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Oh my God.
For over a year, my outgoing Comcast e-mails have been delayed for five minutes. Many incoming e-mails are also delayed for five minutes, including LJ e-mails (and that recently jumped to forty-five minutes for no apparent reason). I have had many frustrating chat sessions that produced zero results.
Recently, I noticed that for some reason, any e-mails I sent regarding AMWA business were sent immediately. It was really strange and made no sense. I wondered if "AMWA" was getting it through the filters. That wasn't it. And then I realized that when I send e-mails for business, I use my business signature rather than my personal signature.
So I sent an e-mail with my business signature. It sent immediately. And then I started doing some testing, and I discovered that it was the blog URL in my signature that was responsible. I removed it, and my e-mails sent immediately. I put a blogspot URL in the text of my e-mail, and the five-minute delay returned.
WHAT THE FUCK, COMCAST. WHAT THE LIVING FUCK.
Do you (or does Comcast) have a virus checker that might be examining your links for problems?
It has to be Comcast, Liese, since I have the same issues whether I'm using Outlook at home or the webmail.
Sunil, Try converting it with tinyurl, see if they slow that down.
You need to send this info to Wired, Engadget, or Gizmodo. They probably would love to check this out.
If you look at the full headers of your messages, you can track your email's progress by looking at the "Received:" headers. You should be able to pinpoint where the message is getting delayed.
Not so hypothetical question: say you're in a humanities research institute. Which softwares and hardwares you couldn't live without, and which would make you life easier? What would you like to see there, tech-wise?
Dream big. I want to see if there's anything beyond the OCR/DVD/VCR things that might make their lives easier.
what kind of research institute? What kinds of things are produced there (books? presentations?)
A small one, so they may write the books, but a publishing house will publish them. They're also linked and are working with the university, so they can use certain services from there.
They have several media projects per year, few conventions, a media library they want online access to and so on. Generally, the type of things that are being produced is determined by the PhD students. They want to be prepared and plan for the future, so to speak.
I can't help with video editing software or hardware recommendations.
Do you all need a portable projector to link to a computer for presentations? What about a drobo (or something like this) to store lots of media?
