Monday
Typical Monday, got home around 10 or so.
The contractor keeps cutting the power at home to do various things, so I have to keep restarting my home server. Today I had an IP conflict between the Netgear SC101 toaster (serious candidate for one of the worst pieces of hardware ever created) and my desktop. Annoyingly the Netgear is very stubborn and refuses to budge, had to end up changing my desktop's IP (i have fixed IPs so I can do port forwarding and connect to it from anywhere via remote desktop). Anyway, when I changed the IP everything on the desktop was fine, but the TW stmp server got confused and started refusing my email messages:
550 5.7.0 Mail Sending denied
That's the message I was getting. After disabling and re-enabling the NIC it was fine again.
BTW, TWC keeps sending me the snail mail bills to my old apartment, their customer service is weak and so is their ability to solve billing issues. Seems like their personnel's training is extremely poor. It was a major headache changing service from my old location to the current one. They were, in fact, not capable, and ended up shutting down the old account (incorrectly) and opening a new one. Then they forgot to completely disable service at the old address, etc, etc. Many phone calls later, and they still can't get it straight, awful, truly.
