I just spent 15 working days in solving a problem at work that had to do with email routing. That’s about 24 calendar days. Something that had been working perfectly for years suddenly stopped delivering email. It was all caused by human intervention into a system that has become highly fragmented when we became a part of a global business giant and having to work with their old but dominate email systems. These email systems...
Continue reading...Under the Big Top
The circus came to town again. Funny thing about a circus, they seldom change their acts. The players change but the acts remain the same. I am writing about the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Baily HVAC company. Read about the first show a few years ago posted HERE. This time it all started in January with a scheduled normal service contract check up call on my two electric heat pumps. You know, air conditioning cooling that...
Continue reading...Sandbox 13.04
Actually it is Sandbox running Ubuntu 13.04 but the result is the same. The operating system and the software are the heart of the system. The name sandbox can represent the hardware which seldom changes after the box is built. The update was flawless as thousands of files were downloaded and installed in their proper locations. This was a far better experience than I had with Fedora. I hope a Fedora fanatic reads this. Hmmm...
Continue reading...Weather Bugged
Here in Texas and in a lot of other places these days we all get severe weather. The job of the weather person is to try to scare the bejesus out of me in their reporting. Every storm is now “potentially dangerous” and is going to rip the roof of my house off or cause dangerous flooding. It’s like I have never lived through a storm and have no idea where I am living, like...
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