October 2006 Archives

Main Entry: use
Pronunciation: 'yz
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): used /'yzd, in the phrase "used to" usually 'ys(t)/; using /'y-zi[ng]/ transitive verb
1 archaic : ACCUSTOM, HABITUATE
2 : to put into action or service : avail oneself of : EMPLOY
3 : to consume or take (as liquor or drugs) regularly
4 : to carry out a purpose or action by means of : UTILIZE; also : MANIPULATE 2b
5 : to expend or consume by putting to use -- often used with up
6 : to behave toward : act with regard to : TREAT
7 : STAND 1d intransitive verb
1 -- used in the past with to to indicate a former fact or state
2 : to take illicit drugs regularly
synonyms USE, EMPLOY, UTILIZE mean to put into service especially to attain an end. USE implies availing oneself of something as a means or instrument to an end <willing to use any means to achieve her ends>. EMPLOY suggests the use of a person or thing that is available but idle, inactive, or disengaged <looking for better ways to employ their skills>. UTILIZE may suggest the discovery of a new, profitable, or practical use for something <an old wooden bucket utilized as a planter>.

Twice in the last two days I have missed calls from crappy coverage. Two calls that I know of to be exact. Please keep trying I do want to take your call.

Okay well I will have my Phreaknic X comments coming up shortly. I have alot of work to get done on the video stuff. But I will leave you with this last cell from today's Dilbert.

I don't really know what to say. I sure as hell don't know what to do. Keep telling myself I chose the right path but something tells me I didn't. I guess only time will tell if I am right or not, only thing that is for sure is there is no turning back.

Gonna go sleep now. Not sure what else to do but wait and let things work themselves out. Gotta goto Missouri in the morning so I will have a couple more hours on the road to think. I really need to stop driving so much and cut down on the alone with my thoughts time.

The Grudge 2. Alright what to say about this one. If you saw the first then you know just how freaky it was. This did not dissapoint and held pretty true to the feeling of the first one. The first one had a good bit of gore with the chick missing her lower jaw and all, this one didn't have as much of that type of effect. The story picked up where the last one left off but the haunting has gotten worse and isn't confined to the original house. The spirit has grown more powerful and can do some freaky things. More than one time while watching this I found myself jumping a little from something that shocked me. There were also a few times when I just had to laugh as well. Anyhow good movie but I won't be watching it a 2nd time unless I can just flip it off or I have someone else around.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Wow this thing was brutal. I know this was supposed to be a prequel to the original and the remake but as a story it stands on its own. R. Lee Ermey plays such a good bad guy that you have to like him. Leatherface was just a destructive force that had no equal in this. All I can really say is, wow.

It took us I think four weeks of actual attempts on this but we finally did it. 52% damage in the first vulnerability phase and everyone was feeling good. We finished the night up with starting to learn ouro.

You know it ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There's no words to describe it
In French or in English
Well, diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away

Jimmy played this song at the end of the show today and it has been stuck in my head since. Citizen Cope - Sideways

$ORIGIN test.com.
@		IN	SOA	ns1.test.com. root.test.com. (
				2006101001	; Serial
				5400	; Refresh
				3600	; Retry
				604800	; Expire
				21600 )	; Minimum 


$ORIGIN com.
test			IN	A	192.168.0.1
     			IN	NS	ns1.test.com.
			IN	NS	ns2.test.com.
     			IN	MX	10	smtp.test.com.
			IN	MX	20	pop.test.com.

$ORIGIN test.com.
ftp			IN	CNAME	test.com.
smtp			IN	CNAME	test.com.
pop			IN	CNAME	test.com.
www			IN	CNAME	test.com.
ns1			IN	A	192.168.0.1
ns2			IN	A	192.168.1.1

So you've got your own web server and mail server now and you need to know where to go from there. Well that is the DNS server. Okay what all do you need to get your site up and going with a name for the web. A minimum setup will require two records NS(name server) and an A(address) record. The NS record is going to be a list of who is responsible for answering questions about your name(zone). These are the most important part and have to be registered in the master list for your zone. It is important to have at least two NS servers that are NOT on the same network or by any means the same machine.

Okay so now we have our NS records in place so people looking for our name which we will call test.com. Okay so you go looking for test.com and your computer sends a check to your DNS server which then polls the root of the .com domains for the server that controlls test.com. Then our server talks to the server that controlls test.com to get back a listing of A records that match your query. Alright now, most people go looking for www.test.com so we need to setup an A record for www.test.com OR you can setup a CNAME(Canonical name) record that will just point back to test.com, assuming of course that you want your www and your root site to be the same as www.

Now we have our name in the directory of sites and we have a record setup for our site as www. Next we need to add in some optional records like mail services. First you have to decide where your mail is going is it going to be the same server as your webpage? Do you want it named the same? Many people like to setup different names for all their services no matter if they are on the same box or not. For this let us setup pop.test.com and smtp.test.com. Pop will be for recieving mail from the outside world and smtp will be for sending to them. First you need to setup your A records for these two names. We can't just assume people will know we want to recieve mail on pop.test.com so we need to tell them about it. For this we use an MX(Mail Exchanger) record. This record consists of a weight for the route and the name of our mail server. So here you would give your default a weight of 10 and the name would be smtp.test.com. If you had more than one mail server you can setup them up now as well just give them different weights. The server with the lowest weight gets tried first.

These are the basics. I will try to post a bind example entry when I get home that shows the zone serial number, the NS records and a few examples of other records.

Okay so I am driving down the road and they are talking about the movie saw and the question was asked "Is it worse to be stranded in the desert with no water and no way out, or to be there and have water just out of reach? each step forward the water moves on step further away." I would have to pick the water just out of reach as the worse of the two. Seeing the water is just enough to give you hope but just out of reach would crush your spirit. Knowing that what you need is right there in plain view taunting you to reach out and grab it.

Which leads to another thought and the reason this site is up. This site is not for anyone other than myself. This is here as a place for me to let out what is on my mind, that just needs to be said or something that I found amusing or otherwise memorable. What I put here is not up for me to get your approval on. I will post what I want to post so don't advise me as to what you think I should say or think. This is me, accept it as me or deal with it in your own way just don't bring it up to me. Suggesting I put something positive up because my family reads this from time to time isn't going to change what I have to say. Should I ever go looking for another job and this comes up who cares. People change over time so what I say today may not be my opinion tomorrow. I am one of the millions of insane people that should probably be heavily medicated in same padded room someplace, but instead I am free to roam about saying whatever is on my mind. I do still have more to say about!
some things in my personal life but there is no easy way to put it right now. Like many other times in life I seem to lack the tact required to say what I want with out writing some type of expos� that would give too much insight into my head. Blah i've said too much as is.

Well I said this was going to be coming but I still don't know what to say.

I think this kind of represents what is going on. It is a shadow of a figure that should be filled but instead there is nothing but an empty void. There is so very much I want to say and so little I can. It is really hard keeping my mouth shut and just hoping for the best. Maybe it is just easiest to say right now I feel very alone and empty. Staring at those words just seems cheesy but I have no other way to put it. I will try to explain more later, but for now I need to get some sleep. Well try to sleep anyhow.