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The 920 calorie burrito

1679 days

by norm in Miscellaneous

This is so gross:

Hardee’s on Monday rolled out its new Country Breakfast Burrito â€” two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat.

and

In 2003 the chain introduced a line of big sandwiches, including the Monster Thickburger. The 1,420-calorie sandwich is made up of two 1/3-pound slabs of beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered bun.

Even Hardees’ chicken salad â€” topped with onion rings and crispy chicken â€” has 1,100 calories and 83 grams of fat.

Who the f eats this stuff?

Article from SFGate.com

7337er than j00

1684 days

by norm in Fun

i got a laugh out of this bumper sticker on one of the cars at work

update: i can’t believe there is a wikipedia entry on 7337 talk

was not too bad. I went to 5 sessions and found at least 2 of them moderately helpful, namely Ben Ramsey’s session on memcached and Eli White’s PHP & MySQL scaling techniques. I might put up a short list of take aways in a few days.

View from the back

Wake boarding @ Lake Berryessa

1686 days

by norm in Fun

I went wake boarding for the first time a few weeks back at Lake Berryessa. The weather forecast wasn’t that great, so it made for a great day on the lake since it was mostly empty.

Here’s my first successful attempt at getting (and staying) up:

John and Lee getting air

Rich and Chen opting for the water taxi

Stemming spam

1695 days

by norm in Linux

I use a combination of DNS blacklists (DNSBLs) and spamassassin on my server to try and limit the amount of spam I get. I use the Postfix mail server and here is the relevant part of my Postfix main.cf config file:

smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_address

smtpd_client_restrictions =
        reject_invalid_hostname,
        reject_non_fqdn_hostname,
        reject_non_fqdn_sender,
        reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
        reject_unknown_sender_domain,
        reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
        permit_mynetworks,
        reject_unauth_destination,
        reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
        reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
        reject_rbl_client dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net,
        permit

message_size_limit = 15728639
disable_vrfy_command = yes
smtpd_helo_required = yes

Note that I’m using 3 DNSBLs (spamhaus, spamcop, and uceprotect — the values for reject_rbl_client) and they are placed towards the end of smtpd_client_restrictions. I only want the external DNSBL DNS lookups to occur if the mail passes the simpler checks first.

Seems to be doing a decent job. I still get a few pieces of spam that fall through the cracks, but don’t want it so aggressive that letgitimate email doesn’t get to me. Here’s the summary data from logwatch from yesterday:

        1   Reject relay denied                        0.02%
      207   Reject HELO/EHLO                           4.40%
      442   Reject unknown user                        9.40%
     4053   Reject RBL                                86.18%
 --------   ------------------------------------------------
     4703   Total Rejects                            100.00%

The DNSBLs combined rejected over 4000 pieces of mail, most of which would have likely been caught by spamassassin anyways if I didn’t have the DNSBL checks, but it’s nice that they didn’t get past my mail server and into my mailbox!

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