Technical jollity on computers and the intarweb...

[caddyman]

As I type, Furtle's *BRAND NEW* PC is downloading the remnants of the current Warcraft upgrade. For some reason it's taking a while longer than anticipated - I suspect that at some point we will have to muck about with router and firewall settings to clear it up a little. Oddly enough it didn't seem to take this long when we loaded all the stuff on to my PC, but I guess there's always the chance that someone somewhere is dowloading The Titanic and snarfing all my bandwidth.

What I do know is that there is precious little left for me right now while this last gig and a half come down the line. Still it reckons that it's nearly finished, so maybe I will be able to get to websites unimpeded shortly.

We have been held back somewhat by the mutual jealousy between the computers. The iMAc is no longer connected to the Internet, but it is connected to the Mac Note Book via firewire and bluetooth and stuff and the Notebook in turn is connected to the web. I believe the iMac is relaying instructions to the Notebook and that the Notebook is carrying them out. What is happening is this: we have arranged matters so that both PCs operate as a home network so we can send files to each other and both use the printer instead of having to pass memory sticks around. This worked perfectly until the Notebook was woken up.That machine then proceeded to grab and claim the same IP address as Furtle's new PC. The youthful vigour of the latter was, of course, no match for the wiley competence of the Apple machine and we found ourselves with two machines that would not talk to the Internet and a home network that wouldn't network. We were then trapped by our own firewall. That is sorted, but I figure that there is still a setting or two that needs tweaking on the firewall to speed it up, but that's a job for another night.

The download has completed and in less time than it takes to report on these shenanigans, the update has installed itself and I believe that the game is now ready to play. I hope it's ready to play.

In other tech news, I have given up on Thunderbird and, reluctantly, have gone back to Outlook. At least that will work with multiple email accounts.

Tech, eh? Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Comments

[romney.livejournal.com]

It's news to me that TB can't cope with multiple accounts.
Have you tried teh "Add Account" button?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Yes. Tried and failed. Got fed up and went back to Outlook tonight.

I was also annoyed by its seeming inability to learn what is and is not spam! Still, I like Firefox (said he using Chrome).

[phil99.livejournal.com]

TB deals with multiple email accounts just fine - pipsytip deals with 2 or 3 GMail accounts over IMAP through it. Is there anything specific that doesn't work in your experience?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well simply, I couldn't get TB to recognise the second account at all - Outlook took it straight away and downloaded 3 weeks of email from it that TB wouldn't touch.

The details are all there, it just ignores them!

As to the way it handles junk; it seems that it has decided that anything that isn't addressed directly to me is junk and refuses to be told otherwise. I'm on a couple of mailing lists, so this is a touch awkward!

I couldn't get it to do wjhat I wanted on my old machine and it's no better on the new one!

I'm using Outlook from Office 2007 and that seems a little more stable than the version on my old machine, so I reckon I'll just stick with that or webmail for now!

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Very strange, I use TB to manage several accounts and have had no problems ... though the setup can be a tad arcane. The spam filter is great but does need some training ... just right-click items that it has marked as "junk" and instruct it to mark them as "not junk" ... should be fine.