At LinuxWorld Utrecht I took the LPI level one exams and to nobodys surprise I passed them with ease. Last week I got a mail from LPI saying that my score was one of the best (that honestly didn’t surprise me either, given how easy LPI level one is) and that a company here in the Netherlands sends small surprises to the best candidates. Today the ’small surprise’ arrived and well, small isn’t the right word as I now have 5 new tuxes, ranging in size from 1cm to90cm 
The old one is working just fine
[root@mailserver log]# uptime 09:48:57 up 34 days, 22:47, 1 user, load average: 82.75, 52.72, 37.23
I’ve never seen such a load before…
Well, courier sometimes is. To gt rid of a lot of spam, I disabled the catch-all address for most of my domains, which is a good thing. However,this also took out the rss feed, which is bad. Isn’t there an smtp/imap combination out there that makes it *easy* to do aliases and real mailaccounts defined in mysql and addresses that forward to an application (preferably also configured in mysql)?
Hooking spamassassin and clamav into courier also wasn’t the easiest, so I should just get rid of it and use postfix I guess. I don’t like configuring postfix though.
Not long after my angry phonecall to TNT lost, someone else from TNT called me saying that they tried to deliver a package, but I wasn’t home. Apparently they don’t communicate internally, because he knew nothing about said angry phonecall and the resulting promises. So after giving him hell as well, I was once again promised that I would receive the package this morning. And yes, it’s 11:40 and I finally received my edgy CDs! The boxes are labeled “MUST ABSOLUTELY BE DELIVERED ON NOV 17 BEFORE 12:00″ — they must have been afraid that I would have made good on my threat (which I probably would have).
So anyone near Lelystad or Amsterdam: I have shiny new CDs!
TNT post sucks. Big time. They tried to deliver my Ubuntu CDs on wednesday, nov. 1st but I wasn’t home. So I called them and said “I’ll be home on friday, you can deliver them on friday”. What do they do? They attempt to deliver on thursday! So I call them again and explain the meaning of friday. New appointment: deliver it on tuesday; even though I am in the US, my fiancee will be home. After coming back from the US: NO cd’s. Instead, they contacted the CD making company about how I am unreachable (bullshit!). New appointment made: deliver either tuesday or thirsday. What do they do? Attempt to deliver on wednesday! Fucking idiots! So I call them and explain what tuesday or thirsday means. They promised to deliver today. But of course no package today, so I call them again and say that if they don’t deliver it tomorrow, I will file a theft report at the police.
That seemed to have helped. The voice of the person on the phone became a bit higher and more squeekish and he had very little to say except that he understood the misery and would do everything to get the package delivered. But please, please: if you want to send a package: go to dhl, ups or whoever. Avoid the losers of TNT lost at all cost!
To be continued…
The reason that I work on a third party repository is simple: it contains things that are not suitable for inclusion in Ubuntu, for a variety of reasons. If you browse through it, you’ll see what I mean. Only one package you find there (mirage) is suitable for inclusion in Ubuntu and Brandon is already working on that
I’ve seen the evidence of the bottle dance but no, we should NOT make this evidence available to the general public! There are small children and sensitive people reading planet Ubuntu as well!
If you want to make fun of the infamous Bearded Bacon, then make him play 2 different metal tracks in Jokosher and complain that you don’t hear the difference 
By the way: Jokosher is the shit!
Apparently no one on Planet Ubuntu blogged this yet, so let me share it with you:
Almost two days have passed here and I enjoyed every minute of it. Great bofs, great people and really great stuff going on here. Feisty will be the best Ubuntu release evah!
If you want to know more details: You should have come (or simply join us via gobby and/or voip).
After 28 hours of travel (various delays, loooooooong wait at US immigration services), Roald and I arrived at Sunnyvale, CA. In 8.5 hours from now, UDS willkick off, so we’ll try to get some sleep now. Stay tuned!
It’s 1am here, a few hours before ubuntu_demon and myself fly off to UDS mountain view. To kill time, we decided to play frozen-bubble 2 against ach other via the network. ‘Porting’ it from debian unstable to Ubuntu Edgy was dead easy, but what to do next?
Suggestions please :)
But I do wonder what it tastes like, so if anyone ignores the warning, let me know 