ethergeek

I have an AT&T Tilt...and while this may help you or not, I just sync it via exchange to my mail2web account. They have free exchange hosting (well, kinda...there's no outlook support, but with a quirk you can log entourage or evolution into it) that will sync to your pocket pc and also supports push email.

Take a look at the kernel log. You might be getting a ton of filesystem panics that are causing the kernel to pop it on readonly. I get this occasionally when I b0rk one of my truecrypt containers by not unmounting it properly. dmesg | grep -i panic will show you any panic messages. If you're seeing alot of them relative to the disk, copy all the files you can to another disk and use dosfsck to fix the FAT partition, or, since you've backed it up anyway, just mkfs.vfat on the sucker so you have a proper FAT32 filesystem on there.

Funny, I can mount ISO images out of the box on OS X and Linux...you'd think windows would pick up this feature...oh wait, aren't ISO files how people pirate windows and windows software? I see a motive for microsoft in this one. Anyway, just grab Daemon Tools. It's freeware, and will let you mount ISO images (among others) as disks, all with a shiny graphical interface that windows users collectively get all hot and bothered over

I'll stick with my 360...I love to game, but I hate using Windows. So I game on my 360, and I work on my Linux box or on my Mac. Couldn't be happier

Yeah, I'm wary of that idea too...if you want to not be hassled, give websites fake information except for email addresses. For email addresses, use spamgourmet.I sign up for **** all the time with my spamgourmet account; I get my mail in my main email account (no checking a second, junk account) and when they sell my email, I don't get spammed because I either set the exclusive sender up for that address, or just let it run out of messages and let spamgourmet trash everything sent to that address.

I'm sure he can...at least the French in his signature is grammatically and syntactically correct. If not, I probably can...I speak a fair amount of French ^^

Gmail for mobile works great on my phone (HTC Kaiser/ATT Tilt/ATT 8925) with one exception...when I go to refresh my mail it tells me I need a data connection (which I have) and fails. Then I click it again and it works fine. Not sure why it does that.Otherwise it works perfectly. Much faster than using IMAP through the Messaging application on my phone.

Yeah, you don't need the quote...he used the html quote tags instead of BBcode ones. Perhaps a mod can edit this so it's more readable and informative?

I'm in the same boat with you...my account is suspended and I have plenty of credits...I wanna know what's going on. I'm already looking for new hosting

Holy run-on sentences batman! Yeah file upload scripts are easy to code, so there's alot of them out there....especially in PHP: http://us3.php.net/features.file-upload

I'm in the same boat here...no idea what's going on.

From a user perspective...I like vB a whole hell of a lot better than IPB. From an admin perspective, I just use phpBB3 or SMF because they're easy to administer and they're free. I don't want to spend anything more than time on my website...I just have better sinks for my money (like FFXI) than a site which barely generates any revenue.

I didn't buy anything monday...witnessing the havoc that was the thursday night sales and black friday ^^

If these machines are on a domain, I'd suggest just using LDAP via the dsquery command to do this...if they're local accounts only (though I can't imagine why you would want to have 20-30 windows machines to manage without using a domain controller) you could look into the Windows Management Instrumentation Client (wmic) documentation...you can get pretty much anything you want out of the system using that command.

I don't see why anyone even wants vista...I mean, if you *have* to use windows, why not just run XP? There really aren't any apps that require vista yet, and XP is faster (I never thought I'd compare XP's speed to ANYTHING until M$ made something that runs even slower) and lighter on system resources.

Why don't you look at Google apps for domains? I use it for my mail (all I had to do was point my MX entry there) and I get gmail-quality webmail @ethergeek.com with all the bells and whistles a google account offers, like superb spam filtering.

It more or less works as it's supposed to...it's just slower about it. The whole interface feels less zippy, and I am noticing the speed difference.

Thank god they rolled out IMAP before pulling this crap

You only need to specify one nameserver: the one you're running. The other is designed as a failover backup.You really should read an overview of how the DNS system works to answer question #2. It's way too much to type and I probably wouldn't do as good a job explaining it as a formal guide.

Yahoo chat rooms are, always have been, and always will be a complete waste of time with their lack of moderation capabilities. There will always be spammers and otherwise generally obnoxious people because there's no simple way to get rid of them. The best you can hope for is to change rooms, in which event you'll encounter new spammers.The system is completely broken, so I avoid it like the plague. Never did have an intelligent conversation with anyone in one of those damn rooms.

BIOS and HDD passwords are dumb because they are this easy to defeat. If you want any security, you're better off locking your machine in a closet and using actual encryption to secure your data.If you don't have physical security, you don't have any security at all.

I'm all about Clam AV (clamwin on windows) because it's free, GPL, and open source. Also, it doesn't dig any hooks into your system, so you don't need to worry about it hosing your system. The only downside (because of the aforementioned no-hooks policy) is that it doesn't have an on-demand scanner, but if you just scan things before you run them and periodically do system scans, you should be just fine. If you run clamwin from a USB key or a CD, you don't need to worry about your scanner being compromised too.

Try using a linux box to trash its partition table and recreate it with a new dos filesystem. Hell, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourcard, then format it under windows if you need to. I've never found a software "locking utility" that could resist that.

I updated my MBP to 10.5.1 yesterday...I haven't noticed any differences at all performance-wise, and all my apps seem to still work...though it does feel like thunderbird takes slightly longer to start up after I did the update.

HTML emails suck...I mean, they take longer to download, they just pretty up the information meant to be conveyed in the email. So yes, if you MUST send HTML email for some insane reason, please, for the love of god, send it as plain-text also.Most people have no idea how annoying it is to try to read HTML formatted email with a text reader over a shell link via mutt :/