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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Dumb and Dumber PC problems | ITworld

Dumb and Dumber PC problems

When something goes terribly wrong with your computer, never forget that the real problem might be sitting in the chair in front of the display.

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July 6, 2010, 05:43 PM — 

So, there I was, trying to get an e-mail client, Evolution, set up on my faithful old ThinkPad R61 laptop and I was going nowhere fast. I'd decided to use Mint 9, the latest version of an Ubuntu Linux-based distribution and that had all gone perfectly well. So, why was a simple e-mail set up giving me fits? After hours of tinkering with it, and more swearing than I usually do in a month, I sat back, had a drink, and ... remembered that I had reset that particular e-mail account's password back in June.

I was such an idiot.

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