[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Rant, ...about anything and everything

[jrock8]

alright, the purpose of this thread is to create a place where anyone can vent about anything... it might be some shit at work, some dickhead on the street, something about society in general that just pisses you off...

go ahead, let it out... let's here you rant!


i'll start... i hate the city of chicago... they FINALLY get in line w/the rest of the sensible world and pass a smoking ban that goes into effect this month... the catch? they put in a TWO YEAR exemption for bars, clubs and restaurants... great, two more years of me going out and smelling like an ashtray when i come home, having to air my coat out for days afterwards, oh, and yeah, all the shit that i'm breathing in while i'm there... so here's a royal "fuck you" to the city

[Gnappster]

because, contrary to popular belief, you can't just pee in your pants and be the coolest, you have to pee your pants AND run your own email server.

it's a long story so I'll spare you ALL the details cuz that tech help BS really put me back (issue is all resolved now and I've got it all working again, but I do have lots of work to do before I can leave for the day)

Anyway... when I first got high-speed Internet when I lived at my parents', I thought it'd be fun to have my own domain name and use an email client rather than put up with the irritation known as AOL (is that COL for you?? ) .  So I registered one.  Well, turns out you have to host it and then register it and all this other crap.  Turns out I had a friend who had his own Internet company and some pretty crazy servers and kickass connection and stuff like that.  So he hosted it for me.  Well, he ended up leaving the company he started and shortly thereafter the company continued with the plans he started and upgraded all the servers and they got the equivalent of a T3 line in there.  That meant all the IP addresses changed and I lost my email.  coincidentally, I was looking at getting faster Internet at work and came across a deal for really fast speeds and static IPs.  so I convinced my dad that that's what we needed and voila, I had my own static IP address to run an email server... we also had an old computer that I was able to orphan for use as an email server.  so I now host my own domain name for about 5 dollars a year.  Not too bad.  In so doing, I have zero limits on file size or inbox capacity.  I can also sign up any of my friends I want.  and if I'm feeling psycho enough, I can read other people's email and see if they have any hot pictures attached.  It works out well, cuz it's easier than doing hotmail or gmail and I can make all the accounts I need.

so that's teh short version, believe it or not.  aren't ya glad you asked. 

Let me know if you want your own email address... just be sure to have some pictures of hot naked girls in your inbox so I can hack into your account and check them out.

oh, yeah, that email server can also be used to host a website. but since I have only a DSL connection, my upload speeds are slow... meaning anyone downloading information from a website hosted here would be irritated by the slowness.  that effect isn't even noticed with the email, though.

So you gotta up your bandwidth just in case you, I don't know, wanted to host a ficticious message board that has never existed.