Configuring postfix is well-known to be the hardest, least intellectually stimulating task any IT person will ever pass off to a hapless subordinate. I, unfortunately, would seem to be that hapless subordinate. Eric recommended (and, in fact, convinced me) that I write a perl script to act as a delivery agent for postfix. This would offer grate flexibility, customizability, blah, blah, blah. Not to drag out the story, I got to a point where I realized I had a 200 line mess that didn’t work half of the time, wasn’t properly interacting with postfix, and needed another 1000 or so lines to do what was really required of it. So I dropped the project, and fell back to using mysql aliases, which looked to me like the easiest option when I need relatively dynamic mailing lists integrating with custom software that uses mysql.
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FIRSTSearch Released
Oct 16
After various delays of the server-is-down sort, I’ve finally finished fixing the indexing software, and FIRSTSearch is ready for (beta) release. It’s by no means an incredible piece of software – it has some bugs, it wants some features, the display of results is less than perfect, and I have my doubts that it’s really finding the most relevant results. But it’s working, and it’s ready forr other people to start to use.
I expect to have a non-beta release within a few weeks.
Demonstrations Day
Oct 1
From an initial glance, it appears more new members came today than last week. Though that does help the team, the room’s limited space fits only so many people. Mechanics demonstrations such as tapping and sawing took place in the main room while Eric instructed inventor to veterans in the computer room. Scott and his tech crew were in the backroom as usual. But, the Labview introduction transpired in the hallways with Winifred resting on top of a recycle bin (Well, it IS getting old and slow). Since Daniel was out sick, Jacob had to improvise on the tutorial. It seemed the flu got to him though as he was more calm than usual. Maybe he should have gotten a cookie.
