Recent content by old skool

Problem solved; I emptied out all the messages that had build up in the junk e-mail folder and viola suddenly mail, calendar and people stopped downloading messages. Let me explain. I have an e-mail service provided by my website provider that I use for my primary e-mail, and primarily use...

Yes I read what you said; it uses loopback. I don't even know what means so I don't have a lot of options to be able to verify if what you said is true (in my case, specifically). I logged into my Time Warner Cable account to view my internet network usage details for previous months. I...

Not sure; the network was pegged on the downstream (receive) which tells me my hard drives weren't being downloaded to Iran, at least. Also, if it were genuine malware, I would expect the problem to persist after removing the mail app. My main concern is identifying a fix so the next person...

Oh yes, that was the literal definition flying off the handle. Thank you for contributing to this thread. I apologize-- as you noted, having only 50,000 times more network traffic than yourself is not even reason for concern, let alone "freaking out." On the a side note I hope nobody craps...

Okay, so you think when e-mail is downloading 13 GB per day (that's more than 500 MB per hour) and ruining network performance for everybody in the house, removing it is "clearly an over-reaction?" Do you have another suggestion I could try if it happens again?

400 gigabytes, not megabytes. 3 orders of magnitude difference there. I noticed this problem when my network was pegged at 3.0 mbps for several hours straight. The problem went away as soon as I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. It's a bug.

Has anyone ever seen this? Didn't find much info on the googles, so I wonder if this is a new issue? This explains why my network has been so crappy lately. Another reason to hate Windows 8. Thanks Microsoft! (The only fix I know of is remove the Mail, Calendar and People app. Which is...

Dear Intel, What the hell is wrong with you? It FEELS like I'm been rocking a 6-core Westmere for decades now and I'm ready for an upgrade. You can't possibly convince me that I should drop $1500 for a new 4960X and motherboard when the improvements since Nelehem are incremental. I have...

^^^^ This The P6 was so good that it was even better than its successor. May Willamette never be spoken of again.

"Small jump" because they're using off the shelf PC hardware.

Okay would someone remind me why you'd want to work for these guys? Who in their right mind would relocate their family to Austin to work at a video game sweat shop like EA? Oh sure the pay is above the average Best Buy salesperson but if you're unemployed 6 months out of the year, then what?

Just to clear the record Intel was the one who started this "rumor" back in the days when i7 was lauched. I'm too lazy to cite my references but I do recall during reading reviews where Intel was very concerned about overvolting the memory controller. Thats why we take it so seriously.

I'd like to chime in. I used to be able to OC mine to 4.0GHz with turbo disabled and high voltage. I never liked how hot it was running so I stepped it down to stock speeds and undervolted it quite a bit so the PC would was near-silent. Anyway its been 3 years and in the past coule of days I...

Because the salesman had represented so, you were still entitled to that $30 off Windows 7. Even if he had to explain it to his boss and eat the cost.

Totally agree; I used to write optimized assembly language on AMD chips years ago around the time of Athlon XP/Athlon 64. The architecture was great; 3 instructions per clock on the front end, 6 execution units on the back end (including 3 symmetrical integer/ALU units). It looks like AMD...