Gmail is pretty good with the account recovery process. I'm going from memory, but if you can think of the following information, it'll be useful: - Labels you may have created (just list as many as you know) - When you created the account (month/year) and who invited you, if this was during the invitation phase - Most frequently emailed contacts Incidentally, this is why I treat my email password with such grave importance. Nobody knows it, and if someone did know it, I'd change it. It's just such a horrendous hassle when you lose your primary email address. Probably not since it'd be a pretty big security hole to have those unencrypted passwords stored somewhere and there would be no good reason for them to do it. What is more likely is that they have a historic log of your encrypted passwords and they'll create a hash out of the password you send to them and compare it against the log to see if it matches anything.
I have a mac desktop, mac laptop, both are used quite a bit for work. My wife has a pc laptop. My plan is to convert an old pc desktop into a freenas raid server. The motherboard is an Abit AV8 and it only has two onboard sata slots. I've got an AMD Athlon 3500+ 64bit processor and 512mb of ram. Should be sufficient to run as a server. My main question is the sata slots. I bought a new dvd burner as the box only had a very very old cd writer. This new dvd drive is sata, so there goes one slot. I want to eventually have three 1.5TB drives. What is the best raid setup for a home backup server? My limited understanding and interweb reading seems to be pointing to raid 5 as being the best path as the three 1.5 TB drives will net me 3TB of total disk space and if one drive dies, I can replace and keep going. Thoughts? What sata raid controller cards would you recommend? Since I'm only going to have 3 drives and the dvd burner, that's 4 slots. I have to on the motherboard. Could I just get a card with two internal sata slots? Or will I need to get a raid specific card with at least three slots to handle all the drives? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
If you don't care about speed, and are only interested in maximum capacity, then go for RAID 5. ZFS would be a better choice, but I'm not familiar with any roll-your-own solutions that use it. (I'm lucky enough to have a Sun Storage box at home that uses it... thanks to some development I did with Sun and Oracle). I wouldn't worry about a hardware RAID card, though, and only use software RAID... I've never had good luck with "consumer" grade hardware RAID cards, and failure notification has mostly been hit-or-miss from the cards. (By the way, failure notification is a MUST... no sense having a drive blow up on you and you not knowing about it, until your second driver blows up, and you're proper fucked). Just make sure that you use the same exact hard drive for all drives in the set... some people mix and match sizes, speeds, etc, and it can cause some performance problems. $0.02
Thanks for the info. I'm now just going to pick up a regular sata card as it will give me the needed extra connections and it's only $20 or so. I plan on using the same exact model and size drive for all three, but I'm going to buy them at different times from different retailers to hopefully lessen a chance that they'd fail at the same time. I understand there's a very small likelihood of this happening, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Don't bother... they all probably come from the same supplier anyway, and are probably all part of the same batch.
My dad's just had a word with me. He paints, and has photographs of his paintings saved on his computer which for some reason he'd like to be able to show throught the TV. I've found quite a bit of software that lets you burn pictures to a dvd so that you can then do what he wants, I just wondered if anyone had any suggestions/recomendations/tips? Oh, the software needs to be free or a trial version or something. Cheers.
The douchebag response would be "buy a mac". (Seriously, because all that shit is free and comes with the Mac) Sorry, can't help you for something PC-based. EDIT: Wow... found the guy's/geek's version of Whore Logic and the "Free Gift".
How old is this TV set? My answer is: hook up the PC to the TV through the S-Video slot/hole on your graphics card - most graphics cards made over the last 10 years (that I've encountered) and most TV's have them. Much cheaper than going and buying tons of DVD's. Remember to set the TV to display through the AV/Video channel. If he insists on going the DVD route, use Nero to burn the DVD's - I'm sure it has an option for creating slideshows and stuff like that. Every DVD Burner I've encountered comes with Nero as part of the package when you purchase it.
Sorry if this has been asked before. It seems that the HDMI cord Ive been using with my PS3 has crapped out. Ive tried using on my cable and there is no signal from it. Im looking into just getting cheap one off of ebay. 1.3, what ever that means, seems to be the new and most posted type of HDMI cord. What considerations should I take in getting a HDMI cable to hook my PS3 to a 50 inch 1080p plasma?
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I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in the cell phone thread, because I'm not sure if it's an iPhone problem or an iTunes problem*. I've previously been able to create my own ringtones by saving a snippet of a song as .mp3, then converting it to .m4a, and then manually changing the extension to .m4r. I have iTunes set to manually manage music and ringtones, and when I drag and drop a ringtone onto the iPhone, it appears in iTunes (under the iPhone), but not in the phone interface. Itunes shows 10 ringtones on the phone, but when I go into the phone settings and click "sounds" (or when I go to set a ringtone for a specific contact), only 4 of my custom ringtones show up. Any ideas? *Either way, fuck Steve Jobs.
My computer was infected with "Antivirus Soft" which clogs up the computer with fake virus scans and pop ups. When I google removing it Im given a list of shady looking blogs that all reccomend different "free" antivirus software. I am hoping you tech wizzes here can give me the straight dope on how to remove it entirely and what I can do to keep it from happening again. I disabled a similar virus "Anti Virus Live" a few months ago by using task manager to end processes but I can't seem to do it for this one. Thanks
It's probably similar to the "internet security 2010" that I picked up a little while ago. Follow the instructions on this page: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-internet-security-2010" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-r ... urity-2010</a> It worked for me, without screwing anything up. Just make sure you follow their instructions exactly. As far as what to do in the future, make sure you have a good anti-virus package running, and pick up something like AdAware or Malwarebytes and keep it updated and running. The solution on that page installs Malwarebytes, but you'll want to uninstall and reinstall it after you clean that stuff out, as it attacks malwarebytes to try and prevent removal.
I have a question about my HDTV. My question is if I can use a splitter to connect my SD cable tv(coax) and one of those $20-$40 indoor HDTV antennas(coax) at the same time. My problem is that I want to use the same input for this(the coax input). My cable comes in on coax - no alternative. If I get an indoor antenna, I can pick up local HDTV channels. I do not want to switch between these back and forth to watch them. I would like them to both come in on the coax input. I have a two into one coax splitter, but I think it is made for a one into two application. Let me know if you think this is possible, or other alternatives. If you need some clarification on certain things, let me know. Thanks in advance, Joseph
Can anyone here give me their thoughts on this article? <a class="postlink" href="http://indiatelecomnews.com/?p=476" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://indiatelecomnews.com/?p=476</a> Basically I am wondering if Ethernet "switching" or co-locating is actually something that will come to fruition ala what cross-connectivity has done for the cell phone market. I don't know enough to really know if I am asking the right questions here, but I invested in a company that does the cell phone crossconnecting and recently announced their intentions to get into ethernet connectivity. If anyone here knows about this kind of stuff, I am super curious.
Thank God I'm not the only one. I waded through about a third of it, skipped a third, and read the last third. And I still wanted to kill myself.