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I’m Fu^&$%g Tired Of Temporary Error 502 in Gmail

A few months back I made the switch to Google Apps For Your Domain. It’s a service that allows you to have a Gmail account with a crap load of storage and a few other benefits.

The great thing is that my spam has gone down to virtually zero. Gmail does a fantastic job of catching all kinds of garbage so I was able to finally get back to work.

The bad thing is that I keep getting these Temporary 502 errors and they’re driving me nuts. Why the hell can’t Google keep this service up and running? My email keeps going down in the middle of my work day at least once or twice a month. Something that would never happen with my own server. And I’m not talking about a minute or two here. One time it was down for over 4 hours.

Frankly, Google can keep their fancy features and whatnot. Just keep the damn thing up and running. I can use my e-mail program to manage my e-mail. I don’t need all the stuff in the Gmail interface. But it’s of no use to me if I can’t get into my e-mail in any way shape or form.

Sorry for the rant but since my e-mail is down, what else can I do since I can’t get any work done 🙂

Anyone out there know of any way to keep this from happening or is it just a Google issue? I tried contacting their customer support. Finding a way to get in touch with them was like walking some kind of Victorian labyrinth. When I finally got a response, it was basically “we’re working on it”. Yeah, thanks. You can take your uptime promise and shove it up your ass. It’s totally bogus. Still love the spam protection though. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just frustrated at the down time.

UNIX Scripts Bash Tips: transcoding converting video files Part 3

If you’ve read part 2, then you should now be familiar with mencoder.conf and using profiles when converting video files using Mencoder. We now take it a step further with Xvid two pass encoding using a shell script.

I find doing Xvid two pass encoding on the command line a pain, since you need to do the transcoding twice, i.e. once for each pass. It’s even more painful when your computer is over 8 years old like mine is. This is when a simple shell script comes in handy.

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