By the looks of it, we'll need a new Tech thread in a few months. I propose:

Buffistatechnology 11, going on 100.

OK, that'll probably be too confusing. But it just popped into my head so I had to send it out over the internets.

P-C, did you get your Outlook issue fixed? This may be very obvious, but did you enable pop access on your gmail acct? That is the main reason why most people I know can't download their email via pop using outlook.

I did do that!

Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 3/20/05

So I have no bleeding clue what's going on.

Also, my gmail account gets an impressive amount of spam given that I've never given out the address anywhere.

Also, my gmail account gets an impressive amount of spam given that I've never given out the address anywhere.

I've had the same issue. Only place I have it listed is here. The spam filter catches it all, but still annoying.

Tommyrot, I have a MaGlobe account that I use about twice a year or so, less so now that wireless access is a lot more common. I can't offhand remember how much it costs, but it's quite reasonable measured by my innate cheapitude.

P-C,

Okay, you may want to change your pop access to "everything that comes from now on" just to see if anything is getting through. That's a lot of email and sometimes (IME) the gmail pipe can't handle it all at once.

Okay, you may want to change your pop access to "everything that comes from now on" just to see if anything is getting through. That's a lot of email and sometimes (IME) the gmail pipe can't handle it all at once.

Well, my e-mail currently only has about seven e-mails in it, so...I don't think that's the issue exactly. It won't even connect to the server! I'll try, though.

Anyone remember the name of Gud's IP detection program? It's for Linux (Gnome, I think) and he keeps it at Freshmeet or somesuch....

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I'm waiting for the PC that I keep around to just burst into flames. It's a little 3.0 GHz Celeron and it is currently pulling multiple shows off of our two Tivos, while also converting files to be ready for my iPod, and on top of that preparing mapsets in my Garmin software so that they can be uploaded to the eTrex GPS. The CPU has been pegged at 100% for at least 36 hours now. It's either going to combust, or give me the finger.

Awwww, the little PC that could.