Archive for March 2006
A what…? In simple terms ‘Backup MX’ is the technical name for a backup e-mail server. In situations where the main e-mail server is not able to recieve e-mails then the backup mail server will take over. When the main e-mail server is able to recieve e-mails again the backup mail server will forward the mails that it stored while offline. The user then collects their mail from the main e-mail server and no e-mails are lost.
People that run their web sites on a cPanel server will generally not have a backup e-mail server, and that includes me. Once the e-mail server is offline people can not send me e-mails. What you need (and I needed) is a backup e-mail server, a Backup MX server.
It’s something that I’ve wanted to for a while but I was either in the middle of some important work or just forgot. Today I had the chance.
VMware allows you to switch from the normal windowed mode into a fullscreen mode thus makes the OS look like it’s running direct on your hardware to any passer by. When I had just the one small monitor I used to do it quite a bit, but since I’ve a nice 19″ monitor and semi-reasonable 17″ running in a dual configuration I don’t bother so much.
Still I’ve always wondered what happened when you switch to full screen in dual configuration. The result was interesting. I ran my normal desktop update script and it grabbed the following:
This doesn’t really show you what actually happened so I took a picture with my digital camera:
So there we have it folks, VMware and dual monitor = problems.
That’s only partly true in my case. The good news is that I have found out that I passed my degree, the bad news is that I can’t get a job.
I’ve not been posting anything because there isn’t a lot happening in my life right now that would interest anyone but me.
So “no news is good news” isn’t quite correct.
