Finally its Friday. Thank god, another week done. Nothing has majorly broke this week at work, which I guess is normal as it usually happens when I am working from home. Otherwise this week has been rather slow at work. Our "communication" is still doing great at work. I.e. kept in the dark about everything and anything. Its amazing our old boss used to tell us the results of status meetings, used to keep us informed of what the Board was looking at etc. Good news or bad we would know. Now we know jack, we never have status meetings etc. Oh and you know one of the "big" reasons my last boss was let go, lack of communication. Yeah right. So our CEO comes back from a trip to a couple of clients is down talking to my boss, my boss asks him how the trip went. He goes, "It went very well." Then takes the effort to get up and shut the door to the room. Gimme a friggin break. On a side Geek Note... I got sendmail running at home, it was a pain in the ass though. I wanted NEWDB support and including that in did not want to work, kept saying it could not find db.h. I got that resolved, and then when it was linking things it had an issue with a function inside db.h. *sigh* This was version 8.4.12. Finally after trying to get that resolved for a while, I ended up taking out NEWDB support, but found I really needed it. So eventually I went to the RPM, not what I like to do, but hey, it was quick, simple and worked. Then I compiled ipop3d and have that running. Already had fetchmail running and am going to CRON that so that I can point my outlook at home to that server, that way at work I can ssh in and use PINE and not worry about getting dups which I get now from leaving it on the server to make sure the OUTLOOK client gets it...

You know, on a whim I just sent that idea off to Google. Why not right? Got their auto response back already: Thanks for writing to Google. We read all of the email we receive and try to send personal responses to each message. This note is just to let you know that we've received your letter, and you'll hear from us soon. We appreciate your taking the time to contact us. Keep on Googlin', The Google Team Hmmmm maybe I am just delusional...

I have an idea for a web site. I am gonna post it here as I have no funding for it nor the full expertise to put it in place. TechNotes.com, tagline "No questions, just answers." Essentially its a site that allows users to register and submit mini-notes on various subjects. When they submit the note, they categorize the notes according to different things such as Linux, Sendmail, Windows, DNS, hardware, etc. etc. Then users can come in, search for information, categorizing the search as much or as little as they want, and hopefully finding the note they need. If they have registered they can rate the answer they found in relation to what they searched for, thus subsequently if someone searches for the same thing, if something been rated higher it gets up there on result list, lower and its lower. That way the longer the system is up searching for the right words would tend to put the notes that really are what you are looking for higher. Now all of that would be free. The registered people who provide the notes would be given a point system. The more notes someone supplied would give them more points, as the rating for their note increased the points they were given for that note increases, but would never decrease past a base. So in this next phase, say Company XXX, is looking for a contractor or employee, and they want someone who is an expert at say Sendmail. They can come to the site, find the highest person rated in a whichever category they want, or see the top 10 people. Those people can define a price that they want to charge for someone contacting them. TechNotes stores their contact information, and for the initial contact it goes through our system, so Company XXX will be charged when they actually get an answer back from the user, after that all communication can be taken elsewhere. TechNotes gets a percentage of the charge that the User has determined. Of course Company XXX can see how much it will cost before hand and decide that no way would they pay some ridiculous fee to talk to this person. Second since obviously some of the TechNotes will obviously reference drivers or files that need to be downloaded, they could have a download library. The TechNotes would include the name of the file so they had the option of scouring the internet for it, or they could download it from TechNotes for a small charge of say $.50. Yes, many people would opt to scour the internet to find it, but for older drivers for some network card that has been out of manufacture for 4 years, it may be hard to find. If we have it and can give it to them for $.50, thats not a bad deal. And we are not charging for the software, we are charging for the bandwidth of downloading the software. Just an idea, but I think with a company that already has a good search system, say Google or something, they could implement the features and the tie-ins pretty well, and I think it would be quite useful. Right now if I am looking for that stuff I try Google, and if I am lucky I put in a whole phrase from an error or from a message and it returns a good result, if I am not lucky I get nothing or have to search through the search results that came back.

Well lets see... In other news of the world... As anyone who reads this site, yes that means you, you probably remember the layoffs we had, now a month old? Well out of my group, of which they laid off anyone who knew anything about how things were currently working or had been working for a while, they kept myself a systems guy, and a developer. Well the developer gave his notice on Monday. I knew he was planning on it for a while, but he finally let them know. This will mean for our group there will be left, people who actually code, two, one the CEO's nephew, one the "head engineer" (considering there are no other ones great title). Neither of them have done anything more than look at the old systems. This is gonna be real fun. Anyone have any job leads? I am actually seriously gonna start looking at North Carolina. "What??!?!?!" you say? Yeah, my sister in law just moved there, there is no snow in the winter, lower standard of living, and well its gotta have a better economy than here.

Ahhh what shall I rant on today? How about lies? I hate lies, hate em when my kids tell me them, hate em when my boss tells me em, hate em when friends tell me em. Don't care if they are white lies or not. To me they seem to say, "I think you are an idiot and you won't find out the truth about this." Its tremendously easy to tell when your kid is lying, its pretty damn easy to tell when your boss is lying, depending on your boss, everything they say may be a lie. Now telling when your friends are lying can be really hard, and you may not know, but if you ever do, all I ever think is "I think you are an idiot and you won't find out the truth about this." Now do YOU think that helps out the friendship? I don't. I would rather get told, "You look pretty umm silly with that Hawaiian shirt on." or "I really would rather not come over cause last time I had a really horrible time." or "I do not want to talk to you cause I am pissed off at what you did." Or maybe I am just silly. But man being lied to just really pisses me off. Can you guess? Yup, I got lied to.