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Moving forward post-divorce

eleslie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:26:18 -0800

I have picked myself up, dusted myself off, and am ready to move forward post-divorce. Help me find books I can read to help me through that process. More details enclosed. After 20 years of marriage my husband unexpectedly divorced me. I was bereft for awhile but am now focusing on moving forward with my life. I am looking for advice on uplifting books that will help me to think through who I want to be, what I want to do, and how I want to spend my future. Someone suggested "Eat, Pray, Love" which I read and enjoyed but I am actually looking for something a little deeper. I am goal-oriented and introspective and am seriously thinking of going away fo several days to think about/meditate/journal regarding this new life I want to build for myself. What books should I take with me?

Perhaps unnecessary background info on me: I am 49, mother of one, stepmom of two, grandmother of seven (all of whom live nearby), have a good job I enjoy, so I am not looking to pack up and move away. I am focusing more on the journey of my soul to a new place rather than moving my body across the country to find myself.

Thanks HiveMind.

How can I forward a call to two cell phones?

PercussivePaul — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:05:53 -0800

My new apartment's buzzer works by dialing a phone number. My girlfriend and I both live in the apartment. We each have cell phones, no land line, and the buzzer will only accept one number. What should we do? Options:
1. Get a land line for the apartment. Don't want to because it would cost money and we'd have no other use for it.

2. Route to one of our phones. This should work fine under normal circumstances but what if the chosen person is not home, and their phone is dead? We could make it work but it has the potential to be inconvenient.

3. Both our cell phones ring, and whoever picks up first answers the call. I think this is the ideal solution but I have no idea how to implement this since the system apparently can't do it on its own. There must be services out there that would let us do this. Anything reliable, cheap, and available in Vancouver BC? (Both of us have cell service from Telus and have basic simple phones.)

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Liver — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:27:58 -0800

Should I try to take back our Exchange server from the inappropriate uses? I'm an IT worker in a small local government IT shop. We have roughly 250 - 300 users. Recently I've been taking a more active roll in the management of our spam firewall and Exchange server, and have made some interesting observations.

I am not shocked, but I am thoroughly appalled at the amount of personal email that travels through our server. It turns out that the top users of email resources aren't the important decision-makers and managers, but the lowest level employees with very little legitimate work use for email. For example, the #1 email user in our entire organization is a receptionist that answers phones for the tax department. What are these emails? Albino moose pictures, prayer forwards, angel pictures, chain forward, inspirational videos, and the like.

This is just one person, but there are a hundred more out there that either through ignorance of apathy are misusing the government email server as their own personal email provider.

Part of the problem, I think, is that most of these people are not computer & internet savvy. Their email address here is the first one they've ever had, and they have zero concept of what is and isn't appropriate email. To them, there is just EMAIL. Dancing baby forwards are just as legitimate as a message from their boss, or a member of the public seeking help.

As I see it I have a few options.

1) Do nothing. Accept that people are using county resources for their personal business and try to minimize the impact on legitimate users. This is the easy way out, and the way we got into this situation to begin with.

2) Bring the hammer down. Get aggressive with what comes and goes. Block all images by default. Train spam filters to block inappropriate emails. Tighten disk quotas to noose-like levels on "regular" users. Tell users to get hotmail/gmail/yahoo accounts for personal use. Expect resistance.

3) Something in between.

I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone who may have come into a poorly managed IT department and had to affect changes to both the technology and the culture side of problems similar to this.

How to make a clean break without getting lost?

pantheON — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:34:00 -0800

How can I migrate my blog to a new domain without upsetting its Google ranking or breaking third party links? I've been running a blog on the Blogger service for the last year or so. In that time, numerous other publications (electronic and print) have linked/referred to the blog. Some may have linked to particular articles, but I'm less concerned about these links.

I am giving the site a facelift which includes moving it off of Blogger to its own domain. Is it possible to do this without upsetting the sites ranking in Google or breaking links from third parties? I do not want to have to start over in terms of my Google ranking. I would appreciate any advice on how to best accomplish this migration with those two goals in mind.

How do I make one X server display everything the same as another X server?

mathlete — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:42:51 -0800

How do I make one X server display everything the same as another X server? I have an X server with two screens, say foo:0.0 and foo:0.1. I have another X server with two screens, say bar:0.0 and bar:0.1.

I want screen bar:0.0 to display everything on screen foo:0.1. In other words, if anything is sent to foo:0.1, it should also be sent to bar:0.0. I'd prefer not to change either X configuration.

Is this possible? If so, what's the best way to do this?

.forward foribidden?

kamelhoecker — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:39:49 -0800

Web hosting company tells me that they don't allow me to setup email forwarders to external addresses (So I can make bob@mydomain.com get sent to bob@gmail.com). Their reason? If any spam comes through the forwarder, they will get blamed and labeled as spammers. True or BS? I'm moving an organization to a new web host. There are about 25 people who have addresses on the domain, and we previously would simply forward this mail to their primary email account on gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.

I've been super-pleased with this web host so far, but on the email forwarder cpanel page, the following note appears:

Warning: Setting your forwarder to external email addresses that aren't hosted by [webhost name removed] can result in your email account being blacklisted. Forward only to email addresses hosted by us.

I emailed them, saying that I was just forwarding and I hope this isn't a problem. They replied, that it was in fact a problem, and that I shouldn't do this as any spam that went through the forwards, would appear to be coming from them and they would get blacklisted.

I'm quite sure that ISPs only look at the origin of the spam, not every server that handes it along they way. If that is correct? Any good references I can send these guys?

(normally i would just say, 'oh well' another crap webhost and go elsewhere. But, other than this problem, i'm really happy with their service.)

How can I get a Trinibagonian phone number and forward it to an American phone?

Mo Nickels — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:40:18 -0800

Is there a cheap or free way to setup a phone number in Trinidad and Tobago and have it forward to an American number? Skype and Grand Central don't have numbers in that area code (868). A dozen other vaguely similar services don't, either. The goal is:

Folks in TnT call a number 868-XXX-XXXX. That number automatically redirects the call to an American number XXX-XXX-XXXX. The forward/transfer is invisible to the callers and costs them no more than a local call or is cost-free.

The American phone number is a long-standing one that can't be changed. The Trinibagonian number can be anything, as long as it's a local or free call for anyone in that market. It doesn't have to be an Internet solution. American toll-free numbers are not free in TnT, so getting an American toll-free number doesn't do the trick. Trinidad and Tobago are not participants in the ITU's universal toll-free number system (sometimes known as the Universal International Freephone Numbers).

Can I have my phone automatically forward incoming text messages to my email?

Maia — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:56:21 -0800

Can I have my phone automatically forward incoming text messages to my email?

Delete/disable a User account but still forward their email?

bartleby — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:59:34 -0800

Server2003/Exchange - can I disable an account but still have its mail delivered/forwarded? In the past, when an employee left, they left and all the lights were turned out for their network/domain access.

Employees are given Terminal Server & Outlook access from home, so it's important that we turn off their remote access. It seemed best to cover all the bases by disabling/deleting the user account ASAP.

Now there's a request to have their email forwarded to a manager for 90 days, "just in case".

In my limited knowledge, that means that the account has to stay active - all I can really do is change the password.

What I'm looking for is a way to remove a user's ability to acess anything on the domain, but to still have any mail sent to "firedguy@company.com" to get automatically forwarded to "firedguysboss@company.com".

Server 2003, Exchange. My Active Directory kung-fu is weak, but I can follow directions. Help?

How do you make a subdomain forward to a different host?

tracert — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:45 -0800

How do you assign a subdomain to a different host? So, here's an odd situation.

My brother runs a small charity that has a website at www.mybrotherschairty.org. The site is being hosted for free by a friend of his, but we don't have much contact with them, and I'm reluctant to ask them for favours. The domain name is registered with Godaddy, and while I have access to domain management there, I don't have any access to the hosting provider.

I have been asked to set up a Movable Type blog for the site, but I don't have permissions to create a new database on our hosting provider, and I don't want to jam a bunch of tables into the ones we have. Therefore, I have agreed to host the blog at my personal server at www.myserver.net/blog. I have complete control of everything related to my server, including DNS.

Okay, so what I want to do is to have the subdomain blog.mybrotherschairty.org go to myserver.net/blog. But I want to use masking so that the url doesn't change for visitors who will have no idea what myserver.net is. Yesterday, I went to Godaddy and added a subdomain though the interface there. However it's been over 28 hours and nslookup on blog.mybrotherschairty.com still says "no answer", so I think I need to do something else.

This should be pretty easy to do, I think, but I have no idea how DNS works, or what a CNAME record is, or how to bake a delicious pie with said record. Please talk to me like I'm an idiot. What, exactly, should I do to make this work?

Point me in the right direction...

chrisfromthelc — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:50:10 -0800

I need to find a Phone Number Bank-type service that works for Houston, TX phone numbers. I've got a 281 (Verizon) number that I absolutely cannot lose (business). Apparently, our long-distance PRI carrier cannot port in a local number,...only the toll free one.

I've checked out Phone Number Bank (https://www.phonenumberbank.com/), but, they cannot service our area (apparently, they are limited to East Coast numbers.

Anyone out there have any ideas short of getting on Vonage and doing a call forward?

spring back, fall forward?

war wrath of wraith — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:02:26 -0800

If I say to you, "The 5 o'clock meeting has been pushed forward 1 hour," what do you understand the new meeting time to be?

Why the engine so far forward?

clevershark — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:06:59 -0800

AutomobileFilter: I was looking at a few cars in the office parking lot and I couldn't help wondering -- why are Audis and Subarus designed with the engine so far forward? I've heard that both these brands of cars generally have the engine placed in front of the front wheels. Is there a technical reason for this, or does it come down to legacy engineering?

Forward Head Posture = Pain

yorick — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:35:35 -0800

Looking for people who have experienced forward head posture problems. I've had upper back pain for years, and consulted many professionals about it. Each time, their diagnosis / remedy was incorrect, and the pain continued. I do yoga and pilates, and overall quite flexable, but the upper back continued hurting.

Last week, I found this article. It describes my symtoms exactly, and the exercises have already helped more than any of my prior attempts.

I'd like to hear more reccomendations / expereinces about forward head posture issues, aside from what a typical google search would yield. I'm very excited about finally addressing the pain, and the more info the better!

Help me fix my boss's email forwarding problem!

jacobsee — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:08:08 -0800

Email forwarding problem within the domain: Trying to fix my boss's email account. He checks his email using Netscape 7.2 on a Win98 PC. (We can't convince him to upgrade). He can send mail and reply to mail fine. He can forward mail fine, except when it is to one of use within the same domain name. It appears to send successfully but never shows up. I've tried looking through the email headers but nothing sticks out and I don't relaly know what to look for. Was wondering if this situation rings a bell for anyone?