I got a HTC Desire recently, and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't do a huge amount other than use it as a phone, but it's pretty intuitive to use and get apps on. The battery takes a while to get up to speed with repeat chargings needed to get it to full life. Also runs a bit hot if you're heavy on the apps. We run a dedicated number at work for fax to email, which is then directly routed to my Blackberry. It's been up and running for several months now and haven't had any issues; if that's the way you're looking to investigate.
Thanks a lot, guys. I went with the HTC Incredible based on pricing and figured that Launcher Pro could get me back to where I wanted to be when I had the Droid. For heavy users, the Incredible has a terrible battery life.
The faxes come through in .pdf format. My blackberry duplicates to my work PC without taking emails off the ISP server. If I need to print it, I'll either do it at work or I can access my POP3 account wherever I am. A lot of faxes I got don't need to be immediately printed, so it's not always a hassle. As an added, I have an iPad with iAnnotate on it. I can take the .pdfs from mail, scribble/mark up/sign them and forward them on with the annotations.
You'll have power issues - but smaller printers can often run on USB or via a car powered inverter. For me though, the first task would be to consider what you're using hard copy for and make really sure that that workflow was necessary.
I had to send my PS3 in for service which means they toss your old PS3 and send you a new one. Good thing is I had two HDDs and sent in my back-up. I still have my old one with all my years of saved games on it. Unfortunately I can't just put it back into my PS3 because it'll wipe it first. I bought an external case for the HDD but when you hook it up to a computer it doesn't recognize it. I looked around for a bit and I've read that you can get the files off if I partition my laptops HDD and some other steps but I can't find what those are. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm having problems with my Hotmail account. I can log in just fine but I can't read, compose or delete emails. It's just from my laptop, I can access it fine from work. I've tried using Chrome and Explorer to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks.
I opened up a link from an email, and my internet went down, telling me I had a Trojan. It was a fake program showing viruses and asking for credit card info, not allowing me online. I shut off my computer as soon as that happened, loaded in safe mode, and restored from a previous point. I can get online now and the problem appears to be gone, but I'm still a bit worried. Is there any anti-virus program anyone recommends I use? I'm worried that I might still be carrying something...
Usually after an infection I scan with more than one tool. Try: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.malwarebytes.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.malwarebytes.org/</a> and <a class="postlink" href="http://www.emsisoft.com/en/compare.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.emsisoft.com/en/compare.aspx</a> Emsisoft is actually a little too thorough, it'll pull up a lot of normal cookies and say they're tracking cookies or whatever, but give your system a scan with those two tools.
Ok, so for once, I'm asking a question rather than giving answers... This is driving me up a wall, and posting on Microsoft's forums has done fuckall to help me. Here's the skinny: We have two sites (Site 1 and Site 2) that are connected through a site to site VPN. For a particular application to be able to be printed from through a terminal services application (Site 1), we had to add printers from Site 2 that are not local to the Terminal Server. Whenever the VPN connection is lost between the two sites, the remote printers (which reside at Site 2) will remain offline (on Site 1 server) until the print spooler service is restarted (Site 1). Upon that service being restarted at Site 1, the Site 2 printers are now online and can be printed to through the TS application. It's a difficult read, but it's the best way I can describe what is happening.
So, there are TONS of threads on this problem, e.g.: <a class="postlink" href="http://forums.techarena.in/windows-server-help/894745.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://forums.techarena.in/windows-serv ... 894745.htm</a> I have experienced it before - specifically over a VPN - and the reality was that the fix was so easy, I didn't invest time in troubleshooting. This was when I was contracting so customers would frequently take the quick fix over the permanent solution so they didn't have to pay my rates. I just gave the few users access to restart the spooler service on the server and gave them a shortcut to do so. The guy who took the account over when I left implemented a neater solution - he wrote a quick script that would ping across the VPN. If the connection went down, the script would continue pinging until it was successful again, then restart the spooler service. It was really only workable because they had a stable VPN and downtimes were infrequent. Google "printer offline restart spooler" and you'll get lots of suggested troubleshooting. I know this isn't a real answer but you're not alone in this problem and the workaround is simple.
Has anyone else noticed that starting today, youtube is no longer working? I have all of the updated plugins installed in the latest version of firefox, and I have tried youtube on three different machines today to no avail. All I get is the black box on the screen, and when I right click, it has "movie not loaded" grayed out, and "About Adobe Flash Player version xxxx" below that. Videos hosted by other sites seem to load up no problem, so I think it is just with youtube. Anyone else seeing this? EDIT: I just noticed that I CAN see youtube videos when they are embedded on this site, but not when I click the video to take me to see the same video on youtube's page- I get the same problem. Friggin' weird.
All seems good to me with Youtube, BD. Might want to try and update your Flash software or something. Also, try clearing your cache. You might have an old or corrupted player cached.
I had some of the same issues earlier on two different computers BD. Must have been a clog in the tubes.
As I just explained to BD in PM, I think it might have been a bad server farm update or corruption at YouTube. As you may or may not know, when you go to their website, they really point you to the closest source of their content, as they have many different sources of the same stuff. I imagine that BD's localized server farm had some sort of bad upgrade pushed out to it that caused the problem, which I didn't see/experience, as I'm hitting a different farm.
My chinese girl logged onto her M$ Outlook account a while back on the computer here. Since then every time I got to log onto mine the site is all in chinese, I can log in and the email section is all regular english but the parts of the website that arent are still in chinese. Changing the language in their options seems to only be for the email part that is already in english. Im guessing it will have something to do with cookies? Im on a mac using safari, not very good with Mac programs...
I've got a problem with Backup Exec that Googling couldn't help me fix. Edit: My google-fu is weak. Try this, if you're having the same issue.
I have a 13" Macbook Unibody (using AirPort with wireless N) that I connect to a Netgear router that was supplied by Comcast. I enabled WPA2 security, but I broadcast the signal and there is no MAC filtering. Everything works fine for about the first ten or twenty minutes, then Safari will no longer load pages. The status bar at the top will just freeze, like it was in the middle of loading and just paused. However, I never get a message that I have lost the connection. The strangest part is if I turn AirPort off and then on again it will work fine for another ten to twenty minutes. There're a lot of variables here (Safari, AirPort, the wireless router, the cable modem, and Comcast itself), and I didn't know if any had encountered the same problem. In addition, this is the only laptop that has been used on the connection.
Up until recently my computer running Windows 7 has been working pretty much flawlessly. The past few weeks or so, however, has seen quite a few problems pop up. It's beginning to act strangely sluggish, and sometimes the entire computer freezes with the red hard drive light staying on, not blinking or anything just frozen. When this happens, sometimes on restart the computer will get hung up at 3 different spots, seemingly random- 1. The very first BIOS screen, it will load the memory, say "Memory running in Flex Memory mode," and then freeze there without loading the hard drives. 2. The second screen, it will load everything that is normally on that screen and get to the blinking underscore. Half the time when it freezes here it does nothing, the other times it will tell me to load startup repair, which ends up failing (I'll post the diagnostic after this) 3. On the Windows logo screen, the logo will swirl around and then just hang until I restart. Every time this happens the hard drive light is a constant red, no blinking or anything. The error message for the Startup Repair is this: StartRepairOffline Sig 01: 6.1.7600.16385 02: 6.1.7600.16385 03: unknown 04: 503 05: AutoFailover 06: 1 07: BadDriver I'm led to believe it's a hard drive issue, but could it also be potentially caused by the power supply? It's a custom computer that's had most of the components replaced over the years, the 2 things that are the same are the motherboard (Gigabyte 965P-DS3) and power supply (OCZGXS700 700w), which at this point are about 4 years old. Are there any tests I can run to determine what is causing this/ what needs to be replaced?