43 Days…

Well, that’s how long it took before I restarted the old machine. Never would this have been feasible under my old configuration with Win98. So, with that said, my congratulations go out to Microsoft when it comes to stability with Windows XP Professional.

The restart was actually ‘forced’ on me. After getting sick of the spam problem again, I decided to give Norton AntiSpam another try, this time under the same configuration plus Windows XP. After installing and configuring, I was required to restart.

Anyway, all that aside, I’m also happy to report that my other reported problems with NAS have gone away — it works as expected now, even though I’m still using Netscape 7. So, for some reason or another, there must have been a problem related to my existing setup with 98…or something else which was causing all the weird problems I was having. The real point of the whole thing — it’s correctly filtering over 85% of my mail as spam, with no false positives thus far and only not catching about 10%…which is important, since I can easily handle deleting 10-15 messages in an eight-hour period instead of 130.

Another Birthday Down…

…and I have to say that it was another good day. Although to some degree ‘uneventful,’ the day was filled with Good Things and was by no means a disappointment. It’s just nice to not have to be on a schedule, which has been the case since Saturday and through tonight (Thursday), with the small pseudo-exception of my birthday.

Fedora Core 2

Another reason I haven’t been around much — I have spent the last few days (even though I wasn’t around my computer at home much anyway) downloading the CD images for FC2. There are now four images, and I’ve got them all. The goal is to attempt another upgrade this weekend on the local servers here at home…and see what happens from there.

New Web Work Unveiled

It’s official — as of yesterday morning (Wednesday), we made public the new look of Sunrise Software (http://www.farm-software.com). This is a new design that I made happen from some pre-determined criterion. Although there’s not a whole lot new in the way of text (that’s part of the next phase in the future development), the look is new, and some of the features (including the integrated news/training system) have been added by yours truly. A future development piece in the puzzle is an online knowledge base, based in PHP. Essentially the initial design is set to be a ‘beefed up’ FAQ portal, with the option of possibly search, but definitely interaction related to products and common issues we currently take some calls on.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Aside from that stuff above, I wish everyone an enjoyable (long) holiday weekend!

Until next time…

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07