I work in enterprise data storage, but this website is not about my work. It is my personal side: a place for memories, stories, thoughts, and things I believe in.
This was somewhere around 1999 or 2000. I was still running Windows 95 and was completely in awe of this new and exciting place called the Internet. IP telephony existed, but the voice quality was so poor that almost all voice calls still happened over landlines.
The year was 1999 or 2000, and my parents had a Windows 98 computer, a U.S. Robotics modem, and a Satyam dial-up connection. Satyam came with a small program on CD that made dial-up easy. It had a drop-down list containing four or five numbers. You selected one, clicked Connect, and hoped to hear the familiar modem handshake noise. But more often than not, you would get a busy line.
I had a PDF file with certain images that I wanted to remove and keep only the text portion. There was no program that could do this for me quickly, so I wrote a Python script to do just that, using the awesome pikepdf.
Problem: SMTP settings of office365 don’t work with Thunderbird. POP and SMTP work so you can receive emails but sending doesn’t work.
Resolution: You need to disable the smtpautorization.
Error: You print a PDF document on your Lexmark Printer ( MS317DN in my case which is based on best selling MS320) , and get a message “Flushing Buffer” on the LCD Screen.
If we have crossed paths, it was probably in one of these places.