Friday morning here in Portland, a web hosting customer could not check their email without an error saying that their mail server wasn’t found, and they couldn’t see their own website either. Initial attempts to help her proved fruitless, and after trying everything, she was sadly told that it appeared to be a Frontier DNS [...]
If you leave your mail on the server, then it will eventually fill up, and when people try to e-mail or reply, they’ll get “the mailbox is over quota” or something similar as a bounce-back message. When that happens, you are going to have to either empty some of the mail, or increase the size [...]
This weekend, I took some video (of my son being blatantly facemasked with no penalty, and then gang tackled In flag football with a minor 5 yarder), and I wanted to share that video with some other parents. (Yes that’s the kind of guy I am Anyway, I just needed to get it out of [...]
I’ve had my share of issues with Comcast in the past, and this one is just as frustrating. Just like many of my issues with them so far, it’s completely inconsistent from market to market, so their support department seems to know nothing about it. Anyone hosting their own domain somewhere, yet having Comcast as [...]
I’m not ashamed to admit that I have avoided Windows Vista since it first came out. Although I’m a Microsoft Action Pack subscriber and received my first version of Vista well over a year ago, I’ve continued to function in an XP environment not only because it works, but because I KNOW it. I spend [...]
Late last night I added some notes to a MS notepad document on a laptop, and I neglected to save. This morning, Microsoft rebooted my computer (for my safety) and once again I lost some valuable notes. I remember writing about this once before before, so I looked through my own blog or reference of [...]
There is nothing worse than computer problems, and there’s nothing better than free software to prevent them in the first place. One of my favorite utilities of all time, Winpatrol, has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me with an affiliate version that I can give away at no [...]
How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation? If you’re a specialty user, you may have several dozen add ons, and in my own case, I’ve got 27 separate Firefox extensions alone, (which I now know because I just counted them). With all of those, and [...]
I’m a board member of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association and at each monthly meeting, there’s a few minutes where people ask questions about strange behavior, and get help from their peers. Well, the meeting was last night (Ben Lee from Intel) , and I had nothing to ask, but TODAY is another matter. The [...]
Qwest Internet service here in Portland Oregon has apparently begun to randomly block port 25 for its customers, just like Comcast did last year. This renders users helpless to send email using their own domain from their web host’s email server like most businesses do. Also just like Comcast, they are not doing it to [...]
Last night I was working ofn a few things on my wifes laptop while we were watching a TV show, and like always, I didn’t “put everything away” and I left a Notepad document open with a few notes, and a few browser windows. This morning when I got up, I went to the laptop [...]
After reformatting my computer, I posted about easily editing the “save attachment as” dialog box to enable me to save Outlook file attachments in the folders of my choice. That was a big help, but only solved half the problem, because without installing some third pary software like Tweak UI, I was unable to find [...]
