I would suggest keeping an eye on task manager to see if you can tell what's getting overloaded. If you have integrated video that relies on your CPU for some video operations, then it might be getting over-taxed. That'll show up as your video app having high CPU %. Another thing to consider is whether your OS is…

Runnin-Ute2 is 110% right. Those guys are putting in their time with you as an investment, and not all investments pay off. I would say a definite and hugely-enormous "no" to the tip question.

Anyone know how to customize iPhone dialing rules for traveling internationally? I have many of my numbers entered as: +(country code)(number). But when I'm *in* the country, I want to remove the "+(country code)" part. For example, I have +507-6611-1234 for my panamanian friend. But when I'm in Panama, I just…

Or, use mame4iphone as an arcade emulator! [modmyi.com] I think it might not be actively developed anymore, and it's kinda kludgey, but still works!

one more thing i forgot to mention. My concern with the CNAME solution is that you're going to have to pick an IP to direct example.com to I think. And in that case, if 000webhost moves your site to a different IP, you're going to have to change it in DNS yourself and suffer some downtime (as opposed to the NS…

Hard to imagine any problems after a month or two. If you're changing it that often, I wouldn't worry about flushing (I just sometimes flush my camping filter that can stick around for years before a change). If you still feel the need to flush it, I'm not sure about the proportions, but that's the basic idea. Must…

Thanks RG. When you say "that's exactly what I did", do you mean the CNAME or the NS solution?

hmm, yeah, if your VPN software isn't configurable, I wonder about using virtual network adapters to split off traffic you don't want going through the VPN...

Yeah, I agree with bradski. Your relationship will probably become more fun and less formal after the trip. So, while it may be daunting, perhaps you could find a way to look forward to it too.

DNS question. I'm trying to host my site at 000webhost.com, while hosting my DNS elsewhere. I have a number of MX and subdomain CNAME records (for example, for forwarding a subdomain to ghs.google.com) that have nothing to do with 000webhost. I forward DNS requests for www.example.com to 000webhosts's nameservers:

I don't have any research to point you towards, but "people" say that filters can act as contamination sources if the bacteria really build up after a while. If there's chlorine in your water, then I wouldn't worry about it. Otherwise, it'll only start acting as a source after the bacteria really build up. That'll…

I wonder how it'll deal with all the bazillion annoying Outlook fields? Will it handle all fields, or just a subset?

i really wish the folks at mediachance would update oscar's file renamer [www.mediachance.com] to make it work with modern os's! or at least open its source. so simple, and so powerful. every other renamer i've come across blows in comparison.

surprised you're not using IMAP! just web-based for you then?

Interesting, thanks Whitson. I'll keep my eyes on it. Given the nightmare of migrating email clients, i'm going to hold off for now, but could happen sometime in the future if good reports about it start rolling in. I wonder if TB will improve search (again) at some point.

Gmail search is great. Thunderbird, however, isn't so great if you have 10 bazillion messages in your archive. It'd be great if TB, or someone else, wrote a plugin that would use Gmail's search instead of TB's local one. Google's processors are just a little faster than my puny laptop's.

iPhone 3G not supported. dooh.

CSFire has a number of advantages over Priv3, and Priv3 has one over CSFire (from my point of view anyway):

cool - thanks Mixiboi! I'll check it out. Looks good.

meh. [albosure.blogspot.com]