you're interested in the adventures of the other night, stay tuned to my blog. Maybe one of these days I'll have time (I planned on doing it tonight ... stupid WordPress themes) to actually finish my posts. -chris I’ve said this before numerous times, I’ve never had a better boss or co-worker.

And just for the record, it wasn’t my fault we stayed until midnight, that’s just how long it took to get the client PCs reconfigured and mail transfered over to the new software.

Although it did take me every bit of that time to finish the server. I’m extremely glad we were able to do this after hours and not during the day. After spending the 4 days I had possession of the server working (at my day job) until 4am and 2am, school until 10pm the next night, and up until 2 or 3 (working on the server) the night before install, I didn’t exactly have a 100% complete server. I would say from what I understood the SoW to be that I was 90% done. Wrong. No webmail (still) and they didn’t want IMAP, they wanted POP3. Oops, I guess I should have asked instead of assuming. And it wasn’t until midway through that I got SpamAssassin to actually tag spam emails. My glory was shortlived, however, because as soon as I fixed something, Jeff was “reminding me” about something else that needed to be done … like forgetting to setup Fetchmail to pull all of their mail down. Oops, another potentially huge mistake on my part.

Oh, and after setting the server to respond to their email domain, any request to their own website took them straight to the server’s proxy reporting page. Not good in the least. Luckily “a friend of mine” had recently used Squirm, a rewriting tool for proxy requests. After spending a good deal of time on it I was able to rewrite all of their http://domain.com requests to http://www.domain.com. Whoever wrote that deserves a Guinness. Brilliant!!

Sorry for rambling so much … I sort of got carried away there.

If you’re interested in the adventures of the other night, stay tuned to my blog. Maybe one of these days I’ll have time (I planned on doing it tonight … stupid WordPress themes) to actually finish my posts.

-chris

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