Project Status Update

Thought I'd chime in today to give a status update on what's happening with the projects I mentioned in my last post (oh so long, long, long ago.)

Project #1 - Qmail on Mac OS X

This is a tedious install. I almost had everything working, and then it blew apart, so I'm currently starting over.... again (for the eleventieth time!)

Everything was working splendidly, until I went to install the latest version of SpamAssassin. It required that I upgrade my version of Perl first. The Perl upgrade seemed to go fine, that is, until I started checking to see if everything that was previously installed was still working. For some reason, the box would no longer send or receive mail and some startup items refused to start. I futzded with it for a while and finally decided to restore the box back to original and start over with a fresh copy of Mac OS X Server. This time around, the first thing on my to-do list was to upgrade Perl. Things seem to be going OK so far, and I am once again a little past half way through the install.

As long as the Starbucks holds out, I'll continue pursuing this project.

Project #2 - Call of Duty Server

The Call of Duty server I had set up at the house rapidly exceeded my bandwidth limitations. To keep [Housewares] alive, I had to move the entire operation to a rented server from GibGames. The server now runs out of a Dallas facility with huge fat pipes. This allows me to have a 12 player server running 24-7 without sucking down all available bandwidth at the homestead. Once I am out of my Comcast contract, I plan on upgrading the pipes here at home and will bring the server back in-house. GibGames has been great, though. They run a superb system and I would highly recommend them to anyone else out there in need of a Call of Duty server rental.

No updates on the other two projects. I really haven't had the time to look into them.

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