Performance

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 2/2/2007 12:37 PM:
> On 02/02/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Glenn Steen wrote:
>> > 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:-)
>> Start by asking for at least $200 per hour. That usually separates out
>> the chaff. And they realise that what they've asked you to do isn't the
>> equivalent of building a flat-pack bookcase.
>>
>> Jules
> 
> I start at the equivalent to $230 - 250... 200 would be a "friendly"
> price... And real friends get it for free... not counting the
> booze:-). What shocks me is that some of these rich types actually
> consider it... I probably will have to raise it before too long:-).
> Problem whith that kind of job would be that I'd never get away from
> it ... Any insignificant&unrelated problem would suddenly be part of
> the deal ("Oh, and the broadband TV needs some adjusting"... "Sure,
> that will be another hour" ... Not my cup of $HOTBEVERAGE:-)
I sometimes give away PC's to people without. People asked me why I didn't
sell them. For the same reason... If I sell it I have to support it. But if it
is free, you are on your own.

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