MACBOOKAIR: Email frustration

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Intermittent Problem Sending Email on Verizon FIOS?

PLATFORM = Mac Book Air v1.1
OS = OSX 10.6.5ISP = Verizon FIOS
CLIENT = Thunderbird 3.1.7
FREQUENCY = Intermittent

SCOPE:

All 1and1 accounts are impacted.

Yahoo, GMail, and BlueHost accounts are unaffected.

SYMPTOMS:

THUNDERBIRD attempts to send email.

It either works relatively quickly or eventually fails.

When it fails, the status is EITHER “looking up smtp.1and1.com” OR “sending message”.

Then it never completes.

COMMENT:

It feels like 1and1’s not working correctly.

I can switch network and DNS settings and have the same problem.

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IPAD: LASTPASS works differently on IPAD

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Unfortunately, LASTPASS is installed that appears to be a front end to SAFARI. On the NETBOOK and MACBOOKAIR1, it integrates with all browsers. Not sure I like the result.

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LUGGABLE: Ready to put Linux on LUGGABLE

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Backed up and away we go.

UBUNTU10

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ASUSNETBOOK: The saga continues; why I hate WINDOZE

Saturday, December 18, 2010

FROM A WINDOWS7 SUPPORT FORUM

>reinkefj; Hello and welcome to the forums.

thanks

>type ping 192.168.2.102 (that’s you)

times out (?)

>ping 192.168.2.1 (that’s your default gateway / inside edge of your router)

first ping works and the rest time out (?)

>ping 64.233.169.99 (that’s google’s ip)

time out

Additional facts:

(1) Thru up another wifi with some spare hardware to the same fios gateway. With a different wifi “name”, works fine.

(2) ASUS support says to “recover” (i.e., wipe the machine and start over). Seems like burning the bard to get rid of the mouse.

(3) Have a MACBOOKAIR that just came back from being fixed. It works fine on both wifis.

So I’m “working”, but befuddled?

Perhaps the “security fixes” that came down automagically from Microsoft, triggered a “Home Networking” setting, that then WINDOWS7STARTER could not fix.

I guess the smartest thing is to “burn the barn” and start over.

Luckily there’s NOTHING valuable on the machine.

Your thoughts?

And, thanks for the response. You beat the ASUS support person’s canned reply.

fjohn

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MACBOOKAIR: OSX10.6.3 UPGRADE wiped VZACCESSMANAGER

Friday, December 17, 2010

Last night’s upgrade to OSX 10.6.3 took about an hour, give or take. And, everything looks OK. Sort of.

(The only thing I noticed at the time was that (a) the application icon and huge NBD and that (b) IPHOTO is still broken. (Argh!)

But today, I noticed that VZAccess Manager v7.0.5 (2424j) for the Verizon Wireless USB720 is GONE!

Argh!

Another download!

Sigh!

But, now I wonder what else was nuked?

Sure “Quality is Job#1”!

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Not without difficulty, VZACCESSMANAGER downloaded, installed, and a required reboot … (Why?) …

VZAccess Manager v7.0.5 (2424j) for your Verizon Wireless USB720

And, it’s different.

Argh!

Change control and version control and the vendors do what they want!

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ASUSNETBOOK: Still broken

Friday, December 17, 2010

• Found a site that told me how to edit the “<space>2” out of the Home Network name. (You know, that thing you can’t create without a more expensive version of WINDOZE7!)

• ASUSNETBOOK connected just fine to the SPUHIL wireless guest wifi. (Argh! So it’s only the definition of my main home wifi network, that is screwed up.)

• NO reply to the post I left on http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-networking/

• NO reply on the ASUS support board http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM20101217034352241&SID=

Argh!

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MACBOOKAIR: Still trying to come back to where I was

Thursday, December 16, 2010

• IPHOTO still broken.

• Pages, Keynote, and Numbers still down; looking for the <synonym for procreation> disks.

• Migrated off APPLEMAIL onto THUNDERBIRD.

• Migrated off FIREFOX onto CHROME.

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MACBOOKAIR: The factory wipe nuked OSX 10.6 and the package

Sunday, December 12, 2010

… and they want me to rebuy it!

(You have to be kidding.)

Argh!

They will replace Snow Leopard because the machine went in with it and came out without it.

But they want me to rebuy the iWorks and iLife!

Same logic should apply.

Argh!

I hate computers. And, their enablers.

It’s either a product and it’s all my responsibilities. Or, it’s licensed, and my serial number is all that I should need.

Argh!

Now, I gotta find those disks.

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MACBOOKAIR: Coming back slowly

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The adventure continues.

My DROPBOX strategy has a flaw. For some reason, a significant portion of my PDF files were deleted. (No idea why?) Clearly, sharing among machines is a winner. BUTT (there’s always a big but) I need a ‘vaulting strategy’. The deletion could have been disastrous. But, it took four hours to recover the files. And, I immediately made a copy. So, I need a synchronization strategy for each platform. Basically a synchronization utility that copies the latest files to the sharing directory and updates back in. Have to think about that.

“Manifests” for each machine are obviously needed. I have to start that now on the other platforms. Need to have the link to the source and possibly the last distribution.

Need a data review and archiving strategy.

In next year’s storage plan, I need to have it monthly archive.

No need to save all the ‘stuff’ I am saving. Argh!

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MACBOOKAIR: Online, but not back to where I was

Saturday, December 11, 2010

OK, it came back from Apple wiped.

❶ Lost the Snow Lepord OSX, Iworks, and Ilife upgrade. Have to find the distribution disks. (That was last year. Know how much stuff has flowed under the proverbial bridge?)

❷ CARBONITE did its job. All my data is back. (Not software. Ouch!)

❸ DROPBOX put an extra data backup in its folder. (Data back up redundancy. Love it.)

❹ GOFLEX drive did NOT back up the applications directory. (ARGH! Not recommending that any time soon.)

❺ What ever clipboard manager I was happily using B.A. (before Apple mucked it) is lost in the mists of memory. (Note to self: keep your own manifest of what’s on the machine! Argh!)

❻ Dumped Apple’s lame MAIL Client. Deployed THUNDERBIRD3. (PIA to redefine all those accounts. Would have had to do it for APPLEMAIL. So bite the bullet.)

❼ Blogs have been neglected and irregular during this adventure.

❽ Old APPLEMAIL archives are “lost”. Argh!

❾ Oh, and thanks Apple for the “Thanks for purchasing your Mac.” message. Argh!

❿ Old system of accounts on the MACBOOKAIR is wiped. Guess I’ll just forget about “separation” of USER and ADMINISTRATOR roles. Argh!

The adventure continues.

p.s., I dumped APPLE’s software for Open Office.

p.p.s., Started a “manifest” of stuff I put on like NVU.

Argh!

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