Daynote ,Svenson

MM-lxxxxv     Saturday

2000-03-25

It is still overcast and relative warm (8°C) but apart from a few drizzly spells it remained dry.

Shopping but again nothing computerish. I did have a talk with Steven about the mailbox on the site I host on his server. The problem is that I can send to it but I cannot retreive mail from it. Nowhere in the documentation was setting up of a mail client mentioned. I asked him last week what I had to enter for mail server. He said I should use the domain name but when I tried it didn't work. When I told him so today he was a bit surprised and went checking. Everything looked OK so he made en entry via his client. And he could get at the mail without problem. I sneaked behind the counter to look at the setup he used.
Duh. He had told me to use the domain name as mail server name. So I had used swijsen.com without success. He uses WWW.swijsen.com. (The site is just a place holder so don't waste your time going there )
What a difference www makes.

Now I have the mail addresses for my brother and my father open . Neither has net access yet but my brother is pulling cable in his house so it won't be long for him.

As everybody by now knows I type these notes on Harper, copy them on a diskette, move them to Miona on the attic and upload from there. Today I got a 'diskette full' warning. Yea, the notes are flowing this year. I have all the daynotes of last year fitting on a single diskette (1.3MB all). That were about 340 days (I only started to publish on January the 15th). Now I admit that this year (as I did in December of last year) I keep everything double, once in daynotes and once in the week notes but still, it is only the 85th day so even if I throw out one of the note types I am producing double the amount of rubbish. And costing me a lot more time as well.

Putting all that time in daynotes means that the rest of my site gets neglected.

Adios