Category: random

Today I set myself the goal of centralizing all my email. Before I finished this change I had 50/50 POP email that was delivered to my home computer, and the other mail is sitting on an IMAP server.

For years (since 2006) I have had email stored between different POP clients, from Micro$oft Outlook Express, to their non-Windows XP Microsoft Mail client, and then finally importing it all to Thunderbird. After performing some experiments I comfortably learned that I can take a file stored in Thunderbird and have Dovecot read it perfectly with no issues.

I was recently provided the opportunity to scan a huge image archive of old family images, and I did it.

In total there are 13 collections with 1136 photos spanning 60+ years.

A long, long time ago I got myself a Centos 6 VPS. It’s been quite a long time, and with the maintenance period of Centos 6 coming up quickly in November 2020 I decided to go full bore into Centos 8.

When performing the upgrade I keep a couple things in mind:

I have to admit that I’ve become very accustomed to performing “Facebook Memorializations” of old friends and families accounts. I feel it helps in preserving who the person really is, while giving an opportunity for friends and family to share things about them on their timelines.

Personally I’ve memorialized Connie Stack, Don Cestnik, and James Moser, and have plans on memorializing more once I get around to it. These were all “easy” once you were able to locate a legitimate Funeral Home or Print article website with an Obituary to link with a Date of Death.

I have also had an opportunity of using a legal letter about a person passing to help Jennifer memorialize Grant Everson. In her case, she was able to become the Legacy Contact so that she can accept friend requests for the page and such.

I do have one special one I’m preparing to memorialize, but I have to become one of the two legacy contacts for them so that he can have some lifelong maintenance.