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Picture it, Sicily, 1921. A young boy had a dream. A dream of becoming the biggest mafia god in that place called 'America'. This boy, now he was well liked around his home town. Many women called him 'bello' (meaning beautiful). This boy had a problem though. One he tried to keep secret from his townsmen, for if they found out, his dream as a mafioso may never come to pass.

The trouble with that boy was.... he kept waking up early hours of the morning and was forced to make himself fall asleep again right after. It doesn't seem like much, but who would respect a man who's too tired to finish the job? It got so bad that the boy would dream of over sleeping and force himself to wake up. Only to find that it was still too early and he had to sleep yet again.

You ask, what came of this boy?

I shall tell you.... I'm damn tired that's what!!! If I don't sleep through the night soon, I'm gonna get my people to %@#$#@!@#!@@##%^&* your face!!

This is the structure of the 404 at the 401.



North side lane:

1. Express lane for 2 or more passengers.
The problem is that it cuts off lane 2 on the north side going into the turn. It is a very fast travelling lane.

2. Very slow lane because it is cut off by lane 1 going south.

3. Average speed lane but has the issue of being cut off by travellers who do not want to merge into the East/West off ramps. (not shown)

4. Fairly smooth travel off the 401

5. Too sharp of a turn and merges uncomfortably close to south side lane 2.

South side lane:

1. So much congestion that its like driving on a snail
2. So much congestion that its like driving on a snail
3. So much congestion that its like driving on a snail
4. So much congestion that its like driving on a snail


Whatever moron designed this is just that, a moron. This area was bad before, but not this bad. Now it just flat out sucks. Coming from the north side, there are only 2 lanes to go south where there used to be 3... and north side lane 4 is for people who cheat and take the east/west exit. Just so they can get back on and go south.

It is the worst highway design ever and I hope the man/men/people responsible are all fired after its construction.

SMTP Authentication has been added to the mail server now.

I used the existing setup but added Cyrus SASL. It seemed to be bitchy at the start, but I realized there were default RPMs installed and I just needed the DEVEL package and to create a few Symbolic links to expected folders.

Now... may I present:

Connected to mail.bashtard.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sledgehammer.bashtard.com ESMTP Postfix v6.9
ehlo bashtard.com
250-sledgehammer.bashtard.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 51200000
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
250 8BITMIME

I saw a commercial for Red Bull. To my knowledge it's some sort of cocaine drink in a can. Good god though... one of their commercials just puts me over the edge and forces me to ask the question, "Are we truely THAT stupid?"

The comment at the end of the commercial is something along the lines of... "Don't expect Red Bull to actually help you grow wings and fly".

Really?? Ya think?? Damn, after I saw that I was ready to go and buy every can out there cuz flying to work would sure as hell save me money on gas. Just thinking about this commercial long enough to write this blog makes me feel like I'm going to have an aneurysm.

This is followed closely by what I think is a beer ad. All I remember is some dumbass snowboarder flying into and crashing through a window in a high rise building. The caution at the bottom is basically that the whole situation was fake and not to try at home. Hmmmmmm.... crashing my snowboard through a 25th floor window after flying off a ski hill, yes very tempting.

I guess we are seeing the proof of what happens when idiots graduate, procreate and their offsprings are allowed to breathe. Having a mother who is a teacher, I've watched the world get dumber every year. Finally, we have to be told that a drink won't help grow wings.

Next you're gonna tell me that clicking on all those emails about increasing my penis size won't actually work either.

Version 9 billion of Jcloth Pointless Mail Server was launched today!!!
Hopefully all of you received the press release.


This one is the best ever. I'm not saying it's a revolutionary concept, rather the work of excellent R&D. I was finally able to replace that shitty shitty shitty AmavisD program that just about everyone in the world was/is using. Getting away from AmavisD allowed me to run 3 fewer processes and save almost 80MB of RAM.

Innovation and a unique idea have come together to form:
Postfix 2.2.9 - MTA
ClamAV 0.88.1
ClamSMTP 1.6
SpamAssassin 3.1.1
Spam Proxy Daemon 2.30

It works as follows:
25:Postfix:10025 -> 10025:ClamSMTP:10026 -> 10026:SpampD:10027 -> 10027:Postfix

There is also a "Virus Alert" email that is sent if a virus is intercepted.

The original setup had called for all Virus Alerts to go to a singular email address... which was ridiculous. So with some uber leet hacking skillz (MAILTO=$RECIPIENTS rather than MAILTO=some@address.com), I relay that "Virus Alert" right back to the original recipient. :) That way you'll always know if your friend has sent you the latest screen saver or pif file!

Add to that, the headers look so good I wanna touch myself when I look at them.

Ex.
X-Spam-DCC:
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on fpos.bashtard.com
X-Spam-Level: ***********************************
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=35.7 required=5.0 tests=MISSING_HB_SEP=2.5,
MISSING_HEADERS=0.189,MISSING_SUBJECT=1.345,NO_RECEIVED=-0.001,
NO_RELAYS=-0.001,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100=0.5,
RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100=1.5,RAZOR2_CHECK=0.5,TO_CC_NONE=0.134,
UPPERCASE_50_75=0.591,URIBL_AB_SURBL=5.01,URIBL_JP_SURBL=3.36,
URIBL_OB_SURBL=5.01,URIBL_SBL=5.01,URIBL_SC_SURBL=5.01,
URIBL_WS_SURBL=5.01 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.1
X-Spam-Pyzor: Reported 0 times.
X-Spam-Report:
* -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP
* 2.5 MISSING_HB_SEP Missing blank line between message header and body
* 0.2 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
* 1.5 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 Razor2 gives engine 8 confidence level
* above 50%
* [cf: 100]
* 0.5 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/)
* 0.5 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 Razor2 gives confidence level above 50%
* [cf: 100]
* 5.0 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 5.0 URIBL_AB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the AB SURBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 3.4 URIBL_JP_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the JP SURBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 5.0 URIBL_WS_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the WS SURBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 5.0 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the OB SURBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 5.0 URIBL_SC_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the SC SURBL blocklist
* [URIs: theitluir.com]
* 1.3 MISSING_SUBJECT Missing Subject: header
* -0.0 NO_RECEIVED Informational: message has no Received headers
* 0.6 UPPERCASE_50_75 message body is 50-75% uppercase
* 0.1 TO_CC_NONE No To: or Cc: header



On those really dark nights, X-Spam-DCC and X-Spam-Pyzor light up too!!

but you gotta love my dog!!

Two days in a row now, I've had to drain the main vein outside when I get home. My dog allows you space by not even looking at you.

This last time he walked away. Then when he heard I was finished, he peered around the corner at me just to make sure before approaching.

God I love him!!!

This shit drives me nuts.

I get asked to burn a CD for someone. All I do is ask "can't you just do this when you're sitting at your desk?" That turns into a huge issue. Seriously, wtf would I have to burn the CD for when I'd have to use that person's computer anyway?

If you want to start a fight, go bother someone else. I'm tired of this pointless argument shit.

Call me naive, ( "NAIVE" ) but I had never really given thought as to what might happen to a coupon after I hand it back to a vendor and redeem it for the goodies it claims to bring.

Today however, I was exposed to the dark and dirty underbelly of the beast. I oversaw an exchange of a previously used coupon.

At first I had guessed that its withered appearance was just due to under use. Sitting in a wallet, one day waiting to be redeemed... but no!! No, it was a previously used coupon that some shifty business operator had handed over to a friend and/or relative, and not done his noble deed of destroying, as to avoid such dirty trade.

Then I thought back, what about all those times that I had felt special and had my 15 seconds of pride for getting something free or at a reduced price? Now I find out that someone else might experience those same feelings as I, but having used my hard earned coupon.

Bastards I say, Bastards!!!


meh... I wonder what's on TV.

Poke as much fun as you wish when you say that I live in the boonies, or in the middle of nowhere. At this time of year, all of you would pay to trade places with me.

When I opened my car door tonight, all I could hear were the singing of frogs. It was so loud that I couldn't hear my dog walking up to me, or the clicking of my car after it shuts off. The person on the other end of my phone call could hear them perfectly.

Having a pond in my front and back yards, I am surrounded by the sound... and lemme tell ya, I wouldn't give up that sound for anything. As strange as it seems, that sound always puts a smile on my face.

When I walked in the house, my mother and I shared a smile, all thanks to the frogs. :)


...you know, cuz I was visiting my parents for the night ;)