i don't know who said this but i agree:
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"Lately, I have come to believe that the principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there."
-- Simon Illyan, from A Civil Campaign by L.M. Bujold

from The Devil's Dictionary by the ultimate cynic Ambrose Bierce :
"Patience: a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."
"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."
"Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
"Lawyer, n.: One skilled in the circumvention of the law."
"Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."
"Pleasure, n.: The least hateful form of dejection."
"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."
"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"Corporation, n.: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
"Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
"Brain, n.: an apparatus with which we think we think."
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"Politics, n.: Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."
"Politeness, n.: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
"Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance."
"Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
"Love, n.: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
"Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me."

from Mark Twain:
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

from Voltaire:
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

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WHaT'S oN MY SH3LF???

The 8th Commandment by Lawrence Sanders

Lawrence Sander's book: Timothy's Game

Monday, August 29, 2005

so i consulted bestfriend google (since raven doesn't know sh*t about this - no offense raven) and it listed a number of sites discussing it but i couldn't find anything solid about getting rid of this error. really they just tell you - that it's about the headers and shows you a format of it. it was helpful But.. sobs... it just didnt give the fix or maybe i just wasnt searching very thoroughly. all i got were more documents about internet email protocols and other rfc numbers or protocols. too boring to put here.

i have checked her mail configuration settings (over and over and over and over agian - just cannot emphasize it enough) and they are all correct. the smtp server settings even matches the configuration on the one that is working - so logically , it should work right? computers were supposed to have been built on logic and works using logic. so logically that other email account should also be able to send using the same smtp server settings. but it didn't. judas h priest i could not for the life of me figure out why it just wouldn't do as the other one is doing. well i heard there's another fallacy about generalization that i may have violated with my lateral thinking. but seriously, come on, it should work. those settings should work!

but anyway, what increased our level of frustration and perplexity was we configured another domain email address with those same smtp settings and we were able to send out. what more i used my outlook express and used the same settings and it worked on outlook express. i wasn't too happy with mac at this point. it's mocking me. taunting me. if i was there i'd bash it with a baseball bat, really. i thought it was simply asking for it. but i just told her let's reboot.

anyway from the sounds of it that mailbox must be corrupted. but in mac mail, it seems that deleting an email account also means deleting any messages you've downloaded before. so my client just said goodbye to them all and we started to reconfigure them again. and it still says she can't send out because the message doesn't conform to the right internet protocol and the headers are just not right or something. d*mn headers AGAIN!! we have just wiped out her entire mailbox for nothing. we have rebooted so many times that i can remember that i think if we have to reboot i'll start painting my nails. my goodness...sigh...

well desperate times calls for desperate, crazy, it-may-just-work measures like: so why not edit the domain email address that works. we won't be changing anything except for the username and email address. so i told her to delete the email account again and to edit the domain account that's working and change the email address from email A to email B (the one that we've been manipulating and cursing for approximately 171.08 minutes now to work. and guess what???

it worked. i don't know why but it did. she was as surprised as i am. and after 3 hours of being on the phone i'm sure her arms have all gone numb from holding it. anyway we parted on good terms so it's not that bad... but aht is another issue. i can jsut see my supervisor's face when he comes in tomorrow. but i won't be here so...hahaha...

the problematic call that Made my day - read: stink to the high heavens that is - is this man who thinks that someone has hacked into his site because his links are gone and he said he can't find the bloody menu bar. sheesh i told him that if somebody hacks into his site a lot of people will be calling us now complaining of the same thing. eu says it's changing as we speak. told eu to run a spyware check for his pc and to change his password ASAP. he even thinks someone here is doing it, there are just four of us here and i'm the only one looking at his site so i told him it's not any of us and besides that wouldn't be too professional( would be nutty) of us if we destroy our own websites right? it would only mean more work and another good time wasted doing overtime other than partying and doing videoke. and then he said well my menu bar its gone. i told him "sir you menu bar is just hidden." and he went like "it's not supposed to be hidden." i told him "sir the java script that you used says it's supposed to be hidden unless you mouse over it." click... then...dead air...

so.... hello darkness my old friend.