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Can’t See Your Site or Get E-Mail – Frontier?

by Scott | Oct 25, 2010 | Computers - How to, Web Hosting

Friday morning here in Portland, a web hosting customer could not check their email without an error saying that their mail server wasn’t found, and they couldn’t see their own website either. Initial attempts to help her proved fruitless, and after trying...

Don’t Leave All Mail on Server

by Scott | Aug 30, 2010 | Computers - How to, Web Hosting

If you leave your mail on the server, then it will eventually fill up, and when people try to e-mail or reply, they’ll get “the mailbox is over quota” or something similar as a bounce-back message. When that happens, you are going to have to either...

Where is Windows Movie Maker?

by Scott | Oct 26, 2009 | Computers - How to, Microsoft

This weekend, I took some video (of my son being blatantly facemasked with no penalty, and then gang tackled In flag football with a minor 5 yarder), and I wanted to share that video with some other parents. (Yes that’s the kind of guy I am 😉 Anyway, I just...

Comcast Blocking Mail to Comcast Addresses

by Scott | Apr 27, 2009 | Computers - How to, Local news, Technology News, Web Hosting

I’ve had my share of issues with Comcast in the past, and this one is just as frustrating. Just like many of my issues with them so far, it’s completely inconsistent from market to market, so their support department seems to know nothing about it. Anyone...

Windows Vista for Christmas – Yuck

by Scott | Dec 20, 2008 | Computers - How to, Microsoft, Vista

I’m not ashamed to admit that I have avoided Windows Vista since it first came out. Although I’m a Microsoft Action Pack subscriber and received my first version of Vista well over a year ago, I’ve continued to function in an XP environment not only...

Stop XP Auto Update Reboots with Group Policy Editor

by Scott | Jul 23, 2008 | Computers - How to

Late last night I added some notes to a MS notepad document on a laptop, and I neglected to save. This morning, Microsoft rebooted my computer (for my safety) and once again I lost some valuable notes. I remember writing about this once before before, so I looked...