Note to self: If you are setting up a mail server, and using it to receive twice-daily backups of your website, and then you decide not to retrieve those backups from the mail server so that they just lie around, your spool partition will fill up and you will stop receiving mail!

So if anyone had anything important to say to me in the last few hours, please say it again, 'cause it might have got losted.

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1 How small is your spool partition? It's either tiny or your web backups are huge. If so, don't backup everything each time. Just grab the comments since that's the only thing that should be changing.
If you're using Exim, it would be very easy to directly archive the email upon receipt. If you don't actually look at this stuff all the time, this would be the simple solution. Just create an email account specifically for this purpose and add a router that archives the email to a different partition (I can show you how, if you wish).
If you're using Microsoft Exchange, you deserve whatever problems you get.

Posted by: Rossz at September 07, 2003 07:19 AM (43SjN)

2 My spool partition is only 500MB. The backups are about 15MB per day. The web site is about 1GB
I'm using Postfix, by the way. I just made a spool directory on a bigger partition and symlinked it back to /var/spool/mail and everything's happy again.

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There's a new Heinlein book coming out. Yes, Robert A. Heinlein. And yes, it's by Heinlein, not about Heinlein.

It's called For Us, the Living, and it was lost more than 60 years ago:

"For Us, the Living," was put aside, and eventually lost. The Heinleins apparently destroyed all copies they had. And because at the time it was written Heinlein was not a member of the science fiction community, no other sf writers knew about it. He had let one or two friends read it, and it is by a long trail through one of them that this rarest of treasures was located.

So, who else has a long-forgotten novel hidden away? A few years ago a lost work by Fritz Leiber, The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich, was rediscovered and published. Tolkien's unpublished story Roverandom likewise languished for decades before reaching the public.

If you asked me to name the three authors I'd most like to see have a lost work rediscovered, those would be high - very high - on the list. Sometimes things do work out the way they should.

(via Slashdot)

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The latest Munuvian is a small blue rabbit.

A warm welcome please for Roxette Bunny!

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I haven't done a Blog of the Day for a while (in fact, due to pressures at work I haven't blogged much at all in the past few weeks) but I was checking my inbound links tonight and I tripped over The Patriette. (It was dark.)

One can't help but admire a blogger who titles a post "Oh bother! I seem to be stuck in an Argentine prison!" (or for that matter, "Things I Hate: France"). She even has me blogrolled - uh, which is how I found her. Albeit she has me blogrolled as "Alas! Alack! Oh, no!", but that's better than not being blogrolled, right?

Right?

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1 Good choice!

Posted by: Susie at September 06, 2003 12:44 AM (UA6yw)

2 Yes, good choice. Although I rather enjoyed that top spot under "blog of the day" for the last few months.

Posted by: Jennifer at September 06, 2003 02:17 AM (E9paH)

3 She has me as "Semi-evil misguided minion who we all hope will see the light."
I'm pretty sure I've seen that somewhere else before. . .hmmm. . .

Posted by: victor at September 06, 2003 02:29 AM (7rb2M)

4 Sorry about tripping you like that. (You should turn on some more lights around those inbound links. Heh heh heh.)
Thanks for noticing me. I am honored to be blog of the day. To show my appreciation, I will add a second link to my blogroll for your blog with its official name.
Thank you kindly and all the best!

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Bringing much-needed cheesiness to mu.nu is LeeAnn of The Cheese Stands Alone.

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annika of annika's journal and poetry has a first rate post explaining:

why i begrudgingly, reluctantly, give my enthusiastic endorsement to Arnold Schwarzenegger for California governor.

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Jennifer, when you finish with all the presidents, vice-presidents, and first ladies past, here's something for you to work on:

Natalie Lileks was the bravest, toughest Chief Executive this nation ever had! She did what she had to do, and she paid the political price! Paid it gladly! I still remember the day she resigned...as far as I'm concerned there was NO disgrace in her decision!

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1 When I run out of tales of the past start telling tales of the future?

Posted by: Jennifer at September 03, 2003 02:14 AM (rZmE1)

2 Bingo!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 03, 2003 02:32 AM (jtW2s)

3 I loved this post, and just linked to it myself. I linked via the trackback site, but no trackback appeared. Might you know why?

Posted by: Howard at September 03, 2003 05:18 AM (3pfkH)

4 Well, the trackback is there now

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Steven Den Beste has lately been wrestling with both CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) and a new version of City Desk (his blogging software) that helpfully rewrites your HTML for you - and indeed, can't be prevented from doing so.

Being an engineer, he discusses City Desk in the context of intrusive tools. An intrusive tool is one that you are constantly aware of using. Notepad, for example, is not an intrusive tool; it sits there and you type stuff into it. Word is very much an intrusive tool, with its pop-up advice and its real-time spelling-error-generator and its fourth-grade reading-level grammarbot. I hate Word; I use Lotus WordPro for any serious writing (my book, for example) because it's not intrusive; despite having just as many bells and whistles as Word, it does exactly what you tell it to and shuts up otherwise.

I find CSS to be an intrusive tool too, not because it beeps and squawks at you (it can't), but because as soon as you try to do anything complicated, it stops working the way it should. Setting up the three-column layout was a huge pain with Internet Explorer; I tried three different ways of doing it - all of which worked fine in Mozilla - before stumbling across something that IE accepted. I don't know if the fault is with the specification or Mozilla or IE, but CSS is clearly not ready for use when it takes trial and error, and in the end, arcane trickery, to make something that really is fairly simple, work. And I ended up with two different stylesheets anyway, and JavaScript code to select the (hopefully) right one based on what browser you are using. (Try looking at the site in both Mozilla and IE - the IE stylesheet is different because I can't be bothered keeping both versions up to date.)

For the new layout I'm considering using tables instead. HTML purists will tell you that using tables for layout is a heinous crime, but I say to the purists: Go piss up a rope.* Tables do what you tell them to, where CSS does whatever the hell it feels like. I get enough of that from people; I don't feel like dealing with it in software as well.

* Where does this expression come from, anyway?**
** Never mind, I googled.***
*** Okay, okay: GO PISS UP A ROPE by 1940s: Go away and do something characteristically stupid; ="get lost", "go fly a kite". "He asked for another contribution and I told him to go piss up a rope." (Chapman’s Dictionary of American Slang)****
**** I also found an ad for "Urine Porn". Some days you're torn between "To each his own" and "Ewwww".*****
***** I'm finished now, Tiger, you can have them back.

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I bought a Sara Lee sticky date pudding for dessert. Of course, when I tried to open it, I found that the lid was stuck to the pudding. Stuck so firmly that when I finally pried it off, all of the icing/sauce/whatever it is came with it. So I had to scrape it all off the lid and spread it back on the pudding.

In other news, the garage of my apartment building got broken into. Again. Four times in four years.

I hate thieves. They probably vote Democrat.

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Do you love the SCO information minister? Then show your love with these dandy t-shirts and coffee mugs from the WLTSIM store!

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So I went out and got my drugs. I suffer from hayfever - I'm allergic to a bunch of things: dust, pollen, cats, idiots - so every day I have to take a little pink pill. One little pink pill and I'm fine; it takes care of everything (except for the idiots, which I have to deal with in the old-fashioned way). As long as I take my pill, I'm asymptomatic except on the very worst days of pollen season or when I spend the night at my brother's house in the bed the cat sleeps on. (And did I mention the ducks? Remind me to tell you about the ducks.)

So, I make sure that I never ever ever run out of my little pink pills, because the consequences are pretty nasty. After twenty-four to forty-eight hours of no pills, the anti-histamine level in my bloodstream drops below the panic line, and I start to sneeze. And I don't stop until I go out and get some more pills and take one or two and then wait a couple or three hours and maybe get some sleep. So I never run out of pills.

I ran out of pills last night. Blershoo!

Anyway, I got my pills, and I had some lunch at Oporto (Portugese-style chickeny things), and I took one of the pills (which is just starting to take effect now) and then I went to Kathmandu and bought half a dozen assorted t-shirts with lizards on them because my old Kathmandu t-shirts are starting to look like they have died of mange. And then I went to The Phantom Zone and although they've moved everything around I managed to find volumes six and seven of 3x3 Eyes.

3x3 Eyes is the story of Yakumo, a typical Japanese high-school student working his way through school by waitressing in a TV (and no, I don't mean television) bar, and Pai, a pretty young innocent mysterious ancient evil girl, whose pet demon-bird Takui kills Yakumo in the first chapter of the story.

Oops.

So Yakumo and Pai head off to Hong Kong (where else?) in search of some means for Yakumo to not be quite so dead anymore and for Pai to be a normal human girl rather than a time-share for the last of the Sanjiyan Unkara. The anime series of this is very good and highly recommended (I mentioned it in my Anime Top 25, but it was at number 25 and I didn't get around to reviewing it at the time). Unfortunately, the anime only runs for seven episodes, in two parts of four and three episodes each, which takes you, if I recall correctly, to about volume four of the 35-volume (and counting) manga series. So if you want to find out what happens after that, you have to read the manga. Which is s-l-o-w-l-y coming out in English from Dark Horse (the good people who bring you Dirty Pair).

Blershoo!

Damn, I think I'll have to take another pill.

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1 Everyone likes a pill popper

Posted by: Wanderer at August 31, 2003 06:10 PM (5nFE1)

2 Can I be a pretty young innocent mysterious ancient (s)evil(/s) naughty girl? please?

Posted by: Susie at August 31, 2003 08:59 PM (KK9YD)

3 Fine by me. I can refer to you that way in future links if you like

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 31, 2003 09:48 PM (jtW2s)

4 Gesundheit!

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I am now a Marauding Marsupial!

Yay!

I really should write something, but first I have to go out and buy some drugs. Um, anti-histamines. You can say hello to everyone at Munuviana in the meantime.

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1 Yay!

Posted by: Susie at August 31, 2003 03:37 PM (KK9YD)

2 Where were you when I needed a domain?
I like contractorpeon.com better anyways...

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3 Wow! And I thought I was doing well being a Flippery Fish! #434--that's fantastic.

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It's official: Mookie Riffic has moved from Blogspot to mu.nu!

Hurray!

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(via Tim)

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Tenshi na Konamaiki ("Cheeky Angel") is a show about a boy who has turned into a girl, a remarkable concept that has never before appeared in the field of anime.*

* Okay, so Maze was originally a girl, and Hibiki is really just in disguise, and Birdy is really two people in one body. On the other hand, we have Nuriko from Fushigi Yuugi, Yakumo from 3x3 Eyes ("It's just a job!"), Tsubasa from Ranma, Makoto from El Hazard...

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And now, even Ambient Irony has made the leap to mu.nu!

Well, yes, it looks exactly the same. But that's because it is exactly the same. No need to change your links, since everything still works and will keep working.

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Rocket Jones is the latest blogger to flee Blogspot and join the growing community at mu.nu.

Yay!

He offers these helpful words of advice should you ever find yourself participating in a major armed conflict.

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I was comparing notes with a couple of friends on how much bandwidth we use each month. I'm on slow-but-steady ADSL; they are on fast-but-limited cable. They boasted of high speeds - 700KB/sec downloads (that's bytes, not bits). I pointed out that I couldn't live with their pathetic monthly download limits.

What do you download?, they asked. Three gig seems plenty to us.

I pointed out that I download fan-subbed anime, since this is often the only way to get the less popular or older series - they simply aren't available to buy in English, neither dubbed nor subtitled. And my favourite site for finding new fansubs, AnimeSuki, often lists as much as a gigabyte of new anime a day.

Fair enough, they say, knowing well the depths of my addiction.

A gigabyte a day. Having said that, I became curious, and went and actually added the numbers up:

Sunday was busy - 1.8GB. Lots of fansubbers working on their projects over the weekend, perhaps.
Monday - 3.4GB. Yikes! I mean, wow! That's a lot! Presumably just a blip; that doesn't happen every day.
Tuesday - 4.8GB. Holy transatlantic cows, Batman! Where did that come from?
Wednesday - 1.3GB. Ah, a return to normalcy. But shortlived -
Thursday - 7.1GB. Nooo! My line's not fast enough! I can't download that much in a day!

Fortunately, people have started to collect the episodes of various series so that you can download four or five or ten episodes at once. Unfortunately, that means that a single click commits you to a twelve hour download. It's like being on dial-up again.

Now, you'll have to excuse me, as it's time for Kodocha.*

* That's the one with the squirrel, Susie.

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I know that my blogging has been rather on the light side lately, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been involved in any blog-related activities. For example, Jennifer's History and Stuff has...

Moved!

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Episode 9 of Kodocha provides the answer to Mitch H.'s comment:

One can only hope that it's potty-trained.

As seen here.

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Maro-chan climbs back to the safety of his home after both Mama's (left) and Sana's (right) heads have exploded.

* Well, at least Maro-chan has a proper name, unlike Squirrelly the Squirrel in Saber Marionette J.**
** Currently back to watching Kodocha.

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Heh. I caught that! Another hundred years or so of watching anime and I'll actually understand Japanese.

Princess Aeka in Tenchi Muyo! had a song of that name, too.

* Roughly translated: Call me Princess!**
** Currently watching: Scrapped Princess.

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Back in the misty dawn of time, when I was still at school, I spent two weeks at Hewlett-Packard on a work experience program. (This was when HP was still renowned for their engineering, rather than cursed as a pusher of expensive ink cartridges.)

At the time, HP was having a sale on disk drives. You could buy three 400 meg drives - and these were serious drives, with 14 inch platters stacked into cases as large as washing machines - three of these for just $250,000.

"But", said one salescritter to another, "how many customers do we have that need 1.2 gigabytes of disk?"

I downloaded 1.4 gigabytes of stuff today. Episodes 17 to 20 of Kodocha, and epsiodes 6 through 9 of Saikano (Saishuuheiki Kanojo). Fortunately, this didn't require me to buy $250,000 worth of disk to store it on. Though I did pick up a couple of DVD-RWs on the way to work. 4.7 gigabytes each. $8 a pop.

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(via Kean)

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A helpful guide on the correct way to make a cup of tea.

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1 I suppose the same logic applies to coffee. Of course, most people in the US use non-fat dried stuff though.

Posted by: Tiger at August 25, 2003 01:59 PM (lR7b2)

2 But if you put the milk in first, how do you know it's the correct amount?

Posted by: Susie at August 25, 2003 04:09 PM (KK9YD)

3 Now that's a keeper! Instead of trying to explain that the milk goes in first, I can use a visual aid!
Susie, you just know
Somone gave a mug a few years back that the official Mr. Bean mug and it has a line inside that says "pour milk to here".

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