Interestingly enough one of my more "senior" clients forgot their original 10 year old MSN password. After a few days "battling it out" with MSN and all the usual verification tests - for the innocents involved - MSN REFUSED to hand over the account with either a new or an old password to the rightful account owner!

I have 3 hotmail/livemail accounts, 1 Gmail account and my own Exchange Server with 50 or so email addresses (from 5 Domains). Some interesting facts from my digital life follow. - My hotmail accounts have never been compromised (1 of my hotmail accounts is over 12 years old) - my gmail account has never been compromised - I pick-up email from my 4 cloud accounts above via POP. I leave no emails in the cloud and seldom access my online accounts. - the only email addresses i've ever had compromised were both "unique" and jacked from The US Bank (e.g. us.bank@oneofmydomains.com) and the Bill Paying company my city council uses for their utility payments (e.g. water@oneofmydomains.com) Shocking I know but the "secure" online Bill Payer lied and denied and obfuscated the compromise and the US Bank admitted tit and were "looking into it"!! Needless to say those two compromised emails were changed within 2 minutes.

Me too - born in 1954! I've been "Small Biz. NetWk Support" since 1982. I'm a one man show and the way we keep the quality of our work up and our prices down is that we don't hire employees and we don't pay squat to no landlords! I've never gone out of my way to learn much 'nix and I integrate Macs onto Windows Networks all the time. I don't care - throw it at me - I'll make it dance! As of this years school season it took two weeks for me to get booked through till May next year. I've had a couple of customers over 15 years. My "home based" IT work is just spare change! MS Windows Networking worked (and continues to) for me. I was in "food and beverage" prior to 1982 - Connaught Hotel, Maxim's classy places and I'd still always go back to being a Waiter without a care in the world - but IT Networking pays mo' beddah! Business is great, Life's terrific and people are wonderful....

I love my Lumix DMC-ZS7 Leica Lens, 16x Zoom/12x Optical, HDMI, Tons of features and auto modes or, just use the "Automatic Intelligent/Ai" mode. Great Battery life, GPS, Large 3inch screen. Bought it at Costco for about $300 US. That was 6 months ago. It's probably $200 by now!

There's a sig out there by someone in Slashdot land attributed to Henry Ford: If i'd 've asked my customers what they wanted they'd 've said "a faster horse"...

This is Spam! Citi, on behalf of Sears, has decided to spam me daily with notifications of my balance due. This despite my "opt-in" to be to be notified monthly and the fact that my "opt-in" request was working "once a month" until last week. And, No. I am not overdue, late, in arrears or in any other negative Citi space! I did bring this spam to Citi's attention. They replied that my email was forwarded to "someone who doesn't give a flying fuck" although, not in so many words! And, the next "higher-up the food chainer" hasn't replied with substantive apologies or solutions at all. As usual, Citi doesn't give a flying fuck about the individual. I shall have to report this as Spam and hope they hit the SORBS list. Please, use "Spamgrabber" with your Outlook 2007/10 email client and report ALL Spam from your financial institutions. Who cares if it isn't clearly Spam? Just use the principle of "Balanced Reciprocity"! I have no idea, for those using other email clients, how you easily report Spam without an add-in like this ??.

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That's OK. MS can just "lock'er down" like some of the competition, make 'er proprietary, claim IP, hire the codebreakers, turn-the-tables on the courts over accessibility and O/S binding and no-one can touch the MBR. Not allowed. But wait..... the MS whiners...

Second. Don't want my do-re-mi going to a war overseas. Now, if they would just take care of the infrastructure, make it affordable to be healthy, house the homeless... and hold their heads up proud and high. Then, we might take a bus over the border for a half-day. Maybe.

Lemme see now; I pay good tax money for the benefit of militarists and government 9 to fivers. I have a share in being their employer. If it were me I'd fire the lot of their sorry asses. Not 'cos they're on Pron sites but because their against my company's IT policy. Oh, wait. I'm Canadian and only get to pay taxes without a vote. Here's Pron: Let me pull my pants down a little lower! Darn! will one of you Americans please fire them for me. Thanks.