The new eMacs are working well in the intro labs. I've found a few minor problems with the configuration, which I've been fixing. For some reason Appletalk turned itself off and, after a fair amount of struggle, I figured out that by adding a line to hostconfig, I could get it to come back on. That doesn't seem to be the way you're "supposed" to do it, however, because that isn't what the System Preferences utility sets when you turn it on. I also found that I couldn't remove Safari from the dock. After the first time, I thought I must have just forgotten to do it, but after I did it a second time, I tracked it down: not in the dock preferences in the server..., not in the backup directory on the client..., but somehow added back in in the active home directory. Go figure! After some little effort, I figured out that /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dockfixup.plist contains a section that adds things back into the dock if they get removed. The one thing I don't like about using Apple stuff is dealing with all of the undocumented backdoor crap. I think global preferences should be written on text files in etc and not scattered throughout the system or maintained in creepy databases.
I was reading about wikis and blogs this morning and saw that some people call a blog in a wiki a 
Bliki. Brrr. I don't.
Lucy is off to spend time with her family after the death of a sister-in-law. It's a bit scary to watch the people who were "adults" when I was a kid all dying off. But it's gotta be scarier for Lucy who is watching her contemporaries disappear. She's lucky to be able to escape the week before the town election. She filled out an absentee ballot before she left.
I installed spam assassin on my home server back in December, but didn't get it configured properly, so that when I rebooted at some point, it didn't come back on. For a long time I received almost no spam at my home address, but lately the amount has been increasing. Currently, I receive about as much spam as real mail, but I still only receive about a personal dozen messages a day. (At work I receive what I consider to be incredible volumes of SPAM: I made a rough count of 350 messages received yesterday. Although I recognize that many people receive a lot more spam than that). Today, I finally got irritated enough by the spam that I went back and looked at the configuration to figure out how to get it working and have it continue working after a reboot.
StevenBrewer