nab, fcp and spam

NAB FCP
Today I’m off to NAB, the massive US broadcasting show held in Vegas. Should be fun but manic. Every hour of my first three days is already booked. Hope to be able to get away from my vendor relationship duties and prowl the floor for the small funky stuff. Apparently Apple have an event on Sunday.

Will there be a new version of Final Cut Pro? Probably.
Will FCP support MXF? I hope so.
How will the acquisition of Proximity by Apple be expressed in product terms at NAB? No bloody idea, but we’ll find out soon enough.

SPAM
The judicious use of postfix’s configuration in combination with Gmail has created a good solution for my email. I had almost given up on email prior to the new approach. Configuring postfix was reasonably straight forward as there are good online resources available. However at one stage I did manage to generate an email storm. Over the years I have collected a number of domains and the new email system handles them all. With my first attempt at configuring postfix I generated an email for each of the domains when the system received an email for any of the domains. Email stopped getting through to Gmail. Looked in the postfix logs to see Gmail telling me ‘slow down you move too fast’…