Performance

[Glenn Steen]

On 02/02/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly... It's actually the richest of them that seem to think we're
their personal IT-butlers and we should do this service as part of our
normal work... After a few "explanations" it seem to have sunk in that
we're not:-)
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-- Glenn
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