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]]> http://www.jimmywoodard.com/icom-ic-746/feed/ 0 http://www.jimmywoodard.com/missing-some-emails/ http://www.jimmywoodard.com/missing-some-emails/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:29:07 +0000 Jimmywoodard http://www.jimmywoodard.com/?p=144 Are you missing email? You may not be the only one. An article came up today on yahoo news about some Hotmail users reporting missing emails. Here’s the article from Yahoo! News:

“Please help me get them back,” wrote one user under the moniker ‘Zacgore’ in a post dated Saturday. “All my kids’ info and pictures are in there!”

Others complain that the majority of the e-mail in their inboxes was sent to their deleted mail folders instead. It is unclear from the posts how widespread the problem is. The free Web-based e-mail service is the world’s most used with about 360 million users globally, according to comScore Inc.

Windows Live support technicians have said in numerous threads that the Hotmail team is aware of the problem and working on a fix.

“At this point it appears to be a limited issue, and Microsoft is working with individual users who are impacted. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers,” Microsoft spokeswoman Catherine Brooker said in statement Saturday. She declined to disclose what caused the glitch. Microsoft’s forum contains 476 pages of complaints about lost and deleted e-mails that date back to early November.”

Within a few day, Microsoft should have everything up and running smoothly. In the meantime, switch to Gmail.

Just Kidding, but you should try Gmail out… I’ve been a proud gmail user for many years now and I can safely say the switchover was flawless and I’ve never had any problems with Gmail.

Here is what Microsoft Online Safety says about Strong Passwords:

Keys to password strength: length and complexity

An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.

• Whenever possible, use at least 14 characters or more.
• The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better.
• Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often.

Create a strong password you can remember

There are many ways to create a long, complex password. Here is one way that may make remembering it easier:

Test your password with a password checker

A password checker evaluates your password’s strength automatically. Try our secure password checker.

Protect your passwords from prying eyes

• The easiest way to “remember” passwords is to write them down.
  It is okay to write passwords down, but keep them secure. See 5 tips to keep your passwords secret.

Common password pitfalls to avoid

Cyber criminals use sophisticated tools that can rapidly decipher passwords.

Avoid creating passwords using:

• Dictionary words in any language.
  Words in all languages are vulnerable.
• Words spelled backwards, common misspellings, and abbreviations.
  Words in all languages are vulnerable.
• Sequences or repeated characters.
  Examples: 12345678, 222222, abcdefg, or adjacent letters on your keyboard (qwerty).
• Personal information.
  Your name, birthday, driver’s license, passport number, or similar information

Wikipedia Definition of CD-R: A CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Phillips and Sony. CD-R is a “Write Once Read Many” (WORM) optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session…”

However, when the disc finished burning, instead of getting the normal chime that iTunes makes when the disc is finished, I got an error message! AN ERROR MESSAGE! “The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred.”  I figured… “Maybe that disc was bad” so I took the next disc in the package and tried again.

–No Cigar!–

So, I decided to try a Memorex CD-R (That’s what I usually get) and it worked again! I wondered if anyone else had this problem, so I did a quick google search and found this thread over at Apple; apparently, other people are having the same problem. I’m headed to the Apple Store on wednesday, so I’ll have to ask why this is happening.