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HowTO Send and Receive Email Without an Email Client

Reff:  HowTO Send and Receive Email Without an Email Client Receiving Email Go to command prompt. This can be done as following: Start –> Run –> type “cmd” in the box –>OK Telnet to the mail server (POP3 Server) and use your username password to login: telnet pop3server.nirlog.com 110 The server will reply like this: +OK <2324.1138330846@pop3server.nirlog.com> Login to the mail server: user username The server acknowledges with: +OK Now input your password: pass password If the password is correct the server responds with: +OK Check your emails: To see how many emails you have in your box use the command: list This will list out the emails you have in your inbox: +OK 1 1623 2 1601 3 1596 1, 2, 3 are the email ids and the 1623, 1601, 1596 are size of respective emails in bytes. To read your emails you need to use command retr email id . E.g. if you want to read the first email then you should: retr 1 To ...

Portable USB Sofftware : A Melange

From Méprisant My intention was to list all the free USB software I could find. I realized that was insane. I am now going to restrict this list to the software that I actively use OR those that I have heard of. The software listed below are all free (except Pass2Go). Email : Portable Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 with Enigmail and GPG Portable Thunderbird 1.0.7 JBMail 3.2 : From the website "JBMail is a compact and portable secure e-mail client. The software has been designed for simplicity, security and "online mailbox access" meaning that mail is manipulated remotely and NOT stored locally. JBMail supports POP3, SMTP, SSL / TLS and all essential mail client features - but it is not "just another" mail client." Screenshots are on the linked page. Mobility Email : This is built around the Portable Thunderbird code by John Haller (of Portable Firefox etc. fame) . It includes extensions to access Hotmail, Yahoo!, Lycos and MailDotCom. It also includes OpenPGP enc...

$6000 to Anyone Who Can Dual Boot OSX and Windows XP on New Intel-Macs

Recent attempts at installing Windows XP have left users scratching their heads. Hopefully a $6000 prize will inspire creative thinking InformationWeek is reporting that a Mac user has launched a contest in which a prize of $6000 and higher, will be awarded to the first person or group that can successfully install Windows XP on the new Intel Core Duo based Macs. Previously it was thought that installing Windows XP would be easy but Apple had changed the way the new Macs start up by replacing the traditional BIOS with a new firmware architecture called EFI or Extensible Firmware Interface . So far attempts at installing Windows XP using traditional means have been unsuccessful. The contest hopes to give enthusiasts a big incentive to get a dual boot Mac working. No virtualization is allowed and the contest requires that OS selection must be available at startup.

Multiple Risks of Surgery Drug Seen

From LATimes.com A drug widely used during heart surgery to control bleeding doubles the risk of kidney damage, forcing an estimated 10,000 patients onto dialysis each year, according to a study from a group calling for surgeons to abandon its use. Known as aprotinin, the drug also increases the risk of heart attack by 48%, heart failure by 109% and stroke by 181%, the study of about 4,400 patients reports today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Most spam coming from the U.S.

CNET News.com Almost a quarter of the world's spam in the last three months of 2005 was sent from computers in the United States, according to U.K. antivirus company Sophos. While the U.S. still tops the chart, the latest figures mark the first time the country accounts for less than one quarter of all spam relayed, Sophos said. The decrease is a continuing trend. Last October, 26.3 percent of all spam sent from April through September last year was sent from the U.S., a significant drop from 41.5 percent a year earlier, Sophos said. The top 12 spam relaying countries, according to Sophos, are as follows: 1. United States, 24.5 percent 2. China, 22.3 percent 3. South Korea, 9.7 percent 4. France, 5 percent 5. Canada, 3 percent 6. Brazil, 2.6 percent 7. Spain, 2.5 percent 8. Austria, 2.4 percent 9. Taiwan, 2.1 percent 10. Poland, 2 percent 10. Japan, 2 percent 12. Germany, 1.8 percent

A Real Rocket Bike

For rocket designer Tim Pickens, a rocket on two wheels is the next best thing to a spaceship. "At heart we're a bunch of guys wanting to go to space, and we can't afford it," says Pickens of himself and his rocket-scientist brethren, most of whom never get to ride their own creations. "Basically it's my own subscale space program." Pickens, president of rocket-design firm Orion Propulsion, created his first rocket bike with fellow speed enthusiast Glenn May by bolting a 35-pound-thrust rocket engine to Pickens's bike—enough power for a gentle push down the road. That project didn't kill anyone, so Pickens got himself another bike and stepped it up, attaching a 200-pound-thrust engine capable of blasting him from 0 to 60 miles an hour in five seconds—fast enough to beat a Porsche in a drag race. In fact, the rocket bike employs the same hybrid rocket technology as the suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, whose propulsion system Pickens helped de...

Greenhouse gases blamed for making 2005 hottest year to date

LAST year was the warmest the world has experienced since records began more than a century ago, the United States space agency, NASA, revealed last night. Researchers have calculated that 2005 saw the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since the late 1800s. They believe it beats the previous record, set in 1998, when El Niño, a natural phenomenon caused by shifts in prevailing winds and ocean currents that occurs every two to ten years and brings unusually warm seas in the eastern Pacific and cooler waters in the west, boosted global temperatures. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that because no direct data was available in the Arctic, analysts had to estimate temperatures from nearby weather stations. As a result it was not possible to say with certainty that 2005 had been the hottest year yet, but he added: "I'm reasonably confident it was".