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Or, you could set your gmail account to automatically forward to your comcast account. Then, when you switch ISPs (if), you could just change your gmail accunt to automatically forward to that.
It will basically be exactly the same effect as using POP with deletion, though. Really, POP w/o deletion seems your best choice. There's a reason most people don't bother to use IMAP and it's because it's only very slightly better with much more overhead.
I use gmail popmail with Thunderbird mostly as an archiver. Every once in a while I fire up thunderbird and tell it to get all the new popmail since the last time.
There's a reason most people don't bother to use IMAP and it's because it's only very slightly better with much more overhead.
Really? What sort of overhead? It's seemed pretty fabulous and simple.
What's the closest thing to iTunes for Linux? Or some MP3 player that's seriously idiot-proof?
XMMS is very much like Winamp and I had no problems with it.
Banshee is a good Linux MP3 player for GNOME integration, the one I use.
Amarok is the primary KDE MP3 player.
Beep Media Player is another popular one and based on XMMS.
What sort of overhead?
The overhead's on the server end. Keeping a "continuous" connection to each client, rather than only connecting only occasionally, is more of a pain. Or so I gather, though I've never personally implemented one.
We're having trouble getting the progrm Vongo off of our new laptop. I ran the "remove programs" protocol on Windows XP and it worked for my profile. With DH, we can't seem to get the fucker gone and every time he logs on, Vongo tries to install. When I do the remove program thingy, I get a fatal error message and it just sits there, mocking me.
What can I do to get rid of this stupid, useless program?
I think I figured it out. It seems to be a problem with the installshield update manager. I uninstalled that and hope it does the trick.
Does it (or something similar) show up under the Startup tab when you run msconfig?
One of my peeves with RealPlayer was that it kept re-installing "TkBellExe" (its self-launcher) whenever I played a .rm file. It was a real nuisance (pun not intended) when I was on dial-up, because it kept interrupting what I was doing and demanding access to the internet, even when I wasn't running RealPlayer.
eta: Ooops, looks like I was too late.