The Screaming Viking

It has been a semi annoying problem for a few weeks and I haven’t sat down to take a look at it until today.  For whatever reason, I had suddenly lost the ability to send email via my windows mobile 6.1 smart phone.  I assumed it was a port conflict between my web host and the account setup on the phone.  I checked things out and sure enough, there was a port change.  They changed their outgoing port to 26 instead of the standard 25.  While there is no obvious place in the setup that says “port”, you can change the port by putting <outgoing mail server address>:<port> in the outgoing mail server address line.  I did this and still couldn’t send…hrm…

I did some research online and found there is an MS knowledge base article about this here.  Apparently when the first sync fails, the account somehow gets corrupted.  By downloading and installing the CAB found here, the problems are suppose to be solved.  Sure enough…it did it for me.

Be aware, the phone will reboot immediately when installing this fix.  No warning or confirmation box what so ever.

This time of year with the current weather situation, a few hours without power is a mild problem…but if it actually extended a day or more it could get awfully serious.  If you don’t have electric heat you surely have an electric fan to circulate the heat.

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WEST FARGO – Xcel Energy crews are responding to an outage affecting an estimated 2,000 or more customers here, according to a company news release. The outage area extends north of 13th Avenue South in West Fargo from Sheyenne Street into Fargo along 45th Street, including the Industrial Park. Crews are patrolling the area to determine the problem and make necessary repairs.

Xcel Energy is experiencing problems with the message customers are receiving when they report this outage. Customers are getting messages indicating the outage may extend for several days. This message is wrong. Xcel Energy is working to remove the erroneous message.

Xcel Energy will provide more information and an estimated restoration time once crews determine the specific problem.

yeah, the metallica guitar hero commercials are kind of cool.

A woman is going on in front of some committee about her personal experience with carrying a gun…or lack there of.