My day off...
So two nights ago I got Leopard Server up and running at work. Yesterday I got the mail server portion up and running. Or, at least, what I could test before the MX record moved over.
Today was my day off, and I got a call at 9am saying that the mail server was refusing incoming mail. No clue why, so I spent about two hours trying to come up with a solution. An outside contractor finally got it up and running, but it definitely required delving into the command line and slapping PostFix into shape. Definitely not the "Just turn on a switch" that OS X Server is known for.
So I spent two hours doing that, and then decided to upgrade to Leopard Client on my main machine. This was for two reasons:
1) 10.5.1 was released yesterday, meaning it has some of the early bugs worked out.
2) Server Admin tools for Leopard Server only run under Leopard Client. Does not make a ton of sense, but...
Got that up and running (only after trying to install a new 1GB SO-DIMM in the machine, only to learn it was a bad chip). Spent the remainder of the afternoon updating various applications to their Leopard-compatible versions, and the second big project of the day: Banking.
As I wrote previously, my bank was shut down by the government. Since then I have been researching accounts and, having decided on ING, opening a new checking account. My "account verification" finally went through, so the account is now up and running.
I spent the afternoon moving things around and generally updating the financial side of my life.
I have retirement plans set up in two places, so I researched rolling those over into a rollover IRA.
I connected my new ING account with my brokerage account.
I updated my automatic bill pay for my student loan.
That last step was a pleasant surprise. About forever years ago I set up auto account deduction for my student loan. $50/month on the 7th. of each month. Each month I would have to make sure I remembered that was going to get taken out, but never really put too much other thought or effort into it.
Today I checked and saw that I have only about $400 remaining to pay off! I have a little extra money right now, so I immediately cut that in half. Come spring of next year, that will no longer be hitting my checking account each and every month. It has been deducting for what seems like FOREVER (it has been almost ten years now).
Anyway, a highly productive day, but one that did not require me to change out of my pajama pants (or even really get up from in front of the computer.
Today was my day off, and I got a call at 9am saying that the mail server was refusing incoming mail. No clue why, so I spent about two hours trying to come up with a solution. An outside contractor finally got it up and running, but it definitely required delving into the command line and slapping PostFix into shape. Definitely not the "Just turn on a switch" that OS X Server is known for.
So I spent two hours doing that, and then decided to upgrade to Leopard Client on my main machine. This was for two reasons:
1) 10.5.1 was released yesterday, meaning it has some of the early bugs worked out.
2) Server Admin tools for Leopard Server only run under Leopard Client. Does not make a ton of sense, but...
Got that up and running (only after trying to install a new 1GB SO-DIMM in the machine, only to learn it was a bad chip). Spent the remainder of the afternoon updating various applications to their Leopard-compatible versions, and the second big project of the day: Banking.
As I wrote previously, my bank was shut down by the government. Since then I have been researching accounts and, having decided on ING, opening a new checking account. My "account verification" finally went through, so the account is now up and running.
I spent the afternoon moving things around and generally updating the financial side of my life.
I have retirement plans set up in two places, so I researched rolling those over into a rollover IRA.
I connected my new ING account with my brokerage account.
I updated my automatic bill pay for my student loan.
That last step was a pleasant surprise. About forever years ago I set up auto account deduction for my student loan. $50/month on the 7th. of each month. Each month I would have to make sure I remembered that was going to get taken out, but never really put too much other thought or effort into it.
Today I checked and saw that I have only about $400 remaining to pay off! I have a little extra money right now, so I immediately cut that in half. Come spring of next year, that will no longer be hitting my checking account each and every month. It has been deducting for what seems like FOREVER (it has been almost ten years now).
Anyway, a highly productive day, but one that did not require me to change out of my pajama pants (or even really get up from in front of the computer.