HYPERAXE

Here’s an email that I received that somehow ends this year with a good laugh… I’m sure you received at least one email about the things mentioned here …

As another year is coming, i would like to say: THANKS F0R ALL Y0UR E-MAILS!

I want to thank all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send your damn chain letters over the past two years. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy. Because of your concern…

I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make theseproducts are atheists who refuse to put “Under God” on their cans.

Actually, I no longer drink anything out of a can because I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could get pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer use cancer causing deodorants even though I smell like a steak and cheese sandwich on a hot day.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaida in disguise.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don’t support our American troops.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a stupid number for which I will get the phone bill from hell with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer date the opposite sex because they will take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

I no longer have any sneakers — but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl who is about to die in the hospital (for the 1,387,258th time).

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

Yes, I want to thank all of you soooooooo much for looking out for me!

I will now return the favor.

If you DON’T send this e-mail to at least 1200 people in the next 60 seconds, a large bird with diarrhea will crap on your head at 5:00 pm tomorrow afternoon. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of a friend of a friend.

har..har..har..

“Think happy thoughts!”

See what I mean…

I was asked to host some mobile applications that should be available for download to our test terminals (mobile phones), so I uploaded them to one of our office Apache web servers. When I tried downloading the installers, I always got some sort of invalid file error. It was then I discovered that the web server is not returning the proper mime-type for the files I’m trying to download. So what I did was to add the following lines in the mime-types file under the conf/ directory of Apache.


# MIDP JAD File
text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad

# MIDP Jar File
application/java-archive jar

# Symbian SIS file
application/vnd.symbian.install sis

After restarting Apache, I was able to successfully download the files I needed.

I decided to do a couple of tweaks on my Postfix mail server tonight.

I decided to add support for virtual domain aliasing ‘coz I want to move some of my domain email accounts to my VPS. Since I’m already spending some amount of money for a VPS, I thought that why don’t I just make the most of it. Currently, I’m hosting some of my email accounts with GoDaddy’s email services but now I’m planning to move everything to my VPS account. It’s true that paying for a 3rd party email provider would be a bit more reliable, but then again putting my Unix/Linux knowledge into good use might also provide the same reliability.

Anyway, in order to add virtual domain aliasing support for postfix, you just need to add the following lines in your main.cf file:

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_alias_domains = example.net,example.org

You then have to add the virtual alias maps to /etc/postfix/virtual file:

webmaster@example.net exampleuser
webmaster@example.org exampleuser

The lines:

webmaster@example.net exampleuser
webmaster@example.org exampleuser

maps email address from the virtual domains (webmaster@example.net and webmaster@example.org) to a unix user in your system (exampleuser) . So on this example, let’s say that your default domain is example.com, emails sent to webmaster@example.net and webmaster@example.org would go to user exampleuser.

After all the configurations, you need to execute the following commands for the changes to take effect:

postmap /etc/postfix/virtual # To rebuild the virtual domain alias db
postfix reload # For changes on main.cf to take effect on the postfix service

That’s it!

Just try sending an email to webmaster@example.net and then check if it arrives on your exampleuser account. If anything goes wrong, well there’s always the Postfix site to find some more detailed documents or just post your comments here and let’s see if I can help.

For these past few days, I’ve been trying to setup a WAP Gateway, SMSC Gateway, and MMSC Gateway using Kannel and Mbuni on Cygwin. I was able to make the Kannel WAP Gateway and SMSC Gateway to work using a Sony Ericsson T610 connected over bluetooth to serve as a GSM modem for SMS sending but I’m currently having a hard time with the Mbuni MMSC setup.

It seems like I’m missing something with configuration or I am just not able to send an MMS message that conforms to the MMSC standards. Anyway, I’ve downloaded an Openwave Phone Simulator to be able to emulate MMS sending using Mbuni. I’m not able to properly work on the emulation part today since I was kinda busy with a workshop I did on CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and Bugzilla to some of my team members. Oh well, I decided to work a bit on it tonight using a linux box I have here at home, just to see if I can work out things on Mbuni and maybe do a bit of reading on MMS and MMSC standards just to add more information about this subject in my brain.

I just got back to work from a 7 day paternal leave and I still feel quite attached to the long break. Since Aphilo gave birth to our twins on the evening of November 23, 2005, I seldom got the chance to work infront of my PC since I was so busy taking care of the twins and also working out some family issues related to our newborns.

Well, slowly I’m pulling myself together to start working and finish up the things I left behind before I left for my paternal leave. First thing I noticed was the weird setup of our network connections which I think was related to the network downtime our office experienced last week. I am so eager to fix things up but I am not aware of the current status of the work that our other network/IT admin has done. I think it’s best to wait for him, but as of the writing of this blog, he’s still not around.

I’m still feeling quite sleepy right now since for the past few days, I wasn’t able to get some decent sleep since our newborn twins are usually awake at night so I had to help out Aphilo in attending to their needs (feeding them, changing diapers, etc.). Oh well no matter how sleepy I am, since I am here in the office, the best and right thing for me to do is none other than … WORK!