I have to apologize for the long delay, but I was quite busy the previous days and still have to catch up on a lot of things... But without further ado, here's the rest of my report, behind the cut:
Behind the cut: the second week of this year's holiday, and the first week of the roadtrip through the West. I didn't dare to write anything while being on the trip itself as even though we occasionally had WLAN connectivity, it was quite unstable.
Behind the cut there's a round-up of the first week of my vacation...
So the development department got back from Christmas vacation this week...
So, what had happened the last two weeks?
...will you please implement proper queueing and retransmission mechanisms that do not claim that a mail is undeliverable on a Transient Negative Completion (RFC 2821, section 4.2.1), as this response does not mean that the mail has been
rejected, but only that it cannot be delivered at this time. It is used by the Greylisting service of my mail server and significantly keeps down the amount of spam coming from spam bot networks.
...was sort of busy.
F8K TV was a blast! I'd really like to write something about it; for example that it was the party of the year, or that it was done in an amazingly professional way, or about all the technical stuff, or the wonder ful impromptu pawpet performances (thanks fairlight_, lynard_, aragontigerseye and the band -- I knew you could do it, and I was right!), nachtfuchs and Jaryic being so wonderful hosts, cheetah_spotty as a director and producer, Eisfuchs and akeela as presenters, rollenspiele and sandwiches, Jumpy ordering pizza for the whole gang, decorating a christmas tree, 100m CAT3 cable, cocktails, balloons, how to overrun a DSL concentrator, the band, breakfast at Kralle's place, defective VCRs, bigbluefox's on air design, some strange American caller "Fluffyfox" who tried to order pizza (whoever that was *g*), ...