This troubleshooting should be valid, yeah?

If I send email to yahoo from my domain using the same SMTP server from two different client IPs (Time Warner and T Mobile) and three different email addresses in two completely separate domains and it bounces back with the error "Our system has detected an unusual amount of unsolicited email originating from your address" they're not talking about me they're talking about the SMTP server they're going through, right, which isn't under my control? Unfortunately I don't think I can send from the original address through any other SMTP servers.

eta: My firewalls and virus checks are solid--it doesn't seem to be me abusing said SMTP servers...

Which SMTP server is the bounce coming from, the SMTP server you’re routing through, or the destination SMTP server? Do you authenticate with your SMTP server?

Yahoo is bouncing anything from my SMTP server, to which I do authenticate.

Oh, laptop-wise, I did nigh EVERYTHING. PRAM, OS X reinstalls (2), deleting caches and DS-stores, and yadda yadda. First time I've used phone support, and they seemed kinda disappointed that there was only one thing left to do--

The hardware test. Extended fails 1m51s in (let sit 3 hours), the unextended froze 7 seconds (let that sit for 40 minutes) into the memory test. What that has to do with my symptoms I got no clue, but if my hard drive can be not the problem, that's great.

I have a Genius Bar appointment for Friday, since I can't drive tomorrow.

My last good backup was 2 weeks ago. I can copy my data from the network, so if the drive gets nuked it's not the worst. I just...I don't want to test the backup. Testing Seagate Black Armor backup wasn't fun, but at least there was no duress and I now have a Windows 8 happy version running weekly.

Can't get iTunes to wipe everything off my iPod ironically. I backed it up to iTunes, and want to replace everything with that library, but it seems to be trying to copy it side by side. Which doesn't fit...

Should I be worried that the battery in my Harmony remote looks a little...puffy? The plastic doohickey that goes over the battery wasn't laying flat, and when I took it off to adjust it, I realized it's because the battery is no longer flat.

Since it's lithium-ion rechargeable, I'm wondering if it's about to explode and catch fire or something.

That is not something you want to fuck around with, Jess.

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That link is my workplace...At first, I thought my iPad messed up. Ha!

To be clear, not my research, I'm in School of the arts. Just strange seeing UCIdotEDU.

Laptop shopping help: in need of a new one. Looking for something that is on the low end price-wise, but I also want enough RAM/whatsit to install video editing software. Best starting point to look at? I got my current one at Best Buy and the clerk was all "yeah, totally enough whatsit for that!". And now it's overheating to the point that I put an icepack under it so that it stays running for longer than fifteen minutes.

Not looking for anyone to do the shopping for me, but maybe just a few pointers to get me going in the right direction.

Frankly, anything you buy probably has enough whatsit to handle most video editing software for nonprofessional work. Where you will run into important differences these days is more in quality of build and service than specs. The overheating problem you are having isn't because of anything you would be able to see on paper unfortunately.

I know this isn't that helpful. I can't really provide specific advice on this as work buys my computers for me these days. They are all Lenovos and I like them just fine but our computers are definitely not at the low price point.

I just know that when I went to install a demo of Ulead, it wouldn't install because of lack of capacity for the program.