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Google disabled my Gmail account

Paul Benetis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:20:57 +0000

EDIT: My account was re-enabled the same day. The form that I filled out actually was read by the team, and they took action. WHEW!!! Google STOP SCARING ME LIKE THAT!!!!

Today I found out that my Gmail account – paulbenetis@gmail.com – was disabled. My buddy sent me an IM and said that he received a bounce back when trying to send me an email. This account was mainly set up as an additional email address and was forwarding all my emails to my other Gmail account, and I give it out to people so it easy from them to remember. Therefore, I don’t ever go to Gmail and login to this particular account.

Right away I went to mail.google.com and tried to log in and received “Sorry, your account has been disabled.” error. No explanation, no anything!

There was a link provided to get some help and I was able to fill out a form to submit to Google. I am not sure if Google will ever get back to me…

This really worries me however as my main Gmail account has a lot information that is valuable to me. I use Google’ services with confidence that the services they provide will be there for a long time to come, but situations like these are really discouraging. How can I trust the service on my other account will stay active?

I understand that if you use the account to send spam emails but this wasn’t the case at all. This was my personal account! I really hope the form I filled out gets me somewhere.

Another really weird thing that I noticed: I tried to sign up for another Gmail account just now, trying to use paul.benetis@gmail.com, and instead of saying that this name is already taken, it gave me a message that this particular user name has been disabled! Is my name becoming some blacklisted name with Google? NOOOOOOO!

Bears trade for Cutler!!!!

Paul Benetis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:48:30 +0000

Holy shit!!!!

The Chicago Bears finalized a trade that will land Jay Cutler on the roster. Now, I can’t wait to see Cutler and Bennett light it up on the field! Those two went to school together and have a good friendship going. Jerry Angelo might have redeemed himself here after some huge missed opportunities since he bacame the general manager.

Holy SHIT!!!!!

Improve Google Chrome’s Performance

Paul Benetis — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:40:21 +0000

I downloaded the newly released Google Chrome Beta at work today and I have to say that I really like it. However, when I got home and installed it on my Vista PC it was dog slow at loading pages. I noticed that the slowness would occur when the browser would try to resolve the DNS.

If you are having the same issue do this:

Click on the little tool button on top right and go to ‘Options’.

Uncheck the ‘Use DNS pre-fetching to …..’ box and try to access some pages now.

Worked for me, see if it works for you.

The amazing world below

Paul Benetis — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:54:39 +0000

Watch this clip and see how cool the life below us really is. It is amazing that we spend all the resources on space exploration when there are so many things here on earth that are just as unknown. The part at 4:25 is nuts!

Stasys Benetis – my dad

Paul Benetis — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:51:23 +0000

My dad’s name is Stasys Benetis. He asked me to make a web page for him so his old school friends could find him and contact him. I thought why not use my site to help him with his request.

Stasys Benetis is from Gruslauke, Lithuania (Lietuva). He is a former commercial plane Captain in Lithuania and is currently an owner of “Stasys Construction” company in USA.

Contact info:

Stasys Benetis
stasysbenetis@yahoo.com

DIY Microwave Popcorn

Paul Benetis — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:26:17 +0000

This clip shows you how to make your own microwave popcorn. Its a hell of a lot cheaper than buying microwavable popcorn from a grocery store, and also its something you can just try out for the fun of it.

Superbowl pregame show

Paul Benetis — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:05:04 +0000

It seems like I haven’t touched this blog in ages. Have been very busy with my personal life which included getting married in November. To blow the dust off this forgotten blog of mine I figured why not put up something funny related to the upcoming big event this Sunday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2triiYXSY8

Burger Cake

Paul Benetis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:43:58 +0000

Someone brought in a cake to the office today. I haven’t seen one like this before and though I would take a picture before it got completely devoured.

The Thermals Song On “Weeds”

Paul Benetis — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:07:20 +0000

Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to hear The Thermals song “Here’s Your Future” at the end of the “Weeds” episode that aired last Sunday. If you haven’t heard of these guys you should check out their MySpace page and give them a listen. I have seen them twice and they definitely delivered a good show every time.

I have a previous post about The Thermals that has their “Pillar Of Salt” video. Check it out here.

How to upgrade PHP on Fedora 6 Core (actually most of the distros)

Paul Benetis — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:28:13 +0000

If you need to upgrade PHP on your current Linux box here are some instruction: (this is a result of my frustrating night trying to upgrade)

Download the latest RPM here. Search by name and you should find something like php-5.2.3-2.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm. Pay attention to the distro the RPM is build for.

Once you have your RPM, install it.

rpm -ivh php-5.2.3-2.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm

If it says that you are missing some dependencies, download those, install them (with rpm -ivh), and try again.

Some dependencies might error out saying that some files are conflicting. If this occurs you can remove the already installed dependency. To do so use something like this:

rpm -e php-common-5.1.6

Also, you can use RPM to install addons such as GD libraries or MySQL.
I believe thats it. It is much simpler than expected. I can say that now, after I spent hours trying to make it work with source code.