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BTW, where the hell is bloody Quake 4 for Mac? Shipping dates at Amazon.com are now 1-2 weeks! And the game was supposed to be released on Feb 28th! Hm…..

There is a nice tradition in Russia to celebrate the end of long winter and welcome the beginning of spring by making pancakes in the.. hm.. I guess first Sunder of March? Not sure about the exact date though.
Pancakes symbolize the sun, and the whole celebration is called Maslenitsa.

So there.. we have made a little party at our place, with pancakes being the main dish. Of course there was wine, some Japanese food and stuff. So, here's today's pic just below this text. All was delicios and although of course we had some problems talking to each other (no that much probs, but oh well), overall it was all very fun and relaxing. Now.. it's Monday already and work awaits me tomorrow.. Doh :)

I have recently switched jobs, and now working in a really nice company here in Nagoya. But just yesterday I have discovered something about my previous company which took me by surpsize. The thing is - with all the blah-blah about trust etc - all company's incoming mail has been constantly forwared to the company's director. I mean, he intentionally set-up a system where all the incoming mail of the staff was automatically forwarded to his account.

Well, not that I was doing anything unrealated to company's business at work, but man.. either I don't understand management stuff, or this approach just plain sucks.

Oh well good riddance.. :/

Today Rosetta was using 3Gigs of virtual RAM on me :) Cool :)

Just a little picture from out latest snowboarding session :) The photo taken in the ropeway cabin to the top :) Descending way awful though as I could barely handle the damn board most of the time. Heh.. next time I guess :)

Today I faced a problem when I have a smtp-auth sendmail server configured to accept connections using password authentication, and everything was configured just fine in sendmail, that is, I had all required libs installed and the following strings on sendmail config (you can find more info anywhere on the web):

define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl

But although the configuration was correct, I couldn't connect to mail server, getting password incorrect message. Well after some googling I found out that one simple daemon should be running for sendmail to be able to process login. The daemon is: saslauthd. And for some reason it was not launched at startup. After I have launched it, the server immediately accepted my authentication and I was able to send mail again.

On RedHad Linux you can launch the daemon by typing the following:
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

The solution is actually pretty easy, but not so clear just because the required stuff is not actually thought of as a part of sendmail system. But it actually is.