Things I've Learned

Things I've learned yesterday:

1. Debian apparently hates system administrators. I guess the developers thought that their users want to have to jump through esoteric hoops in order to save their firewall configurations and then reload them automatically when the system reboots. Who would want to do that?! Oh yeah. Everybody. Granted, iptables is a very broken idea of a firewall in the first place but on top of that to forget users are going to want a mechanism to save their work? iptables is like a word processor that invites you figure out how to save your goddamn data by yourself. Inexcusable.
2. In order to remember when she packs a lunch for me, Erica has a lunch sign that she puts out before she goes to bed at night. It's very helpful, since when the sign is out I never forget to take my lunch with me in the morning. Remembering to eat it on the other hand....
3. As far as the word of God goes, the chain of command is: God, the Old Testament, RFC 1918, the New Testament, then RFC 1918 again.
4. If qmail breaks, it's because you've fucked with it. qmail is a blameless, holy creature.