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Surprise, surprise. ;)

  • It was a pleasant surprise this weekend to find out that Anthony (my brother) and Vivien are now engaged... And have been for about a week! Although it came as a surprise to us, we knew that they'd decide to tie the knot sooner or later. Congratulations, we're very happy for you, and wish you all the best for your future!
  • Friday night, we went to Sharky's in Oakville, and had a terrible time. The service sucked, the food sucked, and the place turns into a bar half way through dinner. (Mind you, half way through dinner was about 10:30PM). I'm told this isn't indicative of the usually wonderful service there. We met up with Kelly's friends Laura and Karen. It was nice to see them.
  • Saturday, Kelly, my mom and I went to the Zoo, which we've been hoping to do for a while. Had a good time, pictures are here. Unfortunately, the Snow Leopard wasn't out.
  • On the computer front, lots of changes have been happening recently:

    • Primary DNS has been moved to gambit, but wolverine's still available as a backup as well.
    • I've been working towards better partitioning and management of virtual domains, meaning both email and web wise. vpopmail seems to be a good solution for email, and I'm sticking with apache for web. The tricky part is partitioning remote access to allow people to publish web pages without having access to my entire system via SSH and FTP.
    • Web stats have been configured once again on www.enfusion-group.com. They're comprehensive as of September 2000.
    • Also been struggling with configuring mailman for satisfactory virtual domain mailing list management. It seems that it's common for people to install multiple copies of mailman in each virtual domain's space, but that also means multiple queues, multiple binaries, multiple cron jobs, and multiple headaches. I opted to share one common data spool, and just not list all the mailing lists that are hosted at lists.enfusion-group.com, meaning that to get to an individual list, you have to know the URL directly, or guess correctly. Each list can still be customized visually.

  • This isn't news, but our Rogers connection here stinks. Rogers really needs to learn how to provision and manage a high-speed network. Here's a picture of how bad it sucks. There are three data points on the graph, latency to the next hop on our Rogers connection, latency to my DSL gateway in Ottawa, and latency to another random site, www.shore.net. Prior to moving to Thornhill, latency was below 20ms on average. The graph shows peaks of up to about 250ms, and valleys of about 50-75ms at night time. I can almost do better on a dial up connection. I called Rogers about it, they have a ticket open. They're still trying to figure out why we have a full rate connection even though we're paying for, and should be provisioned for Rogers Lite (~128kbps). But at least their customer service is top notch now:

      (me): My connection is terrible, first hop latency is sometimes over 300ms.

      (technical support): Sir, have you run any diagnostics? Have you done some ping tests?

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on June 23, 2002 10:50 PM |

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