I’ve been fighting a home networking problem for a couple months. The symptoms were strange, though, and the solution was even stranger… First, let’s consider the network. I’ve got a Cisco-Linksys wireless B/G/N router with four Gigabit Ethernet ports on it. I’ve also have a couple Cisco SD2008T 8 Port Desktop 10/100/100 Gigabit switches, but [...]
A Lost Address Book Window Pane in Thunderbird
I wrote recently to answer a question about how to create an address book in Thunderbird. That triggered long-time subscriber Chet Norris to write about his frustration: hi Terry just read your article on creating an address book which i did and named it ‘friends.’ i put all my friends addys in there and now [...]
Getting Started With Usenet News
Usenet, the Internet-based distributed bulletin board system with over 110,000 separate forums, is still alive and well — over 30 years after it was created in 1980. What do I mean by "distributed bulletin board system?" Think of it as a forum that is hosted on many, many, many different computers, each displaying some or [...]
The Passing of a Tech Giant
You’ve undoubtedly already heard the big news of last week — the world has lost Steve Jobs, the computer visionary who drove, directly and indirectly, much of existance and progress of the personal computer industry. Steve Jobs died at the age of 59, after suffering from pancreatic cancer. For most of the history of Apple, [...]
Adding Another Address Book to Thunderbird
Subscriber James Biddle wrote asking for help with a problem he was fighting with Thundebird. Here, I’ve just started using Thunderbird, and I’m already getting questions that assume I know what I’m doing. Fortunately, it worked… I have a question about T-bird. I currently have 3 address books, Friends, Personal Addresses, Collected Addresses. I want [...]
Reader Feedback on the Thunderbird Email Program
After my articles in my recent email newsletters, in which I wrote about dropping Eudora OSE and switching to Thunderbird, I received several emails from current Thunderbird users. In one case, it was a question about something the reader couldn’t do. In this case, subscriber Richard Fuller wrote to give me his thoughts and complaints [...]
I’m Even Happier With Thunderbird
With another week of Thunderbird as my email program of choice, not only am I still happy, I’m happier. One of the things I forgot to mention last week is that Thunderbird is a lot faster than Eudora OSE is/was. Of course, that came in part because Thunderbird continues to get development, bug fixes and [...]
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