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Getting past email settings in DNN5+ with a google apps mail account

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

DNN Just installed 5+ using the web installer from MS. Was stuck on the mail settings and I use a gmail smtp.

So the correct way to get around it was to enter smtp.gmail.com:587  http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

I tried no port  with SSL checked and appended :465 with SSL checked so :587 with SSL checked and the whole email account address.

That at least gets me on to the next steps.

False rumors could teach you lots

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Here is an idea.

What if you didn’t trust someone to keep a secret?

Just tell them something totally false about someone else.

Then sit back and wait to hear back from the person you spread the rumor about.

When you do. Explain how you were just testing the other person’s discretion.

Oh…

I guess that won’t work either. Then no one will ever trust what you say.

Somehow things  always makes so much more sense when you wake up from a dream.

I dreamed I was a Pundit

Friday, November 20th, 2009

I woke up from this incredible dream.

They started calling me up, and started to pay me to go on TV. People  wanted to know what I think about things. They even cared about what I said.

It was amazing. I was making thousands of dollars a day, just for having the opinions I have.  Just have an opinion, and all of a sudden you are in the money. Doesn’t matter if you know what you are talking about. Just having media attention makes your opinion worth something.

Like I said, it was a dream.

BUT it made me wonder…

How do people get to be pundits?

I already know how to have my opinion, so call me up and hire me.

I am waiting.

Vista Folder Views Frustration (solution)

Friday, November 20th, 2009

After wasting literally hours, changing folder views again and again and again,  in Windows Vista.

Views never seem to adhere to your preferences,  as they had in XP.

If you are used to applying a specific view, such as details,  in explorer, you have to be frustrated by it not working as you expect.
I came across this great explanation, which actually does clarify the problem and solve the issue.

from http://www.computerperformance.co.uk

… and then you can get back to you can work again

The green-ness of getting to sleep

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Not quite sure what the impact is, but I have noticed that the way lots people get there kids to take a nap or go to sleep,is to drive them around in the car.
I wonder what the cumulative energy consumption is for getting kids to sleep.
Plus taking them to school everyday. No one can walk.

I would imagine that no one even thinks of this, it just happens.