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In the event that you’re unfortunate enough to trigger the message in your mail client (either due to invalid password attempts or spamming the Get Mail button), the fix is fairly simple. Head to: https://www.google.com/a/yourwebsite.com/UnlockCaptcha …and replace yourwebsite.com with your actual website name. Regular GMail customers who trigger that issue can head to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha instead. [...]

March 28th: It started with a C&D (cease and desist) letter on their forums… Daniel_K: We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages [...]

Nov 10 2009 note: If you’re using Windows 7, do not try to install the hotfix – it’s for Vista only. However, you should be able to enter the registry key under Windows 7 – I did, and there weren’t any negative effects I could see although I have no idea if it’s providing any [...]

MTS (Manitoba Telecom Services) is one of the largest providers of both high-speed and dial-up internet access in Manitoba. Unfortunately, if you use them, and try to send mail through a mail server other than their own, you might run into problems.

If there is one company that could really compete with Microsoft in the operating system market, it’s probably Google. Whether it would be worth it for them or not, I don’t know, and I would imagine they’d probably have to go with a Google flavor of Linux, but they do have a few things going [...]

Before I begin, a little primer on how wireless internet access works here in Manitoba. The ISP (internet service provider) puts a big honking antennae up somewhere. You then have an antennae or “dish” installed on your roof/garage/tower, or another area high enough that something like a bus passing your house won’t knock out your [...]

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