I’ve been having some issues with my DrayTek Vigor2600G lately. Mainly with the wireless part, and I haven’t really been using it for the last month or so. I’ve had my notebook connected via ethernet, but that darn blue cable can get rather annoying. So today I went out and brought the Netgear WNDR3300. It’s a RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router which is pretty sweet, and so far it’s been great. The coverage is awesome, though my Nokia N95 8GB is having some issues finding the wireless network, but for now, I’m not to worried about that.
Later on down the track I’m looking at getting a Netgear WNHDE111 to hook up to my Xbox360 resulting in getting rid of the 15m ethernet cable and my wife Lisa will be a happy woman. 
Well, I’ve just learnt a very important lesson. I was in my webmail the other day (which I never really use), and somehow I managed to delete my entire inbox. Yes, all my emails in my inbox are now gone!!
I’ve been hosting my own mail server for the past couple of year, and its been great. It’s gone through many changes from server software, to the biggest being a move from Windows Server 2003 to Ubuntu Server, and I managed to keep all my emails over that time.
Basically, what happened was I was in webmail and in the trash directory, and when to empty it, when I think it didn’t load properly and I was still in the inbox, and telling it to empty the trash, actually emptied the inbox. I’m not sure how that happened, but it did.
I’ve tried a few ways to reclaim the data, but so far to no avail. I’m going to continue trying so if anyone know how to recover data on a ext3 drive, do let me know. I’m currently trying a program called ext3grep, but it’s pretty confusing. I’m just hoping that I can get some or all of the data back, but worst case, I’ve got a clean inbox to start fresh again.
Oh, and it was only my inbox that was emptied. All other directories are still there. Now I just need to figure out a backup solution so if this happens again, I can easily recover my data.
I’m a frequent Microsoft Outlook (currently using 2007) user and have been for many years. I just can’t see to get away from it, and I’m yet to find anything that comes close to it. One thing that keeps me is that I can sync my phone with it, which in turns syncs with my Google Calendar.
Up until today, I’ve always looked at the little phone button on the toolbar and wondered how that works. Well, it’s a lot simpler then I though. I just had to plug a modem in to the phone line, and hit the button and it makes a call. How awesome is that!?!?! Now I can call anyone in my contact list with the hit of a button, instead of reading it and then keying it into my phone, then pick up my phone. Oh, and the best part about it is that this works over my VoIP line. Free calls and lazy dialing!!
