Performance

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 2/2/2007 10:13 AM:
> On 02/02/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> Glenn Steen spake the following on 2/1/2007 5:59 PM:
>> > On 02/02/07, Peter Russell <pete at enitech.com.au> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> > (snip)
>> >> As you say, after i posted it i did some further research and found it
>> >> was just a warning - thanks for the explanation.
>> > :-)
>> >> >> I will leave off making any more MTA changes until one of the
>> clever
>> >> >> cloggs can post up some tips...
>> >> > Um, english parser breakdown... Isn't a clogg a sort of wooden shoe?
>> >> > And a clever clogg is then an intelligent footwear? Sort of an AI
>> for
>> >> > pedestrian appliances?:-)
>> >>
>> >> Well i didnt wanna say geeks - but there you go you have forced me. :)
>> > Why thank you... Such high praise...:-):-).
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I made some changes to my main.cf and then telnet in to my server from
>> >> another network, i can get through helo, MAIL FROM with false info
>> - no
>> >> warnings, errors or disconnects. Any idea where i am going wrong? (i
>> >> have exclude all my pre existing transport map, relay domains type
>> >> config) Appreciate any tips or suggestions.
>> >> Pete
>> > To my tired eyes (it's almost 02.00 here) it looks ok, so it would
>> > depend on the content of the file I guess... You did remember to
>> > postmap it (and reload postfix after the changes to main.cf)?
>> > With a little luck (all the luck I didn't have today... SSL-X logged
>> > itself to death (audit f a failed message just kept repeating) and was
>> > ornery about the license file while updating on new HW, Oracle was
>> > just as Oracle can be, the doctor kept me waiting (well, nothing new
>> > there:-) and pesky users kept interrupting about me helping them with
>> > their *private* WLAN/DSL installs (as if I was going home to them and
>> > doing their LAN... Well, perhaps if sufficient amounts of finer booze
>> > was at the end of it:), so that I never got any time to install the
>> > latest and greatest MS... Grrr.) I'll have time to look at it again in
>> > the morning (today).
>> >
>> > Tired but kind regards
>> I get a lot of that "personal" pestering, too. If you tell them up
>> front you
>> are going to charge them, and make the price high enough, you will
>> stop about
>> 90% of it. The other 10% is beer money! ;-)
>> Just set your rate high enough to be worth your time.
> 
> Trust me, I'm not cheap... The dang thing is that working in the
> financial sector... quite a few of them can actually afford it:-). So,
> since I really don't want to be straddled with their problems, I tend
> to ... exaggerate a bit more:-).
> 
If your still getting too many, then your prices are still too low. Even a
rich man has a price that he won't pay!
I had a guy the other day that wanted me to do some work, and actually seemed
offended that I wouldn't do it for free! Only my family gets work for free.
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