Thursday…Home Alone
Jun 21st 2007PeterGetting My Life Back! & Tech stuff
Another week nearly gone, and I have survived being home alone! It actually ends on Saturday, but I am over halfway! Sadly I haven’t been able to survive on a diet of bacon sarnies – my mouth seems to have been worse this week, and eating has not been a pleasure! Breakfast has been limited to porridge (nice and soft) and my scandishake intake has been pretty high (in fact I have had to order some more). Evening meals have been OK (lots left in the freezer from last time) but eating them has been tricky. However I am applying the ointments (although I cannot use one because of the vaccination program) so I hope the situation will improve soon – particularly for next week when I would like to take part in the Leukaemiacare training programme again!
In the last post I mentioned that I was migrating PatientCrime to a message board format, but had some issues with password notification. This has been an interesting challenge, but eventually came down to the configuration of a program called sendmail. Sendmail is a Message Transfer Agent, a low level program that moves e mail from one machine to another. It is widely used on the internet and has been around for some years. However the advent of SPAM means that it has to be very carefully used, and I needed to configure it to send system generated mail to my ISP for them to forward to the end user. (Anti-spam precautions really preclude me from sending e mail out directly – few ISPs would accept it) Anyway, it has taken a while, but I think I have finally cracked it and did some final testing last night and today, so I think I will migrate PaytientLine this weekend. (The issue with system generated mail is different from that generated using clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird). There was (to get really tekkie) a problem with DNS lookups, which I never fully solved, but found a workaround instead!
Oh yes – and today is of course midsummer’s day, and the longest day! But as I pointed out last December (what a long time ago that seems) it is not necessarily the latest sunset or the earliest sunrise! (I can post more if you wish!!)
Other than that, all seems to be OK, so…
Onwards and Upwards!