James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Nice post, Kelsey.
Thanks :)
Points out that optimizations can have significant results in appropriate places.
It really does make a significant difference. Good hardware meant to do a specific task is generally better-suited to that task than a general-purpose system. This isn't a hard and fast rule, of course, as there are really bad special-purpose systems out there. But, I'm a firm believer in the, "right tool for the right job," concept; if the right tool costs a little more, then so be it.
BTW, your outgoing email seems to gotten stuck for ~2.5 days in nemesis.damnit.us?
Yeah. I was wondering why these mails didn't show up to the list, and why a bunch of people I sent email to didn't receive the messages ...
What causes that sort of thing? Or, were you offline, maybe?
... turns out that Cox Business (through whom I have my internet service -- but not for long!) decomissioned their email relayer and didn't tell anyone. Those morons can't get anything right or do anything properly. The whole reason I was using that mail relayer is because they couldn't get my forward and reverse DNS to line up properly (and as we all know, this is against the mail RFC). And, when I asked about reverse delegation to my DNS servers being a possibility? Not a chance. Although, this isn't surprising, coming from Cox. Morons: the lot of them.
I had better stop before I begin to *really* vent. Avoid cox at all costs, seriously. They have no business running business-class service.
-Kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
