Bashtard's weblog

Chica decided to show some life and actually came over for a day of fun. uhmmm.... well at least I found our day interesting, even if she didn't!!

anyhoo...

Imagine a full day spent by eating at Taco Bell, going to Canadian Tire to get the supplies needed and working to get your 1977 Moto-Ski Mirage 300 working after more than 5 years of inactivity.



I've even been in contact with the person from www.theworkshop.ca and we've been shooting the shit about owning a vintage snow mobile.

When I was finally able to start it, the exhaust was a plenty and it would shut off moments later. To get the fuel running, I had to suck... and suck like I never have baby!!! I think I might have even ingested a bit of the oil:fuel mix. Nothing a little gin and bourbon can't clear up.

It looks like what he did in this workshop is what I have to do to mine. Replace the fuel filter, clean the fuel pump and clean the shit out of the carburator. I also took a look at the pistons and could see dents from when I put over-sized spark plugs in (ahh... memories).

Once I get that done, it should purr like a kitten again. The only thing left is that the seat needs to be replaced, but I'll worry about that one 5 or so more years from now :P

...one last funny thing...
It was pretty funny asking a guy who's at least 10 years younger than the snow mobile itself, where the oil is for the fuel mix.

I found out the reason why it was being such a naughty little girl for quite some time. It was all due to my own stupidity, but what it's doing now just makes no fucking sense at all.

I had told it to do local tests only. In Amavisd terms, anything related to connecting to remote servers and performing 3rd party scanning had been disabled for more moons than I'm willing to mention. That was an easy fix, plus finally realizing that the home-dir of the 'user' running the program had been incorrect for AGES. I honestly don't even know how the damn thing was working for all this time.

The issue now is that when I run Amavisd in debug mode and keep it to the foreground, it works fucking fantastic and tags messages with scores in the 30's. However, if I run the same program in the background and not in debug mode, it goes back to acting all bitchy and tagging messages with scores of 4.9 where the same message got a 32.9 in debug mode.

For now, I'm gonna keep it in the foreground because I've put too much effort into it already today... but I will eventually find the solution to this biznitch!!

addendum

I didn't do anything other than try again and it seems to be working now.
One Postfix upgrade later and this thing is working GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!

Even Razor2, Pyzor AND DCC are all working in unison.

"Jcloth, you go to your room this instant"

Words, such as the above, were used as a mechanism for getting >>THIS GUY<< to clean his room when he was a kid. It didn't take those words today, but the results were much the same.

Scorpio's have this keen inability to remain still or without task for any vast duration of time. My "good god am I bored" habbit has always been to clean. I did it when I was in Australia as well. Watching cricket and cleaning was my way of getting through the boring ass days when everyone else was at work. My reasons for not working will forever remain undocumented.

The oldest memory was the box for the under-gravel filter I have in my fish tank. I got that in Buffalo when I was 16 years old. In total, I burned about 4 old motherboard boxes and 7 or 8 other random boxes.... all formerly stored in my room. I even found the receipt for the ring I bought my first girlfriend. Burned its ass I did.   :p

This now allows me to shove new memories into all those newly filled spots. ...but hopefully I'll be moved out long before those new memories begin to pile up.

.....I almost forgot.... I had to spend an hour cleaning the fish tank filter. When you only need to clean the thing once or twice a year, the results can be rather disgusting. The squeamish would have upchucked for sure.

It's been confirmed that I'm going. The date I'm going is still unknown.
It's either the last week of Feb or the first week in March.

All I have to figure out is how to wipe my ass and I'm sure things will be fine!!

addendum

Apparently I'm going for 5 weeks instead of the 4 weeks I was originally told.

Razor2 is just a bitch.

t/razor2....................skipped
all skipped: no reason given

If anyone has a clue how to get SpamAssassin 3.0.2 to install with Razor2, send me an email.

addendum

I tested and Razor2 is working, it's just not logging to a file, but I can live with that.

what's up with that?

addendum

I refilled the tire and checked the pressure after a day... it was perfectly normal. WOOT.
Then I found that all the tires were too low, so it almost worked out for the better that it happened :P

what's up with that?

We (my team of nerds) have concluded that The Incredible Hulk can crush a normal egg being squeezed from top to bottom.

But say an ostridge or dinosaur egg...?? I don't think he could do it.

The upward and downward forces would counter each other, plus the thickness and size of the egg would be too tough, even for the Hulk.

Lou Ferrigno on the other hand... he'd crush the dinosaur egg with his pinky finger :)

Ever since I upgraded Apache from 1.3.29 to 1.3.31, the bandwidth throttling module has failed to load properly.

This was the error:

[warn] Loaded DSO libexec/mod_throttle.so uses plain Apache 1.3 API, this module might crash under EAPI! (please recompile it with -DEAPI)

I never cared enough to actually do anything about it, so I just disabled the module and left it as is since August 2004.

Today though, I was enlightened as to a possible influx of traffic to my web server. So for shits and giggles, I decided to work on mod_throttle and see if I can finally figure out WTF that error message was all about.

**insert nerdiness**

You can't get source files of mod_throttle so you have to work with the Makefile and any available options.

I'm vi'ing the hell out of the Makefile and am none too familiar with its structure, but I needed to add a Compiler Flag to get it to compile with '-DEAPI'.

**insert severe nerdiness**

I finally figure out what the hell its trying to do, but it keeps failing when I try to "make install".

**insert newest level of nerdiness**

I'm like, "fuck this, I'm gonna do this shit manually"
So I comment out the section in the Makefile that's being bitchy, then execute:
/apache/bin/apxs -c -Wc,-DEAPI mod_throttle.c

....and the fucking thing actually worked!!

All that was left was to do the "make install" to complete the installation and restart Apache.

It blew my mind, but IT WORKED!!!
The scary part... though unfamiliar with the code, I basically knew what I was doing.
A few months ago, I'd would NEVER have figured this shit out.

**insert never getting laid**

...until I remembered to go back and pay for it :)

Normally I pay at the pump, but it was so ass cold that I figured, "fuck these slow ass Shell pumps, I'm paying inside". I pump my gas and then just leave without even the consideration of going inside to pay.

It took a few hours later while out with FairlyFly to question:
a. did I pay?
b. how did I pay if I had?

Post-meal, FairlyFly and I go back to the gas station and present the $20 of Canadian Green. The guy behind the counter (younger than I) was thanking me to no end. Even going as far as offering me a free drink or hotdog. Had I not come back to pay, the $20 would have to come out of his pocket. I asked and he claimed that roughly 2% of people who drive off without paying actually come back to pay.

So ladies, that makes me a...
non-smoker
non-drinker
an honest mofo
and my father is a hair dresser

.... I've got it all!!        **awaiting panties to be thrown his way**

The lesson to be learned from all of this... never eat the hotdogs from a gas station snack bar!!

Had every opportunity in the world to come and leave her PC to be fixed on a Saturday... "but you weren't home"

Like she doesn't have keys to the fucking house and can't just drop the fucking PC off to be fixed. I have to go there to have it working for her and all I'd get in return is a "fuck you"

Sorry to say my deary... go fuck yourself!!

Those tears worked when I was 2 years old, but you're gonna have to come up with a new strategy to get shit done cuz the old ways... she ain't workin' no mo.

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<spooky sounding voice> What may not exist to you, may fully exist to me!!! </spooky sounding voice>

Views I tell you, Views!!!!

<evil laugh>HA HA HA</evil laugh>

<think i might have gone crazy>I think I might have gone crazy</think i might have gone crazy>

Man, that turns me on so much!

Looking in your rear-view and seeing moves that you would make yourself... that's HOT!!!

Imagine this...
a chick who's face you can't make out
a chick who has long straight hair
a chick who keeps putting her hands through her hair
a chick who drives like a maniac
a chick who eventually lets you pass her

all of those equate to HOT!!!

This chick last night had the same attitude towards traffic as I do. That being, "FUCK THIS" and she would make insanely aggressive moves, duck and dive, etc... just to get away from any packs of cars. Add to that, boxing me out when she could tell I wanted to pass her. It was such a turn on.

Damn her not letting me see her face!!!

Since I totally fubar'd the last dev box with my crazy linux antics, I've decided to construct a NEW one.

This one has it all...
Celeron 633 (thanks to The Turk for this one)
128MB of RAM
6 gig HD

You never know what zany tricks I might pull with this latest chunk o' hardware.

what's up with that?